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Master of Arts (Honours) French, Italian and Persian


MA (Hons) French (Triple Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
French Language and Literature 1 20 AND
French Language and Literature 2 20

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Italian (Triple Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Introduction to Italian Language 20 AND
Italian Language (Elementary) 20 ) OR
( Italian Language Intermediate 1 10 AND
Italian Language Intermediate 2 10 AND
View list 20 credits from Module List: IT1005 - IT1099 ))
IT1005 Contemporary Italian Short Stories 10
IT1006 Italian Renaissance Books of Manners 10
IT1007 Poverty and Politics in Fascist Italy 10
IT1008 The Italian Short Story from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century 10
IT1012 The Culture of Unified Italy 10
Italian Geographies 10
Italian Histories 10
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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Persian (Triple Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
Persian for Beginners 1 20 AND
Persian for Beginners 2 20

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) French (Triple Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 20 credits from Module List: FR2201 - FR2202 AND
Second Level French Language (1) 10
Second Level French Language (2) 10
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 entry for each individual module above
View list 20 credits from Module List: FR2000 - FR2999 (excluding FR2201 and FR2202)
French Civilisation: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
French Civilisation: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
French Literature: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
French Literature: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • An average grade of 11 in all French modules taken
MA (Hons) Italian (Triple Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
Second Level Italian 20 AND
Second Level Italian (Advanced) 20

Further requirements

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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • An average grade of 11 in all Italian modules taken
MA (Hons) Persian (Triple Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
Intermediate Persian 1 20 AND
Intermediate Persian 2 20

Further requirements

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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • An average grade of 11 in all Persian modules taken

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.

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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 or 5000 level and at least a further 120 credits at 3000 and/or 4000 or 5000 levels.


MA (Hons) French (Triple Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
French Language 1 15 AND
French Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: FR3010 - FR3099; FR4011 - FR4197, ML3201
An Introduction to the French Classical Period 15
FR3025 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Nineteenth-Century French Theatre 15
FR3028 Plays, Players and Playwrights (1620 - 1680) 1 15
FR3030 'Tartuffe' in Context, in Performance and in Translation 15
FR3059 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (1) 15
FR3063 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics, Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (1) 15
FR3076 Writing the Nineteenth Century 1: French Literature, History and Politics 1848 - 1871 15
Contemporary French Fiction 15
FR3078 Writing the Self in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French literature 15
FR3079 From Text to Screen: Novels and their Film Adaptations 15
Intellectuals in Modern France 15
FR3081 The Court of Louis XIV 15
FR4078 Music in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 15
Translation Methodology 1 15
Translation Methodology 2 15
Communication Skills in French 1 15
Communication Skills in French 2 15
Translating French Opera 15
Discovering the Renaissance: Imitation, Interpretation and Imagination 15
FR4115 Representations of the Renaissance: Sixteenth-century France in Historical Novels and Films 15
FR4116 Medieval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Medieval French Literature 15
Politics, Propaganda and Mythmaking in Medieval France 15
Women's Voices in Renaissance France 15
FR4123 Libertine Literature and Libertinage in Eighteenth-Century France 15
The French Age of Enlightenment 15
Flaubert's France 15
Nineteenth-Century French Narratives of the Sea 15
FR4128 A semester with Casanova: myths and afterlives of Histoire de ma vie 15
FR4129 Plays, Players and Playwrights: The Theatre in France 1620 - 1715 15
FR4149 Aspects of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Theatre 15
Creative Writing in French 15
From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (2) 15
Antillean Identities 15
FR4164 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics,Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (2) 15
FR4169 Painting and Writing: the figure of the artist in recent French Literature 15
FR4175 The 'nouveau roman': Undoing the Novel 15
FR4176 Recent Women's Writing in French: Theory and Practice 15
FR4180 Modern French Thought 15
Contemporary French Crime Fiction 15
FR4182 Goods and Ads: Consumerism in Modern France 15
African Francophone Fiction 15
ML3201 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions 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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

If unsure please take advice from an Adviser on the number of French credits required/allowed over Third and Fourth Years.
MA (Hons) Italian (Triple Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
Italian Language 1 15 AND
Italian Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: IT3003 - IT3099, IT4006 - IT4089, ML3201
IT3009 History of the Italian Language 15
Fourteenth Century Literature 15
The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy 15
IT3019 Contemporary Italian Narrative and Poetry 15
IT3022 Nineteenth-Century Literature 15
IT3035 Italian Detective Fiction 15
Venice 15
IT3037 Contemporary Italian Woman Writers 15
IT3038 Primo Levi 15
IT3039 Emigrant Nation 15
IT4010 Early Italian Lyric Poetry 15
Dante Alighieri 15
IT4013 Modern Italy through Cinema 15
IT4014 Female Literary Representations in the Italian Renaissance 15
IT4015 Literary Transvestism in Italian Literature 15
IT4016 Twentieth-Century Italian Canonical and Anti-Canonical Poetry 15
IT4022 Fascist Italy 15
IT4023 Authority and subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
IT4025 Foreign Bodies: Migration and Contemporary Italian Culture 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
Migration and Transculturality in New Italian Narratives 15
IT4028 The Twentieth-century Italian Novel 15
Black Italians 15
ML3201 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions 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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students must take between 60 and 120 credits in Italian over Third and Fourth Year.

