2023/24 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English and Film Studies
Programme code: | BA-ENGL&FS | UCAS code: | 6T3X |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Mani King Sharpe | Contact address: | M.Sharpe@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
Entry requirements:
A-level: AAB including A in English (Language, Literature or Language and Literature).
GCSE: Grade 4/C in Mathematics.
Other course specific tests:
Where 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.
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
Language, Cultures and Societies
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 English and Film Studies(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
The programme allows students to study the disciplines of English and Film Studies to the same depth as Single Honours students of the disciplines, but with less breadth in each. This means that Joint Honours students will normally be required to take compulsory and a subset of the optional modules that are also part of the corresponding Single Honours degree programmes, and that they will be assessed on those modules using criteria identical to those applied to Single Honours students.
At Level One, students have the flexibility to extend their intercultural and interdisciplinary knowledge and skills by means of a 'cornerstone' module in the areas of audio-visual culture or world literature and the choice of a cognate elective module.
At Levels Two and Three, students can select, within certain parameters, optional modules from the full range available within each discipline, and thereby devise pathways of their own choosing. At Level Three students can undertake an autonomous research project in either discipline, potentially linking the two disciplines by bringing knowledge and understanding gained in one discipline to bear in the other.
Students also have the opportunity to apply to spend time abroad, usually as an extra academic year in their third year of studies. They also have the option to apply to take a placement year module with organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK, or overseas.
English and Film Studies students acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines. This degree also provides a basis for further advanced study in either English or Film Studies, or in a cognate interdisciplinary area.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Level 1: Students will take a minimum of 40 credits of English modules and 60 credits of LCS modules.
Compulsory modules:
Level 1 candidates must take the following core modules:
ENGL1055 | Writing Matters | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM1700 | Introduction to Film Studies I | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM1800 | Introduction to Film Studies II | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Level 1 candidates must also choose one of the following cornerstone modules in LCS:
MODL1050 | Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Level 1 candidates can choose one the following optional modules, or may take a 20 credit Discovery module in place of an optional module.
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) | |
FILM1900 | Directing World Cinemas | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MUSS1824 | Film Music: From Text to Interpretation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may take a 20 credit Discovery module in place of an optional module.
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
At Level 2, Students are required to take 120 credits. 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. Languages, Cultures and Societies: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules at Level 2:
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) | |
FILM2055 | Critical Approaches to Screen Studies | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to select a minimum of 20 credits of the following optional modules at level 2 (not all modules available in each academic session):
CLAS2450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
COMM2850 | Cinematic Themes | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
CULT2003 | Cinema and Culture | 20 credits | ||
EAST2360 | Chinese Cinema | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
FILM2015 | Women’s Authorship in World Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FILM2030 | Introduction to German Cinema | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FILM2110 | Cinema in France: The Seventh Art | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FILM2115 | Film Programming and Exhibition: Curating for Cinemas and Festivals | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FILM2202 | Screening Italy: Neorealist cinema to Netflix | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
FILM2230 | Questioning Genre in World Cinemas | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM2511 | Realism and the Cinema | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
FILM2515 | Issues in Hispanic Cinema | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2075 | Global Environmental Humanities | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2250 | Digital Communications Across Cultures | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidate may select further option modules from the list below or take a Discovery module or FOAH2020 Towards the Future: Skills in Context in place of one of the Basket modules. 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) |
Discovery modules:
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
In Level 3 students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects, as well as a 40 credit Final Year Project module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects. The remaining 40 credits should be taken as optional modules in either of the named subjects or as Discovery modules.
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
FILM3055 | Current Enquiries into Film Studies | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules:
ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3300 | Final Year Project: Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3350 | Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast) | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates must study 40 credits of English modules at Level 3. If the Final Year Project module contributes towards Film Studies credits, students should choose 40 credits from the list of English optional modules below:
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 |
OPTIONAL MODULES
If the Final Year Project module contributes towards English credits, students should choose between 20-40 credits from the list of optional Film Studies modules below:
ARAB3190 | Performing Islam: Piety and Environment in Dialogue | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CLAS3450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
COMM3120 | Film Theory and Aesthetics | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
EAST3350 | Japanese Cinema in the World | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FILM3026 | Contemporary German Cinema | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
FILM3027 | Post-War European Cinema: History, Politics and Aesthetics | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FILM3040 | Hollywood and its Others | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
FILM3050 | Queer Films on Global Screens | credits | ||
FILM3230 | Cinema in the Digital Era | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
FILM3510 | French Cinema, Sex and Gender | 20 credits | ||
MODL3410 | Contemporary World Literature | 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) |
Discovery modules:
Students may choose up to 20 credits of Discovery modules (or pursue additonal optional modules).
Year4 - View timetable
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