DPT: Persian and English Literature (MA Hons) (UTPRSELMAH)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

If you are a heritage student or have prior knowledge of Arabic or Persian, please contact the Head of Department, who will advise you on the evaluation process.

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

Compulsory courses

Persian 1a

Must be passed

Persian 1b

Must be passed

Modern Middle Eastern History A: Domestic Transformation and International Challenges

Modern Middle Eastern History B: Postwar Independence and Conflict

Literary Studies 1A

Must be passed

Literary Studies 1B

Must be passed

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Entry to Honours:

(1) Students must pass courses to the required value of 240 credits in the first two years.
(2) Students must achieve 50% or more, at the first attempt, in Persian 2.

All courses (including outside subjects) must be passed before embarking on the year abroad, an outside course passed at Resit in August will be acceptable.

Compulsory courses

Persian 2

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Introduction to Islam

Must be passed

Islamic and Middle Eastern Cultures

Must be passed

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

Must be passed

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

Must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

During 3rd year, when study in a Persian-speaking country or at an approved institution elsewhere is permitted, at least 30 weeks of approved residence must be spent in a relevant country.

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, etc.)

Group A - With Persian study abroad in 3rd year:

1. Advanced Persian
2. Advanced Persian
3. Advanced Persian
4. Persian Coursework Essay
5. English Literature Long Essay
6. English Literature Long Essay
7. IMES Honours Option (Persian Language)
8. IMES Dissertation Part 1 (same mark as 9)
9. IMES Dissertation Part 2
10. Selected English Literature Reading Theory course
11. English Literature Honours Option
12. English Literature Honours Option

Group B - Without Persian study abroad in 3rd year:

In the list above two Advanced Persian papers are replaced by Intensive Persian (40 credits); the Persian Coursework Essay is replaced by one IMES honours option (20 credits); and the English Literature Long Essay is replaced by one Reading Theory course (20 credits) plus one English Literature honours option (20 credits). (NB This option (Group B) is only available to students when study in a Persian-speaking country or at an approved institution elsewhere is not permitted.)

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

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

IMES Dissertation (Part 1)

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Persian Language Acquisition Through Residence/Study B

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Persian Coursework Essay

AND

Selected courses must be passed

English Literature Long Essay (Modern European Languages)

Selected courses must be passed

IMES Dissertation (Part 1)

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Intensive Persian

AND

Please be aware that all courses may not be available every year.

Selected courses must be passed

Classical Persian Literature

Cinema and Society in the Middle East

Modern Persian Literature and 'Modern' Iran

Of Wine, Love and Loss: Reading Iran through Classical Persian Literature

History and Culture of Iran

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Reading Theory 1

Reading Theory 2

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Body in Literature

Novel and the Collapse of Humanism

Decolonization and the Novel

Mystery and Horror

Creative Writing Part I: Poetry

Working Class Representations

Shakespeare's Comedies: Identity and Illusion

Fiction and the Gothic, 1840-1940

Haunted Imaginations: Scotland and the Supernatural'

Digital Humanities for Literary Studies

Literature, Revolution and Rebellion in the Long Nineteenth Century

Selected courses must be passed

Cities of Words: 20th Century Urban America

Shakespeare: Modes and Genres

Poetry, Politics and Place

Contemporary British Drama

'We are [not] Amused': Victorian Comic Literature

American Innocence

Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature

21st Century Black American Fiction

Representing Race on the British Stage, 1600-1850

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, 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, etc.)

Group A - With Persian study abroad in 3rd year:

1. Advanced Persian
2. Advanced Persian
3. Advanced Persian
4. Persian Coursework Essay
5. English Literature Long Essay
6. English Literature Long Essay
7. IMES Honours Option (Persian Language)
8. IMES Dissertation Part 1 (same mark as 9)
9. IMES Dissertation Part 2
10. Selected English Literature Reading Theory course
11. English Literature Honours Option
12. English Literature Honours Option

Group B - Without Persian study abroad in 3rd year:

In the list above two Advanced Persian papers are replaced by Intensive Persian (40 credits); the Persian Coursework Essay is replaced by one IMES honours option (20 credits); and the English Literature Long Essay is replaced by one Reading Theory course (20 credits) plus one English Literature honours option (20 credits). (NB This option (Group B) is only available to students when study in a Persian-speaking country or at an approved institution elsewhere is not permitted.)