Programme Requirements for 2021/22 Session


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B.A. English and History Full-time

Year: 2
2021/22 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 Autumn Option: American Empire: The United States and the World 09 37107 20 Semester 1
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna 10 24000 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: A Common Enemy: Witchcraft and Witch-hunting Early Modern Europe 09 31844 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: America in Conflict 09 30880 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: An ‘Empire of the Clouds’: Aviation, Air Power and the Making of Modern Britain, 1908–1945 09 31845 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800 09 30854 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Childhood and Adolescence in Medieval Europe 09 30849 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Crime and Public Order in Late Medieval Europe 09 30852 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Diet for a Small Planet? Global Food Politics from Colonial Empire to Neoliberalism 09 32144 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now: Britain in the 1980s 09 32145 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Islamicate Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals in the Early Modern World 09 32134 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: John Bull against Napoleon: Fighting the French 1793-1815 09 30878 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Life After Death: Culture, Politics and Memory in Post-War Europe, 1945-1973 09 31846 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Military Revolutions and the Conduct of War, 1300-1500 09 30856 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Nationalism in Modern Europe, 1815-1914 09 30879 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Past Politics / Present History: Across The Boundaries of History and Political Science 09 31847 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Prophets, Rulers and Rebels of Early Islam 09 30848 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: Reformation and Rebellion in Tudor England, 1500-1558 09 30855 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The Age of Atlantic Revolutions 09 32692 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The British Empire: An Introduction 09 30857 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The Global Cold War 09 35003 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The Stuff of History: Cotton, Oil, Gold – Towards a Resource History of Global Modernity 09 30889 20 Semester 1
LI Autumn Option: The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975 09 34982 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 1
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60 10 24004 20 Semester 1
LI Spring Option: Society in the Viking World c.800-c.1100 09 30890 20 Semester 2
LI The Sixties: “Years of Hope, Days of Rage” 09 30040 20 Semester 1
LI US Political and Social History 1890-1980 09 29069 20 Semester 1

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
LI Professional Skills Module 09 28559 20 Semester 1

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 Spring Option: Before Greta. History in the Age of Climate Change 09 34962 20 Semester 2
LI Auschwitz in History and Memory 09 28668 20 Semester 2
LI Impressionism and After: Art and Society in Late Nineteenth-Century France 09 26713 20 Semester 2
LI Mass Culture and the Modern United States, 1877-1939 09 30049 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: "American Dreamers:" Radicalism in the United States from 1776 to present 09 32724 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: A Medical Revolution? Society, Warfare, and Disease from the Crimea to Afghanistan 09 30899 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: A World on the Move: Transport and Mobility in Global Modernity 09 31848 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: An ‘Empire of the Clouds’: Aviation, Air Power and the Making of Modern Britain, 1908–1945 09 31849 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Before Brexit: Histories of European Integration, 1945-2016 09 30902 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Childhood and Adolescence in Medieval Europe 09 32140 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Crime and Public Order in Medieval England 09 32141 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Europe in the Age of Total War, 1914-1945 09 31854 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Feeding the World: International Development from Colonial Empire to Neoliberalism 09 30897 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Gender and the Making of the Modern World: Britain, 1650-1832 09 30894 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now: Britain in the 1980s 09 32740 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Homelessness in Britain since 1945 09 32744 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Indigenous and Settler Histories 09 31850 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Life After Death: Culture, Politics and Memory in Post-War Europe, 1945-1973 09 31851 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Military Revolutions and the Conduct of War, c1300 - 1650 09 32142 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Nationalism and Conflict in the Balkans and Middle East 09 30898 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Radical Pieties: Militants, Martyrs and Mystics in Medieval Christianity and Islam 09 37139 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Rebellious Women and the Latin American Nation 09 35010 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Reformation and Rebellion in Tudor England, 1500-1558 09 35169 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Sex and Sexualities in the Modern British World 09 32143 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Sex, Money and Fighting: Women and Men in Imperial China 09 30892 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Social Activism in Modern Britain 09 30906 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: The British Empire: An Introduction 09 30896 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: The Global Cold War 09 35004 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: The Good War? A Cultural and Military History of Britain and the Second World War 09 30901 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975 09 34983 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: Towns and Urban Life in the Middle Ages 09 30891 20 Semester 2
LI Spring Option: ‘There is Black in the Union Jack’: An Introduction to Black and South Asian British History 09 32146 20 Semester 2
Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600 09 24247 20 Semester 2
South Africa since Apartheid 09 18767 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.

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 Professional Research Skills for Linguists A 09 33889 10 Semester 1
LI Professional Research Skills for Linguists B 09 33891 10 Semester 2

All students should choose two English Language modules (40 credits), one module per semester, 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