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 2025-26.
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, or borrowed papers listed in the MML schedule.
Restrictions on paper choices - please note the following restrictions:
1) No candidate may offer more than one of Papers GR3, GR6, PG3, SL9, or SL13 in any one year;
2) No candidate may offer more than one of CS5 and CS7;
3) No candidate may offer more than two borrowed papers.
Papers with a hash symbol (#) at the end of the title have managed numbers.
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 16 - Colonialism, empire and globalisation: technologies of space in French culture from 1700
- GE 9 - German Literature, Thought and History in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
- GE10 - German Literature, Thought and History, 1700- 1815
- 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
- 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
- LI 6 - Phonetics
- LI 7 - Phonology and Morphology#
- LI 9 - Syntax
- LI 10 - Semantics and pragmatics
- LI 13 - History of the English 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 #
- GR 3 - Introduction to modern Greek language and culture
- GR 6: Myth Matters: Receptions of Mythology in Modern Greek Literature and Culture
- PG 4 - Lusophone Culture, History and Politics
- SP 11 - The Hispanic languages
- IL 1 - Ibero-American cinema
- SL C1: Translation from and Into Russian
- SL C2: Russian: Text and Culture
- Russian Oral C
- UKR C1: Translation from and into Ukrainian
- UKR C2: Ukrainian Text and Culture
- Ukrainian Oral C
- 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 6 - Russian Culture after 1953
- 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 13 - Introduction to the language, literature and culture of Poland
- SL 14 - Russian Culture from 1895 to the Death of Stalin
- SL 15 - Russian Culture from Perestroika to the Present
- 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 2025-26. 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
- FR 15 - Voices of Desire: the Troubadours and Old Occitan Literature
- GE 8 - History of the German Language
- GE 10 - German Literature, Thought and History, 1700- 1815 (including Goethe’s works to 1832)
- LI 11 - Historical Linguistics
- PG5 - Literature and culture of Portugal and Brazil from 1595
- SL 10 - Studies in Twentieth-Century Ukrainian Literature and Film
- SL 11 - Topics in Nineteenth-Century Slavonic Literature and Culture: Tolstoy
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.
