DPT: English Language and Literature (MA Hons) (UTENGLT)

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

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

Compulsory courses

Linguistics and English Language 1A

Must be passed

Linguistics and English Language 1B

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1A

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1B

Must be passed

Course options

It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you choose outside courses in first year that follow on into second year, so that there is the possibility of an alternative degree programme at the end of second year. An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

As an alternative to the above-listed courses, you may take courses in British Sign Language (LLLO07003/LLLO07004) from Schedule X, subject to availability. The overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 still applies in this case

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

Compulsory courses

LEL2A: Linguistic Theory and the Structure of English

Must be passed

LEL2C: English in Time and Space

Must be passed

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

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

Notes: Progression to Honours requires a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Literary Studies 2A and Literary Studies 2B

The LEL Honours handbook giving details about the courses being offered in any one year, as well as about restrictions on choice of courses, will be available to students entering the course to facilitate advance planning. Students MUST consult this handbook regarding the selection of 'core' courses.

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

Course options

Sociolinguistics

Historical Linguistics

Pragmatics

Syntax: Theory and Practice

Morphology

Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology

Cognitive Linguistics

Semantic Theory

AND

If you plan to take a LEL Dissertation in Year 4 you must take an LEL Skills course in Year 3.

Simulating Language

Reading Old English

Linguistic Fieldwork and Language Description

Computer Programming for Speech and Language Processing

Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology

Methods in Theoretical Linguistics

Discourse Analysis

Online Experiments for Language Scientists

Structure of a Language A

This is your 'free choice'. Please select a course from any course cluster.

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Celtic Revivals: Writing on the Periphery,1890-1939

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 taken during Semester 2

Ideology and Literature

Cities of Words: 20th Century Urban America

Body in Literature

Creative Writing Part I: Poetry

Creative Writing Part 2: Prose

Novel and the Collapse of Humanism

The Subject of Poetry: Marvell to Coleridge

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

Reading Theory 1

Reading Theory 2

AND

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

The LEL Honours handbook giving details about the courses being offered in any one year, as well as about restrictions on choice of courses, will be available to students entering the course to facilitate advance planning. Students MUST consult this handbook regarding the selection of 'core' courses.

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