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2023/24 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA English Literature

Programme code:BA-ENGL/LITUCAS code:Q306
Duration:3 Years Method of Attendance: Full Time
Programme manager:Dr Katy Mullin Contact address:k.e.mullin@leeds.ac.uk

Total credits: 360

Entry requirements:

- A-level AAB with A in English (English Literature, English Language, or English Language & Literature) excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking

- International Baccalaureate: 35 points overall with 16 at Higher Level including 6 in English at Higher Level.

- Applications welcome from mature students with Access qualifications and from students with international or other non-A-level qualifications.

- IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in any component.

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:

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 Literature(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)


Course Overview

Throughout this course, you’ll explore richly diverse 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. 

Reading and understanding literature can help us to find out about ourselves and see the world from other perspectives. 

Through engaging with different kinds of texts from across the globe and from different periods of history, you can learn how language reflects and shapes human experience. 

You’ll also develop your skills as a critical reader, a clear thinker, and a persuasive writer. 

Our modules explore themes relevant to how we live today, including race and ethnicity, gender, climate change and nature, social class, disability and wellbeing. 

The School of English supports a vibrant community of researchers and creative practitioners. It is home to the Leeds Poetry Centre, and we regularly host readings and talks by well-known and emerging contemporary writers. 

The School also produces a literary magazine, Stand, and publishes the best in new creative writing.


Course Details

At Level 1, students will take Reading Between the Lines and Writing Matters, which introduce them to university-level study, equipping them to read critically and write with rigour and persuasion. A further compulsory module on Race, Writing and Decolonisation draws upon the School’s long history of teaching Black and Asian British writing and literature in English from around the world. Optional modules focus on poetry, fiction and drama. Students may also take Discovery modules from across the University.

At Level 2, students will take two core modules, Writing Environments and Body Language. These modules explore two urgent contemporary challenges, the climate crisis and personal wellbeing, and will examine how these issues can be understood and expressed through literary texts. Students will also select four further modules from a choice of eight, ranging historically and geographically from Medieval to Contemporary, and from Postcolonial to American. Level 2 will deepen and enrich subject knowledge and intellectual skills, preparing students for more independent learning at Level 3, where they can select from a range of specialist modules. A final year project, which may be a dissertation or a textual edition, further enhances active research skills, enabling students to define, plan and produce an extended piece of work.

After their second year of study, students may apply for transfer to an International Degree at one of a wide range of universities with which the University of Leeds has established links. They may also spend a year in industry on a work placement as an optional third year of their degree programme.


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 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1065Reading Between the Lines20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
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.

ENGL1070Drama: Text and Performance20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
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: 

ENGL2030Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2045Body Language: Literature and Embodiment20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

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 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

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

ENGL2065Postcolonial Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2090Modern Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

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

ENGL2095Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2096The World Before Us: Literature 1660–183020 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

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

ENGL2055American Words, American Worlds20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2080Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

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 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST2240Hands on Heritage20 creditsNot running in 202324
HIST2260Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)


Year3 - 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 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
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 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3032Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL32154Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3268Transformations20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3314Imagining Posthuman Futures20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
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 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3026Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3027Shakespeare20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3034Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3035Current Practice in Creative Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3208Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32111Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
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 202324
ENGL3391September 11 in Fact and Fiction20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3394Bowie, Reading, Writing20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3396Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3402Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
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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