BA (Hons) Humanities (English Studies)


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 & 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 siécle to the 1960s
    KJ202 City and Countryside
    KJ203 Research Methods in the Humanities

  2. Students must choose at least 2 units from the following:
    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

  3. If Students have not already chosen 8 units, they must choose the rest from the following:
    KH214 The Decade of Revolution: Ireland 1912-1922
    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 at least 3 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

  3. 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 Historical Controversies
    KH314 Russia since 1980
    KH315 Preserving Peace & Waging War: Britain 1931-1945
    KH316 From People’s War to Cold War: Britain 1945-1951
    KH319 Independent Ireland 1922-1945