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Master of Letters Systematic and Historical Theology

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Master of Letters Systematic and Historical Theology
Code Module name Credits
DI5501 The Origins of Christian Theology 20 AND
View list Between 0 and 100 credits from Module List: DI5415, DI5500 - DI5595 AND
DI5415 Theology Special Topic: (Title to be confirmed) 20
DI5501 The Origins of Christian Theology 20
DI5521 A Selected Modern Theologian 20
DI5522 A Selected Patristic Theologian 20
DI5523 The Doctrine of the Trinity 20
DI5524 Theological Anthropology 20
DI5525 Christology 20
DI5526 A Selected Mediaeval Theologian 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 40 credits from Module List: DI5080, FR, GM, GK, IT, LT, PR, SP Language Modules AND
DI5080 Guided Study in Divinity 10
FR1001 French Language and Literature 1 20
FR1002 French Language and Literature 2 20
FR2201 Second Level French Language (1) 10
FR2202 Second Level French Language (2) 10
FR2203 French Civilisation: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
FR2204 French Civilisation: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
FR2205 French Literature: from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 10
FR2206 French Literature: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century 10
FR3001 French Language 1 15
FR3002 French Language 2 15
FR3021 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 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
FR3077 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
FR3080 Intellectuals in Modern France 15
FR3081 The Court of Louis XIV 15
FR3101 French Integrated Year Abroad 60
FR4078 Music in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 15
FR4103 Translation Methodology 1 15
FR4104 Translation Methodology 2 15
FR4105 Communication Skills in French 1 15
FR4106 Communication Skills in French 2 15
FR4110 Translating French Opera 15
FR4111 Discovering the Renaissance: Imitation, Interpretation and Imagination 15
FR4115 Representations of the Renaissance: Sixteenth-century France in Historical Novels and Films 15
FR4116 Mediaeval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Mediaeval French Literature 15
FR4123 Libertine Literature and Libertinage in Eighteenth-Century France 15
FR4125 The French Age of Enlightenment 15
FR4126 Flaubert's France 15
FR4127 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
FR4150 Creative Writing in French 15
FR4160 From One War to Another: French Politics, Culture and Society 1914 - 1945 (2) 15
FR4161 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
FR4181 Contemporary French Crime Fiction 15
FR4182 Goods and Ads: Consumerism in Modern France 15
FR4183 African Francophone Fiction 15
FR4198 Dissertation on a French Topic 15
FR4199 Long Dissertation on a French Topic 30
FR4807 Honours French 3 (Science) 15
FR4808 Honours French 4 (Science) 15
FR4809 Science French Dissertation 15
FR5001 Advanced Translation 40
FR5007 Echoes of 1940: The Questioning of French Identity 40
FR5011 French Literary Revolutions (40) 40
FR5013 French Literary Revolutions (20) 20
FR5014 Specialised Research in French Studies 20
FR5099 Licentiate Dissertation 40
FR5101 Texts and Ideas in Early Modern France 20
FR5102 Perceptions of the Other in French Literature and Culture 20
FR5103 Directed Reading in French Literature and Culture 40
FR5104 Advanced Language Skills 20
FR5105 Self and Society: Comic Drama, 1620 - 1740 40
FR5106 The Metamorphoses of Orpheus: Song in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 40
FR5108 Autofiction and the Media in Contemporary French Literature and Culture 40
FR5109 Twenty-first Century French Fiction: Creating the Contemporary 40
FR5110 Ideas and the Book in Early Modern France 40
FR5199 Dissertation for MLitt Programme/s 60
FR5201 A Special Subject in French or Francophone Culture 20
FR5810 French Science Project Dissertation 30
GK1001 Greek Language for Beginners 20
GK1002 Greek Literature for Beginners 20
GK1005 Greek Language and Literature 1 20
GK1006 Greek Pastoral and Passion 20
GK2001 The Landscape of Greek Prose (A) 20
GK2002 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (A) 20
GK2003 The Landscape of Greek Prose (B) 20
GK2004 The Landscape of Greek Poetry (B) 20
GK3021 Greek for Honours Classics 1: Special Option 30
GK3022 Greek for Honours Classics 2: Special Option 30
