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Master of Arts (Honours) Comparative Literature and Latin


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 ) OR
(( CO1001 The Nineteenth-Century Novel 20 OR
CO1002 Drama in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 20 ) AND
( EN1003 Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature 20 OR
EN1004 Empires and Revolutions: Literature 1680-1830 20 ))) AND
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): First year
Code Module name Credits
( View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1001 - LT1002 OR
LT1001 Elementary Latin 1 20
LT1002 Elementary Latin 2 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
View list 40 credits from Module List: LT1003 - LT1004 ) AND
LT1003 World of Latin 1 20
LT1004 World of Latin 2 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
Remaining credits from Level 1000 options

Further requirements

Choose 120 credits in the academic year
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.
MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): Second year
Code Module name Credits
( ^ View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2001 - LT2002 OR
LT2001 Latin Language and Literature 1 20
LT2002 Latin Language and Literature 2 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
^ View list 40 credits from Module List: LT2003 - LT2004 AND
LT2003 Latin in Progress 1 20
LT2004 Latin in Progress 2 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
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

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

Automatic entry to Honours requires

  • passes in modules marked ^

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 (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 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
CO4041 Global Medieval Literatures 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 involving a School other than Moden Languages the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.
MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): Third year
Code Module name Credits
( View list Between 0 and 60 credits from Module List: LT4000 - LT4989 AND
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 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
View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989 (exc CL4794-CL4795), GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989 ) OR
AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
AA4130 The Roman Army 30
AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
CL4606 Classical Collections 30
CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
GK4132 Writing like a Hetaira? The (Re-)creation of Female Voices in the Second Sophistic 30
GK4200 Court, Classroom, and Canon: Allegories of Homer in Byzantium 30
GK4201 The Age of Experiment: The World of Hellenistic Prose 30
LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
LT4211 Latin Letters 30
LT4213 Roman Satire 30
LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
LT4219 Roman Biography 30
LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
LT4227 Horace and You 30
LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 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
LT3019 Epic Latin: Skills, Theory, Methods 30 AND

Further requirements

Choose between 120 to 160 credits in academic year

MA Latin (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

  • 30 credits - LT3019
  • 60 credits - LT4000-LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Only one of LT4998, LT4999 and CL4794 can be taken.

    In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits and 4000 level.

