These are the elective Core Period and Option courses available for year 4 in semester 2 of session 2019-2020. Fourth Year Semester 2 Core Period Courses Course Day/Time Location Contemporary Scottish Fiction * Tuesday 9-10.50 Rm 3.03, 50 George Square Poor Things: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature * (Group 1) Thursday 2.10-4 Rm 2.03, 50 George Square OR Poor Things: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature * (Group 2) Thursday 4.10 6 Rm 3.39, 50 George Square Postcolonial Writing Friday 9-10.50 Rm 3.54, 50 George Square Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing * (Group 1) Monday 11.10-1 Rm 3.39, 50 George Square OR Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing * (Group 2) Tuesday 11.10-1 Rm 3.54, 50 George Square The Modern American Novel, 1920-1960 (Group 1) Thursday 9-10.50 Rm 3.39, 50 George Square OR The Modern American Novel, 1920-1960 (Group 2) Thursday 2.10-4 Rm 3.54, 50 George Square OR The Modern American Novel, 1920-1960 (Group 3) Friday 9-10.50 Rm 3.39, 50 George Square Full details of all the available Core Period courses in fourth year can be found here: Document Course descriptions for 4th Year Core Period courses for 2019-2020 (1.08 MB / PDF) Fourth Year Semester 2 Option Courses Course Day/Time Location Conquer or Die: African Americans Writing US History 2 (second half of full year course run by School of History, Classics and Archaelogy) Tuesday 11.10-1 Rm G.09, Medical School Contemporary African-American and Black British Visual Culture (course shared with Edinburgh College of Art) Wednesday 11.10-1 Rm 1.08, 24 Buccleuch Place Contemporary Science Fiction * (Group 1) Tuesday 9-10.50 Rm 2.39, 50 George Square Contemporary Science Fiction * (Group 2) Tuesday 2.10-4 Rm 2.39, 50 George Square Creative Writing Part II: Prose * (for Fourth Year students) Tuesday 2.10-4 Rm B1.01, Outreach, Holyrood Road Early Drama: Performance and Reception * Tuesday 2.10-4 Rm 3.3, Medical School Teviot Fairy Tales * (Group 1) Tuesday 2.10-4 Rm 1.2, 22 Buccleuch Place OR Fairy Tales * (Group 2) Tuesday 11.10-1 TR 5, Old College OR Fairy Tales * (Group 3) Tuesday 2.10-4 Rm 1.04, 24 Buccleuch Place Fin de Siècle into Modern (Group 1) Tuesday 2.10-4 Rm 3.29, 50 George Square OR Fin de Siècle into Modern (Group 2) Thursday 2.10-4 Rm 1.18, David Hume Tower Literature, Reading, Mental Health (Group 1) Tuesday 11.10-1 Rm 1.04, 24 Buccleuch Place OR Literature, Reading, Mental Health (Group 2) Tuesday 11.10-1 Rm 1.03, 24 Buccleuch Place OR Literature, Reading Mental Health (Group 3) Tuesday 2.10-4 Rm 2.03, 50 George Square Political Shakespeare Tuesday 4.10-6 Rm 3.39, 50 George Square Republican Visions: Culture, Time and Memory in Modern American Fiction Thursday 2.10-4 Rm 3.03, 50 George Square Shakespearean Sexualities Tuesday 2.10-4 Rm 3.39, 50 George Square The Black Atlantic Tuesday 11.10-1 Rm 3.39, 50 George Square Writing for the Theatre: An Introduction * (taught jointly with 3rd Year) Tuesday 4.10-6 Rm 3.03, 50 George Square Full details of all the available Option courses in fourth year can be found here: Document Course descriptions for 4th Year Option courses for 2019-2020 (2.13 MB / PDF) This article was published on 2024-08-13