BA (Hons) English Literature and History

• A Levels: AAA-AAB including English Literature or English Language and Literature at grade A, not including General Studies.
• Scottish Qualification: AAAAA-AAABB at Higher Grade including English at grade A. Advanced Highers in English at grade A is preferred. Combinations of Highers and Advanced Highers accepted.
• International Baccalaureate: 35-36 points with English A1 at Higher level, grade 6.
• Irish Leaving Certificate: A1A1A1AB-A1A1A1B1B at Higher Level, with minimum Grade A1 in English.
• Access Qualification: 45 credits at level 3, to include at least 15 level 3 credits in english literature. 
• Cambridge Pre-U: D3,D3,D3-D3,D3,M2 in Principal Subjects including English at grade D3.
• PARTNERS - A Levels: ABB including English Literature or English Language & Literature, not including General Studies. The PARTNERS Programme is Newcastle University’s supported entry route for students from identified schools and colleges.
• English Language Requirements: For this degree you will need a minimum score of IELTS 7.0 or equivalent.

Stage 1

Compulsory Modules

You take compulsory modules to equip you with the foundation you need for further study.

• Evidence and Argument
• Approaches to Reading

Optional Modules

You also take up to two modules from Lists A and B below:

List A

• World Empires
• European History
• Aspects of British History
• The History of the Americas

List B

• Introduction to Literary Studies
• Introduction to Literary Studies II
• Transformations

Stage 2

Compulsory Modules

• Research Project in English Literature & History

Optional Modules

You also take up to two modules from List C, and a module each from Lists D and E.

List C

• Spain, 1808-1975: War, Society and State
• Fatal Allies: Anglo-Irish Relations, 1798-1998
• Stage 2 British History Module
• Early Modern Print Culture
• Clash of Civilizations: Islam, Crusades, the Mongol Invasions
• Japan Since 1868
• The Later Russian Empire 1796-1917
• Anglo-Saxon England: From Britain to the Norman Conquest
• Russia under Lenin and Stalin 1917-1953 
• Approaches to the History of Western Medicine
• Pre-Columbian and Spanish America
• Twentieth-Century France
• A Civilian's War: the Second World War 1939-1945
• ERASMUS Student Exchange
• Erasmus Student Exchange
• The Dark Ages: Early Medieval Europe and its Neighbours 500-900
• Death, Dying & the Dead in Early Modern England, 1500-1800
• The Family, Sex and Society in Early Modern England
• A History of Contemporary Britain
• The Difficult Fatherland: Germany's Past
• Modern Greece
• American Slavery, American Freedom: Black and White America in the Age of Revolutions 1776-1876
• The Criminal Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Convicts and Rebels
• Society and Politics in Colonial India 1880s-1947
• China's Last Empire
• The Criminal Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century: Pirates, Convicts and Rebels

List D

• Writing the Renaissance
• Writing New Worlds, 1660-1800
• Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832
• Victorian Passions: Victorian Values

List E

• Fictions of Migration
• Class, Nation and Identity
• Modernisms
• Poetry, Script and Prose Workshop
• Popular Performance Here and Now

Alternatively, it may be possible to select a career development module or a module from another school. 

Stage 3

Compulsory Modules

• Dissertation in English Literature & History

Optional Modules

You also take up to two modules from Lists F and G below:

List F (indicative, other modules available)

• Reading History
• Stage 3 British History Module
• China in Revolution, 1919-1976
• The American Civil War, 1861-1865
• The English Revolution, 1640-1660
• Fascism in Italy, 1914-1945
• The Irish Revolution, 1879-1923
• Coffee, Chocolate and Tobacco
• Reconstruction and the New South, 1865-1914
• Slave Emancipation in the British Empire

List G (indicative, other modules available)

• Shakespeare in Performance
• Murder, Mystery, Mayhem: British Detective Fiction, 1850-1950
• The Victorian Novel: Fictions of Wealth and Poverty
• Victorian Dream-Worlds
• Elizabethan Tragedy
• Women of Virtue and Women of Pleasure
• Playwrights, Parts and Players: Shakespearean Drama in Production
• Myth and Magic: Inventing the Past in Renaissance England

Having taken at least one module from Lists E, F and G, you may also choose to take one of the following:

• Career Development for Final Year Students
• Advanced Career Development
• The Cultural Industries (semester 1)
• The Cultural Industries (semester 2)
• History and Society