The module details given below are indicative they are intended to provide you with an idea of the range of subjects that are taught to our current students. The modules that will be available for you to study in future years are prone to change as we regularly review our teaching to ensure that it is up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. The information presented is therefore not intended to be construed and/or relied upon as a definitive list of the modules available in any given year.

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Year one modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Reading Literature
Texts and Contexts
Defining Moments in World History c.1000-2000
OPTIONAL MODULES
Transatlantic Gothic: Studies in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature
Poetry through practice
Medieval Europe and Its World
Education in Britain:past present future
Fiction Through Practice
Playing Parts: Studying Drama and Poetry
Literature as History: Writing the Americas
Film and Culture
Childhood Policy and Education
Understanding Learning
Back to the Future: issues in the history of schooling
Reading Literature
History Media Memory: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture
The American Past: Explorations in U.S. History
Why Politics Matters
Global Warming or a New Ice Age?
Modern History
The Early Modern World 1490-1700
Debates in American Politics
Introduction to International Relations
Modern Democracies
Year two modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Literature and Social Change
Methods and Approaches to Literature
Sources and Debates in History
OPTIONAL MODULES
Romanticisms
Writing Genre and Mode
The Renaissance: Shakespeare and Beyond
Transatlantic Modernisms
Work Placement for Humanities Students
Alfred Hitchcock's America
Creative Writing: Poetry & Prose
Contemporary World Literature
Culture and Barbarism: Literature in the Victorian Age
Saints and Society in Medieval Europe
Natural Cultures: Humans and their Environments since 1700
Creating Britain 1536-1707
A Very Short History of Socialism
Rebels and Revolutionaries in Colonial American History (1607-1776)
Castle and Cloister in Medieval Europe c. 900-1250
Company and Crown in India 1818-1928: the cultural history of the Raj
The History of the Camp: From the GULAG to The Jungle
'Shining City on a Hill'? The United States in the Twentieth Century
Year three modules
OPTIONAL MODULES
Words and Pictures: the Contemporary American Graphic Novel
High Culture: Drink Drugs and the American Dream
Postmodernism: Fiction Film and Theory
Shakespeare on Film: Adaptation and Appropriation
Dissertation in English - ISP
Creative Writing: Portfolio - ISP
Work Placement for Humanities Final-Year Students
Postcolonial and World Literature in English
The Alcohol Question
Modernist Manifestos and Magazines
Violence and death in Shakespeare's theatre
Hitchcock's Queer Cinema
The English Civil War c.1640-46
Gender and Sexuality in Georgian Britain
Crisis Rupture and Opportunity: German 'Modernity' 1900-1933 I
The contested city: a spatial history of Rome 1870-1978
The Making of Contemporary Africa since c.1945
'Eyes on the Prize': The Struggle for Civil Rights in America
Violence and Power in Antebellum America
Dissertation for History - ISP
From Sawbones to Social Hero? Doctors and medicine 1808-1886
The Art of Dying: Death and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Sites of Sexual Conflict in South Asia I
The Making of Middle Britain: The Mercian Moment
Extinction: Existential Panic since 1945
'Eyes on the Prize': The Struggle for Civil Rights in America (Part II)

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