Language and/with Global Politics (French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish) (BA): 4-year, part-time

COURSE STRUCTURE

You complete the equivalent of 12 full (30-credit) modules, normally taking six global politics modules and six culture and language modules. Depending on entry level a maximum of four of these will be from one of the languages on offer, forming a language pathway.

The modules you take will be dependent both on your interests and your language level so your 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.

Please note: your programme will be designed to suit both your language level and interests, but we are including a sample programme structure to give you a better idea of the structure you would be following. A typical set of modules, divided by year, might look like this:

YEAR 1

• Introduction to Global Politics
• The Study of Politics

YEAR 2

• German 4
• Introduction to International Political Economy
• Transformations in Modern Politics: Democracy, Conflict and Globalisation

YEAR 3

• German 5
• War and Modern Society

YEAR 4

• Dissertation BA Global Politics and International Relations

INDICATIVE GLOBAL POLITICS MODULES

• Capitalism and the Politics of Markets
• Capitalism: histories and theories
• Comparative European Politics: Europeanisation, Contestation, Integration (Level 6)
• International Migration and Transnationalism
• International Organisations
• Politics and the Arts (Level 6)
• The European Union Polity
• The Evolution of the International System
• The Politics of the Global Food System
• The Rise of the Modern Food System
• The United States in International Politics
• Transformations in Modern Politics: Democracy, Conflict and Globalisation

INDICATIVE COMPARATIVE CULTURE OPTION MODULES

• Beating Nature: Artificiality, Imitation and Simulation
• Film and Politics
• Representations of Love, Desire and Sexuality
• Stories of the Self (Level 5)
• The Twentieth Century: Key Themes in Comparative European History (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
• Imagining France: An Introduction to French Studies
• Memoire en francais
• The Twentieth-Century French Humanist Novel: Malraux and Camus
• Translation from and into French

INDICATIVE GERMAN OPTION MODULES

• A Topic in German Thought: The Idea of Enlightenment
• 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

Politics option modules vary each year and are usually available in the areas of: American and European politics, global politics and the politics of the EU, political economy and capitalism, war and conflict, foreign policy, migration, religion and ethnic politics, political theory and its application to contemporary politics, and political institutions.

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 Global Politics with Japanese).

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

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