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Master of Arts (Honours) Modern Languages (German and Italian) 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) German (Triple Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( First Level German A 1 20 AND
First Level German A 2 20 ) OR
( First Level German B 1 20 AND
First Level German B 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: IT1013, IT1014 ))
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) 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 7 or better in the modules marked *
MA (Hons) German (Triple Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
(( Second Level Advanced German Language 1 10 AND
Second Level Advanced German Language 2 10 ) OR
( Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 1 10 AND
Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 2 10 )) AND
View list At least 20 credits from Module List: GM2011 - GM2014
The Age of Goethe 10
Unification to the First World War 10
Medieval German Language and Literature 10
Weimar Republic: 1918-1933 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

Students must take at least 40 credits in German.

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • An average grade of 7 in all German 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 7 in all Italian 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
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 From Pagan to Christian Rome, AD 300-900 30
The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4435 The Rise of Rome. Early Italy from Prehistory to the First Punic War 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) German (Triple Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
German Language 1 15 AND
German Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: GM3010 - GM3099, GM4000 - GM4095, GM4097
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche 15
GM3075 Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus 15
Travel Writing in German since 1990 15
The German Gothic (1800 - 2000) 15
GM3091 The Nazi Past in German Cultural Memory 15
Translation Methodology (German / English) 15
Medieval Things 15
GM4048 Art and the Artist in Modern German Culture 15
German Popular Music: Sound, Page and Screen 15
GM4057 Holocaust Memory Culture and Its Discontents 15
GM4058 Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture 15
GM4061 Animals in Literature and Film 15
GM4070 Writing Nature: German Environmental Thought (1800 - 2000) 15
GM4071 Shakespeare: the German Catalyst 15
GM4072 German Classicism 15
GM4073 Women in German Letters 15
GM4074 Medieval History 15
GM4075 Berlin: Modernity and the Metropolis 15
GM4078 Masculinities in Contemporary German Film, TV and Literature 15
GM4084 German Monsters 15
GM4089 Mermaids, Devils, Fortunes: How the German Novel Began 15
East German Cinema 15
GM4094 The German Long Story 15
Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898 15
GM4097 Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond 15
GM3073 The Medieval Short Story 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

For Triple Honours degrees where all three subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in all three subjects is 60 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 120 credits.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is English or International Relations or Social Anthropology, the requirements are 90 credits in EN or IR or SA with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 90 in the two SoML subjects.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is Management, the requirements are between 60 and 100 credits in MN with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 120 in the two SoML subjects.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is in the School of Classics, the requirements are 60 to 90 credits in the subject in Classics with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 120 in the two SoML subjects.

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
IT3012 Fourteenth Century Literature 15
The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy 15
IT3022 Romanticising the Nation: Culture and Identity in the Ottocento 15
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
Female Literary Representations in the Italian Renaissance 15
IT4016 Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry 15
IT4022 Fascist Italy 15
IT4024 Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
Contemporary Cultures of Migration 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
IT4028 The Twentieth-century Italian Novel 15
Black Italians 15
IT4030 Italian Cinema and Society, 1945-1975 15
IT4031 Leaving the Factory: Labour and its Others in Modern and Contemporary Italy 15
Travellers and Tourists in Italian Culture 15
IT4033 Elena Ferrante 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

For Triple Honours degrees where all three subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in all three subjects is 60 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 120 credits.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is English or International Relations or Social Anthropology, the requirements are 90 credits in EN or IR or SA with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 90 in the two SoML subjects.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is Management, the requirements are between 60 and 100 credits in MN with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 120 in the two SoML subjects.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is in the School of Classics, the requirements are 60 to 90 credits in the subject in Classics with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 120 in the two SoML subjects.


