BA Joint Honours degree courses

A Joint Honours degree is split evenly between your two subjects, so the 'English half' of your degree is made up of 60 credits each year.

Depending on the structure of your Joint Honours degree course, in your first year, you will take up to three modules in English Literature, Language, Drama or Medieval Studies.

Joint Honours students are given online access to the lecture-style content of the Academic Community module (a first year module that aims to help you with the transition from school or college to university.  You are introduced to key issues of being a university student in general and the discipline of English Studies in particular.  Academic Community helps you develop your skills of self-reflective writing, presenting, developing an argument, and handling sources and evidence appropriately.) 

Although Joint Honours students will not take the assessed component of the Academic Community module, they are encouraged to engage with this material in order to deepen their understanding of English Studies as a broad discipline.

For your second and final years, you will continue with three areas (Literature, Language, Drama or Medieval Studies) and you may wish to write a dissertation in your final year. 

 

Project Dissertations

In 2011/12 the School launched new project-based dissertations - that provide students with the opportunity to pursue projects on specific topics relating to language and literacy and to drama and performance.  These topics build on the School’s engagement with local theatres and literacy projects and aim to encourage students to think about applied research in an English context from fresh angles of approach. 

 

Those studying for a four year Joint Honours degree usually spend the third year abroad. Information about this year is available from the Joint Honours partner school or department.

 

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