Content

Year 1: study a wide range of literature including Shakespearean drama and modern cutting-edge fiction.

Year 2: topics in literary history and classes on Renaissance, Enlightenment and Romantic writing; you can also learn about relationships between literature and identity in The Construction of Scotland and Making the Modern Human classes.

Year 3: you have the opportunity to study abroad in Europe or North America; or continue your studies at Strathclyde with classes in Victorian and 20th-century literature and from options that currently include Renaissance Drama, Children’s Literature, Theories of Literature and Wellbeing, the First World War, and the Glasgow Novel.

Year 4: Honours dissertation and options such as Victorian Gothic Writing, Contemporary Travel Writing, Atrocity and Modernism, Literature, Mind and Brain, and The 20th and 21st -century American Novel.

Year 4: Honours dissertation and options such as Victorian Gothic Writing, Literary Snobbery, Contemporary Travel Writing, Atrocity and Modernism, Literature, Mind and Brain, and The 20th and
21st Century American Novel.

Entry Requirements

2021 entry requirements

Standard entry:
4 or 5 Highers at AAAA (first sitting) or AAAAB (two sittings) including English plus Maths or Applications of Maths at National 5 at B.

Widening Access entry:
4 or 5 Highers at AABB (first sitting) or AABBB (two sittings) including English plus Maths or Applications of Maths at National 5 at C.