MA English Language & Literature
Entry requirements
A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.
About this course
MA in English, covering both language development and literary history across a four-year undergraduate programme. Core topics include Communication & Writing. The curriculum draws on specialist expertise from Celtic and Anglo-Saxon studies, language and linguistics, and English literary studies.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Acts of Reading
- Controversial Classics
- Barbarians, Romans, Gods and Warriors
- Language Myths
- Rethinking Reading
- Living Language
- Encounters with Shakespeare
- Elements of English
- Language in Society
- Arthur in Medieval Celtic and Scandinavian Literature
- Otherworld: Lost Gods and Hidden Monsters of Medieval Scotland
- The Tragedy of Knowledge
- Power, Empire and Equality
- Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
- Not the Queen's English (EL40SC)