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 2020-21.
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)
French Language Papers
French Scheduled Papers
- FR 7 - Defining the human in medieval French literature and culture
- FR 8 - Wondrous forms in the age of Montaigne
- FR 9 - Reason, experience, and authority: French literature, thought, and history, 1594-1700
- FR 10 - Enlightenment and its limits
- 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 - present)
- FR 13 - The French language: variation and change
- FR 14 - Theatre: theory and practice, 1600-2000
- FR 15 - Ethics and the erotic in medieval French Occitan writing
German Language Papers
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
Italian Language Papers
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 11 - Historical linguistics
- LI 14 - History of the French 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
Portuguese Scheduled Papers
Portuguese (Scheduled "General" Paper)
Slavonic Language Papers
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 7 - Soviet and Russian cinema
- SL 8 - The history of the Russian language
- SL10 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature and Film
- SL 14 - Russian culture from 1905 to the death of Stalin
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
Spanish Scheduled Papers
- SP 7 - Spanish and Latin American Early Modern literature and culture
- SP9: Spanish Literature, Thought, and History, after 1820
- 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
- IT9: Text and Image
- PG5: Literature and culture of Portugal and Brazil from 1595
- SL6: Russian Culture after 1953
- SP10* - The culture and language of contemporary Catalonia
- 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.
