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2017/18 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA English and French

Programme code:BA-ENGL&FRENUCAS code:QR31
Duration:4 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr Ingo Cornils Contact address:i.cornils@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 490

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:

Programme specification:

The programme will:
- enable students to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study three disciplines at level one;
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.

General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available.
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.


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, a 20 credit cornerstone module 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:

ENGL1000Studying and Researching English5 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FREN1010Language Awareness and Skills
Pre-requisite for: FREN2010/15
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN1020Introduction to French Studies (Resistance and Desire)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL1150Worlds of Literature20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study one of the following modules:

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

Candidates are required to study one of the following modules:

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

In addition, candidates may choose to take the following optional module:

FREN1070Introduction to Skills in French Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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 will be required to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules.


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:

FREN2010French Language in Contexts
Pre-requisite for: FREN9001
20 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 will be required to study between 20 and 60 credits from the following optional modules:

FREN2060Aspects of French History 1789-191420 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2080Laughter, Love and Chivalry: Society and Culture in the French Middle Ages20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2090Politics and Society in France since 194520 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2120The Foundations of Modern French Thought20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2160Francophone Africa20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2190The Age of Extremes: Culture, Crisis and Commitment between the Wars20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2200The Seventh Art - Cinema in France20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2240The French Language Today20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2260Black Atlantic: African and Caribbean Culture in French20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2280Culture and Society in Early Modern France20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2290The Short Form in French and Francophone Literature20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2320The Pleasures of French Poetry20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2330Francophone Africa and the Caribbean20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN2340Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French Fiction20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN2350Introduction to Professional Translation and Interpreting20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2001Linguists into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

- Students wishing to choose MODL2001 as one of their French options must take a minimum of 60 credits in French in level 2 including FREN2010.
- NB: Not all modules will be available every year.

Discovery modules:

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


Year3 - View timetable

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

Candidates will spend the third year in France or a Francophone country.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

FREN9001Year Abroad
Pre-requisite for: FREN3010
120 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)


Year4 - 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:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

FREN3010Advanced French Language Skills20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.

ENGL3041Final Year Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3300Final Year Project: Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3310Final Year Project: Extended Essay20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3320Final Year Project: Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3340Final Year Project: Extended Translation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3350Final Year Project: Digital Documentary40 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 between 20 and 60 credits from the following optional modules:

FREN3045Antiracism in France since 194520 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3070French Bilingual Liaison Interpreting20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3460The Art of Romance: Love, Marriage and Gender in Medieval France20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3480Twentieth Century French Literature and the Visual Arts20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3490Post-Holocaust Culture in France20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3585Camera Lucida: Theory, Practice and Writing of Photography20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FREN3591Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3611Francophone Cinema - Postcolonial Images20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3620Mémoires de guerre: France and the First World War20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3632Representing Empire20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FREN3641The Algerian War of Independence: From the Colonial to the Post-Colonial20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FREN3680The French Novel in the Nineteenth Century: From the Mill to the Mine20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3681The French Novel in the Nineteenth Century20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3691Representations of the City20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3711Francophone Voices - Textual and Cultural Analysis20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FREN3730French as a Professional Language20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3740Ecrire et s'écrire. Womens' Writing in France, 20th/21st Centuries20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3751Gender, Sex and Cinema in France20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FREN3770Theory and Practice in French-English Translation20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3835Surrealism to Slam. Modern French Poetry and Protest20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FREN3840The Sublime and the Abject in French Literature and Thought20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3845The Sublime and the Abject in French Literature and Thought20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3860French Popular Culture20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FREN3865Paris in Revolt. The May 1968 events, past and present20 creditsNot running in 201718
FREN3880Introduction to Professional Translation and Interpreting20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3800Linguists into Schools20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Please note:
- The following modules are mutually exclusive: FREN3070, FREN3730 and FREN3770. Candidates may only enrol on one of these modules.
- Students wishing to choose MODL3800 as one of their French options must take a minimum of 60 credits in French in the final year including FREN3010.
- Not all modules will be available every year.

Discovery modules:

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

Last updated: 11/08/2017

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