Undergraduate

Modern & Medieval Languages

Undergraduate

Papers available in Part II of the MML Tripos

† No candidate may offer more than one paper from Papers CS 4, 5, or 6

‡ No candidate may offer more than one of Papers Gr. 3, Pg. 3, Sp. 10, Uk. 1 or Uk. 2 in any one year.

Language Papers and Schedule II Papers

Dutch | French | German | Modern Greek | Italian |
Linguistics | Portuguese | Russian | Spanish | Ukrainian | Comparative Studies

Dutch

Language Papers

Scheduled Papers

  • Du 2: The medieval and sixteenth-century literature and history of the Low Countries, c. 1170 to c. 1585
  • Du 3: The literature, history and culture of the Republic of the United Netherlands, 1585 to 1700
  • Du 4: The literature, history and culture of Belgium and the Netherlands, from 1830 to the present day

French

Language Papers

Scheduled Papers

  • Fr 7: Topics in medieval studies to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time.
  • Fr 8: Living, loving, and dying in Renaissance France.
  • Fr 9: Reason, experience, and authority: French literature, thought, and history, 1594-1700.
  • Fr 10: French literature, thought, and history, from 1690 to 1799.
  • Fr 11: Gender, desire, and power in 19th century French culture.
  • Fr 12: Ethics and experience: literature, thought, and visual culture of the French-speaking world (1900 to the present).
  • Fr 13: The French Language: Variation and Change.
  • New from October 2013: Fr. 14: A special topic in French studies (A) to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time. (Theatre: theory and practice, 1600-2000)
  • Fr. 15: A special topic in French studies (B) to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time. (Ethics and the erotic in Medieval Occitan writing)
  • Fr. 16: A special topic in French studies (C) to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time. (Colonisation, Empire and Globalisation: Technologies of Space in French Culture since 1700)

German

Language Papers

Scheduled Papers

  • Ge 8: German literature, thought and history from 1700 to 1815 (including Goethe's works to 1815)
  • Ge 9: German literature, thought and history from 1815 to 1914
  • Ge 10: German literature, thought and history since 1910
  • Ge 11: Aspects of the history of the German language
  • Ge 12: History and identity in Germany, 1750 to the present
  • Ge 13: Aspects of German-speaking Europe since 1945
  • Ge 14: The making of German culture, 2
  • Ge 15: Modern German cultures of performance.

Modern Greek

Language Papers

Scheduled Papers (suspended at Part II until further notice)

  • Gr 4: Crete and Cyprus in the Renaissance period.
  • Gr 5: Greek literature, thought, and history, from 1700 to 1900.
  • Gr 6: Greek literature, thought, and history, since 1900.
  • Gr 7: The history and structure of modern Greek.

General Paper

  • Gr 3: ‡Introduction to Modern Greek language and culture.
    • Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Modern Greek as one of their languages in Part IA or B or have a Certificate or Diploma from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in that language.

Italian

Language Papers

Scheduled Papers

  • It 6: Topics in modern Italian culture.
  • It 7: Dante and the culture of his age.
  • It 8 : Italian Literature, Thought and Culture, 1500-1650.
  • It 9: Text and Image (New title from October 2013)
  • It 10: The language of Italy.

Medieval Latin (suspended until further notice)

Scheduled papers

  • ML 1: Continuity and change in Latin literature, from 200 to 650. This paper is suspended until further notice.
  • ML 2: An introduction to Medieval Latin literature. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Neo-Latin

Scheduled papers

  • NL 1: Introduction to Neo-Latin literature, from 1350 to 1700.
  • NL 2: New title from October 2013: A special subject in Neo-Latin literature: Selected authors.

Linguistics

Scheduled papers

  • Li 6: Phonetics
  • Li 7: (suspended)
  • Li 8: Phonology and Morphology.
  • Li 9: Syntax
  • Li 10: Semantics and pragmatics
  • Li 11: Historical linguistics (Suspended 2013-14).
  • Li 12: History of ideas on Language (Suspended 2013-14).
  • Li 13: History of English Language (The Faculty gives advance notice that this paper will be suspended during the academic year 2014-15).
  • Li 14: History of the French language (The Faculty gives advance notice that this paper will be suspended during the academic year 2014-15).
  • Li 15: First and second language acquisition
  • Li 16: Psychology of language processing and learning
  • Li 17: Language typology
  • Li 18: Computational linguistics

Portuguese

Language Papers

Scheduled Papers

  • Pg 4: Self, Family, Nation and Empire in Lusophone Culture.
  • Pg 5: Literature and Culture of Portugal and Brazil From 1595. Available as Optional Dissertation only until further notice.
  • Sp 11:The Hispanic languages.

General Paper

  • Pg 3: ‡Introduction to the Language and Literature of Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese-speaking Africa. Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Portuguese as one of their languages in Part IA or Part IB.

