2021/22 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 Elizabeth Pender | Contact address: | E.E.Pender@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 120 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) | |
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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL1286 | 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 2 (Jan to Jun) |
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:
CLAS2400 | Invisible Greeks and Romans | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
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) | |
CLAS2250 | The Athenian Empire | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS2260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2360 | Ovid the Innovator | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS2390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2410 | Roman Comedy | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS2420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS2430 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS2460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS2650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2660 | The Art of Persuasion | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS2680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS2790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2890 | The City in the Roman World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan 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) | |
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) | |
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 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 | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL2202 | Imaginary Friends: the consolations and consequences of story | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL2203 | Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL2204 | Shakespeare and Global Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2206 | African American Narrative: Eight Major Works | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2207 | Dialect and Heritage | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL2209 | Where the Wild Things Are: Animals in Children’s Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2214 | All the Single Ladies: Fictions of Female Autonomy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2284 | ExtraOrdinary Bodies: Physical Disability in Contemporary Literature and Film | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2288 | Writing for Fame: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Culture of Celebrity | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2300 | Constructions of Otherness: Literature, Ethnic and National Identity 1660-1800 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2345 | Imagining Revolution: Literature of the English Civil Wars | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL32110 | Students into Schools | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL32120 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
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 202122 | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
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) | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 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 202122 | |
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 202122 | |
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 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Students may also choose to study the below module as long as they are not already enrolled onto Linguists into Schools
FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject, pursue additional modules in the two named subjects or take the above FOAH module
Year3 - 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.
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 who choose to study ENGL3041 will be required to choose at least 40 credits from the following optional modules:
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) | |
CLAS3250 | The Athenian Empire | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS3260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3360 | Ovid the Innovator | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS3390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS3430 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS3460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS3650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3660 | The Art of Persuasion | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS3680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS3740 | Greek Religion | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS3790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3815 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3835 | Advanced Ancient Greek | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3890 | The City in the Roman World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3900 | Roman Comedy | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
CLAS3915 | Beginners Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3935 | Advanced Latin | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
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 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
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 choose to study CLAS3200 will be required to choose at least 40 credits of English modules which must include at least 20 credits from the options below:
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) |
Candidates who choose to study CLAS3200 will be required to study 40 credits of English modules. At least 20 credits must be from the list above. Candidates may then choose from the options below:
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) | |
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) | |
ENGL3035 | Current Practice in Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3050 | States of Mind: Disability, Neurodiversity and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3208 | Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL32120 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
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 202122 | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
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) | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 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 202122 | |
ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32941 | ‘Global English’: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonisation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3299 | World Theatre | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
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 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 | Not running in 202122 | |
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) | |
ENGL3391 | September 11 in Fact and Fiction | 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 | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL3398 | Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL3402 | Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3999 | Literature of the 1890s | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 |
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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