Programme Requirements for 2025/26 Session


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B.A. Modern Languages and Music Full-time

Year: 2
2025/26 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. JH students take all compulsory core language modules in their relevant language as described below, plus further credits appropriate to their level (beginners or advanced). Intermediate French, Intermediate German and Intermediate Portuguese can only be taken to a maximum of 80 credits if combined with 20 credits of Modern Languages departmental modules.

Students must take at least one of the following modules. Students can take both modules if they wish

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Analysis of Music 09 25658 20 Semester 1
LI Critical Musicology 09 25657 20 Semester 2

The following core language modules are compulsory at Stage II for each language followed.

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 III – Intermediate: Other Germanies 09 34773 20 Semester 1
LI German Core IV - Advanced: German-Language Cultures and Societies in the Contemporary World 09 30222 10 Semester 2
LI German Core IV - Intermediate: German-Language Cultures and Societies in the Contemporary World 09 30133 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

Portuguese (students must choose both Intermediate modules):

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Portuguese Core III - Intermediate: Global Cultures in Portuguese 09 30129 20 Semester 1
LI Portuguese Core IV - Intermediate: Transatlantic Exchanges 09 30136 10 Semester 2

Core V is compulsory for all students taking a modern language:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Core V - Student Research Project 09 30157 10 Semester 2

Optional Modules 4: OPTION Students should aim for an even balance of credits between semesters. They may not take more than 20 credits of performance-based modules. 4: OPTION Students taking 40 credits of Modern Languages and 80 credits in Music Modern Languages: [Advanced French, German, Spanish, Intermediate French, German, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2. 4: OPTION Music: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2. You will also take one compulsory module in Semester 1 4: OPTION OR 4: OPTION Modern Languages: [Advanced French, German, Spanish, Intermediate French, German, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2. 4: OPTION Music: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. You will also take one compulsory module in Semester 2. 4: OPTION OR 4: OPTION Modern Languages: [Advanced French, German, Spanish, Intermediate French, German, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2. 4: OPTION Music: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 PLUS ONE year-long 10+10 module and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. You will also take one compulsory module in Semester 1 4: OPTION OR 4: OPTION Modern Languages: [Advanced French, German, Spanish, Intermediate French, German, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2. 4: OPTION Music: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1 PLUS ONE year-long 10+10 module and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. You will also take one compulsory module in Semester 2. 4: OPTION Students taking 60 credits of Modern Languages and 60 credits in Music 4: OPTION Modern Languages: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1. 4: OPTION [Advanced French, German, Spanish, Intermediate French, German, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must also take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2. 4: OPTION Music: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2. You will also take one compulsory module in Semester 1. 4: OPTION OR 4: OPTION Modern Languages: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. [Advanced French, German, Spanish, Intermediate French, German, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must also take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2. 4: OPTION Music: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. You will also take one compulsory module in Semester 1. 4: OPTION OR 4: OPTION Modern Languages: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1. 4: OPTION [Advanced French, German, Spanish, Intermediate French, German, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must also take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2. 4: OPTION Music: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. You will also take one compulsory module in Semester 2. 4: OPTION OR 4: OPTION Modern Languages: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2. 4: OPTION [Advanced French, German, Spanish, Intermediate French, German, Portuguese, Spanish]: You must also take the compulsory Core III module in Semester 1 and the compulsory Core IV and Core V Research Project modules in Semester 2. 4: OPTION Music: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 1. You will also take one compulsory module in Semester 2. 4: OPTION OR 4: OPTION Modern Langu

Catalan Optional Modules [available to all students]:

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 39270 20 Semester 1
LI Gender, New Media and Cultural Identity 09 39276 20  

Portuguese Optional Modules [available to all students]:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Memory and Public Space in the Portuguese-speaking World 09 39283 20 Semester 2
LI Popular Culture and Resistance in the Portuguese-speaking World 09 39286 20 Semester 2

French Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Global French: Communities, Politics and International Relations 09 39278 20 Semester 2
LI Sources of Inspiration: Creativity and Adaptation through French Texts 09 39289 20 Semester 1

German Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Cultures of Protest and Terror in West Germany, 1967-1977 09 39273 20 Semester 1
LI Obedience and Autonomy in German Culture and Thought 09 39285 20 Semester 2

