2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English & Environment (No longer recruiting from 2020/21)
Programme code: | BA-ENGL&ENVI | UCAS code: | GA1A |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Prof Graham Huggan | Contact address: | g.d.m.huggan@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
AAB at A-Level including Grade A in English Literature
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:
Since this is a Joint Honours degree with a significant component in English literature, English benchmark standards
(http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/English07.pdf) will be used, but will be adapted to meet the requirements of a cross-disciplinary programme.
Threshold standard:
(1) Students studying on this programme will be able to show an understanding, both historical and contemporary, of the relationship of human beings to their environment, and of the ways in which this relationship is articulated in literary and non-literary texts.
(2) Students studying on this programme will be able to show an understanding of the foundational principles of environmental social science.
(3) Students studying on this programme will be able to conduct research through self-formulated questions and tasks, to display competence in both written and spoken English, and to exercise a degree of independent critical judgement in the reading of literary, scientific and other (e.g. journalistic) texts.
Typical standard:
(1) Students studying on this programme will be able to interpret different ideas and values represented in and through language and literature, and to apply these ideas and values to both historical and contemporary environmental issues and debates.
(2) Students studying on this programme will be able to demonstrate confident analytic skills with respect to historical and contemporary environmental problems, and to exercise critical judgement in addressing these, both via their own and others' work.
(3) Students studying on this programme will be able to produce carefully argued essays in English that address specific issues and areas of importance in environmental studies, and that demonstrate independent critical judgement in the reading of literary and scientific texts.
Programme specification:
At the end of the programme students should be able to demonstrate:
(1) An understanding of historical and contemporary environmental issues and debates;
(2) An understanding of how to analyse these debates, using tools and skills derived from both the arts (literary criticism) and the sciences (qualitative/quantitative analysis);
(3) An awareness of how the English and environmental studies fields intersect with and complement one another;
(4) A critical understanding of the principles of cross-disciplinary research;
(5) A flexible ability, adapted to the needs of different potential employers, to analyse both imaginative (literary) and informative (scientific) texts, to produce reasoned arguments for and against particular environmental actions, and to convert conceptual understandings (e.g. of the changing human-environment relationship) into practically applicable goals.
The programme will: allow students to study English literature in its relation to historical/contemporary environmental issues and debates and vice versa, developing and combining skills derived from both of the appropriate disciplinary areas (i.e., English and environmental studies). At Level One, students will gain introductory insights into some of these issues and debates while working on the critical and analytical skills needed to address them. At Level Two, students will sharpen these skills by applying them to sets of contexts (around, for example, wildness/wilderness or climate change or biodiversity) in which both qualitative (interpretative) and quantitative forms of analysis are required. Level Three will provide the opportunity for an autonomous research project while also honing pre-professional skills in such environmentally oriented areas as environmental journalism and consultancy, biodiversity management and work with non-profit organisations (NGOs). As also argued above (see Statement), the programme is distinctive in bringing two sets of knowledge and techniques to bear on contemporary environmental issues and problems, using arts- as well as science-based methods and approaches to explore the cultural, historical and ethical dimensions of these issues and problems, and developing crosscutting critical and analytical skills that are relevant to a variety of both culturally and environmentally oriented professional
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must study 125 credits.
Compulsory modules:
Students will be required to study the following CORE modules:
ENGL1000 | Studying and Researching English | 5 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL1340 | Environment, Crisis and Creativity: Contemporary Nature Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1350 | Foundations of English Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE1111 | Sustainable Development | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SOEE1381 | Skills for Environmental Social Science | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE1450 | Environmental Politics and Policy | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates will be required to study 40 credits of Discovery modules. These may be made up of Discovery modules offered by English or Earth and Environment or from outside of both schools.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must take 120 credits in Level 2.
Over levels 2 and 3 combined, students must take:
1. English: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
2. Earth and Environment: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
3. At least 100 credits at Level 2
4. At least 100 credits at Level 3.
Additionally, students must take:
5. a further 40 credits in the named subjects (i.e. in English, Earth and Environment, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Earth and Environment) or in Discovery modules (i.e. outside the named subjects).
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must:
- meet the Rules for Award
- pass all modules which are designated 'pass for progression'
- pass the required number of credits at each level (a minimum of 100 credits at each Levels 1, 2 & 3) as specified in the Curricular Regulations
Compulsory modules:
Optional modules:
CORE MODULES (SOEE)
Candidates are required to study 40 credits of the following CORE optional modules.
*Students wishing to take SOEE3030 Environmental Research Project at level 3 MUST pass SOEE2570 Research in the Environmental Social Sciences.
