Senior Sophister

1. Languages

Students continue to focus predominantly on their major language, and also study their minor language.

2. Disciplines

2.i Modernity and Society: Ideas and Culture in Europe since 1850

 

2.ii Options

Students must take either one List A option or two List B options.

Current options include:

List A

• The Vikings c. 790-1100
• The Archaeology of Medieval Warfare 1000-1300
• Europe Reformed 1540 – 1600
• The French Revolution, 1789 – 1799
• Weimar Germany: Politics, Culture and Society

List B

• French Cinema: Perspectives
• La Belle Époque et le Surréalisme
• Language and Society in the French-speaking world: status, diversity and function
• Kulturwissenschaft
• Kunst nach Auschwitz
• Künstliche Menschen in der Literatur
• Napoleon’s Empire: War Culture and Society in France and Europe, 1799-1815
• The Crusades, c.1095-1204
• Romance before Romanticism: Life, Love and Death in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France
• Renaissance Florence, c.1348-1527
• Society and the Sacred in France, 1685-1815
• Medieval Globetrotters: Exploration and World Conquest in the Age of the Black Death
• Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
• Italian Society, Contexts, Texts and Cultural Configurations: Italian Science Fiction
• Holocaust Representation in Film and Literature
• Islam and Gender
• Democracy and Development
• Stalinism and Society in Eastern Europe
• Economic Sociology of Europe
• The Myths of Time: Spain 1930-1945