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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

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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

It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that students choose outside courses in first year that follow on into second year, so that there is the possibility of an alternative degree programme at the end of second year.

Compulsory courses

Literary Studies 1A

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1B

Must be passed

Course options

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

It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that students choose outside courses in second year that follow on from first year, so that there is the possibility of an alternative degree programme at the end of second year.

Entry to year 3 requires a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Literary Studies 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%

Course options

Year 3 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. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (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 Literature Core Period Course
4) S2 English Literature Core Period Course
5) English Literature Option Course
6) English Literature Option Course OR Course from LLC and Divinity Collection

From Fourth year:
7) English Literature Dissertation
8) English Literature Dissertation
9) S1 English Literature Core Period Course
10) S2 English Literature Core Period Course
11) English Literature Option Course
12) English 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

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

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

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. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (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 Literature Core Period Course
4) S2 English Literature Core Period Course
5) English Literature Option Course
6) English Literature Option Course OR Course from LLC and Divinity Collection

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

Compulsory courses

English Literature Dissertation

Course options

Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity

Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose.

Modernism, Myth, and Romance 1880-1940

The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation

Great Victorian Novel

AND

The American Novel, 1920-1960

Postcolonial Writing

Contemporary Scottish Fiction

Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing

AND

Please note that not all courses are available every year

Joyce and Style

Creative Writing Part I: Poetry

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

The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature

Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature

Poetry and Northern Ireland

Writing for Theatre: An Introduction

Modernism: Text, Image, Object

Medicine in Literature 1: Illness Narratives through History

Censorship

Twenty-First Century Fiction

The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art

Global LGBT Fiction

The Queer Eighteenth Century

Water and World Literature

Modern Poetry: 1922-1927

Theatre, Performance, Performativity

Education and Empire: Decolonising the Mind

Literary Geography, 1800-1840

Illness and Disability in Modern and Contemporary Theatre

Rethinking the Early Modern Book

Narratives of Migration in Contemporary World Literature

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

AND

Please note that not all courses are available every year

Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry

Shakespearean Sexualities

Creative Writing Part II: Prose

Charles Dickens

Shakespeare Adapted

Republican Visions

Medicine in Literature 2: Medical Ethics in Literature

Censorship

Contemporary Science Fiction

Fiction and Espionage

Paradise Lost

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

Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing

Commodities of Empire: Colonialism, Ecology, Culture

21st Century Black American Fiction

The American Novel 1970-2010

Time and Space of Performance

Desire and Writing: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Criticism

Fear and Fascination: Vampire Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

AND

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

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