Home / Course Resources Archive

Course Resources Archive

Undergraduate Course Maps 2012/13

English Literature and History (BA) - Joint Honours Full Time - Course Map

For current students who started their course in 2011/12 academic year and earlier.
  • Course Code: EXAHS
  • Course Leader: Hilary Weeks / Iain Robertson
  • Senior Tutor(s):
Each module taken by a student has a credit value (measured in Credit Accumulation and Transfer [CAT] points). Approximately 10 hours of total study time is required per CAT credit. A full-time year is equivalent to 120 CATs for students on an Undergraduate course. To achieve an undergraduate award a student must accumulate a particular number of CATs at Level 4, 5 or 6 as illustrated below: Bachelors Degree without Honours: 300 CATs Bachelors Degree with Honours: 360 CATs (or 480 with year-long placement)

Level 5

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
EX203: Essays in Theory
Prerequisites: Pass any 2 from EX Level I
15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
EX213: Renaissance, Revolution, Restoration : Literature 1580-1700
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX120 and pass EX122
30
EX214: Restoration to the Romantics: the Long EIghteenth Century
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX120 and pass EX122
30
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
EX215: Psychoanalysis, Sexuality and Writing 15
EX218: Nineteenth Century American Writing
Prerequisites: Pass 2 from EX Level I
30
EX219: Crime Fiction 15
EX220: After Windrush: Contemporary Postcolonial and Black British Writing 15
EX240: Stages of Drama 2: Restoration to Realism
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX120 and Before taking this module you are advised to pass EX140
30
HS226: Russia and Revolution : 1861-1921 15
HS240: Methods of Historical Enquiry
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS224 or take HS229
30
HS241: THE VICTORIANS: EXPERIENCES , IDENTITIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS228
30
HS242: Tensions in US Democracy 1917-1973
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS231 or take HS234 or take HS305
30
HS244: Culture and Society in Germany 1918-1989
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS227
15
HS246: Nature, Culture and Society 15
HS247: Crime, Culture and Conflict 30
HS248: Women in Power , 1450-1603 15

Level 6

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
EX333: English Literature Dissertation
Prerequisites: Pass EX203 and 3 others from EX Level 5
30
HS333: History Dissertation
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass HS240
30
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
EX302: Modern Literary Theory
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX203
30
EX314: Explorations in Nineteenth Century Writing
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EX213 or pass EX214
30
EX315: American Literature Since 1900
Prerequisites: EX218 and 1 other EX Level II
30
EX316: From Modernism to the Present: British Fiction and Poetry Since 1900
Prerequisites: Any 2 EX or WT Level II modules.
30
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
EX324: Postmodernism:Subject to Sex 15
EX325: North American Women's Writing 15
HS326: Twentieth Century Britain
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot pass HS232 and pass HS322 and pass HS336 and pass HS337
30
HS327: Black America 1890-1970
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS318
30
HS328: Soviet History
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot pass HS309 or pass HS316
30
HS339: Britain and France 1660 - 1715 15
HS340: Case Studies in Rural Social Protest c. 1815 - 1939 15
HS341: British Women’s History, 1830-1920 15
HS342: The English Revolution 15
An error has occurred. This application may no longer respond until reloaded. Reload 🗙