Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session

B.A. Modern Languages and English Literature Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

Students must take a minimum of 40 credits in English Literature and 40 credits in one modern foreign language.

JH students take all compulsory core language modules in their relevant language as described below, plus further credits appropriate to their level (beginners or advanced).

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

The following core language modules are compulsory at Stage II for each language followed.

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

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI German Core III – Advanced: Other Germanies	09 34774	20	Semester 1
LI German Core III – Intermediate: Other Germanies	09 34773	20	Semester 1
LI German Core IV - Advanced: German-Language Cultures and Societies in the Contemporary World	09 30222	10	Semester 2
LI German Core IV - Intermediate: German-Language Cultures and Societies in the Contemporary World	09 30133	10	Semester 2

Portuguese: (Students must choose both Intermediate modules)

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Portuguese Core III - Intermediate: Global Cultures in Portuguese	09 30129	20	Semester 1
LI Portuguese Core IV - Intermediate: Transatlantic Exchanges	09 30136	10	Semester 2

Spanish (students must choose both Advanced modules or both Intermediate 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

Italian (students must choose both Advanced modules or both Intermediate modules):

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Italian Core III - Advanced: Icons of Italy	09 30218	20	Semester 1
LI Italian Core III - Intermediate: Icons of Italy	09 30128	20	Semester 1
LI Italian Core IV - Advanced: Icons of Italy	09 30223	10	Semester 2
LI Italian Core IV - Intermediate: Icons of Italy	09 30135	10	Semester 2

Russian (students must choose both Advanced modules or both Intermediate 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

Core V is compulsory for all students taking a modern language except for those studying Russian.

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

Students taking 40 credits of Modern Languages and 80 credits in English Literature
Modern Languages [Advanced French, German, Italian, Spanish or Intermediate French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2.

[Advanced Russian or Intermediate Russian]: You must take take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV module in Semester 2.

Students taking 60 credits of Modern Languages and 60 credits in English Literature
Modern Languages: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1.

[Advanced French, German, Italian, Spanish or Intermediate French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must also the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2.

[Advanced Russian or Intermediate Russian]: You must also take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV module in Semester 2.

English Literature: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2

OR

Modern Languages: Students choose ONE 20credit option in Semester 2.

Advanced French, German, Italian, Spanish or Intermediate French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must also take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2.

[Advanced Russian or Intermediate Russian]: You must also take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV module in Semester 2.

English Literature: Students choose TWO 20credit options in Semester 1 and ONE 20credit option in Semester 2

Students taking 80 credits of Modern Languages and 40 credits in English Literature
Modern Languages: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semeseter 2.

[Advanced French, German, Italian, Spanish or Intermediate French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must also the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Sem 2.

[Advanced Russian or Intermediate Russian]: You must also take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV module in Semester 2.

English Literature: Students choose ONE 20credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20credit option in Semester 2

In addition to the core language modules, students follow additional Level I modules up to the relevant credit value for their respective programme, to a combined total of 120 credits. Depending on the number of credits students opt to take in each subject, optional modules choices may be restricted (please refer to the module choice information). Availability of particular modules varies from year to year and is subject to timetabling constraints.

French Optional Modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Global French: Communities, Politics and International Relations	09 39278	20	Semester 2
LI Sources of Inspiration: Creativity and Adaptation through French Texts	09 39289	20	Semester 1

German Optional Modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI German Language Project A	09 34912	10	Semester 1
LI Cultures of Protest and Terror in West Germany, 1967-1977	09 39273	20	Semester 2

Portuguese Optional Modules available to all students]:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Memory and Public Space in the Portuguese-speaking World	09 39283	20

Spanish Optional Modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Icons of the Hispanic World	09 39280	20	Semester 2
LI Reading the World in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction	09 39288	20

Italian Optional Modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Il bello dell’italiano: historical and social aspects of the Italian languages	09 39281	20

Russian Optional Modules [some available to all students]:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Reading Russian Literature in Translation	09 39287	20	Semester 1

Catalan Optional Modules [available to all students]:

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 Intermediate Catalan Language A	09 33747	10	Semester 1
LI Intermediate Catalan Language B	09 33749	10	Semester 2
LI Gender, New Media and Cultural Identity	09 39276	20

Departmental Optional Modules [available to all students]:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Global Enterprise Project	09 39764	20	Semester 1
LI Language and power	09 39282	20	Semester 2
LI Translation in the Workplace	09 39794	20	Semester 2
LI Work, The Future and You	09 39770	20	Semester 1

English Literature Options:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Aspects of Modernism	09 32447	20	Semester 2
LI Colonial/Postcolonial	09 39968	20	Semester 2
LI Decadents and Moderns	09 36227	20	Semester 2
LI Earliest English	09 37686	20	Semester 1
LI Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature	09 39915	20	Semester 1
LI Gender and Sexuality Studies	09 39763	20	Semester 2
LI Gothic	09 39923	20	Semester 1
LI Imagined Worlds: Genre Fiction and Popular Culture	09 39935	20	Semester 1
LI Literature 1950-Present	09 36230	20	Semester 1
LI Literature and Environment: Crisis and Resistance	09 39765	20	Semester 2
LI Our Digital World	09 39969	20	Semester 2
LI Popular Fiction Before the Novel	09 37896	20	Semester 1
LI Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture	09 39768	20	Semester 2
LI Reading the Renaissance	09 39840	20	Semester 1
LI Restoration and Revolution	09 36228	20	Semester 1
LI Romantics and Victorians	09 36226	20	Semester 2
LI Shakespeare: Elizabethan	09 39982	20	Semester 1
LI Shakespeare: Jacobean	09 39983	20	Semester 2
LI The Social Life of Literature	09 38960	20	Semester 2
LI Victorian Literature	09 27776	20	Semester 2