Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. History of Art with English Literature with Year in Computer Science Full-time

Year: 2
2025/26 Session

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 in both years (subject to a total number of 120 credits in each year). Students who undertake less than 160 credits in one of their disciplines will graduate with a major/minor degree. Core modules: For students taking 40 credits worth of Art History modules there are no compulsory modules from Art History. Core modules: Students taking 60 or 80 credits in Art History must take the following modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Art History in the Field: Overseas Study Trip	10 24005	10	Semester 2
LI Research Techniques in History of Art	10 24008	10	Semester 2

Students taking 40 credits of Art History and 80 credits in English Literature Optional modules: Art History: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2 English Literature: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2 Optional modules: Students taking 60 credits of Art History and 60 credits in English Literature Optional modules: Art History: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. You will also take the two 10 credit compulsory modules in Semester 2: Research Techniques and Art History in the Field. English Literature: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit options in Semester 2 Optional modules: OR Optional modules: Art History: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1. In semester 2, you will just take the two 10 credit compulsory modules: Research Techniques and Art History in the Field. English Literature: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2 Optional modules: Students taking 80 credits of Art History and 40 credits in English Literature Optional modules: Art History: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in semester 2. You will also take the two 10 credit compulsory modules in Semester 2: Research Techniques and Art History in the Field.

Students choose additional Level I modules provided annually by the department. The following is an indicative list from History of Art:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna	10 24000	20	Semester 1
LI Art, Race and the British Empire, 1837-1901: Contexts, Approaches, Legacies	09 37040	20	Semester 2
LI Craft: Practices, Concepts, Activism	09 37038	20	Semester 2
LI Impressionism and After: Art and Society in Late Nineteenth-Century France	09 26713	20	Semester 1
LI Inside the Gallery: Curating an Exhibition	09 34891	20	Semester 2
LI Making Culture: New Ways of Reading Things	10 30802	20	Semester 1
LI Modern Erotica: Sex, Censorship, and Art	09 40403	20
LI Political Art	09 31897	20	Semester 2
LI Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War	10 30805	20	Semester 1
LI Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600	09 24247	20	Semester 1
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60	10 24004	20	Semester 2

English Literature Options:
A maximum of one module from any block can be taken.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Gothic	09 39923	20	Semester 1
LI Imagined Worlds: Genre Fiction and Popular Culture	09 39935	20	Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan	09 39982	20	Semester 1

Block B:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature	09 39915	20	Semester 1
LI Literature 1950-Present	09 36230	20	Semester 1
LI Restoration and Revolution	09 36228	20	Semester 1

Block C:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Earliest English	09 37686	20	Semester 1
LI Reading the Renaissance	09 39840	20	Semester 1
LI The Canterbury Tales	09 29579	20	Semester 1

Block D:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI British Theatre	10 29000	20	Semester 2
LI Colonial/Postcolonial	09 39968	20	Semester 2
LI Literature and Environment: Crisis and Resistance	09 39765	20	Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean	09 39983	20	Semester 2

Block E:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Our Digital World	09 39969	20	Semester 2
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture	09 39768	20	Semester 2
LI The Social Life of Literature	09 38960	20	Semester 2

Block F:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Aspects of Modernism	09 32447	20	Semester 2
LI Gender and Sexuality Studies	09 39763	20	Semester 2
LI Victorian Literature	09 27776	20	Semester 2