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Master of Arts (Honours) Comparative Literature and German (With Integrated Year Abroad)


MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): 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 ) AND
View list 20 credits from Level 1000 options
AH1001 Art in Europe and Beyond to 1600 20
AH1003 Art in Europe and Beyond 1600-1800 20
AN1003 Ancient Empires 20
AN1004 Cities and communities in the ancient Mediterranean 20
AR1001 Arabic for Beginners 1 20
AR1002 Arabic for Beginners 2 20
AS1001 Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 20
AS1101 Astrophysics (Direct Entry) 5
BL1101 Biology 1 20
BL1102 Biology 2 20
CH1202 Introductory Chemistry for Second Year Direct Entry Students 10
CH1301 The Impact of Chemistry 20
CH1401 Introductory Inorganic and Physical Chemistry 20
CH1402 Inorganic and Physical Chemistry 1 20
CH1601 Organic and Biological Chemistry 1 20
CL1004 Myth and Community in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 20
CL1005 Images of Augustan Rome 20
CN1011 Beginners Chinese Language 1 20
CN1012 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 1 20
CN1021 Beginners Chinese Language 2 20
CN1022 Chinese Language and Textual Practices 2 20
CO1001 The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20
CO1002 Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries 20
CS1002 Object-Oriented Programming 20
CS1003 Programming with Data 20
CS1006 Programming Projects 20
CS1007 Computer Systems Fundamentals 20
DI1001 God and the World: Introducing Theology 20
DI1003 The Art of Biblical Literature: Introducing the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament 20
DI1004 Hebrew 1: Introduction to Hebrew Language 20
DI1005 New Testament Greek 1 20
DI1006 Jesus and the Gospels 20
DI1009 Introduction to World Religions 20
DI1201 From Adam to Apocalypse: The Bible and Western Culture 20
EC1001 Macroeconomics 20
EC1002 Microeconomics 20
EC1003 Mathematics for Economists 20
EC1008 Finance 20
EN1003 Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20
EN1004 Empires and Revolutions: Literature 1680-1830 20
ES1001 Understanding Planet Earth 20
ES1002 Earth's Resource Challenges 20
ES1006 Astrobiology: The Search for Life in the Universe 20
FM1001 Key Concepts in Film Studies 20
FM1002 Global Film History and Historiography 20
FR1001 French Language and Literature 1 20
FR1002 French Language and Literature 2 20
GG1001 Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment 20
GG1002 Worlds of Crisis and Hope 20
GK1001 Greek Language for Beginners 20
GK1002 Greek Literature for Beginners 20
GK1005 Greek Language and Literature 1 20
GK1006 Greek Pastoral and Passion 20
GM1001 First Level German A 1 20
GM1002 First Level German A 2 20
GM1003 First Level German B 1 20
GM1004 First Level German B 2 20
ID1007 Ancient Origins, Modern Worlds 20
IE1103 Academic English and Study Skills 1 20
IE1203 Academic English and Study Skills 2 20
IR1005 Concepts in Global Politics 20
IR1006 Foreign Policy and Diplomacy in Global Politics 20
IT1001 Introduction to Italian Language 20
IT1002 Italian Language (Elementary) 20
IT1003 Italian Language Intermediate 1 10
IT1004 Italian Language Intermediate 2 10
IT1013 Italian Geographies 10
IT1014 Italian Histories 10
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 20
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 20
ME1003 The Fall of Rome and the Origins of Europe (400-1000) 20
ME1006 The Kingdom of the Scots, c.900-1707 20
MN1001 Organisations and Society 20
MN1002 Organisations and Analysis 20
MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c. 1450 - c. 1770) 20
MO1008 Themes in Late Modern History (c. 1776 - 2001) 20
MT1001 Introductory Mathematics 20
MT1002 Mathematics 20
MT1002 Mathematics 20
MT1003 Pure and Applied Mathematics 20
MT1007 Statistics in Practice 20
MU1003 Understanding Music 20
MU1004 Making Music 1 20
MU1005 Words and Music 20
MU1006 An Introduction to Ethnomusicology: why, and how, human beings are musical 20
PH1011 Physics 1A 20
PH1012 Physics 1B 20
PH1501 Mathematics for Physicists 1A 20
PH1502 Physics Skills 1A 20
PH1503 Physics Skills 1B 20
PR1001 Persian for Beginners 1 20
PR1002 Persian for Beginners 2 20
PN1001 Fundamentals of Psychology 1 20
PN1002 Fundamentals of Psychology 2 20
PY1010 Mind and World 20
PY1011 Moral and Political Controversies 20
PY1012 Reasoning 20
PY1013 The Enlightenment 20
RU1001 Elementary Russian Language 1 20
RU1002 Elementary Russian Language 2 20
RU1005 Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 1 20
RU1006 Advanced Elementary Russian Language and Literature 2 20
SA1001 Anthropology in the World 20
SA1002 Ways of Thinking 20
SD1000 What is Sustainable Development? 20
SD1004 Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges & Opportunities 20
SP1001 Spanish Language and Texts 1 20
SP1002 Spanish Language and Texts 2 20
SP1003 Spanish for Beginners 1 20
SP1004 Spanish for Beginners 2 20
VP1210 Vertically Integrated Project 10
VP1215 Vertically Integrated Project 15
VP1220 Vertically Integrated Project 20
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) German and Modern Language (Joint 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 )) AND
Between 0 and 80 credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): 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.
MA (Hons) German and Modern Language (Joint 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 AND
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
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

Students are strongly advised to take at least 60 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 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) German and Modern Language (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 a Russian-speaking country 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) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): 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 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.
MA (Hons) German and Modern Language (Joint 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, GM4097
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche 15
GM3073 The Medieval Short Story 15
GM3075 Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus 15
GM3081 Words and their Functions in Modern German 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
GM4049 Language and Ideology in the GDR and West Germany from 1949 - 1989 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
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.

For Joint Honours degrees involving another School the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.
MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours with Year Abroad): 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.
MA (Hons) German and Modern Language (Joint 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 60 credits from Module List: GM3010 - GM3099, GM3103, GM4000 - GM4099, ML4794, ID4002
GM3047 The Literature of Friedrich Nietzsche 15
GM3073 The Medieval Short Story 15
GM3075 Thomas Mann - Doktor Faustus 15
GM3081 Words and their Functions in Modern German 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
GM4049 Language and Ideology in the GDR and West Germany from 1949 - 1989 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
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 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 ).