DPT: French and Classics (MA Hons) (UTMLCFR)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Students should aim to divide the number of credits they take in each academic year evenly between Semester 1 and Semester 2

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Entry requirements:
for French 1A: a pass in French at National 5 (SQA) or GCSE
for French 1B: a pass in French at Higher (SQA), A-level or equivalent
Entrants with SQA qualifications should hold at least a 'B' pass. Students with a grade B at Higher OR a 'crash' Higher OR a Higher awarded more than 1 year ago will be registered on French 1B, but may take a Diagnostic Test to gauge their ability. Depending on the results, course registration may be changed to French 1A.

Selected courses must be passed

French 1A

French 1B

AND

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, 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) If a student achieves a pass in ELCF08012 French 2 Literature and Culture but fails to meet the 50% requirement, progression to Honours will be permitted if the student has achieved 50% or more at first attempt in ELCF08009 Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France A.
(5) 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

French 2 Language

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

French 2 Literature and Culture

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

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

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

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

Nordic Languages: Diversity and Historical Developments is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in Year 1.
Communicating across the Scandinavian Languages is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in Year 1.
For LEL2 courses students must have passed: Linguistics and English Language 1 or A Brief Introduction to Language.

Selected courses must be passed

Gender and Visual Representations

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

Dutch for Beginners

Culture and Society in the Catalan World

Basque Language for beginners

Catalan Language 1

Transnational Russian Culture

The Golden Age of Russian Literature

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

Scandinavian Civilisation B: From National Romanticism to the Nordic Model

Nordic Languages: Diversity and Historical Developments

Communicating across the Scandinavian Languages

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

Selected courses must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

During 3rd year, when permitted, at least 30 weeks must be spent in the relevant country and prescribed work completed in Classics and the relevant language in an approved establishment. 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. French Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. French Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for French (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. French 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. French Hons option course
10. Classics options
11. Classics options
12. Classics options

Compulsory courses

Language acquisition through residence/study B

Year Abroad Work for Degrees in Modern European Languages and Classics

Year Abroad online language learning course - French

Course options

Modern European Languages Year Abroad Assessment

MEL dissertation preparation

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

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, 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. French Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. French Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for French (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. French 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. French Hons option course
10. Classics options
11. Classics options
12. Classics options

Compulsory courses

French Hons - Language Paper 1

French Hons - Language Paper 2

Oral for French

Course options

AND

MEL dissertation completion

MEL Long Essay

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

AND

Empresses and Others: Women of Imperial Rome

Ancient Superpowers: The Armies and Military Monuments of Rome and Persia

After Alexander

The Jewish Diaspora under the Roman Empire

Money, Men and Gods in Archaic and Classical Greece

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

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

The Long Twelfth Century: Byzantium in the Era of the Crusades (1071-1204)

Seafaring and Society in the Ancient Greek World

Religion and War in Archaic and Classical Greece

Roman Egypt

The Rise and Fall of a Star: Julius Caesar in Politics and War

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 2

Roman History Seminar 1

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

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 Iron Age Europe: Hillforts, Burials and Landscapes

Mariners, Monks and Mobility: the archaeology of the early medieval Atlantic Archipelago

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Hellenistic Art

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Inscribed Objects: Roman Coins and Latin Inscriptions

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

Archaeology, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

Religion and the Gods in Classical Greek Culture

Women, Writing, Greece: From Sappho to Virginia Woolf and Beyond

Troy after the Fall

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Plato's Republic in Translation

Greek and Roman Letters

Tiberius, the "Reluctant Princeps"

Classical Literature Seminar 1

Classical Literature Seminar 2

Classical Literature Seminar 3

Virtue, Contemplation, and Happiness: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Greek 1Ha

Greek 1HB

Greek 2Ha

Greek 2Hb

After Byzantium: An Intellectual History of the Greek world, 15th-19th c.

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 Epic

Latin Satire

Latin Language (B)

Scottish Latin Literature

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

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.

Greek Language (B)

Herodotus

Greek Pastoral Poetry

Plato's Republic

Greek Palaeography & Manuscript Culture

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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2024/2025

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

Degree Programme Table: French and Classics (MA Hons) (UTMLCFR)

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Course options

French language options - Year 1

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 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, S, T, W and Y

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Latin Language Year 2 Courses

Greek Language Year 2 Courses

Classics Year 2 Courses

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

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

DELC Year Abroad Options

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

Year 4 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

European Languages and Cultures - French 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