MA English and Theology & Religion
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 Theology and Religion. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, and Language & Translation. The curriculum includes an independent research dissertation written under academic supervision in one of the sub-disciplines of Divinity and Religious Studies.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Divinity, History & Philosophy
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Acts of Reading
- Controversial Classics
- Rethinking Reading
- Latin 1
- Latin 2
- Encounters with Shakespeare
- The Tragedy of Knowledge
- Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
- Classical Epic (EL35EH)
- Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
- Romanticism (EL30XR)
- Britain and the Nineteenth - Century World (EL30SB)
- Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL35QA)
- Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
- American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)
- Queer Times (EL30WC)
- Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL30UT)
- Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft (EL30YB)
- Stylistics
- Landscapes of Film and Literature (FS35ZB)
- Dissertation
- English Dissertation