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Master of Arts (Honours) Comparative Literature and Psychology


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This programme is not open to entrants in 2021-2022

MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20 AND
Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year

MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
Fundamentals of Psychology 1 20 AND
Fundamentals of Psychology 2 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
Good and Evil 20 AND
Journeys 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

OR with the approval of the UG Comparative Literature Programme Director, a pass in one of CO2001 or CO2002 and 20 credits in a cognate subject.

If credits are taken in a cognate subject an average of grade 11 or better across these and the CL modules must be achieved to guarantee honours entry.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • Average of grade 11 or better OR With the approval of the UG Comparative Literature Programme Director, a pass in one of CO2001, CO2002 and 20 credits in cognate subject with an average of grade 11 or better across these and the CL credits.
MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
^ Advanced Principles of Psychology 1 30 AND
^ Advanced Principles of Psychology 2 30 AND

Further requirements

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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • pass and have an average grade 11 or better 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.

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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) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module Grouping: CO3000 - CO3019 AND
Comparative Literature: Contours and Constellations I 15
Comparative Literature: Contours and Constellations 2 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 30 credits from Module Grouping: CO3020 - CO3049, CO4002 - CO4049
CO3020 Cultural Memory and Literature 15
CO3021 Crossing the Mediterranean 15
CO4002 The Literary Canon 15
CO4003 Issues in Cultural Studies 15
CO4020 Literature and the Bible 15
Autobiography and the Visual Arts 15
CO4022 Illness and Literature 15
CO4024 Performing Early-Modern Sexualities 15
Classicism in European Literature 15
CO4027 Folk and Fairy Tales 15
Great Works and their Adapations 15
CO4029 Science and Culture in European Modernisms 15
The Short Story 15
Experiences of Exile 15
CO4032 Bad Books 15
CO4033 Essays, Manifestos, and Epigrams 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) Psychology (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
View list At least 60 credits from Module List: PS3021 - PS3022, PS3031 - PS3038, PS4040
Research Design and Analysis 1 15
Research Design and Analysis 2 15
Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
Developmental Psychology 10
Social Psychology 10
Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10
Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10
Perception 10
Cognition 10
Psychology Review 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 academic year

PS3035 cannot be taken with PS3036. PS3037 cannot be taken with PS3038.

MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 60 credits from Module List: CO3020 - CO3049, CO4002 - CO4049, CO4098 - CO4099, ML4794
CO3020 Cultural Memory and Literature 15
CO3021 Crossing the Mediterranean 15
CO4002 The Literary Canon 15
CO4003 Issues in Cultural Studies 15
CO4020 Literature and the Bible 15
Autobiography and the Visual Arts 15
CO4022 Illness and Literature 15
CO4024 Performing Early-Modern Sexualities 15
Classicism in European Literature 15
CO4027 Folk and Fairy Tales 15
Great Works and their Adapations 15
CO4029 Science and Culture in European Modernisms 15
The Short Story 15
Experiences of Exile 15
CO4032 Bad Books 15
CO4033 Essays, Manifestos, and Epigrams 15
Short Dissertation in Comparative Literature 15
Long Dissertation in Comparative Literature 30
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

MA (Hons) Psychology (Joint Honours): Fourth year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: PS3031 - PS3034 AND
Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
Developmental Psychology 10
Social Psychology 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
( Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10 OR
Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10 ) AND
( Perception 10 OR
Cognition 10 )) AND
View list Credits from Module List: PS3000 - PS3800, PS4000 - PS4195
Research Design and Analysis 1 15
Research Design and Analysis 2 15
Conceptual Issues and Theoretical Perspectives 10
Assessment in Clinical Psychology 10
Developmental Psychology 10
Social Psychology 10
Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience 10
Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology 10
Perception 10
Cognition 10
Psychology Review 10
Psychology Project (30) 30
Review Essay 15
Vision in a complex world 15
Collective Behaviour 15
Behavioural Neuroscience 15
Cognitive Psychology and the Emotional Disorders 15
Psychology of Music 15
Psychology of Visual Art 15
Evolution and Development of Social and Technical Intelligence 15
Theory of Mind in development, evolution and autism 15
Neural Basis of Episodic Memory 15
Computer-aided Research 15
The Psychology of Dementia 15
Communicating Psychology and Neuroscience 15
Mechanisms of Behaviour: Integrating Psychological and Neuroscience Perspectives 15
Research Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience 15
PS4101 Selves and Identities 15
PS4103 The subjective experience of cognition 15
Aggressive Behaviour 15
Clinical Neuropsychology 15
Data Science for Psychology & Neuroscience 15
Evolution of Human Behaviour and Culture 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



Unless taken in Third Year students must take 20 credits from PS3035 - PS3038.
Other credits must be taken from PS3000 - PS3900, PS4000 - PS4195 to a maximum of 155 from this range across Third and Fourth Year.
At least 60 credits must be taken in Fourth year to make at least 120 credits from Psychology modules across Honours years.

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 ).