BA Art History and English Literature
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and History of Art. Core topics include Research Methods. Studies take place in Manchester, encompassing galleries and museums such as the Whitworth and the Manchester Museum.
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Entry requirements
A level: AAA including A in English Literature or English Language & Literature
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What students say
Based on about 24 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 92%
- Learning opportunities: 85%
- Assessment and feedback: 75%
- Academic support: 88%
- Organisation and management: 84%
- Learning resources: 96%
- Student voice: 86%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 75%
- Left higher education: 25%
What graduates do next
Based on about 77 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 63%
- Working and studying: 12%
- Further study: 8%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 15%
- Elementary occupations: 13%
- Teaching Professionals: 12%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 10%
- Media Professionals: 9%
- Find their work meaningful: 61%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 49%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 35%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 545 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 2%
- North West: 31%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 5%
- East Midlands: 3%
- West Midlands: 5%
- East of England: 4%
- London: 36%
- South East: 8%
- South West: 4%
- Wales: 1%
- Scotland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 10 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Gold for student outcomes.
Modules
- Reading Literature
- Ice Age to Baroque: Artworks in History
- Rococo to Now: Artworks in History
- Mapping the Medieval
- Theory and Text
- Literature and History
- Art Spaces
- Art History Tutorial 1
- Art History Tutorial 2
- Art in Theory
- European Art History Fieldtrip
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Chaucer: Texts, Contexts, Conflicts
- Shakespeare
- Gender, Sexuality and the Body: Theories and Histories
- Writing, Identity and Nation
- Postcolonial World Literatures
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Medieval Metamorphoses
- Renaissance Literature
- Old English: Writing the Unreadable Past
- Satire and Sentiment: British Literature, 1660–1820
- Modernism
- Romanticism (1776 - 1832)
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Victorian Literature
- British Art and The Environment, 1800–1900
- Art Markets
- The Art of Late Medieval Italy: Commerce, Religion, Travel
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture 1450-1750
- Surrealism, Gender, Sexuality
- Digital Ways of Seeing: Theory and Practice
- Love American Style
- History of California
- Harlem and the State of Urban America
- Climate Change & Culture Wars
- American Hauntings
- James Baldwin in Context: Race, Sexuality and Activism
- Long Essay
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Culture and Conflict: Neoliberalism and Cultural Production
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Irish Fiction Since 1990
- Radical Turns: Culture and Politics in the 1930s
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary Global Novel
- Eros: Love and Desire in Victorian Poetry
- The History of the Book in Early Modern England
- Apocalypse: Early Modern Imaginings
- Queer Forms: Objects and Animals in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- Hypercontemporary Queer and Trans Fiction
- Haunting the Stage: The Supernatural in Early Modern Drama
- Things that Talk: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary British Novel
- British Fiction and Empire in the Twentieth Century
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction
- Romantic Venice
- Co-operation, Competition, and Happiness: Dangerous Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
- Crime and Contemporary Culture
- Vital Matters: Medieval Ecologies
- Humans and other Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Women’s Writing, Citizenship, and Political Radicalism
- Literary and Sexual Experimentalism Between the Wars
- Contemporary South Asian Literatures
- Literary Landscapes
- Imaginations of the Future: People, Earth and Power
- Interdisciplinary Literature and Theology: Empathy, Ethics, Liberation
- History of Art Dissertation
- Victorian Bodies: Art, Science, and Modernity 1848 - 1901
- Art and Ecology: Bodies, Environments and Technology
- Digital Art
- Architecture of Devotion: Art, Architecture and Material Culture in Early Modern Italy and Beyond
- Art After Modernism: Approaching Contemporary Art
- Picasso
- The Art of European Medieval Books
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Art History and English Literature at University of Manchester earn?
The median salary is £26,500 after 15 months, £24,500 after 3 years, £31,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £23,500 and £39,500. The £31,000 median after five years is £3,000 more than the UK median for Literature in English.
What do graduates of BA Art History and English Literature at University of Manchester do next?
82% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Art History and English Literature at University of Manchester?
92% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Art History and English Literature at University of Manchester?
The typical offer is AAA at A level. The average entrant had 161 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA Art History and English Literature at University of Manchester?
75% of students continued into their second year, and 25% left higher education.