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Master of Arts (Honours) English and Philosophy


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 Empires and Revolutions: 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) Philosophy (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
PY1012 Reasoning 20 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: PY1001 - PY1199 AND
PY1010 Mind and World 20
PY1011 Moral and Political Controversies 20
PY1012 Reasoning 20
PY1013 The Enlightenment 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

First and Second Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:

20 credits: PY1012;
A minimum of 40 credits: PY2000-PY2103;
A minimum of 20 further credits: PY1001-PY1199, PY2000-PY2103;

Please balance your choices across the academic year.

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

  • passes in modules marked ^
MA (Hons) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 40 credits from Module List: PY2000 - PY2103 AND
PY2010 Intermediate Logic 20
PY2011 Foundations of Western Philosophy 20
PY2012 Meaning and Knowing 20
PY2013 Moral and Aesthetic Value 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
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: PY1001 - PY1199, PY2000 - PY2103 AND
PY1010 Mind and World 20
PY1011 Moral and Political Controversies 20
PY1012 Reasoning 20
PY1013 The Enlightenment 20
PY2010 Intermediate Logic 20
PY2011 Foundations of Western Philosophy 20
PY2012 Meaning and Knowing 20
PY2013 Moral and Aesthetic Value 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 Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

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

First and Second Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:

20 credits: PY1012;
A minimum of 40 credits: PY2000-PY2103;
A minimum of 20 further credits: PY1001-PY1199, PY2000-PY2103;

Please balance your choices across the academic year.

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/students/academic/academic-advising/glossary/honours-entry/ )

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) English (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN3111 - EN3140, EN4311 - EN4340, ME3502 (Group A) OR
EN3111 Beowulf 30
EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
EN3113 Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN3114 Reading Old English 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry: Lordship and Landscapes 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
EN4317 Diversifying Old English Literature 30
EN4318 The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 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
EN3144 Shakespeare and Race 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 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
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
EN4353 Literature, Nature and Science in Early Modern England 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 (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
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
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
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
EN4372 Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4373 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4374 The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
EN4375 Women's Poetry: Romantic to Victorian 30
EN4376 Old English Literature and the East 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)
EN301A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN301B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN301C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN302A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN302B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN302C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN303A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN303B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN303C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN304A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN304B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN304C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN305A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN305B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN305C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN306A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN306B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN306C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN307A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN307B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN307C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN308A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN308B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN308C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN309A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN309B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN309C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN310A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN310B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN310C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN3111 Beowulf 30
EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
EN3113 Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN3114 Reading Old English 30
EN311A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN311B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN311C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN312A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN312B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN312C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN3141 Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN3144 Shakespeare and Race 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
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
EN3201 Literary Theory 30
EN3202 Literature and Ecology 30
EN3207 Contemporary British and Irish Theatre 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
EN3219 Reading Popular Music 30
EN3220 Queer It! Introducing Queer Theory and Literature 30
EN401A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN401B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN401C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN402A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN402B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN402C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN404A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN404B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN404C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN405A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN405B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN405C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN406A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN406B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN406C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN407A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN407B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN407C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN408A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN408B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN408C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN409A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN409B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN409C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN410A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN410B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN410C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN411A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN411B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN411C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN412A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN412B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN412C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN4311 Old English Poetry: Lordship and Landscapes 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
EN4317 Diversifying Old English Literature 30
EN4318 The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 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
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
EN4353 Literature, Nature and Science in Early Modern England 30
EN4361 The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 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
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
EN4372 Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4373 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4374 The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
EN4375 Women's Poetry: Romantic to Victorian 30
EN4376 Old English Literature and the East 30
EN4402 Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
EN4405 20th-Century and Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
EN4406 Contemporary Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 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
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4424 Contemporary World Literatures 30
EN4425 Celtic Modernisms 30
EN4426 Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
EN4427 The Shape of the Poem 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
EN4436 Caribbean Literature 30
EN4437 American Fiction 1950-2000: Postmodernism and Beyond 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 between 120 to 160 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), ME3502 OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389);
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) Philosophy (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 30 and 60 credits from Module List: PY3100, PY3200 AND
PY3100 Reading Philosophy 1: Texts in Language, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Science 30
PY3200 Reading Philosophy 2: Texts in Ethics, Metaethics, Religion, Aesthetics and Political Philosophy 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: PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859
PY401A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY401B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY401C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY402A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY402B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY402C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY404A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY404B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY404C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY405A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY405B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY405C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY406A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY406B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY406C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY407A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY407B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY407C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY408A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY408B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY408C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY409A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY409B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY409C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY410A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY410B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY410C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY411A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY411B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY411C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY412A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY412B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY412C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY4601 Paradoxes 30
PY4606 Contemporary Epistemology 30
PY4607 Continental European Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz 30
PY4608 Political Philosophy in the Age of Revolutions 30
PY4609 Philosophical Methodology 30
PY4610 Philosophy of Perception 30
PY4611 Classical Philosophy 30
PY4612 Advanced Logic 30
PY4614 Philosophy of Mind 30
PY4615 Metaphysics 30
PY4616 Freedom and Action 30
PY4617 The Philosophy of Saul Kripke 30
PY4618 Animals, Minds and Language 30
PY4622 Kant's Critical Philosophy 30
PY4624 Philosophy of Art 30
PY4625 Philosophy and Public Affairs: Global Justice 30
PY4626 Life and Death 30
PY4632 Contemporary Philosophy of Language 30
PY4634 Philosophy of Logic 30
PY4635 Contemporary Moral Theory 30
PY4638 Philosophy of Religion 30
PY4639 Philosophy of Creativity 30
PY4640 Medieval Philosophy 30
PY4643 Philosophy of Law 30
PY4644 Rousseau on Human Nature, Society, and Freedom 30
PY4645 Philosophy and Literature 30
PY4646 Reasons for Action and Belief 30
PY4647 Humans, Animals, and Nature 30
PY4648 Conceptual Engineering and its Role in Philosophy 30
PY4649 Core Works in Continental Philosophy 30
PY4650 Philosophy, Feminism and Gender 30
PY4651 Effective Altruism 30
PY4652 The Philosophy of Human Rights 30
PY4653 Toleration in the Early Modern Period 30
PY4654 Responsibility, Praise, and Blame 30
PY4655 Advanced Metaethics 30
PY4656 The Philosophy of Love and Sex 30
PY4657 Philosophy of Economics 30
PY4658 Timely Topics in Political Philosophy 30
PY4659 Why Does The World Exist? 30
PY4660 Work, Entitlement, and Welfare 30
PY4661 The Philosophy of the Climate Crisis 30
PY4662 Critical Theory 30
PY4663 Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy 30
PY4664 Ethics of Conversation 30
PY4665 First Contact 30
PY4666 Bioethics 30
PY4667 Philosophy of Music 30
PY4668 Key texts in nineteenth-century Philosophy 30
PY4669 Modal Logic and Metaphysics 30
PY4670 Ethics and the allocation of health resources 30
PY4671 Dreaming and Waking 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 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 between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Third and Fourth Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:30-60 credits: PY3100, PY3200;
30-60 credits: PY4000 - PY4689, (PY4698 or PY4699 or PY4794 - Fourth Year Only), CL4500-CL4520, ID4801, ID4859, (PY4701 and ID4002 - Fourth Year Only);

