Modern Languages : BA Hons : R800

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    4 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Lancaster’s Modern Languages degree is taught by the Department of Languages and Cultures. We are in the national top 10 for language studies, ranking 2nd for French and German in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide and 5th for Iberian languages in the Complete University Guide 2017.

This degree gives you the opportunity to study three languages. We offer French, German or Spanish as major subjects, and Italian and Chinese as minor subjects.

In your first year, you will study two languages at advanced level, and one at beginners or advanced level. You will focus on developing fluency and understanding as well as learning about the cultural contexts of your chosen languages.

Building on your language skills in Year 2, you will also study the cultural, political and historical context of your languages in more depth.

Spending your third year abroad makes a major contribution to your language ability, while deepening your intercultural sensitivity. You will spend time in the two countries where your major languages are spoken. You can study at a partner institution or conduct a work placement.

We also encourage you to spend some vacation time in the country of your third language, and in some instances can offer support to secure funding for this.

Back at Lancaster in the fourth year, you will consolidate your multiple language skills alongside language-specific cultural modules such as ‘Chinese Culture and Society’ or ‘Latin America and Spain on Film: Violence and Masculinities’. You can also take comparative courses which allow you to see the languages and cultures you're studying in a global context.

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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About this course

As well as language and subject related skills, a degree in languages develops rich interpersonal, intercultural, cognitive and transferable skills that can be utilised across a variety of careers. Our graduates have found work in a wide variety of areas such as accountancy, IT, business development, civil service, events management, finance, journalism, publishing, research and sales, as well as teaching and translating both in the UK and beyond.

For the last ten years, language graduates from Lancaster have been in the top ten universities in the country in terms of their employability, with French and Spanish Studies ranked 1st for graduate prospects in the Complete University Guide 2017.

Many Modern Languages graduates continue their studies at Lancaster, making the most of our excellent postgraduate research facilities. We offer Masters degrees in Translation and Languages and Cultures, which can lead on to a variety of careers including translation, and teaching.

A Level ABB
Required Subjects We would expect you to be at A or A/S Level standard in at least two of our major languages (French, German and Spanish)
IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.

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Subjects

  • German Language
  • Spanish Language
  • Italian Language
  • Chinese Language
  • Latin
  • Chinese
  • German Studies
  • Spanish Studies
  • Oral Skills
  • Written Skills

Course programme

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Year 1

Core

    • Part I Chinese (Intensive)
    • Part I French Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
    • Part I French Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)
    • Part I German Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
    • Part I German Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)
    • Part I Italian Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)
    • Part I Spanish Studies (Advanced/CEFR: B1)
    • Part I Spanish Studies (Beginners to CEFR: A2)
Year 2

Core

    • Becoming German: Post-War German-language, Culture and Identities
    • Chinese Language 2
    • Chinese Language 3
    • French Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: B2)
    • French Language: Oral skills (post-Beginners/CEFR: B1))
    • French Language: Written Skills (CEFR: B2)
    • French Language: Written Skills (post-Beginners/CEFR: B1)
    • German Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: B2)
    • German Language: Oral Skills (post-Beginners/CEFR: B1)
    • German Language: Written Skills (CEFR: B2)
    • German Language: Written Skills (Post-Beginners/CEFR: B1)
    • Italian Language: Oral skills (post Beginners /CEFR: B1)
    • Italian Language: Written skills (post Beginners /CEFR: B1)
    • Power and Resistance in Spain and Spanish America: From the Spanish Empire to the 21st Century
    • Second Year Programme for Academic Skills, Employability and International placement preparation
    • Shaping Contemporary France: Culture, Politics and the Legacy of History
    • Spanish Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: B2)
    • Spanish Language: Oral Skills (post Beginners/CEFR: B1)
    • Spanish Language: Written skills (CEFR: B2)
    • Spanish Language: Written Skills (post Beginners/CEFR: B1)
Year 3

Core

    • Residence Abroad: intercultural and academic reflection
Year 4

Core

    • Chinese Culture and Society
    • Chinese Language 4
    • French Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
    • French Language: Written Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
    • German Language Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
    • German Language Written Skills (CEFR C1/C2)
    • Italian language: Oral and Aural skills (CEFR: B2)
    • Italian Language: Written and Reading Skills (CEFR: B2)
    • Spanish Language: Oral Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)
    • Spanish Language: Written Skills (CEFR: C1/C2)

Optional

    • Autocrats, Caudillos and Big Men: Understanding Dictatorship and its Cultural Representation in the 20th Century
    • Contemporary Cities in Literature and Film
    • Francophone Voices: Literature and Film from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Canada
    • Full Unit Dissertation
    • Game of (Spanish) Thrones: Treachery, War and Exile in Spanish Poetry (13th-20th c.)
    • Images of Austria: National Identity and Cultural Representation
    • Imagining Modern Europe: Post-Revolutionary Utopias and Ideologies in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
    • Latin America and Spain on Film: Violence and Masculinities
    • Literature and Fame in Contemporary Germany
    • Mirrors across Media: Reflexivity in Literature, Film, Comics and Video Games
    • Modernity of Forms and Forms of Modernity in French Literature 1850-2000
    • Social movements and committed writing in Mexico since 1968
    • The Prosecution of 'Otherness' in Europe: Witchcraft, Heresy and Inquisition (14th -17th C)
    • Translation as a Cultural Practice

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

Additional information

Overseas Fee - £15,680

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Modern Languages : BA Hons : R800

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