BA Classical Literature and English (For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

Programme overview

Entry requirements

• A-level: AAB including A in English Language, English Literature, or English Language & Literature.
• 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.
  

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 Classical Literature 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.


Students on this programme will benefit from contact with leading scholars in their field in both of the partner subjects. The Schools of English and LCS are both internationally recognised research leaders in their fields, with long-established reputations for excellence in research and teaching.

The programme begins with structured foundational study across a small number of compulsory modules, but also offers a high degree of module choice at levels 2 and 3. Students are exposed to a broad range of different fields of study within the two disciplines, innovative assessment methods (e.g. online discussion forums, wikis, student surveys, posters) and a considerable element of research-based learning culminating in an independent research project at level 3.

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).

Year 1

(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

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

At Level 1, students are required to take the following core modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS1615	Greek Poets	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)	PFP
CLAS1625	Roman Poets	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)	PFP
ENGL1055	Writing Matters	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1065	Reading Between the Lines	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS1615	Greek Poets	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)	PFP
CLAS1625	Roman Poets	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)	PFP
ENGL1055	Writing Matters	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1065	Reading Between the Lines	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional Modules

The remaining 40 credits may be taken either as Discovery credits, or as choices from the optional modules listed below, or as a combination of both.

Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS1100	Ancient Lives	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1221	Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1261	Poetry: Reading and Interpretation	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1286	Drama: Reading and Interpretation	20	Not running in 202324
ENGL1855	Race, Writing and Decolonization	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS1030	Advanced Ancient Greek	20
CLAS1200	Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1810	Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS1045	Advanced Latin	20
CLAS1250	Intermediate Latin (Level 1)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS1910	Beginners Latin	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Discovery Modules

Candidates may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules

Year 2

(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

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

At Level 2, Candidates will be required to study the following core modules: 

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS2800	Evidence and Enquiry in Classics	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
ENGL2030	Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2045	Body Language: Literature and Embodiment	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Optional Modules

Candidates will be required to study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS2600	Virgil's Aeneid	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
CLAS2700	Homer's Iliad	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

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:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL2029	Renaissance Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2085	Medieval and Tudor Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Basket 2:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL2065	Postcolonial Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2090	Modern Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Basket 3:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL2095	Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2096	The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Basket 4:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL2055	American Words, American Worlds	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2080	Contemporary Literature	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS2120	Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2200	Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2250	The Athenian Empire	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2260	Intermediate Latin (Level 2)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2350	Herodotus and the Beginning of History	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2390	The Rise of Rome: Myth and History	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS2400	Invisible Greeks and Romans	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2410	Roman Comedy	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2420	Augustus and his Legacy	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2430	The Ancient Greek Novel	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2450	Screening Antiquity	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2460	Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2595	Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2650	The Image of Sparta	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS2680	Greek Art and Society	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2710	Plato on Love	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2740	Greek Religion	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2790	Greek Tragedy	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2810	Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2890	The City in the Roman World	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS2900	Ancient Empires: Power and Control	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2901	Advanced Latin 1	20
ITAL3045	Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2075	Global Environmental Humanities	20	Semesters 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.

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
FOAH2020	Towards the Future: Skills in Context	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Year 3

(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

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

Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each of their main subjects: the Final Year Project module can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects. Any remaining credits should be taken as optional modules in either of the named subjects

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

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS3200	Major Research Project	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL3005	Textual Editing Project	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL3041	Final Year Project	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

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

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL3024	Modern Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3026	Contemporary Literature	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3027	Shakespeare	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3031	Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3032	Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3033	Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England	20	Not running in 202324
ENGL3034	Romantic Lyric Poetry	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3036	Speech Acts: Contemporary Approaches to Text and Performance	20	Not running in 202324
ENGL3208	Arthurian Legend: Chivalry and Violence	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32111	Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32153	Refugee Narratives	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32155	Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32169	Contemporary South African Writing	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3314	Imagining Posthuman Futures	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3321	Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3365	Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3391	September 11 in Fact and Fiction	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3394	Bowie, Reading, Writing	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3396	Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3402	Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3680	Postcolonial London	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Classical Literature modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS3120	Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3150	The Worlds of Alexander the Great: From Pella to Punjab	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3220	Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3230	Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3250	The Athenian Empire	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3260	Intermediate Latin (Level 3)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3350	Herodotus and the Beginning of History	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3360	Ovid the Innovator	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3370	Satyrs and Donkeys: The Latin Novel	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
CLAS3390	The Rise of Rome: Myth and History	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3420	Augustus and his Legacy	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3430	The Ancient Greek Novel	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3450	Screening Antiquity	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3460	Subversive Desires: Roman Love Elegy	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3595	Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3650	The Image of Sparta	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
CLAS3680	Greek Art and Society	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3710	Plato on Love	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3740	Greek Religion	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3790	Greek Tragedy	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3815	Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3835	Advanced Ancient Greek	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3890	The City in the Roman World	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3900	Roman Comedy	20	Not running in 202324
CLAS3915	Beginners Latin (Level 3)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS3935	Advanced Latin	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ITAL3045	Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3600	Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption	20	Not running in 202324
MODL3610	Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3620	Decolonial Approaches	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3630	Social Movements across Cultures	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL3650	Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Last updated: 12/12/2023 07:09:05

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