DPT: English Literature and History (MA Hons) (UTENLHI)

Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor.

Entry to year 3 requires:
(1) a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in English Literature 2 and
(2) a mark of 50% or above in 40 credits of second year History courses at the first attempt.

Compulsory courses

English Literature 2

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Modern United States History

Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500

Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000

Global Connections since 1450

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Themes in Modern European History

AND

This cannot be Scottish Literature 2 or Scottish Literature 1

Year 3 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Students wishing to undertake a Dissertation in English Literature are strongly recommended to take all four Critical Practice courses.

Final Assessment: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third Year:
1. Honours option for History.
2. Honours option for History.
3. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2.
5. A. Critical Practice: Performance (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Poetry (10 credits) OR Honours option for History.
6. A. Critical Practice: Prose (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Criticism (10 credits) OR Honours option for History.

From Fourth Year:
7. Honours option for History.
8. Honours option for History.
9. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 1.
10. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 2.
11. Dissertation for English Literature or History.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or History.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in History.

Selected courses must be passed

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939

Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713

Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640

The Economic and Social History of British America, 1607-1770

Heritage in Britain since c.1750

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830

Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600-1914

Malfeasance and misbehaviour in finance: perceptions and realities, 1636 to the present

Cities and Modernity: Urban Britain since c.1850

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

China's Twentieth Century Revolutions

Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

Renaissance Italians

The United States in the 1960s

The Rights Revolution: American Society and the Supreme Court, c.1935-c.1990

Black Nationalism in America

The American South since the Civil War

The Holocaust

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

The Crusades and Medieval Society

Medieval Islamic Empires

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

France since 1940

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

Dante's Inferno: medieval society, sin and eternal damnation

Atlantic Slavery

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa

The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939

The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present

Establishing the Iron Curtain: Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, 1945-1968

Body and Power in Colonial Africa

Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

The Invention of Race: Early Modern Intellectual History and the Atlantic World

A History of Asia in the Early Modern World Through Objects

Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Critical Practice: Prose

Critical Practice: Poetry

Critical Practice: Performance

Critical Practice: Criticism

AND

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 1)

Selected courses must be passed and taken during Semester 1

AND

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 2)

Selected courses must be passed and taken during Semester 2

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 1)

Selected courses must be passed and taken during Semester 1

AND

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 2)

Selected courses must be passed and taken during Semester 2

AND

Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in History.

Selected courses must be passed

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939

Trade, Plunder and Planters in Jamaica, 1655-1713

Popular Culture and Belief in Britain, 1560-1640

The Economic and Social History of British America, 1607-1770

Heritage in Britain since c.1750

Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970

Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830

Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy, 1842-1949

Tradition and Transformation in the Chinese Economy since 1949

London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture

Innovations and crises: the rise and tribulations of financial capitalism, c. 1600-1914

Malfeasance and misbehaviour in finance: perceptions and realities, 1636 to the present

Cities and Modernity: Urban Britain since c.1850

Making Histories: Current Theories in Writing History

India 1700 - 1947: Raj, Rebellion and Ryot

China's Twentieth Century Revolutions

Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500

Renaissance Italians

The United States in the 1960s

The Rights Revolution: American Society and the Supreme Court, c.1935-c.1990

Black Nationalism in America

The American South since the Civil War

The Holocaust

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Normans in Eleventh-Century Europe

Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society

Revolutionary Russia, 1861-1921

Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars

The Crusades and Medieval Society

Medieval Islamic Empires

Stalin's Revolution: The USSR, 1926-1941

France since 1940

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

Dante's Inferno: medieval society, sin and eternal damnation

Atlantic Slavery

Merchants, Pirates and Crusaders in the late medieval Mediterranean

Politics and Power in Post-Colonial East Africa

The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939

The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The Marxist Imagination in Europe, c.1950-present

Establishing the Iron Curtain: Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, 1945-1968

Body and Power in Colonial Africa

Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

The Invention of Race: Early Modern Intellectual History and the Atlantic World

A History of Asia in the Early Modern World Through Objects

Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages

Chivalry, Warfare and Society in Medieval Scotland

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

Agriculture and Society in Early Modern Scotland

Year 4 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Final Assessment: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third Year:
1. Honours option for History.
2. Honours option for History.
3. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2.
5. A. Critical Practice: Performance (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Poetry (10 credits) OR Honours option for History.
6. A. Critical Practice: Prose (10 credits) and B. Critical Practice: Criticism (10 credits) OR Honours option for History.

From Fourth Year:
7. Honours option for History.
8. Honours option for History.
9. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 1.
10. English Literature honours 4 option course Semester 2.
11. Dissertation for English Literature or History.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or History.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.