DPT: Celtic and English Literature (MA Hons) (UTCELEL)

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

Selected courses must be passed

Gaelic 1A

Gaelic 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Celtic Civilisation 1B: Domination, Dislocation, and Defiance

Celtic Civilisation 1A: Barbarians, Saints, and Scholars

Selected courses must be passed

Introduction to Gaelic Language and Culture

Celtic Civilisation 1B: Domination, Dislocation, and Defiance

AND

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

Entry into Honours:
1. Students must normally achieve 50% or more in Literary Studies 2A and 2B.
2. Students must normally achieve 50% or more in either Gaelic 2A or Gaelic 2B (Modern or Medieval Honours route) or in both Celtic Literature in Translation courses (Medieval Honours route).

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

Selected courses must be passed at 50%

Gaelic 2A

Gaelic 2B

Selected courses must be passed at 50%

Heroes, Wonders, Saints and Sagas: Medieval Celtic Literature in Translation

Songs, Swords, Rebels and Revivals: Modern Celtic Literature in Translation

AND

Students on this degree programme are not permitted to take Scottish Literature 2A or 2B.

Year 3 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 purpose of degree classification acquire weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)
1. Celtic Dissertation (Part 1) or English Literature Dissertation
2. Celtic Dissertation (Part 2) or English Literature Dissertation
3. to 6. Celtic Honours option courses
7. to 10. English Literature Honours option courses
11. to 12. Celtic or English Literature Honours option courses

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

Course options

Students who have not taken Gaelic language to Year 2 must select their Celtic Honours courses from the list of medieval options.

Selected courses must be passed

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

If the dissertation is taken in Celtic, a 20-credit unit towards the dissertation will be taken in third year, and a 20-credit completion unit in fourth year.

Selected courses must be passed

Dissertation (Part 1)

AND

Students who have not taken Gaelic language to Year 2 must select their Celtic Honours courses from the list of medieval options.

Selected courses must be passed

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