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Most of our humanities subjects can be studied as joint honours as well as single honours. Joint honours programmes allow you to combine two subjects, which complement your interests or career goals. You will usually concentrate on both subjects equally. It can be possible to transfer between single and joint honours options, usually during your first or second year, and advice will be available from your academic tutor.
This joint degree covers:
Literature: using a wide range of authors and texts, from classic to contemporary, explores literature in a global context, looking in depth at language and literary history.
Sociology: the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society
3 Scottish Highers at grade BBC or above, or
2 A levels at grade BC or above
At least two should be from the list of relevant subjects
Applicants with other relevant qualifications or experience will be considered on an individual basis
This is a Category 2 PVG course: PVG Scheme membership is required for specific optional modules/unit(s), where there is guaranteed contact with vulnerable groups in optional module/unit(s), but an alternative pathway exists to achieve target qualification.
20 hours work permit for international students
You will study the following core modules:
Literature
Theories of literature: an introduction (S1)
Travelers in the wilderness: literature and exile (S2)
Sociology
The enquiring student (S1)
Making social lives: the Highlands and Islands (S2)
You will choose two further option modules from a range of literature, sociology, and other humanities subjects.
You will study two modules, which may include:
Medieval literature: text and contexts (S1)
An introduction to Gaelic poetry (S1)
Theatrical powerplay: classical and modern tragedy (S2)
Heroic literature: epic from classical to contemporary (S2)
You will also study two core modules:
Sociological theory: continuity and change (S1)
Belief, culture, and community (S2)
You will choose three modules, which may include:
Romantic genius: Scottish and European literature 1750-1830 (S1)
Risk anything! The modernist short story (S1)
Literary borrowings: adaptations and appropriations (S1)
Imagining new worlds: renaissance literature and thought (S2)
Nature writing and ecology (S2)
You will also choose three modules, which may include:
Advanced Social Research Methods (S1)
Work and society (S1)
Sociology: contemporary Scottish Issues (S2)
Frontiers, landscapes, and journeys (S2)
You will complete a dissertation in literature or sociology. You will also study one option module from your chosen dissertation subject plus three option modules from the other subject.
Modules may include:
Avant-garde literature (S1)
Apocalyptic fiction (S1)
Metafiction: self-referential texts (S2)
Satire: the art of attack (S2)
Cultural criminology (S1)
Network society: mass media and the information age (S1)
Insiders and outsiders in society (S2)
Restorative justice: ideas and values (S2)
Applicants must have an IELTS score- 6.0 or equivalent
English (PTE) Academic-58 average with 51 in each component
TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) iBT4-Min 80 or above with min 18 in each section
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