De Montfort University (DMU), BA (Hons), English and History

English Year 1: Modules include: poetry and society; introduction to the novel; introduction to drama; writing and screening. Year 2: Medieval and renaissance literature; 18th- and 19th-century literature; 20th- and 21st-century literature; ways of reading. Year 3: English dissertation; modernism; 20th-century women’s writing; Geoffrey Chaucer; contemporary poetry; writing the self; English in the workplace; 19th-century fiction and history; colonialism/postcolonialism; 20th-century American literature; studies in literature and film; text and technology. History Year 1: Modules include: Presenting and representing the past; Great Britain, Europe and the wider world; 20th-century Europe; 20th-century America. Year 2: Sport, leisure and culture in 20th-century Britain; the development of modern Britain since 1939; Englishmen and foreigners: immigration, ethnicity and racism during the 19th- and 20th-centuries; United States ethnic history; Russia in revolution, 1861-1917; the Second World War; communism at home and abroad, 1917-89; Britain and the world in the 20th-century; the Cold War; British India, 1857-1947. Year 3: History dissertation; terror and progress: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) 1917 to 1953; media, myth and modern British history; refugees in 20th-century Britain; rural Britain since 1939; nationalism, racism and genocide in 20th-century Europe; moments of decision: Great Britain and European integration; United States intervention and the collective memory of Vietnam.