Summary

87 modules found

  2. EN1003 - Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    11.00 am
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr S C Manly

    In this module students are introduced to a range of texts, in prose and verse, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis is laid upon (i) close reading; (ii) the…

  3. EN1004 - Empires and Revolutions: Literature 1680-1830

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    11.00 am
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr P Mackay

    This module introduces a range of works from the period 1680-1830. Looking at travel, colonialism, and different constructions of man's natural estate in the early eighteenth…

  4. EN1901 - Reading English

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    Thu 6.30 - 9.00 pm
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%

    In this module students are introduced to a small number of texts, in prose and verse, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis is laid on (i) practical criticism,…

  5. EN2003 - Medieval and Renaissance Texts

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    4.00 pm
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr G J Pertile

    In the first half of this module students will learn to read early forms of English language and literature, using specially edited texts from Old English, Middle English and…

  6. EN2004 - Drama: Reading and Performance

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    4.00 pm
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr M C Augustine

    This module is designed to provide an introduction to a small number of representative plays from the Renaissance period to the twentieth century. Special emphasis will be laid…

  7. EN2902 - Writing Scotland: Creative and Critical Approaches

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    Lecture: Thu 6.30pm Tutorial: Thu 7.30 - 9.00pm
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Dr H A R Archer

    What is Scotland? How does a nation take shape on paper, and who gets to decide which aspects will take hold in the cultural imagination? In this module we will explore the ways…

  8. EN3111 - Beowulf

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    Tuesday 15.00-17.00
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

    This module introduces students to one of the strangest works of medieval literature, Beowulf. The hero's struggles against monsters, and the text's depiction of pagan…

  9. EN3141 - Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    10am - 12 Tues
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr H A R Archer

    Students in this module will study the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and acquire knowledge of contemporary critical approaches to the subject. They will consider how …

  10. EN3162 - Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805)

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    11.00 am Tue and 10.00 am Thu
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Prof N H Roe

    The module offers students a wide-ranging introduction to the varied and stimulating literature of the 1790s. It will also present students with an opportunity to read some of the …

  11. EN3163 - The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830)

    Year
    2024-2025
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    11.00 am Thu and 11.00 am Fri
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Prof N H Roe

    The module aims to introduce students to the second generation of Romantic writers, and to equip them with a good working knowledge of literary culture in Britain in the second…