2018/19 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English and Music
Programme code: | BA-ENGL&MUSC | UCAS code: | QW33 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Professor Paul Hammond | Contact address: | p.f.hammond@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
- ABB at A-level, including A in English and B in Music, excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking.
- International Baccalaureate: 34 points overall, including 16 at Higher Level and a minimum of 6 in English at Higher Level and a minimum of 6 in Music at Higher Level.
- 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:
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]
Students must study 125 credits.
Candidates are required to take a total of 40 credits of Music modules and 45 credits of English modules at Level 1.
The further 40 credits may consist of Discovery modules in a third subject or may consist of further modules in one or both main subjects.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
ENGL1000 | Studying and Researching English | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL1350 | Foundations of English Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates are required to study ONE of the following CORE modules:
ENGL1261 | Poetry: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1282 | Drama: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates must study at least 40 CREDITS from the following modules:
MUSS1020 | Understanding Music Pre-requisite for: MUSS2020 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS1120 | Music in History and Culture | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS1125 | Music Research Skills | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS1220 | Composition Pre-requisite for: MUSS2220 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS1320 | Performance Pre-requisite for: MUSS2320 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS1620 | Sound, Technology, and Music | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS1920 | Introduction to the Psychology of Music | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:
ENGL1250 | Prose: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS1324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must take 120 credits in Level 2.
Over levels 2 and 3 combined, students must take:
1. English - a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
2. Music - a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
3. At least 100 credits at Level 2
4. At least 100 credits at Level 3.
Additionally, students must take:
5. a further 40 credits in the named subjects (i.e. in English, Music, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Music) or in Discovery modules (i.e. outside the named subjects).
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must:
- meet the Rules for Award
- pass all modules which are designated 'pass for progression'
- pass the required number of credits at each level (a minimum of 100 credits at each Levels 1, 2 & 3) as specified in the Curricular Regulations
Optional modules:
CORE MODULES
Candidates are required to study at least TWO of the following CORE modules (40 credits). In addition candidates can also opt to study one or two further CORE modules (up to 40 credits) or choose 40 credits from the list of OPTION modules.
ENGL2025 | Medieval Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2027 | Eighteenth Century Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2028 | Literature of the Romantic Period | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3289 | Victorian Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3290 | American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
OPTION MODULES
Candidates may choose to study additional Level 2 CORE modules (listed above) in the place of OPTION modules at Level 2 or study further credits (up to 40 credits) from the following list of OPTION modules, in accordance with the credit rules.
ENGL2023 | Power of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2024 | Language in Society | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2201 | Writing Nature: Creative and Critical Practices | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2202 | Imaginary Friends: the consolations and consequences of story | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2203 | Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2204 | Shakespeare and Global Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2206 | African American Narrative: Eight Major Works | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2207 | Dialect and Heritage | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
ENGL32110 | Students into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32146 | Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32147 | Contemporary Postcolonial Texts | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32158 | Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32660 | Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3286 | Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-1922 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32993 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32998 | Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules. Candidates must ensure that at Level 2 they take modules that are pre-requisites for any modules they anticipate taking at Level 3.
Candidates will not usually take more than one Music in Context or Music in Practice module (including MUSS2825). If you are thinking about taking more than one please consult your personal tutor first, as this has consequences for your module choices at Level 3.
Candidates may not take more than one of the following modules as part of their core 40 credits of music: MUSS2320 Performance, MUSS2324 Ensemble Performance. The other performance module may be taken as an Discovery module, however.
MUSS2020 | Interpreting Music Pre-requisite for: MUSS3040 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2220 | Composition Pre-requisite for: MUSS3240 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2320 | Performance Pre-requisite for: MUSS3340 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2420 | Notation and Editing Pre-requisite for: MUSS3440 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2520 | Aesthetics and Criticism Pre-requisite for: MUSS3540 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2620 | Music Technology Skills and Techniques Pre-requisite for: MUSS3640 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2721 | Music in Context A | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS2722 | Music in Context B | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS2820 | Music in Practice | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS2822 | Music in Practice | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
MUSS2823 | Music in Practice | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
MUSS2825 | Opera North: Opera in Practice | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2920 | The Psychology of Listening and Performance Pre-requisite for: MUSS3940 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2925 | Music Students into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules over both Level 2 and 3 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must take 120 credits in Level 3 and must take a Final Year Project in either Music or English.
Over levels 2 and 3 combined, students must take:
1. English - a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
2. Music - a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
3. At least 100 credits at Level 2
4. At least 100 credits at Level 3.
Additionally, students must take:
5. a further 40 credits in the named subjects (i.e. in English, Music, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Music) or in Discovery modules (i.e. outside the named subjects).
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must:
- meet the Rules for Award
- pass all modules which are designated 'pass for progression'
- pass the required number of credits at each level (a minimum of 100 credits at each Levels 1, 2 & 3) as specified in the Curricular Regulations
Compulsory modules:
Optional modules:
Students must take ONE of the following Final Year Projects:
ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3140 | Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
CORE MODULES
Candidates are required to study at least ONE of the following CORE modules and can also opt to study further CORE modules if they wish in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:
1. English - a minimum of 40 credits
2. Music - a minimum of 40 credits
3. No more than 70 credits in one semester
ENGL3024 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3025 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3026 | Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
OPTION MODULES
Candidates may choose to study further credits from the following list of OPTION modules, in accordance with with the programme requirements for Level 3:
1. English - a minimum of 40 credits
2. Music - a minimum of 40 credits
3. No more than 70 credits in one semester
ENGL2023 | Power of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2024 | Language in Society | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2025 | Medieval Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2027 | Eighteenth Century Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2028 | Literature of the Romantic Period | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32146 | Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32147 | Contemporary Postcolonial Texts | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32158 | Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32660 | Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3286 | Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-1922 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3289 | Victorian Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3290 | American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32993 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32998 | Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3325 | Contemporary English Poetry | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
ENGL3339 | Lost in Fiction: The Metafictional Novel from "Don Quixote" to "House of Leaves" | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3342 | Millennial Fictions | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3394 | Bowie, Reading, Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3396 | Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3398 | Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3401 | Women Writing the 1960s | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
ENGL3402 | Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3999 | Literature of the 1890s | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
NB Candidates may only choose a Level 2 English module from the above list if all their remaining 100 final year credits are at Level 3, ie SUBJ3XXX.
Candidates who have NOT chosen to undertake a Final Year Project in Music MUST study at least 40 credits from the following list of optional modules.
Candidates who have chosen to undertake a Final Year Project in Music may choose to take up to 40 credits from the following list:
MUSS3040 | Analysing Music | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3121 | Special Study in Musicology A | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS3122 | Special Study in Musicology B | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS3240 | Composition | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3325 | Applied Project | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3340 | Performance | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3440 | Editing and Source Studies | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3540 | Contemporary Aesthetics | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3640 | Music Technology | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3940 | Music Psychology | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules over both Level 2 and 3 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
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