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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Sep 2026
4 Year
Texts are all around us – from books and magazines to TV, email and the internet. The ability to analyse them and their often subtle meanings is a skill that can open doors in a wide range of professional fields. English Studies at the University of Stirling offers you the perfect chance to dedicate yourself to reading and enjoying a range of great novels, plays and poems from across the world. Your own creative writing can form part of this degree, too – as we believe it aids your understanding of literary style and technique and develops your imagination. You’ll also have the opportunity to take a range of language-based courses which will inform your understanding and appreciation of literary texts. These are just some of the factors that make our BA a little different from other English courses.
This module introduces students to the study of English literature at undergraduate level by focusing on reading and analysing different genres of literature, including poetry, fiction and drama from Chaucer to the present day. The course has an overarching emphasis on how genres change and develop over time, and how literary texts respond to each other: it will also consider genre itself as a complex and contested area. It thus introduces students to one of the key approaches approaches to literature upon which they will be able to build during the rest of their degree.
This module introduces you to different approaches to literary studies, within a broadly theoretical context. We will be exploring the concept of literary theory and considering how different theoretical positions can shape our responses to literary texts. We will encounter a range of fascinating novels, short stories, non-fiction, poems and drama, from Shakespeare to the present day.
Organisations are entities made up of different elements which are interconnected with the external environment. This environment includes a diverse range of influences e.g. economic, demographic, social, political, legal, technological etc. which impact business activity in a variety of ways. This module is designed to provide a foundation for Stirling Management School students to better understand the ways in which the external business environment both evolves and affects the process of transformation (from input to output to consumption) and explores how resources are managed and developed.
As the second foundation module in your first year, this module seeks to explore some of the challenges facing management. Key functions for all organisations are those of Operations, Marketing, HRM, Finance and ICT. Managers must understand the different demands and constraints associated with the interactions of these different core functions in order to formulate appropriate strategies, gain competitive advantage and manage the satisfied productive workforce.
This foundational module aims to introduce students to a wide range of themes important for all aspiring managers and business leaders, but it will be also interesting and relevant to everyone who intends to work in business organisations.This module builds on the content of MGTU7S1 and MGTU7S2 and aims to further explore management as an essential component and function of all organisations.
The overall purpose of this module is to introduce students to the concept of technical innovation in literary studies, within a broadly historical context. The module is structured around the concept of revolutions, both literal and literary, and covers a broad historical sweep, from the Peasants? Revolt to the present day, and will focus on understanding literary and historical context as integral to the understanding of literary texts. The module will build on the close reading and theoretical skills obtained in ENGU901 and ENGU902.
Business practices have now become so widespread that organisations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors are routinely treatedas thoughthey are all businesses. The commonplace adoption of business as the ?best? way to get things done has meant that students need to know how business is organised if they are going to participate in most forms of social action when they graduate.
Is history just another text? To what extent is literature history? How do the stories we tell about ourselves alter the material facts of our lives? This core module sets out to explore these questions by studying aspects of Scottish literature, history, and identity since the defining moment of the Union of the English and the Scottish Parliaments in 1707. Writing and History: Scotland and Empire examines the pressures that produced some of Scotland?s finest writing in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, partly opposed to and partly in step with the concept of Great Britain. It deals with the competing narratives, the contradictory accounts, and the exchanges between centralising and marginalising forces raised by this experience.
This module will provide you with the technical tools and vocabulary to describe in detail how language choices produce particular effects, create meanings and convey ideologies in literary texts. Alongside the acquisition of skills, the module will encourage you to reflect on what it is that makes texts literary, as well as broader debates about the benefits and limitations of stylistic analysis. Whilst the module will be largely focused on stylistic analysis, you will also learn the role of context in a literary stylistic approach.
This module is an introduction to literary theory, and it invites you to question what we think we?re doing as readers, writers and critics. It will both sharpen your existing skills and open you to a whole new set of questions and debates, ranging across a wide terrain of fresh and sometimes challenging ideas. Where does ?meaning? come from? How does a literary text represent the world? What difference does difference (class, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality) make to our reading of texts and cultural practices? Why are some texts valued more than others? The module introduces a selection of the most influential movements in literary and cultural theory of the past century, from the seminal linguistic theories of Saussure, to the readerly prohibitions of the New Criticism, and intense cultural debates sparked by figures such as Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler. We will also consider some of the practical implications of theory for literary analysis and interpretation. You will need to engage closely with the primary theoretical texts in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. You will be taught by experts who research in this area.
This module aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to entrepreneurship as a mindset and practice. It will take an experiential approach to learning, blending a range of key ?tools? with practical business planning skills through a business plan development exercise. In addition to the development of a ?toolbox? for business planning, the module will also develop critical self-reflection skills, which are an essential part of an entrepreneurial mindset.
International Business (IB) is a multi-disciplinary module that considers the macro and micro economic, political and social issues currently affecting the international business community. Because of the importance of IB for all individuals who plan to have careers in business of any kind this is a required module for all students taking a Business Studies degree.
Business organisations play a critical role in the social, political and economic domains of any society. In modern economies, business interests exert an increasingly pervasive influence on a broad range of values, norms, standards and expectations. There is no denying that business organisations are powerful, but many questions remain as to the legitimacy of such power. This module aims to explore these issues through a systematic and holistic approach to issues of business ethics and responsibility.
Students will have only optional modules in this year.
The dissertation enables you to apply your knowledge and skills to the design and implementation of an original research investigation in your chosen field. It is the culmination of your degree and enables you to build on, and integrate, the material acquired in previous modules. This work will address a particular issue that you have identified as being worthy of study (with approval by academic staff).
The module aims to strengthen students' dissertations, by focussing on the key skills needed for effective writing and research, including: skills in written English; using library, archive and IT resources, distinguishing and choosing appropriate methodological approaches to research, considering ethical and legal issues such as plagiarism or the use of questionnaires, formulating a research proposal, writing a literature review and a research proposal.
The Final Year Project involves the writing of a substantial dissertation, the culmination of the various Honours degree programmes offered by the Division of Literature and Languages (English Studies).
The aim of this module is to give you an understanding of the way organisations make decisions by providing an overview of issues on strategy analysis, formulation and implementation. The module aims to combine the broad theoretical background of strategic management with practical implications to the way organisations are run.
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