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Programme code | 1ENGL009U |
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Programme type | Joint Honours (UG) |
Programme director(s) |
Laurence Publicover
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Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
School/department | Department of English |
Second School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Teaching institution | University of Bristol |
Awarding institution | University of Bristol |
Relevant QAA subject benchmark groups |
History (2022) (benchmark statement)
English (2023) (benchmark statement) |
Mode of study | Full Time |
Programme length | 3 years (full time) |
This section sets out why studying this programme is important, both in terms of inspiring you as an individual and in considering the challenges we face. It describes how this degree programme contributes to:
This programme aims to develop the student’s interest in and knowledge and understanding of the relationship between literature and history. The student will be provided with the opportunity to study two distinct but complementary disciplines. Literary critics are frequently concerned with how historical forces shape poems, plays, and novels, while historians are interested in how literary texts shape cultural and political history and in the role narrative and creativity play in historiography. Mandatory units most appropriate for encouraging analysis of the relationship between the two disciplines have been identified at all levels. These and many of the optional units offered across English and History indicate the extent to which the two disciplines feed off one another and illustrate some of the ways in which the student taking the joint degree will be able to develop interests in specific chronological periods of writing and history while also 1) developing more subject-specific skills and 2) thinking about the intersection of their two disciplines.
The learning outcome statements shown below for your programme have been developed with reference to relevant national subject benchmarks (where they exist), national qualification descriptors (see the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) and professional body requirements.
Teaching, learning and assessment strategies are listed to show how you will be able to achieve and demonstrate the learning outcomes.
This programme provides opportunities for you to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, qualities, skills and other attributes in the following areas:
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning/teaching methods and strategies |
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Knowledge and understanding of the disciplines of English and History is acquired through lectures, seminars, tutorials, directed reading and individual formative feedback. Independent research is fostered at each level of the programme, culminating with the Dissertation at level H. |
Methods of assessment (formative and summative) | |
Essay writing, formal presentations and examinations test the students' ability to analyse information and present reasoned arguments. Problem solving is assessed on the basis of the ability shown in addressing and responding to direct questions. Research skills are assessed through coursework and dissertations. |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning/teaching methods and strategies |
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Intellectual skills are developed through seminars, tutorials, oral presentations, and essay writing. Units are structured in such a way that the skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation of data are developed. Specific units focus on other intellectual skills: problem solving and research techniques. |
Methods of assessment (formative and summative) | |
Essay writing, formal presentations and examinations test the students' ability to analyse, evaluate and organise information, and to present reasoned arguments based on appropriate selection of evidence. Problem solving is assessed on the basis of the ability shown in addressing and responding to direct questions. Research skills are assessed through coursework and dissertations. |
Programme Intended Learning Outcomes | Learning/teaching methods and strategies |
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Written assignments of various kinds in the mandatory and optional units impart skills in research, analysis and communication. Seminars are used to develop oral communication by requiring students to engage in class discussions and to give short presentations. All units make use of Blackboard. Independent learning is required in all units. |
Methods of assessment (formative and summative) | |
Essays and other forms of written assignment test the students' ability to analyse, evaluate and organise information, and to present reasoned arguments based on appropriate selection of evidence; research skills are also assessed through written coursework and the final year dissertation. Oral presentations provide diagnostic and formative assessment of this skills. |
This section describes what is expected from you at each level of your programme. This illustrates increasing intellectual standards as you progress through the programme. These levels are mapped against the national level descriptors published by the Quality Assurance Agency.
Level C/4 - Certificate |
Year 1 has been designed to lay the foundations which will enable the student to fulfil the programme's objectives. Mandatory units provide both knowledge and skills while optional units start students on a pathway and allow the exploration of other subject areas. The student will acquire familiarity with the main themes and concepts of the disciplines of English and History and will take the first steps towards independent research. Here the expectation is that their work may require substantial direction and guidance on the development of study skills from tutors. |
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Level I/5 - Intermediate |
Year 2 is intended to complete the foundations of skills and knowledge though the mandatory units, while the optional units expand knowledge and understanding in the disciplines of English and History. Students will be expected to grasp and apply the underlying concepts, principles and methods appropriate to their area of study, to show a greater degree of independence in the interpretation of evidence and construction of arguments, and to present their work effectively. |
Level H/6 - Honours |
At this level students are expected to make use of the knowledge and skills acquired in the first two years in researching and discussing topics in much greater depth. They will work at a higher level of methodological and conceptual complexity. They will be expected to work more independently in gathering and assimilating information, synthesising it in an appropriate way and engaging in the sophisticated analysis of relevant evidence. There is an emphasis on self-directed study and the development of research skills, especially through the compulsory dissertation. |
For information on the admissions requirements for this programme please see details in the undergraduate prospectus at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/prospectus/undergraduate/ or contact the relevant academic department.
UG Workload Statement
Success as an undergraduate student depends on you being able to make the transition to self-motivated, independent learning. Programmes are designed to assist you in this development, in many cases by starting with units in which timetabled teaching, such as lectures and practical classes, provides the foundations of knowledge and skills in a subject, moving on to individual research-based work. Over time you will be expected to take increasing responsibility for your own learning, guided by the feedback on your work that you will receive. At the heart of your studies at every level there must be regular and disciplined individual reading, reflection and writing and it is this skill of independent studies, above all others, that will serve you best when you leave the University.
