DPT: Scottish Literature and Classics (MA Hons) (UTSLCLAMAH)

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

Greek 1A

Greek 1C

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Greek 1B

Greek 1D

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1A

Latin 1C

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1B

Latin 1D

Students who are interested in The Greek World 1A need to be aware that there is a lecture clash with Literary Studies 1A and, should they choose The Greek World 1A, they will need to catch up on the missed lecture using the recording and any notes available. This is an exceptional arrangement due to timetabling constraints and not something which is normally permitted or advised. Students are encouraged to consider their options carefully and discuss with their Student Adviser if unsure.

Selected courses must be passed

The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making

The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons

The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome

The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire

AND

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

Entry to Honours:
(1) Students must achieve a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Scottish Literature 2A and 2B.
(2) Students must achieve a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in 40 credits of second-year Classics courses. If Latin or Greek is chosen, a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Greek 2A/Greek 2A ex-beginners and Greek 2B; or Latin 2A/Latin 2A ex-beginners and Latin 2B is required.

Compulsory courses

Scottish Literature 2A

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Scottish Literature 2B

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Students who choose Greek language must take Greek 2B and one of Greek 2A or Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Greek 2A

Greek 2B

Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Students who choose Latin language must take Latin 2B and one of Latin 2A or Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World

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

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature 2: Greek and Roman Epic

AND

Students on this degree programme are not permitted to take Literary Studies 2A or 2B.

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 Classics.
2. Honours option for Classics.
3. English/Scottish 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 Classics.
6. English Literature Reading Theory 2 OR Honours option for Classics.

From Fourth Year:

7. Honours option for Classics.
8. Honours option for Classics.
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 Classics.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or Classics.

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

Course options

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

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

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

Selected courses must be passed

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

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

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 2

Roman History Seminar 1

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Hellenistic Art

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

Religion and the Gods in Classical Greek Culture

Women, Writing, Greece: From Sappho to Virginia Woolf and Beyond

Troy after the Fall

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Plato's Republic in Translation

Greek and Roman Letters

Tiberius, the "Reluctant Princeps"

Classical Literature Seminar 1

Classical Literature Seminar 2

Classical Literature Seminar 3

Virtue, Contemplation, and Happiness: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

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

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Greek Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Greek language pathway.

Selected courses must be passed

Greek Language (A)

Herodotus

Greek Pastoral Poetry

Plato's Republic

Greek Palaeography & Manuscript Culture

Latin Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Latin language pathway.

Selected courses must be passed

Latin Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (A)

Scottish Latin Literature

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

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

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 2

Roman History Seminar 1

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

The Archaeology of Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Hellenistic Art

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

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

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

Religion and the Gods in Classical Greek Culture

Women, Writing, Greece: From Sappho to Virginia Woolf and Beyond

Troy after the Fall

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Plato's Republic in Translation

Greek and Roman Letters

Tiberius, the "Reluctant Princeps"

Classical Literature Seminar 1

Classical Literature Seminar 2

Classical Literature Seminar 3

Virtue, Contemplation, and Happiness: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

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

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

AND

Latin Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Latin language pathway.

Selected courses must be passed

Latin Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (A)

Scottish Latin Literature

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Reading Theory 1

Reading Theory 2

AND

Greek Language (A) is compulsory for and only available to those following the Greek language pathway.

Selected courses must be passed

Greek Language (A)

Herodotus

Greek Pastoral Poetry

Plato's Republic

Greek Palaeography & Manuscript Culture

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 Classics.
2. Honours option for Classics.
3. English/Scottish 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 Classics.
6. English Literature Reading Theory 2 OR Honours option for Classics.

From Fourth Year:

7. Honours option for Classics.
8. Honours option for Classics.
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 Classics.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or Classics.

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

Course options

Classics Dissertation

English Literature Dissertation

AND

Students must choose at least 40 credits from the Scottish Literature course collections across the two years of Honours study.

Writing for Theatre: An Introduction

Literary Geography, 1800-1840

AND

Students must choose at least 40 credits from the Scottish Literature course collections across the two years of Honours study.

Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry

Creative Writing Part II: Prose

Medicine in Literature 2: Medical Ethics in Literature

Contemporary Science Fiction

Fiction and Espionage

AND

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

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

AND

1. Greek Language (B) MUST be taken if Greek Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics.
2. Greek Language (B) cannot be taken if Greek Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Greek Language (B)

Herodotus

Greek Pastoral Poetry

Plato's Republic

Greek Palaeography & Manuscript Culture

1. Latin Language (B) MUST be taken if Latin Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics.
2. Latin Language (B) cannot be taken if Latin Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Latin Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (B)

Scottish Latin Literature

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

The Greek and Latin language beginners courses at Honours level (GREE10017, GREE10018, GREE10027, GREEa0028; LATI10017, LATI10018, LATI10030, LATI10031) can only be taken if the language has not been studied previously.

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

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

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War