2022/23 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English and Sociology
Programme code: | BA-ENGL&SOCI | UCAS code: | QL33 |
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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:
- AAB at A level including grade A in English, excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking, plus GCSE Mathematics at Grade C.
- International Baccalaureate: 35 points overall, including 16 at Higher Level, a minimum of 6 in English at Higher Level, and a minimum of 5 in Mathematics at Standard 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.
In Level 1, students are required to pass a minimum of 40 credits in Sociology and 60 credits in English modules. The further 20 credits may consist of Discovery modules in a third subject or may consist of further modules in either main subject.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ENGL1350 | Foundations of English Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SLSP1200 | Sociology of Modern Societies | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP1212 | Formations of Coloniality/Modernity | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates are required to study 60 credits of optional modules, with at least 40 credits of modules taken from the following School of English modules plus a maximum of 20 credits of Discovery modules from elsewhere.
ENGL1221 | Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL1261 | Poetry: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1286 | Drama: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study 20 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue an additional optional module in the School of English.
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. Sociology - 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:
4. a further 40 credits in the named subjects (i.e. in English, Sociology or a combination of both).
5. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Sociology) 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:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
SLSP2730 | Central Problems in Sociology | 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 (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.
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) | |
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) | |
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) | |
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) | |
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) | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3284 | Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913 | 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) | |
ENGL3294 | The Politics of Language | 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) | |
ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students are required to study at least ONE of the following Sociology optional modules. Students can opt to take further option modules from this list in accordance with the credit rules.
FOSS2001 | State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2010 | Sociology and Social Policy Research Methods Pre-requisite for: SLSP3041 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLSP2020 | Crime, Law and Regulation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SLSP2040 | Disability Studies: An Introduction | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SLSP2050 | The Sociology of Gender | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2145 | Crime, Race and Ethnicity | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2150 | Debates in Childhood and Youth | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP2180 | The Sociology of Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SLSP2932 | Sociology and the Climate Crisis | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
THEO2251 | Sociology of Religion | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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 Sociology 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. Sociology - 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, Sociology, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Sociology) 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.
Students wishing to take the SLSP3061 Sociology Dissertation must also take the new SLP3095 Dissertation Preparation module in semester 1.
ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLSP3041 | Sociology Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SLSP3095 | Research Skills for your Dissertation Pre-requisite for: SLSP3061 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 and 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. Sociology - 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 study further credits in English from the list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:
1. English - a minimum of 40 credits
2. Sociology - a minimum of 40 credits
3. No more than 70 credits in one semester
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
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) | |
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) | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3284 | Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3289 | Victorian Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3290 | American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present | 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) | |
ENGL3294 | The Politics of Language | 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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32998 | Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 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) | |
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) | |
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) |
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 may study further credits in Sociology from the list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:
1. English - a minimum of 40 credits
2. Sociology - a minimum of 40 credits
3. No more than 70 credits in one semester
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
FOSS3001 | State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3065 | Quantitative Social Research | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SLSP3075 | Disability and Development | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3211 | State Crime and Immorality | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3220 | Contemporary Children, Young People and Families | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SLSP3230 | Global Terrorism and Violence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3242 | The Social Life of Data | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
SLSP3500 | Gender, Technologies and the Body | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SLSP3930 | Sociology of Consumerism | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
SLSP3961 | Protest and Social Movements | 20 credits | Not running in 202223 | |
SLSP3995 | Ethnicity and Popular Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
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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