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Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. English and History with Year in Computer Science Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

The following must be taken:

The University Regulations permit students registered to Joint degrees to vary their credit weighting in their second and final year. A minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits must be taken in each discipline Optional Modules

Options A

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800 09 38258 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Feminisms and the women’s movement in modern Britain: From suffragists to ladettes 09 38260 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Global History of Gender and Sexuality: Body, Work, and Citizenship 09 38262 20 Semester 2
LI Option: In the Eye of the Storm: Europe & the Second World War, 1930-1960 09 38259 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Modern Britain from the Margins 09 38264 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Pandora’s Box: Europe and the First World War, 1900-1930 09 38265 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Radical Pieties: Militants, Martyrs and Mystics in Medieval Christianity and Islam 09 38266 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Revolution, Nation, and the Global South 09 38267 20 Semester 1
LI Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100 09 38268 20 Semester 1
LI Option: State and Empire in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800 09 38269 20 Semester 2
LI Option: The Global Cold War 09 38261 20 Semester 2
LI Option: Tudor Terrors: inner worlds, hidden worlds, new worlds 09 38272 20 Semester 1
LI Option: ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: An Introduction to Black and South Asian British History 09 38271 20 Semester 2

Theology and Religion Department optional module available to History students. This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Auschwitz in History and Memory 09 28668 20 Semester 2

DASA Department optional modules available to History students.
This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
African Popular Culture 09 20436 20 Semester 1
Atlantic Slavery: West Africa and the Caribbean 09 22695 20 Semester 2
LI Anthropology of Migration 09 31403 20 Semester 1
LI Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial 09 37918 20 Semester 1
LI Development in Africa 09 37920 20 Semester 2
LI Ethnographies of the Marginalised 09 29674 20 Semester 2
LI From Colony to Nation: Ghana 1874-1966 09 28016 20 Semester 1
LI Gender and Colonialism in African History 09 37923 20 Semester 1
LI Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29605 20 Semester 1
LI Political Anthropology 09 35012 20 Semester 2
LI Religion and Ritual 09 28073 20 Semester 2
LI The Social Life of the Economy 09 24822 20 Semester 1
LI Theory and Ethnography 09 24291 20 Semester 1
LI Urban Anthropology 09 31888 20 Semester 2

Students may choose ONE 20-credit module in place of an optional module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Humanities in the classroom 09 37804 20 Semester 2
LI Media in Practice 09 37869 20 Semester 1
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 37673 20 Semester 1

OR 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

Extra Modules

English Literature Options

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Decadents and Moderns 09 36227 20 Semester 2
LI Earliest English 09 37686 20 Semester 1
LI Literature 1950-Present 09 36230 20 Semester 1
LI Popular Fiction Before the Novel 09 37896 20 Semester 1
LI Reading the Renaissance 09 39840 20 Semester 1
LI Restoration and Revolution 09 36228 20 Semester 1
LI Romantics and Victorians 09 36226 20 Semester 2