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BA Classical Literature and English

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll be a confident researcher who is capable of working both individually and in a team, and you’ll have analytical and problem-solving skills. You’ll be able to think critically about information from different sources, draw your own conclusions and present and defend them clearly using your advanced communication skills. Managing two subjects will also equip you with organisational and time management skills.

Graduates have gone into a wide range of careers such as journalism, publishing, law, advertising and marketing, business and finance, the civil service, education and the charity sector. Others have gone on to pursue postgraduate study in related subjects.

We do everything we can to help you prepare for your career. You’ll have the choice to study one of our career development and planning modules as part of your degree, or you could apply for one of the internships we offer every year.

General Eligibility

A-level: AAB including A in English.

Other course specific tests:

Where an applicant is taking the EPQ in a relevant subject this might be considered alongside other Level 3 qualifications and may attract an alternative offer in addition to the standard offer. If you are taking A Levels, this would be ABB at A Level including A in English and grade A in the EPQ.

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Greek Poets

  • Roman Poets

  • Foundations of English Studies

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Ancient Lives

  • Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 1)

  • Intermediate Latin (Level 1)

  • Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 1)

  • Beginners Latin

  • Prose: Reading and Interpretation

  • Poetry: Reading and Interpretation

  • Drama: Reading and Interpretation

2 Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Evidence and Enquiry in Classics

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Invisible Greeks and Romans

  • Virgil's Aeneid

  • Homer's Iliad

  • Ancient Empires: Power and Control

  • Medieval Literature

  • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Writing

  • Literature of the Romantic Period

  • Renaissance Literature

  • Victorian Literature

  • American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present

  • Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo

  • Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 2)

  • The Athenian Empire

3 Year 3

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Major Research Project

  • The Athenian Empire

  • Herodotus and the Beginning of History

  • Ovid the Innovator

  • The Rise of Rome: Myth and History

  • Augustus and his Legacy

  • The Ancient Greek Novel

  • Screening Antiquity

  • Heroines: Representations of Mythological Women from Antiquity to the Present

  • The Image of Sparta

  • Plato on Love

  • Greek Religion

  • Greek Tragedy

  • The city in the Roman World

  • Roman Comedy

  • Classical Receptions in the Brotherton Archives and Special Collections

  • Traversing Time: The Voyage of Argo

  • Intermediate Ancient Greek (Level 3)

  • Intermediate Latin (Level 3)

  • Beginners Ancient Greek (Level 3)

  • Beginners Latin (Level 3)

  • Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Writing

  • Literature of the Romantic Period

  • Renaissance Literature

  • Modern Literature

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) Academic or IELTS for UKVI (United Kingdom Visas and Immigration) (Academic) or IELTS Online at 6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component skill. Please note that we cannot accept results from these tests that are over two years old at the start date of the course you intend to study.

TOEFL iBT (Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-Based Test) or TOEFL iBT Home Edition at 80 overall with no less than 17 in listening, 18 in reading, 20 in speaking, and 19 in writing. Please note that we do not accept TOEFL My Best scores and we expect candidates to have met the relevant requirements from a single TOEFL test.

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