GK4100 Greek Prose Composition 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4105 Greek Rhetoric and Its Representation 30
GK4108 Helen of Troy and the Femme Fatale in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4110 Imagining the Symposium 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4114 Hesiod and the near East 30
GK4115 Epiphanic Gods: Text and Context in the Homeric Hymns 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4121 Violence in Early Greek Poetry 30
GK4122 Wealth, Virtue and Happiness from Homer to Aristotle 30
GK4123 Narrating War in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4998 Dissertation in Greek (Long) 60
GK4999 Dissertation in Greek 30
GK5010 Greek Language 40
GK5099 Dissertation for MLitt Programme/s 60
GK5101 Approaches to Greek Literature 30
GK5102 Greek Tragedy and Athenian Culture 30
GK5103 Comedy and Society in Classical Athens 30
GK5104 Greek Rhetoric and Ideology 30
GK5105 Greek Aesthetics 30
GK5106 Greek Historical Linguistics 30
GK5107 Translating Homer 30
GK5109 Greek Biography 30
GK5110 Aesthetics and Truth in Hellenistic Historical Writing 30
GK5201 Greek 1 (15) 15
GK5202 Greek 2 (15) 15
GK5301 Greek 1 (20) 20
GK5302 Greek 2 (20) 20
GM1001 First Level German A 1 20
GM1002 First Level German A 2 20
GM1003 First Level German B 1 20
GM1004 First Level German B 2 20
GM1036 First Level German A (Faculty of Science) 2 20
GM2003 Second Level German Language A 1 10
GM2004 Second Level German Language A 2 10
GM2007 Second Level German Language B 1 10
GM2008 Second Level German Language B 2 10
GM2011 Modern German Literature and Culture 1 10
GM2012 Modern German Literature and Culture 2 10
GM2013 Mediaeval German Language and Literature 10
GM2014 German linguistics 10
GM3005 German Language 1 15
GM3006 German Language 2 15
GM3038 Understanding Modernism: Franz Kafka 15
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche 15
GM3051 The German Novel After 1945 15
GM3070 Heroism in Modern German Literature 15
GM3071 Recent German Literature 15
GM3072 Gender and Sexuality in Pre-modern German Writing 15
GM3073 The Mediaeval Short Story 15
GM3074 Germany Identity and the 'Jewish Question' 15
GM3075 Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus 15
GM3080 Grammatical Rules and Lexical Exceptions in Modern German 15
GM3081 Words and their Functions in Modern German 15
GM3082 Cultural Critique in Austrian Writing of the Twentieth Century 15
GM3083 Hartmann von Aue: Knights, Lovers, Sinners, Saints 15
GM3084 Future Shocks: Science and Technology in German Literature 15
GM3085 Mediaeval Encounters with the Orient: Wolfram von Eschenbach's Willehalm 15
GM3087 Bertolt Brecht: The Drama of Revolt 15
GM3088 Travel Writing in German since 1990 15
GM3089 The German Gothic (1800 - 2000) 15
GM3091 The Nazi Past in German Cultural Memory 15
GM3101 German Integrated Year Abroad 60
GM4007 Translation Methodology (German / English) 15
GM4046 Mediaeval Things 15
GM4047 German Cinema 15
GM4048 Art and the Artist in Modern German Culture 15
GM4049 Language and Ideology in the GDR and West Germany from 1949 - 1989 15
GM4069 German History 1949 to the Present 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 Mediaeval Film 15
GM4075 Berlin: Modernity and the Metropolis 15
GM4079 Dealing with the Past 15
GM4082 German Journalists 1848-1980 15
GM4084 Germany's Monsters 15
GM4086 Reason and Revolt: German Culture in the Enlightenment 15
GM4088 Prose Representations of Modern Berlin 15
GM4089 Mermaids, Devils, Fortunes: How the German Novel Began 15
GM4090 Contemporary Turkish-German Text and Film 15
GM4091 Generation, Genealogy and the Quest for Tradition: Contemporary German Family Narratives 15
GM4092 East German Cinema 15
GM4093 Heimat Discourse in Contemporary German Literature 15
GM4094 The German Long Story (1880 - 1941) 15
GM4095 Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898 15
GM4096 Love in German Literature since the 1990s 15
GM4098 Dissertation on German Topic 15
GM4099 Long Dissertation on a German Topic 30
GM4105 German Language 3 15
GM4106 German Language 4 15
GM4801 German Dissertation (Science) 15
GM5001 German - English Translation Methodology 40
GM5002 The Linguistics of Modern German (40) 40
GM5011 German Literary and Cultural Contexts: Turning Points (40) 40
GM5012 The Method of Lexical Exceptions in German (40) 40
GM5013 German Literary and Cultural Contexts (20) 20
