MA English and Scottish 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, exploring literary history, texts, and critical theory across four years. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing. The curriculum includes independent dissertation research options alongside specialized studies in poetry, drama, and prose from the medieval period to the modern era.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Acts of Reading
- Controversial Classics
- Rethinking Reading
- Encounters with Shakespeare
- The Tragedy of Knowledge
- Power, Empire and Equality
- Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
- 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)
- Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
- Britain and the Nineteenth - Century World (EL35SB)
- Romanticism (EL30XR)
- Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL35VC)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
- Creative Writing: Creativity and Craft (EL35YB)
- Landscapes of Film and Literature (FS35ZB)
- Landmarks of Modern Austrian Literature
- Playful Fictions: Cervantes, Borges, Cortazar
- Dissertation in Scottish Literature