2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Modern Languages and English (Arabic)
Programme code: | BA-ML/AR&EN | UCAS code: | Q3R1 |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Chiara La Sala | Contact address: | M.C.LaSala@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 480
Entry requirements:
Entry Requirements are available on the Course Search entry
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:
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
The programme will meet the QAA Benchmarks defined for Languages, Cultures and Societies outlined here:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/sbs/sbs-languages-cultures-and-societies-23.pdf?sfvrsn=3c71a881_10
The programme will meet the QAA Benchmarks defined for English outlined here:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/the-quality-code/subject-benchmark-statements/subject-benchmark-statement-english
Programme specification:
The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2022/2023 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2023 or after, you can find the details of your programme: BA Modern Languages and English (Arabic)(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of the BA Modern Languages and English at the University of
Leeds lie in the combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which it offers, as well as in the exceptional
range of degree combinations with languages available.
This programme also allows the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.
The combination of English with the study of another language and cultural context allows students to
explore cultural production in multiple cultural contexts, gaining deeper and more critical cultural
insights alongside sophisticated reception and production skills in a major world language.
The programme permits 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. It is emphatically a joint
honours programme, rather than an integrated programme: 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.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
All students will be required to study the following compulsory modules
ARAB1001 | Beginning Arabic 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARAB1002 | Beginning Arabic 2 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARAB1171 | Studying the Middle East and North Africa | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL1055 | Writing Matters | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Students will be required to study the following compulsory module
MODL9500 | LCS Year Abroad | 120 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year3 - 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 English and a minimum of 60 credits in Arabic. The remaining 20 credits should be taken as Discovery modules or in further Politics or Arabic optional modules.
Compulsory modules:
Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules
ARAB2010 | Advanced Arabic Grammar and Translation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARAB2020 | Essential Skills in Practical Arabic | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL2030 | Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2045 | Body Language: Literature and Embodiment | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students may study up to 20 credits from the from the following lists of optional modules (Baskets 1-4):
Basket 1:
ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2085 | Medieval and Tudor Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 2:
ENGL2065 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2090 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 3:
ENGL2095 | Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2096 | The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Basket 4:
ENGL2055 | American Words, American Worlds | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2080 | Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students are required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules. Students may also chose an additional module from this list instead of a Discovery module.
ARAB2066 | Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARAB2091 | Arab Media, Politics and Society | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARAB2181 | Cultures of the Arab Middle East and North Africa | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARAB2310 | Modern Middle Eastern History | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARAB2330 | The Politics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Middle East | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MODL2075 | Global Environmental Humanities | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Discovery modules:
Students may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules
Year4 - 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 English and in their chosen language. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. The remaining credits should be taken in either of the named subjects or taken as Discovery modules. All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects. Please note that not all modules will be available every year.
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:
Students must study the following compulsory module:
ARAB3020 | Advanced Skills in Arabic Language | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students are required to take ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.
ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
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) | |
MODL3340 | Final Year Project: Extended Translation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3350 | Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast) | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
- Students who take their FYP in English are required to take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules:
- Students who take their FYP in Arabic may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules:
Basket 1:
ARAB3072 | Islam and Modernity | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARAB3110 | Middle Eastern Politics: Regimes, Societies and Conflict | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARAB3190 | Performing Islam: Piety and Environment in Dialogue | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
ARAB3888 | Advanced Media Arabic: Translation Skills in Text Typology | 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 | Not running in 202425 | |
MODL3610 | Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3800 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
- Students who take their FYP with English may take up to 40 credits from the following lists of optional modules (modules can be taken from Basket 2 OR Basket 3).
- Students who take their FYP in Arabic are required to take 40 credits from following lists of optional modules (modules can be taken from Basket 2 OR Basket 3)
Basket 2:
ENGL3031 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3033 | Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3034 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3046 | Parts, Periodicals, Newspapers: Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Press | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3063 | Haunted Hinterlands: Wyrd Works and Folk Horror Fictions | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3386 | Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3406 | Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FOAH3001 | Global African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 3:
ENGL3004 | The Writings of Graham Greene | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3008 | Writing Modern Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3036 | Speech Acts: Contemporary Approaches to Text and Performance | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3061 | Heart Disease in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3062 | Charles Dickens Then & Now | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3065 | Page, Publication and Audience | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32941 | ‘Global English’: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonisation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3391 | September 11 in Fact and Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3396 | Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3407 | Shakespeare and Global Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3408 | Digital Discourse: language and social media | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3461 | Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3579 | Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Students may choose to spend up to 20 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in English or their chosen language.
- Finalists may only take Level 1 modules that are listed as Discovery Skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.
Students may choose to spend up to 20 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in Business or their chosen language.
Finalists may only take Level 1 modules that are listed as Discovery Skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.
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