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BA English and History of Art

University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

This degree will equip you with a range of valuable transferable skills that are attractive to employers.

You will have analytical and critical skills that allow you to form your own conclusions, and you’ll be a strong communicator who can present and defend your views effectively. You’ll be able to work independently and, in a team, – and you’ll have the organisational skills and self-reliance that come with managing two different subjects.

Graduates have achieved success in a variety of careers such as curating, publishing, law, journalism, advertising and marketing, civil service and education. Others have gone onto postgraduate study or further training.

General Eligibility

A-level: AAB including A in English (Language, Literature or Language and Literature)

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • A Story of Art? 1

  • A Story of Art? 2

  • Foundations of English Studies

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

2 Year 2

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • The New York School

  • Country Houses and the (Re)Construction of the Heritage Industry 1880-1950

  • Seeing in Asia

  • Showing Asia

  • Venice: Image and Imagination

  • Variant Modernism

  • Forensic Approaches to Language

  • Transformations

  • Victorian Literature

  • American Words, American Worlds, 1900-Present

  • Victoria's Secrets: Secrecy in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

  • Keywords: The Words We Use and The Ways, We Use Them

  • Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England

  • Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical

3 Year 3

Optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)

  • Deconstruction Reading Politics

  • From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust

  • Unmaking Things: Materials and Ideas in the European Renaissance

  • Reading Sexual Difference

  • Critical approaches to photography

  • Dissertation

  • Postcolonial Feminisms

  • British Architecture in the Long Eighteenth Century

  • Africa and the Atlantic World: History, Historiography and the Visual Arts

  • Final Year Project

  • Tragedy: Classical to Neo-Classical

  • Imagining Posthuman Futures

  • Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane

  • Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir

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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