Programme Requirements for 2022/23 Session


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B.A. Modern Languages and Music Full-time

Year: 2
2022/23 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 1
LI Critical Musicology 09 25657 20 Semester 2

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: Other Germanies 09 34774 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 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 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

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 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

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
LI Translation in Practice III (German) 09 31452 10 Semester 1
LI Translation in Practice IV (German) 09 31453 10 Semester 2
LI Cultures of Protest and Terror in West Germany, 1967-1977 09 24732 10 Semester 1
LI Desire, Disease and Decay: Thomas Mann and His World 09 37077 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

Italian Optional Modules:

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

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 Sounding Image 10 28348 20 Semester 2
LI Studio Composition I 10 32383 10 Semester 1
LI Studio Composition II 10 32385 10 Semester 2
LH Music in Britain 1870–1914 09 37043 20  
LI Advanced Performance Skills 09 34896 20 Semester 2
LI An Introduction to Music Therapy 10 28319 20 Semester 1
LI Arts Management in Practice 09 26093 20 Semester 2
LI Baroque Analysis 09 34897 20 Semester 1
LI Black Music in Britain 09 37023 20 Semester 1
LI British Music Renaissance 1880 - 1914 09 21889 20 Semester 2
LI Eighteenth Century Counterpoint 10 19888 20 Semester 1
LI Experimental Musics 09 37028 20 Semester 2
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 2
LI Gustav Mahler: The Philosophy of Music 09 30833 20 Semester 1
LI Introduction to Jazz Styles: 1920 to 1980 10 27206 20 Semester 2
LI Landscape, Counterpoint and Morality: The British Symphony, 1880–1960 10 28181 20 Semester 1
LI Love, Death, Religion and Music in the Renaissance 10 29034 20 Semester 1
LI Music Cognition 10 31918 20 Semester 1
LI Music Education 09 31047 20 Semester 2
LI Music Festivals 10 29058 20 Semester 1
LI Music and Emotion 10 30768 20 Semester 2
LI Music and Gender 09 37030 20 Semester 2
LI Music and Globalisation 10 28580 20 Semester 2
LI Music in Britain 1870–1914 09 37044 20  
LI Music in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich 10 23590 20 Semester 2
LI Music, Protest and Social Activism 10 30112 20 Semester 1 or 2
LI Notation and Editorial Practice 09 29154 20 Semester 1
LI Ralph Vaughan Williams and his World 10 31928 20 Semester 2
LI Solo Performance 09 37762 20 Semester 2
LI Studies in Performance Practice 10 27210 20 Semester 2
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 37673 20 Semester 1
LI The Blues 10 24280 20 Semester 1
LI The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim 10 29016 20 Semester 1
LI The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim (Sem 2) 10 34399 20 Semester 2
LI The Romantic Piano: Chopin and his Legacy 10 28176 20 Semester 1
LI The Sixties 10 24279 20 Semester 1
LI The Symphony: Prestige and Politics 10 37046 20 Semester 2
LI The Wagner Brand 10 37048 20 Semester 1
LI Tonality: An Introduction 09 22595 20 Semester 1