Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. Modern Languages with Music Full-time

Year: 4
2024/25 Session

Students must take a minimum of 40 credits in Music and 40 credits in a modern foreign language.

At least 20 credits and a maximum of 40 credits must consist independent study in either music or modern languages. Single-language students on the BA Modern Languages and Music are permitted to follow 80 credits in French, German, Hispanic Studies or Russian where available and in addition to the compulsory core language modules described below take further credits as set out in the relevant language section in the BA Modern Languages handbook and language-specific choice information.

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

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

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

Independent Study: At least 20 credits must consist of independent study in either music or modern languages. This can include solo performance in the case of music.

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
LH Joint Honours Link Dissertation 09 27515 40 Semester 1
LH Musicology Dissertation (Independent Study) 10 22642 20 Full Term
LH Paper Composition (Independent Study) 10 22643 20 Semester 1
LH Solo Performance (Independent Study) 09 22028 20 Full Term
LH Special Subject Musicology 10 23477 40 Full Term
LH Special Subject Paper Composition 10 23479 40 Semester 1
LH Special Subject Solo Performance 10 23480 40 Full Term
LH Special Subject Studio Composition 10 23478 40 Full Term
LH Studio Composition (Independent Study) 10 22644 20 Full Term

In addition to the core modules listed above, 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 subject, optional module choices may be restricted.

Availability of particular modules varies from year to year and is subject to timetabling constraints.

Music Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Composing for the Creative Industries A 10 39775 10 Semester 1
Composing for the Creative Industries B 10 39776 10 Semester 2
LH Conducting I 10 31913 10 Semester 1
LH Conducting II 10 31915 10 Semester 2
LH Orchestration I 10 31919 10 Semester 1
LH Orchestration II 10 31921 10 Semester 2
LH Studio Composition I 10 32382 10 Semester 1
LH Studio Composition II 10 32384 10 Semester 2
LH An Introduction to Music Therapy 10 28317 20 Semester 2
LH Arts Management in Practice 09 26092 20 Semester 2
LH Baroque Analysis 09 34898 20 Semester 2
LH Black Music in Britain 09 37022 20 Semester 1
LH British Music Renaissance 1880 - 1914 09 21890 20 Semester 2
LH Classical Composition 10 30764 20 Semester 2
LH Composing for Voice 09 38734 20 Semester 1
LH Eighteenth Century Counterpoint 10 19889 20 Semester 1
LH Electronic Music Studies 10 29010 20 Semester 1
LH Fieldwork Methods 10 39405 20 Semester 1
LH Film Music Techniques and History (Sem 2) 09 34409 20 Semester 2
LH From Glinka to Glazunov 10 17935 20 Semester 2
LH Gustav Mahler: The Philosophy of Music 09 30834 20 Semester 1
LH Introduction to Jazz Styles: 1920 to 1980 10 27205 20 Semester 1
LH Introduction to Sound Recording A 10 39756 10 Semester 1
LH Introduction to Sound Recording B 10 39757 10 Semester 2
LH Local Musicking in Asia 10 30114 20 Semester 2
LH Love, Death, Religion and Music in the Renaissance 10 29026 20 Semester 2
LH Music Cognition 10 31917 20 Semester 1
LH Music Education 09 31052 20 Semester 2
LH Music Festivals 10 29056 20 Semester 2
LH Music Scholarship and Bibliography 09 34905 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH Music and Emotion 10 30766 20 Semester 2
LH Music and Gender 09 37031 20 Semester 2
LH Music and Globalisation 10 28581 20 Semester 1
LH Music in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich 10 23585 20 Semester 1
LH Professional Skills 09 36876 20 Semester 1
LH Sonic Alchemy: Live Electronic and Mixed Music Ensemble 10 39407 20 Semester 2
LH Sound Studies 09 38731 20 Semester 2
LH Sounding Image 10 28347 20 Semester 1
LH Stravinsky 09 25133 20 Semester 2
LH Studies in Performance Practice 10 27209 20 Semester 2
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1
LH The Blues 09 24206 20 Semester 1
LH The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim 10 29015 20 Semester 1
LH The Romantic Piano: Chopin and his Legacy 10 28177 20 Semester 1
LH The Sixties 09 24205 20 Semester 1
LH The Symphony: Prestige and Politics 10 37045 20 Semester 1
LH Tonality: An Introduction 09 22594 20 Semester 1
LM Concepts in Metabolomics and advanced omics technologies 03 37407 10  

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 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 Ethics, Politics, Race and Sexuality in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema 09 37026 20 Semester 2
LH Francophone Caribbean Literature and Film 09 37656 20 Semester 1
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

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 Spanish Exile Culture 09 30745 20 Semester 1
LH The Marginal Other in the Hispanic World 09 34941 20 Semester 2
LH US Latino Cultures: Spanish Caribbean 09 34911 20 Semester 1

Departmental Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
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 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 Postsocialist Music and Ethnography 10 31925 20  
LH The Romance languages: structure, variation and change 09 34943 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 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 (Spanish) 09 32308 10 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 Business Russian 09 37847 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

Students who have taken LI 37673 Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy cannot take the LH version of this module.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy 09 38933 20 Semester 1