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BA English and History (LITU03)     FT

2019 - 2020

For students whose initial registration is for the 2019-20 session or later
 
 

Year 1


units (20 credits)
1A
A student will take

Semester 1
HST120  History Workshop AUT SEM 20 credits

units (20 credits)
1B
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HST112  Paths from Antiquity to Modernity AUT SEM 20 credits
HST116  Empire: From the Ancient World to the Middle Ages AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
HST115  The Disenchantment of Early Modern Europe SPR SEM 20 credits
HST117  The Making of the Twentieth Century SPR SEM 20 credits
HST119  The Transformation of the United Kingdom, 1800 to the Present SPR SEM 20 credits

A student will choose either the English Language pathway; in which case they will take the units listed at 1Ci, 1Cii and 1E below, or the English Literature pathway; in which case they take the units listed at 1Di, 1Dii and 1F below.

AND

units (20 credits)
1Ci
English Language pathway
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
ELL112  The Sounds of English AUT SEM 10 credits
ELL113  The Structures of English AUT SEM 10 credits
AND

units (20 credits)
1Cii
English Language pathway
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
ELL110  Varieties of English AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
ELL114  History of English SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL120  Linguistic Theory SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
1Di
English Literature pathway
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Full academic year
LIT120  Renaissance to Revolution ACAD YR 40 credits
AND

units (20 credits)
1Dii
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
ELL118  Early Englishes AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT113  Foundations in Literary Study: Biblical and Classical Sources in English Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT117  Contemporary Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT180  Studying Theatre: A History of Dramatic Texts in Performance AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH102  Practical Stylistics SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL114  History of English SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL117  Celtic Languages and Literatures: an Introduction SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT111  Introduction to Creative Writing SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT114  Shakespeare SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT181  Introduction to Cinema SPR SEM 20 credits

units (40 credits)
1E
A student will take unrestricted F4 Level units to the value of 40 credits.

units (20 credits)
1F
A student will take unrestricted F4 Level units to the value of 20 credits.

Year 2


units (20 credits)
2A
A student will take

Semester 1
HST202  Historians and History AUT SEM 20 credits

units (20 credits)
2Bi
A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 60 credits from this group.

Semester 1
AAP243  The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2010  The Myth of Venice AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2011  The Medieval Inquisition AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2028  Tenochtitlan, City of Blood and Flowers: Aztec society in the early sixteenth century AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2030  Appeasement, the Munich Crisis and the British People AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2041  Murder in the cathedral: the Becket Affair AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2042  Religion in an Age of Terror: Ancient Texts and the Making of Modern Israel. AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2046  The Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858-85 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2512  Shell-Shock to Prozac: Mental Health in Britain AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2516  The Rise of Rome and its Empire (c.500-90 BCE) AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2520  Revolution, Reform and Crusade in 11th-c. Europe AUT SEM 20 credits
HST2522  Gender in Britain in the Long Eighteenth-Century AUT SEM 20 credits
HST255  Social Crisis and Political Change in England, 1550-1640 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST297  The History of American Foreign Relations AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
AAP240  The Celtic West: from the fall of Rome to the Viking Age SPR SEM 20 credits
AAP241  The Ancient Greek Economy SPR SEM 20 credits
EAS2034  Modern Japanese History SPR SEM 20 credits
HST209  Writing History SPR SEM 20 credits
HST230  The Family in Late Antiquity: Romans, Barbarians and Christians SPR SEM 20 credits
HST247  A Protestant Nation? Religion, Politics and Culture in England 1560-1640 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2504  Two Germanys, 'One People'? Central Europe, 1945-1990 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2513  Trumpism: An American Biography SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2514  Decolonisation: The End of Empire & the Future of the World SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2517  Culture in Early Modern Europe SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2519  Empire, Sexuality and the Family in Modern Europe SPR SEM 20 credits
HST2521  From the Pharaohs to Alexander the Great: The Battle for the Ancient World SPR SEM 20 credits
HST265  The Making of Modern India, 1780-1965 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST287  From World War to Cold War: Europe 1945-1968 SPR SEM 20 credits

2Bii

A student taking at least 40 credits from 2Bi may choose to take 20 credits of these credits from F5 unrestricted units.


