DPT: Scottish Literature and Scottish History (MA Hons) (UTSLUHSMAH)

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

The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1A

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1B

Must be passed

Course options

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 Scottish Literature 2A and 2B; and 50% or more, at first attempt, in Introduction to Historiography AND in the selected course from the Scottish History collection.

Compulsory courses

Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Themes in Scottish History since 1560

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

Students on this degree programme are NOT permitted to take Literary Studies 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 must choose at least 40 credits from the Scottish Literature course collections across the two years of Honours study.

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 Scottish History.
2. Honours option for Scottish History.
3. English/Scotish Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English/Scottish Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2.
5. English Literature Reading Theory 1 OR Honours option for Scottish History.
6. English Literature Reading Theory 2 OR Honours option for Scottish History.

From Fourth Year:

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

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

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Themes in Scottish Archaeology: from field to lab, collection to curation

Christianity and the Crisis of Faith in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

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

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

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

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

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

Students must choose at least 40 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 40 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

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

Historical Skills and Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take the Dissertation in Scottish History.

Selected courses must be passed

Historical Skills and Methods II

Historical Skills and Methods I

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Themes in Scottish Archaeology: from field to lab, collection to curation

Christianity and the Crisis of Faith in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

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

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

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

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

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

Reading Theory 1

Reading Theory 2

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 Scottish History.
2. Honours option for Scottish History.
3. English/Scotish Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English/Scottish Literature honours 3 option course Semester 2.
5. English Literature Reading Theory 1 OR Honours option for Scottish History.
6. English Literature Reading Theory 2 OR Honours option for Scottish History.

From Fourth Year:

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

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