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Master of Arts (Honours) English and Latin


MA (Hons) English (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 20 credits from Module List: EN1003, EN1004 AND
EN1003 Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20
EN1004 Empires and Revolutions: Literature 1680-1830 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) Latin (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1001 - LT1002 OR
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 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 40 credits from Module List: LT1003 - LT1004 ) AND
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 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): 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) Latin (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
( ^ View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2001 - LT2002 OR
LT2001 Latin Language and Literature 1 20
LT2002 Latin Language and Literature 2 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 40 credits from Module List: LT2003 - LT2004 AND
LT2003 Latin in Progress 1 20
LT2004 Latin in Progress 2 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

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
EN3116 The Mystery of Love: Sacred and Secular Themes in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN3141 Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN3144 Shakespeare and Race 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
EN4319 Green and Pleasant: Landscape and Later Medieval Literature 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
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
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
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
EN3114 Reading Old English 30
EN3116 The Mystery of Love: Sacred and Secular Themes in Late Medieval English Literature 30
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
EN3221 Stories at the End of the World 30
EN3222 Writing Through Crisis: 21st Century Poetry and Prose 30
EN3223 The Mystery of Love: Sacred and Secular Themes in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN3224 Emily Dickinson and the Lyric 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: 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
EN4319 Green and Pleasant: Landscape and Later Medieval Literature 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
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
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
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
EN4438 Literature and Human Rights 30
EN4439 Poetry and Failure 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) Latin (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: LT4000 - LT4989 AND
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 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: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (exc CL4794-CL4795), GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989 ) OR
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
GK4132 Writing like a Hetaira? The (Re-)creation of Female Voices in the Second Sophistic 30
GK4200 Court, Classroom, and Canon: Allegories of Homer in Byzantium 30
GK4201 The Age of Experiment: The World of Hellenistic Prose 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 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
LT3019 Epic Latin: Skills, Theory, Methods 30 AND

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

MA Latin (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

  • 30 credits - LT3019
  • 60 credits - LT4000-LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Only one of LT4998, LT4999 and CL4794 can be taken.

    In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits and 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
    EN3116 The Mystery of Love: Sacred and Secular Themes in Late Medieval English Literature 30
    EN3141 Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
    EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
    EN3144 Shakespeare and Race 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
    EN4319 Green and Pleasant: Landscape and Later Medieval Literature 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
    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
    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
    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
    EN3114 Reading Old English 30
    EN3116 The Mystery of Love: Sacred and Secular Themes in Late Medieval English Literature 30
    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
    EN3221 Stories at the End of the World 30
    EN3222 Writing Through Crisis: 21st Century Poetry and Prose 30
    EN3223 The Mystery of Love: Sacred and Secular Themes in Late Medieval English Literature 30
    EN3224 Emily Dickinson and the Lyric 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: 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
    EN4319 Green and Pleasant: Landscape and Later Medieval Literature 30
    EN4320 Old English Literature and the East 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
    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
    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
    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
    EN4438 Literature and Human Rights 30
    EN4439 Poetry and Failure 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) Latin (Joint Honours): Fourth year
    Code Module name Credits
    ( View list Between 0 and 90 credits from Module List: LT4000 - LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794) AND
    LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
    LT4211 Latin Letters 30
    LT4213 Roman Satire 30
    LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
    LT4219 Roman Biography 30
    LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
    LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
    LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
    LT4227 Horace and You 30
    LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
    LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
    LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
    LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
    LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
    LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 30
    LT4999 Latin Dissertation 30
    CL4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
    LT4998 Dissertation in Latin for Study Abroad Programmes 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 30 credits from Module List: (ID4002+CL4990),AA4000-AA4989,AN4000-AN4989,CL4000-CL4989(exc CL4794-4795),GK4000-GK4989,LT4000-LT4989 )
    ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
    CL4990 Teaching and Learning in Classics and Ancient History 15
    AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
    AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
    AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
    AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
    AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
    AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
    AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
    AA4130 The Roman Army 30
    AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
    AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
    AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
    AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
    AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
    AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
    AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
    AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
    AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
    AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
    AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
    AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
    AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
    AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
    AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
    AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
    AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
    AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
    AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
    AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
    CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
    CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
    CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
    CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
    CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
    CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
    CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
    CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
    CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
    CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
    CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
    CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
    CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
    CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
    CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
    CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
    CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
    CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
    CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
    CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
    CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
    CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
    CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
    CL4606 Classical Collections 30
    CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
    GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
    GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
    GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
    GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
    GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
    GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
    GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
    GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
    GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
    GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
    GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
    GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
    GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
    GK4132 Writing like a Hetaira? The (Re-)creation of Female Voices in the Second Sophistic 30
    GK4200 Court, Classroom, and Canon: Allegories of Homer in Byzantium 30
    GK4201 The Age of Experiment: The World of Hellenistic Prose 30
    LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
    LT4211 Latin Letters 30
    LT4213 Roman Satire 30
    LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
    LT4219 Roman Biography 30
    LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
    LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
    LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
    LT4227 Horace and You 30
    LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
    LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
    LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
    LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
    LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
    LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 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 Latin (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

  • 30 credits - LT3019
  • 60 credits - LT4000-LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Only one of LT4998, LT4999 and CL4794 can be taken.

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