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2024/25 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA English and Film Studies (For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

Programme code:BAENGL&FS-RUCAS code:Q200
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

ENGL1055Writing Matters20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1065Reading Between the Lines20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FILM1700Introduction to Film Studies I20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FILM1800Introduction to Film Studies II20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Level 1 candidates must also choose one of the following cornerstone modules in LCS:

MODL1050Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL1150Worlds of Literature20 creditsSemesters 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.

ENGL1070Drama: Text and Performance20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1221Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1261Poetry: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1855Race, Writing and Decolonization20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FILM1900Directing World Cinemas20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUS1231Film Music20 creditsSemester 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

ENGL2030Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2045Body Language: Literature and Embodiment20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FILM2055Critical Approaches to Screen Studies20 creditsSemesters 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

FILM2015Women’s Authorship in World Cinema20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FILM2030Introduction to German Cinema20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FILM2110Cinema in France: The Seventh Art20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FILM2115Film Programming and Exhibition: Curating for Cinemas and Festivals20 creditsNot running in 202425
FILM2202Screening Italy: Neorealist cinema to Netflix20 creditsNot running in 202425
FILM2230Questioning Genre in World Cinemas20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FILM2515Issues in Hispanic Cinema20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules

Basket 2

CLAS2450Screening Antiquity20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
COMM2850Cinematic Themes20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
EAST2360Chinese Cinema20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FILM2511Realism and the Cinema20 credits 
MODL2015Black Europe20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2075Global Environmental Humanities20 creditsNot running in 202425
MODL2250Digital Communications Across Cultures20 creditsNot 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:

ENGL2029Renaissance Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2085Medieval and Tudor Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Basket 4:

ENGL2065Postcolonial Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2090Modern Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Basket 5:

ENGL2095Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2096The World Before Us: Literature 1660–183020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Basket 6:

ENGL2055American Words, American Worlds20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2080Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates may take the following optional module:

FOAH2020Towards the Future: Skills in Context20 creditsSemesters 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

FILM3055Current Enquiries into Film Studies20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules:

ENGL3005Textual Editing Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL3041Final Year Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3300Final Year Project: Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3350Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast)40 creditsSemesters 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

ENGL3031Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3033Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3034Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3062Charles Dickens Then & Now20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3063Haunted Hinterlands: Wyrd Works and Folk Horror Fictions20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3114Forming Victorian Fiction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3163Milton20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3321Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3365Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane20 creditsNot running in 202425
ENGL3386Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3407Shakespeare and Global Cinema20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3579Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3680Postcolonial London20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Basket 2

ENGL3006Remixing the Renaissance20 creditsNot running in 202425
ENGL3027Shakespeare20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3061Heart Disease in Contemporary Literature20 creditsNot running in 202425
ENGL3066The Public Poet (Creative Writing)20 creditsNot running in 202425
ENGL3100Digital Englishes20 creditsNot running in 202425
ENGL32153Refugee Narratives20 creditsNot running in 202425
ENGL3314Imagining Posthuman Futures20 creditsNot running in 202425
ENGL3391September 11 in Fact and Fiction20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3396Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3406Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3410Modernist Sexualities20 creditsNot running in 202425
ENGL3461Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery20 creditsSemester 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

COMM3120Film Theory and Aesthetics20 creditsNot running in 202425
EAST3350Japanese Cinema in the World20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FILM3026Contemporary German Cinema20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FILM3027Post-War European Cinema: History, Politics and Aesthetics20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FILM3040Hollywood and its Others20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
FILM3050Queer Films on Global Screens20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FILM3230Cinema in the Digital Era20 creditsNot running in 202425

Basket 4

CLAS3450Screening Antiquity20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
FILM3510French Cinema, Sex and Gender20 creditsNot running in 202425
MODL3600Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption20 creditsNot running in 202425
MODL3610Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3620Decolonial Approaches20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3630Social Movements across Cultures20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL3650Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

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