2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English Literature (European)
Programme code: | BA-ENGL/LIT7 | UCAS code: | Q306 |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
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:
English
Programme specification:
This is one of the country's most prestigious degrees in English. The School is an internationally recognized research leader in English studies and possesses a long-established reputation for excellence in research and teaching. In RAE2008 the School achieved joint 8th ranking for ‘English Language and Literature’. There is a large academic staff (over 40 full time), and an annual intake of over 100 students to this Single Honours Programme.
The Single Honours English Literature programme is distinguished by the wide range of subject areas to which students are exposed, across the whole spread of English Studies. After a compulsory Level 1, the programme allows students a high degree of choice within a structure which ensures that all students are exposed to a range of periods of English literature, and a range of genres and in a range of areas. The programme more than meets the benchmarking requirements for English.
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 | |
ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates may select up to 60 credits of modules from the following optional modules. Alternatively, they may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in place of two of the option modules.
ENGL1070 | Data Analysis and Study Skills | credits | ||
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) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in place of two of the optional 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 | ||
ENGL2045 | Body Language: Literature and Embodiment | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 |
Optional modules:
Basket 1: Candidates will be required to study 1 module from the following optional modules:
ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2085 | Medieval and Tudor Literature | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 |
Basket 2: Candidates will be required to study 1 module from the following optional modules:
ENGL2065 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL2090 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 |
Basket 3: Candidates will be required to study 1 module from the following optional modules:
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 |
Basket 4: Candidates will be required to study 1 module from the following optional modules:
ENGL2055 | American Words, American Worlds | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL2080 | Slang, Cant and Jargon | credits |
Discovery modules:
L2 students may take 20 credits of Discovery modules or one of the following modules in place of one of the Basket modules:
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 undertake the 40-credit Final Year Project in English or the 40-credit Textual Editing Project.
2. Students can then choose 40 to 80 credits of English OPTION modules.
3. Students can choose a maximum of 40 credits from outside of the School (known as Discovery modules).
NB: Students are not eligible to take Level 1 modules in Level 3 (except for a maximum of 20 credits in Special Skills modules).
Compulsory modules:
Optional modules:
Students are required to take ONE of the following CORE modules.
ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project | 40 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
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 modules at Level 3
The 40-credit Final Year Project module runs over both semesters 1 and 2 and is counted as 20 credits in semester 1 and 20 credits in semester.
SEMESTER 1: Students must take 20 to 40 credits of English OPTION modules.
ENGL3024 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3025 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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 | |
ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 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) | |
ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
SEMESTER 2: Students must take 20 to 40 credits of English OPTION modules.
ENGL3004 | The Writings of Graham Greene | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL3026 | Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3034 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Not running until 202324 | |
ENGL3035 | Current Practice in Creative Writing | 20 credits | Not running until 202122 | |
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) | |
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) | |
ENGL32980 | African Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
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) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules outside the School of English.
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).
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