History
Applicants wishing to join the part-time mode must submit their application as full-time, and then include a note in the comments box of the application form, denoting their preference to be considered for the part-time option. Such requests will be considered by the Board of the Faculty.
The undergraduate programme in History will enrich your historic knowledge on a global scale. During the course, apart from learning about local and national history through social, economic, warfare and other perspectives, we will also provide you with a wholistic historic lens of Western, European and Non-European countries. By learning history on an academic level, you will possess a deep appreciation and a heightened sense of awareness of contemporary international and local affairs through your firm grasp of historic patterns, events and foundations. We also encourage you to participate in the Erasmus+ programme, as we believe that a multicultural and diversified learning experience will give you a better learning experience.
Linguistics
Applicants wishing to join the part-time mode must submit their application as full-time, and then include a note in the comments box of the application form, denoting their preference to be considered for the part-time option. Such requests will be considered by the Board of the Faculty.
The undergraduate programme of study in Linguistics will give you an academic perspective of Maltese and global linguistics. During the course we will provide you with knowledge on the multifaceted qualities of linguistics, ranging from sociolonguistics, psycholinguistics and Maltese sign language, to applied linguistics, Python programming, Stylistics and the tripartite influence of discourse, ideology and power. We also encourage you to participate in our Erasmus+ mobility programme, as we believe that a multicultural and diversified international experience will deliver a more holistic and beneficial academic journey.
Communication and Academic Skills Programme
The communication and academic skills programme complements students’ main course of study. It introduces them to writing and presenting as situated within academic contexts sensitive to specific disciplines and develops their competences for future careers.
History
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Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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HST1010 | Medieval Europe 1 | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
HST1017 | Themes of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Maltese Political History | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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HST1011 | Structure and Change in Malta's Economic History | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST1126 | The Mediterranean in Modern Times | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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CHN1014 | An Overview of Chinese History | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST1022 | The Order of St John 1530-1798: A Cultural History Approach | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST1023 | Introduction to Maltese Historical Demography | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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HST1019 | The Craft of History | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST1021 | Europe in early modern times c.1450 - c.1789 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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SPA1018 | An Introduction to Latin America | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
SPA1019 | An Introduction to Spain | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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HST2003 | The Renaissance and Reformation | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3018 | Hospitaller Malta | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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HST2011 | The Practice of History | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2015 | Tracing Family History: Archival Depositories, Digital Resources and Genealogical Research | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2018 | France and Germany: Rethinking Interrelations in the Making of Europe | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2020 | Archives for Historians | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2033 | The Eight-Pointed Cross of the Mediterranean | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2061 | China in the World | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3020 | Slavery in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3025 | Trans-Regional Migrations: A Short History of Migration and Mobility from Ancient to Modern Times | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3032 | Medieval Island Regions | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3109 | International Relations Between the World Wars | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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HST2009 | Medieval Malta | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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CLA2060 | Latin for Historians | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2010 | Social History of Modern Europe | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2012 | Reason and Enlightenment in Europe 1650-1789 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2025 | The European Union: Historical Considerations | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2026 | Global History: Theories and Applications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2028 | A History of European and World Populations | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2031 | Iberia and Malta | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2032 | Mediterranean Encounters between Christians and Muslims 1500-2000 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3040 | Social Welfare and Public Health in Mediterranean Europe 1700-1900 | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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HST3011 | European Industrialisation and Mediterranean Underdevelopment | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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HST2011 | The Practice of History | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2014 | A History of the Family and Sexual Behaviour | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2017 | Anglo-Italian Relations in the Mediterranean: From the Renaissance to the Cold War | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2021 | Seminars on Twentieth Century Maltese History | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2035 | U.S. History: 1492 to 1939 | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2040 | Medieval Europe 2 | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2113 | Venice, the Order of St. John and Malta | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3012 | Steam: A History of Industrial Power | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3015 | Late Medieval Mediterranean History | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3021 | European Historiography | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3023 | The Forgotten Power: Persian/Iranian History in Global Perspective | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3033 | War and Society in Medieval Europe | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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HST2005 | Contemporary Mediterranean History | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3089 | Synoptic Study-Unit: Maltese and Mediterranean History | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
HST3090 | Synoptic Study-Unit: European and International History | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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HST2006 | Malta Before and After Independence: Aspects of Maltese Social and Political History | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2019 | The Transition from Medieval to Hospitaller Malta in the Sixteenth Century | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2027 | Introduction to Historical Demographic Theories | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2029 | Global history (c.1492 - c.1870) | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST2030 | Demographic and Urban Growth in the Mediterranean from the Late Middle Ages to Modern Times | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3019 | History of Political Thought | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
HST3022 | Russia and Eurasia in Global Context | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Linguistics
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Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LLT1160 | Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language Variation and Change | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT1910 | Language Skills for Linguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LIN1024 | Hands-on Language | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT1011 | Introduction to Linguistics 1 | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LIN1017 | Maltese Sign Language 1 for Linguistics Students | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT1012 | Introduction to Linguistics 2 | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LLT2810 | Introduction to Research Methods in Linguistics | 6 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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LIN1060* | Tools and Techniques in the Analysis of Language | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN1121 | Language for Humans and Machines | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN2017 | Maltese Sign Language 2 for Linguistics Students | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN2034 | Conversation Analysis | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2180 | Language Variation and Change: Historical Linguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2191 | Psycholinguistics: Language Acquisition | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2360 | Language and Culture of Deaf People | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2510 | Introduction to Programming for Language Applications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
* Study-unit LIN1060 is highlyrecommended.   | |||||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LIN2022 | Models of Grammar | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN2083 | Issues in Semantics and Pragmatics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN2350 | Issues in Phonetics and Phonology | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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LIN2033 | Discourse Analysis | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN3098 | Corpus Linguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2161 | Lingua Francas | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2830** | Quantitative Research in Linguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT3190 | Second Language Acquisition and Language Learning | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT3370 | Foundations in Sign Linguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
** Study-unit LIN1060 is highlyrecommended.   |
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Year   (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LIN3003 | Synoptic Study-Unit: General Linguistics | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
LIN3004 | Synoptic Study-Unit: Interdisciplinary Issues in Linguistics | 6 ECTS   | (NC)   | ||
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Semester 1 | |||||
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Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||
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LIN3010 | Language Typology and Universals | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Recommended Optional Unit (Recommended Optional units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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LIN2017 | Maltese Sign Language 2 for Linguistics Students | 2 ECTS   |   | ||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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LIN2034 | Conversation Analysis | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN3301 | Experimental Psycholinguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN3502 | Multimodal Interaction and Communication | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN3503 | Speech Technology | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2180 | Language Variation and Change: Historical Linguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2191 | Psycholinguistics: Language Acquisition | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2360 | Language and Culture of Deaf People | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2510 | Introduction to Programming for Language Applications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2520 | Introduction to Machine Learning for Language Applications | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT3060 | Advanced Issues in the Sound Structure of Languages | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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Semester 2 | |||||
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Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||
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LIN2033 | Discourse Analysis | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LIN3098 | Corpus Linguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2161 | Lingua Francas | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT2830 | Quantitative Research in Linguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT3190 | Second Language Acquisition and Language Learning | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
LLT3370 | Foundations in Sign Linguistics | 4 ECTS   |   | ||
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This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2019 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts.