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Master of Arts (Honours) Arabic, French and German (With Integrated Year Abroad)


MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): First Year
Code Module name Credits
AR1001 Arabic for Beginners 1 20 AND
AR1002 Arabic for Beginners 2 20

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) French (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): First Year
Code Module name Credits
FR1001 French Language and Literature 1 20 AND
FR1002 French Language and Literature 2 20

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) German (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( GM1001 First Level German A 1 20 AND
GM1002 First Level German A 2 20 ) OR
( GM1003 First Level German B 1 20 AND
GM1004 First Level German B 2 20 ))

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
^ AR2001 Intermediate Arabic 1 20 AND
^ AR2002 Intermediate Arabic 2 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) French (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 20 credits from Module List: FR2201 - FR2202 AND
FR2201 Second Level French Language (1) 10
FR2202 Second Level French Language (2) 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list 20 credits from Module List: FR2000 - FR2999 (excluding FR2201 and FR2202)
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
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

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 French modules taken
MA (Hons) German (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
(( GM2003 Second Level Advanced German Language 1 10 AND
GM2004 Second Level Advanced German Language 2 10 ) OR
( GM2007 Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 1 10 AND
GM2008 Second Level Ex-Beginners German Language 2 10 )) AND
View list At least 20 credits from Module List: GM2011 - GM2014
GM2011 The Age of Goethe 10
GM2012 Unification to the First World War 10
GM2013 Medieval German Language and Literature 10
GM2014 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 module catalogue 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 11 in all German 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.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/teaching-and-learning/policies/honsentry.pdf )

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) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Year Abroad
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Options for Year Abroad Study
AR3101 Arabic Integrated Year Abroad 60
FR3101 French Integrated Year Abroad 60
GM3101 German Integrated Year Abroad 60
IT3101 Italian Integrated Year Abroad 60
ML3101 Modern Languages Integrated Year Abroad 60
RU3101 Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
RU3102 Semester of Study in Russia 60
SP3101 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

select 60 credits in acadeimc year
MA (Hons) French (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): Year Abroad
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Options for Year Abroad Study
AR3101 Arabic Integrated Year Abroad 60
FR3101 French Integrated Year Abroad 60
GM3101 German Integrated Year Abroad 60
IT3101 Italian Integrated Year Abroad 60
ML3101 Modern Languages Integrated Year Abroad 60
RU3101 Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
RU3102 Semester of Study in Russia 60
SP3101 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

select 60 credits in acadeimc year
MA (Hons) German (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Year Abroad
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Options for Year Abroad Study
AR3101 Arabic Integrated Year Abroad 60
FR3101 French Integrated Year Abroad 60
GM3101 German Integrated Year Abroad 60
IT3101 Italian Integrated Year Abroad 60
ML3101 Modern Languages Integrated Year Abroad 60
RU3101 Russian Integrated Year Abroad 60
RU3102 Semester of Study in Russia 60
SP3101 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

select 60 credits in acadeimc year
MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
AR3401 Media Arabic 1 15 AND
AR3402 Media Arabic 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AR3411, AR3420 - AR3499, AR4421 - AR4422, AR4461 - AR4462
AR3411 Modern Arab Culture and Society 15
AR3421 Arabic Short Stories 1 15
AR3422 Arabic Short Stories 2 15
AR3423 Fannanat: Arab Women's Creativity in Modern Arab Culture 15
AR3424 Modern Arab Culture and Society 15
AR3461 Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 1 15
AR3462 Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 2 15
AR4421 Exile and Identity 15
AR4422 Palestinian Fiction 15
AR4461 Classical Arabic Poetry 15
AR4462 Classical Arabic Prose 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year
MA (Hons) French (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
FR3001 French Language 1 15 AND
FR3002 French Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: FR3010 - FR3099; FR4011 - FR4197
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 (1620 - 1680) 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
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
FR4078 Music in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 15
FR4079 Diversifying C19th 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 Medieval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Medieval French Literature 15
FR4117 Politics, Propaganda and Mythmaking in Medieval France 15
FR4118 Women's Voices in Renaissance France 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 (1620 - 1715) 2 15
FR4130 Saint-Domingue: Theatre and Society in a Caribbean Slave Colony 15
FR4131 Images of the Fall in the French 18th century: new perspectives on the Age of Enlightenment 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
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
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

