Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. Modern Languages Full-time

Year: 4
2024/25 Session

For ALL routes 1-4, the following core language modules are compulsory at Stage III for each language followed.
Catalan, Mandarin and Japanese can only be taken to a maximum of 40 credits in any one year.

Portuguese can only be taken to a maximum of 80 credits in Year 2 if combined with 20 credits of departmental modules and the Independent Study module.

Russian can only be taken to a maximum of 80 credits in any year.

Translation Studies pathway: two compulsory core modules to a maximum of 40 credits in any year.

Translation Studies is restricted to speakers of English + French, or English + German, or English + Italian or English + Spanish. Native standard is required in one of the languages of each pair and Advanced Level in the other.

English as a Modern Foreign Language can only be taken to a maximum of 80 credits in final year for direct entry students (20 credits of compulsory language modules, 20 credit ISM and 40 credits of departmental optional modules). EMFL is restricted to non-native speakers of English. Students studying EMFL may not follow modules in their native language. English can only be combined with Beginners or Advanced French, Beginners or Advanced German, Beginners or Advanced Spanish, Beginners or Advanced Russian or Beginners Japanese or Beginners Chinese.

French:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH French Core VI - Language and Contexts 09 33706 10 Semester 1
LH French Core VII - Language and Contexts 09 33709 10 Semester 2

German:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH German Core VI - Language and Contexts 09 33710 10 Semester 1
LH German Core VII - Language and Contexts 09 33711 10 Semester 2

Italian:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Italian Core VI - Language and Contexts 09 33719 10 Semester 1
LH Italian Core VII - Language and Contexts 09 33722 10 Semester 2

Spanish:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Spanish Core VI - Language and Contexts 09 33743 10 Semester 1
LH Spanish Core VII - Language and Contexts 09 33746 10 Semester 2

Portuguese:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Portuguese Core VI - Language and Contexts 09 33725 10 Semester 1
LH Portuguese Core VII - Language and Contexts 09 33728 10 Semester 2

Russian:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Russian Core VI - Language and Contexts 09 33730 10 Semester 1
LH Russian Core VII - Language and Contexts 09 33738 10 Semester 2

Mandarin - students must choose both 'Mandarin Chinese Language Advanced' modules or both 'Business Language Chinese Advanced' modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Business Language Chinese Advanced I 09 27129 20 Semester 1
LH Business Language Chinese Advanced II 09 27126 20 Semester 2
LH Mandarin Chinese Language Advanced I 09 26166 20 Semester 1
LH Mandarin Chinese Language Advanced II 09 26167 20 Semester 2

Translation Studies Pathway (students must take the Translation Theory and Practice in Europe module plus EITHER Translating Sound and Vision OR Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Translating Sound and Vision I 09 31439 10 Semester 1
LH Translating Sound and Vision II 09 31440 10 Semester 2
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe I (French) 09 31456 10 Semester 1
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe II (French) 09 31457 10 Semester 2
Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages 09 25584 20 Semester 1
LH Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 1 09 33503 20 Semester 1
LH Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 2 09 33505 20 Full Term
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe I (German) 09 32303 10 Semester 1
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe I (Italian) 09 32305 10 Semester 1
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe I (Spanish) 09 32307 10 Semester 1
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe II (German) 09 32304 10 Semester 2
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe II (Italian) 09 32306 10 Semester 2
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe II (Spanish) 09 32308 10 Semester 2

English as a Modern Foreign Language (up to 80 credits):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH English Core VI - Language and Contexts 09 33699 10 Semester 1
LH English Core VII - Language and Contexts 09 33703 10 Semester 2

The Final Year Independent Study Project in Modern Languages (Dissertation) is for all students who have not already met the University's Independent Study requirements, and who would not other do so in other Stage III assessments. Students can choose ONE of the following:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages 09 25584 20 Semester 1
LH Final Year Extended Independent Study Module in Modern Languages 09 36148 40 Semester 1
LH Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 1 09 33503 20 Semester 1
LH Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 2 09 33505 20 Full Term

OR students can take a 20 credit ISM in each semester in two languages:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 1 09 33503 20 Semester 1
LH Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 2 09 33505 20 Full Term

Japanese:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Japanese Language Advanced I 09 28499 20 Semester 1
LH Japanese Language Advanced II 09 20694 20 Semester 2

For ALL Routes, 1-4, in addition to the core language module(s) for their chosen language(s) students choose additional Level H 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 language, optional module choices may be restricted (Please refer to the relevant language section in the BA Modern Languages handbook and language- specific module choice information.) Availability of particular modules varies from year to year and is subject to timetabling constraints.

