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MA English

University of Aberdeen

Institution
University of Aberdeen
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
Q300
Typical offer
A-level BBC, IB 32

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. Core topics include Communication & Writing, Research Methods, and Laboratory Techniques. Students can complete an independent dissertation on a chosen topic within English literature in their final year.

Modules

  • Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
  • Acts of Reading
  • Controversial Classics
  • Rethinking Reading
  • Academic Writing for Language & Literature
  • Encounters with Shakespeare
  • 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)
  • Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
  • American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)
  • Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL35VC)
  • Romanticism (EL30XR)
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
  • Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
  • Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
  • Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft (EL35YB)
  • Britain and the Nineteenth - Century World (EL35SB)
  • Landmarks of Modern Austrian Literature
  • Playful Fictions: Cervantes, Borges, Cortazar
  • Landscapes of Film and Literature (FS35ZB)
  • English Dissertation
  • Not the Queen's English (EL40SC)
  • Staging the City: Renaissance Urban Drama (EL40AD)
  • Literature and Medicine (EL40HQ)
  • Wandering Women: Literature, Place and Environment (EL40JA)
  • The Corpo - Reality of Postcolonial Dystopias (EL40IQ)
  • Creative Writing: the Essential Skills (EL40PB)
  • Brief Encounters (EL40TL)
  • All for One: the Politics of Love and Friendship in Literature (EL40WH)
  • British Poetry of the 20th Century (EL40YN)
  • Controversy and Drama: Marlowe to Revenge Tragedy (EL45CT)
  • Literature and Music (EL45HC)
  • Vulnerable Bodies, Precarious Lives (EL45KF)
  • Screenwriting: the Narrative Within the Frame (EL45TM)
  • Amnesty, Amnesia, Archive (EL45UU)
  • Sex and Death: Exploring the Forbidden in Gothic Fiction (EL45VA)