2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English and Film Studies (For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
Programme code: | BAENGL&FS-R | UCAS code: | Q200 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Mani King Sharpe | Contact address: | M.Sharpe@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:
Communication, Media, Film and Cultural Studies
English
Programme specification:
The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme from September 2023. For students who entered the programme before September 2023, you can find the details of your programme: BA English and Film Studies
Film and English combines the study of film with the study of a wide range of literary texts associated with English Studies. Student will study a wide range of texts across different genres, including fiction, poetry and drama (in English) and popular cinema, auteur cinema and documentaries (in Film Studies), placing each in the context of a variety of historical periods, places and cultures. Core modules will introduce students to the concept of world literature and world cinema, to different approaches to studying texts, and to issues such as circulation, genre, reception and representation. Then students will choose from a wide range of optional modules to pursue topics that interest them. The tutors will provide diverse specialist expertise to help students gain a deeper understanding of literature from around the world and to develop transferable skills in analysis, communication and research that are highly valued by employers in a wide range of sectors.
At Level 1 students will take introductory modules covering different approaches to studying film and literature. These include core modules on reading and interpretation, writing and analysis, and various film genres. In English these are Reading Between the Lines and Writing Matters, which equip students to read critically and write with rigour and persuasion. In LCS students take Introduction to Film, which introduces them to a diverse range of films from different periods. Students then be able to choose an optional module in LCS from a variety of different subjects, take further modules in English or LCS, or take discovery modules from a choice across the University.
At Level 2, students will take one core module in LCS: Critical Approaches to Screen Studies. This module explores the different methodologies that have been used in the history of film studies. Students will develop their own original application of these methodologies by researching subjects of their own choice and writing about the roles that film plays in the global cultural field. Students will then be able to choose from a range of optional modules across English and LCS, or still have the chance to take further discovery modules. Level 2 will deepen and enrich subject knowledge and intellectual skills, preparing students for more independent learning.
At Level 3, students will take the core module, Current Enquiries into Film Studies, as well as pursuing an independently researched project in either English or Film Studies, depending on their interests. This sustained and extended piece of work may be a dissertation, textual edition, or a podcast. The Final Year Project is the capstone achievement of the degree, consolidating and further enhancing the skills of project planning, research initiative and self-motivation which are highly valued by future employers. Students can also choose from a wide range of optional specialist modules on both sides of your degree taught by world-leading researchers, benefitting from the diverse and exciting interests of your teachers. These modules will help develop and refine the active research and writing skills which students will demonstrate in your final year project. Students can still choose to take a discovery module in your final year, which allows them to complement your final-year studies with different subjects, or to learn a foreign language.
Students also have the opportunity to apply to spend time abroad, usually as an extra academic year in their third year of studies. They also have the option to apply to take a placement year module with organisations across the public, private and volunt ary sectors in the UK, or overseas.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
ENGL1055 | Writing Matters | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM1700 | Introduction to Film Studies I | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM1800 | Introduction to Film Studies II | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Level 1 candidates must also choose one of the following cornerstone modules in LCS:
MODL1050 | Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Level 1 candidates can choose one the following optional modules, or may take a 20 credit Discovery module in place of an optional module.
ENGL1070 | Drama: Text and Performance | 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) | |
ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FILM1900 | Directing World Cinemas | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUS1231 | Film Music | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
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) | |
FILM2055 | Critical Approaches to Screen Studies | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates are required to take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the follow list of optional modules:
Basket 1
FILM2015 | Women’s Authorship in World Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM2030 | Introduction to German Cinema | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FILM2110 | Cinema in France: The Seventh Art | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM2115 | Film Programming and Exhibition: Curating for Cinemas and Festivals | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
FILM2202 | Screening Italy: Neorealist cinema to Netflix | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
FILM2230 | Questioning Genre in World Cinemas | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM2515 | Issues in Hispanic Cinema | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules
Basket 2
CLAS2450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
COMM2850 | Cinematic Themes | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
EAST2360 | Chinese Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FILM2511 | Realism and the Cinema | 20 credits | ||
MODL2015 | Black Europe | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2075 | Global Environmental Humanities | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
MODL2250 | Digital Communications Across Cultures | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Candidate may select up to 40 credits s from the lists of optional modules (Baskets 3-6). Candidates cannot take more than 20 credits from each Basket.
Basket 3:
ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2085 | Medieval and Tudor Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 4:
ENGL2065 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2090 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 5:
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 6:
ENGL2055 | American Words, American Worlds | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2080 | Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may take the following optional module:
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.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
FILM3055 | Current Enquiries into Film Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 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) | |
MODL3350 | Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast) | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
If students take their Final Year Project in English, they must take at least 40 credits in Film Studies and a minimum of 20 further credits in English.
If students take their Final Year Project in Film Studies, they must take at least 40 credits in English and a minimum of 20 further credits in Film Studies.
Students are required to choose AT LEAST ONE of the following modules in the School of English. If they do their Final Year Project in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, they must choose AT LEAST TWO of the following modules. Modules can be taken from either Basket 1 or Basket 2. The list provided below is indicative and subject to change year by year depending on staff availability:
Basket 1
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) | |
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) | |
ENGL3407 | Shakespeare and Global Cinema | 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
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 | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
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) | |
ENGL3406 | Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
ENGL3461 | Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students are required to choose AT LEAST ONE of the following modules in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies. If they do their Final Year Project in the School of English, they must choose AT LEAST TWO of the following modules:
Students must take at least one module from Basket Three. They may also take a further module from Basket Three, or a further module from Basket Four.
Basket 3
COMM3120 | Film Theory and Aesthetics | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
EAST3350 | Japanese Cinema in the World | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM3026 | Contemporary German Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM3027 | Post-War European Cinema: History, Politics and Aesthetics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FILM3040 | Hollywood and its Others | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FILM3050 | Queer Films on Global Screens | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM3230 | Cinema in the Digital Era | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 |
Basket 4
CLAS3450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FILM3510 | French Cinema, Sex and Gender | 20 credits | Not running in 202425 | |
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) |
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