Programme Requirements for 2020/21 Session


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B.A. Modern Languages and Music Full-time

Year: 2
2020/21 Session

NB: To proceed from Stage I to Stage II a student must have a minimum of 100 credits, to include the relevant Core II language module(s). The University Regulations permit students registered to Joint degrees to vary their credit weighting in their second and final year. A minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits must be taken in each discipline in both years (subject to a total number of 120 credits in each year). Students who undertake less than 160 credits in one of their disciplines will graduate with a major/minor degree.

Students must take a minimum of 40 credits in Music and 40 credits in a modern foreign language.

Intermediate French can only be taken to a maximum of 80 credits if combined with 20 credits of Modern Languages departmental modules.

Music: Choose either Critical Musicology OR Music Analysis AND one other 20 credit module from the range of optional 20 credit modules available, including Solo Performance but excluding Composition modules.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Analysis of Music 09 25658 20 Semester 2
LI Critical Musicology 09 25657 20 Semester 1

Choose the modules from the relevant language.

French (students must choose both Advanced modules or both Beginners modules):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI French Core III - Advanced: French Cultures and Identities 09 30216 20 Semester 1
LI French Core III - Intermediate: French Cultures and Identities 09 30126 20 Semester 1
LI French Core IV - Advanced: French Cultures and Identities 09 30221 10 Semester 2
LI French Core IV - Intermediate: French Cultures and Identities 09 30132 10 Semester 2

German:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI German Core III - Advanced: German-speaking Europe before Germany 09 30217 20 Semester 1
LI German Core IV - Advanced: German-Language Cultures and Societies in the Contemporary World 09 30222 10 Semester 2

Spanish (students must choose both Advanced modules or both Beginners modules):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Spanish Core III - Advanced: Hispanic Cultures in Global Contexts 09 30219 20 Semester 1
LI Spanish Core III - Intermediate: Hispanic Cultures in Global Contexts 09 30130 20 Semester 1
LI Spanish Core IV - Advanced: Hispanic Cultures in Global Contexts 09 30224 10 Semester 2
LI Spanish Core IV - Intermediate: Hispanic Cultures in Global Contexts 09 30137 10 Semester 2

Russian (students must choose both Advanced modules or both Beginners modules):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Russian Core III - Advanced: Understanding Russia and the Russians 09 30220 20 Semester 1
LI Russian Core III - Intermediate: Understanding Russia and the Russians 09 30131 20 Semester 1
LI Russian Core IV - Advanced: Understanding Russia and the Russians 09 30225 20 Semester 2
LI Russian Core IV - Intermediate: Understanding Russia and the Russians 09 30138 20 Semester 2

When one or more of the following languages is studied: French, German, Spanish - and where the student is not taking a dissertation preparation module in the other JH subject - students must take the following module:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Core V - Student Research Project 09 30157 10 Semester 2

In addition to the core modules listed above, students choose additional Level I modules provided annually by the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music up to the relevant credit value for their respective route, to a combined total of 120 credits. Depending on the number of credits students opt to take in each subject, optional module choices may be restricted.

Availability of particular modules varies from year to year and is subject to timetabling constraints.

Optional modules offered by the Department of Modern Languages:

Catalan Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Beginners Catalan Language A 09 33737 10 Semester 1
LI Beginners Catalan Language B 09 33745 10 Semester 2
LI Artistic and literary representations of Barcelona 09 31143 10 Semester 1
LI Gender, New Media and Catalan Identity 09 31144 10 Semester 2

Portuguese Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Popular Culture and Resistance in the Portuguese-speaking World 09 30977 10 Semester 2

Departmental Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Cross-Cultural Cinema: Beyond the Nation-State 09 31138 10 Semester 2
LI Cross-Cultural Cinema: Migration and Displacement 09 31137 10 Semester 1
LI Global Enterprise Project 09 30969 10 Semester 1
LI Myth, Fetish and Power: Reconfiguring Global Languages 09 30828 10 Semester 1
LI Songs without Borders 09 30937 10 Semester 1

French Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Translation in Practice III (French) 09 31450 10 Semester 1
LI Translation in Practice IV (French) 09 31451 10 Semester 2
LI Conflict, Identity and Absurdity in French Theatre 09 30943 10 Semester 2
LI Défis contemporains de la société française 09 34838 10 Semester 2
LI Rebels and the Restless: Turmoil and Transgression in French Texts 09 30740 10 Semester 2
LI Writing, Reacting, Adapting: from Humanism to Realism 09 30962 10 Semester 1

German Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI German Language Project A 09 34912 10 Semester 1
LI German Language Project B 09 34913 10 Semester 2
German Political Parties and Party Government 09 13037 10 Semester 1
LI Cultures of Protest and Terror in West Germany, 1967-1977 09 24732 10 Semester 1
LI New German Cinemas 09 30976 10 Semester 2

Spanish Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Translation in Practice III (Spanish) 09 31454 10 Semester 1
LI Translation in Practice IV (Spanish) 09 31455 10 Semester 2
LI Conflicting Identities in Spanish Cinema 09 30753 10 Semester 2
LI Digital Media and Spanish Youth Culture 09 30742 10 Semester 2
LI Glocal Styles and Expressions: Aesthetics in Latin America 09 30972 10 Semester 1
LI Histories of the Excluded: Inquisition and the Birth of Human Rights 09 30973 10 Semester 1
LI Icons of the Hispanic World 09 30975 10 Semester 1

Italian Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Introduction to Summarising from English into Italian 09 28850 10 Semester 1
LI Introduction to Translating from Italian into English 09 28851 10 Semester 2
LI Giallo e nero: Twentieth Century Italian Crime Fiction 09 25890 10 Semester 2
LI Il bello dell'italiano: Dante and the History of the Italian Language 09 30978 10 Semester 1
LI Italian Renaissance in Word and Image 09 23375 10 Semester 2
Twentieth Century Italian Film 09 22842 10 Semester 2

Russian Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Russian Language Project A 09 34914 10 Semester 1
LI Russian Language Project B 09 34915 10 Semester 2
LI Fiction in Place of Public Sphere: the Golden Age of Russian Novel from Pushkin to Turgenev 09 31145 10 Semester 1
LI Fiction in Place of Public Sphere: the Golden Age of Russian Novel, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy 09 31147 10 Semester 2

Optional modules offered by the Department of Music:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Conducting I 10 31914 10 Semester 1
LI Conducting II 10 31916 10 Semester 2
LI Orchestration I 10 31920 10 Semester 1
LI Orchestration II 10 31922 10 Semester 2
LI Paper Composition I 10 31923 10 Semester 1
LI Paper Composition II 10 31924 10 Semester 2
LI Solo Performance I 09 36291 0 Semester 1
LI Solo Performance II 09 36292 20 Semester 2
Eighteenth Century Counterpoint 10 19888 20 Semester 1
LI Arts Management in Practice 09 26093 20 Semester 1
LI Film Music Techniques and History 09 30262 20 Semester 1
LI Film Music Techniques and History (Sem 2) 09 34406 20 Semester 2
LI From Glinka to Glazunov 10 17934 20 Semester 1 or 2
LI Introduction to Jazz Styles: 1920 to 1980 10 27206 20 Semester 2
LI Love, Death, Religion and Music in the Renaissance 10 29034 20 Semester 1
LI Music Education 09 31047 20 Semester 2
LI Music Festivals 10 29058 20 Semester 2
LI Music and Emotion 10 30768 20 Semester 2
LI Music in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich 10 23590 20 Semester 1
LI Notation and Editorial Practice 09 29154 20 Semester 1
LI Songs without Borders 09 36147 20 Semester 1
LI Studies in Performance Practice 10 27210 20 Semester 2
LI The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim 10 29016 20 Semester 2
LI The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim (Sem 2) 10 34399 20 Semester 2