Senior Sophister
1. Languages
Students continue to focus predominantly on their major language, and also spend one hour per week on their minor language.
2. Disciplines
2.i Modernism and Mass Society: Ideas and Culture in Europe since 1850
This module is compulsory for all students. It entails the study of ten texts or themes, representative of the intellectual history of 20th- century Europe, in particular of the cultural movements of modernism, of theories of mass society and politics and of the role of the media and of discourse. Students are free to approach these texts from the angle of any of the disciplines and subjects which they have studied in their European Studies course up to date - whether political theory, cultural history, political history or sociology. Students are expected to attend all classes and to make at least one presentation on a set text or theme in the course of the year.
2.ii Options
Students must choose either one option from those listed under A or two options from those listed below under B. They are free to take modules related to any of the disciplines studied in the programme. With the approval of the Director, one of the modules listed under B may be replaced by a subject of independent study agreed with an appropriate lecturer, to result in a dissertation of not more than 10,000 words. Please note that not all these courses will be available each year.
List A Options
*HI3408 France and the First World War, 1912-1923 (Prof. Horne)
HI3432 Europe Reformed 1540-1600 (Dr Graeme Murdock)List B Options
*FR4016 Counter-Revolution Extreme Right(s) and Fascism in French Culture and Politics, 1870-1945 (Dr Edward Arnold)
*GR4012 Interkulturelle Kommunikation (Dr Gillian Martin)
*GR4035 Erzählungen vom Unbewussten in Aufklärung und Romantik (Prof. Juergen Barkhoff)
*GR4036 Türkisch-deutsche Literatur: vom Pappkoffer zur Polyphonie (Prof. Moray McGowan)
*GR4040 Kulturwissenschaft/Cultural Theory (Ruthner/Arnds)HI3457 France Since 1880: Society and Culture (Prof. Horne)
HI3493 The Fall and Rise of France 1550-1700 (Dr Graeme Murdock)
**IT3421 Modern Poetics 2008-2009
**IT3422 History and Society
**IT4022 Writers and Society in Italy in the 21st Century
PO4690 Issues in Contemporary Politics
PO4700 Contemporary International Relations
PO3670 Democracy and Development
PO3680 European Union Politics
*RU3450 Russian Cultural Studies 3
RU4354 Stalinism, Sovietisation and Society in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc
S04230 Economic Sociology of Europe
SP4016 Spain of the Three Cultures*Requires reading knowledge of the relevant language
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**Choose one course in MT, one course in HT, to make up a full course; students must have a reading knowledge of ItalianNB. Some options are assessed by submitted coursework as well as by examination (see the current university Calendar for details).