2019/20 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Classical Literature and English
Programme code: | BA-CLAS&ENGL | UCAS code: | QQ38 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Martin Thomas | Contact address: | m.thomas@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
For entry requirements for this course please visit: 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:
Classical Literature and English:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/sbs-english-15.pdf?sfvrsn=4f9df781_12
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 credits. Students are required to take between 40 and 45 credits in each of their two main subjects and 40 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:
CLAS1610 | After Troy: Homecoming in Greek Epic and Tragedy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS1620 | Latin Literature: Republic and Empire | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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) |
In addition, candidates may choose to take up to 20 credits of the following optional modules instead of a Discovery Module:
CLAS1100 | Ancient Lives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS1200 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS1250 | Intermediate Latin (Level 1) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS1810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS1910 | Beginners Latin | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL1250 | Prose: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional 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:
CLAS2800 | Evidence and Enquiry in Classics | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following core modules:
CLAS2600 | Virgil's Aeneid | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2700 | Homer's Iliad | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates may also choose further modules from among the following:
CLAS2120 | Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2200 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2410 | Roman Comedy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2430 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2510 | Pompeii: Past, Present and Future | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2660 | The Art of Persuasion | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2890 | The City in the Roman World | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2900 | Ancient Empires: Power and Control | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2910 | Beginners Latin (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL3045 | Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2015 | Black Europe | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
NB. Not all modules will run in every year.
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.
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 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) | |
ENGL2041 | Textual Healing: An Introduction to Scholarly Editing and Publishing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL2203 | Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL2204 | Shakespeare and Global Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2206 | African American Narrative: Eight Major Works | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2207 | Dialect and Heritage | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL2209 | Where the Wild Things Are: Animals in Children’s Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2284 | ExtraOrdinary Bodies: Physical Disability in Contemporary Literature and Film | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2345 | Imagining Revolution: Literature of the English Civil Wars | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32110 | Students into Schools | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32113 | The Wild: Literature and the Environment | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32120 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
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 | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32158 | Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
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 | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
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 | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3299 | World Theatre | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
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) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules or pursue additional modules in 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 40-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).
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study one of the following Final Year Project modules:
CLAS3200 | Major Research Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study between 20-60 credits from the following modules:
CLAS3050 | Advanced Ancient Language | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3120 | Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3230 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3430 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3440 | Understanding Aristotle's Poetics | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
CLAS3510 | Pompeii - Past, Present and Future | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3660 | The Art of Persuasion | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3815 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3890 | The City in the Roman World | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3900 | Roman Comedy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3915 | Beginners Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3940 | Making Athens Laugh: Aristophanes & Comedy | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ITAL3045 | Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
NB. Not all modules will run in every year.
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 further core modules:
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 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.
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) | |
ENGL3208 | Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32113 | The Wild: Literature and the Environment | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32120 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
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 | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32158 | Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
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 | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
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 | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3299 | World Theatre | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
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 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3339 | Lost in Fiction: The Metafictional Novel from "Don Quixote" to "House of Leaves" | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL3342 | Millennial Fictions | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3386 | Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL3402 | Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 201920 | |
ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3439 | States of Mind: Disability, Cognitive Impairment and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3999 | Literature of the 1890s | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
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