Across the two Honours years up to 30 of these credits may be substituted for credits from another subject area and/or level, including VP modules, provided that permission is obtained from the relevant Head of School.

A minimum of 90 PY credits must be achieved across the two Honours years.

In total, 210 credits must be achieved at 3000- and 4000-level, including at least 90 credits at 4000-level.
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, ME3502 (Group A) OR
EN3111 Beowulf 30
EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
EN3113 Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN3114 Reading Old English 30
EN4311 Old English Poetry: Lordship and Landscapes 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
EN4317 Diversifying Old English Literature 30
EN4318 The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
ME3502 The Medieval Book 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
EN3144 Shakespeare and Race 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 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
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
EN4353 Literature, Nature and Science in Early Modern England 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 (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
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
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
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
EN4372 Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4373 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4374 The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
EN4375 Women's Poetry: Romantic to Victorian 30
EN4376 Old English Literature and the East 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
EN301A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN301B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN301C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN302A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN302B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN302C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN303A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN303B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN303C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN304A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN304B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN304C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN305A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN305B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN305C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN306A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN306B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN306C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN307A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN307B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN307C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN308A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN308B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN308C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN309A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN309B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN309C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN310A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN310B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN310C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN3111 Beowulf 30
EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
EN3113 Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
EN3114 Reading Old English 30
EN311A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN311B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN311C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN312A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN312B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN312C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN3141 Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN3144 Shakespeare and Race 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
EN3165 'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
EN3201 Literary Theory 30
EN3202 Literature and Ecology 30
EN3207 Contemporary British and Irish Theatre 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
EN3219 Reading Popular Music 30
EN3220 Queer It! Introducing Queer Theory and Literature 30
EN3904 Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 1: To 1900 30
EN3905 Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 2: Since 1900 30
EN401A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN401B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN401C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN402A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN402B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN402C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN404A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN404B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN404C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN405A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN405B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN405C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN406A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN406B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN406C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN407A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN407B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN407C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN408A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN408B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN408C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN409A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN409B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN409C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN410A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN410B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN410C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN411A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN411B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN411C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN412A Study Abroad: English (4) 4
EN412B Study Abroad: English (5) 5
EN412C Study Abroad: English (6) 6
EN4311 Old English Poetry: Lordship and Landscapes 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
EN4317 Diversifying Old English Literature 30
EN4318 The Golden Age of Chivalry? Arthurian Ideals in Middle English Romance 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
EN4342 Restoration Drama in Context 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
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
