The following papers are available to students taking Part II of the MML Tripos. The list of papers offered may vary from year to year.

Papers listed are those available in the academic year 2021-22.

All candidates at MML Part II must offer the following language papers:

• C1 - Translation from and into the foreign language
• C2 - Text and Culture
• Oral C examination (held just before the Michaelmas Term of the Part II year)

Language papers must be offered in languages previously offered at Part I. Papers C1 and C2 may be offered in the same language or different languages. The Oral C must be offered in a language being offered for either C1 or C2.

Candidates must also offer a Year Abroad Project and three further papers chosen from the list of scheduled papers (see below) and the list of papers borrowed from other Faculties.

Papers with an asterisk (*) at the end of the title are introductory language papers. No candidate may offer more than one of these papers.

No candidate may offer more than two borrowed papers. No candidate may offer more than one of the "Introduction to the language and culture papers" (marked with an asterisk). No candidate may offer more than one of CS5 and CS6.

Papers with a hash symbol (#) at the end of the title have managed numbers.

Catalan (Scheduled "General" Paper)

Please see 'Suspended Papers' Below.

Comparative Studies (Scheduled Papers)

• CS 1 - The Romance languages
• CS 5 - The body
• CS 6 - European film

French Language Papers

• FR C1 - Translation from and into French
• FR C2 - French: Text and culture
• French Oral C

French Scheduled Papers

• FR 7 - Bodies in space in medieval French literature
• FR 9 - Reason, experience, and authority: French literature, thought, and history, 1594-1700
• FR 10 - Enlightenment and its limits
• FR 11 - Desire and power in 19th-century French culture
• FR 12 - Ethics and experience: literature, thought, and visual culture of the French-speaking world (1900 - present)
• FR 13 - The French language: variation and change
• FR 14 - Theatre: theory and practice, 1600-2000
• FR 15 - Voices of Desire: the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature

German Language Papers

• GE C1 - Translation from and into German
• GE C2 - German: Text and culture
• German Oral C

German Scheduled Papers

• GE 8 - German literature, thought, and history, 1700-1815, including Goethe's works to 1832
• GE 9 - German literature, thought, and history, 1815-1914
• GE 10 - German literature, thought, and history, since 1910
• GE 11 - 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 - German literature, thought, and history in the medieval and modern periods
• GE 15 - Modern German cultures of performance

Ibero-Latin American Scheduled Papers

• IL 1 - Ibero-American cinema

Italian Language Papers

• IT C1 - Translation from and into Italian
• IT C2 - Italian: Text and culture
• Italian Oral C

Italian Scheduled Papers​

• IT 6 - 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

Linguistics Scheduled Papers

• LI 6 - Phonetics #
• LI 7 - Phonological theory
• LI 8 - Morphology
• LI 9 - Syntax
• LI 10 - Semantics and pragmatics
• LI 12 - History of ideas on language 
• LI 13 - History of the English language
• LI 15 - First and second language acquisition
• LI 16 - Psychology of language processing and learning
• LI 17 - Typology
• LI 18 - Computational linguistics

Modern Greek Scheduled Papers

• GR 3* - Introduction to modern Greek language and culture
• GR 6* - Myth matters: Receptions of mythology in Modern Greek literature and culture

Portuguese Language Papers

• PG C1 - Translation from and into Portuguese
• PG C2 - Portuguese: Text and culture
• Portuguese Oral C

Portuguese Scheduled Papers

• PG 4 - Self, family, nation, and Empire in Lusophone culture
• SP 11 - The Hispanic languages

Portuguese (Scheduled "General" Paper)

• PG 3* - Introduction to the Language, literatures, and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking World #

Slavonic Language Papers

• SL C1 - Translation from and into Russian
• SL C2 - Russian: Text and culture
• Russian Oral C

Slavonic Scheduled Papers

• SL 2 - The history and culture of Early Rus
• SL 4 - Russian culture from the Golden Age to the Silver Age
• SL 6 - Russian Culture after 1953
• SL 7 - Soviet and Russian cinema
• SL 8 - The history of the Russian language
• SL10 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature and Film
• SL15: Topics in Slavonic Studies: Cultural Histories of the Present

Slavonic (Scheduled "General" Papers)

• SL 9* - Introduction to the language, literature, and culture of Ukraine
• SL 13* - Introduction to the language, literature, and culture of Poland

Spanish Language Papers

• SP C1 - Translation from and into Spanish
• SP C2 - Spanish: Text and culture
• Spanish Oral C

Spanish Scheduled Papers

• SP 7 - Spanish and Latin American Early Modern literature and culture
• SP 9 - Spanish Literature, Thought, and History, after 1820
• SP 10 - The culture and language of contemporary Catalonia
• SP 11 - The Hispanic languages
• SP 13 - Contemporary Latin American culture
• SP 14 - Frontiers: Medieval Spanish literature and culture

Suspended papers available by Optional Dissertation only

The following papers are suspended for the academic year 2020-21. While there will be no lectures or other Faculty classes for these papers during the year, Part II students may offer an Optional Dissertation in place of one of these papers, provided they can find a supervisor willing to supervise them, and subject to the Faculty being able to confirm suitable examiners are available.

• CS3: The Slavonic Languages
• PG5: Literature and culture of Portugal and Brazil from 1595
• SL 14 - Russian culture from 1905 to the death of Stalin
• SP12: Latin American Culture
• FR 16 - Colonialism, empire and globalisation: technologies of space in French culture from 1700

Note that in the event that a student does not submit an Optional Dissertation selected in one of the papers above by the required deadline, they will instead have to sit the written examination for a different paper that is not suspended in this year.