Politics and Modern Languages BA

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In Exeter

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Course programme

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

The BA Politics and Modern Languages degree programme is made up of compulsory (core) and optional modules, which are worth 15 or 30 credits each. Full-time undergraduate students need to complete modules worth a total of 120 credits each year.

You will take half your credits in Politics and the remaining credits in Modern Languages.

Please note that modules offered are subject to change, depending on staff availability, timetabling, and demand.

Year 1

The first year will improve your language skills and introduce you to key methodological and theoretical debates within the study of politics and provide foundational knowledge in British and European politics, the history of political thought, international politics and the study of political behaviour and civil society.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits MLF1001French Language30 MLG1001German Language30 MLI1001Italian Language30 MLR1001Contemporary Russian, Written and Oral30 MLS1001Spanish Language30 MLM1052Beginners Chinese30 MLP1052Portuguese Language for Beginners30 Optional modules

Select 60 credits of Politics Level 1 optional modules.

Select 30 credits of Modern Language Level 1 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits Politics POL1001ABritish Government and Politics15 POL1006State and Society15 POL1016AHistory and Political Thought I15 POL1016BHistory of Political Thought 2 15 POL1019Power and Democracy 15 POL1020Politics in Europe 15 POL1905Employability0 Chinese MLM1010China of the Senses: Approaching Chinese Culture and Environments15 French MLF1014Love and Death in French Culture15 MLF1015War and Conflict in French Literature15 MLF1103The French Language, Present and Past15 MLF1105An Introduction to French Thought15 MLF1119French Cinema from the New Wave to the Present Day15 MLF1121French Visual History15 German MLG1014A Nation Remembers: Issues in German Cultural Memory15 MLG1015Representations of Education in German Literature and Film: Satire, Trauma, Melodrama15 MLG1016War, Passion and Possibly Love: Approaches to Genre in German Literature15 MLG1017Turning Points in German History 1200 - 200015 MLG1018Nature and the City in German Literature, Visual Arts and Film15 Italian MLI1054Contemporary Italian Cinema: an Introduction to Reading Popular Film15 MLI1055Introduction to Italian Linguistics15 MLI1121A Thousand Faces: Cultures and History in 19th-Century Italy15 Portuguese MLP1002Introduction to the Lusophone World15 Russian MLR1005Chekhov's Major Plays15 MLR1023Russia Empire and Identity15 MLR1024Russian Heroes and Heroines15 Spanish MLS1012Contemporary Latin America: Culture, Society and Institutions15 MLS1016Gender Perspectives15 MLS1021The Generation of 1898: Imagining Spain15 MLS1022The Outsider in Hispanic Texts15 MLS1023Spain since the Transition: Society, Politics and Culture15 MLS1062Introduction to the History of the Spanish Language15 MLS1064An Introduction to the Hispanic World: Texts in Context15 Year 2

In the second year you will advance your knowledge and methods through a set of compulsory modules. Optional modules enable you to develop specialist knowledge on a range of topics.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits MLF2001French Language, Written and Oral30 MLG2001German Language, Written and Oral30 MLI2001Italian Language, Written and Oral30 MLR2001Contemporary Russian, Written and Oral I30 MLS2001Spanish Language, Written and Oral30 MLM2052Intermediate Chinese30 Optional modules

Select 60 credits of Politics Level 2 optional modules.

Select 30 credits of Modern Languages Level 2 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits Politics POL2071Experimental Research in the Social Sciences15 POL2052Foreign Policy: Leadership, Power and Responsibility 15 POL2067Gendering World Politics15 POL2068Global Justice and Transnational Democracy15 POL2042International Relations - Order and Justice15 POL2037International Relations, Rethinking Third World Politics 15 POL2038International Relations, War and Peace in the Middle East 15 POL2063Introduction to Middle East Politics 15 POL2049Media, Public Opinion and Campaigns15 POL2026Political Analysis: Behaviour, Institutions, Ideas15 POL2022Political Ideologies15 POL2050Political Philosophy 15 POL2059Political Thought of Modernity15 POL2053Power Politics and Leadership15 POL2060Public Policy and Administration 15 POL2003Public Policy and Administration30 POL2070Quantitative methods in political science15 POL2072Race Ethnicity and Politics15 POL2057Security Studies 15 POL2046The Economics of Politics 15 POL2064The Political Economy of Globalization 15 POL2027The Politics of the World Economy15 Chinese MLM2010Reading China: from Mandarins to Revolutionists15 MLM2011Encounters and Entanglements: Chinese Art in Global Perspective15 French MLF2003Freedom and French Realism15 MLF2012Evolution of the French Language15 MLF2029Varieties of French15 MLF2056Provoking Thoughts: French Literature and Philosophy from the Renaissance to the 20th Century15 MLF2063Crime and Punishment in French Fiction15 MLF2065Contemporary French Film: Issues and Debates15 MLF2066Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment15 MLF2067Gender and Resistance: Contemporary Women's Writing in French15 MLF2068 Telling Stories: Narrative Strategies in 19th and 20th Century Fiction in French15 MLF2069East is East? Cross-Cultural Encounters in Medieval French Literature15 German MLG2018Berlin - Culture, History and Politics15 MLG2034Crime and Madness in German Prose Fiction15 MLG2042Ideologies and Identities in German Cinema15 MLG2045Protest, Priests and Princes: Germany in the Early Modern Period15 MLG2047Language in the Goethezeit15 Italian MLI2024Love (and Marriage?)15 MLI2120Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed15 Portuguese MLP2002Portuguese as a Global Language15 MLP2003The Lustotropical Tempest: An Introduction to Portuguese Speaking Africa15 Russian MLR2017Monsters, Ghosts and Vampires in Russian Literature15 MLR2018Revolutionary Theatre: 1917-193215 MLR2054Soviet History 1917-199130 Spanish MLS2032Introduction to Commercial Spanish15 MLS2045Federico Garcia Lorca: Theatre and Poetry15 MLS2053Franco's Spain: Narratives under Dictatorship15 MLS2060Love and Death in Spanish Drama15 MLS2061The Latin American Short Story15 MLS2067Spain from Democracy to Dictatorship: Republic, Civil War and Francoism, 1931 - 195315 MLS2157The Short Story of the Spanish Golden Age15 Modern Languages SML2209Music in Medieval Europe15 SML2244Multilingualism in Society15 Year 3

