BA ... and Georgian (minor)
Programme Code: As major subject Duration: 3 or 4 years, depending on combination
Overview
Entry Requirements
- A Levels: ABB
- A Level Language preferred
- IB: 34 (5/5/5)
- BTEC: DDM
- Scottish Highers: AABBB
- Scottish Advanced Highers: ABB
- Irish LC: 320 points from 5 Higher level subjects at grade C1 or above
- Advanced Placement: 4 4 4 (Two semesters - UCAS Group A) plus US HSGD with GPA 3.0
- Euro Bacc: 80%
- French Bacc: 14/20
- German Abitur: 2.0
- Italy DES: 80/100
- Austria Mat: 2.0
- Polish Mat: 75%
Minimum Entry Requirements: Languages at SOAS are taught ab initio, and no prior knowledge is required. A foreign language at A-level or equivalent is preferred.
Subjects Preferred: A good pass in a foreign language at A-level, or equivalent, is preferred
Interview Policy: Candidates with "non-standard" qualifications are usually invited for interview
Start of programme: September annually
Who is this programme for?: Georgian may only be studied as a minor element with other major subjects.
The Caucasus is one of the most complex ethno-linguistic regions in any part of the world, the indigenous languages there alone totalling almost forty. The Caucasian languages are traditionally divided into three families: South Caucasian (Kartvelian), North-West Caucasian and North-East Caucasian (incorporating Nakh and Daghestanian).
The four South Caucasian languages (Georgian, Mingrelian, Laz and Svan) are certainly unrelated to their northern neighbours and, as far as we can tell, to any other known language. Only Georgian from the Caucasian families has a history of writing ante-dating the nineteenth century. In fact, the quite unique Georgian script (and there have been three variants over the centuries) seems to have been devised at the end of the fourth century AD, giving us some fifteen centuries of literary tradition.
Email: gh2@soas.ac.uk
Combinations
May be combined with
- Arabic +,
- Development Studies,
- Economics,
- Geography **,
- Hebrew +,
- History,
- History of Art/Archaeology,
- Law,
- Linguistics,
- Music,
- Persian,
- Politics,
- Social Anthropology,
- Study of Religions,
- Turkish +
+ 4-year degree with (compulsory) one year spent abroad
** Taught at King’s College London
Structure
There are 4 Georgian-related course units available, the last 2 being taken in the final year after the student has completed the full modern Georgian language course in Years 1 and 2.
Year 1: 1 unit in Elementary Georgian, plus 3 units from the major subject.
Year 2: Intermediate Georgian language plus 3 units in the major subject or 2 such units and 1 ‘floater’ (i.e. a course in a subject or language other than those named in the student’s chosen degree title).
Year 3: Old Georgian and Structure of Abkhaz with 2 units in the major subject or 1 such unit and 1 ‘floater’ or an Independent Study Project (ISP: 10,000-word essay on an approved topic).
Programme Specification
Teaching & Learning
Year abroad
In some combinations only.
