BA Modern Languages (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).

Semester One

Compulsory language modules:
XXX9__Language 1
XXX9__Language 2
XXX9__Language 3

LANG1017

Academic Skills for ML students

FREN1001Credit[?]

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

Modern French Culture

FREN1016Credit[?]

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

The Making of Modern French

FREN1017Credit[?]

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

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

GERM1001Credit[?]

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

Modern German Culture

GERM1002Credit[?]

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

Introduction to German Linguistic Studies

GERM1003Credit[?]

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

German History, Politics and Society

PORT1001Credit[?]

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

Introduction to The Portuguese-Speaking World

SPAN1001Credit[?]

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

The History and Politics of the Hispanic World

SPAN1002Credit[?]

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

Introduction to the Languages of the Spanish-Speaking World

SPAN1003Credit[?]

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

Narrative and Cultural Identity in the Hispanic World

Semester Two

Compulsory language modules:
XXX9__Language 1
XXX9__Language 2
XXX9__Language 3

LANG1004Credit[?]

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

Reading Culture

LANG1013Credit[?]

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

Reading the City

LING1001Credit[?]

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

Elements of Linguistics - Sound, Structure and Meaning

LING1003Credit[?]

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

Applications of Linguistics

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 semester one and one optional module in semester two.

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 modules:
XXX9__Language 2
XXX9__Language 3
XXX9__Language 1

LANG2010

Managing Research and Learning

FREN2008Credit[?]

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

Post-War French Thought

FREN2018Credit[?]

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

Exploring French Linguistics

GERM2006Credit[?]

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

Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present

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

LING2002Credit[?]

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

Psycholinguistics

LING2003Credit[?]

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

Syntax: Studying Language Structure

LING2004Credit[?]

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

Discourse Analysis

LING2008Credit[?]

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

Sound and Voice (see also ISVR2016: Speech Sciences and Lip-Reading)

SPAN2005Credit[?]

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

Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America

SPAN2006Credit[?]

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

High, Popular and Mass Culture in Modern Spain

SPAN2012Credit[?]

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

Power and Discourse in Spanish-speaking societies

Semester Two

Compulsory language modules:
XXX9__Language 2
XXX9__Language 3
XXX9__Language 1

FREN2007Credit[?]

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

Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in France

FREN2021Credit[?]

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

Identities in Crisis: Post-war French Literature and Film

GERM2003Credit[?]

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

Media Perspectives on Post-68 Germany

GERM2004Credit[?]

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

Language and Society in German-Speaking World

LING2007Credit[?]

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

Teaching English as a Foreign Language

LING2009Credit[?]

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

Multilingualism

PORT2001Credit[?]

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

Culture and Society in Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa

SPAN2010Credit[?]

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

Exploring Spanish Linguistics

SPAN2011Credit[?]

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

Myths and Realities of Contemporary Spain

SPAN2014Credit[?]

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

Ethnography of Latin America

HUMA2007Credit[?]

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

Humanities University Ambassadors Scheme (Modern Languages)

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 one optional Modern Languages module in each semester.

Semester One

Compulsory language modules:
XXX9__Language 2
XXX9__Language 3
XXX9__Language 1

LANG3011

Seeing and being seen: Study Abroad re-entry

FREN3024Credit[?]

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

Flaubert's France

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

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

LING3001Credit[?]

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

Second Language Acquisition

LING3003Credit[?]

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

Advanced Syntax

LING3005Credit[?]

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

Language Teaching Theory and Practice

SPAN3004Credit[?]

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

Barrios and Borders: Language and Identity amongst US Latinos

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

GERM3016Credit[?]

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

Language and the City

Semester Two

Compulsory language modules:
XXX9__Language 2
XXX9__Language 3
XXX9__Language 1

FREN3028Credit[?]

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

Sex, Gender and Desire in French Literature and Culture

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

LANG3008Credit[?]

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

Audiovisual Translation

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

LING3006Credit[?]

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

Writing in a Second Language

SPAN3001Credit[?]

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

Historical Memory in Modern Latin America

SPAN3013Credit[?]

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

Transatlantic Crossings: Linguistic Variation in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America

PORT3006Credit[?]

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

Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative