Course Modules

The module draws upon the specialist expertise of our History tutors, as you examine a different approach to history each week from a range of contemporary theoretical perspectives. These will include, amongst others, social and cultural history, the history of […]

This module examines the fundamental aspects of contemporary British history in a period of rapidly changing global redefinitions and reorganisations. You will consider the introduction of the welfare state within an interventionist economic structure, the shifting power relationship between majority

This module analyses the distinctive origins of American political thought and constitutional practice, the structures and effects of slavery, the origins of the civil war, the evolution of popular culture with special reference to jazz, the pursuit of civil rights

This module provides you with an overview of European political, cultural, and military history during the 20th century through the study of its major conflicts and global forces. The central focus of the module is the international history of the

This module explores the brutality, atrocity and savagery of the so-called ‘Age of Reason’, with the persecution of witches and religious minorities, endemic warfare and the trade in slavery, concluding with the French Revolutionary Terror, 1792-94. You will consider recurrent

This module evaluates the political, intellectual and religious development, popular, elite and court culture, warfare and international relations and gender issues across Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire within the Renaissance and Reformation periods. You will gain a better understanding

This module gives you the capacity to engage with the the research process. You will develop your research project as a public process, giving you the tools to find your own critical voice and the confidence to engage with peers,

This module explores emotional states, feelings, and extreme experiences across a wide-range of literary and cultural texts. From the Renaissance to the present, you will encounter texts that explore these states and understand how literature has shaped our core emotional

On this module you will consider what literature is and how do we think about literature today. You will explore new techniques in archival research, issues in intellectual history, theoretical developments, and the transformations of the very concept of ‘literature’,

In this module, you will explore the role of autonomy in the creative writing process, sustaining the longer project and learning about the publishing industry. You will also be able to learn more about the publishing industry from guest readers