Russian

Language Papers

Scheduled Papers

  • Ru 2: Soviet and Russian Cinema. (New title for 2013-14)
  • Ru 3: The history and culture of Early Rus, before 1300.
  • Ru 4: Early Modern Russia: literature, history, and visual culture, from 1300 to 1725.
  • Ru 5: Russian Culture from the Golden Age to the Silver Age.
  • Ru 6: Russian culture after 1880. (This paper is suspended 2013-14)
  • Ru 7: Russia in Revolution, from 1861 to 1917.
  • Ru 8: Socialist Russia, from 1917 to 1991.
  • Ru 9: The history of the Russian language.
  • Ru 10: Russian Culture after 1953 (New title for 2013-14)

Spanish

Language Papers

Scheduled Papers

  • Sp 7: Spanish literature, thought, and history, from 1492 to 1700.
  • Sp 8: Suspended until further notice with effect from 1 October 2011. This paper is not available to be offered as an Optional Dissertation.
  • Sp 9: Spanish literature, thought, and history, after 1820.
  • Sp 10: ‡Introduction to Catalan language and culture.
  • Sp 11: The Hispanic languages.
  • Sp 12: Latin American Culture.
  • Sp 13: Contemporary Latin American Culture.
  • Sp 14: Spanish literature, life, and history, before 1492.

Ukrainian

General Paper

  • Uk 1: ‡Introduction to the language, literature and culture of Ukraine.
  • Uk 2: ‡Studies in Twentieth Century Ukrainian Literature and Film.
    • Available to all MML students.

Comparative Studies

  • CS 1: The Romance languages.
  • CS 2: This paper is suspended until further notice.
  • CS 3: The Slavonic languages.
  • †CS 4: A special subject in comparative literature(i). This paper is suspended until further notice.
  • CS 5: †A special subject in comparative literature (ii): The Body.
  • CS 6: †European Film.

Schedule D (Borrowed) Papers

The following are papers from other Triposes that may be taken in Part II. You may take no more than two of these papers in Part II.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic

Part I

  • Paper 2: Scandinavian history in the Viking Age.
  • Paper 5: Old English language and literature.
  • Paper 6: Old Norse language and literature.
  • Paper 7: Medieval Welsh language and literature.
  • Paper 8: Medieval Irish language and literature.

Part II

  • Paper 5. A subject in Old English literature specified by the Faculty Board of English: Beowulf.
  • Paper 6. Advanced medieval Scandinavian language and literature.
  • Paper 7: Advanced medieval Welsh language and literature.
  • Paper 8: Advanced medieval Irish language and literature.
  • Paper 11: Germanic philology.
  • Paper 12: Celtic philology.
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos, Part II

  • Paper MES. 37 History of the pre-modern Middle East.
  • Paper MES. 39 Special Subject in the pre-Modern Middle East.
  • Paper MES. 40 Special Subject in the Contemporary Middle East.
  • Paper MES. 41 Comparative Semitic Linguistics.

Classics, Part II

Faculty of Classics

  • Paper A1: Homer, Odyssey, and/or Virgil, Aeneid
  • Paper A2: Prescribed Greek texts: Sophocles and myth.
  • Paper A3: Prescribed Latin texts: Ovid Metamorphoses.
  • Paper B1: Plato.
  • Paper B2: Aristotle's moral and political thought.
  • Paper C4: A subject in ancient or medieval European history: Transformation of the Roman world (Paper 12 of the History Tripos, Part II)
  • Paper D3: A topic within classical archaeology and/or art: The poetics of classical art.
  • Paper E2: The Greek Language: Alexander's legacy: Greek as a world language.
  • Paper E3: The Latin language: Latin and its neighbours.
  • Paper X1: A subject specified by the Faculty Board of Classics from time to time: Idols? Imagining gods and heroes in the Greek and Roman worlds.
  • Paper X2: A subject specified by the Faculty Board of Classics from time to time: Prostitutes and saints.

English Part II

Faculty of English

  • Paper 2: Tragedy.
  • Paper 5: Chaucer.
  • Paper 13. Postcolonial and Related Literatures (Places on this course are limited to 5, if you would like to take this paper, please let the Assistant Faculty Administrator know (email rd405@cam.ac.uk).)
  • Paper 18: Special Subject II. Option (b) (in any year in which the subject 'Literature and visual culture' has been prescribed for this option by the Faculty Board of English).
Faculty of History

Historical Tripos, Part I

  • Paper 18: European history, since 1890.

Historical Tripos, Part II

Number of places for MML students for papers borrowed from History are capped at 5. The deadline for registering interest in these papers has now passed.

  • Paper 4: History of political thought from c. 1700 - c. 1890.
    • The following papers from Section D in any year that they are available:
  • Paper 21: The French and British problem since 1688.
  • Paper 25: The long road to Modernisation: Spain 1800-2000 .
  • Paper 27: The History of Latin America in the Colonial Period, c.1500-1830. Suspended 2013-14

Philosophy Tripos, Part II

Faculty of Philosophy

  • Paper 11: Aesthetics.

Social and Political Sciences Tripos, Part II (New Regulations)

Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology and International Studies

  • Paper Int 7: Society, politics, and culture in Latin America. (This paper will be suspended until further notice).

 

 

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