Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session


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B.A. Modern Languages with Translation Studies Full-time

Year: 3
2026/27 Session

To proceed from Stage IIb (or from Stage II for the 3-year programme) to Stage III a student must have a minimum of 100 credits, to include the relevant core language module(s).

One language with Translation Studies:
Students must take 40 credits in Translation Studies and 80 credits in one advanced modern foreign language (Advanced French, Advanced German, Advanced Italian, Advanced Russian or Advanced Spanish).

Two languages with Translation Studies:
Students who opt to study two modern foreign languages are required to study 40 credits in each language (one must be an advanced language) and 40 credits in Translation Studies.

You can only study Catalan, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese as a two-language combination with Translation Studies.

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

The following must be taken:

Students must take the Translation Theory and Practice in Europe modules. You must take both modules in the same language PLUS
EITHER Translating Sound and Vision I & II
OR One of the Final Year Independent Study Modules in Modern Languages on a translation-related topic):

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 Full Term
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 Semester 2
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

All students must take 40 credits of independent study modules.

There is one exception for students taking two languages with Translation Studies where one language is Japanese or Mandarin Chinese. Students can only take 20 credits of independent study in Modern Languages due to the credit requirements for compulsory core language and Translation Studies modules.

Students studying one language can EITHER take a 40 credit dissertation in their advanced language OR two 20 credit dissertations (one in their advanced language and one in Translation Studies)

Students taking two languages (40 credits in each language) must take both of the 20 credit dissertation modules in Modern Languages (EITHER one in each language OR one in a language and one in Translation Studies)

Students taking two languages (40 credits in each language where one is Mandarin Chinese or Japanese) must take both of the 20 credit dissertation modules. One in a language and one in Translation Studies:

NB: The dissertation cannot be taken in Mandarin Chinese or Japanese.

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

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

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

Catalan: Students must also choose an independent study module on a Catalan-related topic:

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
Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages 09 25584 20 Full Term
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 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 Chinese:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Contemporary Chinese Language and Business Culture Advanced I 09 41387 20 Semester 1
LH Contemporary Chinese Language and Business Culture Advanced II 09 41386 20 Semester 2

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

Optional Modules

Students taking one language with Translation Studies:

Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 40 credit Independent Study module PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in language A (includes departmental modules)

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take Translation Theory and Practice I & II and Translating Sound and Vision I & II

OR

Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 and one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language A (includes departmental modules)

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take LH Translation Theory and Practice I & II and a 20 credit Independent Study module in Translation Studies in Semester 2

OR

Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 and one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language A (includes departmental modules)

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take LH Translation Theory and Practice I & II and a 20 credit Independent Study module in Translation Studies in Semester 1

FURTHER DETAILS REGARDING OPTIONAL MODULES CAN BE VIEWED FURTHER DOWN THIS PAGE

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 2
LH Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures in the Francophone Worlds 09 34933 20 Semester 2
LH Discourses, Disciplines and Dissidence: The Construction of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France 09 24745 20 Semester 1 or 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 1

German Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Epic and Romance 09 30649 20 Semester 2
LH Seeing Differently: German-Language Cinema since 1960 09 35142 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH Sex, Seduction and Submission: Gender in German Literature from 1900 to Today 09 26799 20 Semester 1
LH War in Peace: Writing the First World War in Germany, 1918-1939 09 30781 20 Semester 1

Italian Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dante: word, music, image 09 34927 20 Semester 1
LH Where’s my book? History and Performance of Reading from Manuscripts to AI 09 40480 20  

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 Digital Past 09 29767 20 Semester 2
LH The Marginal Other in the Hispanic World 09 34941 20 Semester 2
LH The Spanish Caribbean: History and Literature 09 35141 20 Semester 1 or 2

Portuguese Optional Modules [available to all students]:

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

Catalan Optional Modules [available to all students]:

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 Audio-Visual Translation Project: Russian to English 09 35144 20 Semester 2
LH Border Crossings: Word & Image in Twentieth- and Twenty-first-century Russophone Cultures 09 41501 20  
LH Business Russian 09 37847 20 Semester 1

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

Optional modules offered by the Department of Modern Languages. The following is an indicative list:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
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 Fake News: Social Media, Truth Verification and Digital Investigation 09 41633 20 Semester 1
LH From Text to Tech: Digital Approaches to Languages and Cultures 09 30754 20 Semester 1
LH Language, Culture and Communication: Digging into the text 09 32333 20 Semester 2
LH Narratives of Conquest and Incomprehension 09 38836 20 Semester 1
LH The Romance languages: structure, variation and change 09 34943 20 Semester 2
LH Uniformity and diversity in the Iberian-Romance speaking world 09 32380 20 Semester 1

Students taking two languages with Translation Studies

Students taking 40 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 in language A

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish or Beginners Catalan, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 in language B.

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take Translation Theory and Practice I & II and Translating Sound and Vision I & II

OR

Students taking 40 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 in language A

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish or Beginners Catalan, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 in language B

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take Translation Theory and Practice I & II and Translating Sound and Vision I & II

OR

Students taking 40 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 in language A

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish or Beginners French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language B.

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take LH Translation Theory and Practice I & II and a 20 credit Independent Study module in Translation Studies in over both semesters

OR

Students taking 40 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 in language A.

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish or Beginners French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in language B

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take LH Translation Theory and Practice I & II and a 20 credit Independent Study module in Translation Studies in over both semesters

OR

Students taking 40 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module over both semesters in language A.

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish or Beginners French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language B.

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module over both semesters in language A

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish or Beginners French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in language B

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take LH Translation Theory and Practice I & II and a 20 credit Independent Study module in Translation Studies in Semester 2

OR

Students taking 40 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in language A

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish or Beginners Catalan, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module over both semesters in language B

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take LH Translation Theory and Practice I & II and a 20 credit Independent Study module in Translation Studies in Semester 2

OR

Students taking 40 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language A

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish or Beginners Catalan, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module over both semesters in language B

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take LH Translation Theory and Practice I & II and a 20 credit Independent Study module in Translation Studies in Semester 1

OR

Students taking two languages where one is Mandarin Chinese or Japanese plus Translation Studies:

Students taking 40 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 in Language A

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Mandarin Chinese, Japanese] You must take 40 compulsory credits in Mandarin Chinese or Japanese

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take LH Translation Theory and Practice I & II and a 20 credit Independent Study module in Translation Studies in Semester 2

OR

Students taking 40 credits in language A:
[Advanced French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 in Language A

Students taking 40 credits in language B:
[Mandarin Chinese, Japanese] You must take 40 compulsory credits in Mandarin Chinese or Japanese

And 40 credits in Translation Studies:
You must take LH Translation Theory and Practice I & II and a 20 credit Independent Study module in Translation Studies in Semester 1