STA Programme Requirements 2025/26

3. English

First Year 2025-26	Second Year 2025-26	Final Year 2025-26
ESH126 London Global (30 credits) ESH129 Literatures in Time: Epic and Romance in the Middle Ages (15 credits) ESH124 Poetry (15 credits) HST4430 History in Practice (10 credits) HST4011 History Essay 1 (10 credits) HST4012 History Essay 2 (10 credits) EITHER: HST4330 Unravelling Britain: Britain History since 1801 (10 credits) OR HST4431 Global Encounters: Conquest and Culture in World History (10 credits) 2 x 10 credits HST4*** modules	30 credits of ESH-coded modules from List 1 or List 2 HST5010 History Research Project (10 credits) HST5011 History Essay 1 (10 credits) HST5012 History Essay 2 (10 credits) 3 x 10 credit HST5***-coded modules at Level 5 30 credits of optional modules from List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4 or optional modules from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences	EITHER: 1. Balance modules 60 credits with History/60 credits with English: 60 credits History Special Subject 60 credits of ESH-coded modules at Level 6 OR: 2. Balance modules 75 credits with History/45 credits with English: 60 credits History Special Subject 1 x 15 credits HST6*A or HST6B-coded module 45 credits of ESH-coded modules at Level 6 OR: 3. ESH6000 English Dissertation (30 credits) 30 credits of ESH-coded modules at Level 6 HST6001 History Essay 1 (10 credits) HST6002 History Essay 2 (10 credits) 40 credits of HST6***-coded modules

All students are required to take 120 credits in each academic year. It is not possible to take less, or more than 120 credits.
Students should normally take a balance of 60-60 credits worth of modules in each semester. A 75-45 split might be accepted as an exception, but it will mean a workload-heavy Semester 1 that students may find challenging. A 45-75 split is not permitted.
Some programmes allow modules to be taken at a different level of the student’s programme of study (first year = Level 4, second year = Level 5, final year = Level 6), but we strongly recommend that students going into their second year choose all their credits to be at Level 5, and students going into their final year choose all their credits to be at Level 6. This is to ensure that students meet their progression and/or degree classification requirements as explained in the Academic Regulations.