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    MA (Hons) Comparative Literature (Joint Honours): Fourth Year
    Code Module name Credits
    View list 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
    CO4041 Global Medieval Literatures 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 involving a School other than Moden Languages the normal requirement is 120 credits in each subject.
    MA (Hons) Latin (Joint Honours): Fourth year
    Code Module name Credits
    ( View list Between 0 and 90 credits from Module List: LT4000 - LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794) AND
    LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
    LT4211 Latin Letters 30
    LT4213 Roman Satire 30
    LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
    LT4219 Roman Biography 30
    LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
    LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
    LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
    LT4227 Horace and You 30
    LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
    LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
    LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
    LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
    LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
    LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 30
    LT4999 Latin Dissertation 30
    CL4794 Joint Dissertation (30cr) 30
    LT4998 Dissertation in Latin for Study Abroad Programmes 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
    View list Between 0 and 30 credits from Module List: (ID4002+CL4990),AA4000-AA4989,AN4000-AN4989,CL4000-CL4989(exc CL4794-4795),GK4000-GK4989,LT4000-LT4989 )
    ID4002 Communication and Teaching in Arts and Humanities 15
    CL4990 Teaching and Learning in Classics and Ancient History 15
    AA4003 The Archaeology of Ancient Rome 30
    AA4004 The Archaeology of Identities in the First Millennium BCE Mediterranean World 30
    AA4005 Sanctuaries and the Sacred in the Greek World 30
    AA4006 Early Rome and its Neighbours 30
    AA4008 The World of the Ancient Indian Ocean 30
    AA4121 The Ancient City of Rome 30
    AA4127 In the Footsteps of the Ancients: Exploring the Archaeology and Topography of Greece 30
    AA4130 The Roman Army 30
    AA4145 The Archaeology of Roman Britain 30
    AA4146 The Colours of Ancient Art 30
    AA4425 Networks and Islands: The Archaeology of the Cyclades 30
    AA4426 From the Nile to the Niger: The Kingdoms of Ancient Africa 30
    AN4110 The Culture of Roman Imperialism 30
    AN4146 The Supremacy of Greece: Athens, Sparta and Thebes 479-366 BCE 30
    AN4147 Government and Society under Diocletian 30
    AN4152 Ancient Empires 30
    AN4157 The Environmental History of the Ancient Mediterranean World 30
    AN4158 Local Communities under Empire in Ancient Persia, 550-330 BCE 30
    AN4159 Egypt at the Crossroads: Multiculturalism in Late Antiquity 30
    AN4160 Transformations of the Family, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 30
    AN4426 Roman Slavery 30
    AN4428 Eight Scenes from the Life of Alexander 30
    AN4430 Floods, Famines, Plagues and Volcanoes: Roman Adaptation to the Environment 30
    AN4431 Poverty and Social Life in Late Antiquity 30
    AN4432 Magic in the Greco-Roman World 30
    AN4434 Experiencing the Gods in Ancient Greece 30
    AN4436 Water History of the Ancient World 30
    AN4437 The Hellenistic World 30
    CL4419 Magic in the Greco-Roman World: Representations and Realities 30
    CL4420 Fame, Tradition and Narrative: Homer's Iliad 30
    CL4435 Greek Theatre 30
    CL4437 Modern Classics: Classics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 30
    CL4449 After Virgil: The Aeneid and its Reception 30
    CL4461 Roman Drama and its Reception 30
    CL4463 Travels and Marvels in the Graeco-Roman World 30
    CL4465 Gender and Sexuality in Greek Literature 30
    CL4466 A People's History of Scottish Classics 30
    CL4467 Classics for the Modern World: Interventions and Applications 30
    CL4468 Classics and the Left 30
    CL4469 Christianity and the Classics: Conflict, Competition, Conservation 30
    CL4470 Approaching Women in Greek Tragedy 30
    CL4471 Landscape and Environment in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature 30
    CL4472 Visualising War and Peace in Antiquity 30
    CL4473 Roman Literature and Queer Theory 30
    CL4474 In Search of Greece 30
    CL4500 Pleasure, Goodness and Happiness: Hellenistic Ethics 30
    CL4503 Plato on Love, Virtue and the Symposium 30
    CL4504 Justice, Politics and the Good Life: Plato's Republic and its Critics in the Ancient World 30
    CL4601 Art of the Roman Empire 30
    CL4603 Greek Painted Pottery 30
    CL4605 Classical Bodies 30
    CL4606 Classical Collections 30
    CL4607 Greek Sculpture 30
    GK4102 Greek Tragedy 30
    GK4109 Greek Literature in the Roman Empire 30
    GK4113 Greeks and Barbarians 30
    GK4116 Greeks on Education 30
    GK4117 Lies, History and Ideology 30
    GK4118 Greeks and Romans: Greek Literature and Identity to the Age of Augustus 30
    GK4124 The History of Ancient Greek from Homer to the New Testament 30
    GK4126 Hellenistic Poetry 30
    GK4127 'Satire', Sex and Society: Greek 'Old Comedy' 30
    GK4128 The Rest of the Story: Greek Epic after Homer 30
    GK4129 Picture This: Intermediality in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture 30
    GK4130 The Greek Novels: Identity, Desire and Literary Transformation 30
    GK4131 Diversity and Transformations: The Greek Language from the Hellenistic to the Early Modern Period 30
    GK4132 Writing like a Hetaira? The (Re-)creation of Female Voices in the Second Sophistic 30
    GK4200 Court, Classroom, and Canon: Allegories of Homer in Byzantium 30
    GK4201 The Age of Experiment: The World of Hellenistic Prose 30
    LT4207 Roman Comedy 30
    LT4211 Latin Letters 30
    LT4213 Roman Satire 30
    LT4215 Senecan Tragedy 30
    LT4219 Roman Biography 30
    LT4223 Constantinian Latin 30
    LT4224 Theodosian Latin 30
    LT4226 Africa in Latin Literature 30
    LT4227 Horace and You 30
    LT4228 Displacement and Empire in Latin Literature 30
    LT4229 Writing Roman Civil War 30
    LT4230 Augustan Elegy 30
    LT4231 Ritual and Religion in Latin Literature 30
    LT4232 Drama, Ancient and Early Modern 30
    LT4233 Transformed Texts: Rewriting Roman Literature 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

    MA Latin (Joint Honours) Third and Fourth Year Programme Requirements:

  • 30 credits - LT3019
  • 60 credits - LT4000-LT4989, (LT4998, LT4999 or CL4794 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Further credits: AA4000 - AA4989, AN4000 - AN4989, CL4000 - CL4989, GK4000 - GK4989, LT4000 - LT4989, (ID4002 and CL4990 - in Fourth Year only).
  • Only one of LT4998, LT4999 and CL4794 can be taken.

    In total, 240 credits must be achieved at 3000 and 4000 level, including at least 90 credits and 4000 level.

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    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 ).