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Master of Arts (Honours) Modern Languages (Persian and Russian) and English (With Integrated Year Abroad)


MA (Hons) English (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): First Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 40 credits from Module List: EN1003, EN1004, CO1001, CO1002
Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20
Explorers and Revolutionaries: Literature 1680 - 1830 20
The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20
Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 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

MA (Hons) Persian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): 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) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Elementary Russian Language 1 20 AND
Elementary Russian Language 2 20 ) OR
( Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 1 20 AND
Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 2 20 ))

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year


MA (Hons) English (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ Medieval and Renaissance Texts 20 AND
^ Drama: Reading and Performance 20

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 ^
MA (Hons) Persian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): 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
MA (Hons) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
( Intermediate Russian Language 1 20 AND
Intermediate Russian Language 2 20 ) OR
( Advanced Intermediate Russian Language 1 20 AND
Advanced Intermediate Russian Language 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 Russian 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 with Integrated Year Abroad

The general requirements are 540 credits over a period of normally five years (and not more than six years) or part-time equivalent, of which the final three years are an approved Honours programme of 300 credits, of which 60 credits are gained during the integrated year abroad, 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) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Year Abroad
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Options for Year Abroad Study
Arabic Integrated Year Abroad 60
French Integrated Year Abroad 60
German Integrated Year Abroad 60
Italian Integrated Year Abroad 60
Modern Languages Integrated Year Abroad 60
Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
Semester of Study in Russia 60
Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
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

select 60 credits in acadeimc year


MA (Hons) English (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 90 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398 - EN4399, EN4794 - EN4797)
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
Literary Theory 30
Literature and Ecology 30
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama 30
Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
Modern Experimental Poetry 30
Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
Reading Popular Music 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
EN4405 Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
Contemporary Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 30
EN4415 T.S. Eliot 30
Virginia Woolf 30
Writing Poetry and Prose 30
American Poetry since 1950 30
American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
EN4420 Writing Prose 30
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4424 Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature 30
EN4425 Celtic Modernisms 30
EN4426 Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
The Shape of the Poem 30
Making Performance 30
EN4432 Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
Literature and Culture of Sport 30
Writing the Pacific 30
Playwriting 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 English (Triple Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
90 credits in 3 of: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only);
MA (Hons) Persian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): 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
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
ID4002 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) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Advanced Russian Language 1 15 AND
Advanced Russian Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: RU3021 - RU4195, ML3201 ) OR
Russian Poetry of the Golden Age 15
RU3022 The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 15
Russian Modernist Fiction 1900 - 1940 15
RU3030 A Special Russian Author of the Twentieth Century 15
RU3043 Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century Russia 15
RU3044 Russia's Literary Easts 15
Soviet Culture Under Stalin 15
Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
Semester of Study in Russia 60
Advanced Russian Translation 2 15
Advanced Russian Language 1 15
Advanced Russian Language 2 15
Advanced Russian Language 3 15
Advanced Russian Oral Skills 0
Advanced Russian Language 4: Communication Skills 15
RU4130 Issues in Russian Cultural Memory 15
RU4131 Russian 'Village Prose': 1953 - 1980 15
Russian Children's Literature (1900 - 2015) 15
The Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature 15
Gender in Russian Literature and Culture 15
Russian Crime Fiction 15
RU4151 The City in Soviet and Russian Cinema 15
RU4152 Vladimir Nabokov 15
RU4153 Voices of the Russian Enlightenment 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
( Advanced Russian Language 1 15 AND
Semester of Study in Russia 60 ) OR
( Semester of Study in Russia 60 AND
Advanced Russian Language 2 15 )) ))

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students whose degree is all modern-language must take between 60 and 120 credits in Russian across Third and Fourth Year.
Students whose degree has a non-modern language component must take between 60 and 90 credits in Russian across Third and Fourth Year.

