BA Languages and Contemporary European Studies (4 years)

Year 1

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

In each semester you will be required to follow four modules (a total of eight modules over the year). Two modules in each semester will be your language courses.

Choose one optional module in semester one. In semester two, all modules are compulsory.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
XXXX9___ Language 1
XXXX9___ Language 2

PAIR1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Political Systems

LANG1017

Academic Skills for ML students

FREN1017Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

GERM1003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

German History, Politics and Society

SPAN1001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The History and Politics of the Hispanic World

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
XXXX9___ Language 1
XXXX9___ Language 2

LANG1013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Reading the City

SOCI1002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Transformations of The Modern World

Year 2

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

Choose one optional module in each semester. Two modules in each semester will be your language courses.

The suggested modules below are those considered most appropriate for the programme. However, you may consider other modules offered by Modern Languages, Social Sciences, Geography, Management or Law and should discuss alternative suggestions with the Contemporary Europe Coordinator.

LANG2010 is a compulsory fifth module for all second year students taking a Modern Languages degree, whether single or joint honours.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
XXXX9___ Language 2
XXXX9___ Language 2

LANG2010

Managing Research and Learning

LANG2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Globalisation: Culture, Language and The Nation State

LANG2005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography

PAIR2001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Theories of International Relations

MANG2017Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Company Law

LAWS1010Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Introduction to English Legal System (Part 1)

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
XXXX9___ Language 2
XXXX9___ Language 1

LANG2009Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

The EU and European Identity

MANG2013Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

European Business Environment

LANG2010

Managing Research and Learning

HUMA2007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Humanities University Ambassadors Scheme (Modern Languages)

PAIR2002Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Political Thinkers

Year 3

You will spend the year abroad in a country where one of the chosen languages is spoken, either as:

• an English language assistant

• studying on a university course

• on an approved work placement

Investigative Project:
Independent study project (6,000 words) supervised by a member of staff

Further information:
Year abroad

Year 4

The following is an indicative list of available optional modules, which are subject to change each academic year. Please note in some instances modules have limited spaces available.

Choose two optional modules in each semester. Two modules in each semester will be your language courses.
The suggested modules below are those considered most appropriate for the programme. However, you may consider other modules offered by Modern Languages, Social Sciences, Geography, Management or Law and should discuss alternative suggestions with the Contemporary Europe Coordinator.

Semester One

Compulsory language module:
XXXX9___ Language 2
XXXX9___ Language 1

LANG3011

Seeing and being seen: Study Abroad re-entry

FREN3025Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

An ambivalent asylum: the histories and memories of refugees in early twentieth-century France

GERM3016Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Language and the City

LANG3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Dissertation

LANG3007Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Translation: Theory and Practice

LING3005Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Language Teaching Theory and Practice

PAIR3014Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Globalisation and World Politics

SOCI3001Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Comparative Sociology

SPAN3011Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Exiles, Migrants and Citizens: Narrating and documenting displacement in contemporary Spain

SPAN3012Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Sex, Soap Operas and Female Dissidents: Representations of Women in the Hispanic World

Semester Two

Compulsory language module:
XXXX9___ Language 2
XXXX9___ Language 1

FREN3034Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Travel Writing, Cultural Encounter, Identity in Post-War France

LANG3003Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Dissertation

LANG3006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Public Service Interpreting

GERM3006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Minorities and Migrants: Exploring Multicultural Germany

GERM3017Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Renaissance of German-Jewish Literature after the Holocaust

PORT3006Credit[?]

Credits are based on the Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS).

Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative