Teaching and assessment for Liberal Arts MA (Hons)

This module studies the exchange of goods, people, and ideas that tied together Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

It explores the origins of globalization and provides a comparative understanding of the development of European empires in Africa and the Americas.

This is a dynamic course on modern philosophy that explores the realms of thought and reality. It uncovers the minds that shape today's philosophical discussions, as it dives into the rich tapestry of contemporary philosophy.

This module helps you build a ‘writer's toolkit’ in broad and accessible ways, even if you haven’t studied creative writing before.

You will develop and deepen your engagement with writing methods in a range of forms and genres, gaining important skills in editing and responding critically to your peers’ work

This module introduces important concepts about gender and sexuality and shows how these concepts have changed over time.

Lecturers from English Literature, Philosophy, History, Creative Writing, Film, and Languages offer influential ideas from their disciplines, and help you recognise how sex-gender systems have real and physical consequences in individuals' lives.

Covering the period 1603-c.1939, this module explores Scotland's interactions with the outside world.

Organised around cross-cutting themes like emigration, empire, trade, warfare, religion, and identity, the module's primary aim is to understand how Scotland fitted into the broader British, European, imperial, and global contexts.

This module explores the relationship between literature and comics, with an emphasis on adaptations of literature into comics and graphic novels. It considers theoretical and formal questions about how comics work, and the relationship between comics and literary forms such as prose, poetry and drama.

This module provides an introduction to works of science fiction in literature, film and popular culture from 1883 to present. It explores the concerns and themes of science fiction, including issues of power, technology, alienation, and super/post-humanism and the ways in which these texts speculate about the future.

You will explore what we mean when by words like ‘culture’ and ‘creativity’. You will look into what industries, institutions and infrastructures support creative work today. You will also explore the histories underlying them.

In this module, you'll explore these questions and apply them to your own creative writing practice.

This module will cover how History is studied and applied in current times. It explores the nature of History as a subject, as well as current trends and themes in historical studies.

The module will also give you a greater awareness of different approaches to communicating and consuming historical information.

In this module, you will learn about the changes in gender roles, and the cultural construction of those roles, over the course of the twentieth century.

The main focus will be on Western Europe, particularly (although not exclusively), France, Italy, Germany, and Britain.

You will explore what is meant when we ask 'what is the self?'. You will touch on topics and questions such as:

• Is it a substance that remains constant through time and despite change?
• Is such constancy merely an illusion or is it something else entirely?

This module surveys gothic fiction (novels, novellas, and short stories) produced before 1900 in England, Scotland, Ireland, America, and other countries.

This is a practitioner-taught creative writing module.

In this module we ask what it means to write creatively about the environment, realising how creative writing (poetry, prose, dramatic, and innovative/hybrid forms) might relate to current debates about the environment.

The Creative Practice Dissertation is a self-directed module in which you will produce a substantial piece of creative writing in the form and genre of your choosing (prose, poetry, dramatic writing, screenwriting, comics script, or hybrid/multi-media), accompanied by a reflective essay that demonstrates understanding of literary and artistic contexts.

This module covers the history of Russia from the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 to the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

The question of power is explored – how it is lost, contested, and regained, and what happens to society and culture in such circumstances.

This module explores the political development of Scotland in its final phase as an independent kingdom, from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the passage of the Treaty of Union in 1707.

It covers the dynamics of Scottish politics and Scotland's place within the British conglomerate monarchy.

This module examines the early history of New York City, once a Dutch colony. It explores Dutch perspectives on the New World before Hudson's 1609 voyage, the Dutch West India Company's efforts at colonization in the Hudson Valley, and the impact of the English capture of New Amsterdam in 1664.

The module covers the main principles, essential questions, and key concepts of German Idealism, exploring what unifies this philosophical movement. It explores the German Idealists' belief that their era represented the pinnacle of philosophical thought, asserting that there was no true philosophy before their time and none would follow after.