GM5014 Specialised Research in German Studies 20
GM5027 The German Novel since 1945 40
GM5047 The Politics of Language in the FRG and the GDR from 1949-1989 (20) 20
GM5058 A Special Subject in German, Austrian or Swiss Culture (20) 20
GM5062 Joseph Roth: A Case of Austrian, Jewish Identity 20
GM5064 Reportage as Zeitgeschichte 40
GM5068 A Special Subject in German, Austrian or Swiss Culture (40) 40
GM5069 Gender and German Writing 40
GM5070 King Arthur and the Holy Grail: The World of Mediaeval Romance 40
GM5071 Cultural History of the Mediaeval Body 40
GM5099 Dissertation for MLitt Programme/s 60
GM5101 German Identities 20
GM5102 The Linguistics of Modern German (20) 20
GM5105 The Method of Lexical Exceptions in German (20) 20
GM5199 Dissertation for German and Comparative Literature 60
GM5201 Introduction to Mediaeval German Literature (40) 40
GM5301 Middle High German 20
GM5302 Introduction to Mediaeval German Literature (20) 20
IT1001 Introduction to Italian Language 20
IT1002 Italian Language (Elementary) 20
IT1003 Italian Language Intermediate 1 10
IT1004 Italian Language Intermediate 2 10
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
IT1013 Italian Geographies 10
IT1014 Italian Histories 10
IT2001 Second Level Italian 20
IT2002 Second Level Italian (Advanced) 20
IT3001 Italian Language 1 15
IT3002 Italian Language 2 15
IT3009 History of the Italian Language 15
IT3012 Fourteenth Century Literature 15
IT3014 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
IT3036 Venice 15
IT3037 Contemporary Italian Woman Writers 15
IT3038 Primo Levi 15
IT3039 Emigrant Nation 15
IT3101 Italian Integrated Year Abroad 60
IT4003 Communication Skills 1 15
IT4004 Communication Skills 2 15
IT4005 Translation Methodology 15
IT4010 Early Italian Lyric Poetry 15
IT4012 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
IT4024 Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
IT4025 Foreign Bodies: Migration and Contemporary Italian Culture 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
IT4027 Migration and Transculturality in New Italian Narratives 15
IT4028 The Twentieth-century Italian Novel 15
IT4029 Black Italians 15
IT4097 20-Credit Dissertation in Italian 20
IT4098 Dissertation on an Italian Topic 15
IT4099 Long Dissertation on an Italian Topic 30
IT5001 Memory and Identity: The Existential and Political Cinema of Nanni Moretti 20
IT5002 Italian Humanism and the Foundations of European Identity 20
IT5003 Concepts of Love in Early Italian Literature 20
IT5004 New Italian Narrative Models: Pavese, Vittorini and Calvino, 1939 - 1957 20
IT5005 Extended Study in Italian Literature and Culture 20
IT5011 Italian Literary and Cultural Contexts: Italians (40) 40
IT5013 Italian Literary and Cultural Contexts (20) 20
IT5014 Specialised Research in Italian Studies 20
IT5036 A Special Subject in Italian Culture 20
IT5099 Dissertation for MLitt Programme/s 60
IT5101 Directed Reading in Italian Literature and Culture 40
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 20
LT2001 Latin Language and Literature 1 20
LT2002 Latin Language and Literature 2 20
LT2003 Latin in Progress 1 20
LT2004 Latin in Progress 2 20
LT3017 Latin for Honours Classics 1 30
LT3018 Latin for Honours Classics 2 30
LT4201 Roman Epic 30
LT4203 Latin Prose Composition 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4208 Late Latin 30
LT4209 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT4210 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4212 Virgin Martyrs and Axe-Wielding Bishops 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4214 Latin Philosophical Writing 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4216 The Art of Translation: Ovid in English 30
LT4217 Latin Oratory 30
LT4218 Women in Myth 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4220 Latin Lyric 30
LT4999 Latin Dissertation 30
LT5001 Roman Epic 30
LT5003 Roman Comedy 30
LT5005 Late Imperial Literature 30
LT5015 Latin Historical Writing 30
LT5016 Latin Didactic Poetry 30
LT5017 Apuleius 30
LT5018 Literature in the Reign of Nero 30
LT5020 Latin Astronomical Poetry 30
LT5021 Pliny the Younger 30
LT5022 Latin Literary Interactivity 30
LT5099 Dissertation for MLitt Programme/s 60
LT5103 Latin 1 (15) 15
LT5104 Latin 2 (15) 15
LT5301 Latin 1 (20) 20
LT5302 Latin 2 (20) 20
PR1001 Persian for Beginners 1 20
PR1002 Persian for Beginners 2 20
PR2001 Intermediate Persian 1 20
PR2002 Intermediate Persian 2 20
