2023/24 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Modern Languages and English (Spanish)
Programme code: | BA-ML/SP&EN | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 4 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Chiara La Sala | Contact address: | M.C.LaSala@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 480
Entry requirements:
Overall grade requirement: ABB
A grade 4/C in GCSE English; IELTS 7.0 with no component less than 6.5
For post-A-Level language study, a grade B is required in the language of study
For beginner or intermediate languages, a grade 4/C GCSE in a modern foreign language is preferred.
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:
Languages, Cultures and Societies:
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/en/Publications/Documents/SBS-Languages-Cultures-and-Societies-15.pdf
English: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/en/Publications/Documents/SBS-English-15.pdf
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 Modern Languages and English (Spanish) (For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
- The distinctiveness, appeal and strength of University of Leeds Joint Honours programmes lie in the unusual combination of depth, breadth and flexibility which they offer, as well as in the exceptional range of degree combinations available;
- They permit students to study two disciplines, in depth and to degree level while acquiring a broader range of skills than is typically possible within a single honours degree;
- They are emphatically joint honours programmes, rather than integrated programmes: students can therefore make the links they choose from the wide choice of optional modules available within each discipline. Within certain parameters, they thus effectively make connections and devise pathways according to their own preferences, rather than being faced with a prescribed combination of modules chosen for them by others.
- The students must acquire the flexibility of mind and variety of learning techniques needed to switch between the two disciplines.
- A further element of distinctiveness is the flexibility of the programme structure, which allows joint honours students to change direction more easily, and more radically, than single honours students.
- Many of these programmes also allow the opportunity to undertake a work placement, field work or study abroad.
- The combination of English with the study of another language and cultural context allows students to explore cultural production in multiple cultural contexts, gaining deeper and more critical cultural insights alongside sophisticated reception and production skills in a major world language.
Aims of the Programme:
Research Skills:
1. Develop students' independent research and project management skills so they are able to undertake, with supervision, an autonomous piece of sustained research work (the Final-Year Project).
2. Develop advanced presentation skills in oral and written modes.
3. Develop analytical, critical thinking and reasoning skills.
4. Act with academic integrity and develop awareness of research ethics appropriate for the field(s) of study.
Language Skills and Intercultural Awareness:
1. Develop advanced language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
2. Develop an understanding of the vocabulary, grammar and registers of the language(s) studied.
3. Develop an understanding of the ways in which cultures interact.
4. Equip students to work and function effectively in another country.
Subject Knowledge:
1. Develop a general knowledge of the societies in which the target language is spoken.
2. Develop in-depth knowledge of aspects of literatures, cultures, linguistic contexts, history, politics, social and economic structures.
3. Equip students with the knowledge needed for a critical understanding of the field(s) of study.
4. Provide access to the critical and analytical skills for the study of English literature and (if selected) English Language modules.
5. Provide students with access to a broad range of English literature (and English Language issues, if selected) from a range of periods, including study of periods before and after 1880.
6. Acquire the knowledge and skills to be able to respond to the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read.
7. Introduce students to key elements in the structure of English literature, and how to apply concepts of the history of English literature to the analysis of texts.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students must ensure that they enrol on the correct Spanish language pathway. Those students with prior knowledge of the language should ensure that they meet the pre-requisites for Advanced Spanish - see Coursefinder for specific requirements.
Students are required to take 120 credits in Level 1. Students who have prior knowledge of Spanish are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in Spanish. Students who have no prior knowledge of Spanish are required to take 60 credits in Spanish. Students combining English with advanced Spanish will have 20 credits of Discovery modules (which can also be taken as further optional modules in either of their main subjects). Students with no prior knowledge of Spanish will have no space available for Discovery modules at level 1.
Compulsory modules:
Students must study the following compulsory modules:
ENGL1055 | Writing Matters | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
MODL1150 | Worlds of Literature | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students with prior knowledge of Spanish (B1 CEFR) will be required to study the following modules:
SPPO1010 | Practical Language Skills in Spanish 1 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO1420 | Researching Spanish and Latin American Studies | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students with no prior knowledge of Spanish will be required to study the following modules:
SPPO1091 | Pre-Intermediate Spanish Language (A2 of the CEFR) | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
SPPO1093 | Spanish for Beginners (A1 of the CEFR) | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SPPO1410 | Researching Spanish and Latin American Studies | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students may also select options from the following English 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) |
Discovery modules:
Students combining English with advanced Spanish will have 20 credits of Discovery modules (which can also be taken as further optional modules in either of their main subjects).
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
At level 2, Students must study 120 credits. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects. Of the remaining credits, 20 should be taken in either English or their chosen language; the final 20 credits may be taken as Discovery modules or in either English or the chosen language. Please note that not all modules will be available every year.
In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at Level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at Level 3).
