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Master of Arts (Honours) Art History and English


MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 20 and 40 credits from Module List: AH1001, AH1003 AND
AH1001 The Art of the Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe 20
AH1003 European Art and Architecture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 40 credits from Module List: EN1003 - EN1004, CO1001 - CO1002 AND
EN1003 Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20
EN1004 Explorers and Revolutionaries: Literature 1680 - 1830 20
CO1001 The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20
CO1002 Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
* AH2001 History and Theory of European Art, Architecture and Design from the French Revolution to Vienna 1900 20 AND
* AH2002 Art, Culture and Politics, from 1900 to Now 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass at grade 11 or better required in modules marked *
MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ EN2003 Medieval and Renaissance Texts 20 AND
^ EN2004 Drama: Reading and Performance 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better in modules marked ^

Entry to Honours

Students who meet the requirements specified above, and who meet all other programme requirements, will be given automatic entry into Honours programmes.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/teaching-and-learning/policies/honsentry.pdf )

MA Honours

The general requirements are 480 credits over a period of normally four years (and not more than five years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final two years form an approved Honours programme of 240 credits, of which 90 credits are at 4000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 levels.

MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899 (excluding AH4794 - AH4795) AND
AH3104 The Age of Klimt, Olbrich and Mucha 30
AH3130 Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
AH3235 Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH3901 Walter Richard Sickert and European Art c. 1880 - 1940 30
AH3902 The Country, City and Society in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
AH3903 The Revival of Greece and Rome: Classicism in Early Modern Europe 30
AH3904 From Hogarth to Sickert: British Painting and the Theatre (1740 - 1930) 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
AH4076 Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France, 1945 - 1975 30
AH4081 The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design (1890-1960) 30
AH4087 Aspects of Surrealism 30
AH4124 Art Nouveau in Western Europe 30
AH4130 Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1860 - 1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1950 30
AH4147 Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4152 To School? Learning: Artistic Interpretations and Architectural Solutions 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
AH4164 The Patronage of the Arts in the Este and Gonzaga Courts c. 1440 - c.1590 30
AH4165 Cubism and its Legacies 30
AH4166 Histories of Photography (1835 - 1905) 30
AH4167 Symbolism, Decadence and Modernity 30
AH4170 Art, Piety and Performance: Charitable Institutions in Early Modern Venice 30
AH4171 The Arts of Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages 30
AH4172 Manuscript Illumination in Western Europe 30
AH4173 Architecture and its Image. From Brunelleschi to Palladio 30
AH4174 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela 30
AH4175 Luxury Goods in the Middle Ages 30
AH4176 Early Modern Cities 30
AH4177 Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4184 The Art of the Apocalypse from the Middle Ages to the Present 30
AH4185 Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect 30
AH4190 Romanticism and Visuality 1780 - 1830 30
AH4191 Art, Science, and Technology 1700-1900 30
AH4192 Images of Empire 30
AH4196 English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4207 Receptions of Venetian Painting 1600 - 1800 30
AH4208 The Portrait in Western Art 30
AH4209 Portuguese Renaissance: From Local to Global 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4212 Cultures of Collection and Display ca. 1851 to the Present Day 30
AH4213 Dada and Surrealism 30
AH4214 Body / Politics: Performance Art Since 1960 30
AH4215 Contemporary Art and the Ethics of Fieldwork 30
AH4216 Medieval Islamic Painting 30
AH4221 The French Avant-Garde from Realism to Impressionism 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
AH4235 Communication in Art History 15
AH4236 Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4240 The Art of War: Battle, Rivalry, Paragone, 1400-1700 30
AH4245 The Intersectional Body in Art Since the 1960s 30
AH4246 The Art and Visual Culture of the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic 30
AH4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
AH4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching and the relevant Head of School, 30 credits in Third or Fourth year may be substituted by 3000- or 4000- level credits from another subject.
MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340 (Group A) OR
EN3111 Beowulf 30
EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
EN3113 Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360 (Group B) OR
EN3141 Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 30
EN4343 Literature and Law in Early Modern England 30
EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
EN4346 The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
EN4348 Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389, EN4423 (Group C) ) AND
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
EN3162 Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3164 Self and Society in the Victorian Novel 30
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
EN4361 The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4363 Romantic Writing and Women 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
EN4367 Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
EN4370 Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398 - EN4399, EN4794 - EN4797)
EN3111 Beowulf 30
EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
EN3113 Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN3141 Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
EN3162 Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3164 Self and Society in the Victorian Novel 30
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
EN3201 Critical Theory 30
EN3202 Literature and Ecology 30
EN3206 Aspects of Modern Fiction 30
EN3207 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama 30
EN3208 Scottish Verse 30
EN3209 Scottish Fiction 30
EN3210 Twentieth-Century American Drama 30
EN3211 Culture and Society in Modern Scotland 30
EN3212 Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
EN3213 Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
EN3214 The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
EN3215 Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
EN3216 Modern Experimental Poetry 30
EN3217 Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 30
EN4343 Literature and Law in Early Modern England 30
EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
EN4346 The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
EN4348 Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4361 The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4363 Romantic Writing and Women 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
EN4367 Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
EN4370 Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4402 Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
EN4404 Shakespeare and Film 30
EN4405 Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
EN4406 Contemporary British Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4408 Science Fiction 30
EN4409 Modern American Drama 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 30
EN4414 Thomas Hardy 30
EN4415 T.S. Eliot 30
EN4416 Virginia Woolf 30
EN4417 Writing Poetry and Prose 30
EN4418 American Poetry since 1950 30
EN4419 American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
EN4420 Writing Prose 30
EN4421 J R R Tolkien 30
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4424 Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature 30
EN4425 Celtic Modernisms 30
EN4426 Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
EN4427 The Shape of the Poem 30
EN4428 Imagining Ireland: Forging the Nation 30
EN4430 Making Performance 30
EN4432 Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
EN4434 Literature and Culture of Sport 30
EN4435 Writing the Pacific 30
EN4500 Playwriting 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA English (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits from one of:
Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340) OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389, EN4423);
60 - 120 credits: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only).
30 of these credits may, with the permission of both Heads of School, be substituted for level 3000 or 4000 level credits in another School;

