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MA (Single Honours Degree) English
MA (Joint Honours Degrees) English and one of:
ArabicW Art History Biblical Studies Classical Studies Comparative Literature
Economics Film Studies FrenchW GermanW
Greek Hebrew ItalianW Latin Management Mediaeval History Middle East Studies
Modern History Philosophy
E Where a timetable clash occurs (depending on which Russian modules are taken) Second level English should be taken in the first year.
MA “With” Degree Honours in which the majority of the course deals with the
first-named subject: Two of (French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish) with EnglishW (five Modern Languages modules (150 credits) and three English modules (90 credits))
W Available With Integrated Year Abroad – see Modern Languages.
MA Mediaeval Studies This degree (in which English modules may be taken) is administered through the Department of Mediaeval History
Entry Requirements The likely minimum grades currently required are shown below. (For Joint Honours degrees the subject with the higher entry requirements determines the likely minimum grades.)
SQA Highers: AAAB GCE A-Levels: AAA International Baccalaureate Points: 38
Please note: • Obtaining these grades may not guarantee you a place. • We consider all aspects of every application, including the personal statement.
• Remember to confirm that you also meet the Faculty Entrance Requirements. Information on these and other qualifications pages 52-85.
Degree Structure For Arts Faculty information and other module choices, see page 13.
“One of the world’s top 20 Arts and Humanities universities” The Times Higher Education World Rankings 2010.
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Subject Enquiries E:
english@st-andrews.ac.uk
General Enquiries UK/EU:
student.recruitment@
st-andrews.ac.uk Rest of the World:
international@st-andrews.ac.uk
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english
Psychology RussianW,E Scottish History Social Anthropology SpanishW Theological Studies
Features
• Modules on topics including speechwriting; literature and ecology; creative writing; twentieth-century crime fiction; and science fiction.
• The School is rated one of the top research departments for English in the UK, with 70 per cent of its work judged to be either ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (see page 5).
• Educational provision rated ‘Impressively High’ and our staff described as ‘Open and Supportive’ in a recent teaching review.
• An excellent staff:student ratio of around 1:17 at Honours level.
• Members of the School include winners of the Forward Prize, the Whitbread Prize and T S Eliot Prize for poetry, the Somerset Maugham Award, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for fiction.
• Varied programme of published authors as visiting speakers, giving students the chance to discuss contemporary literature and criticism with leading modern writers.
St Andrews has a long and illustrious history of teaching literature in English and the School is consistently rated as one of the top English departments in Britain. The School combines expertise in research with dedication to teaching in a caring and friendly environment. Special research strengths include mediaeval language and literature, the Renaissance, the Romantic and Modern periods, Scottish literature, Creative Writing, and Women’s Writing. Studying English develops techniques that enable you to read with close attention and to consider the ideas, human values, and historical forces that have helped to form our literature. The opportunity to read, to discuss, and to reflect with clarity on a wide variety of texts develops analytical, descriptive, and evaluative skills. You learn to communicate more fluently, lucidly, economically, and persuasively. These skills are both intrinsically enriching and eminently transferable. English graduates from St Andrews enter fields as diverse as television and radio, journalism, publishing, teaching, acting, the law, politics, the civil service, and many branches of commerce, industry, and finance. The ‘employability’ record of students graduating from the School is excellent.
In your first and second years the modules in English will take up one third of your time. At Honours level, in the third and fourth years, you can do all your work in English or, if you choose to take a Joint Honours degree, you can divide your time between English and another subject. In all four years you will be assessed partly on your coursework, submitted during the semester, and partly on your performance in examinations at the end of the semester. The emphasis in our first- and second- year courses is on introducing texts from the full range of English literary history and methods for interpreting them. At Honours level you are able to make choices from the wide range of modules taught by specialists in the School, on subjects ranging from Beowulf to science fiction.
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