MA English
Entry requirements
A level: CCC (The recommended subject is English) IB: 28 points, including 5, 5, 4 at higher level Higher / Advanced Higher, SQA (standard): BBBC (There are no essential subjects for level 1 entry).
About this course
MA (Hons) in English, examining English-language literature across multiple historical periods and genres. Core topics include research methods, design and creative practice. A research dissertation can be undertaken in the final year. An internship module is available, and partnerships with V&A Dundee provide opportunities to engage with the creative and cultural industries.
Modules
- Humanities in Practice
- Introduction to Literary Study
- Reading the Screen: An Introduction to Film Studies
- Approaches to Reading
- Applied French 1A (Beginner)
- Applied French 1A (non-beginner)
- Applied French 1B (Beginner)
- Applied French 1B (non-beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1A (Beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1A (non-beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1B (Intensive)
- Applied Spanish 1B (non-beginner)
- Career Planning Module Online
- Internship
- Classical Hollywood Cinema
- Literature in Context
- Literature and Society
- National Cinemas Post-1945
- Practicing Creative Writing
- Gender, Sexuality, Culture
- Multi Ethnic American Fiction
- The Pictured Page: Literature to Comics
- The African Novel
- Theoretical Perspectives on Film
- Reading and Writing Short Stories: Learning from the American Tradition
- American Literature
- Film Art
- Reading Fiction before 1900
- Science Fiction in Literature, Film and Popular Culture
- Writing Poetry
- Literature in Theory
- Mediterranean Literature
- The Writer in the World
- Creative Practice Dissertation
- English Dissertation
- Contemporary Drama and Performance
- Transatlantic Modernism
- Romanticism in Literature and Film
- Contemporary Scottish Literature
- The Gothic Tradition
- Writing the Environment
- Forms of Love
- Adapting Nineteenth-Century Classics
- From Final Draft to Final Cut
- Final Draft: Screenwriting in Theory and Practice