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2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Ancient History and English

Programme code:BA-AHIS&ENGLUCAS code:V130
Duration:3 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr Ingo Cornils Contact address:i.cornils@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 370

Entry requirements:

For entry requirements for this course please visit www.leeds.ac.uk/coursefinder

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

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

The relevant benchmark statement for Ancient History is published by QAA as 'Classics and ancient history
(including Byzantine studies and Modern Greek) 2007', and is available online at: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/classics.pdf

The relevant benchmark statement for English is published by QAA as ‘English 2007’, and is available online at: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/English07.pdf

Programme specification:

Students on this programme will benefit from contact with leading scholars in their field in both of the partner subjects. The Schools of English and LCS are both internationally-recognised research leaders in their fields, with long-established reputations for excellence in research and teaching.

The programme begins with structured foundational study across a small number of compulsory modules, but also offers a high degree of module choice at levels 2 and 3. Students are exposed to a broad range of different fields of study within the two disciplines, innovative assessment methods (e.g. online discussion forums, wikis, student surveys, posters) and a considerable element of research-based learning culminating in an independent research project at level 3.

Students on this programme 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]

In Level 1 students must study 125-130 credits. Students are required to take 45 credits in each of their two main subjects and 20 credits of discovery modules. The discovery credits may take the form of either further modules in one or both main subjects or of one or more modules chosen from other subject areas.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

CLAS1300The Greek World: an Introduction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS1400The Roman World: An Introduction20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1000Studying and Researching English5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

In addition, candidates may choose to take up to 20 credits of the following optional modules:

CLAS1200Intermediate Ancient Greek20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1250Intermediate Latin20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1650Introduction to Classical Archaeology20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS1810Beginners Ancient Greek20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1910Beginners Latin20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following modules

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

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following modules

ENGL1261Poetry: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1282Drama: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

As part of your induction to academic work, and in order to provide you with additional support in key areas of your programme, students are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to undertake the following 5-credit Study Skills module. This module resides above the required 120 credits students take in Level 1 and as such it is not compulsory, but it draws together key guidance that augments provision elsewhere.

MODL1500LCS Academic Essentials5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of Discvoery Theme modules or pursue addiional modules in the two named subjects.


Year2 - View timetable

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

In Level 2 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects. Of the remaining credits, 20 credits should be taken in one of the named subjects; the final 20 credits may be taken as discovery modules or in either of the named subjects.

In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module

CLAS2800Evidence and Enquiry in Classics20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2900Ancient Empires: Power and Control20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

CORE MODULES
Candidates are required to study at least TWO of the following core modules. In addition candidates may also opt to study one or two further core modules (up to 40 credits) or choose up to 40 credits from the list of option modules below.

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
Candidates may study further credits (up to 40 credits) from the following list of option modules, in accordance with the credit rules.

ENGL2023Power of Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2024Language in Society20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32110Students into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32114Forming Victorian Fiction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32143Disposable Lives?20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32148American Danger20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32150Planes, Trains and Automobiles: US Narratives of Air, Rail, Road and Water20 creditsNot running in 201718
ENGL32153Refugee Narratives20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32154Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32155Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media20 creditsNot running in 201718
ENGL32156Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32164Colonial and Postcolonial Migrations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32165Text is a Technology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32167Language of the Media20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32169Contemporary South African Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3231The Poetry of Wordsworth20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3233Forensic Approaches to Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3245Jacobean Drama20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32460Writing America20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3266Folklore and Mythology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32660Creative Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3284Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 191320 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3286Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-192220 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3293Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3294The Politics of Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32980African Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32993Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsNot running in 201718
ENGL32994Shakespeare's Histories20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32996Byron and the Shelleys20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32997Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32999Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Candidates may also choose further modules from among the following:

CLAS3120Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3250The Athenian Empire20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3350Herodotus and the Beginning of History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS3360Ovid the Innovator20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3370Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3380Classics in 20th-21st Century Literature20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3410Classics on Screen: Antiquity through a Modern Lens20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3420Augustus and his Legacy20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3430The Ancient Greek Novel20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3440Understanding Aristotle's Poetics20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3510Pompeii - Past, Present and Future20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS3595Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3610Greeks and Barbarians20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3630Politics in Ancient Greece20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3650The Image of Sparta20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3660The Art of Persuasion20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3680Greek Art and Society20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3710Plato on Love20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS3740Greek Religion20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3790Greek Tragedy20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3800Greek Cultural Values20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3820Plato: Three Dialogues20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3850Transforming Myth20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3860How to be human: Aristotle's anthropology20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3880Society and Culture under Nero20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3890The City in the Roman World20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3900Roman Comedy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3910Plato's Republic20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3920Living the Religious Experience at Rome20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3940Making Athens Laugh: Aristophanes & Comedy20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3970Ancient Magic20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3980Should We Ban Homer? Philosophers & Poetry in the Ancient World20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3990Edge of Empire20 creditsNot running in 201718
ITAL3045Introduction to Dante's Comedy20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

NB: Not all modules will be available every year.