EN4353 Literature, Nature and Science in Early Modern England 30
EN4361 The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
EN4362 Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 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
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
EN4372 Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4373 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4374 The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
EN4375 Women's Poetry: Romantic to Victorian 30
EN4376 Old English Literature and the East 30
EN4399 Dissertation in English 30
EN4402 Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
EN4405 20th-Century and Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
EN4406 Contemporary Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 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
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4424 Contemporary World Literatures 30
EN4425 Celtic Modernisms 30
EN4426 Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
EN4427 The Shape of the Poem 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
EN4436 Caribbean Literature 30
EN4437 American Fiction 1950-2000: Postmodernism and Beyond 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), ME3502 OR
Group B (EN3141 - EN3160, EN4341 - EN4360) OR
Group C (EN3161 - EN3189, EN4361 - EN4389);
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) (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list Credits from Module List: PY3100, PY3200 AND
PY3100 Reading Philosophy 1: Texts in Language, Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Metaphysics and Science 30
PY3200 Reading Philosophy 2: Texts in Ethics, Metaethics, Religion, Aesthetics and Political Philosophy 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 Credits from Module List: PY4000 - PY4689, CL4500 - CL4520, ID4801, ID4859 AND
PY401A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY401B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY401C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY402A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY402B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY402C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY404A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY404B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY404C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY405A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY405B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY405C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY406A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY406B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY406C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY407A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY407B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY407C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY408A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY408B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY408C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY409A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY409B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY409C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY410A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY410B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY410C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY411A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY411B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY411C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY412A Study Abroad: Philosophy (4) 4
PY412B Study Abroad: Philosophy (5) 5
PY412C Study Abroad: Philosophy (6) 6
PY4601 Paradoxes 30
PY4606 Contemporary Epistemology 30
PY4607 Continental European Philosophy from Descartes to Leibniz 30
PY4608 Political Philosophy in the Age of Revolutions 30
PY4609 Philosophical Methodology 30
PY4610 Philosophy of Perception 30
PY4611 Classical Philosophy 30
PY4612 Advanced Logic 30
PY4614 Philosophy of Mind 30
PY4615 Metaphysics 30
PY4616 Freedom and Action 30
PY4617 The Philosophy of Saul Kripke 30
PY4618 Animals, Minds and Language 30
PY4622 Kant's Critical Philosophy 30
PY4624 Philosophy of Art 30
PY4625 Philosophy and Public Affairs: Global Justice 30
PY4626 Life and Death 30
PY4632 Contemporary Philosophy of Language 30
PY4634 Philosophy of Logic 30
PY4635 Contemporary Moral Theory 30
PY4638 Philosophy of Religion 30
PY4639 Philosophy of Creativity 30
PY4640 Medieval Philosophy 30
PY4643 Philosophy of Law 30
PY4644 Rousseau on Human Nature, Society, and Freedom 30
PY4645 Philosophy and Literature 30
PY4646 Reasons for Action and Belief 30
PY4647 Humans, Animals, and Nature 30
PY4648 Conceptual Engineering and its Role in Philosophy 30
PY4649 Core Works in Continental Philosophy 30
PY4650 Philosophy, Feminism and Gender 30
PY4651 Effective Altruism 30
PY4652 The Philosophy of Human Rights 30
PY4653 Toleration in the Early Modern Period 30
PY4654 Responsibility, Praise, and Blame 30
PY4655 Advanced Metaethics 30
PY4656 The Philosophy of Love and Sex 30
PY4657 Philosophy of Economics 30
PY4658 Timely Topics in Political Philosophy 30
PY4659 Why Does The World Exist? 30
PY4660 Work, Entitlement, and Welfare 30
PY4661 The Philosophy of the Climate Crisis 30
PY4662 Critical Theory 30
PY4663 Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy 30
PY4664 Ethics of Conversation 30
PY4665 First Contact 30
PY4666 Bioethics 30
PY4667 Philosophy of Music 30
PY4668 Key texts in nineteenth-century Philosophy 30
PY4669 Modal Logic and Metaphysics 30
PY4670 Ethics and the allocation of health resources 30
PY4671 Dreaming and Waking 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4504 Justice, politics and the good life: Plato's Republic and its critics in the ancient world 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 Credits from Module List: PY4698. PY4699, PY4794 AND
PY4698 Dissertation (Whole Year) 30
PY4699 Dissertation in Philosophy 30
PY4794 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 Credits from Module List: PY4701, ID4002
PY4701 Philosophy and Pedagogy 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

Third and Fourth Year Philosophy (Joint Honours) Programme Requirements:30-60 credits: PY3100, PY3200;
30-60 credits: PY4000 - PY4689, (PY4698 or PY4699 or PY4794 - Fourth Year Only), CL4500-CL4520, ID4801, ID4859, (PY4701 and ID4002 - Fourth Year Only);

Across the two Honours years up to 30 of these credits may be substituted for credits from another subject area and/or level, including VP modules, provided that permission is obtained from the relevant Head of School.

A minimum of 90 PY credits must be achieved across the two Honours years.

In total, 210 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 ).