A joint honours degree allows you to study the same core topics as students on each single honours course, but you’ll take fewer optional modules so you can fit in both subjects. Classical texts are taught in translation, so you don’t need to have studied an ancient language. However, we offer Ancient Greek and Latin in every year of the degree if you want to learn or continue with either.
This degree programme enables you to explore literature from the ancient world to contemporary Britain and beyond, putting English literature into the context of its classical heritage. Students on this programme will benefit from contact with leading scholars in their field in both of the partner subjects. The Schools of English and LCS are both internationally-recognised research leaders in their fields, with long-established reputations for excellence in research and teaching.
Core modules will introduce you to key classical texts such as the Iliad and Aeneid, as well as poetry, prose and drama in English across literary periods. The range of diverse research interests at Leeds also means we can offer an impressive array of optional modules so that you can follow your interests in ancient literature alongside a full range of English topics.
Throughout the course, you will develop valuable interpretative and analytical skills, as well as becoming a confident researcher. You will demonstrate these qualities in when you undertake a Final Year Project on a topic of your choice in either English or Classical Literature.
Students on this programme may apply for transfer to an International Degree. The opportunity to apply for a work placement (Industrial Degree) is also available. Classics at Leeds has exchange links with Verona University (Italy) and modern language classes are available before you go to prepare you for the experience. There are also opportunities at our partner universities across the world where courses are taught in English.
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Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS1615 | Greek Poets | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS1625 | Roman Poets | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL1110 | Literature, Culture and Critique | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
The remaining 40 credits may be taken either as Discovery credits, or as choices from the optional modules listed below, or as a combination of both.
The remaining 40 credits may be taken either as Discovery credits, or as choices from the optional modules listed below, or as a combination of both.
Candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS1100 | Ancient Lives | 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) | |
| ENGL1286 | Drama: Reading and Interpretation | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| ENGL1855 | Race, Writing and Decolonization | 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.
Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS1030 | Advanced Ancient Greek | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS1200 | Intermediate Ancient Greek | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS1810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1) | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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.
Candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS1045 | Advanced Latin | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS1250 | Intermediate Latin | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS1910 | Beginners Latin | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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
Students may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules.
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To be eligible for a joint honours award, students must pass at least 40 credits at level 2 and 40 credits at level 3 in each of the named subjects.
Students will be required to study the following compulsory Classical Literature module:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS2800 | Evidence and Enquiry in Classics | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Students will be required to study at least 20 credits from the following optional Classical Literature modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS2600 | Virgil's Aeneid | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS2700 | Homer's Iliad | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students must take at least 20 credits of English modules per semester, with a minimum of 40 credits for the academic year. They should select no more than 80 credits of English modules.
Students must select at least one of the following modules. They may also select both options, if preferred:
| 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) |
Student may also select one or more modules from the options below, to fulfil the minimum requirement of 20 credits of English modules per semester.
Students can select a maximum of one module (20 credits) per basket.
Basket 1:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL2029 | Renaissance Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2144 | Life, Love and Death from Chaucer to Marlowe | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Please note these are optional modules and run subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose a module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
Basket 2:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL2065 | Postcolonial Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2090 | Modern Literature | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Please note these are optional modules and run subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose a module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
Basket 3:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 these are optional modules and run subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose a module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
Basket 4:
| 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) |
Please note these are optional modules and run subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose a module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
Basket 5:
Please note that some of the modules in this basket have pre-requisites for enrolment.
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL2024 | Language in Society | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| ENGL2034 | Cursing and Courtesy: (im)politeness in English | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2039 | Keywords: the words we use and the ways we use them | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2042 | Language Policy, Planning, and Politics | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2044 | Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| ENGL2049 | Language of the Media | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Please note these are optional modules and run subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose a module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
Basket 6:
Please note that some of the modules in this basket have pre-requisites for enrolment
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL2023 | Power of Language | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2032 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2033 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2037 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2038 | Global English: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Decolonisation | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| ENGL2043 | The Politics of Language | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| ENGL2048 | Dialect Hunting | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2181 | Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Please note these are optional modules and run subject to enrolments. If a low number of students choose a module, then the module may not run and you may be asked to choose another module.
Students may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules. Not all modules in this list will run every year.
