BA (Hons) English/History of Art

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 of Art
Your modules in History of Art will cover topics such as:

Core modules

• The Materials of Art and Architecture

Option modules

• Transmissions and Connections 
• Objects in Focus
• The Art of Describing

Year 2
Core module

• Research Now

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
History of Art
Option modules

• Action/Re-action: Live Art, Performance & Participation
• Art in the USA 1945-1975
• Art in Venice from Bellini to Titian
• Casts and Cultures: the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
• Eccentric Cities: Art, Politics and Trade in Italy, 1100-1400
• Image and Icon: Representing the Sacred in the Early Medieval World
• Jerusalem in Western Medieval Art & Architecture
• Seeing & Being Seen: English Art in the 14th Century
• The Power of the Real in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting and Sculpture
• The Rise of the Print in Europe, 1400-1800

Year 3

History of Art
Option modules
You'll choose from a variety of options in History of Art, allowing you to understand a period, place, or problem in unprecedented detail. Topics may include:

• Architecture and Politics in Stuart England c.1603-1688
• Art After the Internet: Contemporary Art and Digital Culture
• Art Law for Art Historians
• Illuminating the Bible 1200-1500
• Innovations in Northern Renaissance Art
• Interwoven: fashion and clothing culture in Art History
• Stained Glass in the Great Church c.1170-1350
• The Art of Anglo-Saxon England c.600-850
• The Feminist Avant-Garde
• Victorian Sculpture