DPT: English and Scottish Literature (MA Hons) (UTENGSL)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

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

Students should aim to divide the number of credits they take in each academic year evenly between Semester 1 and Semester 2

Compulsory courses

Literary Studies 1A

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1B

Must be passed

Course options

These courses are recommended but optional.

Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland

Scottish Studies 1B: Creating Scotland

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Entry to year 3 requires a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Literary Studies 2A and 2B and in Scottish Literature 2A and 2B.

Compulsory courses

Literary Studies 2A: English Literature in the World, 1380-1788

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Literary Studies 2B: English Literature in the World, post-1789

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Scottish Literature 2A

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Scottish Literature 2B

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Students must choose at least 80 credits from the Scottish Literature course collections across the two years of Honours study.

Final Assessment Weighting: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. (Papers that for the purpose of degree classification acquire weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third year:
1) Reading Theory 1
2) Reading Theory 2
3) S1 English/Scottish Literature Core Period Course
4) S2 English/Scottish Literature Core Period Course
5) English/Scottish Literature Option Course
6) English/Scottish Literature Option Course OR Course from LLC and Divinity Collection

From Fourth year:
7) English Literature Dissertation
8) English Literature Dissertation
9) S1 English/Scottish Literature Core Period Course
10) S2 English/Scottish Literature Core Period Course
11) English/Scottish Literature Option Course
12) English/Scottish Literature Option Course OR Course from LLC and Divinity Collection

Compulsory courses

Reading Theory 1

Must be passed

Reading Theory 2

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

The Canterbury Tales

Saints and Sinners: Voicing Belief, Doubt, and Dissent in Medieval English Literature

The Field Full of Folk

Early Modern Tragedy

Students must choose at least 80 credits from the Scottish Literature course collections across the two years of Honours study.

Selected courses must be passed

The Field Full of Folk

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Early Modern Comedy

Romanticism: Themes, Genres and Contexts

The Novel and the Modern Self, 1688--1790

Staging Enlightenment: Theatre 1660-1780

Students must choose at least 80 credits from the Scottish Literature course collections across the two years of Honours study.

Selected courses must be passed

Romanticism: Themes, Genres and Contexts

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Ideology and Literature

Cities of Words: 20th Century Urban America

Body in Literature

Novel and the Collapse of Humanism

Mystery and Horror

Working Class Representations

Shakespeare's Comedies: Identity and Illusion

Edinburgh in Fiction/Fiction in Edinburgh

George Orwell and the Politics of Literature

Black American Fiction

Writing for Theatre: An Introduction

Fiction and the Gothic, 1840-1940

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Creative Writing Part I: Poetry

Creative Writing Part 2: Prose

Shakespeare: Modes and Genres

The Black Atlantic

Poetry, Politics and Place

Contemporary British Drama

'We are [not] Amused': Victorian Comic Literature

American Innocence

Haunted Imaginations: Scotland and the Supernatural'

The Making of Modern Fantasy

Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature

Reading Science Fiction

Literature, Revolution and Rebellion in the Long Nineteenth Century

AND

Students must choose at least 80 credits from the Scottish Literature course collections across the two years of Honours study.

Selected courses must be passed

Mystery and Horror

Edinburgh in Fiction/Fiction in Edinburgh

Writing for Theatre: An Introduction

AND

Students must choose at least 80 credits from the Scottish Literature course collections across the two years of Honours study.

Selected courses must be passed

Creative Writing Part 2: Prose

Haunted Imaginations: Scotland and the Supernatural'

The Making of Modern Fantasy

Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature

AND

Selected courses must be passed

The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock

Boundaries of the Human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature

Religion and Ethics in Literature

Comparative Literature in a European and Global Perspective

Vulnerability and the City: German Literary Cartographies of Danger and Refuge

The Great Russian Novel

Culture and Power under Stalin 1924-1953

Old Norse Literature and Society

A Nordic Model for the 21st Century? Identity, Colonialism and Politics in Contemporary Nordic Society

Scottish Literature and the Religious Imagination

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Final Assessment Weighting: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. (Papers that for the purpose of degree classification acquire weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third year:
1) Reading Theory 1
2) Reading Theory 2
3) S1 English/Scottish Literature Core Period Course
4) S2 English/Scottish Literature Core Period Course
5) English/Scottish Literature Option Course
6) English/Scottish Literature Option Course OR Course from LLC and Divinity Collection

From Fourth year:
7) English Literature Dissertation
8) English Literature Dissertation
9) S1 English/Scottish Literature Core Period Course
10) S2 English/Scottish Literature Core Period Course
11) English/Scottish Literature Option Course
12) English/Scottish Literature Option Course OR Course from LLC and Divinity Collection