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2016/17 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA English Literature and Theatre Studies

Programme code:BA-ENGL&TSUCAS code:QW34
Duration:3 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time

Total credits: 360

Entry requirements:

Currently A-level AAB with A in English (Literature, Language, or Language & Literature), not GS. Theatre Studies or Drama at GCSE and/or A-level is an advantage but not essential.

Candidates must have a firm commitment to theatre and some practical experience.

Applications welcome from mature students with Access qualifications and from students with international or other non-A-level qualifications.

School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of English

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of English

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Programme specification:

This is one of the country's most prestigious degrees in English Literature and Theatre Studies. The School is an internationally recognized research leader in English studies and possesses a long-established reputation for excellence in research and teaching. There is a large academic staff (over 40 full time), and about 1000 undergraduate students are being taught in the department at any one time.

The Single Honours English & Theatre Studies programme exposes students to a variety of approaches to creating and critically appraising drama and diverse modes of performance in addition to the wide range of subject areas across the spread of English Studies. Practice is offered as a mode of analysis and appreciation throughout the programme in ways that complement and promote skills activated in English modules.

Following a compulsory level 1, students are offered a high degree of choice within a structure that activates an appreciation of theatre theory, history and practice through analytical work and individual and collaborative creativity. Students are equally well exposed to a range of periods and genres of English Literature and have some opportunity to study issues of English language.

Students may apply for transfer to a European or an International Degree. The opportunity to apply for a work placement degree is also available. Those students who are accepted may participate in one of our Erasmus/Socrates schemes or go to one of a range of universities with which the University of Leeds has established links.


Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Students MUST study the following compulsory CORE modules:

ENGL1000Studying and Researching English5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1261Poetry: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1282Drama: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1291Approaches to Theatre and Performance20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

Students MUST also chose ONE of the following CORE modules:

ENGL1191Writing Critically20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1250Prose: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates are required to study 40 credits of Discovery modules.


Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO STUDY A TOTAL OF 120 CREDITS IN LEVEL 2, WITH NO MORE THAN 70 CREDITS IN ONE SEMESTER.

A MAXIMUM OF 20 CREDITS MAY BE TAKEN IN MODULES OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF LEVEL 2:
Students:
1. Must take TWO COMPULSORY CORE modules
2. Choose TWO CORE modules from a list
3a. Choose 40 credits of OPTION modules or additional CORE modules
OR
3b. Choose 20 credits of OPTION modules (or additional CORE modules) and 20 credits from outside of the School (known as Discovery modules).

Compulsory modules:

Students MUST study both compulsory CORE modules:

ENGL2040Performing the Past20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2050Theatre, Society and Self20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

CORE MODULES
Students are required to study TWO of the following CORE modules:
Students can also opt to study further CORE modules or choose credits from the list of OPTION modules.

ENGL2025Medieval Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2027Eighteenth Century Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2028Literature of the Romantic Period20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2029Renaissance Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3289Victorian Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3290American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

OPTION MODULES

Students may study up to 40 credits of option modules from the following list, in accordance with the credit rules stated below.

Students can opt to take a MAXIMUM of 20 credits in modules outside of the School at Level 2 (known as Discovery modules).

Credit rules:
No more than 70 credits in one semester
A total of 120 credits over the year
A maximum of 20 credits may be taken outside the School of English as Discovery at Level 2.

ENGL3208Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL32110Students into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32113The Wild: Literature and the Environment20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32114Forming Victorian Fiction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32120Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL32143Disposable Lives?20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32146Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32147Contemporary Postcolonial Texts20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32148American Danger20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32149Gender, Body, Self and God: Late-Medieval Identities20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL32150Planes, Trains and Automobiles: US Narratives of Air, Rail, Road and Water20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32153Refugee Narratives20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32156Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32157Contemporary African Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32158Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32159Adapt(Abilities): Working with Adaptation  creditsNot running until 201718
ENGL32161Performing Shakespeare's Clowns and Fools20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32163Milton20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3227Surrealism and the French Stage20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3231The Poetry of Wordsworth20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3245Jacobean Drama20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32460Writing America20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3259Literature, Reading, Mental Health20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL3266Folklore and Mythology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32660Creative Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3286Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-192220 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3287Thomas Hardy's World20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL3293Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3296Beyond the Book: An Introduction to the Digital Humanities20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32980African Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32993Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32996Byron and the Shelleys20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32998Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32999Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules outside the School of English.


Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO STUDY A TOTAL OF 120 CREDITS IN LEVEL 3, WITH NO MORE THAN 70 CREDITS IN ONE SEMESTER.

A MAXIMUM OF 40 CREDITS MAY BE TAKEN IN MODULES OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL OF ENGLISH.

NB: Students are not eligible to take Level 1 modules in Level 3 (with the exception of up to a maximum of 20 credits in Special Skills modules).

GENERAL OVERVIEW OF LEVEL 3:
1. Students MUST study the 40 credit compulsory CORE module
2. Students MUST choose TWO CORE modules from a list
3. Students can then choose to take the 40 remaining credits in further CORE or OPTION modules within the School or from modules outside of the School (known as Discovery modules).

Compulsory modules:

Students MUST study the 40 credit compulsory CORE module:

ENGL3042The Practical Essay40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

CORE MODULES
Students are required to take TWO of the following CORE modules.
Students can also opt to study further CORE module or choose credits from the list of OPTION modules below.

ENGL3024Modern Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3025Postcolonial Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3026Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3027Shakespeare20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3290American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

OPTION MODULES

Students may study up to 40 credits of option modules from the following list, in accordance with the credit rules stated below.

Credit rules:
No more than 70 credits in one semester
A total of 120 credits over the year
A maximum of 40 credits may be taken outside the School of English as Discovery at Level 3.

Students may only choose a Level 2 English module from the OPTION module list if all their remaining 100 final year credits are at Level 3. Modules that start with the code ENGL2*** are Level 2 modules.

ENGL2025Medieval Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2027Eighteenth Century Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2028Literature of the Romantic Period20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2029Renaissance Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3208Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32113The Wild: Literature and the Environment20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32114Forming Victorian Fiction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32120Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL32143Disposable Lives?20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32146Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32147Contemporary Postcolonial Texts20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32148American Danger20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32149Gender, Body, Self and God: Late-Medieval Identities20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL32150Planes, Trains and Automobiles: US Narratives of Air, Rail, Road and Water20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32153Refugee Narratives20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32156Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32157Contemporary African Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32158Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32159Adapt(Abilities): Working with Adaptation  creditsNot running until 201718
ENGL32161Performing Shakespeare's Clowns and Fools20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32163Milton20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3227Surrealism and the French Stage20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3231The Poetry of Wordsworth20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3245Jacobean Drama20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32460Writing America20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3259Literature, Reading, Mental Health20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL3266Folklore and Mythology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32660Creative Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3286Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-192220 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3287Thomas Hardy's World20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL3289Victorian Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3293Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3296Beyond the Book: An Introduction to the Digital Humanities20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32980African Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32993Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32996Byron and the Shelleys20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32998Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32999Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3312Puppetry Arts and the Subject/Object Continuum20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3334Introduction to Psychoanalysis20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3342Millennial Fictions20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3365Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3377Against the Great American Novel: Panoramic US Narratives, 1900-present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3386Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3391September 11 in Fact and Fiction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3392Narratives of Memory and Forgetting in Contemporary US Culture20 creditsNot running in 201617
ENGL3394Bowie, Reading, Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3395T.S. Eliot20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3396Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3397Public Images: The Punk Lyric and Chorus, 1976-present20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3398Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3560James Joyce's "Ulysses"20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3680Postcolonial London20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3999Literature of the 1890s20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Some option modules give enrolment priority to Level 2 students (see School of English Module Handbook for details of the priority timetable for the relevant session).

Discovery modules:

Candidates may study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules outside the School of English.

Last updated: 15/04/2016

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