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 and Sociology(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
The BA in English and Sociology gives you the chance to combine the study of very human subjects. You’ll learn about the ways in which societies are organised and structured, as well as one of humanity’s most popular forms of cultural expression – literature.
You’ll be introduced to the key principles of sociology and study English literature across poetry, drama and prose in core modules. We also offer a wide variety of optional modules, giving you the chance to explore the literary periods, authors and themes as well as the sociological topics that interest you.
Our academic expertise covers a wide range of topics in both English literature and sociology. As a result, we can offer flexible degrees with plenty of choice so you can pursue your own interests. You could explore topics such as American fiction, drugs policy, Medieval literature, class division, digital humanities or disability studies. Whatever you’re looking for, the chances are you’ll find it at Leeds.
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At Level 1, students are required to take 120 credits, with a minimum of 40 credits in both English and Sociology. They must take 40 credits of core English modules, and 40 credits of core Sociology modules here:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL1065 | Reading Between the Lines | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL1110 | Literature, Culture and Critique | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP1201 | Making Sense of Society: Reading Social Theory | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP1213 | Formations of Coloniality and Modernity | 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) |
Please note that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.
Level 1 students may select up to 40 credits from the following Sociology modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLSP1172 | Understanding Contemporary Society | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP1191 | Identities and Inequalities | 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.
Candidates may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules in place of two of the option modules above.
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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 two core modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLSP2011 | Sociology and Social Policy Research Methods | 20 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
| SLSP2731 | Central Problems in Sociology | 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) |
Students 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL2065 | Postcolonial 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 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 that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.
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 that optional modules run subject to enrolments. An optional module may not run if only a low number of students choose it.
Basket 5: Please note that some of the modules in this basket have pre-requisites for enrolment.
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL2034 | Cursing and Courtesy: (im)politeness in English | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2037 | Forensic Approaches to Language | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2042 | Language Policy, Planning, and Politics | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2049 | Language of the Media | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ENGL2051 | Language in Society | 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 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) | |
| ENGL2039 | Keywords: the words we use and the ways we use them | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2047 | Trial Discourse: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1674-1913 | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2048 | Dialect Hunting | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2143 | Writing in the Age of Digital Media and AI | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ENGL2181 | Digital Discourse: language, social media, AI | 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.
Students may select up to 40 credits of further Sociology option modules from Baskets 7 and 8:
Basket 7
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOSS2002 | Social Sciences and Emergencies: Theories, Contexts and Approaches | 20 | ||
| SLSP2052 | Gender and Society | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP2146 | Crime, Race and Ethnicity | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP2151 | Debates in Childhood and Youth | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP2933 | Sociology and the Climate Crisis | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP2976 | Social and Public Policy beyond the University | 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.
Basket 8:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLSP2021 | Crime, Law and Regulation | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP2041 | Disability Studies: An Introduction | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP2181 | The Sociology of Culture | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| THEO2251 | Sociology of Religion | 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.
Level 2 students may take up to 40 credits of Discovery modules, provided they have fulfilled the programme requirements to take at least 40 credits in both JH subjects.
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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 three core modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
| ENGL3041 | Final Year Project | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
| SLSP3600 | Sociology/Social Policy/Crime Dissertation | 40 | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | PFP |
Please note that modules which run over both semesters 1 and 2 will have the credits divided equally between the two semesters.
Students may choose from the list of specialist research modules in English in Baskets 2 and 3, provided they have met the requirement to study at least 40 credits of Sociology modules at Level 3. Note that the list provided in Baskets 2 and 3 is indicative and 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) | |
| ENGL3037 | Speech Acts: Contemporary Approaches to Text and Performance | 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 3:
| 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.
Students may choose from a list of specialist research modules in Sociology, provided they have met the requirement to study at least 40 credits of English modules.
Basket 4:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOSS3001 | State of Emergency: Social science and the COVID-19 pandemic | 20 | Not running in 202627 | |
| SLSP3066 | Quantitative Social Research | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP3180 | Decolonising Disability and Development | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP3212 | Crimes of States and Powerful Elites | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP3221 | Children, Young People and Life Course Perspectives | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP3231 | Global Terrorism and Violence | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP3250 | The Sociology of Objects | 20 | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| SLSP3501 | Gender, Technologies and the Body | 20 | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| SLSP3996 | Ethnicity and Popular Culture | 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.
Candidates may choose to study up to 40 credits of Discovery modules over both Level 2 and 3 or pursue additional modules in the two named subjects.
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