The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities. The university has a long and rich history, and has produced many notable alumni in a variety of fields, including science, literature, and politics. Today, the University of Edinburgh is a leading research-intensive university, with a global reputation for academic excellence and a strong commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship. It is consistently ranked among the top universities in the UK and the world.

Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19 Starting in: September
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Before selecting your outside courses please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor.
Compulsory courses
You must take these courses
History of Art 1
Must be passed

HIAR08009
40 credits
Portuguese 1
Must be passed

ELCH08012
40 credits
Course options
Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q T and W
Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q T and W
NOTES:
Level 7 language courses cannot be taken for credits on this degree programme.
Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19 Starting in: August
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Entry into Honours:
(1) students must pass courses to the required value of 240 credits in the first two years;
(2) students must achieve 50% or more at first attempt in all required second-year courses for their registered degree;
(3) students must achieve at least 50% overall in the relevant second-year language course(s) including at least 50% in the language component of that course.
(4) all courses (including outside subjects) must be passed before embarking on the year abroad an outside course passed at Resit in August will be acceptable.

During 3rd year: at least 30 weeks must be spent in the relevant country and prescribed work completed in History of Art and in the relevant language in an approved establishment.
Compulsory courses
You must take these courses
History of Art 2
Must be passed 1st time at 50%

HIAR08012
40 credits
Portuguese Language 2
Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ELCH08013
20 credits
Culture and Society in the Portuguese Speaking World
Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ELCH08007
20 credits
Course options
Group A
Select exactly 40 credits in this group.
Courses from School of LLC and PPLS Level(s) 8
Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
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Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France is only available to students who have passed French 1A or French 1B.
Scandinavian Languages 2 is available to students who have taken a Scandinavian Studies language in year one.
For LEL2 courses students must have passed: Linguistics and English Language 1 or A Brief Introduction to Language.

SELECTED COURSES MUST BE PASSED
Prose Fiction in Comparative Perspective
CLLC08001
20 credits
Introduction to European Theatre
CLLC08002
20 credits
Literature and Culture in Medieval Europe
ELCC08002
20 credits
Introduction to European Cinema
ELCC08003
20 credits
Languages Beyond University
ELCC08004
20 credits
Politics and Institutions of Contemporary France A
ELCF08009
20 credits
Culture and Society in the Catalan World
ELCH08014
20 credits
Catalan language for beginners
ELCH08015
20 credits
Basque Language for beginners
ELCH08017
20 credits
Scandinavian Languages 2
ELCS08010
20 credits
Scandinavian Civilisation A: Vikings Sagas and the Road to Enlightenment
ELCS08037
20 credits
Scandinavian Civilisation B: From National Romanticism to the Nordic Model
ELCS08038
20 credits
LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods
LASC08018
20 credits
LEL2C: English in Time and Space
LASC08019
20 credits
LEL2D: Cross-linguistic Variation: Limits and Theories
LASC08020
20 credits
LEL2E: Structure and History of European Languages
LASC08021
20 credits
OR
Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q T and W
Select exactly 40 credits from Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q T and W
Year 3 Academic year: 2018/19 Starting in: August
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During 3rd year: At least 30 weeks to be spent in the relevant country and prescribed work completed in History of Art and in the relevant language in an approved establishment.

Final Assessment:

*This applies to students who will be studying abroad during 2018/19*

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based.

1. Portuguese Language Paper 1 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP1 course)
2. Portuguese Language Paper 2 (10 credits from Language acquisition and 10 from Y4 LP2 course)
3. Oral for Portuguese (taught and assessed in Y4)
4. Portuguese Online Language Course for Year Abroad Students
5. Art History Part one
6. Art History Part two
7. MEL Year Abroad work OR MEL Dissertation Preparation (see 8)
8. MEL Long Essay OR MEL Dissertation Completion (Papers 7 & 8 are a combined grade 10% from preparation and 90% from final dissertation preparation. Credits cannot be awarded for Dissertation preparation unless the full 2 year course is completed.)
9. Portuguese Hons option course
10. History of Art Hons option course
11. History of Art Hons option course
12. History of Art Hons option course
Compulsory courses
You must take these courses
Art History: Texts Objects Institutions Part One
HIAR10159
20 credits
Art History: Texts Objects Institutions Part Two
HIAR10158
20 credits
Language acquisition through residence/study B
ELCC10004
40 credits
Year Abroad online language learning course - Portuguese
ELCH10068
20 credits
Course options
DELC Year Abroad Options
Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Modern European Languages Year Abroad Assessment
ELCC10002
20 credits
MEL dissertation preparation
ELCC10005
20 credits
Year 4 Academic year: 2018/19 Starting in: August
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Final Assessment:

