University undergraduates attending an Art History seminar

History of Art and English BA

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

Art and English use different languages to ask common questions:

  • How do we feel?
  • What's happening in the wider world?
  • What is our place in society?

During your three years you'll explore an incredible breadth of art - fiction, painting, poetry, sculpture, drama, architecture, graphics, photography, film and more

Combining these two subjects into one degree gives you a rich understanding of communication - visual, written and spoken - across centuries and cultures.

Indicative modules

Mandatory

Year 1

History of Art: Renaissance to Revolution

Mandatory

Year 1

History of Art: Modern to Contemporary

Mandatory

Year 1

Art, Methods, and Media

Mandatory

Year 1

Studying Literature

Mandatory

Year 1

Studying Language

Mandatory

Year 1

Beginnings of English

Mandatory

Year 1

Drama, Theatre, Performance

Optional

Year 2

European Avant-Garde Film

Optional

Year 2

Black Art in a White Context: Display, Critique and The Other

Optional

Year 2

The Sixties: Culture and Counterculture

Optional

Year 2

Film and Television in Social and Cultural Context

Optional

Year 2

Los Angeles Art and Architecture 1945-1980

Optional

Year 2

Art at the Tudor Courts, 1485-1603

Optional

Year 2

Memory, Media and Visual Culture

Optional

Year 2

Media Identities: Who We Are and How We Feel

Optional

Year 2

Understanding Cultural Industries

Optional

Year 2

Film and Television in Social and Cultural Context

Optional

Year 2

Digital Communication and Media

Optional

Year 2

Work placement

Optional

Year 2

From Talking Horses to Romantic Revolutionaries: Literature 1700-1830

Optional

Year 2

Literature and Popular Culture

Optional

Year 2

Modern and Contemporary Literature

Optional

Year 2

Texts Across Time

Optional

Year 2

Literary Linguistics

Optional

Year 2

The Psychology of Bilingualism and Language Learning

Optional

Year 2

Language Development

Optional

Year 2

Language in Society

Optional

Year 2

Texts Across Time

Optional

Year 2

Ice and Fire: Myths and Heroes of the North

Optional

Year 2

Chaucer and his Contemporaries

Optional

Year 2

Old English: Reflection and Lament

Optional

Year 2

Names and Identities

Optional

Year 2

Twentieth-Century Plays

Optional

Year 2

Shakespeare and Contemporaries on the Page

Optional

Year 2

Shakespeare and Contemporaries on the Stage

Optional

Year 2

From Stanislavski to Contemporary Performance

Optional

Year 3

Dissertation in History of Art

Optional

Year 3

Contested Bodies: Gender and Power in the Renaissance

Optional

Year 3

Mobility and the Making of Modern Art

Optional

Year 3

Photographing America

Optional

Year 3

Performance Art

Optional

Year 3

Art and Science: 1900 to the present

Optional

Year 3

Self, Sign and Society

Optional

Year 3

Working in the Cultural Industries

Optional

Year 3

Film and Television Genres

Optional

Year 3

Gender, Sexuality and Media

Optional

Year 3

Public Cultures: Protest, Participation and Power

Optional

Year 3

Songs and Sonnets: Lyric poetry from Medieval Manuscript to Shakespeare and Donne

Optional

Year 3

Contemporary British Fiction

Optional

Year 3

Single-Author Study

Optional

Year 3

The Gothic Tradition

Optional

Year 3

Island and Empire

Optional

Year 3

Oscar Wilde and Henry James: British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture

Optional

Year 3

The Self and the World: Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century

Optional

Year 3

Making Something Happen: Poetry and Politics

Optional

Year 3

Reformation and Revolution: Early Modern literature and drama 1588-1688

Optional

Year 3

Modern Irish Literature and Drama

Optional

Year 3

One and Unequal: World Literatures in English

Optional

Year 3

Language and the Mind

Optional

Year 3

Discourses of Health and Work

Optional

Year 3

Language and Feminism

Optional

Year 3

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Optional

Year 3

Advanced Stylistics

Optional

Year 3

English Place-Names

Optional

Year 3

Dreaming the Middle Ages: Visionary Poetry in Scotland and England

Optional

Year 3

The Viking Mind

Optional

Year 3

Modern Irish Literature and Drama

Optional

Year 3

Changing Stages: Theatre Industry and Theatre Art

Optional

Year 3

Reformation and Revolution: Early Modern literature and drama 1588-1688

Optional

Year 3

English Dissertation: Full Year

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About modules

The above is a sample of the typical modules we offer, but is not intended to be construed or relied on as a definitive list of what might be available in any given year. This content was last updated on Thursday 23 January 2025. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

University undergraduate student Cole Pearce studying in Nightingale Hall accommodation's library, University Park. November 5th 2021.

As a personal tutor, I work with you on your academic progress, but I also have a pastoral role with regards to your well-being. I see how you get on across all your modules, which enables discussions about you as an individual.

Dr Gabriele Neher

Senior Tutor

The opportunity to study such a wide range of modules from various time periods has helped me to further my knowledge in all of the fields I love! 

Isabella Hill

BA History of Art and English

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