In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000 level.
MA (Hons) Art History (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AH4097, AH4099, AH4794 - AH4795 AND
AH4097 60-Credit Honours Dissertation in Art History 60
AH4099 30-Credit Dissertation in Art History 30
AH4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
AH4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AH3000 - AH4089, AH4100 - AH4899, ID4002
AH3104 The Age of Klimt, Olbrich and Mucha 30
AH3130 Approaches to Art History 30
AH3131 A Survey of Islamic Art 30
AH3196 Modern Art beyond the West 30
AH3235 Spanish Painting in the Age of Velázquez 30
AH3901 Walter Richard Sickert and European Art c. 1880 - 1940 30
AH3902 The Country, City and Society in Nineteenth-Century French Art 30
AH3903 The Revival of Greece and Rome: Classicism in Early Modern Europe 30
AH3904 From Hogarth to Sickert: British Painting and the Theatre (1740 - 1930) 30
AH4050 Approaches to Persian Painting and the Arts of the Book 30
AH4076 Rubens and Rembrandt: Parallel Worlds 30
AH4078 Art and Politics in France, 1945 - 1975 30
AH4081 The Scandinavian Art of Building and Design (1890-1960) 30
AH4087 Aspects of Surrealism 30
AH4124 Art Nouveau in Western Europe 30
AH4130 Realism and Symbolism in Russian Art 1860 - 1910 30
AH4142 Aspects of Modern Photography, 1910 - 1950 30
AH4147 Classicism in Western Art: The Legacy of Greece and Rome 30
AH4148 Orientalism and Visual Culture 30
AH4152 To School? Learning: Artistic Interpretations and Architectural Solutions 30
AH4156 Seeing the Sixties 30
AH4161 Gauguin and Primitivism 30
AH4163 Approaches to Modern Sculpture 30
AH4164 The Patronage of the Arts in the Este and Gonzaga Courts c. 1440 - c.1590 30
AH4165 Cubism and its Legacies 30
AH4166 Histories of Photography (1835 - 1905) 30
AH4167 Symbolism, Decadence and Modernity 30
AH4170 Art, Piety and Performance: Charitable Institutions in Early Modern Venice 30
AH4171 The Arts of Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages 30
AH4172 Manuscript Illumination in Western Europe 30
AH4173 Architecture and its Image. From Brunelleschi to Palladio 30
AH4174 Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela 30
AH4175 Luxury Goods in the Middle Ages 30
AH4176 Early Modern Cities 30
AH4177 Objects of Devotion: The Art and Material Culture of Medieval Christianity 30
AH4182 Principles and Protagonists of Italian Renaissance Architecture 30
AH4183 The Senses, Objects, and Buildings in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4184 The Art of the Apocalypse from the Middle Ages to the Present 30
AH4185 Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect 30
AH4190 Romanticism and Visuality 1780 - 1830 30
AH4191 Art, Science, and Technology 1700-1900 30
AH4192 Images of Empire 30
AH4196 English Art and Modernism 30
AH4205 Byzantium, 330 - 1453: Art, Religion and Imperial Power 30
AH4207 Receptions of Venetian Painting 1600 - 1800 30
AH4208 The Portrait in Western Art 30
AH4209 Portuguese Renaissance: From Local to Global 30
AH4211 Islam and the Arts 30
AH4212 Cultures of Collection and Display ca. 1851 to the Present Day 30
AH4213 Dada and Surrealism 30
AH4214 Body / Politics: Performance Art Since 1960 30
AH4215 Contemporary Art and the Ethics of Fieldwork 30
AH4216 Medieval Islamic Painting 30
AH4221 The French Avant-Garde from Realism to Impressionism 30
AH4226 African Modernisms 30
AH4235 Communication in Art History 15
AH4236 Images and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe 30
AH4240 The Art of War: Battle, Rivalry, Paragone, 1400-1700 30
AH4245 The Intersectional Body in Art Since the 1960s 30
AH4246 The Art and Visual Culture of the Global HIV/AIDS epidemic 30
AH4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
AH4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

