Course Content
Year 1
English
- Approaches to Literature I: Writing Modernity
- Approaches to Literature II: Other Worlds
- Key Concepts: An Introduction to Genre, Theory, and Writing
History
- Evidence and Methods
- Group Research Project
- Knowledge and Beliefs in World History
Year 2
Core module
- Texts and Histories
English
Option modules
- The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature
- The Renaissance
- Inventing Britain, 1700-1830
- Victorians: British Literature, 1832-1901
- Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
- American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire
You'll also be able to choose from subjects included in our World Literature modules. Recent offerings have included:
- An Introduction to Greek and Latin Literatures
- European New Cinema
- French Poetry 1844-1898
- The Literature of Hispanic America
- Medieval Arabic and Persian Global Literature
- Muslim Translations of Britain
- Old Norse Literature
- The World of Beowulf
History
Option modules
You will choose from a selection of History option modules. Recent examples have included:
- Ancien Régime France, 1500-1787
- From Grave Robbers to Gene Therapy: The Rise of Modern Medicine
- Histories in Public: Understandings of the Past in Today's Society
- Kingship, Rule and Mythmaking: England 1065-1307
- An Inconvenient Truth: Climate and Capitalism in the Modern World
- Catherine the Great 1763 – 1796
- From the Global Shadows: Africa and the World since the 1950s
- Knowledge and Empire, c.1760-1965
- The Making of England, c.850-1066
Year 3
English
Option modules
- American Independent Film
- The Body in Modern American Literature and Culture
- Charles Dickens
- Fashion in the 18th Century
- Found in Translation
- From Tennyson to Tolkien: The Middle Ages & Modern Literature from 1843 - 1940
- Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity
- Modernism's Queer Spaces
- Poetry Boot Camp
- Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Fiction
- Researching the Renaissance
- So Funny it Hurts: Irish Comic Fiction
- Villains of the Romantic Gothic
- The Writer's Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop
History
Option modules
You will choose from a selection of History option modules. Recent examples have included:
- From Colonial to Post-Colonial States? The Twentieth Century Caribbean
- Improvement, Modernization or Violence? 'Development' in Historical Perspective
- Inquisitors and Heretics in the High Middle Ages
- Ireland in the Age of Revolution
- Possession: Objects and Ownership in Early Modern England, c.1650-c.1750
- Rebellion and Revolution: The British Civil Wars, 1637-51
- Revolution in the Streets: Faith, Poverty, and Religious Ferment, c.1200
- Second-Class Citizens: Migration in Modern Europe
- The French Wars of Religion, 1559-94
- The Ghosts of Gandhi: India and Africa since the Late Nineteenth Century
- The Russian Revolution, 1917-21
