BA English and History of Art (Industrial)

Programme overview

Entry requirements

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Programme specification

This engaging course provides you with an opportunity to develop an understanding of literature in English from the medieval period to the present day, as well as an awareness of the ways that art is produced and perceived and how this has changed over time.

You will be introduced to the key skills and knowledge needed to critically analyse texts and art, and the historical contexts of the production and reception of art. Our wide range of optional modules allow you to specialise in areas that are of interest to you, from medieval literature to contemporary fiction, Shakespeare to world theatre, aesthetics to museum studies and Buddhist monuments to the dynamics of gender and the body that are operative in art history and visual culture.

With so many galleries and museums located in the region, such as the Leeds Art Gallery, the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, as well as a vibrant cultural scene, it’s a fantastic place to discover these two complementary disciplines.

Year 1

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Compulsory Modules

At Level 1, students are required to take 120 credits, with a minimum of 40 credits in both English and History of Art:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF1028	From Art History’s Myths to Critical Art History	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF1049	Art History as Practice	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1055	Writing Matters	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1065	Reading Between the Lines	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional Modules

Level 1 students may select up to 40 credits from the following English optional modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL1070	Drama: Text and Performance	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)
ENGL1855	Race, Writing and Decolonization	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Level 1 students may select up to 40 credits from the following History of Art modules:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF1027	Cultural History	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF1056	Critical Approaches to Display, Institutions, and Engagement	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF1300	Ways of Seeing	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF1301	Ways of Thinking Seeing	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Discovery Modules

Candidates may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in place of two of the option modules above.

Year 2

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At Level 2, students are required to take 120 credits. Over levels 2 and 3 combined, students must take:

1. English: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)

2. History of Art: a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)

Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules at level 2: 

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)

Optional Modules

Candidates may select from the following optional modules at level 2, within their credit requirement: 

Candidates will be required to study AT LEAST 40 CREDITS from the following History of Art modules.
Basket 1:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF2003	The New York School	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2044	Cinema and Culture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2051	Seeing in Asia	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2055	Variant Modernism	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2059	The Grand Tour: travels, excavations, collections	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2069	The Art Market: Moments, Methodologies, Meanings	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2094	Art, Power and Portraiture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2111	Bodies of Difference: Gender, Power and the Visual Arts	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF2128	The Avant-Gardes	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF2205	Renaissance / Anti-Renaissance: Critical Approaches to Early Modern Art in Europe	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Candidates may select up to 40 credits of English option modules from Basket 2.
Basket 2:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL2029	Renaissance Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2055	American Words, American Worlds	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2065	Postcolonial Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2080	Contemporary Literature	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2085	Medieval and Tudor Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2090	Modern Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
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)

Level 2 students may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules or a module from Basket 3 in place of English or History of Art options, provided they have fulfilled the programme requirements to take at least 40 credits in both JH subjects. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
FOAH2020	Towards the Future: Skills in Context	20	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
HIST2260	Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery Modules

Candidates can take a Discovery module or FOAH2020 Towards the Future: Skills in Context in place of one of the Basket modules:

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

Year 3

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Those accepted onto the Work Placement Programme spend their third year in industry, between Levels 2 and 3.

Students must follow an approved programme of study during their year in industry which is monitored by the placement tutor(s) responsible within the Careers Centre. In order to be awarded the Work Placement Degree, students must have fulfilled the requirement that they undertake a full 1200 hours of work placement, in which they must perform satisfactorily.

Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to take the following compulsory module:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
FOAH8001	Work Placement Year	120	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

Year 4

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Students must take 120 credits in Level 3 and must take a Final Year Project in either History of Art or English.

Over Levels 2 and 3 combined, students must take:
1. English - a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
2. History of Art - a minimum of 80 credits (at least 40 credits must be at Level 3)
3. At least 100 credits at Level 2
4. At least 100 credits at Level 3

Additionally, students must take:
5. a further 40 credits in the named subjects (i.e. in English, History of Art, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or History of Art) or in Discovery modules (i.e. outside the named subjects).

In order to be eligible for an honours degree, students must:
- meet the Rules for Award
- pass all modules which are designated ‘pass for progression’
- pass the required number of credits at each Level (a minimum of 100 credits at each Levels 1, 2 & 3) as specified in the Curricular Regulations

Optional Modules

Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules.
Basket 1:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF3060	Dissertation	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
ARTF3170	Dissertation	60	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
ENGL3005	Textual Editing Project	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)
ENGL3041	Final Year Project	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

- Candidates may choose from the list of specialist research modules in English provided they have met the requirement to study at least 40 credits of History of Art modules. The list provided below is indicative and is subject to change year by year depending on staff availability:

- Candidates may choose up to 40 credits from Basket 2, provided they have chosen a minimum of 40 credits of Art History modules at Level 3: Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year.
Basket 2:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL3031	Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3033	Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3034	Romantic Lyric Poetry	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3046	Parts, Periodicals, Newspapers: Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Press	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3063	Haunted Hinterlands: Wyrd Works and Folk Horror Fictions	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3114	Forming Victorian Fiction	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3268	Transformations	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	Not running in 202425
ENGL3386	Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3406	Home Bodies: Companion Animals in Contemporary Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3407	Shakespeare and Global Cinema	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL3680	Postcolonial London	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FOAH3001	Global African Writing	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

- Candidates may choose up to 40 credits from Basket 3, provided they have chosen a minimum of 40 credits of Art History modules at Level 3: Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year.
Basket 3:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL3008	Writing Modern Sexualities	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3027	Shakespeare	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3036	Speech Acts: Contemporary Approaches to Text and Performance	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3062	Charles Dickens Then & Now	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3065	Page, Publication and Audience	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3153	Refugee Narratives	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3163	Milton	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL32111	Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
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)
ENGL3408	Digital Discourse: language and social media	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3461	Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3579	Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

- Candidates may choose from a list of specialist research modules in History of Art, provided they have met the requirement to study at least 40 credits of English modules. Note that the list is indicative, and may change year by year.
Basket 4:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ARTF3022	Landscape in Britain c1760-1820	20
ARTF3034	From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3042	Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3056	Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3058	Reading Sexual Difference	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3059	Critical approaches to photography	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3063	Postcolonial Feminisms	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3077	Humanity, Animality and Globality	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3099	Antique Dealers: The Market for 'Decorative Art' from Curiosities to Retro	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3111	Art of the Silk Roads	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ARTF3166	The Ripped and the Raw: Aspects of European Art 1945-1960	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ARTF3168	Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Discovery Modules

Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules over both Level 2 and 3 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.

Last updated: 08/05/2024 17:06:48

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