Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session

B.A. Modern Languages Full-time

Year: 3
2025/26 Session

NB: To proceed from Stage II to Stage IIb (Year Abroad) a student must have a minimum of 100 credits to include the relevant Core III and Core IV language modules.

Choose an appropriate combination of Year Abroad modules totalling 120 credits, as outlined below. With effect from the 2020-21 cohort, Year 2 will be weighted at 25% and final year at 75%. The Year Abroad will be assessed on a pass/fail basis only and it will not to the final degree classification.

For all routes, students must normally complete 120-credits in total of year abroad modules (all at intermediate level).

In Route 1 students must normally complete 120-credits of year abroad modules in a single language.

In Route 2, where students are studying two languages and do not split the year, they must normally take a vacation course in the other language.

In Route 3, students must normally undertake an additional period of residence abroad in their third language if they wish to continue studying that language at Honours level.

Students who entered the University as beginners in a language should normally spend at least a semester (or equivalent work period) in a country where that language is spoken.

There is no automatic right to do a work placement in any of the languages.

Where students can show valid grounds, as defined and approved by the Department of Modern Languages, exemption from the year abroad may be permitted. In such cases, students will transfer to a BA Modern Languages 3 year programme. Where students taking three languages are exempted from the Year Abroad, the normal expectation would be that the student would only continue with two languages into final year.

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Semester 1 Studying Abroad	09 32387	60	Semester 1
LI Semester 1 abroad on a work placement (including teaching assistants)	09 32415	60	Semester 1
LI Semester 2 Studying Abroad	09 32388	60	Semester 2
LI Semester 2 abroad on a work placement (including teaching assistants)	09 32416	60	Semester 2
LI Whole Academic Year Studying Abroad	09 32389	120	Full Term
LI Whole Academic Year abroad on a work placement (including teaching assistants)	09 32417	120	Full Term