Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. English and History Full-time

Year: 3
2024/25 Session

History Modules:

Students must take at least 40 credits from the Special Subjects A and B lists OR the 40-credit Dissertation module listed below:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Dissertation 09 23512 40 Full Term
LH Joint Honours Dissertation (History) 09 23756 20 Full Term
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation 09 27510 40 Full Term

Special Subjects List of available modules change from year to year. The following is an indicative list:

Special Subjects (A):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: After Hitler: Politics and Society in (West) Germany during the Adenauer Era, 1945-1965 A 09 30957 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Beauty, Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Body in Britain, c1680-1820: A 09 35001 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Gunpowder, Treason and Plot: England under Elizabeth I and James I A 09 37956 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Terrorising History: Terrorist Motivations, Methods, and Mayhem A 09 30960 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Women and Social Movements in Brazil: A 09 35005 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: ‘The Young Ones’: Youth, popular culture, and social change in twentieth century Britain A 09 39786 20 Semester 1
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War A 09 38880 20 Semester 1

Special Subjects (B):

Year: 3
2023/24 Session

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: After Hitler: Politics and Society in (West) Germany during the Adenauer Era, 1945-1965 B 09 31114 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Beauty, Blood, Sweat and Tears: The Body in Britain, c1680-1820: B 09 35002 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Gunpowder, Treason and Plot: England under Elizabeth I and James I B 09 37958 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Terrorising History: Terrorist Motivations, Methods, and Mayhem B 09 31117 20 Semester 2
Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Special Subject: Women and Social Movements in Brazil: B 09 35006 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: ‘The Young Ones’: Youth, popular culture, and social change in twentieth century Britain B 09 39914 20 Semester 2
LH Special Subject: Fighting Over Freedom: American Political Ideas from Revolution to Civil War B 09 38879 20 Semester 2

Advanced Options

Autumn Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Advanced Option: America at War: From the Civil War to the War on Terror 09 38799 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Before Globalization?: Afro-Eurasian World History 500-1800 09 38888 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Britain and her Soldiers: Society and the Army from the First World War to Afghanistan 09 38800 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: China in Revolution: China under Mao (1949-1976) 09 38742 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Indigenous and Settler Histories 09 38748 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: Reason and Romance: The Cultural History of Nineteenth-Century Britain 09 38753 20 Semester 1
LH Advanced Option: ‘A Holiday from Reality’: A History of Drugs and Drug Use in the Modern Era 09 38738 20 Semester 1
LH The United States South: From Plantations to NASCAR 09 28983 20 Semester 1

Spring Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Adv Option: Feeling Politics in 20th Century Britain: Emotions and Politics in Britain From the Stiff Upper Lip to :) 09 39784 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Black Activisms in the US South: Power, Feminisms, and Black Lives Mattering from 1960-present 09 39783 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Britain’s Wars of Colonisation and Decolonisation 09 38741 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: Gross Indecency to Gay Marriage? Gender and Sexual Minorities 1885 to the Present 09 38746 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: History of Technology and Culture in the United States 09 38803 20 Semester 2
LH Advanced Option: The Making of England, 850-1100 09 39785 20 Semester 2

Subject to the approval of the programme lead students may also include in their history total up to 40 credits of optional modules offered by departments other than history. Students may only take one dissertation module and their credit total must include at least one non-dissertation module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Anthropology and/of Activism 09 39832 20 Semester 1
LH Anthropology of Islam 09 31885 20 Semester 2
LH Anthropology of Migration 09 31404 20 Semester 1
LH Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial 09 37917 20 Semester 1
LH Historical and Contemporary Debates on the Holocaust 09 37066 20 Semester 1
LH Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29604 20 Semester 1
LH The Anthropology of Tomorrow 09 38811 20 Semester 2
LH The Struggle for Zimbabwe: Nationalism, Liberation and the International Community Since the Cold War 09 39831 20 Semester 2
LH Urban Anthropology 09 31887 20 Semester 2
The Social Life of the Economy 09 24821 20 Semester 1

English Language Pathway

Students choosing to study 80 credits in English Language can study either:

(a) Language Dissertation (40 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester.
(b) Language Investigation (20 credits) and 60 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Dissertation 09 26703 40 Full Term
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Semester 2

Students choosing to study 60 credits in English Language can study either:

(a) Language Investigation (20 credits) and 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester.
(b) 60 credits of optional modules, at least 20 credits per semester (at least 20 credits of research project modules must be taken in the other half of the programme.)

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Semester 2

Students choosing to study 40 credits in English Language can study

(a) Language Investigation (20 credits) and 20 credits of optional modules.
(b) 40 credits of optional modules, 20 credits per semester (at least 20 credits of research project modules must be taken in the other half of the programme).

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Language Investigation 09 26704 20 Semester 2

English Language optional modules

An indicative list of optional modules available is provided below:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Animal Communication and Language Evolution 09 32240 20 Semester 2
LH Authorship Analysis 09 30672 20 Semester 2
LH Clinical Linguistics 09 28696 20 Semester 1
LH English Language Teaching 09 19606 20 Semester 1
LH Exploring Linguistic Diversity 09 28649 20 Semester 1
LH Language Change 09 29697 20 Semester 2
LH Language and the Mind 09 26649 20 Semester 2
LH Phraseology 09 29572 20 Semester 1

Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. 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 who undertook 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
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37013 20 Semester 1

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1