2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Classical Literature and English (For students entering from September 2024 onwards)
| Programme code: | BACLAS&ENG-R | UCAS code: | QQ38 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Dr Paul White | Contact address: | p.m.white@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
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:
Classics and Ancient History (including Byzantine Studies and Modern Greek)
English
Programme specification:
The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2024. For students who entered the programme before September 2024, you can find the details of your programme: BA Classical Literature and English
A joint honours degree allows you to study the same core topics as students on each single honours course, but you’ll take fewer optional modules so you can fit in both subjects. Classical texts are taught in translation, so you don’t need to have studied an ancient language. However, we offer Ancient Greek and Latin in every year of the degree if you want to learn or continue with either.
This degree programme enables you to explore literature from the ancient world to contemporary Britain and beyond, putting English literature into the context of its classical heritage. Students on this programme will benefit from contact with leading scholars in their field in both of the partner subjects. The Schools of English and LCS are both internationally-recognised research leaders in their fields, with long-established reputations for excellence in research and teaching.
Core modules will introduce you to key classical texts such as the Iliad and Aeneid, as well as poetry, prose and drama in English across literary periods. The range of diverse research interests at Leeds also means we can offer an impressive array of optional modules so that you can follow your interests in ancient literature alongside a full range of English topics.
Throughout the course, you will develop valuable interpretative and analytical skills, as well as becoming a confident researcher. You will demonstrate these qualities in when you undertake a Final Year Project on a topic of your choice in either English or Classical Literature.
Students on this programme may apply for transfer to an International Degree. The opportunity to apply for a work placement (Industrial Degree) is also available. Classics at Leeds has exchange links with Verona University (Italy) and modern language classes are available before you go to prepare you for the experience. There are also opportunities at our partner universities across the world where courses are taught in English.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| CLAS1615 | Greek Poets | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS1625 | Roman Poets | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL1055 | Writing Matters | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
The remaining 40 credits may be taken either as Discovery credits, or as choices from the optional modules listed below, or as a combination of both.
Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:
| CLAS1100 | Ancient Lives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL1221 | Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL1261 | Poetry: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL1286 | Drama: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| CLAS1030 | Advanced Ancient Greek | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS1200 | Intermediate Ancient Greek | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS1810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| CLAS1045 | Advanced Latin | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS1250 | Intermediate Latin | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS1910 | Beginners Latin | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
To be eligible for a joint honours award, students must pass at least 40 credits at level 2 and 40 credits at level 3 in each of the named subjects.
We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for years 2 and 3 are not yet available. Before you enter years 2 and 3 details of modules for those years will be provided.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| CLAS2800 | Evidence and Enquiry in Classics | 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:
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional 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) |
Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules. Not all modules in this list will run every year.
| CLAS2120 | Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2220 | Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2360 | Ovid the Innovator | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2370 | Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel (Level 2 module) | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2410 | Roman Comedy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS2430 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS2460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS2595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS2920 | Plato's Republic | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules. Not all modules in this list will run every year.
| CLAS2250 | The Athenian Empire | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2255 | The Worlds of Alexander the Great | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS2350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS2390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS2420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS2740 | Greek Religion | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS2890 | The City in the Roman World | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| CLAS2200 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS2810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| CLAS2260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS2910 | Beginners Latin (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the list below. Candidates may not take more than one option from each basket.
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) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
To be eligible for a joint honours award, students must pass at least 40 credits at level 2 and 40 credits at level 3 in each of the named subjects.
We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Full module details for year 3 are not yet available. Before you enter year 3 full details of modules for that year will be provided.
Compulsory modules:
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following modules:
| CLAS3200 | Major Research Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
If CLAS3200 is taken, candidates will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules in Baskets 1-2; if either ENGL3005 or ENGL3041 is taken, candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules in Baskets 1-2:
Basket 1:
The list provided below is indicative and subject to change year by year depending on staff availability.
- Text is a Technology (20 Credits)
| 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) | |
| ENGL3059 | South African Writing: Apartheid and After | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3062 | Charles Dickens Then & Now | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| ENGL3579 | Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 2:
The list provided below is indicative and subject to change year by year depending on staff availability.
- [Writing America] TTBC (20 Credits)
| ENGL3006 | Remixing the Renaissance | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3061 | Heart Disease in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3066 | The Public Poet (Creative Writing) | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3100 | Digital Englishes | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| 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) | |
| ENGL3402 | Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3407 | Shakespeare and Global Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 |
If either ENGL3005 or ENGL3041 is taken, candidates will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules in Baskets 3-6; if CLAS3200 is taken, candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules in Baskets 3-6:
Basket 3: candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following. Not all modules in this list will run every year.
| CLAS3120 | Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3220 | Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3360 | Ovid the Innovator | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3370 | Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3430 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS3595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3900 | Roman Comedy | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS3910 | Plato's Republic | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Basket 4: candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following. Not all modules in this list will run every year.
| CLAS3150 | The Worlds of Alexander the Great: From Pella to Punjab | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS3250 | The Athenian Empire | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS3390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS3420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
| CLAS3740 | Greek Religion | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS3890 | The City in the Roman World | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Basket 5: candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following:
| CLAS3230 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3815 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3835 | Advanced Ancient Greek | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Basket 6: candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following:
| CLAS3260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3915 | Beginners Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3935 | Advanced Latin | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules.
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