Module and Programme Catalogue

Search site

Find information on

2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA English and Music (European)

Programme code:BA-ENGL&MUS7UCAS code:
Duration:4 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Professor Paul Hammond Contact address:p.f.hammond@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 485

Entry requirements:

CANDIDATES APPLY TO TRANSFER TO THIS PROGRAMME AT LEVEL 2 AFTER SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A QUALIFYING YEAR.

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:

Programme specification:

The programme will:
- enable students to work across more than one discipline by providing the flexibility to study three disciplines at level one;
- allow the study of two disciplines to the same depth as any single honours student but with less breadth in each discipline;
- provide a basis for further advanced study in either of the disciplines or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.

General
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds joint honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available.
- They permit 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.
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: 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.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.


Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

At Level 1, students are required to take 120 credits, with a minimum of 40 credits in both English and Music.

Compulsory modules:

Level 1 students must take 40 credits of core English modules, and 20 credits of core Music modules:

ENGL1055Writing Matters20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL1065Reading Between the Lines20 creditsNot running until 202324
MUSS1120Music in History and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

At level 1 Students must also take between 20 and 60 credits of available Music Level 1 Option modules. These include:

MUSS1020Understanding Music20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS1220Composition20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS1320Performance20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS1324Ensemble Performance20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS1620Sound, Technology, and Music20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS1920Introduction to the Psychology of Music20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

At Level 1, candidates may take up to 40 credits of the following English modules:

ENGL1070Data Analysis and Study Skills  credits 
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)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in place of two of the option modules.


Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

At Level 2, candidates must take a minimum of 40 credits of English modules and 40 credits of Music modules. A further 40 credits may be chosen from the English baskets below or from the Music options, up to a maximum of 80 credits in either English or Music.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following English compulsory modules:

ENGL2030Literature 1660-1790  credits 
ENGL2045Body Language: Literature and Embodiment20 creditsNot running until 202324

Optional modules:

Candidates may select up to 2 further English option modules from the list below to make up their credit requirements up to a maximum of 80 credits. Candidates may not take more than one option from each basket.

Basket 1:

ENGL2029Renaissance Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2085Medieval and Tudor Literature20 creditsNot running until 202324

Basket 2:

ENGL2065Postcolonial Literature20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL2090Modern Literature20 creditsNot running until 202324

Basket 3:

ENGL2095Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL2096The World Before Us: Literature 1660–183020 creditsNot running until 202324

Basket 4:

ENGL2055American Words, American Worlds20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL2080Slang, Cant and Jargon  credits 

Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following Music option modules:

MUSS2123Music in the Judeo-Christian Tradition20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS2124British Music and National Identity20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS2125Music, Culture, Politics: the Long Sixties20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS2126The Tools of Music Making20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS2127Music and Culture in Late Seventeenth-Century London20 creditsNot running in 202021
MUSS2128Duke Ellington and the Twentieth-Century Jazz Environment20 creditsNot running until 202122
MUSS2722Music in Context B20 creditsNot running in 202021

Candidates must take between 20 and 60 credits from the following Music modules:

MUSS2020Interpreting Music20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2220Composition20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2320Performance20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2324Ensemble Performance20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS2520Aesthetics and Criticism20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2620Music Technology Skills and Techniques20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS2824Film-Score Creation and Production20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS2825Opera North: Opera in Practice20 creditsNot running in 202021
MUSS2828Synthesizer Ensemble20 creditsNot running in 202021
MUSS2920The Psychology of Listening and Performance20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Discovery modules:

Level 2 students may take 20 credits of Discovery module or FOAH2020 Towards the Future: Skills in Context in place of an English or a Music option module, provided they have fulfilled the programme requirements to take at least 40 credits in both English and Music:

FOAH2020Towards the Future: Skills in Context20 creditsNot running until 202122


Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

CANDIDATES STUDY AT AN APPROVED EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY.

Optional modules:

Students must take one of the following modules:

ENGL9001English Year Abroad120 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS9001Year Abroad (Music)120 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Students must pass the study year abroad in order to be awarded the degree entitled 'European'.


Year4 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students must take 120 credits in Level 3 and must take a Final Year Project in either Music or English.

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. Music - 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, Music, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Music) 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:

Students must take ONE of the following Final Year Projects:

ENGL3005Textual Editing Project40 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL3041Final Year Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3140Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.

OPTION MODULES
Candidates are required to study a minimum of 40 credits of OPTION modules and can also opt to study further OPTION modules if they wish in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:

1. English - a minimum of 40 credits
2. Music - a minimum of 40 credits
3. No more than 70 credits in one semester

ENGL3004The Writings of Graham Greene20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL3024Modern Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3025Postcolonial Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3026Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3027Shakespeare20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3031Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL3032Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL3034Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL3035Current Practice in Creative Writing20 creditsNot running until 202122
ENGL3208Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32153Refugee Narratives20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32154Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32155Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32169Contemporary South African Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32980African Literature20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3314Imagining Posthuman Futures20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3321Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3365Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3391September 11 in Fact and Fiction20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3394Bowie, Reading, Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3396Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3402Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3410Modernist Sexualities20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3680Postcolonial London20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

OPTION MODULES
Candidates who have NOT chosen to undertake a Final Year Project in Music MUST study at least 40 credits from the following list of optional modules.

Candidates who have chosen to undertake a Final Year Project in Music may choose to take up to 40 credits from the following list:

MUSS3020Analysing Music20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS3040Analysing Music40 creditsNot running in 202021
MUSS3120The Supernatural in Opera20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS3121Special Study in Musicology A20 creditsNot running in 202021
MUSS3122Special Study in Musicology B20 creditsNot running in 202021
MUSS3128Music and Postcolonial Politics20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS3129Music as Performance: People, Bodies and Instruments20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS3240Composition40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3324Ensemble Performance20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS3325Applied Project20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3340Performance40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3420Editing and Source Studies20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MUSS3440Editing and Source Studies40 creditsNot running in 202021
MUSS3520Contemporary Aesthetics20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MUSS3540Contemporary Aesthetics40 creditsNot running in 202021
MUSS3640Music Technology40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MUSS3820Music in the Real World20 creditsNot running in 202021
MUSS3825Opera North: Opera in Practice20 creditsNot running until 202122
MUSS3940Music Psychology40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules over both Level 2 and 3 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.

Last updated: 24/05/2021 12:50:43

Disclaimer

Browse Other Catalogues

Errors, omissions, failed links etc should be notified to the Catalogue Team.PROD

© Copyright Leeds 2019