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Master of Arts (Honours) English and Social Anthropology


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) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
SA1002 Ways of Thinking 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

It is recommended to select SA1001 in addition to SA1002.
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) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ SA2001 The Foundations of Social Anthropology 20 AND
^ SA2002 Ethnographic Encounters 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 ^

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) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA3999 (excluding SA3901 - SA3903) AND
SA301A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA301B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA301C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA302A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA302B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA302C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3030 Critical Thinkers and Formative Texts 30
SA3031 Anthropological Study of Language and Culture 30
SA3032 Regional Ethnography 1 30
SA3033 Anthropology of the Cold War 30
SA303A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA303B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA303C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA304A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA304B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA304C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality 30
SA3055 Anthropology and History 30
SA3057 Sex and Gender 30
SA3059 Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations 30
SA305A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA305B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA305C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3060 Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology 30
SA3061 Reading Ethnography 30
SA3062 Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction 30
SA3064 The Anthropology of Migration 30
SA3065 Anthropology of Economic Life 30
SA3066 Sorcery and Conspiracy: The Anthropology of Alternate Realities 30
SA3067 Colonial and Postcolonial Medicine 30
SA3068 Anthropology of Global Capitalism 30
SA3069 The Anthropology of Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers 30
SA306A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA306B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA306C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3070 Anthropology of Planetary Health 30
SA3071 Anthropology of the City: From Ur to Urban Hip Hop 30
SA3072 The Anthropology of Political Violence 30
SA307A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA307B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA307C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA308A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA308B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA308C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA309A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA309B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA309C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA310A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA310B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA310C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA311A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA311B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA311C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA312A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA312B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA312C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3506 Methods in Social Anthropology 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 30 credits from Module List: SA3000 - SA4089, SA4400 - SA4899 (except SA3901 - SA3903, SA4794 - SA4797)
SA301A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA301B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA301C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA302A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA302B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA302C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3030 Critical Thinkers and Formative Texts 30
SA3031 Anthropological Study of Language and Culture 30
SA3032 Regional Ethnography 1 30
SA3033 Anthropology of the Cold War 30
SA303A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA303B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA303C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA304A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA304B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA304C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3053 Individuality, Community and Morality 30
SA3055 Anthropology and History 30
SA3057 Sex and Gender 30
SA3059 Colonial and Post-Colonial Representations 30
SA305A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA305B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA305C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3060 Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology 30
SA3061 Reading Ethnography 30
SA3062 Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction 30
SA3064 The Anthropology of Migration 30
SA3065 Anthropology of Economic Life 30
SA3066 Sorcery and Conspiracy: The Anthropology of Alternate Realities 30
SA3067 Colonial and Postcolonial Medicine 30
SA3068 Anthropology of Global Capitalism 30
SA3069 The Anthropology of Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers 30
SA306A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA306B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA306C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3070 Anthropology of Planetary Health 30
SA3071 Anthropology of the City: From Ur to Urban Hip Hop 30
SA3072 The Anthropology of Political Violence 30
SA307A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA307B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA307C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA308A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA308B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA308C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA309A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA309B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA309C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA310A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA310B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA310C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA311A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA311B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA311C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA312A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA312B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA312C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA3506 Methods in Social Anthropology 30
SA4005 The West Indies and the Black Atlantic 30
SA401A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA401B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA401C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA402A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA402B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA402C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4040 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA404A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA404B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA404C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4058 Visual Anthropology 30
SA4059 Living with Material Culture 30
SA405A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA405B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA405C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4060 Anthropology and Religion 30
SA4061 Contagion: Anthropology and Global Health 30
SA4062 Anthropology of Justice 30
SA4063 Anthropology of Catastrophe 30
SA4064 Anthropology of Energy 30
SA4065 The Anthropology of Art 30
SA406A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA406B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA406C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA407A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA407B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA407C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA408A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA408B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA408C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4850 Andes 30
SA4855 Anthropology, Literature and Writing 30
SA4857 West Africa 30
SA4862 Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness 30
SA4863 Youth in Africa 30
SA4864 Melanesian Anthropology 30
SA4866 Anthropology and Eurasia 30
SA4867 Anthropology of Politics and Governance 30
SA4868 Anthropology of Latin America: Contemporary issues 30
SA4870 Crisis and Rupture: Theories of social change in the contemporary 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

SA3506 must be taken if the student wishes to take SA4099, SA4794 or SA4796 in Fourth Year.
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) Social Anthropology (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: SA4000 - SA4299, SA4400 - SA4899, (SA4301 and ID4002)
SA4005 The West Indies and the Black Atlantic 30
SA401A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA401B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA401C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA402A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA402B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA402C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4040 Perception, Imagination and Communication 30
SA404A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA404B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA404C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4058 Visual Anthropology 30
SA4059 Living with Material Culture 30
SA405A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA405B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA405C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4060 Anthropology and Religion 30
SA4061 Contagion: Anthropology and Global Health 30
SA4062 Anthropology of Justice 30
SA4063 Anthropology of Catastrophe 30
SA4064 Anthropology of Energy 30
SA4065 The Anthropology of Art 30
SA406A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA406B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA406C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA407A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA407B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA407C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA408A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA408B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA408C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4098 Library-based Dissertation 30
SA4099 Primary Research-based Dissertation 30
SA409A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA409B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA409C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA410A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA410B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA410C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA411A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA411B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA411C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA412A Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (4) 4
SA412B Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (5) 5
SA412C Study Abroad: Social Anthropology (6) 6
SA4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
SA4795 Joint Dissertation (60cr) 60
SA4796 Joint Project (30cr) 30
SA4797 Joint Project (60cr) 60
SA4850 Andes 30
SA4855 Anthropology, Literature and Writing 30
SA4857 West Africa 30
SA4862 Imagining the World: The Anthropology of Consciousness 30
SA4863 Youth in Africa 30
SA4864 Melanesian Anthropology 30
SA4866 Anthropology and Eurasia 30
SA4867 Anthropology of Politics and Governance 30
SA4868 Anthropology of Latin America: Contemporary issues 30
SA4870 Crisis and Rupture: Theories of social change in the contemporary world 30
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

If selected SA4301 must be taken with ID4002.

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 ).