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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2025

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Degree Programme Table: Scottish Literature and Scottish History (MA Hons) (UTSLUHSMAH)

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
The Historian's Toolkit

Must be passed

HIST08032 20 credits
The History of Edinburgh: From Din Eidyn to Festival City

Must be passed

HIST08036 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 to year 3 requires a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Scottish Literature 2A and 2B; and 50% or more, at first attempt, in Introduction to Historiography AND in the selected course from the Scottish History collection.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

HIST08044 20 credits
Themes in Scottish History since 1560

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

HIST08042 20 credits
Scottish Literature 2A

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ENLI08022 20 credits
Scottish Literature 2B

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ENLI08023 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 Literary Studies 2A or 2B.
You may NOT choose more than 20 credits of History courses (with codes starting HIST) in this collection.
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:
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 Scottish History.
2. Honours option for Scottish History.
3. English/Scotish 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 Scottish History.
6. English Literature Reading Theory 2 OR Honours option for Scottish History.

From Fourth Year:

7. Honours option for Scottish History.
8. Honours option for Scottish History.
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 Scottish History.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or Scottish History.

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

Course options

Scottish History Honours Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970
ECSH10070 20 credits
Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
SCHI10005 20 credits
Contemporary Scotland
SCHI10010 20 credits
Scotland and the Great War
SCHI10073 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 20 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
OR

Scottish Literature Year 3 Option Courses - Semester 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
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
ENLI10207 20 credits
Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature
ENLI10387 20 credits
AND

Group B

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Scottish Literature Year 3 Option Courses - Semester 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
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
ENLI10115 20 credits
Haunted Imaginations: Scotland and the Supernatural'
ENLI10349 20 credits
The Making of Modern Fantasy
ENLI10351 20 credits
OR

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 C

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

History Honours Skills Courses for joint degrees

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Historical Skills and Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take the Dissertation in Scottish History.
Selected courses must be passed
Historical Skills and Methods II
HIST10425 20 credits
Historical Skills and Methods I
HIST10426 20 credits
AND

Scottish History Honours Electives

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970
ECSH10070 20 credits
Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
SCHI10005 20 credits
Contemporary Scotland
SCHI10010 20 credits
Scotland and the Great War
SCHI10073 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
AND

English Literature_Year 3_Reading Theory

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
Selected courses must be passed
Reading Theory 1
ENLI10423 20 credits
Reading Theory 2
ENLI10424 20 credits

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 purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are, therefore, listed twice.)

From Third Year:

1. Honours option for Scottish History.
2. Honours option for Scottish History.
3. English/Scotish 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 Scottish History.
6. English Literature Reading Theory 2 OR Honours option for Scottish History.

From Fourth Year:

7. Honours option for Scottish History.
8. Honours option for Scottish History.
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 Scottish History.
12. Dissertation for English Literature or Scottish History.

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

Course options

Dissertation for Scottish Lit and Scottish History students

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
English Literature Dissertation
ENLI10329 40 credits
History Dissertation
HIST10309 40 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scottish History Year 4 Special Subjects

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
The Stewarts: Family, Feud and Faction in a late medieval kingdom
HIST10535 40 credits
Highland Problems,1851 to 1953
SCHI10018 40 credits
OR

Scottish History Honours Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970
ECSH10070 20 credits
Kings and Kindreds: Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
SCHI10005 20 credits
Contemporary Scotland
SCHI10010 20 credits
Scotland and the Great War
SCHI10073 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
AND

Group B

Select exactly 40 credits in this group.

Scottish Literature Year 4 Option Courses - Semester 1

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
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
ENLI10088 20 credits
Creative Writing Part I: Poetry
ENLI10210 20 credits
AND

Scottish Literature Year 4 Option Courses - Semester 2

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students must choose at least 40 credits from the Scottish Literature course collections across the two years of Honours study.
Medicine in Literature 2: Medical Ethics in Literature
ENLI10354 20 credits
Fiction and Espionage
ENLI10388 20 credits
AND

English Literature Year 4 Option Courses - Semester 1

Select between 0 and 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 between 0 and 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

LLC Common Courses and Divinity courses for English Literature students

Select between 0 and 20 credits of the following courses
The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock
CLLC10007 20 credits
Boundaries of the Human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature
CLLC10008 20 credits
Religion and Ethics in Literature
DIVI10016 20 credits
Scottish Literature and the Religious Imagination
DIVI10046 20 credits
Ethical Encounters with the 'Other' in Speculative Fiction
DIVI10124 20 credits
Scottish Religious Poetry from the Sixth Century to the Present
DIVI10132 20 credits
Comparative Literature in a European and Global Perspective
ELCC10022 20 credits
The Great Russian Novel
ELCR10002 20 credits
Culture and Power under Stalin 1924-1953
ELCR10022 20 credits
Old Norse Literature and Society
ELCS10039 20 credits
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