MA (Hons) Persian (Triple Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
Higher Intermediate Persian 1 15 AND
Higher Intermediate Persian 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: PR3000 - PR4095,PR4098 or PR4099,ML3201,ML4794, ID4002
Higher Intermediate Persian 1 15
Higher Intermediate Persian 2 15
Key Texts in Modern Persian Literature 15
Modern Iran through Cinema 15
Modernity and Iranian Drama 15
Songs of Love and Revolution 15
Advanced Persian 1 15
Advanced Persian 2 15
Introduction to Classical Persian Literature 15
Short Dissertation on a Persian Topic 15
Long Dissertation on a Persian Topic 30
ML3201 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions 15
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year


MA (Hons) French (Triple Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Communication Skills in French 1 15 AND
Communication Skills in French 2 15 AND
View list Credits from Module List: FR3010 - FR3099, FR4000 - FR4199, ID4002, ML3201, ML4794
An Introduction to the French Classical Period 15
FR3025 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Nineteenth-Century French Theatre 15
FR3028 Plays, Players and Playwrights (1620 - 1680) 1 15
FR3030 'Tartuffe' in Context, in Performance and in Translation 15
FR3059 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (1) 15
FR3063 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics, Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (1) 15
FR3076 Writing the Nineteenth Century 1: French Literature, History and Politics 1848 - 1871 15
Contemporary French Fiction 15
FR3078 Writing the Self in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French literature 15
FR3079 From Text to Screen: Novels and their Film Adaptations 15
Intellectuals in Modern France 15
FR3081 The Court of Louis XIV 15
FR4078 Music in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 15
Translation Methodology 1 15
Translation Methodology 2 15
Communication Skills in French 1 15
Communication Skills in French 2 15
Translating French Opera 15
Discovering the Renaissance: Imitation, Interpretation and Imagination 15
FR4115 Representations of the Renaissance: Sixteenth-century France in Historical Novels and Films 15
FR4116 Medieval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Medieval French Literature 15
Politics, Propaganda and Mythmaking in Medieval France 15
Women's Voices in Renaissance France 15
FR4123 Libertine Literature and Libertinage in Eighteenth-Century France 15
The French Age of Enlightenment 15
Flaubert's France 15
Nineteenth-Century French Narratives of the Sea 15
FR4128 A semester with Casanova: myths and afterlives of Histoire de ma vie 15
FR4129 Plays, Players and Playwrights: The Theatre in France 1620 - 1715 15
FR4149 Aspects of Gender in Seventeenth-Century Theatre 15
Creative Writing in French 15
From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (2) 15
Antillean Identities 15
FR4164 De Gaulle and Since: Topics in the Politics,Culture and Society of the Fifth Republic (2) 15
FR4169 Painting and Writing: the figure of the artist in recent French Literature 15
FR4175 The 'nouveau roman': Undoing the Novel 15
FR4176 Recent Women's Writing in French: Theory and Practice 15
FR4180 Modern French Thought 15
Contemporary French Crime Fiction 15
FR4182 Goods and Ads: Consumerism in Modern France 15
African Francophone Fiction 15
Dissertation on a French Topic 15
Long Dissertation on a French Topic 30
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
ML3201 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions 15
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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

If unsure please take advice from an Adviser on the number of French credits required/allowed over Third and Fourth Years.
MA (Hons) Italian (Triple Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Communication Skills 1 15 AND
Communication Skills 2 15 AND
View list Credits from Module List: IT3003 - IT3099, IT4005 - IT4089, IT4098, IT4099, ML3201, ML4794, ID4002
IT3009 History of the Italian Language 15
Fourteenth Century Literature 15
The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy 15
IT3019 Contemporary Italian Narrative and Poetry 15
IT3022 Nineteenth-Century Literature 15
IT3035 Italian Detective Fiction 15
Venice 15
IT3037 Contemporary Italian Woman Writers 15
IT3038 Primo Levi 15
IT3039 Emigrant Nation 15
IT4005 Translation Methodology 15
IT4010 Early Italian Lyric Poetry 15
Dante Alighieri 15
IT4013 Modern Italy through Cinema 15
IT4014 Female Literary Representations in the Italian Renaissance 15
IT4015 Literary Transvestism in Italian Literature 15
IT4016 Twentieth-Century Italian Canonical and Anti-Canonical Poetry 15
IT4022 Fascist Italy 15
IT4023 Authority and subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
IT4025 Foreign Bodies: Migration and Contemporary Italian Culture 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
Migration and Transculturality in New Italian Narratives 15
IT4028 The Twentieth-century Italian Novel 15
Black Italians 15
Dissertation on an Italian Topic 15
Long Dissertation on an Italian Topic 30
ML3201 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions 15
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students must take between 60 and 120 credits in Italian over Third and Fourth Year.

MA (Hons) Persian (Triple Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Advanced Persian 1 15 AND
Advanced Persian 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: PR3000 - PR4095,PR4098 or PR4099,ML3201,ML4794, ID4002
Higher Intermediate Persian 1 15
Higher Intermediate Persian 2 15
Key Texts in Modern Persian Literature 15
Modern Iran through Cinema 15
Modernity and Iranian Drama 15
Songs of Love and Revolution 15
Advanced Persian 1 15
Advanced Persian 2 15
Introduction to Classical Persian Literature 15
Short Dissertation on a Persian Topic 15
Long Dissertation on a Persian Topic 30
ML3201 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions 15
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
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 entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year


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 91¹û¶³ÊÓƵ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).