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BA English and History

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll have strong research skills and be confident working independently or within a team. You’ll be able to analyse information from a number of different sources and form your own conclusions about them. Then you’ll be able to communicate and present those views clearly, both verbally and in writing. You’ll also have the time management and organisational skills needed to manage two demanding subjects.

Graduates have pursued careers in fields such as publishing, law, journalism, business and finance, advertising and marketing, the civil service, education and the charity sector. Many others have progressed to postgraduate study.

General Eligibility

A-level: AAA including A in History (if taken) and A in English (Literature, Language or Language and Literature).

Other course specific tests:

Where an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be AAB at A Level including A in English and History (if taken) and grade A in the EPQ.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Foundations of English Studies

  • Exploring History

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation

  • Prose: Reading and Interpretation

  • Poetry: Reading and Interpretation

  • Drama: Reading and Interpretation

  • Keynotes in English Studies

  • Faith, Knowledge and Power, 1500-1750

  • The Medieval World in Ten Objects

  • Medieval Lives: Identities, Cultures and Beliefs

  • Global Empires

  • Global Decolonization

  • The Making of the Twentieth Century

2 Year 2

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Power of Language

  • Language in Society

  • Medieval Literature

  • Eighteenth Century Literature

  • Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting

  • Forming Victorian Fiction

  • Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

  • Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain

  • Australia and the World

  • The Crusades and the Crusader States in the 12th Century

  • Transformations of the Roman World

  • Material Legacies: Objects and British Cultural Heritage, c. 1783-1851

  • The Tudors: Princes, Politics, and Piety, 1485-1603

  • Most Christian Kings: France, 1515-1715

  • Sin in Spanish America, 1571-1700

3 Year 3

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Postcolonial Literature

  • Contemporary Literature

  • Current Practice in Creative Writing

  • Final Year Project

  • Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence

  • American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present

  • Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

  • Conquest, Convivencia and Conflict: Christian and Muslim Spain, 711-1212

  • Back to School in the Middle Ages: Schools, Teachers and Pupils in north-western Europe 700-1200

  • Dividing India: The Road to Democracy in South Asia, 1939-1952

  • Twentieth Century Southeast Asia: From Empire to Independence

  • Europe in an Age of Total Warfare

  • The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

  • The Body in Australian History, 1788-2007

  • Consumer Society in Historical Perspective

  • Early Modern Media: Printing and the People in Europe c.1500-c.1800

  • History Dissertation

  • Apartheid in South Africa: Origins, Impact and Legacy

  • The Iron Lady Abroad: Margaret Thatcher and UK Foreign Policy from 1979

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.

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