The third year is spent abroad, either on a work placement, studying at a university, or in a school working as a language assistant.

Compulsory module choice CodeModuleCredits SML3010Work and Study Abroad120 SML3020Study Abroad at a Partner University120 SML3025Internship Abroad Combined with Study at a Partner University120 Year 4

The centre-point of the final year is the dissertation. This provides you with the opportunity to explore an area of interest and to demonstrate what you have learned over the previous years of your degree. You will also take up to three other specialist modules to create a programme of work fully reflecting your interests.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits Languages MLF3111French Language30 MLG3111German Language30 MLI3111Italian Language30 MLR3111Russian Language30 MLS3111Spanish Language30 Optional modules

Select 60 credits of Politics Level 3 optional modules.

Select 30 credits of Modern Languages Level 3 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits Politics POL3069Globalisation and the Politics of Resistance 30 POL3070Electoral Politics 30 POL3074The Politics of Climate Change30 POL3120War and Public Opinion30 POL3123Strategy in the Twenty-First Century: From Idea to Practice30 POL3124Anarchism and World Ordering30 POL3125The History and Political Development of Iraq15 POL3126Ethno-Politics: Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies15 POL3127EU Democracy Promotion in the Middle East and North Africa30 POL3128Armed Islamist Movements: Jihadism and Beyond15 POL3129Politics and Reform in the Gulf15 POL3136Political Psychology30 POL3148Human Rights and the Political 30 POL3153Justice, Democracy and Civil Society.30 POL3156Central Asian Politics 30 POL3166Comparing Western Democracies: Parties, Elites, Institutions30 POL3168War and its Aftermath: Interventions and Contemporary Conflict30 POL3170Marxism and Post-Structuralism 30 POL3174International Security and US Foreign Policy 30 POL3175Nationalisms in the Middle East15 POL3177The Refugee Crisis in the Modern World30 POL3179City Politics: Power, Policy and Conflict30 POL3180Latin American Parties, Politics and Elections30 POL3184Politics of Semi-democratic and Authoritarian Countries30 POL3186BGender, Militarization and Resistance 30 POL3187Sub-National and Local Governance: A Practice Approach30 Chinese MLM3010Ritual and Power: Text and Image of Chinese Landscapes15 French MLF3034Sociolinguistics of French15 MLF3046Dialectology in France15 MLF3050Music, Poetry, and Society at the Late Medieval French Court15 MLF3053Looking Awry: Exploring the Unorthodox in Early Modern France15 MLF3069Writing Women and Strange Monsters15 MLF3070Diasporic Cinemas15 MLF3072Sex and the Text: Gender and Authority in Late Medieval France15 MLF3073Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu15 German MLG3022The Foundation of Modern Germany 1860-190015 MLG3026Pamphlets and Propaganda in German and Austrian History15 MLG3028Violence, Gender and Nationhood in the Work of Heinrich von Kleist15 MLG3035Violence and Vanitas: The German Baroque15 MLG3036Dictatorships on Display: History Exhibitions in Germany and Austria15 MLG3037Coping with Catastrophe: German Culture, Literature and Politics in the Interwar Years15 Italian MLI3028Italian Varieties and Dialects15 MLI3052Representing Immigration in Contemporary Italian Cinema15 MLI3053Liaison Interpreting and Report Writing between English and Italian15 MLI3199Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend15 Portuguese MLP3002Afro-Brazil: Ideas of Africa in Brazilian Fiction15 Russian MLR3017St Petersburg30 MLR3025Apocalypse/Utopia: The Russian Roots of Revolution15 Spanish MLS3027Commercial Spanish15 MLS3031The Varieties of Modern Spanish15 MLS3037Women and Feminism in 20th Century Spain15 MLS3045Spanish Romantic Drama15 MLS3048Memory and Autobiographical Writing in 20th Century Spain15 MLS3054Advanced Portuguese30 MLS3057Cross Currents: Memory, Myth and Modernity in Latin America15 MLS3060The Amorous Lyric of the Spanish Golden Age15 MLS3061Religion, Revolution and Counterrevolution15 MLS3062Spain and the fin de siecle: from Disaster to Modernity15 Modern Languages SML3012Law in Fiction15 SML3015Dissertation15 SML3017Language Contact15 SML3030Extended Dissertation30 SML3031Advanced Translation Skills15 SML3035The Fantastic in 19th and 20th Century Literature15 SML3036Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema15 SML3037Longing for an Audience: Medieval Troubadour Lyric15 ...

Politics and Modern Languages BA

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