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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

* Two 20 credit optional courses must be taken in total, one in semester 1, the other in semester 2

* The optional courses listed are recommendations although students are welcome to take 20 credits of other level 11 courses. These enrolments should be discussed with your Programme Director.

*Please note that all optional courses are subject to availability and that some courses may have limited spaces

Compulsory courses

Research Skills and Methods

Must be taken during Semester 1

Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics

Must be taken during Semester 1

Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond

Must be taken during Semester 2

Research Methods and Problems in English Literature

Must be taken during Semester 2

MSc Literature and Modernity 1900-to the present Dissertation

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

These elective courses are Postgraduate ONLY

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature

Acts of Story-Telling: Narrator, Text, Audience

Twenty-First Century Fiction (PG Version)

The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art (PG Version)

Postcritique: From Theory to Practice

Modern Poetry: 1922-1927 (PG Version)

OR

These elective courses are JOINTLY TAUGHT with Undergraduate honours level

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Theatre, Performance, Performativity

Joyce and Style

The Long Summer: Edwardian Texts and Contexts, 1900-1910

Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature

Poetry and Northern Ireland

Modernism: Text, Image, Object (Level 11)

Censorship (PG Version)

Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity (PG Version)

Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose (PG Version)

Modernism, Myth, and Romance 1880-1940 (PG Version)

The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation (PG Version)

Global LGBT Fiction

The Queer Eighteenth Century

Illness Narratives through History (PG version)

Education and Empire: Decolonising the Mind

Great Victorian Novel

Rethinking the Early Modern Book

Literary Geography, 1800-1840

Decadence, Dazzle, Dissent: Aestheticism and Cultural Politics in the Long Twentieth Century

AND

These elective courses are Postgraduate ONLY

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

The Literary Absolute

Exploring the Novel

Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing (PG)

OR

These elective courses are JOINTLY TAUGHT with Undergraduate honours level

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Postcolonial Writing

Contemporary Scottish Fiction

Charles Dickens

Shakespearean Sexualities

Medieval Romance

Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing

The American Novel, 1920-1960

Shakespeare Adapted

Time and Space of Performance

Censorship (PG Version)

Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry (Level 11)

Republican Visions (PG Version)

Contemporary Science Fiction (PG Version)

Fiction and Espionage

Paradise Lost

Medical Ethics in Literature

Poetry and the English Question: Voice and Belonging in Modern and Contemporary Verse

The American Novel 1970-2010

21st Century Black American Fiction

Desire and Writing: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Criticism

Narratives of Migration in Contemporary World Literature

Fear and Fascination: Vampire Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

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