The information on this page is accurate for students entering the programme in 2022/2023 or before. For students entering the programme from September 2023 or after, you can find the details of your programme: BA English Literature and Theatre Studies(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
At Level 1, students take modules which guide them through the transition into university-level study, equipping them to read critically and write with rigour and persuasion. An optional module on Race, Writing and Decolonisation draws upon the school’s long history of teaching and scholarship on postcolonialism, Black and Asian British writing, and international literature in English. Other modules focus on poetry, fiction and drama, and students may also take Discovery modules from across the University. At Level 2, students take four core modules on literatures of the environment and writing identity, and on applying performance as a research methodology to appreciate other cultures and as a mode of creating or articulating community cohesion, all of which are designed to enhance intellectual independence and initiative. They also choose two further modules from eight spanning across the history and global reach of English literature, from the Medieval to the Contemporary, and Postcolonial to American, deepening and enriching subject knowledge, or have the opportunity of selecting option modules with theatre and performance foci, delivered in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries. This intermediate year prepares students for intellectual autonomy and adventure at Level 3, where they have free choice from an extensive range of specialist research modules. A final year project, in the form of a ‘Practical Essay’, transforms students into active and potentially collaborative researchers, defining, planning and producing work on a subject of their choosing, researched, developed and presented through both performance and critical writing.
After their second year of study, students may apply for transfer to an International Degree at one of a wide range of universities with which the University of Leeds has established links. They may also spend a year in industry on a work placement as an optional third year of their degree programme.
(No longer recruiting from 2024/25)
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At Level 1, 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) | |
| ENGL1195 | Reading Theatre, Performing Text | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL1196 | Performing Text, Making Theatre | 20 | Not running in 202425 |
Candidates will be required to study 40 credits of modules from the following optional modules, OR 20 credits from the following optional modules and 20 credits of Discovery modules:
Basket 1:
| 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) |
Basket 2:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL1070 | Drama: Text and Performance | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
(No longer recruiting from 2024/25)
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At Level 2, 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) | |
| ENGL2040 | Performing the Past | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2045 | Body Language: Literature and Embodiment | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2050 | Theatre, Society and Self | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates will be required to study 2 modules from the following optional modules but may not choose 2 from the same basket. Any choice made from Basket 3 must not cause asymmetry in your credit loading between semesters.
Basket 1:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2065 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| 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) | |
| PECI2112 | Re-thinking Theatre & Performance Histories | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| PECI2113 | Creative Practices | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| PECI2714 | Politics, Identity and Performance | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Basket 2:
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| PECI2706 | Cultural Flashpoints in the Performing Arts | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| PECI2708 | Exploring Musical Theatre | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| PECI2709 | Performance Design | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Basket 3: N.B. Any choice made from Basket 3 must not cause asymmetry in your credit loading between semesters: you should avoid your selections resulting in a credit load of over 70 credits per semester.
| 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) |
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Students are required to study a total of 120 credits in level 3, with no more than 70 credits in one semester.
A maximum of 40 credits may be taken in modules outside the School of English.
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF LEVEL 3:
1. Students MUST study the 40 credit compulsory CORE module.
2. Students can then choose 40-80 credits of English OPTION modules or from modules outside of the School (known as Discovery modules).
NB: Students are not eligible to take Level 1 modules in Level 3 (with the exception of up to a maximum of 20 credits in Special Skills modules - these can be identified by the code ‘skd’ in the online module catalogue).
Students MUST study the 40 credit compulsory CORE module:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL3042 | The Practical Essay | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
OPTION MODULES
Students are required to take 40-80 credits of OPTION modules from the list below (in line with the credit rules set out below):
Credit rules:
- No more than 70 credits in one semester
- A total of 120 credits over the year
- A maximum of 40 credits may be taken outside the School of English as Discovery at Level 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) | |
| ENGL3031 | Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3034 | Romantic Lyric Poetry | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3036 | Speech Acts: Contemporary Approaches to Text and Performance | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3046 | Parts, Periodicals, Newspapers: Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Press | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3062 | Charles Dickens Then & Now | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3063 | Haunted Hinterlands: Wyrd Works and Folk Horror Fictions | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3065 | Page, Publication and Audience | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| 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) | |
| ENGL32154 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32155 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Cultures, Media | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3233 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3268 | Transformations | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL32763 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3284 | Trial Discourse - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674 - 1913 | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3294 | The Politics of Language | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32941 | ‘Global English’: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonisation | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32997 | Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways We Use Them | 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| FOAH3001 | Global African Writing | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules outside the School of English.
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