Modules for course 3QV1 | BA/ELH
BA History and English Literature
This is a provisional list of modules to be offered on this course in the 2022–23 academic year.
The list may not be complete, and the final course content may be different.
You can also view the modules offered in the year 2021–22.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
Optional Modules
40 credits from:
- QXE-1003: Intro. to Medieval Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1004: The Literature of Laughter (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-1014: The Gothic in Literature/Film (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-1016: Children's Fiction (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1600: Transnational Cultures (20) (Semester 2)
- LXE-1700: Creating National Histories (20) (Semester 1)
60 credits from:
- HXH-1002: The Six Lives of Henry VIII (20) (Semester 2)
- HXH-1004: Intro Modern History1815-1914 (20) (Semester 1)
- HXW-1007: Wales: Princes to Tudors (20) (Semester 1)
- HXW-1010: Wales in the Modern World (20) (Semester 2)
- HXH-1011: Europe in the High Middle Ages (20) (Semester 1)
- HXH-1012: Britain: Blitz to Brexit (20) (Semester 2)
- Students are encouraged to select modules that cover more than one of the generally recognised periods of History: Medieval (c500-1500), Early Modern (1500-1750), and Modern (post 1750).
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-2003: Jonson to Johnson (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2005: Victorian Literature (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2019: Modern & Contemporary Writing (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2020: The Romantic Period in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-2024: Alfred Hitchcock (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-2101: Beowulf to Malory (20) (Semester 1)
Optional Modules
60 credits from:
- HPS-2001: Work Placement - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-2004: Modern Ideas & Movements (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2005: Work Placement - Semester 2 (20) (Semester 2)
- HGC-2007: Cenhedloedd Sbaen yn yr Ugeinf (20) (Semester 2)
- HTC-2008: Stori America 1607-1867 (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-2055: Making History (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-2110: The Guardians of Heritage (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-2112: Reformation and Counter-Reform (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
- HTA-2116: Later Prehistoric Communities (20) (Semester 1)
- HTA-2120: Rethinking Archaeology (20) (Semester 1)
- HTC-2123: Owain Glyn?r a'i Fudiad (20) (Semester 1)
- HTW-2123: Owain Glyndwr and his Movement (20) (Semester 1)
- HTA-2125: The Prehistoric Archaeology of (20) (Semester 2)
- HTA-2126: Geoarchaeology (20) (Semester 2)
- HTW-2127: WALES AND EUROPE IN THE RENAIS (20) (Semester 2)
- HTC-2128: Cestyll a Chymdeithas (20) (Semester 1)
- HTC-2132: Rhyfel Mawr trwy lygaid y Cym. (20) (Semester 2)
- HGH-2133: THE TUDORS: POLITICS, SOCIETY, (20) (Semester 1)
- HGH-2138: Europe 1945-1992 (20) (Semester 1)
- HGH-2139: The Kingdom in the Sun: Norman (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-2149: Britannia Rule the Waves: The (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-2150: Britain in the Jazz Age (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-2157: The Age of the Castle (20) (Semester 1)
- Over Levels 5 and 6 (Year 2 and 3) students must take 2 General Modules - those with a code beginning HGH, HGW or HGC.
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
60 credits from:
- QXE-3022: Shakespeare and Early Modern L (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3031: Welsh Writing in English (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3099: The English Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- QXE-3107: EM Lit: Sex, Sects and Scandal (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3109: Victorian Networks (20) (Semester 2)
- QXE-3110: Neo-Victorian Fiction (20) (Semester 1)
- QXE-3113: The Monstrous Middle Ages (20) (Semester 2)
- Students may not take a dissertation in both English Literature and the other discipline of the Joint Honours program
20 to 40 credits from:
- HPS-3006: Dissertation (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- HSH-3041: Country House Life, 1750-1914 (20) (Semester 1)
- HSH-3045: Nationalism in the UK (20) (Semester 1)
- HSC-3050: Cymru'r Tywysogion (20) (Semester 1)
- HSH-3137: Ruled by an Orange: England an (40) (Semester 1 + 2)
- HSH-3150: Princely Wales (20) (Semester 1)
- Students must take EITHER the Dissertation OR a Special Subject, while ensuring that they have taken 60 credits in History in total during Year 3.
Optional Modules
20 to 40 credits from:
- HPS-3001: Work Placement - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1)
- HGC-3007: Cenhedloedd Sbaen yn yr Ugeinf (20) (Semester 2)
- HTC-3008: Stori America 1607-1867 (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-3110: The Guardians of Heritage (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-3112: Reformation and Counter-Reform (20) (Semester 1 + 2)
- HTA-3116: Later Prehistoric Communities (20) (Semester 1)
- HTC-3123: Owain Glynd?r a'i Fudiad (20) (Semester 1)
- HTA-3125: The Prehistoric Archaeology of (20) (Semester 2)
- HTA-3126: Geoarchaeology (20) (Semester 2)
- HTW-3127: WALES AND EUROPE IN THE RENAIS (20) (Semester 2)
- HTC-3128: Cestyll a Chymdeithas (20) (Semester 1)
- HTC-3132: Rhyfel Mawr trwy lygaid y Cym. (20) (Semester 2)
- HGH-3133: THE TUDORS: POLITICS, SOCIETY, (20) (Semester 1)
- HGH-3138: Europe 1945-1992 (20) (Semester 1)
- HGH-3139: The Kingdom in the Sun: Norman (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-3150: Britain in the Jazz Age (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-3157: The Age of the Castle (20) (Semester 1)
- Please note that students must take a general module (those with a code beginning HGH/HGC/HGW) at level 6 if they did not take one at level 5