DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

You will be automatically enroled on your compulsory courses, totalling 100 credits. You must pass Literary Studies 1A and 1B in order to progress to Year 2 of the programme.

You will be automatically enroled on your compulsory courses in Philosophy and Scottish Literature, totalling 80 credits.

Progression to Honours (Year 3) requires:

- An average of 50% across both MML and K&R, achieved at first attempt
- An passing course mark of 40% or above in both MML and K&R, achieved at first attempt.
- A passing course mark of 50% or above in both Scottish Literature 2A and 2B, achieved at first attempt.

For your 40 credits of options, you can select two courses in any combination from Philosophy of Science 1, Introduction to the History of Philosophy A, LEL2C, LEL2D, an 'outside' courses from across the University, or a 'Challenge' course.

You will automatically be enroled on:
- Philosophy Dissertation Information Course (0 credits). This is required to take a dissertation in Philosophy in Year 4, but does not preclude taking a Literature dissertation.

You will need to take the following:
- 40 credits (2 courses) of Scottish Literature courses (Group A)
- 40-80 credits (2-3 courses) of Year 3 Philosophy courses (from any category).(Group B)
- 0-40 credits (0-2 courses) of Year 3 Reading Theory (Literature) courses (Group B)

You can either split your overall credits evenly - 60 credits in Philosophy and 60 in Literature - or opt for an 80-40 split, with 2 courses in one subject and 4 in the other. In both cases, you must take 120 credits in total.

You will need to take:

- a 40-credit Literature dissertation, an independent Philosophy dissertation, or two Philosophy coursework dissertations (2x 20 credit courses) (Group A)
- 40 credits (2 courses) of Year 4 Philosophy courses (Group B)
- 40 credits (2 courses) of Year 4 Scottish Literature courses (Group C)