2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Classical Literature and Italian B (No longer recruiting)
Programme code: | BA-CLAS&IT/B | UCAS code: | QR8H |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Bev Back | Contact address: | b.back@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 485
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:
Languages, Cultures and Societies:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/sbs-languages-cultures-and-societies-15.pdf?sfvrsn=2098f781_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 120 credits. Students are required to take 40 credits in Classical Literature and 60 credits in Italian, plus a 20 credit cornerstone module.
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) | |
ITAL1025 | Exploring Italy: Introduction to Italian Culture and Society (Beginners) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL1030 | Beginners Italian 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ITAL1035 | Beginners Italian 2 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional 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 modules:
CLAS2800 | Evidence and Enquiry in Classics | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL2016 | Italian Language B | 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:
CLAS2200 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2220 | Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS2250 | The Athenian Empire | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2360 | Ovid the Innovator | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2370 | Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel (Level 2 module) | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS2420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS2680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS2790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
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) | |
CLAS2920 | Plato's Republic | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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.
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules:
ITAL2023 | Introduction to Dante's Comedy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL2025 | Linguistic Variety in Modern Italy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL2090 | Power, Pain and Beauty: Introduction to the Art and Literature of the Italian Renaissance | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ITAL2200 | Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL2300 | Italy: Regions, Identities and Nation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2001 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
- Students wishing to choose MODL2001 as one of their Italian options must take a minimum of 60 credits in Italian in
level 2 including ITAL2016.
- 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]
The candidate will spend the third year of the programme in Italy.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to follow the following compulsory module:
ITAL9001 | Year Abroad in Italy | 120 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 3 students must study 120 credits, which includes a 40-credit Final Year Project Module. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects: the Final Year Project module can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects. Any remaining credits should be taken as optional modules in either of the named subjects, or as Discovery modules.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
ITAL3010 | Italian Language 3 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates are required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.
CLAS3200 | Major Research Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3300 | Final Year Project: Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3340 | Final Year Project: Extended Translation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3350 | Final Year Project: Digital Documentary | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates who have taken MODL3300, MODL3340 or MODL3350 will be required to take at least 40 credits from the list below:
CLAS3050 | Advanced Ancient Language | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3120 | Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3220 | Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3230 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3250 | The Athenian Empire | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3360 | Ovid the Innovator | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3370 | Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3430 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3440 | Understanding Aristotle's Poetics | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3510 | Pompeii - Past, Present and Future | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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 | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3660 | The Art of Persuasion | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3740 | Greek Religion | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan 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 | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3900 | Roman Comedy | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3910 | Plato's Republic | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
CLAS3915 | Beginners Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3940 | Making Athens Laugh: Aristophanes & Comedy | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ITAL3045 | Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3600 | Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3610 | Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3620 | Decolonial Approaches | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3630 | Social Movements across Cultures | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
NB. Not all modules will run in every year.
Candidates who have chosen to study CLAS3200 will be required to take at least 20 credits from the list below:
ITAL3310 | 'Giocare al Romanzo': Italo Calvino and the Novel, from Neorealism to Postmodern | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ITAL3330 | Tangles, Traps and Labyrinths in the Italian Novel: Gadda and Calvino | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ITAL3370 | Dark Italy: Italian Crime Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ITAL3375 | A Year With 366 Days: A Journey Through Petrarch's Canzoniere | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ITAL3400 | Made in Italy. Italian for Business | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ITAL3450 | Family Novels: Life Stories, Gender and Social Change in Modern Italy | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MODL3600 | Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3610 | Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3620 | Decolonial Approaches | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3630 | Social Movements across Cultures | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
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.
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