English BA (International Hons)

Students studying the English BA (International Hons) will take the required modules at both institutions in their first and second years.

1st Year

At St Andrews, the compulsory modules in first year are:

• Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature: introduces a small number of texts, in prose and verse, from the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Explorers and Revolutionaries: Literature 1680-1830: examines travel, colonialism, and different constructions of “man’s natural estate” in the early 18th century.

At St Andrews, the compulsory modules in second year are:

• Medieval and Renaissance Texts: introduces early forms of English language and literature, using specially edited texts from Old English, Middle English and Older Scots.
• Drama: Reading and Performance: introduces a number of representative plays from the Renaissance period and from the 20th century. Emphasis is placed upon the context in which these plays were first created and those in which they are now received.

Here is a sample of Honours modules that have been offered at St Andrews in previous years:

• Beowulf
• The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810-1830)
• Postcolonial Literature and Theory
• Romantic Writing and Women
• Contemporary British Fiction
• Civil Wars on Page and Screen.

All English majors in the joint programme have the opportunity to work on an independent research project as part of their degree. You will either write a dissertation at St Andrews or take a senior research seminar at William & Mary.