English with History BA (Hons)
Study literature, rhetoric, and stylistics, comparing texts across forms and periods from 1550 to the present, and gain a deeper understanding of the contexts from which that literature emerged.
Courses
In each year of your undergraduate programme, you will study the equivalent of four, 30-credit, courses for your honours degree, plus three non-credit bearing courses for your NCH Diploma.
The courses that run in each academic year are subject to change in line with faculty availability and student demand so there is no guarantee every course will be delivered. For further information, please see here and speak to your admissions contact.
In your first year
Criticism (NCHEN405)
Discover "what is literature?" in this part close reading, part theory course… Read More
Literature 1830 – 1900
This course aims to give you a knowledge of a range of texts from 1830-1900… Read More
Literature 1700 – 1830
This Course aims to give a knowledge of a range of texts from 1700-1830… Read More
World History
World History aims to give students a firm grounding in the deep history of humanity … Read More
The NCH Diploma
Critical Reasoning
Studied in Michaelmas term, introduces students to formal and informal logic… Read More
LAUNCH: Introductory Capabilities
LAUNCH provides students with an understanding of the world of work… Read More
In your second year
Shakespeare and his Afterlives
Students will study plays and responses to Shakespeare work… Read More
Literature 1550 – 1700
This course aims to give knowledge of a range of texts from the 16th century… Read More
Literature 1900 – the Present
This course aims to give knowledge of a range of texts from the twentieth century… Read More
Plus ONE of the following:
History, Heritage & Memory
This course introduces students to the history of historical writing… Read More
The City in American Political Life 1776 – Present (NCHHI511)
This course examines the role played by cities in American political and social life … Read More
The Long Civil Rights Movement (NCHHI519)
This course examines civil rights activism in favour of racial equality...… Read More
From the Enlightenment to the Cold War: Political Thought from Rousseau to Arendt
An introduction to ancient, early modern and modern thought… Read More
From the Ancient Greeks to Modern Pluralism: Political Thought from Aristotle to Berlin
An exploration of some of the key writers in the History of Political thought… Read More
The Diploma
Science Literacy
Physics, Cosmology, Evolutionary Biology and Neuroscience literacy… Read More
LAUNCH: Applied Capabilities
Advanced Capabilities course runs over students’ final two years at the College… Read More
In your third year
North American Literature
This course explores the variety of the huge body of literature written in English… Read More
Cultures of London
This course studies literary representations of London from the Renaissance… Read More
Comparative Literature (NCHEN612)
Question, and look beyond, linguistic and national barriers to do with English… Read More
Plus ONE of the following:
History Dissertation
A culmination of the undergraduate history degree programme… Read More
Heap of Shot or Pot of Treacle? Social History in Britain, 1870-1914
This course will examine the way in which British society was transformed … Read More
The Crusades and the Expansion of Europe, c. 1000- c. 1200
This course will investigate the history of the crusades… Read More
Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern World (NCHHI673)
Cross-Cultural Encounters explores the 16th and 17th Century period of discovery.… Read More
The City in American Political Life 1776 – Present (NCHHI674)
This third-year special subject analyses the role played by cities in America...… Read More
The Long Civil Rights Movement (NCHHI675)
A focus on civil rights activism in favour of racial equality in the modern period.… Read More
The NCH Diploma
Applied Ethics
A series of lectures on major ethical challenges and alternative responses… Read More
LAUNCH: Applied Capabilities
Advanced Capabilities course runs over students’ final two years at the College… Read More