Sociology and Modern Languages BA

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 Sociology 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.

Depending on your programme you can take up to 30 credits each year in another subject, for instance a language or business module, to develop career-related skills or just widen your intellectual horizons. However this is not normally available for Combined Honours programmes which feature a language.

The third year is spent abroad.

Year 1

The first year gives you a foundational knowledge of sociological theory and concepts, plus essential language training in your chosen language. You will also gain important analytical techniques that will be useful across a range of subjects and research tasks.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits SOC1037Introduction to Social Analysis: Classical Social Theory 15 SOC1038Introduction to Social Analysis: Contemporary Social Theory 15 SOC1019Contemporary Society – Themes and Perspectives 15 SOC1020Contemporary Society – Fields and Case Studies 15MLF1001French Language30 MLG1001German Language30 MLI1001Italian Language30 MLR1001Contemporary Russian, Written and Oral30 MLS1001Spanish Language30 MLM1052Beginners Chinese30 MLP1052Portuguese Language for Beginners30 Optional modules

Select 30 credits of Language Level 1 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits 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 grasp of sociological knowledge and methods through a set of compulsory modules, and continue the development of your language skills. Optional modules enable you to develop specialist knowledge on a range of topics.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits MLF2001French Language, Written and Oral30 SOC2004Into the Field 15 SOC2005Theoretical Sociology 30 Optional modules

Select 15 credits of Sociology Level 2 optional modules.

Select 30 credits of Modern Languages Level 2 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits Sociology SOC2050Knowing the Social: Perception, Memory and Representation15 French 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 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 can take a dissertation in either Sociology or Modern Languages.

Compulsory modules SOC3040Sociology Dissertation30 CodeModuleCredits Languages MLF3111French Language30 MLG3111German Language30 MLI3111Italian Language30 MLR3111Russian Language30 MLS3111Spanish Language30 Optional modules

If you choose the Sociology dissertation select 30 credits of Sociology and 60 credits of Modern Language level 3 optional modules.

If you choose the Modern Languages dissertation select 60 credits of Sociology and 30 credits of Modern Language level 3 optional modules.

CodeModuleCredits Sociology SOC3016Gender and Society30 SOC3028Media in Society15 SOC3029Sociology and Philosophy of Globalisation15 SOC3030Sociology of Art and Culture15 SOC3040Dissertation 30 SOC3046AThe Holocaust, Genocide and Society30 SOC3084Ethnomusicology15 SOC3085Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part 1: Medicine and Social Control15 SOC3086Addiction 30 SOC3087Disability and Society15 SOC3088Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society: Part 2: Bodies in Society15 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