YEAR 1
In English, you will take the following modules (all compulsory):

Poetry (15 Credits)
London Global (30 Credits)
Literatures in Time Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages (15 Credits)
In History, you will take the following compulsory module:

History in Practice (15 Credits)
You then select one of the following modules:

Unravelling Britain: British History since 1801 (15 Credits)
Global Encounters: conquest and Culture in World History (15 Credits)
You choose your remaining credits from a selection of Level 4 History modules that changes each year.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

YEAR 2
In English you will take one 30 credit module from List One or Two, and at least one module from Lists Three or Four:

List One: Medieval and Early-Modern Studies

Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity
Renaissance Drama
Renaissance Literary Culture
List Two: Eighteenth Century Studies, Romanticism, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City
Romantics and Revolutionaries
Victorian Fictions
List Three: Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial Studies

The Long Contemporary
Modernism
Postcolonial and Global Literatures
List 4: Special Options (Modules offered on this list changes each year). Modules may include:

American Romanticsm
Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
Global Shakespeare
James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century
The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics, 1918-1948
The Thousand and One Nights
In History you will take this compulsory module:

History Research Project
You then select your remaining credits from a selection of Level 5 History modules that changes every year. Modules may include:

A Century of Extremes: Germany 1890–1990
Angels, Spinsters and Whores: British Women and Gender from Victoria to the Vote
Chartists, Rebels and Suffragettes: Democracy in Britain, 1830–1928
London on Film: Representing the City in British and American Cinema
Race in the United States: Plantation Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
The Buildings of London I: From the Ashes of Fire to the Capital of Empire
Violence and Modernity in Twentieth-Century India
Women and Gender in Medieval Islam
You choose further modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

YEAR 3
You will choose from:
English Research Dissertation
History Special Subject
You choose your final-year elective modules from a wide range of options that changes each year. In English, one module selected must normally be a 30 credit option.

Elective modules may include
British Fictions of the 1960s
Feminism(s)
Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
The Modern Caribbean: Migration, Radicalism and Revolt
Victorian Sensation Fiction
American Horror Stories: The Fiction and Film Worlds of Stephen King from Carrie to It
Empire and Political Thought
Islam in Africa and the Indian Subcontinent: Conquest, Islamisation and Co-existence
Searching For Sisterhood: Feminist Activism in Britain 1968-1988
Time, Narrative, Culture
Witches, Demons and Magic in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Writing Empire: the Eighteenth Century
This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it