2022/23 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English Literature and Theatre Studies
Programme code: | BA-ENGL&TS | UCAS code: | QW34 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Mark Taylor-Batty | Contact address: | m.j.taylorbatty@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
Entry requirements:
A-level AAB-AAA with A in English (Literature, Language, or Language & Literature) excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking.
International Baccalaureate: 35 points overall with 16-17 at Higher Level including 6 in English 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:
This is one of the country's most prestigious degrees in English Literature and Theatre Studies. The School is an internationally recognized research leader in English studies and possesses a long-established reputation for excellence in research and teaching. There is a large academic staff (over 40 full time), and about 1000 undergraduate students are being taught in the department at any one time.
The Single Honours English & Theatre Studies programme exposes students to a variety of approaches to creating and critically appraising drama and diverse modes of performance in addition to the wide range of subject areas across the spread of English Studies. Practice is offered as a mode of analysis and appreciation throughout the programme in ways that complement and promote skills activated in English modules.
Following a compulsory level 1, students are offered a high degree of choice within a structure that activates an appreciation of theatre theory, history and practice through analytical work and individual and collaborative creativity. Students are equally well exposed to a range of periods and genres of English Literature and have some opportunity to study issues of English language.
Students may apply for transfer to a European or an International Degree. The opportunity to apply for a work placement degree is also available. Those students who are accepted may participate in one of our Erasmus/Socrates schemes or go to one of a range of universities with which the University of Leeds has established links.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students are required to study a total of 120 credits at Level 1.
A maximum of 20 credits may be taken in modules outside the School of English.
General overview of Level 1:
1. Students must take THREE COMPULSORY CORE modules (60 credits).
2a. Students can choose 60 credits of OPTION modules.
OR
2b. Students can choose 40 credits of OPTION modules and 20 credits from outside the School from a selection of DISCOVERY modules.
3. No more than 70 credits may be taken in one semester.
Compulsory modules:
Students MUST study the following compulsory CORE modules:
ENGL1295 | Approaches to Theatre and Performance 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL1296 | Approaches to Theatre and Performance 2 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1350 | Foundations of English Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Students will be required to study a further 60 credits. These may all be chosen from the following School of English OPTION modules. Alternatively, a combination of School of English OPTION modules and DISCOVERY modules may be taken which includes a maximum of 20 credits of DiSCOVERY modules.
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:
Students may opt to take a MAXIMUM of 20 credits from a suite of modules available across the University from outside the School of English which are known as DISCOVERY modules.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students are required to study a total of 120 credits in level 2, with no more than 70 credits in one semester.
A maximum of 20 credits may be taken in modules outside the School of English.
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF LEVEL 2:
Students:
1. Must take TWO COMPULSORY CORE modules.
2. Choose TWO CORE modules from a list.
3a. Choose 40 credits of OPTION modules or additional CORE modules
OR
3b. Choose 20 credits of OPTION modules (or additional CORE modules) and 20 credits from outside of the School (known as Discovery modules).
Compulsory modules:
Students MUST study both compulsory CORE modules:
ENGL2040 | Performing the Past | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2050 | Theatre, Society and Self | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
CORE MODULES
Students are required to study TWO of the following CORE modules:
Students can also opt to study further CORE modules or choose 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
Students may study up to 40 credits of option modules from the following list, in accordance with the credit rules stated below.
Credit rules:
- No more than 70 credits in one semester
- A total of 120 credits over the year
- A maximum of 20 credits may be taken outside the School of English as Discovery at Level 2
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) | |
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) |
OTHER OPTION MODULES AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS ON THIS PROGRAMME
FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
HIST2240 | Hands on Heritage | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HIST2260 | Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Students may study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules outside the School of English.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students are required to study a total of 120 credits in level 3, with no more than 70 credits in one semester.
A maximum of 40 credits may be taken in modules outside the School of English.
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF LEVEL 3:
1. Students MUST study the 40 credit compulsory CORE module.
2. Students MUST choose TWO CORE modules from a list.
3. Students can then choose to take the 40 remaining credits in further CORE or OPTION modules within the School or from modules outside of the School (known as Discovery modules).
NB: Students are not eligible to take Level 1 modules in Level 3 (with the exception of up to a maximum of 20 credits in Special Skills modules - these can be identified by the code ‘skd’ in the online module catalogue).
Compulsory modules:
Students MUST study the 40 credit compulsory CORE module:
ENGL3042 | The Practical Essay | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
CORE MODULES
Students are required to take TWO of the following CORE modules.
Students can also opt to study further CORE modules or choose credits from the list of OPTION 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) |
OPTION MODULES
Students may study up to 40 credits of option modules from the following list, in accordance with the credit rules stated below.
Credit rules:
- No more than 70 credits in one semester
- A total of 120 credits over the year
- A maximum of 40 credits may be taken outside the School of English as Discovery at Level 3
Students may only choose a Level 2 English module from the OPTION module list if all their remaining 100 final year credits are at Level 3. Modules that start with the code ENGL2*** are Level 2 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) | |
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) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules outside the School of English.
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