Optional modules offered by the Department of Modern Languages:

French Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Interpreting A 09 34937 10 Semester 1
LH Interpreting B 09 34938 10 Semester 2
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe I (French) 09 31456 10 Semester 1
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe II (French) 09 31457 10 Semester 2
LH Adapting Nineteenth-Century France 09 26876 20 Semester 2
LH Breaking New Ground: Innovative French Writing and Visual Culture 09 34930 20 Semester 1
LH Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures in the Francophone Worlds 09 34933 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH Discourses, Disciplines and Dissidence: The Construction of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France 09 24745 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH Ethics, Politics, Race and Sexuality in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema 09 37026 20 Semester 2
LH Franco-African Relations from de Gaulle to Macron (1944 to the present) 09 35133 20 Semester 2
LH Francophone Caribbean Literature and Film 09 37656 20 Semester 1
LH From Princesses to Poisoners: Gender, Identity and Society in Seventeenth-century French texts 09 34926 20 Semester 2
LH The Algerian War 09 21093 20 Semester 2

German Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sex, Seduction and Submission: Gender in German Literature from 1900 to Today 09 26799 20 Semester 1
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe I (German) 09 32303 10 Semester 1
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe II (German) 09 32304 10 Semester 2
LH War in Peace: Writing the First World War in Germany, 1918-1939 09 30781 20 Semester 2

Italian Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dante: word, music, image 09 34927 20 Semester 2
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe I (Italian) 09 32305 10 Semester 1
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe II (Italian) 09 32306 10 Semester 2

Spanish Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Gender and Sexuality in the Hispanic World 09 29791 20 Semester 2
LH Imagining the Truth: Latin American Culture in a Post-truth World 09 34900 20 Semester 1
LH Performing Gender/Translating Performance 09 34942 20  
LH Social and Political Processes in Contemporary Latin America 09 25094 20 Semester 2
LH Spanish Exile Culture 09 30745 20 Semester 1
LH The Marginal Other in the Hispanic World 09 34941 20 Semester 2
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe I (Spanish) 09 32307 10 Semester 1
LH Translation in Theory and Practice in Europe II (Spanish) 09 32308 10 Semester 2
LH US Latino Cultures: Spanish Caribbean 09 34911 20 Semester 1

Portuguese Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Thinking Otherwise: Decolonial Approaches to Contemporary Thought and Culture 09 34910 20 Semester 2

Catalan Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Advanced Catalan Language A 09 33755 10 Semester 1
LH Advanced Catalan Language B 09 33757 10 Semester 2
LH Intermediate Catalan Language A 09 33753 10 Semester 1
LH Intermediate Catalan Language B 09 33754 10 Semester 2

Russian Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Translation Theory and Practice in Europe I (Russian) 09 39790 10 Semester 1
LH Translation Theory and Practice in Europe II (Russian) 09 39791 10 Semester 2
LH Audio-Visual Translation Project: Russian to English 09 35144 20 Semester 2
LH Business Russian 09 37847 20 Semester 1

Mandarin Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Business Language Chinese Advanced I 09 27129 20 Semester 1
LH Business Language Chinese Advanced II 09 27126 20 Semester 2

Departmental Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Translating Sound and Vision I 09 31439 10 Semester 1
LH Translating Sound and Vision II 09 31440 10 Semester 2
LH Back to the Future – Hidden Histories and Utopian Possibilities, 1800-present 09 34928 20 Semester 2
LH Contemporary representations of the body: literature, theory and art 09 30770 20 Semester 2
LH Echoes of Colonialism and Imperialism Across Cultures 09 34935 20 Semester 1
LH From Text to Tech: Digital Approaches to Languages and Cultures 09 30754 20 Semester 2
LH Language, Culture and Communication: Digging into the text 09 32333 20 Semester 2
LH Narratives of Conquest and Incomprehension 09 38836 20 Semester 2
LH The Romance languages: structure, variation and change 09 34943 20 Semester 1