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

Programme overview

Entry requirements

• A-level: AAB including A in English (Language, Literature or Language and Literature).
• GCSE: Grade 4/C in Mathematics.
• Other course specific tests:
• Where 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.

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:
https://webprod3.leeds.ac.uk/catalogue/dynprogrammes.asp?Y=202324&P=BA-ENGL%26CMLT


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 to comparative literature, language and culture, as well as choosing to explore poetry, drama or prose in the School of English. 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 take a range of modules from the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies (LCS), introducing you to the concept of world literature and to different examples of literary and cultural studies.

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. In LCS you can also choose to create a podcast instead of your dissertation.

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)

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Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL1055	Writing Matters	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1065	Reading Between the Lines	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL1150	Worlds of Literature	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional Modules

Candidates must take between 20 and 60 credits of the following optional modules in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
MODL1050	Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL1060	Language: Structure and Sound	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL1070	World Histories	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL1090	Intercultural Competence: Theory and Application	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL1100	Politics, Culture and Society	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL1401	Discourse, Culture and Identity	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Candidates may also take between zero and 40 credits of the following optional modules in the School of English:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
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)

Discovery Modules

Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of discovery modules or pursue additional modules in English or LCS, provided that they have already chosen at least 40 credits on each side of the programme.

Year 2

(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

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Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL2030	Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2045	Body Language: Literature and Embodiment	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL2070	Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Optional Modules

Candidates will be required to study between 20 and 60 credits from the following optional modules in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS2600	Virgil's Aeneid	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
CLAS2700	Homer's Iliad	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
EAST2148	Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Sinophone World	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL2015	Black Europe	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL2075	Global Environmental Humanities	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLAV2411	The Spaces of Russian Literature	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
SLAV2430	Gender and Sexuality in Russia	20	Not running in 202324

Candidates may also choose to study between zero and 40 credits of the following optional modules in the School of English. 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 also take FOAH2020 Towards the Future: Skills in Context.

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

Discovery Modules

Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of discovery modules or pursue additional modules in English or LCS, provided that they have already chosen at least 40 credits on each side of the programme.

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 will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.

If students take their Final Year Project in English, they must take at least 40 credits in Comparative Literature and a minimum of 20 further credits in English.
If students take their Final Year Project in Comparative Literature, they must take at least 40 credits in English and a minimum of 20 further credits in Comparative Literature

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL3005	Textual Editing Project	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
ENGL3041	Final Year Project	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
MODL3300	Final Year Project: Dissertation	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
MODL3350	Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast)	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

Up to two 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)
ENGL3025	Postcolonial 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)

Comparative Literature modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
CLAS3710	Plato on Love	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
EAST3155	Nature, Culture and Technology in Japan	20	Not running in 202324
FOAH3150	Religion and Violence	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ITAL3045	Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
MODL3200	Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
MODL3410	Contemporary World Literature	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)
SLAV3411	The Spaces of Russian Literature	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Last updated: 12/12/2023 06:57:14

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