Most programmes use credits and a 20 credit unit broadly equates to about 200 hours of student input. This includes all activities related to the teaching, learning and assessment of taught units.
A component of this is the time that you spend in class, in contact with the teaching staff, which includes activities such as lectures, laboratories, tutorials and fieldwork. Some of this activity may be online and could consist of activity that is synchronous (using real-time environments such as Blackboard Collaborate) or asynchronous (using tools such as tutor moderated discussion forums, blogs or wikis).
In some programmes there are field courses and/or placements that will take place in concentrated periods of time.
Outside scheduled activities you are expected to pursue your own independent learning to build your knowledge and understanding of the subjects you are studying. Such independent activities include, reviewing lecture material, reading textbooks, working on examples sheets, completing coursework, writing up laboratory notes, preparing for in-class progress tests and revising for examinations.
We recognise that many students undertake paid employment. To achieve a sensible balance between work and study, you are advised to undertake paid work for no more than 15 hours per week in term-time.
Professional Programmes
Many undergraduates in the Faculty of Health Sciences will be following the professional programmes of:
For these professional programmes, full time attendance is compulsory unless absence is formally approved. Academic activities are timetabled throughout the 5-day week and student workload is around 40 hours per week on average. Where possible, students in the early years are permitted Wednesday afternoons for sport and extra-curriculum activities. This may not be available in later years of professional programmes as when a student progresses through the curricula there is an increasing exposure to clinical and professional activities. Students in clinic or on placements may need to stay later than core times of 08.00 – 18.00 or even overnight to observe out-of-hours activities. This increasing exposure to clinical activities means that students on these professional programmes often have longer term dates than the University standard. Individual years within programmes are likely to vary in length (for example because of the timings of placements) and further information on this will be found in individual programme regulations. Another important point to note is that many of the assessments sit outside of the standard University examination timetable and are likely to be more frequent meaning that students will more oftentimes be engaged in revision activities and self-directed learning.
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty Assessment and Feedback Statement for Undergraduate Students. University of Bristol access only.
Students may study abroad for one Teaching Block in Year 2.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/english/
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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List A | |||||
Approaching the Past | HIST13015 | 20 | Mandatory | TB-1 | |
List B- Take ENGL10017 and 20 one 20 CP History unit | |||||
Critical Issues | ENGL10017 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Modern Revolutions | HIST10067 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
The American Century | HIST10044 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
War and Society | HIST10045 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Early Modern World: The British Isles | HIST10063 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
The Early Modern World: Europe and the Wider World | HIST10065 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
List D | |||||
Approaches to Poetry | ENGL10039 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
List E - Take ENGL10043 and one 20cp History unit | |||||
Slavery | HIST10046 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
'Fight the Power': Democracy and Protest | HIST10068 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Gender in the Modern World | HIST10069 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Medieval World: The British Isles | HIST10064 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
The Medieval World: Europe and the Wider World | HIST10066 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Literature 1550-1740 | ENGL10043 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Certificate of Higher Education | 120 |
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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You must take at least 40cp of ENGL-coded units and at least 40cp of HIST-coded units | |||||
List A – Take 20cp of HIST units and choose either ENGL20063 in this list or ENGL20064 in list D. | |||||
Literature 1740-1900 | ENGL20063 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Africa in Global Perspective | HIST20141 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Asia in Global Perspective | HIST20143 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
The Americas in Global Context | HIST20142 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
List B – Choose 20cp from list B, list E or list E2. If you take an ENGL unit from List B, you cannot also take an ENGL unit from List E2 | |||||
Rethinking History | HIST23101 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
African American Literature | ENGL20111 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
American Literature: 1945 to Present | ENGL29007 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Creative Writing, Prose Fiction: Representing the World | ENGL20113 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Poetry of the 1960s | ENGL20032 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Revenge Tragedy | ENGL29008 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
The Fairy Tale in English | ENGL20028 | 20 | Optional | TB-1,TB-2 | |
Literature and Trauma: 1900 to the present | ENGL20129 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Paradise Lost: Inception and Reception | ENGL29032 | 20 | Optional | B | TB-1 |
Rudyard Kipling | ENGL29004 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List C | |||||
Writing the City: London 1550-1740 | ENGL20069 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Shakespeare | ENGL20068 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Fear and Loathing | HIST20117 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Outlaws | HIST20120 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Crusading Cultures | HIST20133 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List D - Take 20cp of HIST units and choose either ENGL20064 in this list or ENGL20063 in list A. | |||||
Literature 1900-present | ENGL20064 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Politics of the Past | HIST20144 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
The Public Role of the Historian | HIST20145 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
List E – Choose 20cp from list E, list E2 or list B | |||||
Arthurian Literature | ENGL20060 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Chaucer and Chaucerians | ENGL20061 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Old English Language and Literature | ENGL20065 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Aztecs, Incas and Evangelisers | HIST20036 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Building Modern Ireland, c. 1850-Present | HIST20139 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Health and Medicine in African History: Actors, Institutions, Ideas | HIST20147 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Modern Girls and New Women | HIST20146 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Under the Covers: Sex and Modern British Print Culture | HIST20138 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Speaking with Authority: Women and Power in the Middle Ages (Level I Special Field) | HIST26024 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Hong Kong and the World | HIST20135 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Race, Migration and Diaspora in 19th and 20th Century Britain | HIST20136 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Rebels, Runaways, and Revolts: Agency, Resistance, and Slavery in the United States | HIST20129 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Age of Revolutions 1776-1848 in Global Perspective | HIST20128 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Black Death in England | HIST20125 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Travel and Trade in the Global Middle Ages | HIST20132 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
List E2 – Choose 20cp from list E, list E2 or list B. If you take an ENGL unit from list E2, you cannot also take an ENGL unit from List B | |||||
Black British Literature | ENGL20041 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Creative Writing: Poetry | ENGL20051 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Dangerous Books | ENGL20023 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Drinking in the words: The pleasures and pains of alcohol in British fiction and culture | ENGL20127 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Gender, Desire and the Renaissance Stage | ENGL20206 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Large, Loose, Baggy Monsters: Victorian Fiction and Novel Form | ENGL20128 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Author as Character | ENGL20048 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Writing the Working Classes | ENGL20030 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Art of Grief | ENGL20116 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
The Radical Gothic | ENGL20136 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
List F | |||||
Choose 20CP from Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty-wide units; OR choose an additional 20 CP from one of the lists above. | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
Diploma of Higher Education | 120 |
Unit Name | Unit Code | Credit Points | Status | ||
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Besides the mandatory dissertation, you will normally take at least 40cp of ENGL-coded units and at least 40cp of HIST-coded units | |||||
List A – Choose 20cp | |||||
Victorian Fiction: Art and Ideas in the Marketplace | ENGL30117 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
Novel Territories: Eighteenth-century Prose Fiction | ENGL30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Bristol and Slavery (Level H Special Subject) | HIST30078 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Kingship and Crisis during the Wars of the Roses. (Level H Special Subject) | HIST37011 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Red Power and Beyond: American Indian activism since 1944 | HIST30128 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
Once Upon a Crime: Law and Popular Cultures in the Age of Empire | HIST30137 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) | HIST37010 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Aftermath: The Wake of War, 1945-1949 | HIST30106 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
Rage against the Machine: Technology and Anti-Technology in Modern Britain | HIST30138 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
The Age of the Human | HIST30103 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List C - Choose 20cp from this list or from list F | |||||
American Revolutions | ENGL30108 | 20 | Optional | A | TB-1 |
Literatures of Decolonisation | ENGL30147 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Britain's Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914 | HIST30120 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Memory | HIST30113 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-1 |
Picturing the Twentieth Century | HIST30114 | 20 | Optional | TB-1 | |
List C2 - choose 20cp | |||||
Race | HIST30117 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-2 |
Sexualities | HIST30118 | 20 | Optional | C | TB-2 |
Capitalism | HIST30115 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
List D – Choose 20cp | |||||
Celebrity Culture: Icons, Industry and Aesthetics | ENGL30110 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Literature - Enslavement - Liberation | ENGL30142 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Horrible Histories And All That | HIST30119 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Global Empires | HIST30122 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
Millennial Britain | HIST30125 | 20 | Optional | D | TB-2 |
List E – Choose one 40cp unit (this stands in for a List B unit in TB1) | |||||
English and History Dissertation | HUMS30003 | 40 | Optional | E | TB-4 |
Practice-Based Dissertation (History) | HIST30129 | 40 | Optional | B,E | TB-4 |
List E2 – Choose 20cp from this list or from list F | |||||
Literature and Medicine | ENGL39011 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Modernist Writers | ENGL30140 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Victorian Poetry: Belief, Doubt, and Dissent | ENGL30143 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Writing the Anthropocene 1945-Present | ENGL30124 | 20 | Optional | B,E | TB-1,TB-2 |
Writing for Art | ENGL39019 | 20 | Optional | TB-2 | |
Victorian Materialities | ENGL30079 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Medievalism in the Modern Age | ENGL30150 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Caribbean Literature | ENGL30148 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Modernism and the Movies | ENGL30128 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
Writing the Self: Literature and Autobiography | ENGL30107 | 20 | Optional | E | TB-2 |
List F - Choose from this list, list C or list E2 | |||||
Take 20 CP From Bristol Futures, UWLP or Faculty Wide Units – OR choose an additional 20 CP from lists A-E above | OPEN | 20 | Optional | ||
English and History (BA) | 120 |
Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:
For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.
For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.
Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.
All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.
Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.
The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).
An Ordinary degree can be awarded if a student has successfully completed at least 300 credits with a minimum of 60 credits at Level 6.
The pass mark for the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine and Dentistry is 50 out of 100. The classification of a degree in the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry is provided in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
Please note: This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if he/she takes full advantage of the learning opportunities that are provided.
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