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Master of Arts (Honours) Comparative Literature, German and Italian


MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Triple Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
( CO1001 The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20 AND
CO1002 Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20 ) OR
( EN1003 Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20 AND
EN1004 Empires and Revolutions: Literature 1680-1830 20 )

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) German (Triple Honours): 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) Italian (Triple Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( IT1001 Introduction to Italian Language 20 AND
IT1002 Italian Language (Elementary) 20 ) OR
( IT1003 Italian Language Intermediate 1 10 AND
IT1004 Italian Language Intermediate 2 10 AND
View list 20 credits from Module List: IT1013, IT1014 ))
IT1013 Italian Geographies 10
IT1014 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Triple Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
CO2001 Good and Evil 20 AND
CO2002 Journeys 20

Further requirements

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


A minimum grade of 7 in 40 credits worth of 2000 level Italian modules.
MA (Hons) German (Triple Honours): 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

  • passes in the two compulsory modules and 20 further credits in German
MA (Hons) Italian (Triple Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
IT2001 Second Level Italian 20 AND
IT2002 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

  • passes in all of the 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.

See: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/academic/academic-advising/glossary/honours-entry/ )

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 (Triple Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
View list 30 credits from Module Grouping: CO3000 - CO3019 AND
CO3001 Comparative Literature: Contours and Constellations I 15
CO3003 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above
View list Between 0 and 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
CO4021 Autobiography and the Visual Arts 15
CO4022 Illness and Literature 15
CO4024 Performing Early-Modern Sexualities 15
CO4026 Classicism in European Literature 15
CO4027 Folk and Fairy Tales 15
CO4028 Great Works and their Adapations 15
CO4029 Science and Technology/Literature and Culture 15
CO4030 The Short Story 15
CO4031 Experiences of Exile 15
CO4032 Bad Books 15
CO4033 Essays, Manifestos, and Epigrams 15
CO4034 Utopia: Past, Present, Future 15
CO4035 Literary Geographies 15
CO4036 The Ends of the World 15
CO4037 Love, Lust, and Longing: Exploring Early Modern Love Poetry 15
CO4038 Environmental Imaginations 15
CO4039 Poetry and Poetics of Landscapes in the 20th and 21st Centuries 15
CO4040 Regarding Others: Race, Ethnicity, and Class 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 between 120 to 160 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) German (Triple Honours): 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, GM4097
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
GM4061 Animals in Literature and Film 15
GM4065 Introduction to Heterosexuality: Queer Methods, Straight 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 15
GM4095 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 module catalogue entry for each individual module above

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 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
IT3001 Italian Language 1 15 AND
IT3002 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
IT3014 The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy 15
IT3022 Romanticising the Nation: Culture and Identity in the Ottocento 15
IT3035 Italian Detective Fiction 15
IT3036 Venice 15
IT3037 Contemporary Italian Woman Writers 15
IT3038 Primo Levi 15
IT3039 Emigrant Nation 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
IT4016 Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry 15
IT4022 Fascist Italy 15
IT4024 Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
IT4025 Contemporary Cultures of Migration 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
IT4028 The Twentieth-century Italian Novel 15
IT4029 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
IT4032 Travellers and Tourists in Italian Culture 15
IT4033 Elena Ferrante 15
IT4034 Italian Ecologies 15
IT4035 The Southern Question 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 between 120 to 160 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) Comparative Literature (Triple Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 0 and 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
CO4021 Autobiography and the Visual Arts 15
CO4022 Illness and Literature 15
CO4024 Performing Early-Modern Sexualities 15
CO4026 Classicism in European Literature 15
CO4027 Folk and Fairy Tales 15
CO4028 Great Works and their Adapations 15
CO4029 Science and Technology/Literature and Culture 15
CO4030 The Short Story 15
CO4031 Experiences of Exile 15
CO4032 Bad Books 15
CO4033 Essays, Manifestos, and Epigrams 15
CO4034 Utopia: Past, Present, Future 15
CO4035 Literary Geographies 15
CO4036 The Ends of the World 15
CO4037 Love, Lust, and Longing: Exploring Early Modern Love Poetry 15
CO4038 Environmental Imaginations 15
CO4039 Poetry and Poetics of Landscapes in the 20th and 21st Centuries 15
CO4040 Regarding Others: Race, Ethnicity, and Class 15
CO4098 Short Dissertation in Comparative Literature 15
CO4099 Long Dissertation in Comparative Literature 30
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

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) German (Triple Honours): 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
GM4061 Animals in Literature and Film 15
GM4065 Introduction to Heterosexuality: Queer Methods, Straight 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 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

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
IT4003 Communication Skills 1 15 AND
IT4004 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
IT3014 The Language and Literature of Renaissance Italy 15
IT3022 Romanticising the Nation: Culture and Identity in the Ottocento 15
IT3035 Italian Detective Fiction 15
IT3036 Venice 15
IT3037 Contemporary Italian Woman Writers 15
IT3038 Primo Levi 15
IT3039 Emigrant Nation 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
IT4016 Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry 15
IT4022 Fascist Italy 15
IT4024 Authority and Subversion in Renaissance Italy 15
IT4025 Contemporary Cultures of Migration 15
IT4026 Fascism and Film 15
IT4028 The Twentieth-century Italian Novel 15
IT4029 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
IT4032 Travellers and Tourists in Italian Culture 15
IT4033 Elena Ferrante 15
IT4034 Italian Ecologies 15
IT4035 The Southern Question 15
IT4098 Dissertation on an Italian Topic 15
IT4099 Long Dissertation on an Italian Topic 30
ML4794 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 module catalogue 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 St Andrews School in the Learning Agreement (see www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/study-abroad/academic ).