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


MA (Hons) Arabic (Triple Honours): 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) 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) Arabic (Triple Honours): 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

  • passes in modules marked ^
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

With the approval of the UG Comparative Literature Programme Director, a pass in ONE of CO2001 or CO2002 and 20 credits in a cognate subject may be sufficient to enter Honours.

A cognate subject may be a) any subject from Modern Languages b) any EN2000 level module or c) a module from a different school or department that includes some element of literary or cultural study provided approval is granted by the UG Comparative Literature Programme Director.
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

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) Arabic (Triple Honours): 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: AR3420 - AR3499, AR4421 - AR4422, AR4461 - AR4462
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 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): 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 Adaptations 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
GM3073 The Medieval Short Story 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
GM4078 Masculinities in Contemporary German Film, TV and Literature 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
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) Arabic (Triple Honours): 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 AND
AR4421 Exile and Identity 15
AR4422 Palestinian Fiction 15
AR4461 Classical Arabic Poetry 15
AR4462 Classical Arabic Prose 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
AR3424 Modern Arab Culture and Society 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) 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 Adaptations 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
GM3073 The Medieval Short Story 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
GM4078 Masculinities in Contemporary German Film, TV and Literature 15
GM4092 East German Cinema 15
GM4094 The German Long Story 15
GM4095 Rethinking German Realism 1845 - 1898 15
GM4096 Love in German Literature since the 1990s 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
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 ).