University of Aberdeen

Literatures, Environments and Places

University of AberdeenAberdeen, United Kingdom

Course overview

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.

Key highlights

  • Explores literature's relationship with place and environment
  • Access to a literary collection spanning over 500 years
  • Taught by experts in English literary studies
  • Critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on environmental and ecological crises
  • Examines heritage, memory and location across periods and genres
  • Covers cosmopolitanism, travel and home through core and optional courses

Entry requirements

  • IELTS: 6.5 — 6.5 IELTS 6.5 overall (Listening 5.5, Reading 6.0, Speaking 5.5, Writing 6.0) (Reading 6, Writing 6, Listening 5.5, Speaking 5.5)

Scholarships

  • Aberdeen Alumni Discount

    The Aberdeen Alumni Discount provides a 20% discount for University of Aberdeen graduates.

    Up to 20% of fees
  • Aberdeen Global Scholarship - Postgraduate

    The University of Aberdeen is delighted to offer self-funded international on campus postgraduate Masters students a £8,000 tuition fee waiver.

    Up to £8,000
  • CB Davidson Fund

    Please note that awards, except in exceptional circumstances, will not exceed £2,500 and in most instances will be less.

  • Divinity Affiliated Institutions Scholarships

    The Divinity department at the University of Aberdeen offers a 10% tuition fee discount for students of our affiliated institutions.

    Up to 10% of fees
  • NHS Staff Discount

    The University of Aberdeen NHS discount is a 10% discount offered to all NHS staff.

    Up to 10% of fees

Careers this course leads to

  • Heritage Officer
  • Editor
  • Environmental Communications Officer
  • Arts Administrator
  • Archivist
  • Secondary School English Teacher

Cost of study

UK/Home: £11,100 per year | International: £23,000 per year

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of Aberdeen, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.

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