DPT: Scandinavian Studies and Classics (MA Hons) (UTMLCSS)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, 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

Selected courses must be passed

Swedish 1

Norwegian 1

Danish 1

AND

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

Selected courses must be passed

Ancient Greek 1C

Ancient Greek 1D

Selected courses must be passed

Ancient Greek 1A

Ancient Greek 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1A

Latin 1B

Selected courses must be passed

Latin 1C

Latin 1D

AND

Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.
Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Wicked problems: Reason and Rhetoric

Understanding decolonisation in a globalised world

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Society with Big Data: Computational Social Science

Health in a Changing Climate

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Navigating Energy Transitions

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

AND

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, 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 the selected Scandinavian Studies language course AND in the selected course from the Scandinavian Year 2 elective collection.
(3) 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.

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

Course options

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Danish Language 2

Norwegian Language 2

Swedish Language 2

AND

Selected courses must be passed 1st time at 50%

Scandinavian Literature 2

Nordic Languages 2

AND

Students who choose Ancient Greek language must take Ancient Greek 2B and one of Ancient Greek 2A or Ancient 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

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

Ancient Historiography

Themes and Theories in Ancient History

Roman Art and Archaeology

Greek Art and Archaeology

Classical Literature: Greek and Roman Epic

Ancient Greek 2A

Ancient Greek 2B

Ancient Greek 2A Ex-Beginners

Latin 2A

Latin 2B

Latin 2a Ex-Beginners

AND

Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France is only available to students who have passed French 1A or French 1B.
Nordic Languages 2 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

Introduction to Gaelic Language and Culture

Introductory Gaelic (Post-Beginners)

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

Basque Language for beginners

Catalan Language 1

Catalan Culture and Society 2: From 1975 to the Present

Catalan Culture and Society 1: From 1900 to 1975

Catalan Language 2

Basque, vasco, euskaldun: the survival and reinvention of a pre-Indo-European language and culture in Western Europe.

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

Modern Icelandic Language 1b

Modern Icelandic Language 1a

Nordic Languages 2

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

Introduction to Ukrainian Language and Cultures

Selected courses must be passed

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, 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. Scandinavian Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Scandinavian Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Scandinavian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Scandinavian 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. Scandinavian 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

Course options

Year Abroad online language learning course - Swedish

Year Abroad online language learning course - Norwegian

Year Abroad online language learning course - Danish

AND

Modern European Languages Year Abroad Assessment

MEL dissertation preparation

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

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, 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. Scandinavian Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Scandinavian Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Scandinavian (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Scandinavian 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. Scandinavian Hons option course
10. Classics options
11. Classics options
12. Classics options

Compulsory courses

Scandinavian Studies Language Paper 1

Scandinavian Studies Language Paper 2

Course options

Oral for Swedish

Oral for Danish

Oral for Norwegian

AND

MEL dissertation completion

MEL Long Essay

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

AND

Hellenistic Egypt: Society, Economy and Culture (332BC - 31BC)

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

After Alexander

The formation of the medieval Roman Empire, 602-867

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

Dispute Resolution in the Roman Empire

Romans Overseas

Honour in Ancient Greece

Greek History Seminar 2

Women and Agency in the Imperial Greek East

Greece and the Near East: Contacts, Conflicts, Exchanges

Herod the Great and the End of Hellenism

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)

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

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

Marine Archaeology

Island Worlds in Mediterranean Prehistory

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs II: Texts and Contexts

Celtic Connections: the Archaeology of Iron Age Europe

Early and Archaic Greek Art and Archaeology

Roman Architecture

The Art and Archaeology of Sparta and Laconia

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

Art and Society in the Byzantine World

Race and Ethnicity in the Roman World

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

Classical Mythology in the Renaissance

Odysseys: Afterlives of Homer from Dante to the Present

Making Saints: Hagiography and the Holy in Late Antiquity

The Ancient Novel

Roman Satire

Stoic Philosophy at Rome

Plato's Republic in Translation

Jewish Greek Literature

Ancient Greek 1Ha

Ancient Greek 1Hb

Ancient Greek 2Ha

Ancient Greek 2Hb

The End of an Empire: The Fall of Constantinople in 1453

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.

Early Virgil

Latin Language (B)

Seneca the Younger

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

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

Herodotus

Greek Literature of the Roman Empire

Plato's Republic

Ancient Greek Language (B)

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THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2026

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

Degree Programme Table: Scandinavian Studies and Classics (MA Hons) (UTMLCSS)

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: September

Course options

Scandinavian Studies Year 1

Greek World and Roman World Courses

Ancient Greek 1C and Ancient Greek 1D

Ancient Greek 1A and Ancient Greek 1B

Latin 1A and Latin 1B

Latin 1C and Latin 1D

Challenge Courses: Engaging with complex problems through interdisciplinary collaboration

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Course options

Courses from School of Literatures Languages and Cultures- Scandinavian Studies (MA)- Level 8

Scandinavian Year 2 elective

Classics Year 2 Courses for joint degrees

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

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Scandinavian Online Language Courses

DELC Year Abroad Options

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

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Course options

Scandinavian Year 4 orals

European Languages & Cultures - Scandinavian Stud 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

Ancient Greek Honours Courses Year 4

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2026/2027
- ARCHIVE as at 1 September 2026