BA English Language and Literature (International)

Programme overview

Entry requirements

CANDIDATES APPLY TO TRANSFER TO THIS PROGRAMME AT LEVEL 2 AFTER SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A QUALIFYING YEAR.

Programme specification

This is one of the country's most prestigious degrees in English, in one of the UK's most highly rated English departments. There is a large academic staff (over 40 full time), and an annual intake of over 200 students to the Single Honours Programmes).

The Single Honours English Language and Literature programme is distinguished by the wide range of subject areas to which students are exposed, across the whole spread of English Studies. After a compulsory Level 1, the programme allows students a high degree of choice within a structure which ensures that all students are exposed to a range of periods of and genres within English literature, and a range of topics in English Language study. The programme meets the benchmarking requirements for English and English Language. The School enjoys close links with the excellent Brotherton Library and its Special Collections resources, many of which are directly supportive of the study of English Language and Literature.

Students may apply for transfer to a European or an International Degree. The opportunity to apply for a work placement degree is also available. Those students who are accepted may participate in one of our Erasmus/Socrates schemes or go to one of a range of universities with which the University of Leeds has established links.

Programme Aims:
At the end of the programme students should:

In English Language, be able to demonstrate awareness of the following:
- the internal structure of contemporary English, including knowledge of its phonetics and phonology (sound system), morphology, syntax, semantics, lexis and pragmatics;
- have a basic knowledge of the structure of English, and how to apply concepts relating to the structure and history of English to the analysis of texts;
- some of the main ways of analysing English text and discourse, including for example conversation analysis, aspects of stylistics and discourse analysis (including critical discourse analysis);
- some of the main theories of meaning and how meanings are influenced by context and negotiated by speakers;
- the history of English, including its ongoing development;
- key geographical and social determinants of variation in English, including a number of the main regional varieties of English in the British Isles;
- the role of language within the broader field of communication, including its role in constructing individual and group identities;
- how language produces and reflects cultural change and difference;
- the implications of language choices, for example in constructing particular registers and styles;
- the application of these approaches to a range of text types and language contexts.

In English Literature, be able to demonstrate:

- Overall (i.e. skills which run across both English Language & Literature modules, and produce useful dialogue between them) be able to demonstrate:
- an awareness of the basic concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of English studies;
- use basic generic and subject-specific qualities, ie, present a structured and coherent simple argument
- have some knowledge of critical terminology
- have some knowledge of linguistic terminology;
- develop critical skills;
- develop analytical skills;
- demonstrate a critical knowledge of the social, political cultural contexts of the English language as a medium for literature; and of how to discuss the style of a literary work in terms of grammar, lexis, and sound;
- demonstrate a critical knowledge of particular and specific literary and language fields, facilitated either through the choice and pursuit of research-led option modules or via the planning and production of a dissertation.

Year 1

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Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL1016	English Structure, Style, Genre	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL1017	English Variation, Creativity and Use	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1055	Writing Matters	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL1065	Reading Between the Lines	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Optional Modules

Candidates will be required to study between 20-40 credits from the following 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)
LING1065	Languages of the World	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
LING1100	Language: Meaning and Use	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
MODL1060	Language: Structure and Sound	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.

Discovery Modules

Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules

Year 2

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Compulsory Modules

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules: 

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL2023	Power of Language	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2030	Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2045	Body Language: Literature and Embodiment	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL2051	Language in Society	20

Optional Modules

Candidates will be required to study 2 modules from the following optional modules, but may not choose 2 from the same basket.

Basket 1:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL2029	Renaissance Literature	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
ENGL2034	Cursing and Courtesy: (im)politeness in English	20
ENGL2042	Language Policy, Planning, and Politics	20
ENGL2044	Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind	20
ENGL2049	Language of the Media	20
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)

Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.

Basket 2:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL2033	Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media	20
ENGL2036	Digital Discourse: language and social media	20
ENGL2037	Forensic Approaches to Language	20
ENGL2038	Global English: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonisation	20
ENGL2043	The Politics of Language	20
ENGL2048	Dialect Hunting	20
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)

Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.

Discovery Modules

Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules

Year 3

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CANDIDATES STUDY AT AN APPROVED INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY.

Compulsory Modules

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL9001	English Year Abroad	120	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)

Year 4

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At Level 3, all students will take a 40 credit capstone project appropriate to their degree programme. Alongside the capstone project, students will be able to take 80 further credits of optional specialist modules (selection of typical options shown below). Students are able to take 20 credits of discovery modules in place of one of the optional modules.

Optional Modules

Choose one FYP from:

Code	Title	Credits	Semester	Pass for Progression
ENGL3005	Textual Editing Project	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
ENGL3022	English Language Dissertation	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP
ENGL3041	Final Year Project	40	Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun)	PFP

Candidates will be required to study between 60 and 80 credits from the following specialist research modules. They may choose up to two modules from Basket 1 and up to 2 modules from Basket 2. The list of specialist research modules provided below is indicative and subject to change year by year depending on staff availability. Modules will be timetabled clash-free.

Up to 20 credits of Discovery modules may be taken in place of one specialist research module. Students are not eligible to take Level 1 Discovery modules in Level 3 (with the exception of up to a maximum of 20 credits in Discovery Skills modules – these can be identified by the code ‘skd’ in the online module catalogue).

Basket 1:

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)
ENGL3037	Speech Acts: Contemporary Approaches to Text and Performance	20
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)
ENGL3068	African American Narrative	20
ENGL3069	African Literature	20
ENGL3073	Turks, Moors and Jews: Race and Identity in Early Modern Drama	20
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)
ENGL3477	Cursing and Courtesy: (im)politeness in English	20
ENGL3482	Language Policy, Planning, and Politics	20
ENGL3484	Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind	20
ENGL3491	Language of the Media	20
ENGL3680	Postcolonial London	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)
FOAH3001	Global African Writing	20	Semester 1 (Sep to Jan)

Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.

Basket 2

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)
ENGL3062	Charles Dickens Then & Now	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3065	Page, Publication and Audience	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3072	Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic	20
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)
ENGL3461	Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)
ENGL3476	Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media	20
ENGL3478	Digital Discourse: language and social media	20
ENGL3479	Forensic Approaches to Language	20
ENGL3480	Global English: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonisation	20
ENGL3483	The Politics of Language	20
ENGL3489	Dialect Hunting	20
ENGL3579	Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation	20	Semester 2 (Jan to Jun)

Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.

Discovery Modules

Students may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules

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