MA English and Philosophy
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 Philosophy, exploring literature alongside fundamental questions of human existence and reasoning. Core topics include Research Methods and Communication & Writing. Students complete an independent dissertation in either subject area in their final year.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Divinity, History & Philosophy
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Acts of Reading
- Experience, Knowledge and Reality
- Controversial Questions
- How Should One Live?
- Logic and Argument
- Controversial Classics
- Rethinking Reading
- Encounters with Shakespeare
- The Tragedy of Knowledge
- 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)
- Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft (EL30YB)
- Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL30VC)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL30UT)
- Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
- Bildungsroman to Alien Invasion (EL35VB)
- Images Adequate to Our Predicament: Art for the Anthropocene (EL35ZF)
- Celtic Encounters: the Gaelic World in Irish and Scottish Literature
- English Dissertation
- Dissertation