DPT: English Literature and History (MA Hons) (UTENLHI)

Entry to year 3 requires:
(1) a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Literary Studies 2A and 2B and
(2) a mark of 50% or above in 40 credits of second year History courses at the first attempt.

Compulsory courses

Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

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%

Course options

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500

Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000

Global Connections since 1450

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Themes in Modern European History

AND

The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

Architectural History 1B: Revivalism to Modernism

Architectural History 1A: Introduction to World Architecture

Urbanism and the City: Past to Present

Buddhism in Global Contexts

Popular Religion, Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1A

History of Christianity as a World Religion 1B

Religion in Modern Britain

Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories

The Global Economy since 1750

Islamic History A: The Formation of the Islamic World

Islamic History B: From the Crusades to the 'Gunpowder Empires'

Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges

Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict

Introduction to the History of Philosophy A

Introduction to the History of Philosophy B

History of Western Medicine

AND

Students on this degree programme are NOT permitted to take Scottish Literature 2A or 2B.
You may NOT choose more than 20 credits of History courses (with codes starting HIST) in this collection.

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

Students wishing to undertake a Dissertation in English Literature are strongly recommended to take both Reading Theory courses.

Final Assessment: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third Year:
1. Honours option for History.
2. Honours option for History.
3. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2.
5. English Literature Reading Theory 1 OR Honours option for History.
6. English Literature Reading Theory 2 OR Honours option for History.

From Fourth Year:
7. Honours option for History.
8. Honours option for History.
9. English Literature honours 4 option course.
10. English Literature honours 4 option course OR course from LLC and Divinity Collection.
11. Dissertation for English Literature or History.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or History.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take Dissertation in History. Please note that places on courses are subject to availability and timetabling.

Selected courses must be passed

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990

Tradition and transformation in China's economy, 1949-2001

Post-Colonial South Asia

Black Nationalism in America

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860

Modernity and Genocide

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

Characters and Caricatures: The Printed Image in England, 1700-1820

Ottoman Modernities: Society, Economy, Culture in the 19th Century

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Adolescence in Medieval Europe

Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality

Revelry and Riot: Popular Culture in Britain, c.1400-1800

African Environmental History

Oceanic Histories and Monsoon Cultures: The Indian Ocean, 700-1750 CE

The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453

History of Brazil

Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union and What Came Next, 1970-2020

Based on a True Story: Representing the Past in Museums and on Screen

The Forgotten Dictatorship: Portugal's Estado Novo, 1926-1974

After Byzantium: An Intellectual History of the Greek world, 15th-19th c.

Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730

Histories of the NHS: A National Religion?

Contemporary Scotland

The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

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

Selected courses must be passed

Reading Theory 1

Reading Theory 2

AND

Selected courses must be passed

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880

Time, Economics and Resource Allocation in Britain 1930-1990

Tradition and transformation in China's economy, 1949-2001

Post-Colonial South Asia

Black Nationalism in America

Early Modern English Witchcraft

The Making of Modern Ireland, c.1798-1940: Politics and Society

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the U.S. South, 1789-1860

Modernity and Genocide

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814

From Oligarchy to Democracy: the Politics of Reform in Great Britain and Ireland, 1828-1928

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815

The People's Game: A Global History of Association Football, 1860-1939

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

The kings in the north: Scotland in the early Middle Ages

Bestiary: Animals in the Middle Ages

Science and Empire: from Enlightenment to Decolonisation, 1750-1965

No such thing as a free gift: a long history of donation

History of the Modern World in 9 Things

Characters and Caricatures: The Printed Image in England, 1700-1820

Ottoman Modernities: Society, Economy, Culture in the 19th Century

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Adolescence in Medieval Europe

Introduction to The Modern History of Sexuality

Revelry and Riot: Popular Culture in Britain, c.1400-1800

African Environmental History

Oceanic Histories and Monsoon Cultures: The Indian Ocean, 700-1750 CE

The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453

History of Brazil

Collapse: The End of the Soviet Union and What Came Next, 1970-2020

Based on a True Story: Representing the Past in Museums and on Screen

The Forgotten Dictatorship: Portugal's Estado Novo, 1926-1974

After Byzantium: An Intellectual History of the Greek world, 15th-19th c.

Improving the Nation. Change and Modernisation in Scotland, 1660-1730

Histories of the NHS: A National Religion?

Contemporary Scotland

The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974

From Covenanting Revolution to Jacobite Rebellion: Scottish Politics, 1638-1747

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

Final Assessment: One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third Year:
1. Honours option for History.
2. Honours option for History.
3. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2.
5. English Literature Reading Theory 1 OR Honours option for History.
6. English Literature Reading Theory 2 OR Honours option for History.

From Fourth Year:
7. Honours option for History.
8. Honours option for History.
9. English Literature honours 4 option course.
10. English Literature honours 4 option course OR course from LLC and Divinity Collection.
11. Dissertation for English Literature or History.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or History.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.