Compulsory modules:
Students must 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) |
Optional modules:
In addition, students may also select 20 credits from one or two of the following baskets of English modules (up to 40 credits in total):
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) |
Students who studied SPPO1010 and SPPO1420 in level 1 must study the following module:
SPPO2010 | Practical Language Skills in Spanish 2 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students who studied SPPO1093, SPPO1091 and SPPO1410 in level 1 must study the following modules:
SPPO2210 | Política y Sociedad en el Mundo Hispanohablante Contemporáneo | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO2220 | Spanish Language Skills B1/B2 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students taking SPPO2010 must choose between 20-60 credits from either of the following lists.
Students taking SPPO2210/2220 may choose to study 20 credits from the first list.
MODL2001 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2015 | Black Europe | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL2075 | Global Environmental Humanities | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO2100 | Issues in Hispanic Cinema | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO2510 | Latin America since Independence (c1800 - c1930) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students wishing to choose MODL2001 as one of their Spanish options must take a minimum of 60 credits in Spanish in Level 2.
Students taking SPPO2010 may also choose module(s) from the following list:
SPPO2110 | Literature and the Arts in the Spanish-speaking World | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO2230 | Lower Intermediate Portuguese | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
SPPO2580 | Translation Theory and Practice in a Spanish - English Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO2650 | The Spanish regional Melting Pot: the old same History? | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
SPPO2680 | Modern Spain (1868-1975) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Students may choose to spend up to 20 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in English or Spanish.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Students will spend this year of their programme in a country or region where the language of interest is used both in official contexts and as a daily means of communication. Where residence abroad involves studying at a University, a list of approved locations and institutions will be provided for you. Where you are able to choose a location, you must have this approved by the Year Abroad Tutor in your language area.
Compulsory modules:
Students will be required to take of the following core residence abroad module. Please note that the appropriate Level 2 module(s) in the language needs to be passed in order progress to the Year Abroad.
SPPO9001 | Spanish/Portuguese Year Abroad | 120 credits |
Year4 - 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 English and in their chosen language. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. The remaining credits should be taken in either of the named subjects or taken as Discovery modules. All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects. Please note that not all modules will be available every year.
In order to be eligible for an Honours degree, students must meet the normal Rules for Award by passing all modules which are designated to be passed for award or progression and by passing the required number of credits at each level as specified in the Curricular Regulations (at least 200 credits at Level 2 or above, of which at least 100 should be at Level 3).
Compulsory modules:
Students must study the following compulsory module:
SPPO3010 | Practical Language Skills in Spanish 3 | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Students are required to take 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) | |
MODL3340 | Final Year Project: Extended Translation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
MODL3350 | Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast) | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students will be required to study between 40-80 credits in English. The number of credits you have available for options modules will depend on whether you choose to take your Final Year Project in English or your other subject. If you take your Final Year Project in English, you will be able to take fewer option modules in this subject.
Students may study credits from the following list of option modules, in accordance with the credit rules. NB Students 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, i.e. 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) | |
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) | |
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 | |
ENGL32150 | Planes, Trains and Automobiles: US Narratives of Air, Rail, Road and Water | 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) | |
ENGL32761 | Language Style and Attitudes | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
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 | |
ENGL3294 | The Politics of Language | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
ENGL32941 | ‘Global English’: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonisation | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ENGL32980 | African Literature | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
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 | |
ENGL3401 | Women Writing the 1960s | 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 |
Students will be required to study between 40-80 credits in Spanish. The number of credits you have available for options modules will depend whether you choose to take your Final Year Project in Spanish or English. If you take your Final Year Project in Spanish you will take fewer optional modules in this subject.
Students will be required to study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:
Students wishing to choose MODL3800 as one of their Spanish options must take a minimum of 60 credits in Spanish in the final year including SPPO3010.
MODL3200 | Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
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) | |
MODL3800 | Linguists into Schools | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO3062 | Spanish in an Economic and Business Context | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO3071 | Contemporary Spain: Politics, Culture and Society After Franco | 20 credits | Not running in 202324 | |
SPPO3420 | Spanish-English Translation | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO3535 | Catalan Language and Culture III | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO3715 | Nationalism and Internationalism in the Spanish-Speaking World | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO3800 | Icons and Stars: Celebrity and Revolution in Spain and Latin America | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
SPPO3900 | Race and Representation in the Spanish-speaking world | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
- Students wishing to choose MODL3800 as one of their Spanish options must take a minimum of 60 credits in Spanish in the final year including SPPO3010.
Discovery modules:
Students may choose to spend up to 20 credits of Discovery modules in a third subject or pursue additional modules in English or their chosen language.
- Finalists may only take Level 1 modules that are listed as Discovery Skills modules (skd) and only to the value of 20 credits.
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