DPT: English Literature and Classics (MA Hons) (UTENLCL)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, 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

Ancient Greek 1A

Ancient Greek 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Ancient Greek 1C

Ancient Greek 1D

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1C

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

Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric

Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Entry to Honours:
(1) Students must achieve a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Literary Studies 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 Ancient Greek 2A/Ancient Greek 2A ex-beginners and Ancient Greek 2B; or Latin 2A/Latin 2A ex-beginners and Latin 2B is required.

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 who choose Ancient Greek language must take Ancient Greek 2B and one of Ancient Greek 2A or Ancient 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%

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

Ancient Historiography

Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature: Greek and Roman Epic

Ancient Greek 2A

Ancient Greek 2B

Ancient Greek 2A Ex-Beginners

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

AND

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

AND

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric

Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, 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 Literature honours 3 option course Semester 1.
4. English 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 Literature honours 4 option course.
10. English 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

Selected courses must be passed

Cities of Words: 20th Century Urban America

Body in Literature

Novel and the Collapse of Humanism

The Black Atlantic

Mystery and Horror

Working Class Representations

George Orwell and the Politics of Literature

Fiction and the Gothic, 1840-1940

Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Creative Writing Part I: Poetry

Creative Writing Part 2: Prose

Shakespeare: Modes and Genres

Poetry, Politics and Place

Contemporary British Drama

Modernism and Empire

Haunted Imaginations: Scotland and the Supernatural'

The Making of Modern Fantasy

Digital Humanities for Literary Studies

Reading Science Fiction

Literature, Revolution and Rebellion in the Long Nineteenth Century

Modern Irish Literature: 1889-1955

AND

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

Selected courses must be passed

Latin Language (A)

Lucretius, 'De rerum natura'

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Latin Tragedy: Medea on the Roman Stage

Selected courses must be passed

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Ancient Greek Slavery

Roman Judaea

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome

War, Trauma and Survival: from Antiquity to the Present

Roman Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Athenian Democracy: Key Issues and Debates

Popular unrest, revolts, and rebellions in the Byzantine world

The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires

Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East

Centre, Province and Periphery: The Byzantine World in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Archaeology of Architecture

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

Marine Archaeology

Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

The Athenian Akropolis

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Roman Archaeology Seminar 1

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

Early Greek Philosophy in Translation

Classical Receptions

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Civil War and the Roman Imagination

Roman Tragedy

Reading Greek Prophecy

Ancient Greek 1Ha

Ancient Greek 1Hb

Ancient Greek 2Ha

Ancient Greek 2Hb

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

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

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

Selected courses must be passed

Greek Tragedy

Homer

Lyric

Early Greek Philosophy

Ancient Greek Language (A)

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Reading Theory 1

Reading Theory 2

AND

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

Selected courses must be passed

Latin Language (A)

Lucretius, 'De rerum natura'

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Latin Tragedy: Medea on the Roman Stage

AND

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

Selected courses must be passed

Greek Tragedy

Homer

Lyric

Early Greek Philosophy

Ancient Greek Language (A)

AND

Selected courses must be passed

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Ancient Greek Slavery

Roman Judaea

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome

War, Trauma and Survival: from Antiquity to the Present

Roman Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Athenian Democracy: Key Issues and Debates

Popular unrest, revolts, and rebellions in the Byzantine world

The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires

Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East

Centre, Province and Periphery: The Byzantine World in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Archaeology of Architecture

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

Marine Archaeology

Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

The Athenian Akropolis

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Death and Burial in the Greek World

Roman Archaeology Seminar 1

Mediterranean interactions in the Late Middle Ages: The Visual Culture of Byzantium, the Ottomans and the Italian penins

Early Greek Philosophy in Translation

Classical Receptions

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Civil War and the Roman Imagination

Roman Tragedy

Reading Greek Prophecy

Ancient Greek 1Ha

Ancient Greek 1Hb

Ancient Greek 2Ha

Ancient Greek 2Hb

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

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

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

Course options

Classics Dissertation

English Literature Dissertation

AND

Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry

Creative Writing Part I: Poetry

Medieval Romance

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

Fairy Tales

Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature

Poetry and Northern Ireland

Black American Fiction

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

Theatre, Performance, Performativity

Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing

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

Representing Race on the British Stage, 1600-1850

Modernism's Moving Bodies: Text, Dance, Performance after 1890

AND

Shakespearean Sexualities

Joyce and Style

Decolonization and the Novel

Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry

Shakespeare Adapted

Medicine in Literature 2: Medical Ethics in Literature

Digital Humanities for Literary Studies

Fiction and Espionage

Paradise Lost

Beastly Writing: Animals, Literature, Modernity

Commodities of Empire: Colonialism, Ecology, Culture

The American Novel 1970-2010

Desire and Writing: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Criticism

Fear and Fascination: Vampire Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century

Green Thoughts: Contemporary Environmental Poetry

AND

The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock

Boundaries of the Human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature

Religion and Ethics in Literature

Scottish Literature and the Religious Imagination

Ethical Encounters with the 'Other' in Speculative Fiction

Scottish Religious Poetry from the Sixth Century to the Present

Comparative Literature in a European and Global Perspective

The Great Russian Novel

Culture and Power under Stalin 1924-1953

Old Norse Literature and Society

AND

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

Greek Tragedy

Homer

Lyric

Early Greek Philosophy

Ancient Greek Language (B)

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 Language (B)

Lucretius, 'De rerum natura'

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Latin Tragedy: Medea on the Roman Stage

The Ancient Greek and Latin language beginners courses at Honours level (GREE10042, GREE10043, GREE10044, GREE10045; LATI10017, LATI10018, LATI10030, LATI10031) can only be taken if the language has not been studied previously.

The Greek World and Rome

The World of St Augustine

Ancient Greek Slavery

Roman Judaea

Religion and War in Byzantium and in Comparative Perspective

Childhood and Youth in Ancient Rome

War, Trauma and Survival: from Antiquity to the Present

Roman Greece

Greek History Seminar 1

Athenian Democracy: Key Issues and Debates

Popular unrest, revolts, and rebellions in the Byzantine world

The Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A World between Empires