Joint Degree Study Option
History can be studied either as a Single Honours degree or in combination with other subjects as a Major, Joint or Minor route.
Combined routes
Good History subject partners:
- English
- English & Creative Writing
- International English Studies
- Media Studies; Music
- Theology and Religion.
History and English
This Joint degree is particularly popular with History students as it allows for an exploration of a number of related aspects of historical and literary cultures as well as pursuing theories of active, critical reading and writing that are common to both disciplines. At each level, contextual historical studies of the early modern and modern periods are complemented neatly by the textual analysis of the literary history strand of English Studies. Thus, alongside History modules on early modern English and European societies you are able to study major or lesser-known works from the Renaissance and Restoration periods. Similarly, historical examinations of the nineteenth-century culture and the biographical origins of women’s history can be read alongside major texts of the Victorian period.
History modules that focus on the philosophy of history in contemporary, postmodern and postcolonial cultures are also well paired with English modules such as ‘The Postmodern Novel’, or ‘Racism and the Literary Imagination’. Literary and historical depictions of gender can also be studied in conjunction with each other.
History and Media Studies
On this Joint route you are able to pursue your study of a number of media-related themes on the History programme in greater depth and explore further the significance of contemporary cultural forms. Many of these themes are drawn from History modules offered on twentieth-century European culture where the Media Studies component of your degree could include more extensive studies in any of the following: European cinema and the filmic representation of national identities; postwar British youth cultures; media representations of gender issues in the popular press and magazines; the power of advertising and propaganda in mass political movements such as fascism.