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Master of Arts (Honours) Chinese Studies and Spanish


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) Spanish (Joint Honours): First Year
Code Module name Credits
(( SP1001 Spanish Language and Texts 1 20 AND
SP1002 Spanish Language and Texts 2 20 ) OR
( SP1003 Spanish for Beginners 1 20 AND
SP1004 Spanish for Beginners 2 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) Spanish (Joint Honours): Second Year
Code Module name Credits
( SP2001 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 1 20 OR
SP2005 Spanish Language and Texts: ex-Beginners 20 ) AND
SP2002 Spanish Language and Critical Approaches to Texts 2 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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes in all of the Spanish 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) 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) Spanish (Joint Honours): Third Year
Code Module name Credits
SP3001 Spanish Language 1 15 AND
SP3002 Spanish Language 2 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List: SP3000 - SP4299 (except SP4098, SP4099)
SP3001 Spanish Language 1 15
SP3002 Spanish Language 2 15
SP3006 Literary Translation 15
SP3011 History of the Spanish Language 15
SP3101 Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
SP3121 Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
SP3122 Spanish American Literature 2 15
SP3138 Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 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-1930s) 15
SP3157 Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
SP3158 Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
SP3160 Facing the New: Spanish Literature and Society (1888 - 1918) 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
SP3163 Tales of the Nation 15
SP3222 Love and Loss 15
SP4003 Spanish Language 3 15
SP4004 Spanish Language 4: Communication Skills 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
SP4017 (R)evolutions in Early Modern Love Lyric: Perilous, Provocative, Parodic 15
SP4018 Spanish American Urban Landscapes in the Eyes of Contemporary Chroniclers 15
SP4019 Guerreras: Women and Emancipation(s) in Colombian Cinema 15
SP4020 Women in motion: Gender and mobilities in Latin American contemporary literature 15
SP4223 History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
SP4224 Reality and Illusion 15
SP4225 Staging Sex: Early Modern Women Playwrights 15
SP4226 True stories: Journalism and literature in Latin America 15
SP4227 Lesbian Narratives in Latin American Women’s Filmmaking 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

Subject to the approval of any other School involved, one year or one semester may be spent in Study Abroad on a recognised Exchange scheme.

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.

For Joint Honours degrees involving another School the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.
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) Spanish (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
Code Module name Credits
SP4003 Spanish Language 3 15 AND
SP4004 Spanish Language 4: Communication Skills 15 AND
View list 30 credits from Module List: SP3000 - SP4299, ML4794, ID4002 (by interview)
SP3006 Literary Translation 15
SP3011 History of the Spanish Language 15
SP3101 Spanish Integrated Year Abroad 60
SP3121 Spanish American Literature I (Gauchos and Indians) 15
SP3122 Spanish American Literature 2 15
SP3138 Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 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-1930s) 15
SP3157 Autobiographical Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain 15
SP3158 Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires 15
SP3160 Facing the New: Spanish Literature and Society (1888 - 1918) 15
SP3162 Strange Girls and Domestic Angels: Women's Writing in Spain 15
SP3163 Tales of the Nation 15
SP3222 Love and Loss 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
SP4017 (R)evolutions in Early Modern Love Lyric: Perilous, Provocative, Parodic 15
SP4018 Spanish American Urban Landscapes in the Eyes of Contemporary Chroniclers 15
SP4019 Guerreras: Women and Emancipation(s) in Colombian Cinema 15
SP4020 Women in motion: Gender and mobilities in Latin American contemporary literature 15
SP4098 Dissertation on a Spanish Topic 15
SP4223 History and Culture in Spanish Texts 15
SP4224 Reality and Illusion 15
SP4225 Staging Sex: Early Modern Women Playwrights 15
SP4226 True stories: Journalism and literature in Latin America 15
SP4227 Lesbian Narratives in Latin American Women’s Filmmaking 15
SP4099 Long Dissertation on a Spanish 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

Subject to the approval of any other School involved, one year or one semester may be spent in Study Abroad on a recognised Exchange scheme

Access to the pathway with SP4004 and SP4102 requires the permission of the School of the Joint Subject.


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.

For Joint Honours degrees involving another School the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.

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 ).