MA English and Sociology
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 Sociology and English, combining sociology and English. Core topics include Research Methods and Communication & Writing. Students complete an individual English Dissertation and a sociological Research Project during their final year.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Language & Literature
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Acts of Reading
- Introduction to Sociology I: Self, Identity & Society
- Introduction to Sociology II: Systems of Power
- Controversial Classics
- Rethinking Reading
- Encounters with Shakespeare
- Sociology of Everyday Life i: the Embodied Self
- Sociology of Everyday Life II: Global Issues in the 21st Century
- Power, Empire and Equality
- The Tragedy of Knowledge
- Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
- Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
- Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
- Romanticism (EL30XR)
- Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL35VC)
- Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
- Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
- American Voices: Self and Society, 1850 - 1930 (EL30RD)
- Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL35UT)
- Research Project Part 1
- English Dissertation
- Research Project Part 2