BA (Hons) Humanities (English Studies & Historical Studies)
Level 1
Students are required to study 8 units as follows:
- 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 and Ideologies: Europe 1918-1945
KH106 Women and Politics in Europe 1890-1945
KH108 Film and History
KJ103 Empire and After: Aspects of the History and Literature of Imperialism
KJ104 The 1960s
Level 2
Students are required to study 8 units as follows:
- 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 a further 4 units from the following:
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
KH213 Civil War and Reconstruction: The United States 1820-95
KH214 The Decade of Revolution: Ireland 1912-22
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 at least 2 units from the following:
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
- Students must choose at least 2 units from the following:
KH304 Women and Politics in Europe and the United States since 1945
KH313 Historical Controversies
KH314 Russia since 1980
KH315 Preserving Peace and Waging War: Britain 1931-1945
KH316 From the People's War to the Cold War: Britain 1945-1951
KH317 Superpower: The United States since 1941
KH319 Independent Ireland 1922-1945
KH323 Film as Political Metaphor