*This applies to students completing their degree during 2018/19*

One unit of assessment is allocated to every 20 credits and constitutes one 20-credit paper. The following are the twelve 20-credit papers on which the classification of the degree is based. (Papers that for the purposes of degree classification acquire a weighting of 40 credits are therefore listed twice.)
1. Portuguese Honours Language Paper 1.
2. Portuguese Honours Language Paper 1.
3. Portuguese Honours Language Paper 2.
4. Oral for Portuguese.
5. History of Art Analytical Report A.
6. History of Art Analytical Report B.
7. MEL Dissertation Preparation (Same mark as 8) OR MEL Year Abroad Assessment.
8. MEL Dissertation Completion OR MEL Long Essay.
9. History of Art Honours course option.
10. History of Art Honours course option.
11. History of Art Honours course option.
12. Portuguese Honours course option.
Compulsory courses
You must take these courses
Portuguese 4 Language Paper 1
ELCH10058
10 credits
Portuguese 4 Language Paper 2
ELCH10055
10 credits
Oral for Portuguese
ELCC10016
0 credits
Course options
Group A
Select exactly 100 credits in this group.
DELC Dissertation or Long Essay
Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
MEL dissertation completion
ELCC10006
20 credits
MEL Long Essay
ELCC10011
20 credits
AND
History of Art and Architectural History courses Year 4
Select exactly 60 credits of the following courses
Georgian Architecture 1715-1830
ARHI10011
20 credits
Le Corbusier and 20th-Century Architectural Culture
ARHI10014
20 credits
Structure and Architecture: The Birth of the Design Team
ARHI10019
20 credits
Architecture in Britain 1951-97: Brutalism and Beyond
ARHI10048
20 credits
Global Architectures of Colonial Latin America
ARHI10051
20 credits
Scottish Architecture 1650 to 1815
ARHI10052
20 credits
From Jacobitism to Romanticism: The (Re)invention of Scotland in Visual and Material Culture
HIAR10009
20 credits
Expanding Vision: Visual Culture in France from the Limbourgs to Leonardo
HIAR10014
20 credits
The Renaissance Body
HIAR10053
20 credits
The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art
HIAR10065
20 credits
Poverty and Patronage: Francis Dominic and the Arts
HIAR10069
20 credits
Expressionism Dada Bauhaus and Beyond
HIAR10109
20 credits
Orientalism and Visual Culture
HIAR10119
20 credits
After Aesthetics: Philosophy and/as Art
HIAR10128
20 credits
Breaking Frames: Women in Dada and Surrealism
HIAR10135
20 credits
Cradle to Grave: Art and Society in Britain from Holbein to Hogarth
HIAR10143
20 credits
Radical Nature: art and ecology from Joseph Beuys to the Present Day
HIAR10145
20 credits
Forms of Life in Modern and Contemporary Art
HIAR10154
20 credits
Blood bones and bodies: Buddhist relics in Asia
HIAR10155
20 credits
Curating Contemporary Art: Histories Theories and Practice
HIAR10156
20 credits
Bernini: Technologies of Wonder
HIAR10160
20 credits
Art Culture and Inequality
HIAR10164
20 credits
Stars Robots and Talismans: Science Magic & Medieval Islamic Visual Culture
HIAR10166
20 credits
Charlatans and Connoisseurs: the development of the modern art market from Gambart to Kahnweiler
HIAR10167
20 credits
Romantics Rebels and Revivalists: From Highland Glen to Scotland's Shrine Scottish Art 1850-1927
HIAR10169
20 credits
The Performative Turn: Performance and Live Art since 1945
HIAR10175
20 credits
Animal Bodies in the Art and Visual Culture of Seventeenth-Century Europe
HIAR10177
20 credits
Art Illness and Death in the Middle Ages
HIAR10178
20 credits
Images Under Control: Aesthetics of Digital Culture
HIAR10180
20 credits

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