Oxford Brookes University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
Course summary
Our joint honours course allows you to pursue your own areas of interest within English Literature and History whilst also providing you with a solid foundation in both disciplines and a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for your future career development. The programme is carefully designed to enable you to gradually develop your knowledge and skills and become autonomous, effective and independent learners. English Literature offers you the opportunity to study British and world literatures through a model of progressive specialisation that teaches advanced literary critical skills in the context of periodised, thematised, formal and theoretical modules. History is about far more than studying the past. It enables you to discover why people act the way they do and to explore how societies develop. We are Top 10 in the UK: English Literature and History of Art is ranked 8th in the Guardian History of Art subject league ranking 2025.
Modules
In Year 1 modules include Culture, Criticism and Literature, World Literature, Critical Theory, Shakespeare, Making History: Theory, Methods and Sources, and Rise of the Modern World. In Year 2 core modules include American Literature and Culture, The Literature of Space, The Novel and Modernity, and Culture, Crime and Transgression. In History you will follow a module in History and Documents, plus optional modules around a theme such as imperialism, crime, medicine, poverty and welfare, ideas and ideology, family and gender, and nationalism and statehood. Final year specialist optional modules offer intensive, small-group teaching; you will also choose either the Contemporary Literature (Synoptic) module or the Dissertation Module. Again in History you will build a theme, such as the History of Britain, Ireland and the Empire, Early Modern History, History of Ideas, History of Medicine, Modern Political History, Social and Cultural History, History of America, or History of Crime.
How to apply
29Jan
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
International applicants
At Oxford Brookes we are delighted to welcome international students from across the world. We have information on how to apply to Oxford Brookes as an international applicant on our website. Please copy and paste this link into your browser https://www.brookes.ac.uk/Study/International-students/Applying-to-arriving/How-to-apply.
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 104 points
English language requirements
IELTS 6.5 overall. Reading 6.0. Writing 6.0. Speaking 5.5. Listening 5.5. Further information on our English language requirements can be found on our website.
English language requirement
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| England | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
| Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
| International | £15950* | Year 1 |
*This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Please note tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.
You can spend your third year on a work placement. During your placement there is a fee which is paid to the university. It covers the cost of your placement tutor, and the support we provide whilst looking for a placement position and during your placement role.
Provider information
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Headington
Oxford
OX3 0BP