With the permission of the Director of Teaching and the relevant Head of School, 30 credits in Third or Fourth year may be substituted by 3000- or 4000- level credits from another subject.
MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340 (Group A) OR
EN3111 Beowulf 30
EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
EN3113 Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360 (Group B) OR
EN3141 Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 30
EN4343 Literature and Law in Early Modern England 30
EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
EN4346 The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
EN4348 Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389, EN4423 (Group C) ) AND
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
EN3162 Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3164 Self and Society in the Victorian Novel 30
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
EN4361 The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4363 Romantic Writing and Women 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
EN4367 Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
EN4370 Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
( View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398) AND
EN3111 Beowulf 30
EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
EN3113 Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN3141 Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
EN3162 Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
EN3164 Self and Society in the Victorian Novel 30
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
EN3201 Critical Theory 30
EN3202 Literature and Ecology 30
EN3206 Aspects of Modern Fiction 30
EN3207 Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama 30
EN3208 Scottish Verse 30
EN3209 Scottish Fiction 30
EN3210 Twentieth-Century American Drama 30
EN3211 Culture and Society in Modern Scotland 30
EN3212 Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
EN3213 Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
EN3214 The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
EN3215 Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
EN3216 Modern Experimental Poetry 30
EN3217 Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
EN3904 Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 1: To 1900 30
EN3905 Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 2: Since 1900 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 30
EN4343 Literature and Law in Early Modern England 30
EN4344 Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
EN4346 The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
EN4348 Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4361 The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4363 Romantic Writing and Women 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
EN4367 Romantic Gothic 30
EN4368 Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
EN4370 Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4399 Dissertation in English 30
EN4402 Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
EN4404 Shakespeare and Film 30
EN4405 Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
EN4406 Contemporary British Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4408 Science Fiction 30
EN4409 Modern American Drama 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 30
EN4414 Thomas Hardy 30
EN4415 T.S. Eliot 30
EN4416 Virginia Woolf 30
EN4417 Writing Poetry and Prose 30
EN4418 American Poetry since 1950 30
EN4419 American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
EN4420 Writing Prose 30
EN4421 J R R Tolkien 30
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4424 Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature 30
EN4425 Celtic Modernisms 30
EN4426 Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
EN4427 The Shape of the Poem 30
EN4428 Imagining Ireland: Forging the Nation 30
EN4430 Making Performance 30
EN4432 Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
EN4434 Literature and Culture of Sport 30
EN4435 Writing the Pacific 30
EN4500 Playwriting 30
EN4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN4398, ID4002 )
EN4398 Short Dissertation 15
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Note:
- Not all modules are available in every academic year and/or semester
- Individual modules may have requisites to satisfy to be eligible to select them

For further details, see the module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

MA English (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits from one of:
Group A (EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340) OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389, EN4423);
60 - 120 credits: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only).
30 of these credits may, with the permission of both Heads of School, be substituted for level 3000 or 4000 level credits in another School;

In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits at 4000 level.

Study abroad

In the case of students who spend part of the Honours programme on a recognised Study Abroad scheme, the Programme Requirements will be amended to take into account overseas courses which are approved by the relevant St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).