2023/24 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA English and Sociology
| Programme code: | BA-ENGL&SOCI | UCAS code: | QL33 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Dr Brett Greatley Hirsch | Contact address: | b.d.greatleyhirsch@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
Entry requirements:
A-level: AAB including A in English (English Language, English Literature or English Language and Literature).
GCSE: Grade 4/C in Mathematics.
International Baccalaureate: 35 points overall, including 16 at Higher Level, a minimum of 6 in English at Higher Level, and a minimum of 5 in Mathematics at Standard Level.
Applications welcome from mature students with Access qualifications and from students with international or other non-A-level qualifications.
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 Studies:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/subject-benchmark-statement-english.pdf
Sociology:
https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/subject-benchmark-statements/subject-benchmark-statement-sociology.pdf?sfvrsn=6ee2cb81_4
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 Sociology(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 and discovery modules so you can fit in both subjects.
In your first year, you’ll take introductory modules covering the key concepts and approaches in sociology, as well as choosing to explore poetry, drama or prose. This allows you to build a good knowledge base on which you can build in the following two years.
You’ll choose from modules covering the full range of English literature we teach, from medieval right through to contemporary fiction, as well as optional modules on everything from children’s literature to post-Apartheid narratives and the politics of language. At the same time, you’ll select from a range of modules in major topics in sociology such as gender, racism and crime.
Throughout your studies you’ll develop analytical and research skills that allow you to form your own conclusions from the information you find. In your final year, you’ll get the chance to apply them to an independently researched dissertation in either subject.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Level 1: Students will take 40 credits of core English modules and 40 credits of core Sociology modules.
| ENGL1055 | Writing Matters | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP1201 | Making Sense of Society: Reading Social Theory | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP1213 | Formations of Coloniality and Modernity | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Level 1 candidates may also choose up to 40 credits from the following optional modules.
| ENGL1070 | Drama: Text and Performance | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan 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) | |
| ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP1161 | Exploring the City: Local and Global Contexts | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP1171 | Understanding and Researching Contemporary Society | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP1191 | Identities and Inequalities | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Discovery modules:
Level 1 students may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in place of two of the option 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 | 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) | |
| SLSP2010 | Sociology and Social Policy Research Methods | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| SLSP2730 | Central Problems in Sociology | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Level 2 candidates may also select at least one option module from the following baskets:
Basket 1:
| SLSP2020 | Crime, Law and Regulation | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP2040 | Disability Studies: An Introduction | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP2180 | The Sociology of Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| THEO2251 | Sociology of Religion | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 2:
| FOSS2001 | State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP2051 | Gender and Society | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP2145 | Crime, Race and Ethnicity | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP2150 | Debates in Childhood and Youth | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP2932 | Sociology and the Climate Crisis | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP2975 | Social and Public Policy beyond the University | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Basket 3:
| ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2085 | Medieval and Tudor Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 4:
| ENGL2065 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2090 | Modern Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 5:
| 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 6:
| ENGL2055 | American Words, American Worlds | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2080 | Contemporary Literature | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
L2 students may take 20 credits of the following Discovery modules in place of one of the Basket modules:
| FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| HIST2240 | Hands on Heritage | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| HIST2260 | Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must take 120 credits in Level 3 and must take a Final Year Project in English, a Textual Editing Project or Sociology Dissertation.
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. Sociology - a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
3. At least 100 credits at Level 2
4. At least 100 credits at Level 3.
Additionally, students must take:
5. a further 40 credits in the named subjects (i.e. in English, Sociology, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Sociology) or in Discovery modules (i.e. outside the named subjects).
In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must:
- meet the Rules for Award
- pass all modules which are designated 'pass for progression'
- pass the required number of credits at each level (a minimum of 100 credits at each Levels 1, 2 & 3) as specified in the Curricular Regulations.
Compulsory modules:
Optional modules:
Students must take one of the following Final Year Projects.
Students wishing to take the SLSP3061 Sociology Dissertation must also take the new SLP3095 Dissertation Preparation module in semester 1.
| ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| SLSP3041 | Sociology Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| SLSP3095 | Research Skills for your Dissertation Pre-requisite for: SLSP3061 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 and 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
OPTION MODULES
Candidates are required to study at least 40 credits of English OPTION modules and can also opt to study further English OPTION modules if they wish in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:
1. English - a minimum of 40 credits
2. Sociology - a minimum of 40 credits
3. No more than 70 credits in one semester
| 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) | |
| ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| 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) | |
| ENGL3365 | Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) |
Candidates may study further credits in Sociology from the list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:
1. English - a minimum of 40 credits
2. Sociology - a minimum of 40 credits
3. No more than 70 credits in one semester
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
| FOSS3001 | State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP3065 | Quantitative Social Research | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP3075 | Disability and Development | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP3211 | State Crime and Immorality | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP3220 | Contemporary Children, Young People and Families | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP3230 | Global Terrorism and Violence | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP3242 | The Social Life of Data | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| SLSP3500 | Gender, Technologies and the Body | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP3930 | Sociology of Consumerism | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| SLSP3961 | Protest and Social Movements | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
| SLSP3995 | Ethnicity and Popular Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates may study further credits in Sociology from the list below in accordance with the programme requirements for Level 3:
1. English - a minimum of 40 credits
2. Sociology - a minimum of 40 credits
3. No more than 70 credits in one semester
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
Discovery modules:
Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules over both Level 2 and 3 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
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