English Literature/Gaelic

Course description

**ENGLISH LITERATURE**: You will explore all aspects of literature in English, benefiting from our expertise in a wide range of areas, including American, Irish and postcolonial literatures, critical theory, creative writing, and the relationship between literature and other arts, media and science. You will benefit from access to the University’s world-class Hunterian collection and the Library’s Special Collections, with strengths in the 18th and 19th centuries, travel, illuminated manuscripts and significant single-author holdings.
**GAELIC**: Explore Scottish Gaelic language and culture through the centuries to the present day, and develop your Gaelic language skills for the contemporary job market. Ionnsaich mu chultar na Gàidhlig tro na linntean, agus leasaich do sgilean cànain airson chothroman cosnaidh nas fheàrr.
You can study Gaelic folklore, song, modern poetry, autobiography, contemporary fiction and drama all through Gaelic, while the University’s Gaelic initiative and the city’s vibrant Gaelic community also provide opportunities to use Gaelic outside the classroom.

Subjects

• English literature
• Gaelic
• Literature
• Sixteenth-century literature
• Seventeenth-century literature
• Eighteenth-century literature
• Nineteenth-century literature
• American literature
• Childrens literature
• Commonwealth literature
• Dramatic literature
• Literary criticism
• Literary studies
• Modern literature
• Poetry
• Romantic literature
• Medieval English literature
• Shakespeare studies
• Languages
• Modern languages
• Area studies, languages and literature
• Language
• English
• Arthurian literature
• Classical literature
• Comparative literature
• European literature
• Anglo-Saxon studies