PR3001 Higher Intermediate Persian 1 15
PR3002 Higher Intermediate Persian 2 15
PR3020 Key Texts in Modern Persian Literature 15
PR3021 Modern Iran through Cinema 15
PR3022 Modernity and Iranian Drama 15
PR4001 Advanced Persian 1 15
PR4002 Advanced Persian 2 15
PR4020 Introduction to Classical Persian Literature 15
PR4021 Female Identity in Contemporary Iran 15
PR4098 Short Dissertation on a Persian Topic 15
PR4099 Long Dissertation on a Persian Topic 30
SP1001 Spanish Language and Texts 1 20
SP1002 Spanish Language and Texts 2 20
SP1003 Spanish for Beginners 1 20
SP1004 Spanish for Beginners 2 20
SP1011 Spanish for Science Students 1 20
SP1012 Spanish for Science Students 2 20
SP1013 Spanish for Beginners for Science Students 1 20
SP1014 Spanish for Beginners for Science Students 2 20
SP1030 Introduction to Modern Latin America 10
SP2001 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1 20
SP2002 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 2 20
SP2003 Spanish Language Advanced 1 10
SP2004 Spanish Language Advanced 2 10
SP2005 Spanish Language and Texts: ex-Beginners 20
SP2006 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Cinema 20
SP2015 Spanish for Science Students: Ex-Beginners 20
SP3001 Spanish Language 1 15
SP3002 Spanish Language 2 15
SP3006 Literary Translation 15
SP3007 Practical Translation 15
SP3011 History of the Spanish Language 15
SP3101 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
SP3122 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
SP3145 Post-1975 Writing in Spain 1 15
SP3147 The Art of Subversion in Post-War Spain (1939-1975) 15
SP3148 The Argentine and Chilean Avant-Garde (1920s-1930's) 15
SP3157 Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
SP3158 Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
SP3159 Gender and Violence in Golden Age Literature 15
SP3160 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
SP3163 Tales of the Nation 15
SP3198 Spanish Dissertation (Science) 15
SP3221 Language, Conflict and Society 15
SP3222 Language, Love and Loss 15
SP4003 Spanish Language 3 15
SP4004 Spanish Language 4: Communication Skills 15
SP4008 Contemporary Spanish Language 15
SP4012 Linguistic Study of the Spanish Language 15
SP4013 Culture and Conflict: Representing the Spanish Civil War 15
SP4014 Spanish Avant-garde(s) 15
SP4015 Action Heroes and Anti-heroes in Early-Modern Spain 15
SP4016 Contemporary Galician Women Writers 15
SP4098 Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 15
SP4099 Long Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 30
SP4102 Semester with Study Abroad in Spain 30
SP4113 Honours Spanish 3 (Science) 15
SP4114 Honours Spanish 4 (Science): Communication Skills 15
SP4198 Spanish Dissertation (Science) 15
SP4223 History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
SP4224 Reality and Illusion 15
SP5001 A Study of Contemporary Spanish Language 40
SP5011 Patterns in Hispanic Literature and Film (40) 40
SP5013 Patterns in Hispanic Literature and Film (20) 20
SP5014 Specialised Research in Spanish and/or Latin American Studies 20
SP5021 Study of a Golden Age Author 40
SP5023 Literature of the River Plate 40
SP5024 A Special Subject in Latin American Literature 40
SP5025 Literature and/or Historiography in Latin America (1492 - 1700) 40
SP5029 Ortega and Avant-garde Prose Fiction 40
SP5030 Literature of the Spanish Civil War 40
SP5031 The Socialist Decade: Spain 1982-1996 40
SP5032 Independent Mexico 1821 - 1855 40
SP5033 A Specialist Subject in Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature 40
SP5034 Special Subject in Mediaeval Studies 40
SP5035 Cultural Identities of Latin America 20
SP5036 A Special Subject in Latin American Literature 20
SP5037 A Special Subject in Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature 20
SP5038 A Special Subject in Golden Age Spanish Literature 20
SP5039 A Special Subject in Spanish Linguistics 20
SP5040 Directed Reading in Spanish or Latin American Literature and Culture 40
SP5099 Dissertation for MLitt Programme/s 60
SP5124 Spanish Films 20
SP5125 Spanish Film Studies 30
SP5126 Spanish Cinema 40
SP5146 The Essay on National Identity in Spanish 20
SP5201 Patterns in Hispanic Literature and Film 40
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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
DI5099 Dissertation for MLitt Programme/s 60

Further requirements

Students must select 180 credits.