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BA in English and History

University of Leicester, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

All students participate in the Talent Academy, which will introduce you to the resources provided by our Careers Development Service and provides opportunities to gain work experience with leading employers.

'History in the Classroom' is a Second Year module in which you can spend one afternoon a week under the direct supervision of a qualified classroom teacher in a local school where you will teach some History. This is the module for you if you are thinking of teaching as a profession.

Graduate destinations

Our graduates have found work with companies such as:

Allegis Group

Aceville Publications

The Mills Archive Trust

PPL PRS Music Licensing

Dennis Publishing

Miyazaki City Board of Education

General Eligibility

A/AS-levels: ABB at A-level including English (Language, Literature, or combined). We prefer A-level History, though this is not essential. Two AS-levels may be considered in place of one A-level. General Studies are accepted.

EPQ with A-levels: BBB at A-level including English (Language, Literature, or combined) + EPQ at grade B

International Baccalaureate: Pass Diploma with 30 points, including 6 in Higher Level English

Access to HE Diploma: Pass Access to the HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3, 30 of which must be at Distinction. To include 12 credits at Distinction in English Level 3 Modules.

BTEC Nationals: Pass Diploma with D*DD. Plus graded a B in A-level English

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Core modules

  • Writing Matters

  • The Shock of the Modern

  • Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture

  • Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (double module)

Option modules

  • Classic American Writing

  • Feminist Fiction

  • Global History: Connections and Cultures in a Changing World, 1750 to the present

  • Great Britain: The State We're In

  • US History since 1877

  • Europe 1861-1991: Emancipation and Subjugation

2 Year 2

Core module

  • Perceiving the Past

  • Plus, either Renaissance Literature B (double module) or Chaucer’s Worlds

Option modules

  • Religious History

  • Histories of Violence

  • Blood, Position and Power: The Nobility of Later Medieval England, 1066-1485

  • Madness, Monarchy, and Politics in Georgian Britain

  • Jack-the-Ripper: Crime, Popular Culture and Policing in Victorian Times

  • Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

3 Year 3

Core module

  • Dissertation

Option modules

  • The USA and the Vietnam War

  • Crime and Punishment in African American History

  • The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria

  • Diasporas and Migrations in the Modern World

  • From Empire to Nation: Modern South Asia, c. 1857-1947

  • Gender, Crime, and Deviance in Eighteenth-Century Britain

4 Year 4

Core module

  • History dissertation

Option modules

  • Adolescence in American Fiction and Film

  • Forms of Modern Poetry

  • Feminist Fiction

  • Writing Voices

  • Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception

  • Writing Prose Fiction

  • Clinical Encounters?

  • Language, Power, and Persuasion

  • The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.5
  • TOEFL93
  • PTE65
  • Duolingo89

IELTS 6.5 or equivalent. You may need to prove your English ability if your first language is not English. If you do not yet meet our requirements, our English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) offers a range of courses to help you to improve your English to the necessary standard.

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For any enquiries or further details, please don't hesitate to contact us. Let's take the next step in your academic journey together.

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