BA Combined Honours Programme in English and (or with) another subject

 Year Leaders and Programme Director

The Programme Director for Combined Honours is Dr Stefania Ciocia. The Year Leader for Year One is Dr Carolyn Oulton. The Year Leader for Year Two is Dr Astrid Stilma. The Year Leader for Year Three is Dr Adrienne Gavin.

The duration of the programme is 3 years minimum—6 years maximum. Study may be either full-time or part-time. 

Please note that, because of staffing and timetabling constraints, it may not always be possible to run every course which is listed.

Further details of the of the BA Joint and Combined Honours Programme for are available in your Programme handbook, on the English Blackboard site and in Course handbooks

Unless otherwise indicated, all modules are worth 20 credits.

  Programme structure: Combined Honours
Level 4

The three Discipline Modules listed below are mandatory; at Level 4, modules to the value of 60 credits must be taken in each of the subjects a student is combining.

Discipline Modules

Introduction to English Drama |

Theory and the Novel |

Introduction to Poetry |

Level 5

At Level 5, every individual module is optional; but Discipline Modules in English to the value of either 40 or 60 or 80 credits must be taken – and likewise in a student's other subject, so that he/she derives a total of either 100 or 120 credits from the Level 5 Discipline Modules of both subjects. (Combinations adding up to more than 120 credits are not permissible.) If the total is 100, the remaining 20 credits may come from the student's enrolling as a 'guest' on a Level 4 or 5 starred module maintained by any programme other than English within the General Modular Scheme.

Students whose English modules amount (over Levels 5 and 6 together) to more than 80 credits must by the end of Level 6 have studied at least one module centred on literature before 1800. Such modules are indicated with a P (for pre-1800).

Discipline Modules (which English staff will offer either annually or occasionally, depending on demand and on staffing)

P Text and the City: Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales |

 The Descent of English: From Old English to Standard English |

P Writing the English Renaissance: Book Culture 1500-1600 |(not offered in 2009-10)

P Cross-Cultural Connections in Shakespearean Drama|1

P Ways of Reading Shakespeare|1

P Seventeenth-Century Literature and Society |

P Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Bunyan to Smollett |(not offered in 2009-10)

British Romanticism 1785-1831 |

American Modernism 1880-1960

Victorian Literature 1832-1901 |(40 credits)

Literature Between the Wars 1918-39 |

1 These two modules cannot be taken simultaneously. 
 Level 6

At Level 6, every individual module is optional; but Discipline Modules in English to the value of either 40 or 60 or 80 credits* must be taken – and likewise in a student's other subject, so that he/she derives a total of either 100 or 120 credits from the Level 6 Discipline Modules of both subjects. (Combinations adding up to more than 120 credits are not permissible.) If the total is 100, the remaining 20 credits may come from the student's enrolling as a 'guest' on a Level 5 or 6 starred module maintained by any programme other than English within the General Modular Scheme.

* not, however, 40 credits if 80 were taken at Level 5; nor 80 if 40 were taken at that Level. (Remember that the name of your award may be affected by the number of credits you elect to take in the two subjects which you are combining; full details are set out in the General Modular Scheme Handbook, "The Structure of a GMS Programme.")

Students whose English modules amount (over Levels 5 and 6 together) to more than 80 credits must study at Level 6, or have already studied at Level 5, at least one module centred on literature before 1800. Such modules are indicated with a P (for pre-1800).

Discipline Modules (which English staff will offer either annually or occasionally, depending on demand and on staffing)

P Topics in the English Renaissance: The Reformation |2 (not offered in 2009-10)

P Renaissance Identities: Self, Other and Nation |2

P Topics in Shakespeare and Shakespeare's Background |

P Satire 1693-1759 |(not offered in 2009-10)

Gothic |(not offered in 2009-10)

Topics in British Romanticism |

Topics in Victorian Literature |

Literature, Language, Politics in Post-War Britain |

American Postmodernism: Art and Literature Since 1960

Topics in Contemporary Literature |(not offered in 2009-10)

Children's Literature |

Literary Theories and Critical Practice |(not offered in 2009-10)

Literature and Postcolonialism |

Creative Writing |3

Final Year Individual Study (40 credits) |4

 

2 These two modules cannot be taken simultaneously.

3 This module may be subject to a selection test and is not open to students taking only 40 credits of Level 6 English.

4This module is subject to selection and is not open to students taking only 40 credits of Level 6 English, or to students taking 60 credits if their other Level 6 English module is Creative Writing, or to any students taking a Final Year Individual Study in their other subject. 



Please note that enrolment on any one or more of the Level 5 and 6 modules which are marked with a P (for "pre-1800") will be a requirement for Combined Honours students who devote to English more than half of the (for full-timers) three years or (for part-timers) six years that they spend studying — students, in other words, who come into the subject before November of Level 5 or who remain with it throughout their degree programmes. That requirement will be waived, however, for students who make English a minor part of those programmes by attempting (over Levels 5 and 6 together) no more than 80 credits in the subject.