2021/22 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English and Film Studies
Programme code: | BA-ENGL&FS | UCAS code: | 6T3X |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Chris Homewood | Contact address: | c.j.homewood@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 370
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:
English:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/sbs-english-15.pdf?sfvrsn=4f9df781_12
Communication, Media, Film and Cultural Studies:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/sbs-communication-media-film-and-cultural-studies-16.pdf?sfvrsn=4fe1f781_12
Programme specification:
The programme will:
- Allow students to study the disciplines of English and Film Studies to the same depth as Single Honours students of the disciplines, but with less breadth in each. This means that Joint Honours students will normally be required to take compulsory and a subset of the optional modules that are also part of the corresponding Single Honours degree programmes, and that they will be assessed on those modules using criteria identical to those applied to Single Honours students.
- At Level One, allow students the flexibility to extend their intercultural and interdisciplinary knowledge and skills by means of a 'cornerstone' module in the areas of audio-visual culture or world literature and the choice of a cognate elective module.
- At Levels Two and Three, allow students to choose, within certain parameters, optional modules from the full range available within each discipline, and thereby devise pathways of their own choosing.
- Allow students the opportunity at Level Three of undertaking an autonomous research project in either discipline, potentially linking the two disciplines by bringing knowledge and understanding gained in one discipline to bear in the other.
- Require students to acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- Provide a basis for further advanced study in either English or Film Studies, or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 1 students must study 120 credits.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ENGL1350 | Foundations of English Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL1700 | Introduction to Film Studies I | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL1800 | Introduction to Film Studies II | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study one of the following modules:
ENGL1015 | Remixing the Renaissance | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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) | |
ENGL1261 | Poetry: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL1286 | Drama: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1310 | Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 will be required to study one of the following 'Cornerstone' modules:
MODL1050 | Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
In addition, students may choose to take one of the following optional modules instead of a Discovery module:
ENGL1250 | Prose: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MUSS1824 | Film Music: From Text to Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun), Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates will be required to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules or take additional modules in either of their 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:
MODL2055 | Critical Approaches to Screen Studies | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
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) |
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional modules:
CLAS2450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
COMM2850 | Cinematic Themes | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CULT2003 | Cinema and Culture | 20 credits | ||
EAST2360 | Chinese Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ITAL2200 | Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2015 | Black Europe | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2030 | Introduction to German Cinema | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2110 | Cinema in France: The Seventh Art | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2115 | Film Programming and Exhibition: Curating for Cinemas and Festivals | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL2230 | Questioning Genre in World Cinemas | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL2250 | Digital Communications Across Cultures | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2511 | Realism and the Cinema | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 |
- NB: Not all modules will be available every year.
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. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects, as well as a 40 credit Final Year Project module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects. The remaining 40 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:
MODL3055 | Current Enquiries into Film Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules:
ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3300 | Final Year Project: Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3350 | Final Year Project: Digital Documentary | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates must study 40 credits of English modules at Level 3. Those who choose to study MODL3300 or MODL3350 will be required to study at least one of the modules 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) |
OPTIONAL MODULES
If the Final Year Project module contributes towards Film Studies credits, students should choose between 20-40 credits from the list of English optional modules 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 |
OPTIONAL MODULES
If the Final Year Project module contributes towards English credits, students should choose between 20-40 credits from the list of optional Film Studies modules below:
ARAB3190 | Performing Islam: Piety and Environment in Dialogue | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
COMM3120 | Film Theory and Aesthetics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
EAST3350 | Japanese Cinema in the World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL3026 | Contemporary German Cinema | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
MODL3027 | Post-War European Cinema: History, Politics and Aesthetics | 20 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
MODL3040 | Hollywood and its Others | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL3230 | Cinema in the Digital Era | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3410 | Contemporary World Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3510 | French Cinema, Sex and Gender | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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) |
Discovery modules:
Students may choose up to 20 credits of Discovery modules (or pursue additonal optional modules).
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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