SOEE2165 | Climate Change: Society and Human Dimensions | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SOEE2371 | People, Sustainability, and the Environment | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SOEE2570 | Research in the Environmental Social Sciences | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SOEE2670 | Environmental Impact Assessment | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SOEE2690 | Managing Biodiversity | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
CORE MODULES (ENGL)
Candidates are required to study 40 credits of the following CORE optional 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
Candidates may choose to study 40 credits of Discovery modules over Levels 2 and 3 or pursue additonal credits in the two named subjects.
ENGL2023 | Power of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2024 | Language in Society | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2041 | Textual Healing: An Introduction to Scholarly Editing and Publishing | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL2201 | Writing Nature: Creative and Critical Practices | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2204 | Shakespeare and Global Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2206 | African American Narrative: Eight Major Works | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2209 | Where the Wild Things Are: Animals in Children’s Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2284 | ExtraOrdinary Bodies: Physical Disability in Contemporary Literature and Film | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2345 | Imagining Revolution: Literature of the English Civil Wars | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL3208 | Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32113 | The Wild: Literature and the Environment | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32120 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32146 | Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32157 | Contemporary African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32660 | Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32998 | Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
OPTION MODULES
Candidates may choose to study 40 credits of Discovery modules over Levels 2 and 3 or pursue additonal credits in the two named subjects provided all necessary pre-requisites are met.
SOEE2032 | Personal Development for Careers in the Environmental Sector | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE2165 | Climate Change: Society and Human Dimensions | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SOEE2310 | Tools and Techniques for Business, Environment and Corporate Responsibility | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SOEE2355 | Energy Transitions: Technologies, Markets and Policy | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
SOEE2371 | People, Sustainability, and the Environment | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SOEE2570 | Research in the Environmental Social Sciences | 30 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SOEE2610 | Economics and Sustainability | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE2670 | Environmental Impact Assessment | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SOEE2680 | Environmental Policy and Governance | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE2690 | Managing Biodiversity | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules over both Levels 2 & 3 or pursue additional credits in the two named subjects from a list of available modules in any given academic year.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must take 120 credits in Level 3.
Over levels 2 and 3 combined, students must take:
1. English: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
2. Earth and Environment: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
Additionally, students must take:
5. a further 40 credits in the named subjects (i.e. in English, Earth and Environment, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Earth and Environment) or in Discovery modules (i.e. outside the named subjects).
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must:
- meet the Rules for Award
- pass all modules which are designated ‘pass for progression’
- pass the required number of credits at each Level (a minimum of 100 credits at each Levels 1, 2 & 3) as specified in the Curricular Regulations
Optional modules:
Candidates MUST take 40 credits of the following Final Year Projects:
*In order to take SOEE3030 Environmental Research Project students MUST have passed SOEE2570 Research in the Environmental Social Sciences at level 2.
ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SOEE3030 | Environmental Research Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates are required to study 40 credits in English from the optional list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3: 1. English (a minimum of 40 credits) 2. Earth & Environment (a minimum of 40 credits) with no more than 70 credits in one semester.
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) |
Candidates are required to study 40 credits in Earth and Environment from the optional list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3: 1. English (a minimum of 40 credits) 2. Earth & Environment (a minimum of 40 credits) with no more than 70 credits in one semester.
SOEE3112 | Environmental Risk: Science, Policy and Management | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE3202 | Sustainable Consumption | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE3270 | Business and Sustainable Development | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE3630 | Strategic Energy Issues | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SOEE3750 | Sustainability Economics in Practice | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
SOEE3760 | Terrestrial Biosphere in the Earth System | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
SOEE3771 | Sustainable Futures | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
SOEE3780 | Sustainable Development in Practice | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may study further credits in English from the optional list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3.
ENGL3208 | Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32111 | Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32113 | The Wild: Literature and the Environment | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32120 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32146 | Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32157 | Contemporary African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32660 | Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 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 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32998 | Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL32999 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3342 | Millennial Fictions | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3386 | Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3394 | Bowie, Reading, Writing | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3396 | Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3439 | States of Mind: Disability, Cognitive Impairment and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3999 | Literature of the 1890s | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates may study further credits in Earth and Environment from the optional list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3. No more than 70 credits may be taken in one semester.
SOEE3112 | Environmental Risk: Science, Policy and Management | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE3202 | Sustainable Consumption | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE3270 | Business and Sustainable Development | 10 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE3630 | Strategic Energy Issues | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SOEE3750 | Sustainability Economics in Practice | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
SOEE3760 | Terrestrial Biosphere in the Earth System | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
SOEE3771 | Sustainable Futures | 10 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
SOEE3780 | Sustainable Development in Practice | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
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