Language and/with 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 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. A typical set of modules, divided by year, might look like this:

YEAR 1

• Comparative Government
• French 3
• The Study of Politics

YEAR 2

• Contemporary British Politics
• French 4
• Imagining France: An Introduction to French Studies

YEAR 3

• French 5
• French Political Culture: Traditions and Change
• Social and Political Theory

YEAR 4

• Challenges in Contemporary Politics
• Politics, Power and Human Nature
• Translation from and into French

INDICATIVE POLITICS OPTION MODULES

• Capitalism and the Politics of Markets
• Capitalism: histories and theories
• Comparative European Politics: Europeanisation, Contestation, Integration (Level 6)
• Modern Political Analysis
• Nationalism, Ethnicity and Religious Conflict
• Political Transformations
• Politics and the Arts (Level 6)
• The European Union Polity
• The Politics of European Integration
• The Politics of the Global Food System
• The Rise of the Modern Food System
• 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
• Lusophone Cinema (level 5)
• Power and Control in Spanish Golden Age Art
• Power and Resistance in Spanish and Brazilian Film (Level 5)
• 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

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 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 Politics).

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