20 credits

This module explores how narrative records and drives social change, blending critical, creative, and innovative approaches while emphasising real-world practice, employability skills, and the wider community applications of literary studies.

It explores the way class, race, gender, sexuality and disability, as well as historical processes of colonialism, displacement, and migration, shape the creation, circulation, and reception of a wide variety of literary texts, as well as how literature can shape the public response to social and political incidents.

The module will develop skills in oral communication alongside sessions about legacies of oral storytelling. The first assessment allows students to demonstrate these skills.

The final assignment will capitalise on the breadth of disciplines covered in the module, allowing students to choose from a variety of forms of coursework (for example, oral history, essay, creative non-fiction, policy brief, exhibition design, etc.) to address a chosen topic/s from the syllabus.

You'll select two optional modules from a range of 20 credit modules offered across the Department of Humanities.

20 credits

This interdisciplinary module focuses on narrative, memory and public history. You will receive a mixture of theory and practical skills and engage with questions like: what is public history? How do we tell stories about the past?

The module casts a critical eye on what voices are privileged at the expense of others, thinking about sexualities, race and ethnicity, disability and gender. This public history class will equip you with transferable skills for careers in heritage, public engagement, creative practice and journalism.

20 credits

This module focuses on the impact of academic research outside the walls of the University. You'll encounter cutting-edge research in a range of scholarly fields, and deepen your understanding of how knowledge is produced in the academy.

The module also introduces you to a range of practical skills, supporting you to develop expertise in engaging with a variety of publics.

You'll have the opportunity to use both audio and video technologies through, for instance, podcasting, video production, and writing for public exhibitions.

20 credits
Runs in both semester 1 & 2

This is a supervised reading module that allows you to explore an area of literary and cultural studies that interests you. A supervisor will support you to devise a tailored programme of study, and offer expert guidance across 5 one-to-one tutorials.

Whatever your disciplinary background, you will get the chance to to enhance your understanding of core debates in the field of literary and cultural studies, and to shape your learning in a way that reflects your particular interests.

Selected from a range of 20 credit modules across the Department of Humanities.

60 credits

The Final Research Project enables you to exercise and develop the skills gathered on the programme in an extended project, which may take the form of a:

• critical dissertation
• creative-critical essay
• policy paper
• an audio/audio-visual/multimedia project

20 credits

This module explores how narrative records and drives social change, blending critical, creative, and innovative approaches while emphasising real-world practice, employability skills, and the wider community applications of literary studies.

It explores the way class, race, gender, sexuality and disability, as well as historical processes of colonialism, displacement, and migration, shape the creation, circulation, and reception of a wide variety of literary texts, as well as how literature can shape the public response to social and political incidents.

The module will develop skills in oral communication alongside sessions about legacies of oral storytelling. The first assessment allows students to demonstrate these skills.

The final assignment will capitalise on the breadth of disciplines covered in the module, allowing students to choose from a variety of forms of coursework (for example, oral history, essay, creative non-fiction, policy brief, exhibition design, etc.) to address a chosen topic/s from the syllabus.

20 credits

This interdisciplinary module focuses on narrative, memory and public history. You will receive a mixture of theory and practical skills and engage with questions like: what is public history? How do we tell stories about the past?

The module casts a critical eye on what voices are privileged at the expense of others, thinking about sexualities, race and ethnicity, disability and gender. This public history class will equip you with transferable skills for careers in heritage, public engagement, creative practice and journalism.

20 credits

This module runs in Semester 2, only.

This module focuses on the impact of academic research outside the walls of the University. You'll encounter cutting-edge research in a range of scholarly fields, and deepen your understanding of how knowledge is produced in the academy.

The module also introduces you to a range of practical skills, supporting you to develop expertise in engaging with a variety of publics.

You'll have the opportunity to use both audio and video technologies through, for instance, podcasting, video production, and writing for public exhibitions.

20 credits

Runs in both Semester 1 & 2, or over the summer.

