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: BA English and History of Art
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.
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
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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) |
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) |
To be eligible for a joint honours award, students must pass at least 40 credits at level 3 in each of the named subjects. Your Final Year Project counts as 40 credits on one side of your degree.
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules:
Basket 1:
| 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) |
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) |
To be eligible for a joint honours award, students must pass at least 40 credits at level 3 in each of the named subjects. Your Final Year Project counts as 40 credits on one side of your degree.
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules:
Basket 1:
| 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) |
Candidates may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in place of two of the option modules above.
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.
To be eligible for a joint honours award, students must pass at least 40 credits at level 2 in each of the named subjects. Students must take the following compulsory modules: - Methods in Practice: Art-Historical Research - 20 Credits - Origins, Structures, and Critique: Framing the Discipline of Art History - 20 Credits
| 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) |
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.
To be eligible for a joint honours award, students must pass at least 40 credits at level 3 in each of the named subjects. Your Final Year Project counts as 40 credits on one side of your degree.
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following Final Year Project modules:
Basket 1:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARTF3170 | Dissertation | 60 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
- 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.
| 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) | |
| 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) | |
| ENGL3114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3163 | Milton | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL32165 | Text is a Technology | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| 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) | |
| ENGL3407 | Shakespeare and Global Cinema | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3579 | Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3680 | Postcolonial London | 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.
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL3006 | Remixing the Renaissance | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3027 | Shakespeare | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3061 | Heart Disease in Contemporary Literature | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3066 | The Public Poet (Creative Writing) | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3100 | Digital Englishes | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3153 | Refugee Narratives | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3314 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3391 | September 11 in Fact and Fiction | 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 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3410 | Modernist Sexualities | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| ENGL3461 | Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | |
| ARTF3064 | Art, Ecology and Empire | 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) |
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