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 2023-24.
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.
HML students should view the HML page for information on courses they can take. The MML options are listed here, but please note that HML students cannot take linguistics papers.
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 CS7.
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 - Bodies in space in medieval French literature
- 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 - 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
- FR 16 - Colonialism, empire and globalisation: technologies of space in French culture from 1700
German Language Papers
German Scheduled Papers
The German scheduled papers at Part II are subject to revision with effect from Michaelmas 2022 when all of the papers will be integrated into a new numbering system. Papers GE8, GE11, GE12 and GE14 will be retained, but will have new numbers. Current papers GE9, GE10, GE13 and GE15 will be permanently suspended and replaced by two new papers. The new GE12 will be titled ‘Revolutions and Disruptions in German Culture, 1830–1945, while the new GE13 will be ‘Memory and Identity in German-speaking Europe since 1945’. Read outlines of these new papers.
- GE 9 - German Literature, Thought and History in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
- GE 11 - History and Identity in Germany, 1750 to the Present
- GE 12 - Revolutions and Disruptions in German Culture, 1830–1945
- GE 13 - Memory and Identity in German-speaking Europe since 1945
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
- IT 10 - The Language of Italy
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 14 - History of the French language
- LI 15 - First and second language acquisition
- LI 16 - Psychology of language processing and learning #
- LI 17 - Language typology and cognition
- 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
- PG 4 - Lusophone Culture, History and Politics
- SP 11 - The Hispanic languages
- IL 1 - Ibero-American cinema
Portuguese (Scheduled "General" Paper)
Slavonic Language Papers
Slavonic Scheduled Papers
- SL 2 - The history and culture of Early Rus
- SL 3 - The Making of Ukraine: History and Culture of Early Modernity
- 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
- SL 9* - Introduction to the language, literature and culture of Ukraine
- SL 10 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature and Film
- SL 11 - Topics in Nineteenth-Century Slavonic Literature and Culture: Tolstoy
- SL 13* - Introduction to the language, literature and culture of Poland
- SL 14† - Russian Culture from 1895 to the Death of Stalin
- SL 15 - Cultural Histories of the present #
Spanish Language Papers
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 - Modern Catalan language and culture
- SP 11 - The Hispanic languages
- SP 12 - Latin American Culture
- SP 13 - Contemporary Latin American culture
- SP 14 - Frontiers: Medieval Spanish literature and culture
- IL 1 - Ibero-American cinema
Suspended papers available by Optional Dissertation only
The following papers are suspended for the academic year 2023-24. 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
- GE 8 - History of the German Language
- GE 10 - German Literature, Thought and History, 1700- 1815 (including Goethe’s works to 1832)
- SL6 - Russian Culture after 1953
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.