2Biii

A student taking HST209 must attach this to another taught HST module.


2C

The regulations for the English Language and Literature pathways may be subject to change.  Students should contact the School of English directly for further details.  


2C

A student on the English Language pathway will take the units listed at 2D below. A student on the English Literature pathway will take the units listed at 2Ei and 2Eii below.

AND

units (40 credits)
2D
English Language pathway
A student will take a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 80 credits from this group.

Semester 1
EGH202  The History of Persuasion AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL207  Phonetics AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL221  Syntax AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL228  Language and Cognition AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH207  Writing the Real SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL217  Sociolinguistics SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL225  Exiles and Monsters: An Introduction to Old English SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL226  First Language Acquisition SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL232  Phonology SPR SEM 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F5 level units to the value of 20 credits.
AND

units (40 credits)
2Ei
English Literature pathway
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LIT204  Criticism and Literary Theory AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT234  Renaissance Literature AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
LIT2000  Genre SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT207  Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units
2Eii
English Literature pathway
A student will take up to 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
EGH202  The History of Persuasion AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT204  Criticism and Literary Theory AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT226  The Novella and the Uncanny AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT233  Road Journeys in American Culture: 1930-2000 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT234  Renaissance Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT257  Shakespeare on Film AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT272  Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT273  Creative Writing Prose Fiction 2 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT276  New Realisms: Contemporary British Cinema AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT277  Chaucer AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH207  Writing the Real SPR SEM 20 credits
EGH223  Radical Texts: transforming performance, 1920s to the present SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL225  Exiles and Monsters: An Introduction to Old English SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT2000  Genre SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT207  Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT219  Creative Writing Poetry 2 SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT224  Representing the Holocaust SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT248  Irish Fiction SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT254  Christopher Marlowe SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT255  John Donne SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT274  The Postcolonial Bildungsroman SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT275  Literature, Ecology, Capital SPR SEM 20 credits
a student can take unrestricted F5 level units to the value of 20 credits.

Year 3


3A

 There are three routes through the History element of Level 3. 

  •  Students taking a 'History Minor' route (80 credits English/40 credits History) will take 40 credits from either 3A or 3B.
  • Students taking a 'History Major' route (40 credits English/80 credits History) will take 40 credits from either 3A or 3C, and 40 credits from 3B.
  • All other students (60 credits English/60 credits History) will take either (i) 20 credits from 3A and 40 credits from 3B, or (ii) 60 credits from 3A.

units
3Ai
A student will take up to 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HST3304  Money, Power and Society AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3306  A Comparative History of Revolution AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3307  Conflict, Cultures and (De)Colonisation AUT SEM 20 credits
AND

units
3Aii
A student will take up to 20 credits from this group.

Semester 2
HST398  Short Dissertation SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units
3Aiii
A student will take up to 20 credits from this group.

Semester 2
HST3000  The Uses of History SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
3B
(Note - these units are linked pairs and must be taken together e.g HST3027 and HST3028 are co-requisites)
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
HST3027  Stalinism and De-Stalinisation, 1929-1961 I AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3071  The Weimar Republic - Laboratory of Modernity I AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3085  Art, Power and History: Ideals and Reality in Renaissance Florence I AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3095  Permissive Britain? Social and Cultural Change 1956-74 I AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3122  Britain's Social Revolution: Welfare, State and Society, c. 1870-1914 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3136  The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3142  Merchants, Mariners and Migrants: The English Overseas, 1570-1624 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3144  Ending the Cold War AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3150  Mao and the Making of Twentieth-Century China AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3176  The American War in Vietnam, 1945-1975 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3178  Resistance & Liberation in South Africa: Gandhi to Mandela AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3182  Humour and Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Britain AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3184  From Julius Caesar to Augustus: Rome's Revolution (89 BC-14 AD) AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3190  Slavery in the American South, 1789-1861 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST3192  Empire of Faith: The Making of Global Catholicism, 1500-1700 AUT SEM 20 credits
HST384  The Spanish Civil War I AUT SEM 20 credits
HST386  The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry I AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
HST3028  Stalinism and De-Stalinisation, 1929-1961 II SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3072  The Weimar Republic - Laboratory of Modernity II SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3086  Art, Power and History: Ideals and Reality in Renaissance Florence II SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3096  Permissive Britain? Social and Cultural Change 1956-74 II SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3123  Britain's Social Revolution: Welfare, State and Society, c. 1870-1914 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3137  The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3143  Merchants, Mariners and Migrants: The English Overseas, 1570-1624 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3145  Ending the Cold War SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3151  Mao and the Making of Twentieth-Century China SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3177  The American War in Vietnam, 1945-1975 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3179  Resistance & Liberation in South Africa: Gandhi to Mandela SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3183  Humour and Laughter in Eighteenth-Century Britain SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3185  From Julius Caesar to Augustus: Rome's Revolution (89 BC-14 AD) SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3191  Slavery in the American South, 1789-1861 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST3193  Empire of Faith: The Making of Global Catholicism, 1500-1700 SPR SEM 20 credits
HST385  The Spanish Civil War II SPR SEM 20 credits
HST387  The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry II SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units
3C
A student will take up to 40 credits from this group.

