Language And/With English (French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish) (Ba): 3-Year, Full-Time

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

Our BA Language and/with English allows you to combine studying a modern language (French, German, Italian, Japanese or Spanish) and its associated culture with English literature. You will gain a thorough grounding in different areas of English literature and engage imaginatively in the reading and analysis of literary texts from all periods, from the Anglo-Saxon to the present day, and develop a critical approach, so that you can put your own and others' work in context. You will also have the opportunity to study a number of cross-cultural modules that will allow you to explore specific themes across a variety of language-speaking areas.

This programme is also available for full-time evening study over four years, including a year abroad, and for part-time evening study over four years.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

Graduates can pursue careers in international organisations and businesses, education, research or editing. This degree may also be useful in becoming a translator, magazine/newspaper journalist, editorial assistant or primary/secondary school teacher.

We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.

We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.

This programme is suitable for all language entry levels, from beginner to proficiency, including native speaker level.

Awarding Body
University of London

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Subjects

  • Cinema
  • Industry
  • French
  • Imagining France
  • Reading Literature
  • Narrative Archetypes
  • Forms and Techniques
  • Storytelling
  • Tragedy
  • Dissertation BA English

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

You will take 360 credits over three years. The modules you take will be dependent both on your interests and your language level, so your course structure will be tailored to meet your personal requirements. You can begin this programme with any level of language, from beginner to native speaker proficiency. A typical set of modules, divided by year, might look like this:

YEAR 1
  • French 3
  • Imagining France: An Introduction to French Studies
  • Reading Literature
  • Storytelling: Narrative Archetypes, Forms and Techniques
YEAR 2
  • French 4
  • The Novel: Writing the Modern World
  • Tragedy
  • Translation from and into French
YEAR 3
  • Dissertation BA English
  • French 5
  • Modern French Poetry
  • Shakespeare A3 (Shakespeare In Context)
  • The French Short Story: from Balzac to Maupassant
  • The Sublime in the Works of Male and Female Romantic Poets
INDICATIVE ENGLISH OPTION MODULES
  • British Literature, post-1945
  • Introduction to Old English
  • Literature and the Politics of Feelings
  • Medieval and Renaissance Body, Mind, and Soul
  • Post-Colonial Literature
  • Romanticism: Reason, Revolution, Imagination
  • The Victorians and their World
  • Transcultural Encounters: Literature, Empire, Ethnicity
INDICATIVE COMPARATIVE CULTURE OPTION MODULES
  • Film and Politics
  • Post-War: Themes in Comparative European History since 1945 (Level 6)
  • Reading Transnational Cultures
  • Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality
  • Stories of the Self (Level 5)
  • Understanding Culture: Language and Texts
INDICATIVE FRENCH OPTION MODULES
  • French Cinema: History, Practice, Analysis
  • French Political Culture: Traditions and Change
  • French Thought: from the Renaissance to Postmodernity
  • Memoire en francais
  • The Twentieth-Century French Humanist Novel: Malraux and Camus
INDICATIVE GERMAN OPTION MODULES
  • Berlin since 1945: History and Culture (Level 5)
  • Das Dritte Reich
  • Die Deutschsprachige Presse
  • Post-War German Film
  • The Politics of Gender and Modern German Culture
  • Wirtschaftsdeutsch
INDICATIVE ITALIAN OPTION MODULES
  • Introduction to Italian Culture (Level 4)
INDICATIVE JAPANESE OPTION MODULES
  • Advanced Seminar in Japanese Culture and Society
  • Manga and Anime
  • Popular Culture in Japan and East Asia
  • Rethinking Japan: Introduction to Modern Japanese Society and Culture (Level 4)
  • Theorising Japanese Cinema
INDICATIVE PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH OPTION MODULES
  • Advanced Portuguese Seminar (Level 5)
  • Art and Empire in the Iberian World
  • Iberian Political Cultures: The Spanish Case
  • Iberian Political Cultures: The Portuguese Case
  • Literature and the Nation in Latin America (Mexico)
  • Lusophone Cinema (level 5)
  • Picturing the African Presence in Early Modern Spain
  • Power and Control in Spanish Golden Age Art
  • Power and Resistance in Spanish and Brazilian Film (Level 5)
  • Scenes of Portuguese History: Cultural approaches to modern politics
  • Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
  • The Latin American Novel
  • The Problem of National Identity in Modern Spain
  • The Urban Experience in Brazil
Please note that not all modules are available every year: the list above is indicative.

DEGREE CLASSIFICATION

If you exit the degree with Language 3 (A-level+/B2) or Language 4 (post-A-level/C1) the degree awarded will reflect this (e.g. BA English with French).

If you exit the degree with Language 5 (degree level/C1/C2) the degree awarded will reflect this (e.g. BA French and English).

Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Additional information

UCAS Code 4D71

FEES
Full-time international students: £ 14280 pa

Language And/With English (French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish) (Ba): 3-Year, Full-Time

£ 9,250 VAT inc.