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Master of Arts (Honours) English and Scottish History


MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 40 credits from Module List: EN1003, EN1004, CO1001, CO1002 AND
Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20
Explorers and Revolutionaries: Literature 1680 - 1830 20
The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20
Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Scotland and the English Empire 1070 - 1500 20 AND
( The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20 OR
The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20 OR
Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20 ) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ Medieval and Renaissance Texts 20 AND
^ Drama: Reading and Performance 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^
MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
* Scotland, Britain and Empire (c. 1500 - 2000) 20 AND
( * History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts 20 OR
* Medieval Europe (11th - 15th c.) 20 ) AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better in the modules marked *

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

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MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.


MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340, ME3502 (Group A) OR
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
The Medieval Book 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360 (Group B) OR
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389 (Group C) ) AND
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398 - EN4399, EN4794 - EN4797)
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
Literary Theory 30
Literature and Ecology 30
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama 30
Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
Modern Experimental Poetry 30
Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
Reading Popular Music 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
EN4405 Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
Contemporary Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 30
EN4415 T.S. Eliot 30
Virginia Woolf 30
Writing Poetry and Prose 30
American Poetry since 1950 30
American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
EN4420 Writing Prose 30
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4424 Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature 30
EN4425 Celtic Modernisms 30
EN4426 Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
The Shape of the Poem 30
Making Performance 30
EN4432 Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
Literature and Culture of Sport 30
Writing the Pacific 30
Playwriting 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA English (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits from one of:
Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340), ME3502 OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389);
60 - 120 credits: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only).
30 of these credits may, with the permission of both Heads of School, be substituted for level 3000 or 4000 level credits in another School;

In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000 level.

MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779,
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Choices should be made from different module ranges.

Not more than 90 Honours credits may be chosen from modules taught by any one member of staff.


MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340, ME3502 (Group A) OR
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
The Medieval Book 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360 (Group B) OR
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389 (Group C) ) AND
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
( View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398) AND
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
Literary Theory 30
Literature and Ecology 30
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama 30
Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
Modern Experimental Poetry 30
Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
Reading Popular Music 30
EN3904 Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 1: To 1900 30
EN3905 Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 2: Since 1900 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
Dissertation in English 30
Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
EN4405 Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
Contemporary Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 30
EN4415 T.S. Eliot 30
Virginia Woolf 30
Writing Poetry and Prose 30
American Poetry since 1950 30
American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
EN4420 Writing Prose 30
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4424 Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature 30
EN4425 Celtic Modernisms 30
EN4426 Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
The Shape of the Poem 30
Making Performance 30
EN4432 Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
Literature and Culture of Sport 30
Writing the Pacific 30
Playwriting 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN4398, ID4002 )
Short Dissertation 15
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA English (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits from one of:
Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340), ME3502 OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389);
60 - 120 credits: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only).
30 of these credits may, with the permission of both Heads of School, be substituted for level 3000 or 4000 level credits in another School;

In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000 level.

MA (Hons) Scottish History (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: ME4750-ME4789, MO4801 - MO4849 OR
ME4750 Conflict and Cohabitation: Northern Britain c.550 – 750 60
Robert Bruce and Edward II: Kings, Nobles and Communities in the British Isles (1306 – 1346) 60
ME4756 Historia Brittonum: Inventing the Past in Ninth-Century Wales 60
Monks and Nuns, Saints and Nobles: Germany in the High Middle Ages 60
MO4805 The Scottish Enlightenment 60
Britain and the Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648) 60
Mary, Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland 60
Class or Nation? Radical Politics in Twentieth Century Scotland 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: HI4794, HI4997 - HI4999 AND
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Recording the Past 30
Honours Project in History 30
Honours Dissertation in History 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Modules: ME3140-3159, ME3301-3389, MO3060-3079, MO3160-3179,MO3260-3279,MO3360-3379,MO3460-3479,MO3560-3579,MO3760-3779, AND
The Castle in Medieval Scotland (1100 - 1550) 30
ME3304 Age of Conquest: Edward I - Scotland and Wales (1239 - 1307) 30
ME3308 Adomnan and his World: Scotland and Ireland in the Dark Ages 30
ME3309 Medieval 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ 30
ME3313 Early Irish Society (c. 600-800) 30
Times of trouble: civil conflicts in the later fifteenth century 30
ME3315 Scandinavians in the First Millennium 30
MO3063 Pirates and Privateers in Early Modern Scottish History 30
Crown and Nobility in early modern Scotland 30
MO3162 Early Modern Scotland in the age of British Unions (1603-1707) 30
Scotland and the Wider World 30
MO3165 North Britons: Patriotism and Identity in Scotland 1680 - 1830 30
MO3166 Debating Britain: Anglo-Scottish Unionism 1521 - 1707 30
MO3263 British Culture in the Eighteenth Century 30
MO3362 Highland Clearances: Reality and Myth 30
MO3363 Crime, Protest and Policing in Scotland (1780-1914) 30
MO3364 Hidden from History: Women in Scotland 30
Nationalism and Unionism in Modern Scotland 30
MO3461 Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Aspects of everyday life 30
MO3561 Thatcherism, the 'new right', and the remaking of British politics, c. 1940 - 1997 30
The Power of Persuasion: Propaganda in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: ID4002, HI4101 and HI4996 )
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
HI4101 Communication in History 15
Presenting the Past 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students must select 60 credits History credits.
With the permission of the Director of Teaching 30 credits in Fourth Year may be replaced by ID4002 and HI4101.
HI4999 requires the permission of the Chair of the Degree Committee.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).