Programme Requirements for 2022/23 Session


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B.A. English and History Full-time

Year: 2
2022/23 Session

The following must be taken

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Group Research 09 23513 20 Semester 2

Students choose from a range of Autumn options which vary from year to year. The following is an indicative list:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna 10 24000 20 Semester 2
LI Autumn Option: The Global Cold War 09 35003 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Tudor Terrors: inner worlds, hidden worlds, new worlds. 09 34998 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: An Introduction to Black and South Asian British History 09 30882 20 Semester 1
LI Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War 10 30805 20 Semester 2
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60 10 24004 20 Semester 2

With the approval of the programme leader students may also take an approved module or modules offered by the Department of History or a School or Department other than History

Students wishing to take 60 credits in History also choose 20 credits from the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI History in Theory & Practice A 09 33715 10 Semester 1
LI History in Theory & Practice B 09 33720 10 Semester 2
LI Research Methods A 09 33726 10 Semester 1
LI Research Methods B 09 33727 10 Semester 2

Students who chose 80 credits in History may take two modules from those just listed above, or may take instead a Spring Option. The following is an indicative list:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Spring Option: American Empire: The United States and the World 09 37108 20 Semester 2
LI Auschwitz in History and Memory 09 28668 20 Semester 2
LI Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600 09 24247 20 Semester 1
LI Spring Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100 09 30890 20 Semester 2

With the approval of the programme leader students may also take an approved module or modules offered by a School or Department other than History.

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level I. If successful this will be taken in place of 20 credits of taught modules. The credits to be dropped will be discussed with the programme convenor. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation.
Students undertaking a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Professional Skills 09 36839 20 Semester 1
LI Professional Skills – Freelance 09 37012 20 Semester 1

English Literature Pathway
All students should choose two modules from the Histories of Literature options available, one per semester irrespective of whether they are taking 40, 60 or 80 credits in English Literature. Any restrictions relating to which Histories of Literature modules must be taken together will be provided to students during the module allocation process. An indicative list of Histories of Literature options is provided below:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Critical Encounters with Late Medieval Literature 09 37893 20 Semester 1
LI Decadents and Moderns 09 36227 20 Semester 1
LI Earliest English 09 37686 20 Semester 2
LI Literature 1950-Present 09 36230 20 Semester 2
LI Popular Fiction Before the Novel 09 37896 20 Semester 1
LI Renaissance Poetry 09 36225 20 Semester 2
LI Restoration and Revolution 09 36228 20 Semester 2
LI Romantics and Victorians 09 36226 20 Semester 1

Students taking 80 credits in English Literature will be required to take LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan and LI Shakespeare Jacobean in addition to a "Themes in Literature" option.
Students taking 60 credits in English Literature will be required to take EITHER LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan and LI Shakespeare Jacobean OR a "Themes in Literature" option.
An indicative list of ‘Themes in Literature’ options is provided below (parts A & B must be taken together).

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Colonial/Postcolonial A 09 33252 10 Semester 1
LI Colonial/Postcolonial B 09 33254 10 Semester 2
LI Digital Futures A 09 33258 10 Semester 1
LI Digital Futures B 09 33260 10 Semester 2
LI Gender and Sexuality Studies A 09 37157 10 Semester 1
LI Gender and Sexuality Studies B 09 37158 10 Semester 2
LI Public English A 09 33893 10 Semester 1
LI Public English B 09 33894 10 Semester 2
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture A 09 33266 10 Semester 1
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture B 09 33268 10 Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan 09 33587 10 Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean 09 33588 10 Semester 2
LI The Gothic A 09 33274 10 Semester 1
LI The Gothic B 09 33277 10 Semester 2
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning A 09 33589 10 Semester 1
LI The Uses of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills, and the Search for Meaning B 09 33590 10 Semester 2
LI Tragedy A 09 33279 10 Semester 1
LI Tragedy B 09 33281 10 Semester 2

English Language Pathway .

For students taking 80 credits in English Language, the following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI English Grammar 09 28743 10 Semester 1
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists A 09 33889 10 Semester 1
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists B 09 33891 10 Semester 2
LI English Phonetics and Phonology 09 34881 10 Semester 2

For students taking 60 credits in English Language, the following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI English Grammar 09 28743 10 Semester 1
LI English Phonetics and Phonology 09 34881 10 Semester 2

All students should choose two English Language modules (40 credits) from the list of options available irrespective of whether they are studying 40, 60 or 80 credits in English Language. An indicative list of options is provided below.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Corpus Linguistics 09 29974 20 Semester 2
LI Discourse Analysis 09 27753 20 Semester 1
LI History of the English Language 09 22445 20 Semester 1
LI Language Acquisition and Literacy 09 26651 20 Semester 1
LI Psycholinguistics 09 27523 20 Semester 2
LI Sociolinguistics 09 26680 20 Semester 2