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

If unsure please take advice from an Adviser on the number of French credits required/allowed over Third and Fourth Years.
MA (Hons) German (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
GM3005 German Language 1 15 AND
GM3006 German Language 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: GM3010 - GM3099, GM4000 - GM4095
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche 15
GM3075 Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus 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
GM4007 Translation Methodology (German / English) 15
GM4046 Medieval Things 15
GM4048 Art and the Artist in Modern German Culture 15
GM4056 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
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
GM4092 East German Cinema 15
GM4094 The German Long Story (1880 - 1941) 15
GM4095 Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students whose degree has a non Modern Language component should ensure that between 60 and 90 credits are taken in German over Third and Fourth Year.
MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
AR4401 Advanced Arabic 1 15 AND
AR4402 Advanced Arabic 2 15 AND
View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: AR4420 - AR4499, AR3411, AR3421 - AR3423, AR3461 - AR3462, AR4999, ML4794, ID4002
AR4421 Exile and Identity 15
AR4422 Palestinian Fiction 15
AR4461 Classical Arabic Poetry 15
AR4462 Classical Arabic Prose 15
AR3411 Modern Arab Culture and Society 15
AR3421 Arabic Short Stories 1 15
AR3422 Arabic Short Stories 2 15
AR3461 Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 1 15
AR3462 Key Texts in Classical Arabic Literature and Culture 2 15
AR4999 Dissertation in Arabic Studies 30
ML4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
AR3423 Fannanat: Arab Women's Creativity in Modern Arab 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Choose optional credits to give between 60 and 120 credits in Arabic over years 3 and 4.

AR4999 and ML4794 cannot be selected together.
MA (Hons) French (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
FR4105 Communication Skills in French 1 15 AND
FR4106 Communication Skills in French 2 15 AND
View list Credits from Module List: FR3010 - FR3099, FR4000 - FR4199, ID4002, ML4794
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 (1620 - 1680) 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
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
FR4078 Music in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry 15
FR4079 Diversifying C19th 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 Medieval Marvels: The Exotic, the East and the Other in Medieval French Literature 15
FR4117 Politics, Propaganda and Mythmaking in Medieval France 15
FR4118 Women's Voices in Renaissance France 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 (1620 - 1715) 2 15
FR4130 Saint-Domingue: Theatre and Society in a Caribbean Slave Colony 15
FR4131 Images of the Fall in the French 18th century: new perspectives on the Age of Enlightenment 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
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
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
ML4794 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

If unsure please take advice from an Adviser on the number of French credits required/allowed over Third and Fourth Years.
MA (Hons) German (Triple Honours with Year Abroad): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
GM4105 German Language 3 15 AND
GM4106 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
GM3088 Travel Writing in German since 1990 15
GM3089 The German Gothic (1800 - 2000) 15
GM3091 The Nazi Past in German Cultural Memory 15
GM4007 Translation Methodology (German / English) 15
GM4046 Medieval Things 15
GM4048 Art and the Artist in Modern German Culture 15
GM4056 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
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
GM4092 East German Cinema 15
GM4094 The German Long Story (1880 - 1941) 15
GM4095 Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898 15
GM4097 Post-Wall Cinema: The Berlin School and beyond 15
GM4098 Dissertation on German Topic 15
GM4099 Long Dissertation on a German Topic 30
ML4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
ID4002 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in academic year

Students whose degree has a non Modern Language component should ensure that between 60 and 90 credits are taken in German over 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 St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).