Full academic year
HST399  Dissertation ACAD YR 40 credits

The regulations for the English Language and Literature pathways may be subject to change.  Students should contact the School of English directly for further details.  


A student will then follow either the English Language pathway and take units listed at 3D below or the English Literature pathway and take units listed at 3Ei and 3Eii below, according to the pathway selected at Levels 1 and 2. Students on both pathways have the opportunity to take 20 unrestricted credits as described in 3F below.

AND

units (40 credits)
3D
English Language pathway
A student will take a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 80 credits from this group.

Semester 1
EGH303  Research Practice AUT SEM 20 credits
EGH310  Psychology of Language AUT SEM 20 credits
EGH321  Dialect in Literature and Film AUT SEM 20 credits
EGH325  Theolinguistics AUT SEM 20 credits
EGH326  Text-Worlds AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL310  Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL344  Language and Gender AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL361  Advanced Syntax AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH302  Dissertation SPR SEM 20 credits
EGH317  Researching Readers SPR SEM 20 credits
EGH328  Experiments in Digital Story-Telling SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL326  Special Subject SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL352  Approaches to Discourse SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL357  Second Language Acquisition SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL360  Historical Pragmatics SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL362  World Englishes SPR SEM 20 credits
unrestricted units in accordance with Regulation 3F below
AND

units (20 credits)
3Ei
English Literature pathway
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LIT3100  Romantic and Victorian Poetry AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3101  Romantic and Victorian Prose AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
LIT302  Modern Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT303  Contemporary Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (20 credits)
3Eii
English Literature pathway
A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 60 credits from this group.

Semester 1
LIT3000  America and the Avant-Garde, 1950's-1990's AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3015  Writing Fiction 3 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3023  Crime and Transgression in Romantic Literature AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3048  Women Playwrights on the International Stage: 1880s-1930s AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT305  Afro-American Literature 1: Beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3056  Byron and Shelley AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3060  War on Screen AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3063  Creative Writing Poetry 3 AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3065  The Brontës AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3100  Romantic and Victorian Poetry AUT SEM 20 credits
LIT3101  Romantic and Victorian Prose AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
ELL360  Historical Pragmatics SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT302  Modern Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT303  Contemporary Literature SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3042  Re-imagining Shakespeare SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3050  No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Module: Animals in Film SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3053  Project Module SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3057  Fin de siècle Gothic SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3061  Sex and Decadence in Restoration Theatre SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT3066  Identity/ Crisis: Trauma, Narrative, Self SPR SEM 20 credits
LIT386  Dissertation SPR SEM 20 credits
unrestricted units in accordance with Regulation 3F below

3F

A student may take unrestricted F6 level units to a maximum value of 20 credits in respect of either 3D or 3Eii

 
 
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Please note that the regulations displayed on this page reflect provision in 2019/20 and may not reflect study undertaken in other academic sessions. To see regulations that applied in another academic session, please return to the Programme Regulations Finder home screen and select the appropriate session.