Study Schemes

BA  History / English Literature [QV31]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN11300

Critical Practice

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

EN11320

Critical Practice

Year 1  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1  Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
EN11220

American Literature 1819-1925

IC17700

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10120

Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Literature

WL11420

Literature And The Sea

Semester 2
CL10120

Greek and Roman Epic and Drama

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

IC13420

Language Awareness for TESOL

IC17720

Academic Writing: Planning, Process and Product

WL10420

Introduction to Poetry

WL11920

Peering into Possibility: Speculative Fiction and the Now

Year 1  Options

Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HC11120

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800

HY11420

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

HY11820

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

Semester 2
HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

HC11820

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

HY10420

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

HY12420

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

WH11720

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
EN20120

Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues

Year 2  Options

Students MUST take a further 40 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the SKILLS (semester two) and/or OPTION modules listed. Students may choose one skills module and an option module OR two option modules.

Semester 2
HA24720

Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America

HY24120

Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250

HY24320

Interdisciplinary and decolonial history

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

HY25020

Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.

Year 2  Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
EN20920

Literary Modernisms

IC23420

TESOL Approaches, Methods and Teaching Techniques

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

WL20720

A Century in Crisis: 1790s to 1890s

Semester 2
EN21020

Literary Geographies

EN21120

Contemporary Writing and Climate Crisis

EN21220

Literature and Climate in the Nineteenth Century

EN22920

Literature since the '60s

IC27720

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 1

Year 2  Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
CL20320

Classical Drama and Myth

EN23120

In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World

EN28720

Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780

Semester 2
EN22120

Place and Self

Year 2  Options

OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HA26820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HA28120

Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008

HY20920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY25920

Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze

HY27520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

HY28320

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

HY28620

Science, Religion and Magic

Semester 2
HC20120

Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417

HC23420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

HY25720

The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300

HY29620

Germany since 1945

HY29720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

HY29920

Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)

WH23420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

Final Year  Options

Choose 60 credits

Semester 1
EN30000

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN30120

Reading Theory / Reading Text

EN30520

Romantic Eroticism

EN31320

The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL30620

Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now

Semester 2
EN30040

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN30320

Victorian Childhoods

EN30420

Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English

EN30820

Haunting Texts

EN33620

Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)

IC33420

TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies

IC37820

Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2

WL35320

Literatures of Surveillance

Final Year  Options

Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:

Semester 1
HA36820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HA38120

Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008

HY30920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY35920

Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze

HY37520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

HY38620

Science, Religion and Magic

HY38820

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

Semester 2
HC30120

Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417

HC33420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

HY35720

The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300

HY39620

Germany since 1945

HY39720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

HY39920

Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)

WH33420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

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