BA (Hons) Humanities (English Studies)
Level 1
Students are required to study 8 units as follows:
- Students must choose 3 Core units which are compulsory
KJ100 Language and Representation
KJ101 Twentieth-Century War: Then and Now
KJ102 Regional Identities: Southampton and its Environs
- Students must choose 5 units from the following, subject to availability
KE109 Text and Performance
KE110 Introduction to Literary Genres
KE111 Contemporary Literary Studies
KE112 From Frankenstein to the Federation: Approaches to Science Fiction
KH101 Conflict & Ideologies: Europe 1918-1945
KH106 Women and Politics in Europe 1890-1945
KH108 Film and History
KJ103 Empire and After: Aspects of the History & Literature of Imperialism
KJ104 The 1960s
Level 2
Students are required to study 8 units as follows:
- Students must choose 4 Core units which are compulsory:
KJ200 Censorship and Society
KJ201 Gender Struggles - from fin de siécle to the 1960s
KJ202 City and Countryside
KJ203 Research Methods in the Humanities
- Students must choose at least 2 units from the following, subject to availability:
KE200 American Cinema
KE207 Modern Drama
KE209 British Fiction 1880-1940
KE211 Black & Post-Colonial Literature
KE213 Themes in 19th Century American Literature
KE215 Women Writers of the 1960s and 1970s
KE216 Children's Literature
- If Students have not already chosen 8 units, they must choose 2 further units from the following:
KH213 Civil War & Reconstruction: the US 1820-1895
KH214 The Decade of Revolution: Ireland 1912-1922
KH217 Politicians and the Media
KH218 Post War Europe 1945-1972
KJ204 Romantics and Revolutionaries
Level 3
Students are required to study 8 units as follows:
- Students must choose 3 Core units which are compulsory
KJ399 Dissertation (double unit)
KJ300 Case Studies in Humanities: Synergy and Synthesis
- Students must choose 3 units from the following, subject to availability
KE307 Modern British Poetry
KE311 Writing and War in Contemporary Culture
KE314 European Cinema
KE315 Aspects of Victorian Culture
KE317 Renaissance Text and Performance
KE318 Writing Ireland: Literature, Politics and National Identity in the 20th Century
KE319 20th Century American Texts and Contexts
KE320 Representing Women 1890-1939
KE321 Contemporary British Fiction
KE322 Literature of the Black Diaspora
KE323 The Pre-Raphaelites
- If Students have not selected 8 units from above, they must choose the remainder from the following:
KH304 Women & Politics in Europe & the US since 1945
KH313 Historial Controversies
KH314 Russia since 1980
KH315 Preserving Peace & Waging War: Britain 1931-1945
KH316 From People's War to Cold War: Britain 1945-1951
KH317 Superpower: The United States since 1941
KH319 Independent Ireland 1922-1945
KH323 Film as Political Metaphor