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You’ll have highly developed communication skills, and the ability to appreciate cultures outside of your own. You’ll be independent and self-motivated, as well as a confident researcher who can think analytically about what they find. You’ll also have the organisational and time management skills that come from studying two subjects as part of a joint honours course.
Leeds English graduates have succeeded in diverse careers such as publishing, business and finance, law, advertising and marketing, journalism, the civil service, education and the charity sector. Many have also gone onto postgraduate study.
A-level: AAB including A in English (Language, Literature or Language and Literature).
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.
20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.
Foundations of English Studies
Worlds of Literature
Twentieth-Century Fiction in English
Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation
Prose: Reading and Interpretation
Poetry: Reading and Interpretation
Drama: Reading and Interpretation
Approaches to Theatre and Performance 1
Narratives of Witchcraft and Magic
Race, Writing and Decolonization
The Creative Essay: From Idea to Submission
Introduction to Audio-Visual Culture
Language: Structure and Sound
World Histories
Intercultural Competence: Theory and Application
Politics, Culture and Society
Discourse, Culture and Identity
Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature
Virgil's Aeneid
Homer's Iliad
Trauma Narratives in the Contemporary Sinophone World
Japanese Literature in Translation: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan
Power of Language
Language in Society
Medieval Literature
Literature of the Romantic Period
Remixing the Renaissance
Style and Authorship
Imaginary Friends: the consolations and consequences of story
Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting
Dialect and Heritage
Towards the Future: Skills in Context
Black Europe
Global Environmental Humanities
Plato on Love
Current Practice in Creative Writing
Final Year Project
States of Mind: Disability, Neurodiversity and Mental Health in Contemporary Culture
Digital Englishes
Gender, Culture and Politics: Readings of Jane Austen
Disposable Lives?
Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain
Contemporary Postcolonial Texts
American Danger
Refugee Narratives
Folklore and Mythology
Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century
Lost in Fiction: The Metafictional Novel from 'Don Quixote' to 'House of Leaves
Religion and Violence
Introduction to Dante's Comedy (in Translation)
Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo
Final Year Project: Dissertation
Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast)
Contemporary World Literature
Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption
Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents
Minoritised Languages, Dialects and Cultures from Past to Present
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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