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Degree Programme Table: Scottish Ethnology and English Literature (MA Hons) (UTSETET)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Notes:
Students should aim to divide the number of credits they take in each academic year evenly between Semester 1 and Semester 2

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland

Must be passed

SCET08006 20 credits
Scottish Studies 1B: Creating Scotland

Must be passed

SCET08007 20 credits
Literary Studies 1A

Must be passed

ENLI08020 20 credits
Literary Studies 1B

Must be passed

ENLI08021 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select between 20 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
AND

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
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
BIME08006 20 credits
Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)
EDUA08116 20 credits
Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric
EDUA08126 20 credits
Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world
EDUA08127 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
Living in the Anthropocene
GESC08004 20 credits
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
SSPS08012 20 credits
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits

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

Notes:
Entry into Honours:
1. Students must normally achieve 50% or more in Scotland & Orality and Visualising Scotland.
2. Students must normally achieve 50% or more at the first attempt in Literary Studies 2A and 2B.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Scotland and Orality

Must be passed at 50%

SCET08008 20 credits
Visualising Scotland

Must be passed at 50%

SCET08009 20 credits
Literary Studies 2A: English Literature in the World, 1380-1788

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ENLI08024 20 credits
Literary Studies 2B: English Literature in the World, post-1789

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ENLI08025 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Select between 20 and 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y
Notes:
Students on this degree programme are not permitted to take Scottish Literature 2A or 2B.
AND

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
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
BIME08006 20 credits
Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)
EDUA08116 20 credits
Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric
EDUA08126 20 credits
Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world
EDUA08127 20 credits
Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030
EFIE08008 20 credits
Living in the Anthropocene
GESC08004 20 credits
Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
SSPS08012 20 credits
Healthy Eating for People and Planet
VETS08016 20 credits

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Notes:
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. to 2. Dissertation
3. to 6. Scottish Ethnology Honours option courses
7. to 10. English Literature Honours option courses
11. to 12. Scottish Ethnology or English Literature Honours option courses

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

Course options

Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses

Select exactly 40 credits from Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses
Selected courses must be passed
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

English Literature Year 3 Option Courses - Semester 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Cities of Words: 20th Century Urban America
ENLI10096 20 credits
Body in Literature
ENLI10110 20 credits
Novel and the Collapse of Humanism
ENLI10120 20 credits
The Black Atlantic
ENLI10183 20 credits
Mystery and Horror
ENLI10207 20 credits
Working Class Representations
ENLI10271 20 credits
George Orwell and the Politics of Literature
ENLI10335 20 credits
Fiction and the Gothic, 1840-1940
ENLI10345 20 credits
Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature
ENLI10387 20 credits
AND

English Literature Year 3 Option Courses - Semester 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Creative Writing Part I: Poetry
ENLI10114 20 credits
Creative Writing Part 2: Prose
ENLI10115 20 credits
Shakespeare: Modes and Genres
ENLI10119 20 credits
Poetry, Politics and Place
ENLI10202 20 credits
Contemporary British Drama
ENLI10223 20 credits
Modernism and Empire
ENLI10338 20 credits
Haunted Imaginations: Scotland and the Supernatural'
ENLI10349 20 credits
The Making of Modern Fantasy
ENLI10351 20 credits
Digital Humanities for Literary Studies
ENLI10378 20 credits
Reading Science Fiction
ENLI10391 20 credits
Literature, Revolution and Rebellion in the Long Nineteenth Century
ENLI10428 20 credits
Modern Irish Literature: 1889-1955
ENLI10437 20 credits
AND

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

English Literature_Year 3_Reading Theory

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Reading Theory 1
ENLI10423 20 credits
Reading Theory 2
ENLI10424 20 credits
OR

Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses

Select exactly 40 credits from Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses
Selected courses must be passed

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

Notes:
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. to 2. Dissertation
3. to 6. Scottish Ethnology Honours option courses
7. to 10. English Literature Honours option courses
11. to 12. Scottish Ethnology or English Literature Honours option courses

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

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses

Select exactly 40 credits from Scottish Ethnology Level 10 courses
AND

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

English Literature Year 4 Option Courses - Semester 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry
ENLI10088 20 credits
Creative Writing Part I: Poetry
ENLI10210 20 credits
Medieval Romance
ENLI10221 20 credits
The Long Summer: Edwardian Texts and Contexts, 1900-1910
ENLI10273 20 credits
Fairy Tales
ENLI10274 20 credits
Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature
ENLI10333 20 credits
Poetry and Northern Ireland
ENLI10340 20 credits
Black American Fiction
ENLI10341 20 credits
Modernism: Text, Image, Object
ENLI10344 20 credits
Medicine in Literature 1: Illness Narratives through History
ENLI10355 20 credits
Censorship
ENLI10357 20 credits
Twenty-First Century Fiction
ENLI10379 20 credits
The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art
ENLI10380 20 credits
Global LGBT Fiction
ENLI10389 20 credits
The Queer Eighteenth Century
ENLI10394 20 credits
Theatre, Performance, Performativity
ENLI10409 20 credits
Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing
ENLI10410 20 credits
Decadence, Dazzle, Dissent: Aestheticism and Cultural Politics in the Long Twentieth Century
ENLI10434 20 credits
Representing Race on the British Stage, 1600-1850
ENLI10438 20 credits
Modernism's Moving Bodies: Text, Dance, Performance after 1890
ENLI10439 20 credits
AND

English Literature Year 4 Option Courses - Semester 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Shakespearean Sexualities
ENLI10133 20 credits
Joyce and Style
ENLI10200 20 credits
Decolonization and the Novel
ENLI10206 20 credits
Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry
ENLI10257 20 credits
Shakespeare Adapted
ENLI10304 20 credits
Medicine in Literature 2: Medical Ethics in Literature
ENLI10354 20 credits
Digital Humanities for Literary Studies
ENLI10378 20 credits
Fiction and Espionage
ENLI10388 20 credits
Paradise Lost
ENLI10398 20 credits
Beastly Writing: Animals, Literature, Modernity
ENLI10412 20 credits
Commodities of Empire: Colonialism, Ecology, Culture
ENLI10413 20 credits
The American Novel 1970-2010
ENLI10415 20 credits
Desire and Writing: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Criticism
ENLI10431 20 credits
Fear and Fascination: Vampire Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
ENLI10433 20 credits
Green Thoughts: Contemporary Environmental Poetry
ENLI10436 20 credits
AND

Group C

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scottish Ethnology Hons Dissertation

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Scottish Ethnology Hons Dissertation
SCET10017 40 credits
OR

English Literature Dissertation

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
English Literature Dissertation
ENLI10329 40 credits
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