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS2255 | The Worlds of Alexander the Great | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS2350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 | ||
| CLAS2390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS2420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS2650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS2680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS2740 | Greek Religion | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS2890 | The City in the Roman World | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS2926 | A Water History of the Ancient World | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS2927 | Time, Space and Place in the Greek and Roman Worlds | 20 | Not running in 202627 |
Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.
Students may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules. Not all modules in this list will run every year.
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS2120 | Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS2125 | Writing Love in the Ancient World | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS2220 | Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS2450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS2595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS2750 | Happiness and the Good Life in the Greek and Roman Worlds | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS2760 | Thinkers and Storytellers: Myth and Reason in the Ancient World | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS2790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS2924 | Ancient Comedy | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS2925 | The Ancient Novel | 20 | Not running in 202627 |
Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it
Students may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS2200 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS2810 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 2) | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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.
Students may study up to 20 credits from the following optional modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS2260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 2) | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS2910 | Beginners Latin (Level 2) | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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.
Students may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules
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To be eligible for a joint honours award, students must pass at least 40 credits at level 2 and 40 credits at level 3 in each of the named subjects.
Candidates will be required to study ONE of the following modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS3200 | Major Research Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
| ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
| ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
If CLAS3200 is taken, students will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules in Baskets 1-2; if either ENGL3005 or ENGL3041 is taken, students may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules in Baskets 1-2:
Basket 1:
The list provided below is indicative and subject to change year by year depending on staff availability
| 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) | |
| ENGL3073 | Turks, Moors and Jews: Race and Identity in Early Modern Drama | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3114 | Forming Victorian Fiction | 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 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3479 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3482 | Language Policy, Planning, and Politics | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3491 | Language of the Media | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL3579 | Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation | 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) |
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:
The list provided below is indicative and subject to change year by year depending on staff availability.
| 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) | |
| ENGL3061 | Heart Disease in Contemporary Literature | 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) | |
| ENGL3068 | African American Narrative | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3072 | Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3164 | Imagining Posthuman Futures | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3181 | Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI | 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) | |
| ENGL3462 | Slavery and Antislavery in the Atlantic Imagination | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3475 | Children, Talk and Learning | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3476 | Crime Fiction Stylistics: Crossing Languages, Culture, Media | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3481 | Keywords: the words we use and the ways we use them | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3485 | Trial Discourse: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913 | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL3489 | Dialect Hunting | 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.
If either ENGL3005 or ENGL3041 is taken, students will be required to study at least 40 credits from the following optional modules in Baskets 3-6; if CLAS3200 is taken, students may study up to 40 credits from the following optional modules in Baskets 3-6:
Basket 3: students may study up to 40 credits from the following. Not all modules in this list will run every year.
Basket 3: candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following. Not all modules in this list will run every year.
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS3001 | Ancient Comedy | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS3002 | The Ancient Novel | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS3007 | Writing Love in the Ancient World | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS3120 | Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS3220 | Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS3450 | Screening Antiquity | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS3595 | Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS3750 | The Divine and the Diviners: The Philosophy and Practice of Roman Religion | 20 | ||
| CLAS3760 | Ancient Pastoral Poetry: Theocritus and Virgil | 20 | ||
| CLAS3790 | Greek Tragedy | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| MODL3045 | From Inferno to the world. Reading Dante’s Divine Comedy in a global context | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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.
Basket 4: candidates may study up to 40 credits from the following. Not all modules in this list will run every year.
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS3004 | A Water History of the Ancient World | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3006 | Time, Space and Place in the Greek and Roman Worlds | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS3150 | The Worlds of Alexander the Great: From Pella to Punjab | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| CLAS3350 | Herodotus and the Beginning of History | 20 | ||
| CLAS3390 | The Rise of Rome: Myth and History | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS3420 | Augustus and his Legacy | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS3650 | The Image of Sparta | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS3680 | Greek Art and Society | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| CLAS3740 | Greek Religion | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| CLAS3890 | The City in the Roman World | 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 5: candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS3230 | Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3815 | Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3) | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3835 | Advanced Ancient Greek | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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
Basket 6: candidates may study up to 20 credits from the following:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLAS3260 | Intermediate Latin (Level 3) | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3915 | Beginners Latin (Level 3) | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| CLAS3935 | Advanced Latin | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep 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.
Candidates may study up to 40 credits of discovery modules.
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