2022/23 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English and Comparative Literature
Programme code: | BA-ENGL&CMLT | UCAS code: | Q200 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Jacob Blakesley | Contact address: | j.blakesley@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
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
Programme specification:
- Students on this programme will have access to a wide range of modules provided by the Schools of English and of Languages, Cultures and Societies, allowing them to study selected aspects of English and World Literatures to the same depth as those taking the same modules as part of any other programme.
- At Level One, allow students the flexibility to extend their intercultural and interdisciplinary knowledge and skills by means of core modules on world literature and on a related subject (eg. audio-visual culture, history, intercultural competence, linguistics or politics) in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, in addition to modules focussing on questions of literary genre (in the School of English).
- 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. In addition to this, they will enjoy a distinctive academic experience through their study of a specifically designed module on translation, transmission and Reception, which studies the global circulation of texts and exposes them to the most recent and exciting thinking on literary theory and the emerging discipline of 'world literatures'.
- Allow students the opportunity at Level Three of undertaking an autonomous research project or dissertation, linking knowledge and understanding gained in both schools.
- Require students to acquire flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques, while also encouraging them to make links across the two schools and across literatures.
- Provide a basis for further advanced study in world literatures, specific literatures, literary studies more generally, or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 1 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take at least 40 credits in the School of English and at least 40 credits in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, and up to 40 credits of Discovery modules. The Discovery modules 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:
ENGL1350 | Foundations of English Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students are required to take at least one of the following cornerstone modules in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies:
MODL1050 | Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1060 | Language: Structure and Sound | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL1070 | World Histories | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1090 | Intercultural Competence: Theory and Application | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL1100 | Politics, Culture and Society | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1401 | Discourse, Culture and Identity | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students are required to take at least one of the following English modules:
ENGL1220 | Twentieth-Century Fiction in English | 20 credits | ||
ENGL1221 | Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL1250 | Prose: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL1261 | Poetry: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1286 | Drama: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1295 | Approaches to Theatre and Performance 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL1310 | Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1999 | The Creative Essay: From Idea to Submission | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 |
Discovery modules:
Students can choose to study up to 40 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 modules:
MODL2070 | Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature | 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) | |
ENGL2035 | Remixing the Renaissance | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2041 | Textual Healing: An Introduction to Scholarly Editing and Publishing | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL2100 | Style and Authorship | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2201 | Writing Nature: Creative and Critical Practices | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2202 | Imaginary Friends: the consolations and consequences of story | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2203 | Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
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 202223 | |
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 | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL2288 | Writing for Fame: Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Culture of Celebrity | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL2300 | Constructions of Otherness: Literature, Ethnic and National Identity 1660-1800 | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL2345 | Imagining Revolution: Literature of the English Civil Wars | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32110 | Students into Schools | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32146 | Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32147 | Contemporary Postcolonial Texts | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32157 | Contemporary African Writing | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
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 | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 202223 | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32998 | Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates will be required to take at least ONE of the following Comparative Literature 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) | |
EAST2148 | Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Sinophone World | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST2470 | Japanese Literature in Translation: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
MODL2015 | Black Europe | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2075 | Global Environmental Humanities | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLAV2411 | The Spaces of Russian Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 |
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, 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:
Optional modules:
Students will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.
If students take their Final Year Project in English, they must take at least 40 credits in Comparative Literature and a minimum of 20 further credits in English.
If students take their Final Year Project in Comparative Literature, they must take at least 40 credits in English and a minimum of 20 further credits in Comparative Literature.
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 (Podcast) | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates who choose to study MODL3300 or MODL3350 will be required to take at least 40 credits of English modules including at least one of the following:
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 must take a minimum of 40 credits in English at Level 3. 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) | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3050 | States of Mind: Disability, Neurodiversity and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL3100 | Digital Englishes | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3208 | Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32146 | Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32147 | Contemporary Postcolonial Texts | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32157 | Contemporary African Writing | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
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 | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL3299 | World Theatre | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 202223 | |
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 | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL3394 | Bowie, Reading, Writing | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL3396 | Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3398 | Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3402 | Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL3999 | Literature of the 1890s | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 |
Students are required to choose AT LEAST ONE of the following modules in Comparative Literature. If they do their Final Year Project in English, they must choose AT LEAST TWO of the following modules:
CLAS3710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
EAST3470 | Japanese Literature in Translation: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
FOAH3150 | Religion and Violence | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ITAL3045 | Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3200 | Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3410 | Contemporary World Literature | 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) | |
MODL3650 | Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
NB: Not all modules will be available every year.
Discovery modules:
Students may choose to study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules or pursue additional modules in either of the two named subjects.
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