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BA English and Philosophy

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

You’ll have strong research skills and be able to analyse complex information from multiple sources. You’ll also be able to construct effective arguments and present and defend your views clearly, either verbally or in writing. In addition, you’ll be confident working independently or in a team, and you’ll have good organisational skills from juggling two different subjects.

Graduates have progressed into a wide range of careers as a result, including publishing, law, journalism, education, advertising and marketing, the civil service and business and finance. You could also go onto postgraduate study.

General Eligibility

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 (Language, Literature, or Language and Literature) 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

  • Foundations of English Studies

  • How to Think Clearly and Argue Well

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Modern Fictions in English: Conflict, Liminality, Translation

  • Poetry: Reading and Interpretation

  • Drama: Reading and Interpretation

  • Race, Writing and Decolonization

  • Magic, Science and Religion

  • History of Psychology

  • Introduction to the History of Science

  • Darwin, Germs and the Bomb

  • The Mind

  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion

  • The Good, the Bad, the Right, the Wrong

  • Knowledge, Self and Reality

  • How Science Works

  • Great Philosophical Thinkers

2 Year 2

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture)

  • Power of Language

  • Language in Society

  • Medieval Literature

  • Eighteenth Century Literature

  • Literature of the Romantic Period

  • Renaissance Literature

  • Textual Healing: An Introduction to Scholarly Editing and Publishing

  • Contemporary British Theatre 1989-99: The New Generation

  • Writing Nature: Creative and Critical Practices

  • Imaginary Friends: the consolations and consequences of story

  • Medieval Poetry: Translation and Creative Rewriting

  • History of Modern Philosophy: Locke and Berkeley

  • Ethics of Life and Death

  • Political Philosophy

  • Moral Philosophy

  • Introduction to Epistemology

  • Philosophy of Religion

  • Introduction to Metaphysics

  • Philosophical Issues in Biology

  • How Biology Works

  • Philosophy Students into Schools

  • Thinking About Race

  • A Key Thinker in Philosophy of Religion: In Dialogue

  • Augustine of Hippo: A Key Thinker in Philosophy and Theology

3 Year 3

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Power of Language

  • Language in Society

  • Medieval Literature

  • Eighteenth Century Literature

  • Literature of the Romantic Period

  • Renaissance Literature

  • Modern Literature

  • Postcolonial Literature

  • Contemporary Literature

  • Shakespeare

  • Final Year Project

  • Forming Victorian Fiction

  • Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

  • Disposable Lives?

  • Queens, Vikings, poets and dragons: Old English and early medieval Britain

  • Contemporary Postcolonial Texts

  • American Danger

  • Refugee Narratives

  • Prose Fiction Stylistics and the Mind

  • The Poetry of Wordsworth

  • Forensic Approaches to Language

  • Writing America

  • Folklore and Mythology

  • Transformations

  • American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present

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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