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 Music
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.
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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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.
(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 three core modules: Basket 1:
| 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) |
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) |
Level 2 students may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules or a module from Basket 6 in place of English or Music options, provided they have fulfilled the programme requirements to take at least 40 credits in both JH subjects:
Basket 6:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOAH2020 | Towards the Future: Skills in Context | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| HIST2240 | Hands on Heritage | 20 | Not running in 202425 | |
| HIST2260 | Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
(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 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 two core modules:
Basket 1
* Independent Research Project - 40 Credits
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
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) | |
| 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) |
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