English and Music is a diverse degree that allows you to engage with a variety of literature and music spanning a broad range of periods, cultures and themes. The combination of these two subject areas will allow you to develop advanced academic skills including critical analysis, interpretation, and research. You'll also have the chance to enhance practical skills in music composition, performance, and creative writing.
You'll study a wide variety of texts, both fiction and non-fiction, developing an understanding of the relationships between meaning, interpretation and language. You will also have the opportunity to focus on areas of music such as musicology, performance, composition or music technology.
Our impressive range of academic expertise means that you have the opportunity to choose from a variety of optional modules, tailoring your degree to suit your interests and career aspirations. You could study historical literature from Medieval to Victorian, influential writers from Shakespeare to Jane Austen, or explore language in the context of power or gender. In music, you could choose to explore a musicology topic linked to an area of staff expertise.
Facilities
We have plenty of resources to enhance your academic experience. Our world-class Brotherton Library boasts unique manuscript, archive and early printed material in its Special Collections. The University Library also offers a comprehensive training programme that will enable you to make the most of our extensive library resources.
Take a look around our libraries:
Brotherton Library
Laidlaw Library
Edward Boyle Library
The School of Music has purpose-built practice rooms, extensive rehearsal facilities, studio spaces, a music psychology lab, percussion instruments and plenty of specialist computing facilities. Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, also on campus, hosts a varied programme of concerts during term time, all free to students.
The University and School also have a close partnership with Opera North, as well as hosting the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition, and the University of Leeds International Concert Series.
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At Level 1, students are required to take 120 credits, with a minimum of 40 credits in both English and Music. They must take the following core modules: Basket 1:
| 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) | |
| MUS1001 | Music and Society | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUS1002 | Materials of Music | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Level 1 students may select up to two of the following English option modules:
Basket 2:
| 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 two of the following Music option modules:
Basket 3:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUS1131 | Talking About Pop Music: Discourse and Debates in Popular Music | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MUS1132 | Film Music | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MUS1151 | Introduction to the Psychology of Music | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MUS1161 | Studio Recording | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MUS1211 | The Music Industries | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUS1221 | Creating Music | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUS1231 | Film Music | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUS1232 | Talking About Pop Music: Discourse and Debates in Popular Music | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUS1241 | Collaborative Performance | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUS1341 | Performance Studies | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Candidates may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in place of two of the option modules above.
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At Level 2, candidates must take a minimum of 40 credits of English modules and 40 credits of Music modules. A further 40 credits may be chosen from the English baskets below or from the Music options, up to a maximum of 80 credits in either English or Music.
Candidates may select up to 2 further English option modules from 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) |
Candidates will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following Music option modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUSS2121 | Music: Power, Protest, Politics | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUSS2122 | Theorising the Popular | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MUSS2124 | British Music and National Identity | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MUSS2125 | Music, Culture, Politics: the Long Sixties | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates must take between 20 and 60 credits from the following Music modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUSS2020 | Interpreting Music | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS2220 | Composition | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS2320 | Performance | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS2324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUSS2520 | Aesthetics and Criticism | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS2620 | Music Technology Skills and Techniques | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS2824 | Film-Score Creation and Production | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MUSS2825 | Opera North: Opera in Practice | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS2828 | Synthesizer Ensemble | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MUSS2920 | The Psychology of Listening and Performance | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Level 2 students may take 20 credits of Discovery module or FOAH2020 Towards the Future: Skills in Context in place of an English or a Music option module, provided they have fulfilled the programme requirements to take at least 40 credits in both English and Music:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
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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. 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 |
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Students must take 120 credits in Level 3 and must take a Final Year Project in either Music 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. Music - 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, Music, or a combination of both).
6. a further 40 credits in either the named subjects (English or Music) 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
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following two core modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
| MUSS3140 | Dissertation | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
Candidates may choose up to 40 credits of specialist research modules in English from Baskets 2 and 3, provided they have met the requirement to study at least 40 credits of Music modules. The list provided below is indicative and is subject to change year by year depending on staff availability:
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) |
Music 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL3004 | The Writings of Graham Greene | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| 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) |
OPTION MODULES
Candidates who have NOT chosen to undertake a Final Year Project in Music MUST study at least 40 credits from the following list of optional modules.
Candidates who have chosen to undertake a Final Year Project in Music may choose to take up to 40 credits from the following list:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MUSS3020 | Analysing Music | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUSS3120 | The Supernatural in Opera | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| MUSS3129 | Music as Performance: People, Bodies and Instruments | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUSS3240 | Composition | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS3324 | Ensemble Performance | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MUSS3325 | Applied Project | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS3340 | Performance | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS3640 | Music Technology | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS3820 | Music in the Real World | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| MUSS3825 | Opera North: Opera in Practice | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| MUSS3940 | Music Psychology | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 & 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
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.
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