History and English Literature
UCAS Code: QV31
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Minimum number of A Levels required: 2 An English subject is preferred, e.g. English Language, English Literature, English Language/Literature or Creative Writing. Subjects such as Drama, Theatre Studies, Film Studies, Religious Education, History and Media Studies will also be considered Is general studies acceptable? Yes Are AS level awards acceptable? Acceptable only when combined with other qualifications Average A Level offer: A typical A Level offer is BCC Maximum AS Level points accepted: 20
Access to Higher Education Diploma acceptability: Acceptable on its own Further information: At least 24 Distinctions and 21 Merits, or any other combination that equates to 104 UCAS Tariff points in a relevant subject
International Baccalaureate: Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications Additional information: 104 UCAS Tariff points from IB Composite parts to include a relevant subject at Higher Level (HL)
Irish Leaving Certificate: Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications Grades / subjects required: 104 UCAS points to include a relevant subject at Higher Level
Extended diploma (QCF): Acceptable on its own Extended diploma subjects / grades required: Performing Arts, Production Arts or Creative Media Production are preferred from applicants studying BTEC qualifications
UCAS Tariff
All applicants should possess a real enthusiasm for literature and for finding out about the societies and ideas that produce and infuse it. We’ll be looking for evidence that you’ve read widely outside your set-texts, and are interested in writing from a range of different eras and cultures. You’ll have the ability to express your own ideas and opinions in a clear and lively way, as well as the desire to listen to and learn from other peoples’ views, which may be very different from your own. We’ll also expect confident research and IT skills, so that your work is well-informed and well-presented.
About this course
Studying BA (Hons) History and English Literature at Liverpool John Moores University will provide you with an opportunity to not only discover the past but also how past and present is recorded in a variety of sources including novels, visual sources, films and poetry.
- Taught by a passionate team of academics
- History at LJMU has been rated 11th best in the country in the 2019 Guardian University league table
- In 2016 National Student Survey 98% of our students agreed that 'staff are enthusiastic about what they are teaching'
- Teaching from leading academics who have written scholarly works on topics ranging from American foreign policy to sport in the Soviet Union, through to Sherlock Holmes and Irish rock music
- A broad range of module topics that includes Britain, Ireland, Europe, Japan, Palestine and sub-Saharan Africa
Modules
Please see guidance on core and option modules for further information on what you will study.
Level 4
Modern European History: Myth, Memory and the Uses of the past
Reading English
Literary & Cultural theory
Practices of History
The American Age: People Politics and Power
Literature in Context
Level 5
The Soviet Experiment, 1917 – 1991
Colonial Africa, 1880-1994
Gendering the Past
From Shogun to Showdown: Japan, 1853 – 1941
Prison Voices: Crime, Conviction and Confession, c. 1700-1900
Modernism and Modernity
Romanticism: Revolution, Reaction and Representation
Postcolonial Writing: Power, Art & Protest
Body, Mind and Soul: Seventeenth Century Literature and Culture
Relating Gender: Fiction from the 19th Century to the Present
Stage Worlds: Early Modern Drama & Culture
International Fieldwork in History: Modern France
Age of Terror: 1850-1814
Gender, Race and Slavery in the United States
Migrants to the Screen
Life Stories: Telling Tales and Keeping Secrets
An International History of the Cold War
A Bitter Resurgence: China into the Modern World
Level 6
Dissertation in History and English
The following options are typically offered:
End of Empire: Historiographical and Southeast Asian Perspective
The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany
Independent Study in History
Queer Britain
Victorian Cities
Celebration and Commemoration in Irish History
Transitions: identities in the Interwar Years
Interpreting conflict in post-colonial Africa
The Soviet Experience, 1917 - 1991
Post-Millennial British Fiction
Laws of War
Vamps and Villains: Exploring Gothic Fiction
Writing Lives: Collaborative Research Project – The Archive of Working-Class Writing
English Independent Study
Race in America
Writing the Real: Contemporary Non-Fiction
Terrorism and Modern Literature
Violence in Nineteenth-Century Literature
The Last Victorians: Literature
The United States and the Middle East
Modules are designated as core or option in accordance with professional body requirements and internal Academic Framework review, so may be subject to change. Students will be required to undertake modules that the University designates as core and will have a choice of designated option modules. Additionally, option modules may be offered subject to meeting minimum student numbers.
Please see the programme specification document for further details on this course.
Assessment methods
Assessment varies depending on the modules you choose, but will usually include a combination of exams and coursework.
We acknowledge that all students perform differently depending on the way they are assessed, which is why we use a combination of assessment methods. Half of your assessments will be coursework in the form of essays, portfolios, short written pieces, independent studies and dissertations. The rest of your assessment is by seen and unseen exam. Exam questions are available two weeks before the start of seen exams so you have the chance to prepare fully for them.
Your tutors will provide feedback on coursework assessments within 15 days of submission via Canvas, face-to-face or as written comments. We believe constructive feedback is vital in helping you to identify your strengths as well as the areas where you may need to put in more work.
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Liverpool John Moores University
Faculty of Arts, Professional and Social Studies
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After graduation
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What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
English is one of the most popular degree subjects and in 2015, more than 11,000 students graduated with English degrees - although this does represent a fall from recent years. As good communication is so important to modern business, you can find English graduates in all parts of the economy, although obviously, you can't expect to get a job in science or engineering (computing is a different matter - it's not common but good language skills can be useful in the computing industry). There's little difference in outcomes between English language and English literature degrees, so don't worry and choose the one that suits you best. More English grads took another postgraduate course when they finished their degree than grads from any other subject - this is an important option. Teacher training was a common choice of second degree, as was further study of English, and journalism courses. But many English graduates changed course and trained in law, marketing or other languages -or even subjects further afield such as computing, psychology and even nursing. This is a very flexible degree which gives you a lot of options
History
What are graduates doing after six months?
This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.
Top job areas of graduates
History is a very popular subject (although numbers have fallen of late) — in 2015, over 10,000 UK students graduated in a history-related course. Obviously, there aren't 11,000 jobs as historians available every year, but history is a good, flexible degree that allows graduates to go into a wide range of different jobs, and consequently history graduates have an unemployment rate comparable to the national graduate average. Many — probably most — jobs for graduates don't ask for a particular degree to go into them and history graduates are well set to take advantage. That's why so many go into jobs in the finance industry, human resources, marketing, PR and events management, as well as the more obvious roles in education, welfare and the arts. Around one in five history graduates went into further study last year. History and teaching were the most popular further study subjects for history graduates, but law, journalism, and politics were also popular postgraduate courses.
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