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2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA English and Sociology

Programme code:BA-ENGL&SOCIUCAS code:QL33
Duration:3 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr Brett Greatley Hirsch Contact address:b.d.greatleyhirsch@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 365

Entry requirements:

- AAB at A level including grade A in English, excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking, plus GCSE Mathematics at Grade C.
- International Baccalaureate: 35 points overall, including 16 at Higher Level, a minimum of 6 in English at Higher Level, and a minimum of 5 in Mathematics at Standard Level.
- Applications welcome from mature students with Access qualifications and from students with international or other non-A-level qualifications.

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]

Students must study 120 credits.

In Level 1, students are required to pass a minimum of 40 credits in Sociology and 60 credits in English modules. The further 20 credits may consist of Discovery modules in a third subject or may consist of further modules in either main subject.

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

ENGL1350Foundations of English Studies20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP1200Sociology of Modern Societies20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP1210Formations of Modernity20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Candidates are required to study 60 credits of optional modules, with at least 40 credits of modules taken from the following School of English modules plus a maximum of 20 credits of Discovery modules from elsewhere.

ENGL1221Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1250Prose: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1261Poetry: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1286Drama: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1310Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1340Environment, Crisis and Creativity: Contemporary Nature Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1855Race, Writing and Decolonization20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1999The Creative Essay: From Idea to Submission20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study 20 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue an additional optional module in the School of English.


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. Sociology - 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:
4. a further 40 credits in the named subjects (i.e. in English, Sociology or a combination of both).
5. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Sociology) 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:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:

SLSP2730Central Problems in Sociology20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

CORE MODULES
Candidates are required to study at least TWO of the following CORE modules (40 credits). In addition candidates can also opt to study one or two further CORE modules (up to 40 credits) or choose 40 credits from the list of OPTION modules.

ENGL2025Medieval Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2026Restoration and Eighteenth Century Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2028Literature of the Romantic Period20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2029Renaissance Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3289Victorian Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3290American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

OPTION MODULES
Candidates may choose to study additional Level 2 CORE modules (listed above) in the place of OPTION modules at Level 2 or study further credits (up to 40 credits) from the following list of OPTION modules, in accordance with the credit rules.

ENGL2023Power of Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2024Language in Society20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2041Textual Healing: An Introduction to Scholarly Editing and Publishing20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL2201Writing Nature: Creative and Critical Practices20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2202Imaginary Friends: the consolations and consequences of story20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2203Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL2204Shakespeare and Global Cinema20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2206African American Narrative: Eight Major Works20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2207Dialect and Heritage20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL2209Where the Wild Things Are: Animals in Children’s Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2284ExtraOrdinary Bodies: Physical Disability in Contemporary Literature and Film20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2345Imagining Revolution: Literature of the English Civil Wars20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3208Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32110Students into Schools20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32113The Wild: Literature and the Environment20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32114Forming Victorian Fiction20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32120Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32143Disposable Lives?20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32146Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32147Contemporary Postcolonial Texts20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32148American Danger20 creditsNot running in 202021
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)
ENGL32156Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32157Contemporary African Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32158Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32163Milton20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32167Language of the Media20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32169Contemporary South African Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3227Surrealism and the French Stage20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3231The Poetry of Wordsworth20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3233Forensic Approaches to Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32460Writing America20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3266Folklore and Mythology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32660Creative Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32763Children, Talk and Learning20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3286Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-192220 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3293Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32993Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32997Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32998Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32999Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Students are required to study at least ONE of the following Sociology optional modules. Students can opt to take further option modules from this list in accordance with the credit rules.

FOSS2001State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP2010Sociology and Social Policy Research Methods
Pre-requisite for: SLSP3041
20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLSP2020Crime, Law and Regulation20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP2040Disability Studies: An Introduction20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP2050The Sociology of Gender20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP2145Crime, Race and Ethnicity20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP2150Debates in Childhood and Youth20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP2180The Sociology of Culture20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

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.


Year3 - 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 Sociology 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. Sociology - 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, Sociology, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Sociology) 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.

Students wishing to take the SLSP3061 Sociology Dissertation must also take the new SLP3095 Dissertation Preparation module in semester 1.

ENGL3041Final Year Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLSP3041Sociology Dissertation40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLSP3095Research Skills for your Dissertation
Pre-requisite for: SLSP3061
20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

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

CORE MODULES
Candidates are required to study at least ONE of the following CORE modules and can also opt to study further CORE modules if they wish in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:

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

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)

OPTION MODULES:
Candidates may study further credits in English from the list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:

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

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

ENGL2023Power of Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2024Language in Society20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2025Medieval Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2026Restoration and Eighteenth Century Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2028Literature of the Romantic Period20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2029Renaissance Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3208Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32113The Wild: Literature and the Environment20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32114Forming Victorian Fiction20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32120Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32143Disposable Lives?20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32146Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32147Contemporary Postcolonial Texts20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32148American Danger20 creditsNot running in 202021
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)
ENGL32156Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32157Contemporary African Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32158Aesthetic Movements of the Nineteenth Century20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32163Milton20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32167Language of the Media20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32169Contemporary South African Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3227Surrealism and the French Stage20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3231The Poetry of Wordsworth20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3233Forensic Approaches to Language20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32460Writing America20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3266Folklore and Mythology20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32660Creative Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32763Children, Talk and Learning20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3286Fictions of Fallen Women, 1850-192220 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3289Victorian Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3290American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3293Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32980African Literature20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32993Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32997Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32998Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL32999Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3314Imagining Posthuman Futures20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3321Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3339Lost in Fiction: The Metafictional Novel from 'Don Quixote' to 'House of Leaves'20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3342Millennial Fictions20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3365Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3386Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3394Bowie, Reading, Writing20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3396Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3398Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3401Women Writing the 1960s20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3402Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature20 creditsNot running in 202021
ENGL3410Modernist Sexualities20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3439States of Mind: Disability, Cognitive Impairment and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3680Postcolonial London20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3999Literature of the 1890s20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

NB Candidates may only choose a Level 2 English module from the above list if all their remaining 100 final year credits are at Level 3, ie SUBJ3XXX.

Candidates may study further credits in Sociology from the list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:

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

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

FOSS3001State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun), Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
SLSP3075Disability and Development20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP3211State Crime and Immorality20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP3220Contemporary Children, Young People and Families20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP3230Global Terrorism and Violence20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP3242The Social Life of Data20 creditsNot running in 202021
SLSP3500Gender, Technologies and the Body20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
SLSP3930Sociology of Consumerism20 creditsNot running in 202021
SLSP3961Protest and Social Movements20 creditsNot running in 202021
SLSP3995Ethnicity and Popular Culture20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

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.

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