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History and English (with Placement) (BA) - Greenwich
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History and English (with Placement) (BA) - Greenwich

University of Greenwich
LondonUK
On campus
Full-time
€20,382.74/year
 3042 Points
Duration
4 Years
Language
English
Start date
Sep 2024

Program Description

Our history and English degree is aimed at anyone with a love of literature and a passion for history. It combines modern British, European and world history with English literature, past and present.

Throughout this degree, you will explore five hundred years of historical ideas, events and literary creativity in Britain, Europe and the world. An array of option modules includes specialist topics such as gender and environmental histories, violence and war, American fiction, international bestsellers and Shakespeare.

Notes:

• Tuition fees for students who have citizens' rights after Brexit: £9,250

• Placement year fees: £1,000

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Curriculum

Year 1

Literary Forms of Representation (30 credits)

The Canon: A Short History of Western Literature (30 credits)

Introducing History: Ideas and Practice (30 credits)

The Changing Faces of Britain 1707 – 1918 (30 credits)

Year 2

Students are required to choose 60 credits from this list of options:
'The People's War': The Second World War, Society, Culture and Legacy (15 credits)
Atlantic Worlds 1650-1783 (15 credits)
Empire and Nation in the Middle East (15 credits)
Remaking English Society, c. 1550-1760 (15 credits)
History in Practice (30 credits)
Rebel Earth? History and Politics in the Anthropocene (15 credits)
“The Turbulent British”: A history of protest across the British Empire 1770 – 1930 (15 credits)

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options:
Literature in Context: Fiction since 1800 (30 credits)
Literature in Context: Poetry and Drama since 1800 (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options:
American Fictions (30 credits)
Literature in Context: Fiction since 1800 (30 credits)
Literature in Context: Poetry and Drama since 1800 (30 credits)
International Bestsellers (30 credits)
Shakespeare, Then and Now (30 credits)

Placement Year

HPSS Sandwich Placement

Year 4

Students are required to study the following compulsory modules:
Literature and Publishing Since 1820 (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options:
History Work Placement (30 credits)
The History Dissertation (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options:
The Literature of the Gothic (30 credits)
English in World Literatures: Postcolonial and Transnational Writing (30 credits)
Contemporary Writing and Critical Theory (30 credits)
Britain on the Modern Stage (30 credits)
Dissertation (LLT) (30 credits)
Work Placement (LTT) Level 6 (30 credits)
Modern Identities: Literature of the Global Eighteenth Century (30 credits)

Students are required to choose 30 credits from this list of options:
A Global History of Genocide (30 credits)
Britain and the Suppression of the Slave trade 1807-1867 (15 credits)
Cities of the Sultans: Life in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (15 credits)
Projecting Nations: Film, History and Propaganda (15 credits)
“Writing Lives”: Narratives of Defiance in North America & Britain 1850 -1950 (15 credits)

Careers

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Administration and government
  • Librarianship and information services
  • Museums and heritage management
  • Journalism
  • Publishing
  • The arts
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