This is a supervised reading module that allows you to explore an area of literary and cultural studies that interests you. A supervisor will support you to devise a tailored programme of study, and offer expert guidance across 5 one-to-one tutorials.

Whatever your disciplinary background, you will get the chance to to enhance your understanding of core debates in the field of literary and cultural studies, and to shape your learning in a way that reflects your particular interests.

20 credits

Runs in both Semester 1 & 2, or over the summer.

This is a supervised reading module that allows you to explore an area of literary and cultural studies that interests you. A supervisor will support you to devise a tailored programme of study, and offer expert guidance across 5 one-to-one tutorials.

Whatever your disciplinary background, you will get the chance to to enhance your understanding of core debates in the field of literary and cultural studies, and to shape your learning in a way that reflects your particular interests.

20 credits

The optional English & Creative Writing Research Placement module enables you to apply your learning in a professional setting, working with an external partner to produce a piece of research to a collaboratively produced brief. Host organisations might include publishers, museums, galleries, government bodies, charities, media, entertainment companies, and universities.

Selected from a range of 20 credit modules across the Department of Humanities.

Selected from a range of 20 credit modules across the Department of Humanities.

60 credits

The Final Research Project enables you to exercise and develop the skills gathered on the programme in an extended project, which may take the form of a:

• critical dissertation
• creative-critical essay
• policy paper
• an audio/audio-visual/multimedia project

Part-time students will begin work on the Final Project in March.

20 credits

The optional English & Creative Writing Research Placement module enables you to apply your learning in a professional setting, working with an external partner to produce a piece of research to a collaboratively produced brief. Host organisations might include publishers, museums, galleries, government bodies, charities, media, entertainment companies, and universities.

20 credits

This module explores contemporary feminist thinking in relation to earlier feminist debates, campaigns, writings, and forms of activism.

You critically examine how feminist ideas, theories, and practices have developed over time, and how continuity and change are theorised within feminism(s). Drawing on interdisciplinary expertise across the department and faculty, the module encourages engagement with a wide range of sources - including archival materials at Glasgow Women’s Library - to analyse the historical, political, and theoretical significance of key feminist ideas, movements, and actors.

20 credits

This module explores social justice through queer and feminist perspectives, examining how power, inequality, and resistance are shaped across research, policy, and activist contexts. Students engage critically with questions of intersectionality, positionality, and knowledge production, and consider what it means to “queer” social justice in theory and practice.

Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship and academic-activist work, the module addresses topics such as education, climate justice, abolitionist thinking, and institutional equality frameworks. Through seminar-based discussion and independent assessment, students are encouraged to challenge taken-for-granted ideas about expertise, authority, and justice

This module offers you an interdisciplinary and historicised understanding of gender theory and its implications for everyday struggles around gendered liberation. You will develop an understanding of the ways in which gender informs, and is informed by, other structural inequalities, drawing on key thinkers on gender from varied feminist traditions, including black feminisms, queer feminisms, trans feminisms and feminist disability studies.

20 credits

This creative writing module encourages experimentation across literary forms, genres, and media, offering opportunities to develop a substantial project either collaboratively or independently.

Spanning activities from editing to publication, archival research to web design, and adaptation to broadcasting and performance, it provides an eclectic space to engage creatively with new approaches, methods, and materials.

You'll apply critical and practical skills to a ‘made project’ which shows awareness of its readership/audience, literary contexts, process and potential circulation.

Classes will involve student-led planning sessions and peer feedback, a field trip to the Alasdair Gray Archive, visiting speakers, small group work, and one-to-one meetings with your tutor.

20 credits

The Writing Life is all about the contemporary literary landscape. It introduces you to the practicalities of a life in the creative industries -- how writers make a living, and how that living is changing in the 21st Century. Through a series of talks and seminars from visiting speakers from across the writing worlds, you'll have direct access to those who have been there and done it.

In assignments, you'll choose a target, for example, a publisher, a journal, an online magazine - then write a new piece of creative work to submit to that target, as well as an essay profiling the target they have chosen. This builds your knowledge of the publishing industry while also giving you a practical challenge, writing to a brief you've chosen.