2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English Literature and Theatre Studies (European)
Programme code: | BA-ENGL&TS7 | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Total credits: 480
Entry requirements:
Candidates apply to transfer to this programme at Level 2 from the BA in English Literature & Theatre Studies programme.
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:
This is one of the country's most prestigious degrees in English Literature and Theatre Studies. The School is an internationally recognized research leader in English studies and possesses a long-established reputation for excellence in research and teaching. There is a large academic staff (over 40 full time), and about 1000 undergraduate students are being taught in the department at any one time.
The Single Honours English & Theatre Studies programme exposes students to a variety of approaches to creating and critically appraising drama and diverse modes of performance in addition to the wide range of subject areas across the spread of English Studies. Practice is offered as a mode of analysis and appreciation throughout the programme in ways that complement and promote skills activated in English modules.
Following a compulsory level 1, students are offered a high degree of choice within a structure that activates an appreciation of theatre theory, history and practice through analytical work and individual and collaborative creativity. Students are equally well exposed to a range of periods and genres of English Literature and have some opportunity to study issues of English language.
Students may apply for transfer to a European or an International Degree. The opportunity to apply for a work placement degree is also available. Those students who are accepted may participate in one of our Erasmus/Socrates schemes or go to one of a range of universities with which the University of Leeds has established links.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
At Level 1, candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ENGL1055 | Writing Matters | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL1195 | Reading Theatre, Performing Text | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL1196 | Performing Text, Making Theatre | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 40 credits of modules from the following optional modules, OR 20 credits from the following optional modules and 20 credits of Discovery modules:
Basket 1:
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) |
Basket 2:
ENGL1070 | Data Analysis and Study Skills | credits | ||
ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
At Level 2, candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
ENGL2030 | Literature 1660-1790 | credits | ||
ENGL2040 | Performing the Past | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2045 | Body Language: Literature and Embodiment | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL2050 | Theatre, Society and Self | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 2 modules from the following optional modules but may not choose 2 from the same basket. Any choice made from Basket 3 must not cause asymmetry in your credit loading between semesters.
Basket 1:
ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2065 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL2085 | Medieval and Tudor Literature | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL2090 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL2095 | Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL2096 | The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830 | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
PECI2701 | Creative Practice and Performance Contexts | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PECI2704 | Interpreting Theatre and Performance Histories | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
PECI2714 | Politics, Identity and Performance | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 2:
ENGL2055 | American Words, American Worlds | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL2080 | Slang, Cant and Jargon | credits | ||
ENGL2095 | Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL2096 | The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830 | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
PECI2706 | Cultural Flashpoints in the Performing Arts | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PECI2708 | Exploring Musical Theatre | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
PECI2709 | Performance Design | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Basket 3: N.B. Any choice made from Basket 3 must not cause asymmetry in your credit loading between semesters: you should avoid your selections resulting in a credit load of over 70 credits per semester.
FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Not running until 202122 | |
HIST2240 | The Italian Renaissance I | credits | ||
HIST2260 | Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | 20 credits | Not running until 202223 |
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
CANDIDATES STUDY AT AN APPROVED EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY.
Compulsory modules:
ENGL9001 | English Year Abroad | 120 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year4 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students are required to study a total of 120 credits in level 3, with no more than 70 credits in one semester.
A maximum of 40 credits may be taken in modules outside the School of English.
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF LEVEL 3:
1. Students MUST study the 40 credit compulsory CORE module.
2. Students can then choose 40-80 credits of English OPTION modules or from modules outside of the School (known as Discovery modules).
NB: Students are not eligible to take Level 1 modules in Level 3 (with the exception of up to a maximum of 20 credits in Special Skills modules - these can be identified by the code ‘skd’ in the online module catalogue).
Compulsory modules:
Students MUST study the 40 credit compulsory CORE module:
ENGL3042 | The Practical Essay | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
OPTION MODULES
Students are required to take 40-80 credits of OPTION modules from the list below (in line with the credit rules set out below):
Credit rules:
- No more than 70 credits in one semester
- A total of 120 credits over the year
- A maximum of 40 credits may be taken outside the School of English as Discovery at Level 3.
ENGL3004 | The Writings of Graham Greene | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
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) | |
ENGL3031 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL3032 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL3034 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL3035 | Current Practice in Creative Writing | 20 credits | Not running until 202122 | |
ENGL3036 | Speech Acts: Contemporary Approaches to Text and Performance | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
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) | |
ENGL32153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32980 | African Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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) | |
ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3391 | September 11 in Fact and Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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) | |
ENGL3402 | Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules outside the School of English.
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