MA English and Philosophy
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 and Philosophy, combining literary and philosophical studies. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The course includes modules on aesthetics, existentialism, literary interpretation, film studies, and creative writing. Students specialise in Levels 3 and 4.
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)
- Introduction to Aesthetics
- Descartes, Thought and Reality
- Applied Spanish 1A (Beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1A (non-beginner)
- Applied Spanish 1B (Intensive)
- Applied Spanish 1B (non-beginner)
- Career Planning Module Online
- Internship
- Literature in Context
- Literature and Society
- Gender, Sexuality, Culture
- Thinking about life: Existentialism, Life World and Dasein
- Aesthetics
- Multi Ethnic American Fiction
- The Pictured Page: Literature to Comics
- The African Novel
- Reading and Writing Short Stories: Learning from the American Tradition
- American Literature
- Science Fiction in Literature, Film and Popular Culture
- Writing Poetry
- Literature in Theory
- Mediterranean Literature
- The Writer in the World
- Justice, Community and Faith
- Fear, Anxiety, and Courage in Philosophy and Film
- Feminist Philosophies and Queer Theories
- Philosophising in Tongues: Philosophy, Politics and Language
- English Dissertation
- Contemporary Drama and Performance
- Transatlantic Modernism
- Romanticism in Literature and Film
- Contemporary Scottish Literature
- The Gothic Tradition
- Adapting Nineteenth-Century Classics
- Final Draft: Screenwriting in Theory and Practice
- Justice, Community and Faith
- Philosophy Dissertation
- Fundamental texts in the European tradition - Phenomenology
- Dialectics: Systems and their Negations