BA (Hons) Humanities


Level 1

Students are required to study 8 units as follows:

  1. 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

  2. Students must choose 5 units from the following, subject to availability
    KE109 Text and Performance
    KE110 Introduction to Literary Genres
    KE111 Contemporary Literary Studies
    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 & Literature of Imperialism
    KJ104 The 1960s

Level 2

Students are required to study 8 units as follows:

  1. Students must choose 4 Core units which are compulsory:
    KJ200 Censorship and Society
    KJ201 Gender Struggles - from fin de siecle to the 1960s
    KJ202 City and Countryside
    KJ203 Research Methods in the Humanities

  2. Students must choose 4 units from the following:
    KE207 Modern Drama
    KE209 British Fiction 1880-1940
    KE211 Black & Post-colonial 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
    KH218 Post War Europe 1945-1972

Level 3

Students are required to study 8 units as follows:

  1. Students must choose 3 Core units which are compulsory
    KJ399 Dissertation (double unit)
    KJ300 Case Studies in Humanities: Synergy and Synthesis

  2. Students must choose 5 units from the following
    KE307 Modern British Poetry
    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
    KH304 Women and Politics in Europe and the United States since 1945
    KH313 Historical Controversies
    KH314 Russian since 1980
    KH315 Preserving Peace and Waging War: Britain 1931-1945
    KH316 From the People's War to the Cold War: Britain 1945-1951
    KH319 Independent Ireland 1922-1945