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Master of Arts (Honours) Modern Languages (Italian and Spanish) and Ancient History


MA (Hons) Ancient History (Triple Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
The Greeks in a Wider World 20 AND
Rome and the Mediterranean 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) Spanish (Triple Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Spanish Language and Texts 1 20 AND
Spanish Language and Texts 2 20 ) OR
( Spanish for Beginners 1 20 AND
Spanish for Beginners 2 20 ))

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) Ancient History (Triple Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
* View list 40 credits from Module List: AN2002 - AN2003, CL2003 - CL2004 AND
The Roman Empire 20
Mediterranean Communities 20
Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy 20
Culture and Thought in the Late Roman Republic 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 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

  • pass at grade 11 or better required in modules marked *
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) Spanish (Triple Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1 20 OR
Spanish Language and Texts: ex-Beginners 20 ) AND
Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 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 Spanish 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) Ancient History (Triple Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
Approaches to Ancient History 30 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
The Roman Army 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AN4105 Roman Egypt 30
AN4106 Greeks and Others 30
AN4108 The Disintegration of the Roman Empire 30
AN4109 Death in Roman Culture 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4136 Alexander the Great 30
Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens and Sparta 479 - 362 BCE 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4153 Religious Change in Late Antiquity 30
AN4154 Tyrant - Madman - Fool - Knave: the Julio-Claudian Emperors 14-68 CE 30
Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 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

MA Ancient History (Triple Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits: AN3034 - Third Year Only
Between 30 and 60 credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, (CL4999 or CL4794 or (ID4002 and CL4990) - Fourth Year only)
If chosen CL4990 must be taken with ID4002.
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) Spanish (Triple Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
Spanish Language 1 15 AND
Spanish Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: SP3000 - SP4299 (except SP4098, SP4099, SP4102), ML3201
Literary Translation 15
SP3007 Practical Translation 15
History of the Spanish Language 15
Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
SP3111 Honours Spanish I (Science) 15
SP3112 Honours Spanish 2 (Science) 15
SP3121 Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
Spanish American Literature 2 15
SP3123 Spanish Cinema (Topic) 15
SP3124 Spanish Cinema (Director) 15
SP3138 Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 15
SP3140 Literature and Politics in Spain 1930 - 1939 15
SP3143 Cinema and Literature in Spain 1920 - 1936 15
Post-1975 Writing in Spain 1 15
The Art of Subversion in Post-War Spain (1939-1975) 15
SP3148 The Argentine and Chilean Avant-Garde (1920s-1930's) 15
Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
SP3159 Gender and Violence in Golden Age Literature 15
Facing the New: Spanish Literature and Society (1888 - 1918) 15
SP3161 Rebels, Reactionaries, Reformers: Women Writers in Nineteenth-century Spain 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
Tales of the Nation 15
SP3198 Spanish Dissertation (Science) 15
SP3221 Language, Conflict and Society 15
Love and Loss 15
SP4008 Contemporary Spanish Language 15
Linguistic Study of the Spanish Language 15
Culture and Conflict: Representing the Spanish Civil War 15
SP4014 Spanish Avant-garde(s) 15
Action Heroes and Anti-heroes in Early-Modern Spain 15
SP4016 Contemporary Galician Women Writers 15
(R)evolutions in Early Modern Love Lyric: Perilous, Provocative, Parodic 15
SP4113 Honours Spanish 3 (Science) 15
SP4114 Honours Spanish 4 (Science): Communication Skills 15
SP4198 Spanish Dissertation (Science) 15
History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
Reality and Illusion 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


MA (Hons) Ancient History (Triple Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: CL4999 or CL4794, (ID4002 and CL4990) AND
Dissertation (Short) in Ancient History, Ancient History and Archaeology, or Classical Studies 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Teaching and Learning in Classics and Ancient History 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
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989
AA4001 Cities and Urban Life in Late Antiquity (300-700 CE) 30
From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
The Roman Army 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AN4105 Roman Egypt 30
AN4106 Greeks and Others 30
AN4108 The Disintegration of the Roman Empire 30
AN4109 Death in Roman Culture 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4136 Alexander the Great 30
Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens and Sparta 479 - 362 BCE 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4153 Religious Change in Late Antiquity 30
AN4154 Tyrant - Madman - Fool - Knave: the Julio-Claudian Emperors 14-68 CE 30
Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 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

MA Ancient History (Triple Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
30 credits: AN3034 - Third Year Only
Between 30 and 60 credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, (CL4999 or CL4794 or (ID4002 and CL4990) - Fourth Year only)

If chosen CL4990 must be taken with ID4002.
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) Spanish (Triple Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Spanish Language 3 15 AND
Spanish Language 4: Communication Skills 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: SP3000 - SP4299 (excluding SP4102), ML3201
Literary Translation 15
SP3007 Practical Translation 15
History of the Spanish Language 15
Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
SP3111 Honours Spanish I (Science) 15
SP3112 Honours Spanish 2 (Science) 15
SP3121 Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
Spanish American Literature 2 15
SP3123 Spanish Cinema (Topic) 15
SP3124 Spanish Cinema (Director) 15
SP3138 Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 15
SP3140 Literature and Politics in Spain 1930 - 1939 15
SP3143 Cinema and Literature in Spain 1920 - 1936 15
Post-1975 Writing in Spain 1 15
The Art of Subversion in Post-War Spain (1939-1975) 15
SP3148 The Argentine and Chilean Avant-Garde (1920s-1930's) 15
Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
SP3159 Gender and Violence in Golden Age Literature 15
Facing the New: Spanish Literature and Society (1888 - 1918) 15
SP3161 Rebels, Reactionaries, Reformers: Women Writers in Nineteenth-century Spain 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
Tales of the Nation 15
SP3198 Spanish Dissertation (Science) 15
SP3221 Language, Conflict and Society 15
Love and Loss 15
SP4008 Contemporary Spanish Language 15
Linguistic Study of the Spanish Language 15
Culture and Conflict: Representing the Spanish Civil War 15
SP4014 Spanish Avant-garde(s) 15
Action Heroes and Anti-heroes in Early-Modern Spain 15
SP4016 Contemporary Galician Women Writers 15
(R)evolutions in Early Modern Love Lyric: Perilous, Provocative, Parodic 15
Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 15
Long Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 30
SP4113 Honours Spanish 3 (Science) 15
SP4114 Honours Spanish 4 (Science): Communication Skills 15
SP4198 Spanish Dissertation (Science) 15
History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
Reality and Illusion 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


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 ).