MA (Hons) English (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 90 credits from Module List: EN3000 - EN4999 (excluding EN4398) AND
Beowulf 30
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 30
Older Scots Literature to 1560 30
Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN3142 Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts 30
EN3161 The Development of the Novel to 1840 30
Revolution and Romanticism: Literature, History and Society (1789-1805) 30
EN3163 The Younger Romantics: Poetry and Prose (1810 - 1830) 30
'Loose Baggy Monsters': The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Novel 30
EN3166 Victorian Poetry's Voices 30
Literary Theory 30
Literature and Ecology 30
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Drama 30
Modernist Literature: Making It New? 30
Postcolonial Literature and Theory 30
The Country and the City in Scottish Literature 30
Atomic Cultures: Anglophone Writing and the Global Cold War 30
Modern Experimental Poetry 30
Writing Poetry 30
EN3218 Material Texts: an Introduction to Book History 30
Reading Popular Music 30
EN3904 Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 1: To 1900 30
EN3905 Crime and Passion in Popular Culture 2: Since 1900 30
EN4312 Authorising English: Society, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval English Literature 30
EN4314 Old English Afterlives: Literary Anglo-Saxonism 30
EN4315 Apocalyptic Literature in Early English 30
EN4316 Courtly Literature in Middle English 30
EN4341 Renaissance Sexualities: Rhetoric and the Body 1580 - 1660 30
Restoration Drama in Context 30
Early English Romance Comedy: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries 30
EN4345 Hard Cases: Literary Complexity from Donne to Pope 30
The Early Tudors: Literature and Reformation 30
EN4347 Milton 30
Bodies and Selves in the Renaissance 30
EN4349 Renaissance Sonnets 30
EN4350 Women and Authorship in Renaissance England 30
EN4351 Translating the Renaissance: England and Europe in the Age of Shakespeare 30
EN4352 The Social Network: Literary Communities in Seventeenth-Century England 30
The Novels of Jane Austen in Context 30
Mind, Body and Soul: Literature in the Enlightenment 30
EN4364 The Art of Victorian Poetry 30
EN4365 Literature and Childhood in the Eighteenth Century 30
EN4366 Byron's Long Poems and Dramas 30
Romantic Gothic 30
Read all about it! Victorian Literature and the Press 30
EN4369 Victorian Literature and Science 30
Voicing America: Colonisation to Civil War 30
EN4371 Forming Freedom: African-American Writing 30
Labour, Leisure and Luxury in British and Transatlantic Literature of the Eighteenth Century 30
Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
The Queen's English: Language, Literature, and Politics in the Victorian Period 30
Dissertation in English 30
Speeches and Speechwriting: History, Theory and Practice 30
EN4403 Medievalism 30
EN4405 Contemporary Poetry in Great Britain and Ireland 30
Contemporary Fiction 30
EN4407 Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender and Genre 30
EN4413 Reading the 1940s 30
EN4415 T.S. Eliot 30
Virginia Woolf 30
Writing Poetry and Prose 30
American Poetry since 1950 30
American Fiction: Self and Nation (1865 - 1939) 30
EN4420 Writing Prose 30
EN4422 Poetic Language 30
EN4423 Material Culture in Victorian and Modernist Fiction 30
EN4424 Nationalists and Nomads: Contemporary World Literature 30
EN4425 Celtic Modernisms 30
EN4426 Civil Wars on Page and Screen 30
The Shape of the Poem 30
Making Performance 30
EN4432 Poetry and Cinema 30
EN4433 Black and Asian British Writing 30
Literature and Culture of Sport 30
Writing the Pacific 30
Playwriting 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
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: EN4398, ID4002
Short Dissertation 15
ID4002 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 English (Triple Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:
90 credits in 3 of: EN3000 - EN4999, (EN4398 and ID4002 - in Fourth Year only);
MA (Hons) Persian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): 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
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
ID4002 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) Russian (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
Advanced Russian Language 3 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: RU3021-RU4199, ML3201, ML4794, ID4002
Russian Poetry of the Golden Age 15
RU3022 The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel 15
Russian Modernist Fiction 1900 - 1940 15
RU3030 A Special Russian Author of the Twentieth Century 15
RU3043 Theatre and Performance in Twentieth-Century Russia 15
RU3044 Russia's Literary Easts 15
Soviet Culture Under Stalin 15
Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
Semester of Study in Russia 60
Advanced Russian Translation 2 15
Advanced Russian Language 1 15
Advanced Russian Language 2 15
Advanced Russian Language 3 15
Advanced Russian Oral Skills 0
Advanced Russian Language 4: Communication Skills 15
RU4130 Issues in Russian Cultural Memory 15
RU4131 Russian 'Village Prose': 1953 - 1980 15
Russian Children's Literature (1900 - 2015) 15
The Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature 15
Gender in Russian Literature and Culture 15
Russian Crime Fiction 15
RU4151 The City in Soviet and Russian Cinema 15
RU4152 Vladimir Nabokov 15
RU4153 Voices of the Russian Enlightenment 15
Dissertation on a Russian Topic 15
Long Dissertation on a Russian Topic 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
Utopia/Dystopia in Russian Literature 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

Students whose degree is all modern-language must take between 60 and 120 credits in Russian across Third and Fourth Year.
Students whose degree has a non-modern language component must take between 60 and 90 credits in Russian across Third and Fourth 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 ).