2020/21 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: | Dr Brett Greatley Hirsch | Contact address: | b.d.greatleyhirsch@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 120 credits at Level 1.
Candidates are required to take at least 40 credits of Music modules and 60 credits of English modules at Level 1. The additional 20 credits of study may be School of Music, School of English, or Discovery modules from outside of the teaching schools.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ENGL1261 | Poetry: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL1350 | Foundations of English Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates must study at least 20 credits from the following OPTION modules:
ENGL1221 | Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL1250 | Prose: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1286 | Drama: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1310 | Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1340 | Environment, Crisis and Creativity: Contemporary Nature Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1999 | The Creative Essay: From Idea to Submission | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates may choose to take 40 credits from this list OR to take at least 20 credits from this list plus a maximum of 20 credits of Discovery modules from outside the Schools of English or Music.
Candidates must study at least 40 credits from the following modules:
MUSS1020 | Understanding Music Pre-requisite for: MUSS2020 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS1120 | Music in History and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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) | |
MUSS1324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan 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 only take MUSS1324 in addition to at least 40 other credits of Music modules from the above list.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study a maximum of 20 credits of Discovery modules from the suite available across the University outside of the named subjects (English or Music).
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) | |
ENGL2026 | Restoration and Eighteenth Century Writing | 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.
ENGL2041 | Textual Healing: An Introduction to Scholarly Editing and Publishing | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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) | |
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) | |
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) | |
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 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 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32146 | Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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) | |
ENGL32157 | Contemporary African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 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) | |
ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32980 | African Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32993 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 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 may not take more than one of MUSS2320 Performance and MUSS2324 Ensemble Performance within their core 40 credits of Music. Candidates wishing to take both modules must therefore use some of their Discovery credit to take one of them and choose another music module as part of their core.
MUSS2020 | Interpreting Music Pre-requisite for: MUSS3020, MUSS3040, MUSS3420, MUSS3440 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2123 | Music in the Judeo-Christian Tradition | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS2124 | British Music and National Identity | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS2125 | Music, Culture, Politics: the Long Sixties | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS2126 | The Tools of Music Making | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS2127 | Music and Culture in Late Seventeenth-Century London | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS2420 | Notation and Editing Pre-requisite for: MUSS3420, MUSS3440 | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS2520 | Aesthetics and Criticism Pre-requisite for: MUSS3520, MUSS3540 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2620 | Music Technology Skills and Techniques | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS2721 | Music in Context A | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS2722 | Music in Context B | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS2820 | Music in Practice | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS2822 | Music in Practice | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS2823 | Music in Practice | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS2824 | Film-Score Creation and Production | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS2825 | Opera North: Opera in Practice | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS2828 | Synthesizer Ensemble | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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 | Not running in 202021 |
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
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32120 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 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) | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32157 | Contemporary African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 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 | Not running in 202021 | |
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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3342 | Millennial Fictions | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3386 | Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3394 | Bowie, Reading, Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3396 | Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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) |
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:
MUSS3020 | Analysing Music | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS3040 | Analysing Music | 40 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS3120 | The Supernatural in Opera | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS3121 | Special Study in Musicology A | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS3122 | Special Study in Musicology B | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS3128 | Music and Postcolonial Politics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS3129 | Music as Performance: People, Bodies and Instruments | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS3240 | Composition | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS3325 | Applied Project | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3340 | Performance | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3420 | Editing and Source Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS3440 | Editing and Source Studies | 40 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS3520 | Contemporary Aesthetics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS3540 | Contemporary Aesthetics | 40 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
MUSS3640 | Music Technology | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MUSS3820 | Music in the Real World | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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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