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Master of Arts (Honours) Chinese Studies and Comparative Literature


MA (Hons) Chinese Studies (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( CN1011 Beginners Chinese Language 1 20 AND
CN1021 Beginners Chinese Language 2 20 ) OR
( CN1012 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 1 20 AND
CN1022 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 2 20 )) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
CO1001 The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20 AND
CO1002 Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20 AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Chinese Studies (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
(( CN2011 Intermediate Chinese Language 1 20 AND
CN2021 Intermediate Chinese Language 2 20 ) OR
( CN2012 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 3 20 AND
CN2022 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 4 20 )) AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
Choose a minimum of 80 Level 2000 credits
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
CO2001 Good and Evil 20 AND
CO2002 Journeys 20 AND
Remaining credits from Levels 1000 and 2000 options

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.

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) Chinese Studies (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
CN3001 Chinese Language, Texts and Cultural Practices 1 15 AND
CN3002 Chinese Language, Texts and Cultural Practices 2 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List:CN3301 - CN3399, CN4401 - CN44999, CN4099 and ID4002
CN3301 Creating China 1: Nation, Modernization, Contestation 15
CN3302 The Art of 20th Century China 15
CN3303 Pearl River Cultures: Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macau 15
CN3304 Visualizing Sinophone Culture 15
CN3305 Constructing Gender in Chinese Literature 15
CN3306 Hong Kong in Art and Visual Culture: Creativity and Contestation 15
CN3307 Poverty in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture 15
CN4401 Politics and Propaganda in Modern China 15
CN4402 Creating China 2: Revolution, Opening-up, Clamping-down 15
CN4403 Youth and Education in Republican China 15
CN4404 Contemporary Chinese Culture –1989 to the present day 15
CN4405 The Reception and Reinvention of the Past in Modern China 15
CN4406 Modern Chinese Science Fiction 15
CN4407 Postsocialist Attitude: Literature and Rebellion in post-1990 China 15
CN4408 China and the World 15
CN4099 Dissertation on a Chinese Topic 15
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 between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

Students whose degree has a non-Modern Language component should ensure that between 90 to 120 credits are taken in Chinese Studies over Third and Fourth Year.

MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint 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 60 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 Joint Honours degrees where both subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in each subject is 90 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 150 credits.
MA (Hons) Chinese Studies (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
CN4001 Chinese Language, Texts and Cultural Practices 3 15 AND
CN4002 Chinese Language, Texts and Cultural Practices 4 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List: CN3301 - CN3399, CN4401 - CN4499, CN4099, and ID4002
CN4401 Politics and Propaganda in Modern China 15
CN4402 Creating China 2: Revolution, Opening-up, Clamping-down 15
CN4403 Youth and Education in Republican China 15
CN4404 Contemporary Chinese Culture –1989 to the present day 15
CN4405 The Reception and Reinvention of the Past in Modern China 15
CN4406 Modern Chinese Science Fiction 15
CN4407 Postsocialist Attitude: Literature and Rebellion in post-1990 China 15
CN4408 China and the World 15
ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
CN4099 Dissertation on a Chinese Topic 15
CN3301 Creating China 1: Nation, Modernization, Contestation 15
CN3302 The Art of 20th Century China 15
CN3303 Pearl River Cultures: Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Macau 15
CN3304 Visualizing Sinophone Culture 15
CN3305 Constructing Gender in Chinese Literature 15
CN3306 Hong Kong in Art and Visual Culture: Creativity and Contestation 15
CN3307 Poverty in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature and 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
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
View list Between 60 and 120 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 Joint Honours degrees where both subjects are in the School of Modern Languages, the minimum requirement in each subject is 90 credits and the maximum allowed in one subject is 150 credits.

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 ).