MA English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: ABB or BBB (Additional requirements: A-level English or another Humanities subject.) IB: 34 (6,5,5) (Additional requirements: English HL6 or Humanities HL6 with English SL6.) Scottish Higher: BBBB is the minimum requirement from S5 to be reviewed for an S6 offer Offers are not guaranteed to applicants who meet the minimum from S5 Typically offers will be made at AAAAB by end of S6. B at Advanced Higher is equivalent to A at Higher Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject at AA. (AB or BA may be considered). Scottish Higher (widening access): MD20 : BBBB (also other target groups*) MD40 : AABB* Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject. Successful completion of Top-Up or one of our Summer Schools.
About this course
MA in English Literature, an undergraduate degree spanning BSc (Hons) Data Science and English Literature and Film Studies subject areas. Core topics include Research Methods. Students can undertake a dissertation in their final year. The first year covers poetry and the study of the novel through compulsory modules English Literature 1A: Poetry & Poetics and English Literature 1B: Critical Skill-Making: The Study of the Novel. The second year focuses on ecologies and the body via English Literature 2A: Writing Ecologies and English Literature 2B: Writing the Body. Later years provide a wide range of option choices covering periods, genres, and theoretical approaches, including American Literature 1 (1836-1929), American Literature 2 (1930 to present), Literature 1510-1660: Rethinking the Renaissance, and James Joyce. Students complete their studies with options such as English Literature Dissertation, Creative Writing Dissertation, or Applied Dissertation with Placement in English Literature.
Modules
- English Literature 1A: Poetry & Poetics
- English Literature 1B: Critical Skill-Making: The Study of the Novel
- English Literature 2A: Writing Ecologies
- English Literature 2B: Writing the Body
- American Literature 1 (1836-1929)
- American Literature 2 (1930 to present)
- Core Course 1: Literary Theory
- Literature 1510-1660: Rethinking the Renaissance
- Literature 1660-1780
- Literature 1780-1840
- Literature 1830-1914
- Literature 1890-1945
- Literature 1945-present
- British Children's Literature
- Power and Resistance: Contemporary Irish and Scottish Literature
- James Joyce
- Literature and Medicine
- Modernism and the Politics of Gender
- Postcolonialism: Writing & Theory
- Radical Theory: Culture and Critique since 1968
- Realism and Fantasy in Victorian Literature
- Religion, Politics and Philosophy in Early Modern English Literature
- Romantic Ecologies
- Romanticism and Revolution
- Science Fiction 1945-present
- Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Playing with History
- Shakespearean Forms from Sonnet to Tragedy
- The Contemporary Novel: Transatlantic Crosscurrents
- The Fantastic History of the Twentieth Century
- US Fictions of the Great Depression
- Victorian Popular Fiction
- Writing the English Revolution: Literature, Politics and Religion from Milton to Marvell
- Core Course 1: Author, Reader, World
- Core Course 2: The Words on the Page
- Creative Writing Fiction
- Creative Writing Hybrid Forms
- Creative Writing Poetry
- Literature and Collecting
- Canadian Literature
- Fantasies of Energy
- Poetry Mothers: Queer Poems, Queer Poetics
- Raw Material: Literature, Empire, Commodities
- Dragged off the Street: Queer Players on the Renaissance Stage
- Futures: Unbundling the Now
- Medical Humanities Dissertation
- English Literature Dissertation
- Creative Writing Dissertation
- Medical Humanities Dissertation 40 credits
- Applied Dissertation with Placement in English Literature
- From the Beginnings to the Early Modern in Older Scots Literature (1375-1501)
- Memorialising Scottish Culture and Literature
- Modern Scottish Poetry
- Scottish Journeys
- Scottish Fiction under Late Capitalism
- Heroes, Outlaws, and Outsiders: Old English and Old Icelandic Literature in Translation
- Editing Historical English Texts
- Medieval Multitudes: Exploring Middle English Texts
- Medieval Literature: Other Worlds
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- INVENTING THE MODERN
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH HUMANITIES