Spanish Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Digital Media and Spanish Youth Culture 09 39275 20  
LI Histories of the Excluded: Inquisition and the Birth of Human Rights 09 39279 20 Semester 2
LI Icons of the Hispanic World 09 39280 20 Semester 2
LI Mexican and Chicano Art in the Twentieth Century: Revolution and Beyond 09 39284 20  
LI Reading the World in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction 09 39288 20 Semester 1
LI Structures and Varieties of the Modern Hispanic Languages 09 39290 20  

Italian Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Il bello dell’italiano: historical and social aspects of the Italian languages 09 39281 20 Semester 1

Russian Optional Modules [available to all students]:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Reading Russian Literature in Translation 09 39287 20 Semester 2

Optional modules offered by the Department of Music:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Classical Composition 10 30765 20 Semester 2
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
Anglican Church Music 1830-1960 09 20853 20 Semester 1
LI Advanced Performance Skills 09 34896 20 Semester 2
LI An Introduction to Music Therapy 10 28319 20 Semester 2
LI Arts Management in Practice 09 26093 20 Semester 2
LI Baroque Analysis 09 34897 20 Semester 2
LI Beethoven’s Late Style 10 31900 20 Semester 1
LI Black Music in Britain 09 37023 20 Semester 1
LI Brahms 10 17932 20 Semester 2
LI British Music Renaissance 1880 - 1914 09 21889 20 Semester 2
LI Composing for Voice 09 38733 20 Semester 1
LI Dramatic Italian Vocal Music: Monteverdi & His Contemporaries 10 28316 20 Semester 2
LI Eighteenth Century Counterpoint 10 19888 20 Semester 1
LI Experimental Musics 09 37028 20 Semester 1
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 Introduction to Jazz Styles: 1920 to 1980 10 27206 20 Semester 1
LI Landscape, Counterpoint and Morality: The British Symphony, 1880–1960 10 28181 20 Semester 1
LI Local Musicking in Asia 10 30115 20 Semester 2
LI Love, Death, Religion and Music in the Renaissance 10 29034 20 Semester 2
LI Minimalism 10 30110 20 Semester 1 or 2
LI Music Cognition 10 31918 20 Semester 1
LI Music Education 09 31047 20 Semester 2
LI Music Festivals 10 29058 20 Semester 2
LI Music and Emotion 10 30768 20 Semester 1
LI Music and Gender 09 37030 20 Semester 2
LI Music and Globalisation 10 28580 20 Semester 1
LI Music for Games 10 40438 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 1
LI Music, Nations and Nationalism 1789 - 1945 10 26803 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 Sounding Image 10 28348 20 Semester 1
LI Stravinsky 09 25131 20 Semester 2
LI Studies in Performance Practice 10 27210 20 Semester 2
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 Perception of Sound and Music 10 30109 20 Semester 1 or 2
LI The Romantic Piano: Chopin and his Legacy 10 28176 20 Semester 1
LI The Singers’ Survival Guide: the effects of commercial opera on singing culture in the Later Baroque Period 09 25273 20 Semester 2
LI The Sixties 10 24279 20 Semester 1
LI The Symphony: Prestige and Politics 10 37046 20 Semester 1
LI The Wagner Brand 10 37048 20 Semester 2
LI Tonality: An Introduction 09 22595 20 Semester 1
LI Traditional Music in Britain and Ireland 10 40439 20 Semester 1
LI Vienna: Study of a Musical City 10 37660 20 Semester 1

Departmental Optional Modules [available to all students]:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Cross-Cultural Cinema: Film Adaptation beyond the Nation-State 09 39271 20 Semester 1
LI Cross-Cultural Cinema: Migration and Displacement 09 39272 20  
LI Global Enterprise Project 09 39764 20 Semester 1
LI Language and power 09 39282 20 Semester 2
LI Work, The Future and You 09 39770 20 Semester 1

Departmental Optional Modules [available to students taking Advanced languages only]:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Translation in the Workplace 09 39794 20 Semester 2

Music only: Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level I. If successful this will be taken in place of 20 credits of taught modules in Music only. The credits to be dropped will be discussed with the programme convenor. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full-time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students undertaking a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.