MA Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies and English
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 and Celtic, exploring literary history, language development, and regional cultural heritage. Core topics include Laboratory Techniques, Research Methods, and Communication & Writing. This four-year degree builds upon a century-long tradition of Celtic studies and literary research at Aberdeen.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Barbarians, Romans, Gods and Warriors
- Magic, Mystery, Spells and Potions in the Ancient World
- Modern Irish Language for Beginners 1
- Gaelic Scotland
- Gaelic for Beginners 1a
- Latin 1
- Gaelic for Beginners 1b
- Latin 2
- Controversial Classics
- Rethinking Reading
- The Rise of Christianity
- Modern Irish Language for Beginners 2
- Acts of Reading
- Encounters with Shakespeare
- Arthur in Medieval Celtic and Scandinavian Literature
- The Rise of Christianity
- The Celts, Their Neighbours, and The Classical World
- Magic, Mystery, Spells and Potions in the Ancient World
- Scottish Folklore and Oral Traditions
- Introduction to Scottish Gaelic Literature
- Vikings: an Introduction
- The Tragedy of Knowledge
- Power, Empire and Equality
- Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
- Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
- Romanticism (EL35XR)
- Britain and the Nineteenth - Century World (EL35SB)
- Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
- Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
- American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)
- Queer Times (EL35WC)
- Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL30UT)
- Images Adequate to Our Predicament: Art for the Anthropocene (EL35ZF)
- Bildungsroman to Alien Invasion (EL35VB)
- Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL30VC)
- Materialising Faith: Women, Art and Religion, 1150 - 1500
- Scottish Archaeology
- Celtic Encounters: the Gaelic World in Irish and Scottish Literature
- Brittonic Language Ia
- Independent Study In Celtic & Anglo - Saxon Studies A
- Animals and Monsters in the Greek World and Beyond
- Early Modern Gaelic Language and Texts A
- Crime and Punishment
- The Twelfth - Century Renaissance
- Brittonic Language Iia
- Celtic & Anglo - Saxon Kingship
- Dissertation in Celtic & Anglo - Saxon Studies
- English Dissertation
- Materialising Faith: Women, Art and Religion, 1150 - 1500
- Celtic Encounters: the Gaelic World in Irish and Scottish Literature
- Brittonic Language Ib
- Independent Study In Celtic & Anglo - Saxon Studies B
- Animals and Monsters in the Greek World and Beyond
- The Twelfth - Century Renaissance
- Brittonic Language Iib
- Celtic & Anglo - Saxon Kingship
- Controversy and Drama: Marlowe to Revenge Tragedy (EL40CT)
- Wandering Women: Literature, Place and Environment (EL40JA)
- Imagined Spaces: Self and Place in Twentieth Century Scottish Fiction (EL40KD)
- Creative Writing: the Essential Skills (EL40PB)
- Not the Queen's English (EL40SC)
- Amnesty, Amnesia, Archive (EL40UU)
- Sex and Death: Exploring the Forbidden in Gothic Fiction (EL40VA)
- British Poetry of the 20th Century (EL40YN)
- Staging the City: Renaissance Urban Drama (EL45AD)
- The Short Story as A Literary Form (EL45DR)
- Literature and Medicine (EL45HQ)
- Screenwriting: the Narrative Within the Frame (EL45TM)