Programmes & Modules Handbook

B.A. Modern Languages and History of Art Full-time

Year: 2
2022/23 Session

As a result of enhancements to the University's Joint Honours provision, students in their second and final year may choose either 80, 60 or 40 credits in each subject of their Joint Honours degree (subject to a combined total of 120 credits in each year). THe number of optional /compulsory modules available to you (if any) will therefore vary depending on the precise number of credits you are taking in each subject. The number of credits taken in each subject may also result in a change to your degree title, as detailed in the University's Regulations. Please consult your Programme Director if you have any queries.

A minimum of 40 credits in History of Art from the list of optional modules provided by the department, and 40 credits in at least one modern foreign language from the list of optional modules below. If a student opts to study two modern languages they will be required to study 40 credits in each language from the list of optional modules below.

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

History of Art

Students taking 40 credits in History of Art must take 1 x 20 credit optional module (from the list below) in each semester.

Students taking 60 credits in History of Art must take the following modules plus 1 x 20 credit optional module in each semester:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Art History in the Field: Overseas Study Trip	10 24005	10	Semester 1
LI Research Techniques in History of Art	10 24008	10	Semester 2

Students taking 80 credits in History of Art must take the following modules plus 1 x 20 credit optional module in each semester. A third 20 credit optional modules can be taken in either semester 1 or 2:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Art History in the Field: Overseas Study Trip	10 24005	10	Semester 1
LI Research Techniques in History of Art	10 24008	10	Semester 2

Modern Languages (Students must take either 2 Advanced or 2 Intermediate modules in their chosen language)

French:

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

Italian:

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

Spanish:

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

When one or more of the following languages is studied: French, Italian, 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

Russian:

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

PORTUGUESE:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Portuguese Core III - Intermediate: Global Cultures in Portuguese	09 30129	20	Semester 1

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.

Art History Optional modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Art, Architecture and Design in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna	10 24000	20	Semester 2
LI Art, Race and the British Empire, 1837-1901: Contexts, Approaches, Legacies	09 37040	20	Semester 1
LI Inside the Gallery: Curating an Exhibition	09 34891	20	Semester 1
LI Political Art	09 31897	20	Semester 1
LI Post-War: Art in Britain After the Second World War	10 30805	20	Semester 2
LI Power, Society, Politics: Religious Art in Northern Europe, c. 1400-1600	09 24247	20	Semester 1
LI Real and Ideal: Art and Society in Mid Nineteenth Century France	10 24003	20	Semester 1
LI Renaissance Art in Italy and the Netherlands c.1400-60	10 24004	20	Semester 2

Modern Languages Optional Modules:

Italian Optional Modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Translation in Practice III (Italian)	09 36128	10	Semester 1
LI Translation in Practice IV (Italian)	09 36129	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 Digital Media and Spanish Youth Culture	09 30742	10	Semester 2
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 2
LI Reading the World in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction	09 37655	10	Semester 1
LI Structures and Varieties of the Modern Hispanic Languages	09 30826	10	Semester 2

Russian Optional Modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
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

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 Intermediate Catalan Language A	09 33747	10	Semester 1
LI Intermediate Catalan Language B	09 33749	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

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 Languages and Power	09 37027	10	Semester 1

French Optional Modules:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI IWLP Tandem Learning French & English B	09 33476	10	Semester 2
LI Translation in Practice III (French)	09 31450	10	Semester 1
LI Translation in Practice IV (French)	09 31451	10	Semester 2
LI Contemporary French Politics	09 37683	10	Semester 2
LI Rebels and the Restless: Turmoil and Transgression in French Texts	09 30740	10	Semester 2