DPT: Religious Studies and English Literature (MA Hons) (UTRELEL)

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

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

Compulsory courses

Literary Studies 1A

Literary Studies 1B

Course options

Students should take at least three of the courses below over Year 1 and 2.

Selected courses must be passed

Buddhism in Global Contexts

Religion in Modern Britain

Global Indigenous Religions

Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories

Theology and Religious Studies Foundation Seminar

AND

Students on the Religious Studies and Literature degree programmes MUST take DIVI08018 Studying Religions in Year 1 or Year 2 (as available).

Selected courses must be passed

Studying Religions

AND

You may select 40 credits of further courses within the School of Divinity, or select courses from other Schools.

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.

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

Students should take at least three of the courses below over Year 1 and 2.

Selected courses must be passed

Buddhism in Global Contexts

Religion in Modern Britain

Global Indigenous Religions

Jews and Muslims: Religions, Cultures, Histories

Theology and Religious Studies Foundation Seminar

AND

Students on the Religious Studies and Literature degree programmes MUST take DIVI08018 Studying Religions in Year 1 or Year 2 (as available).

Selected courses must be passed

Studying Religions

AND

You may select 40 credits of further courses within the School of Divinity, or select courses from other Schools.

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

During Year 3 students must prepare for their dissertation. Further information about this will be provided.

Students wishing to take the English Literature Dissertation are strongly recommended to choose all four Critical Practice courses

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

Course options

AND

Students should check with Asian Studies to find out which of the courses will be running, and if there is any quota in place. The School of Divinity cannot guarantee places on outside courses.

Korean-Japanese Relations: Historical and Contemporary Issues

Japanese Religions in the Modern Era

The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism

China and Japan: National Development, International Relations, and Transnational Convergence

Buddhism and the State in Early East Asia

AND

Students should check with IMES to find out which of the courses will be running, and if there is any quota in place. The School of Divinity cannot guarantee places on outside courses.

Mystical Islam (Sufism)

Cinema and Society in the Middle East

Modern Persian Literature and 'Modern' Iran

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nations in Collision

Islam Through the Arts

Of Wine, Love and Loss: Reading Iran through Classical Persian Literature

The First Muslim Empire: The Islamic World before Sunnism and Shi'ism

Gender and Media in the Arab World

The Qur'an - Islam's Holy Book

Islamic Movements in the 20th-21st Century

Muslims in Europe

History and Culture of Iran

The Ottoman World: the Society, Culture and Legacy of Islam's Last Empire

Globalized Muslim Politics

The Seventh Century: The Transformation of East Rome and the Rise of Islam

Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia

Regional Perspectives in a Globalised Muslim World

International, Transnational and Globalised Dynamics of the Muslim World

Muslim Africa in Global Perspective

Gulf Histories, Cultures, and Societies

AND

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 1)

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

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

English Literature 3 Honours Option course (semester 2)

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

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

Adam, Eve and LGBT+: Sex and Gender in the Hebrew Bible

The Dark Lord: God and Violence in the Hebrew Bible

Religion and the Climate Crisis

Emotion, Spirituality and Mysticism in Early Modern Christianity

Theology in the Age of Technology

Ancient Wisdom: Biblical sages and their writings

Buddhist Literature

Islamic Theology: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives

Christianity in Africa to 1500

Lived Theology

The New Testament in the Graeco-Roman World

The Apostle Paul in and beyond the New Testament

The Holocaust in History and Culture

Jews and Non-Jews: Co-existence, Conflict, Co-operation

Religion and Ethics in Literature

Church, Conflict and Community in Britain and Ireland 1850-1914

Christianity and Colonialism in Africa, 1800 to the present

Augustine in his Age

Paradise Lost? Christianity in the Pacific 1668-1999

The Making of Christian Orthodoxy 325-451

Early Christian Writers

Byzantine Church and Society 451-1672

Church, Sacraments and Ministry

Pastoral Care and Theology

Modern Christology

Christian Ethics

Homiletics

Science and Christian Theology: Historical and Theological Perspectives

Theology and Contemporary Science

Mission in Contemporary Scotland

Scottish Theology

Film, Religion and Ethics

Food in Christian Religion

Theological Ethics in Continental European Perspective

Reformations: Britain and Ireland 1475-1600

Hindu Traditions: History, Power and Agency

Field-Work Approaches for the Study of Religion

New Spiritualities: from New Age to Holistic

Religions in Africa

Buddhist Ethics

Christian-Muslim Relations: diatribe, discourse and dialogue

Contemporary Systematic Theologies

Literature of the Islamic World

Islamic Law: From Prayer to Politics

Scottish Literature and the Religious Imagination

Muslim and Christian Perspectives on Jesus

God of the Oppressed: Liberation Theologies in Christianity and Islam

Peacebuilding, Religion and the Arts

Biblical Hebrew Texts A

Biblical Hebrew Texts B

Advanced Greek Texts

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Jesus in Film

Women and Gender in the New Testament World

The Hebrew Bible and Contemporary Issues

The Gospels

Hebrew Prophecy

Aramaic

Early Christian Greek Texts

Early Jewish Texts

Old Testament Texts

Old Testament Texts 2

Second Temple Judaism

Historical Jesus

Old Testament Theology

New Testament Themes

Parables in Practice

Bible and Archaeology

Introducing New Testament Greek (Honours)