MA (Hons) Ancient History (Triple Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: CL4998, CL4999 or CL4794, (ID4002 and CL4990) AND
Dissertation (Short) in Ancient History, Ancient History & Archaeology, or Classical Studies 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
CL4990 Teaching and Learning in Classics and Ancient History 15
Dissertation in Ancient History, Ancient History & Archaeology, or Classical Studies for Study Abroad Programmes 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
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
AA4002 From Pompeii to Aquileia: the Archaeology of Roman Italy (50 BCE - 300 CE) 30
AA4003 From Pagan to Christian Rome, AD 300-900 30
The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4122 Sacred Spaces in the Roman Empire 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4131 The Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4149 The Archaeology of Minoan Crete 30
AN4106 Persia and the Greeks 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4141 Greek Tyranny 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
Ancient Empires 30
AN4155 Religious Communities in the Late Antique World 30
AN4156 Memory and Dynasty 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4427 Greeks and Others 30
Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4429 Early Greece between Egypt and Anatolia 30
Floods, famines, plagues and volcanoes: Roman adaptation to the environment 30
Poverty and social life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4433 Belief and Unbelief in Classical Greek Religion 30
Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4435 The Rise of Rome. Early Italy from Prehistory to the First Punic War 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) German (Triple Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
German Language 3 15 AND
German Language 4 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: GM3010 - GM3099, GM3103, GM4000 - GM4099, ML4794, ID4002
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche 15
GM3075 Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus 15
Travel Writing in German since 1990 15
The German Gothic (1800 - 2000) 15
GM3091 The Nazi Past in German Cultural Memory 15
Translation Methodology (German / English) 15
Medieval Things 15
GM4048 Art and the Artist in Modern German Culture 15
German Popular Music: Sound, Page and Screen 15
GM4057 Holocaust Memory Culture and Its Discontents 15
GM4058 Memory and the Archive in Contemporary German Culture 15
GM4061 Animals in Literature and Film 15
GM4070 Writing Nature: German Environmental Thought (1800 - 2000) 15
GM4071 Shakespeare: the German Catalyst 15
GM4072 German Classicism 15
GM4073 Women in German Letters 15
GM4074 Medieval History 15
GM4075 Berlin: Modernity and the Metropolis 15
GM4078 Masculinities in Contemporary German Film, TV and Literature 15
GM4084 German Monsters 15
GM4089 Mermaids, Devils, Fortunes: How the German Novel Began 15
East German Cinema 15
GM4094 The German Long Story 15
Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898 15
GM4097 Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond 15
Dissertation on German Topic 15
Long Dissertation on a German Topic 30
Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
GM3073 The Medieval Short Story 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

For Triple Honours degrees where all three subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in all three subjects is 60 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 120 credits.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is English or International Relations or Social Anthropology, the requirements are 90 credits in EN or IR or SA with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 90 in the two SoML subjects.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is Management, the requirements are between 60 and 100 credits in MN with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 120 in the two SoML subjects.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is in the School of Classics, the requirements are 60 to 90 credits in the subject in Classics with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 120 in the two SoML subjects.

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
IT3012 Fourteenth Century Literature 15
The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy 15
IT3022 Romanticising the Nation: Culture and Identity in the Ottocento 15
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
Female Literary Representations in the Italian Renaissance 15
IT4016 Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry 15
IT4022 Fascist Italy 15
IT4024 Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
Contemporary Cultures of Migration 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
IT4028 The Twentieth-century Italian Novel 15
Black Italians 15
IT4030 Italian Cinema and Society, 1945-1975 15
IT4031 Leaving the Factory: Labour and its Others in Modern and Contemporary Italy 15
Travellers and Tourists in Italian Culture 15
IT4033 Elena Ferrante 15
Dissertation on an Italian Topic 15
Long Dissertation on an Italian Topic 30
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

For Triple Honours degrees where all three subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in all three subjects is 60 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 120 credits.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is English or International Relations or Social Anthropology, the requirements are 90 credits in EN or IR or SA with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 90 in the two SoML subjects.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is Management, the requirements are between 60 and 100 credits in MN with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 120 in the two SoML subjects.
For Triple Honours degrees where the third subject is in the School of Classics, the requirements are 60 to 90 credits in the subject in Classics with a minimum of 60 and maximum of 120 in the two SoML subjects.


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¶³ÊÓÆµ School in the Learning Agreement (see ).