MA (Hons) English and International Relations Bachelor's degree at the University of Aberdeen

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Introduces students to the study of English by exploring the dynamic relationship between author, reader and text in a series of classic works of fiction and poetry. Covers a broad historical range and offers basic grounding in key elements of literary theory, literary history and varieties of literary form.

Politics is the study of multiple forms of power than impacts our lives and the world we live in. Students will learn key concepts and theories of the discipline, and develop their skills in understanding and analysing global politics.

Prescribed for level 1 undergraduate students and articulating students in their first year. Studied entirely online, takes approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Topics include University orientation overview, equality & diversity, MySkills, health, safety and cyber security, and academic integrity.

Introduces students to concepts and ideas that form the basis for the study of Politics and International Relations while helping students understand their own place within a global context. Study of ideas, events, institutions and choice.

Considers some of the most powerful and controversial works of modern literature. Examines the circumstances of publication, the nature of the controversy, and the cultural and critical impact of each work. Shows how poems, plays and novels can raise searching questions about national, racial and personal identity.

Complements the module 'Acts of Reading'. Introduces key areas in critical theory. Asks students to consider the history of English studies and its relationship to colonialism, and how this impacts on conceptions of literature and authorship, alongside topics such as gender and sexuality, and genre.

Invites students to think about Shakespeare. Studying a range of plays to get behind the mythology of Shakespeare, and rediscover the dynamic inventiveness of the Elizabethan theatre. Shakespeare and his contemporaries were principal players in a period of literary experimentation.

Ideas and ideologies are core to teaching, learning and research in Politics and International Relations. Introduces students to theoretical developments and new approaches. Addresses profound questions and struggles over identity, belonging, justice and rights underpinning these theoretical debates.

Examines the historical context, theoretical underpinnings, and key concepts which continue to uphold equality and inequality on a global scale.

Traces the use of key Western myths from antiquity to the present to examine the way knowledge is often presented as both dangerous and compelling. Introduces students to a range of historical, social, and formal variations on the theme of knowledge.

Allows students at pre-Honours to learn about the impact of global colonialism through the writings of those who experienced it and its repercussions. Includes texts like Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

Explores the poetry, drama and prose of a period often referred to as the golden age of English literature. A period which saw Shakespeare and his contemporaries produce innovative new literary works in which the language of desire took centre stage.

Offers an introduction to the variety of medieval literature and culture. Turning a critical eye on the role misconceptions of the Middle Ages play in present day white supremacy. Highlights genres from medieval drama to life writing, with attention to the medieval history of race making.

Explores the Romantic movement swept Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Explores the ways in which the Romantic movement manifested itself across Britain and Ireland. Considers writers such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Austen and Byron.

The Romantic (1782-1832) and Victorian (1832-1901) periods were ones of remarkable activity for British citizens abroad. Explores the footprints left by imperial expansion, increasing international trade, major conflicts and growing mass migration in nineteenth-century literature.

While the short story is often said to have developed in America, nineteenth-century Scottish writing is instrumental in the emergence of the form. Explores the ways in which the short story in Scotland develops from the early nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth.

Offers an overview of a wide range of twentieth-century Scottish literature, focusing on themes of haunting, death, and place. Explores questions of the relationship between self and society, the legacy of the past, and the formation of gendered and regional identities.

The early twentieth century was a time of great literary experimentation as literary modernists rose to the challenge to make it new. Explores modernism's stylistic experimentation while also considering the social contexts and changes that shaped this literature.

Examines an important and diverse period in the development of American literature, lasting from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1930s. Analyses works by a variety of American writers in their historical, social and political contexts.

Addresses questions of how the artist is to respond when the virtual becomes the real and when words cannot carry the weight of trauma. Considers how an author can avoid accusations of voyeuristic prurience or crass opportunism.