Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session


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B.A. Modern Languages 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).

Route 1: Major/Minor in two languages
Students must take a minimum of 80 credits in one modern foreign language and 40 credits in a second modern foreign language.

Students take all compulsory core language modules in their relevant languages as described below, plus further credits as required.

Route 2: Joint Honours in two languages
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 take all compulsory core language modules in their relevant languages as described below, plus further credits as required.

Route 3: Three Languages

For students studying three modern foreign languages, the following core language modules are compulsory at Stage III for each language followed.

Mandarin Chinese and Japanese can only be taken to a maximum of 40 credits in any one year.

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 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

All students must take 40 credits of independent study modules (ISM). Students can take a 20 credit ISM in each semester in two languages.

Students must choose ONE or TWO of the following to a maximum of 40 credits:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages 09 25584 20 Full Term
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

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

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

Optional Modules

Please note that some language combinations may not be possible for timetabling reasons.

Routes 1 and 2 (Major/Minor or Joint Honours) (80/40)

Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, 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 language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 in language B
OR
Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, 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 language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 in language B
OR
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 40 credit Independent Study module PLUS one Students taking a Major/JH in one language with a Minor in language B
OR

must take one 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in language A (includes departmental modules)
And 40 credits in language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language B
OR
20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language A Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 40 credit Independent Study module PLUS one (includes departmental modules)
And 40 credits in language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You Catalan (80/40):

Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language B (includes departmental modules)
OR
Students taking 60 credits in language A:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language A (includes departmental modules)
must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester And 60 credits in language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You language B (includes departmental modules)
OR
Students taking 60 credits in language A:
language A (includes departmental modules)
must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in [French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in And 60 credits in language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You Students taking 60 credits in language A:
language A (includes departmental modules)
And 60 credits in language B:
language B (includes departmental modules)
OR
(includes departmental modules)
French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in 2 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in [French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester Students taking 60 credits in language A:
one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language

Optional Modules

Please note that some language combinations may not be possible for timetabling reasons.

Routes 1 and 2 (Major/Minor or Joint Honours) (80/40)

Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, 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 language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 in language B
OR
Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, 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 language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 in language B
OR
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 40 credit Independent Study module PLUS one Students taking a Major/JH in one language with a Minor in language B
OR

must take one 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in language A (includes departmental modules)
And 40 credits in language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language B
OR
20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language A Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 40 credit Independent Study module PLUS one (includes departmental modules)
And 40 credits in language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You Catalan (80/40):

Students taking 80 credits in language A:
[German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language B (includes departmental modules)
OR
Students taking 60 credits in language A:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language A (includes departmental modules)
must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester And 60 credits in language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You language B (includes departmental modules)
OR
Students taking 60 credits in language A:
language A (includes departmental modules)
must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in [French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in And 60 credits in language B:
[French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You Students taking 60 credits in language A:
language A (includes departmental modules)
And 60 credits in language B:
language B (includes departmental modules)
OR
(includes departmental modules)
French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 2 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 1 in [French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish] You must take a 20 credit Independent Study module in Semester 1 PLUS one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in Students taking 60 credits in language A:
one 20 credit optional module in Semester 2 in language

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 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 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 1

Italian Optional Modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dante: word, music, image 09 34927 20 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 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 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
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

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

Departmental Optional Modules [available to all students]:

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 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 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