DPT: Italian and Classics (MA Hons) (UTMLCIT)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Italian 1

Must be passed

Course options

Selected courses must be passed

Greek 1A

Greek 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Greek 1C

Greek 1D

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

Selected courses must be passed

The Greek World 1A: Greece in the Making

The Greek World 1B: Greece's New Horizons

The Roman World 1A: The Rise of Rome

The Roman World 1B: The Roman Empire

AND

Level 7 language courses cannot be taken for credits on this degree programme.

Year 2 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Entry into Honours:
(1) Students must pass courses to the required value of 240 credits in the first two years.
(2) Students must achieve 50% or more at first attempt in all required second-year courses for their registered degree.
(3) Students must achieve a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in 40 credits of second-year Classics courses. If Latin or Greek is chosen, a pass at 50% or above at the first attempt in Greek 2A/Greek 2A ex-beginners and Greek 2B; or Latin 2A/Latin 2A ex-beginners and Latin 2B is required.
(4) All courses (including outside subjects) must be passed before embarking on the year abroad, an outside course passed at Resit in August will be acceptable.

Compulsory courses

Italian Language 2

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Italian Literature: Texts in Context 2

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Students who choose Greek language must take Greek 2B and one of Greek 2A or Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Greek 2A

Greek 2B

Greek 2a Ex-Beginners

Students who choose Latin language must take Latin 2B and one of Latin 2A or Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ancient History 2b: Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Ancient History 2a: Past and Present in the Ancient World

The Transformation of the Roman World, ca. 300-800: Towards Byzantium and the Early Medieval West

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature 2: Greek and Roman Epic

AND

Selected courses must be passed

Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France is only available to students who have passed French 1A or French 1B.
Scandinavian Languages 2 is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in year one.
For LEL2 courses students must have passed: Linguistics and English Language 1 or A Brief Introduction to Language.

Selected courses must be passed

Introduction to European Cinema

Languages Beyond University

Crime and Detection in Literature

Cultural Responses to War

The Coming of Age Narrative

Dynamics of Language and Power

Migration, Diaspora, Exile: The Politics of Representation

Gender and Culture

Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France A

Culture and Society in the Catalan World

Catalan Language for Beginners

Basque Language for beginners

Transnational Russian Culture

The Golden Age of Russian Literature

Scandinavian Languages 2

Scandinavian Civilisation A: Vikings, Sagas and the Road to Enlightenment

Scandinavian Civilisation B: From National Romanticism to the Nordic Model

LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods

LEL2C: English in Time and Space

LEL2D: Cross-linguistic Variation: Limits and Theories

LEL2E: Structure and History of European Languages

Year 3 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

During 3rd year, when permitted, at least 30 weeks to be spent abroad and required work completed in Classics and the language area. During sessions when this is not permitted students will be offered an alternative means of engagement.

Final Assessment:

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based.

1. Italian Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Italian Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Italian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Italian Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. Classics YA work
6. Classics YA work
7. Classics Dissertation Preparation (same mark as 8) OR MEL Year Abroad work OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. Classics Dissertation Completion, MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation preparation. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed.)
9. Italian Hons option course
10. Classics options
11. Classics options
12. Classics options

Compulsory courses

Year Abroad Work for Degrees in Modern European Languages and Classics

Language acquisition through residence/study B

Year Abroad online language learning course - Italian

Course options

Modern European Languages Year Abroad Assessment

MEL dissertation preparation

Classics Dissertation (combined degree with MEL)Part 1: preparation

Year 4 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Final Assessment:

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based.

1. Italian Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Italian Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Italian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Italian Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. Classics YA work
6. Classics YA work
7. Classics Dissertation Preparation (same mark as 8) OR MEL Year Abroad work OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. Classics Dissertation Completion, MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation preparation. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed.)
9. Italian Hons option course
10. Classics options
11. Classics options
12. Classics options

Compulsory courses

Italian Language 4 Honours Paper 1

Italian Language 4 Hons Paper 2

Oral for Italian

Course options

AND

MEL dissertation completion

MEL Long Essay

Classics Dissertation (combined degree with MEL)Part 2: completion

AND

The Severans

Ancient Persia - The Achaemenid Dynasty

The Emperor in the Late Roman World

Studying Ancient History 2

Labour, Wealth, and Inequality: The Economy of the Classical Greek City-States

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Ancient Greek Warfare

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Archaeology of Architecture

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

The Archaeology of Technology: from prehistory to the present

On the move: Human migrations from the beginnings to the 21st century

Paganism and Christianity in the Roman Empire

Hellenistic Art

Roman Architecture

Handling Greek Pottery

The City in the Late Antique Mediterranean World

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

From Athena to Edina: Antiquity in Revolution between Greece and Scotland

Body and Medicine in Ancient Rome

Examining Classics: past, present and future

The Ancient Novel

Tragedy

Monsters, Murder and Mayhem: Biography in the Ancient World

Socrates and Plato: Five Dialogues

Ancient Literature from a Comparative Perspective

Civil War and the Roman Imagination

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

Better Worlds? Ancient to Early Modern Utopias

Slavery in the Early Middle Ages

Latin 1Ha

Latin 1Hb

Latin 2Ha

Latin 2Hb

1. Latin Language (B) MUST be taken if Latin Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics.
2. Latin Language (B) cannot be taken if Latin Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Latin Language (B)

Neronian and Flavian Verse

The Latin Manuscript: Palaeography, Codicology, Textual Criticism

Later Latin Poetry

Tacitus

1. Greek Language (B) MUST be taken if Greek Language (A) was not completed in Year 3, unless exemption has been given by the Head of Classics.
2. Greek Language (B) cannot be taken if Greek Language (A) has already been studied in Year 3.

Lyric

Greek Language (B)

Greek Comedy

Socrates and Plato

Greek Pastoral Poetry

General Disclaimer

THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2021/2022- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2021

Information in the Degree Programme Tables may still be subject to change in response to Covid-19

Degree Programme Table: Italian and Classics (MA Hons) (UTMLCIT)

Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Course options

Greek 1A and Greek 1B

Greek 1C and Greek 1D

Latin 1A and Latin 1B

Latin 1C and Latin 1D

Greek World and Roman World Courses

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Year 2 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Greek Language Year 2 Courses

Latin Language Year 2 Courses

Classics Year 2 Courses

Level 8 courses in Schedules A-Q, T, W and Y

Courses from School of LLC and PPLS Level(s) 8

Year 3 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

DELC Year Abroad Options

Classics Dissertation (combined degree with MEL)Part 1: preparation

Year 4 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

European Languages and Cultures - Italian Level 10 courses

DELC Dissertation or Long Essay

Classics Dissertation (combined degree with MEL)Part 2: completion

Ancient History, Classical Art/Archaeology, Classical Literature in Translation and Beginner Language courses

Latin Honours Courses Year 4

Greek Honours Courses Year 4

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2021/2022
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2021