Literatures, Environments and Places

Literatures, Environments and Places, _MLitt

Introduction

Explore literature’s relationship with place and environment at an ancient university, home to a collection of literary treasures spanning over 500 years. Delivered by experts in English literary studies, the programme provides you with practical and theoretical knowledge drawn from a wide range of critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. Through core and optional courses, we will address the ways literature reacts to and depicts environmental and ecological crises, the intersections between heritage, memory, literature, and location, and questions of cosmopolitanism, travel, and home across diverse time periods and genres.

Study Information

Study Options

Learning Mode: On Campus Learning
Degree Qualification: MLitt
Duration: 12 months or 24 months
Study Mode: Full Time or Part Time
Start Month: September or January
Location of Study: Aberdeen

Discover how aspects of place and environment are shaped and expressed in literature across a spectrum of literary periods and styles. You will examine the way literature conveys the ideology of place, covering a selection of relevant issues including environmental crises; the intersection between heritage, memory and location; and questions of cosmopolitanism, travel, and home. The programme intends to broaden your academic knowledge of English Literature with the option to focus on specific literary movements to pursue your own interests. There are fantastic opportunities to work with scholars who have significant international research profiles in an exciting and developing area of literary studies.

Research training involves the acquisition of practical skills and specialised knowledge and understanding of literary periods and critical issues that will be directly relevant to each candidate's proposed field of research. The programme will take advantage of the unique setting of the University of Aberdeen and enable students to explore the connection between literature, landscape and built environment through course-work and field trips. Students can take this degree as a stand-alone one-year or two-year part-time Masters degree or as a first step towards an MPhil or PhD (subject to admission to a further degree programme either at Aberdeen or elsewhere). Students who start in January should be aware that they will complete the dissertation in the middle of the programme, over the summer between their two semesters of coursework.

Qualification: MLitt
Duration: 12 months or 24 months
Learning Mode: On Campus
Study Mode: Full Time or Part Time
Start Month: September
Location: Aberdeen

Programme Fees

Fee information
Fee category	Cost
EU / International students	£23,800
Tuition Fees for 2024/25 Academic Year	£23,800
UK	£11,100
Tuition Fees for 2024/25 Academic Year	£11,100

Stage 1

Duration: 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time (MLitt); 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time (PgDip).

Compulsory Courses

Content: Candidates undertake the following EL coded level 5 courses.

Locations and Dislocations: the Role of Place in Literature (EL50C1)

30 Credit Points

This course examines the social, political and cultural construction of place in literary texts. The imaginative co-ordinates of places such as ‘Scotland’, or ‘England’ exist in a constant state of flux, refusing to yield an essential, authentic image. Using core texts from the early modern period paired with more recent literary responses we explore the idea of place in its various forms. Key themes and issues to be discussed will include the rural and urban divide; literature and nationhood; the nature of community; the significance of emigration, and displacement; walking texts, metropolitan literature, and ideas of the “new world”