Year 1

In Year 1, your modules will equip you with the fundamental skills for investigating English and History.

Core modules

• Writing Matters
• The Shock of the Modern
• Medieval and Early Modern Europe: People, Power, Faith, and Culture
• Making History
• Renaissance Drama (double module)

Option modules

Choose one option module from:

• Film and Literature
• Feminist Fiction

Then choose one option module from:

• Europe 1861-1991: Emancipation and Subjugation
• Modern Britain: c1700-Present

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year 2

Year 2 allows you to explore an even greater range of literary and cultural movements alongside the historical currents and events that shaped them.

Core modules

• Critical Perspectives 1
• Perceiving the Past

Option modules

Choose one option module from:

• Blood, Position and Power: The Nobility of Later Medieval England, 1066-1485
• Beastly Histories
• A World Connected: Economy, Wellbeing and Sustainability since 1945
• Digital Histories
• Living with Dictatorship: European Societies, 1918-1941
• Fight the Power! Race, Rights and Protest in the USA

Then choose four option modules from:

• Madness, Monarchy and Politics from George III to Queen Victoria
• Global Voices and the Publishing Industry
• English and Arts Journalism
• English and Education
• Modern Literature from Conrad to Orwell (double module)
• Contemporary Literature from 1945 to Now (double module)
• Domestic Revolutions: Women, Men, and the Family in American History
• History in the Classroom
• Working with History: The Heritage Field Project
• Becoming the Historical Researcher
• Imperialism and Decolonisation
• World's End: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Environmental Crises
• The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
• Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
• Jack-the-Ripper: Crime, Popular Culture and Policing in Victorian Times
• Advanced Creative Writing Skills

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year Abroad (optional)

We’ll make sure you have everything you need for your future career: not just by awarding you a high quality degree, but also by helping you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to make your mark in the world as a Citizen of Change. One way you can do this is by opting to take a Year Abroad between Years 2 and 3 of your degree.

Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to a career in the private, public or third sector - or plough your own furrow as an entrepreneur – you will find the experience invaluable.

For more information, including a list of destinations, please visit our Study Abroad website.

Please note

• A year spent abroad still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See the Fees and Funding tab of this page for details.
• You may be eligible for a travel grant from Student Finance England.
• Places are offered on a competitive basis, and eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2.
• Language courses, at beginners or advanced level, are available through our Languages at Leicester scheme.

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (English dissertation)

Core module

• Dissertation (English)

Option modules

Choose five option modules from:

• Adolescence in American Fiction and Film
• Science Fiction: Exploring Space and Time
• Writing Voices
• Classical Worlds: Translation and Reception
• The Living and the Dead in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
• Watching the Detectives: Crime on the Page and Screen
• Writing Prose Fiction
• Ideals of Womanhood in 19th-Century America (double module)
• The British Antislavery Movement, 1787-1833  (double module)
• After Hitler: Society, Culture and The Politics of The Nazi Past in The Two Germanies, 1945-1990 (double module)
• The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (double module)
• Britain’s Imperial Economy: Power, Wealth and Colonialism 1830-1939
• What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939
• Fourteenth Century Crisis in England? Politics and Society 1297-1413 
• Sport and the British
• You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
• Gender, Crime and Deviance in Eighteenth Century Britain
• The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968
• The Death Penalty and its Abolition: A Global History
• Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
• When Two Dragons Fight: China and Japan at War in the Twentieth Century
• Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (History dissertation)

Core module

• History Dissertation

Option modules

Choose five option modules from:

• Renaissance Literature from Utopia to Paradise Lost (double module)
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray (double module)
• The Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968
• Fourteenth Century Crisis in England? Politics and Society 1297-1413
• The Death Penalty and its Abolition: A Global History
• Sport and the British
• You are what you Wear? Clothing, Fashion and Belonging in the Modern World
• When Two Dragons Fight: China and Japan at War in the Twentieth Century
• Disasporas and Migrations in the Modern World
• Queering the Renaissance
• Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
• The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
• Weird Fiction/Weird Film
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• The Other in American Fiction and Film
• The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
• Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
• Tragedy
• Bodies and Minds from the Victorians to the Present Day
• Writing for Laughs
• Literature and Decolonisation
• Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
• Britain’s Imperial Economy: Power, Wealth and Colonialism 1830-1939
• What Difference Did the War Make? British Society and the Great War, 1900-1939
• Daring to be Free: The Women's Movement, 1850s to 1970s
• Gender, Crime and Deviance in Eighteenth Century Britain

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.