Venues

Merchiston Campus

Content

Year 1:
Introduction to Literature; 19th Century Literature and Culture 1; Studying Literature and Culture in the Modern World; Narrative: Text and Film; Literature and Adaptation; Case Studies in Cultural Studies; Option.

Year 2:
Literature of Empire: Texts and Contexts; The Modern Novel; Modern Drama; 19th Century Literature and Culture 2; Shakespeare and the Renaissance; Option (such as Creative Writing).

Year 3:
Understanding Cultural and Literary Theory; Cultural and Literary Theory Into Practice; Options (four from Journalism and Literature, Science Fiction: Text and Film, Women’s Writing and Filmmaking, Romantic, Victorian and Modern Poetry or Creative Writing).

Year 4:
Options (four from Book History, Postcolonial Fiction and Film, National Literature, The Fiction Market, Cities Real and Imagined, Crime in Text and Film or The Gothic Tradition); Dissertation.

Entry Requirements

2020 entry requirements

Standard entry:
4 Highers at ABBB including English.

Widening access entry:
4 Highers at BCCC including English at B.

For entry to year 2 you must have 3 Advanced Highers at BBC including English at B.