English Literature and History BA (Hons)

Course Overview - English Literature and History BA (Hons)

The Joint Honours in BA English Literature and History is a cross-disciplinary course, which develops and assesses skills that are common to both disciplines alongside others that are specific to each. The course offers you the opportunity to acquire a range of both literary-critical and historical knowledge.

The English part of your degree not only provides a thorough grounding in the ‘great tradition’ of English literature – from Chaucer and Shakespeare through to plays, poems and novels written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – and in literary theory, but it ...

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Course Information

Study Mode

Full-time

Duration

3 Years

Start Date

29/09/2025

Campus

Durham City

Course Address
Palatine Centre
Durham
DH1 3HP

Application Details

Course Code

QV21

Institution Code

D86

Points of Entry

Year 1

Entry Requirements

UCAS Tariff

Not Accepted

Scottish Higher

A,A,A,A,A

We will normally make offers based on Advanced Highers. If an applicant has not been able to take 3 Advanced Highers, offers may be made with a combination of Advanced Highers and Highers, or on a number of Highers.

Access to HE Diploma

D:30,M:15

We require 60 credits with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3 (or equivalent). Applicants may be required to meet additional subject-specific requirements for particular courses at Durham.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

38

To include 6, 6, 6 from Higher Level subjects including History and English Literature or English Literature/Language.

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

D*DD

Additionally an A Level in English Literature (or English Language & Literature) at grade A, plus an A Level in History at grade A or higher.

Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)

H1,H2,H2,H2,H2

To include History and English

OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma

D*DD

Additionally an A Level in English Literature (or English Language & Literature) plus an A Level in History.

Scottish Advanced Higher

A,A,A

Specific subjects/grades required for entry: English at grade A. History at grade A.

Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal

D2,D3,D3

To include English Literature and History

Extended Project

Not Accepted

Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)

Not Accepted

A level

A*,A,A

Specific subjects/grades required for entry: including History and English Literature (or the combined English Literature and Language). Specific subjects excluded for entry: General Studies and Critical Thinking.

T Level

At Durham we welcome applications from students of outstanding achievement and potential from all educational backgrounds. We will consider applicants studying T level qualifications for entry to many of our courses. Where a course requires subject specific knowledge and this is not covered within the T level being studied, you may need to supplement your T level studies with a suitable qualification to meet this requirement, for example at A level. Where this is needed this will be clearly stated in our entry requirements.

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