Introducing Biblical Hebrew (Honours)

Jesus in and beyond the New Testament

Newman - Anglican and Catholic

Reformations: Continental Europe 1475-1600

Religion, Covenants and Revolution in Britain and Ireland c. 1600-1660

Theravada Buddhism

The Hindu Epics: Mahabharata and Ramayana

Atheism, Humanism and Non-Religion

Lives of the Buddha: Jataka Stories and Early Buddhism

Indigenous Futures: Knowledge, Ecology and Politics

Religion and Nationalism in the Contemporary World

Theories of Religion

Metaphysics and Morality

Doctrine of Creation

The Theology of Karl Barth

Body, Soul and Self: Theological Anthropology

Modern Theology: From the French Revolution to the First World War

Theatre, Religion and the Search for Peace

Theology that Liberates: From Latin American to Queer Theology

Conflicts and Controversies in Islam: Theology, Law and Politics

The Importance of Being Islamic: Explorations in Premodern Muslim Thought

Public Theologies: Thinkers and Themes

Pioneers of Political Islam

Political Theologies: Thinkers and Themes

Intermediate Biblical Hebrew (Honours)

Christianity and Politics in Latin America, 1800 to the present

Christians and Other Animals

The Future of the End of the World: Interdisciplinary Interpretations

Science, Sorcery and Wonder in Islam

Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in History and Culture

Intermediate New Testament Greek (Honours)

Introducing Classical Syriac (Honours)

Introducing Sanskrit (Honours)

Intermediate Sanskrit (Honours)

Religion and Culture in the Modern Middle East

Buddhist Monasticism Across Time and Place

Christianity and the Crisis of Faith in Nineteenth-Century Scotland

Gender in Islam

Christianity in Ukraine (988 to the present)

Race and Religiosity

AND

Students should check with Asian Studies to find out which of the courses will be running, and if there is any quota in place. The School of Divinity cannot guarantee places on outside courses.

Korean-Japanese Relations: Historical and Contemporary Issues

Japanese Religions in the Modern Era

The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism

China and Japan: National Development, International Relations, and Transnational Convergence

Buddhism and the State in Early East Asia

AND

Students should check with IMES to find out which of the courses will be running, and if there is any quota in place. The School of Divinity cannot guarantee places on outside courses.

Mystical Islam (Sufism)

Cinema and Society in the Middle East

Modern Persian Literature and 'Modern' Iran

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nations in Collision

Islam Through the Arts

Of Wine, Love and Loss: Reading Iran through Classical Persian Literature

The First Muslim Empire: The Islamic World before Sunnism and Shi'ism

Gender and Media in the Arab World

The Qur'an - Islam's Holy Book

Islamic Movements in the 20th-21st Century

Muslims in Europe

History and Culture of Iran

The Ottoman World: the Society, Culture and Legacy of Islam's Last Empire

Globalized Muslim Politics

The Seventh Century: The Transformation of East Rome and the Rise of Islam

Muslim Societies in Southeast Asia

Regional Perspectives in a Globalised Muslim World

International, Transnational and Globalised Dynamics of the Muslim World

Muslim Africa in Global Perspective

Gulf Histories, Cultures, and Societies

AND

Reading Theory 1

Reading Theory 2

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

Students MUST pass DIVI10001 Theology & Religious Studies: Final Dissertation or ENLI10329 English Literature Dissertation in order to be awarded an honours degree.

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

Course options

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

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

Students should check with Asian Studies to find out which of the courses will be running, and if there is any quota in place. The School of Divinity cannot guarantee places on outside courses.

Korean-Japanese Relations: Historical and Contemporary Issues

Japanese Religions in the Modern Era

The Buddhist Brush: Discursive and Graphic Expressions of Japanese Buddhism

China and Japan: National Development, International Relations, and Transnational Convergence

Buddhism and the State in Early East Asia

AND

Students should check with IMES to find out which of the courses will be running, and if there is any quota in place. The School of Divinity cannot guarantee places on outside courses.

Mystical Islam (Sufism)

Cinema and Society in the Middle East

Modern Persian Literature and 'Modern' Iran

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nations in Collision

Islam Through the Arts

Of Wine, Love and Loss: Reading Iran through Classical Persian Literature

The First Muslim Empire: The Islamic World before Sunnism and Shi'ism

Gender and Media in the Arab World

The Qur'an - Islam's Holy Book

Islamic Movements in the 20th-21st Century

Muslims in Europe

History and Culture of Iran