2023/24 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Ancient History and English
Programme code: | BA-AHIS&ENGL | UCAS code: | V130 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Paul White | Contact address: | p.m.white@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
Entry requirements:
A-level: AAB including A in English.
Other course specific tests: When an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be ABB at A Level including A in English and grade A in the EPQ.
We welcome applications from mature students with Access qualifications, and from students with a wide range of qualifications.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
English Studies:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/subject-benchmark-statement-english.pdf
Classics and Ancient History:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/the-quality-code/subject-benchmark-statements/classics-and-ancient-history-(including-byzantine-studies-and-modern-greek)
Programme specification:
The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2022/2023 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2023 or after, you can find the details of your programme: BA Ancient History and English (For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
A joint honours degree allows you to study the same core topics as students on each single honours course, but you’ll take fewer optional modules so you can fit in both subjects. Classical texts are taught in translation, so you don’t need to have studied an ancient language. However, we offer Ancient Greek and Latin in every year of the degree if you want to learn or continue with either.
The Ancient History and English degree programme allows you to explore diverse topics from across the classical world, revealing the complex nuances of these fascinating societies. You’ll also explore richly diverse English literary texts across different genres, including fiction, poetry and drama, and will see these in the context of a variety of historical periods, places and cultures. You’ll consider how and why these texts are produced, read, and understood and analyse the impact of their creativity and power.
Your first year will lay the foundations for your degree. Core modules will guide you through the transition to university study, helping you to read critically, write effectively, understand literary genres, and develop and broaden your understanding of how ancient concepts, ideas, events, art, architecture and literature continue to influence modern culture. Ancient History core modules will introduce you to the major events and trends that affected the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds, and you’ll also have the chance to learn or continue with Latin or Ancient Greek.
You’ll go on deepen your knowledge of ancient political systems, societies and cultures and broaden your understanding of theoretical approaches to ancient sources. On the English side of the programme, you will take further modules on the literatures of the environment and human embodiment designed to enhance your intellectual independence and initiative. At Levels 2 and 3, we offer an extensive range of optional modules in English and in Ancient History, enabling you to choose more advanced thematic content to further hone your skills. Throughout the course, you will develop valuable interpretative and analytical skills, as well as becoming a confident researcher. You will demonstrate these qualities in when you undertake a Final Year Project on a topic of your choice in either English or Ancient History.
Students on this programme may apply for transfer to an International Degree. The opportunity to apply for a work placement (Industrial Degree) is also available. Classics at Leeds has exchange links with Verona University (Italy) and modern language classes are available before you go to prepare you for the experience. There are also opportunities at our partner universities across the world where courses are taught in English.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 1 students must study 120 credits
Compulsory modules:
At Level 1, students are required to take the following core modules:
CLAS1300 | The Greek World: an Introduction | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS1400 | The Roman World: An Introduction | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1055 | Writing Matters | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Level 1 students may also choose two further option modules in either subject:
CLAS1100 | Ancient Lives | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS1200 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS1250 | Intermediate Latin (Level 1) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS1650 | Introduction to Classical Archaeology | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS1810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS1910 | Beginners Latin | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
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) | |
ENGL1286 | Drama: Reading and Interpretation | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of discovery modules instead of the options listed.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
At Level 2, Candidates will be required to study the following core modules:
CLAS2800 | Evidence and Enquiry in Classics | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL2030 | Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2045 | Body Language: Literature and Embodiment | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Level 2 candidates are also required to take a minimum of 20 credits from the following:
CLAS2400 | Invisible Greeks and Romans | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2900 | Ancient Empires: Power and Control | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
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:
ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2085 | Medieval and Tudor Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 2:
ENGL2065 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2090 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 3:
ENGL2095 | Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2096 | The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830 | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Basket 4:
ENGL2055 | American Words, American Worlds | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2080 | Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Level 2 Ancient History option modules from the following:
CLAS2120 | Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2200 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2220 | Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2250 | The Athenian Empire | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2255 | The Worlds of Alexander the Great | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2370 | Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel (Level 2 module) | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS2390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2410 | Roman Comedy | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2430 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2600 | Virgil's Aeneid | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS2680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2700 | Homer's Iliad | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2740 | Greek Religion | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS2890 | The City in the Roman World | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS2910 | Beginners Latin (Level 2) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL3045 | Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2075 | Global Environmental Humanities | 20 credits | Semesters 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 Ancient History option module, provided they have fulfilled the programme requirements to take at least 40 credits in both subjects.
FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 3 students must study 120 credits, which includes a 40-credit Final Year Project Module. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects: the Final Year Project module can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects. Any remaining credits should be taken as optional modules in either of the named subjects, or as Discovery modules.
Compulsory modules:
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study one of the following Final Year Project modules:
CLAS3200 | Major Research Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
OPTION MODULES
Candidates must take a minimum of 40 credits in English at Level 3. Candidates may study credits from the following list of option modules, in accordance with the credit rules. NB Candidates may only choose a Level 2 core English module (modules beginning ENGL2XXX) from the list below if all of their remaining final year credits (100) are at Level 3, ie. SUBJ3XXX.
ENGL2023 | Power of Language | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL2024 | Language in Society | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2026 | Restoration and Eighteenth Century Writing | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL2028 | Literature of the Romantic Period | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL2085 | Medieval and Tudor Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3004 | The Writings of Graham Greene | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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) | |
ENGL3031 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3032 | Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3034 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3035 | Current Practice in Creative Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3050 | States of Mind: Disability, Neurodiversity and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3100 | Digital Englishes | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32120 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32143 | Disposable Lives? | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32146 | Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32147 | Contemporary Postcolonial Texts | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32148 | American Danger | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
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) | |
ENGL32156 | Quiet Rebels and Unquiet Minds: writing to contemporary anxiety | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32163 | Milton | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32167 | Language of the Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32169 | Contemporary South African Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3227 | Surrealism and the French Stage | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3231 | The Poetry of Wordsworth | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32460 | Writing America | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3266 | Folklore and Mythology | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3293 | Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32941 | ‘Global English’: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonisation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3299 | World Theatre | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32993 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL32998 | Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3321 | Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3339 | Lost in Fiction: The Metafictional Novel from 'Don Quixote' to 'House of Leaves' | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3342 | Millennial Fictions | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3386 | Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3391 | September 11 in Fact and Fiction | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3394 | Bowie, Reading, Writing | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3396 | Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3398 | Medical Humanities: Representing Illness, Disability, and Care | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL3402 | Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ENGL3999 | Literature of the 1890s | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 |
If ENGL3041 or ENGL3005 has been taken, candidates will be required to study at least 40 credits of CLAS modules.
CLAS3120 | Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3150 | The Worlds of Alexander the Great: From Pella to Punjab | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3220 | Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3230 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3250 | The Athenian Empire | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3360 | Ovid the Innovator | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3370 | Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CLAS3390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3430 | The Ancient Greek Novel | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3460 | Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3710 | Plato on Love | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3740 | Greek Religion | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3815 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3835 | Advanced Ancient Greek | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3890 | The City in the Roman World | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3900 | Roman Comedy | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
CLAS3915 | Beginners Latin (Level 3) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
CLAS3935 | Advanced Latin | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ITAL3045 | Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3600 | Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
MODL3610 | Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3620 | Decolonial Approaches | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL3630 | Social Movements across Cultures | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
MODL3650 | Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
NB: Not all modules will be available every year.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in one of the two named subjects.
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