In addition, candidates may choose to take up to 20 credits of the following special skills modules:

CLAS1200Intermediate Ancient Greek20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1250Intermediate Latin20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1810Beginners Ancient Greek20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1910Beginners Latin20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose up to 20 credits of Discovery modules or pursue additional modules in either of the two named subjects.


Year3 - View timetable

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

In Level 3 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects, plus at least 20-credits as a Final Year Project which can be taken in and count towards either subject. Any remaining credits can be taken in either of the named subjects or as discovery modules. A maximum of 20 credits of discovery modules may be taken in level 3. Finalists may only take level 1 modules which are listed as discovery skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.

In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at level 3).

Compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study one of the following Final Year Project modules:

CLAS3200Major Research Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL3041Final Year Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

CORE MODULES
Candidates must take a minimum of 40 credits in English at Level 3. Candidates are required to study at least ONE of the following core modules and can also opt to study up to three further core modules:

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)

OPTION MODULES
Candidates must take a minimum of 40 credits in English at Level 3. 20 of these credits must be taken from the list of core modules above. Candidates may study further credits from the following list of option modules, in accordance with the credit rules. NB Candidates may only choose a Level 2 core English module (modules beginning ENGL2XXX) from the list below if all of their remaining final year credits (100) are at Level 3, ie. SUBJ3XXX.

ENGL2023Power of Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2024Language in Society20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
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)
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32114Forming Victorian Fiction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32143Disposable Lives?20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32148American Danger20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32150Planes, Trains and Automobiles: US Narratives of Air, Rail, Road and Water20 creditsNot running in 201718
ENGL32153Refugee Narratives20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32154Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32155Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media20 creditsNot running in 201718
ENGL32156Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32164Colonial and Postcolonial Migrations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32165Text is a Technology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32167Language of the Media20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32169Contemporary South African Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3231The Poetry of Wordsworth20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3233Forensic Approaches to Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3245Jacobean Drama20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32460Writing America20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3266Folklore and Mythology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32660Creative Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3284Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 191320 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3286Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-192220 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3289Victorian Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3290American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3293Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3294The Politics of Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32980African Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32993Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsNot running in 201718
ENGL32994Shakespeare's Histories20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32996Byron and the Shelleys20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32997Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32999Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3314Imagining Posthuman Futures20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3321Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3342Millennial Fictions20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3365Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3384ExtraOrdinary Bodies: Disability, Medicine and Normalcy in Contemporary Literatures20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3386Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3394Bowie, Reading, Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3395T.S. Eliot20 creditsNot running in 201718
ENGL3396Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3398Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3410Modernist Sexualities20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3439States of Mind: Disability, Cognitive Impairment and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3560James Joyce's "Ulysses"20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3680Postcolonial London20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3999Literature of the 1890s20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following modules:

CLAS3120Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3250The Athenian Empire20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3350Herodotus and the Beginning of History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS3360Ovid the Innovator20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3370Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3380Classics in 20th-21st Century Literature20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3410Classics on Screen: Antiquity through a Modern Lens20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3420Augustus and his Legacy20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3430The Ancient Greek Novel20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3440Understanding Aristotle's Poetics20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3510Pompeii - Past, Present and Future20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS3595Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3610Greeks and Barbarians20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3630Politics in Ancient Greece20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3650The Image of Sparta20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3660The Art of Persuasion20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3680Greek Art and Society20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3710Plato on Love20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS3740Greek Religion20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3790Greek Tragedy20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3800Greek Cultural Values20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3820Plato: Three Dialogues20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3850Transforming Myth20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3860How to be human: Aristotle's anthropology20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3880Society and Culture under Nero20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3890The City in the Roman World20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3900Roman Comedy20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3910Plato's Republic20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3920Living the Religious Experience at Rome20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3940Making Athens Laugh: Aristophanes & Comedy20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3970Ancient Magic20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3980Should We Ban Homer? Philosophers & Poetry in the Ancient World20 creditsNot running in 201718
CLAS3990Edge of Empire20 creditsNot running in 201718
ITAL3045Introduction to Dante's Comedy20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

NB: Not all modules will be available every year.

In addition, candidates may choose to take up to 20 credits of the following Discovery skills modules:

CLAS1200Intermediate Ancient Greek20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1250Intermediate Latin20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1810Beginners Ancient Greek20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1910Beginners Latin20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3050Advanced Ancient Language20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in one of the two named subjects.

Last updated: 10/08/2017

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