DPT: Scottish Ethnology and English Language (MA Hons) (UTSETEL)

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

Compulsory courses

Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland

Must be passed

Scottish Studies 1B: Creating Scotland

Must be passed

Linguistics and English Language 1A

Must be passed

Linguistics and English Language 1B

Must be passed

Course options

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

Entry into Honours:
1. Progression to English Language Honours requires a minimum of 40% in each obligatory LEL2 course, achieved on the first or second sitting.
2. Students must normally achieve 50% or more at first attempt in Scotland & Orality and Visualising Scotland.

Compulsory courses

Scotland and Orality

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Visualising Scotland

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

LEL2A: Linguistic Theory and the Structure of English

Must be passed

Course options

Please note LEL2C clashes with SCET08009 Visualising Scotland

Selected courses must be passed

LEL2C: English in Time and Space

LEL2E: Structure and History of European Languages

AND

It is recommended that students take at least 20 credits of further LEL2 courses.

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, 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.)
1. Dissertation in Language Sciences or in Scottish Ethnology
2. Dissertation in Language Sciences or in Scottish Ethnology
3. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
4. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
5. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
6. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology
7. Honours option course in English Language
8. Honours option course in English Language
9. Honours option course in English Language
10. Honours option course in English Language
11. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology or English Language
12. Honours option course in Scottish Ethnology or English Language

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

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

AND

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.

Selected courses must be passed

English Word-Formation

Middle English

Lexical Semantics

Historical Linguistics

Statistics and Experimental Design

English grammar: a cognitive account

Reading Old English

Corpus Linguistics

Global Englishes

Syntactic Theory and English Syntax

Figurative Language