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2023/24 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Ancient History and English (For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

Programme code:BAAHIS&ENG-RUCAS code:V130
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 from September 2023. For students who entered the programme before September 2023, you can find the details of your programme: BA Ancient History and English



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.

At Level 3, all students will take a 40 credit capstone project appropriate to their degree programme. Alongside the capstone projects, students will be able to take 80 further credits of optional specialist modules (selection of typical options shown below).


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:

CLAS1300The Greek World: an Introduction20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS1400The Roman World: An Introduction20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1055Writing Matters20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1065Reading Between the Lines20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional modules:

Level 1 students may also choose two further option modules in either subject:

CLAS1100Ancient Lives20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS1200Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1250Intermediate Latin (Level 1)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1650Introduction to Classical Archaeology20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS1810Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1910Beginners Latin20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL1221Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1261Poetry: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1286Drama: Reading and Interpretation20 creditsNot running in 202324
ENGL1855Race, Writing and Decolonization20 creditsSemester 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: 

CLAS2800Evidence and Enquiry in Classics20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL2030Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2045Body Language: Literature and Embodiment20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional modules:

Level 2 candidates are also required to take a minimum of 20 credits from the following:

CLAS2400Invisible Greeks and Romans20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2900Ancient Empires: Power and Control20 creditsSemesters 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:

ENGL2029Renaissance Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2085Medieval and Tudor Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Basket 2:

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

Basket 3:

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:

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

Level 2 Ancient History option modules from the following:

CLAS2120Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2200Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2220Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2250The Athenian Empire20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2255The Worlds of Alexander the Great20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS2260Intermediate Latin (Level 2)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2350Herodotus and the Beginning of History20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2370Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel (Level 2 module)20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS2390The Rise of Rome: Myth and History20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS2410Roman Comedy20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2420Augustus and his Legacy20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2430The Ancient Greek Novel20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2450Screening Antiquity20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2460Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2595Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2600Virgil's Aeneid20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2650The Image of Sparta20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS2680Greek Art and Society20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2700Homer's Iliad20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2710Plato on Love20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2740Greek Religion20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2790Greek Tragedy20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2810Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2890The City in the Roman World20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS2910Beginners Latin (Level 2)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ITAL3045Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2075Global Environmental Humanities20 creditsSemesters 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.

FOAH2020Towards the Future: Skills in Context20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)


Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

At Level 3, all students will take a 40 credit capstone project appropriate to their degree programme. Alongside the capstone projects, students will be able to take 80 further credits of optional specialist modules (selection of typical options shown below).

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study one of the following Final Year Project modules

CLAS3200Major Research Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL3005Textual Editing Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL3041Final Year Project40 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Up to two optional modules to be chosen from an indicative list:

ENGL3024Modern Literature20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3026Contemporary Literature20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3027Shakespeare20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3031Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3032Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3033Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England20 creditsNot running in 202324
ENGL3034Romantic Lyric Poetry20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3036Speech Acts: Contemporary Approaches to Text and Performance20 creditsNot running in 202324
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)
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)
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)
ENGL3680Postcolonial London20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Ancient History Modules

CLAS3120Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3150The Worlds of Alexander the Great: From Pella to Punjab20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3220Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3230Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3) 20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3250The Athenian Empire20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3260Intermediate Latin (Level 3)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3350Herodotus and the Beginning of History20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3360Ovid the Innovator20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3370Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3390The Rise of Rome: Myth and History20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3420Augustus and his Legacy20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3430The Ancient Greek Novel20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3450Screening Antiquity20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3460Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3595Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3650The Image of Sparta20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS3680Greek Art and Society20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3710Plato on Love20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3740Greek Religion20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3790Greek Tragedy20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3815Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3835Advanced Ancient Greek20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3890The City in the Roman World20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3900Roman Comedy20 creditsNot running in 202324
CLAS3915Beginners Latin (Level 3)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3935Advanced Latin20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ITAL3045Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3600Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption20 creditsNot running in 202324
MODL3610Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents20 creditsSemesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3620Decolonial Approaches20 creditsSemester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3630Social Movements across Cultures20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL3650Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present20 creditsSemester 2 (Jan to Jun)

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