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2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA English Literature (European)

Programme code:BA-ENGL/LIT7UCAS code:Q306
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: 

ENGL1055Writing Matters20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL1065Reading Between the Lines20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL1855Race, Writing and Decolonization20 creditsSemester 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.

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)

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: 

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

Optional modules:

Basket 1: Candidates will be required to study 1 module from the following optional modules:

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

Basket 2: Candidates will be required to study 1 module from the following optional modules: 

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

Basket 3: Candidates will be required to study 1 module from the following optional modules: 

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

Basket 4: Candidates will be required to study 1 module from the following optional modules:

ENGL2055American Words, American Worlds20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL2080Slang, 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:

FOAH2020Towards the Future: Skills in Context20 creditsNot running until 202122
HIST2240The Italian Renaissance I  credits 
HIST2260Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature20 creditsNot running until 202223


Year3 - View timetable

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

CANDIDATES STUDY AT AN APPROVED EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY.

Compulsory modules:

ENGL9001English Year Abroad120 creditsSemesters 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.

ENGL3005Textual Editing Project40 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL3041Final Year Project40 creditsSemesters 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.

ENGL3024Modern Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3025Postcolonial Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3031Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL3032Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL32154Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3268Transformations20 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)
ENGL3365Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3680Postcolonial London20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

SEMESTER 2: Students must take 20 to 40 credits of English OPTION modules.

ENGL3004The Writings of Graham Greene20 creditsNot running until 202324
ENGL3026Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3027Shakespeare20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
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)
ENGL32155Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32169Contemporary South African Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32980African Literature20 creditsNot running in 202021
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)

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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