BA History and a Modern Language
Entry requirements
A level: ABB
About this course
BA in Modern Languages and History, combining language study with historical analysis. Core topics include research methods. Students can choose from Chinese, French or Spanish, with two language pathways depending on prior knowledge. A year abroad is available at a partner university or through a work placement.
Modules
- History in Practice Part 1: Questions, Frameworks and Audiences.
- Global Histories
- Spanish Upper Elementary
- Spanish Elementary
- Mandarin Chinese Upper Elementary
- Mandarin Chinese Elementary
- French Upper Elementary
- French Elementary
- Introduction to Hispanic Studies
- Introduction to Chinese Studies
- Introduction to French and Francophone Studies
- A World Full of Gods
- Projecting the Past: Film, Media and Heritage
- Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
- Myth, Narrative, and Identity: Storytelling and Society
- Making History: Historians, Evidence, Audiences
- Spanish Intermediate
- Spanish Upper Intermediate
- Mandarin Chinese Upper Intermediate
- Mandarin Chinese Intermediate
- French Intermediate
- French Upper Intermediate
- Hispanidad in the World
- The World and Language of Business (Spanish Intermediate)
- The World and Language of Business (Spanish Upper Intermediate)
- The World and Language of Business (Chinese)
- China in the World
- Introduction to Specialised Translation
- Global France: French and Francophone Cultures
- The World and Language of Business (French Intermediate)
- The World and Language of Business (French Upper Intermediate)
- Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
- Reading History
- Everyday Life in Medieval Britain c1200–1600
- A History of the Supernatural
- Accessible Pasts
- The British Civil Wars
- European Enlightenment(s): The View from the Margins
- America: From Revolution to Reconstruction
- Modern France
- Europe's Dark Century
- Stalinism: State, Society, and Environment
- Close Neighbours, Dangerous Foes: China, Japan and Modern East Asia
- Politics and People in Modern Britain: Protest, citizenship and the state
- Environmental Histories
- Chwyldro, Diwylliant a Radicaliaeth, 1789–1914
- Heroes and Villains in the Middle Ages
- Myth, Narrative, and Identity: Storytelling and Society
- Spanish Advanced
- Mandarin Chinese Advanced
- French Advanced
- Culture & Conflict in Latin America
- Final Year Dissertation - Spanish (in Spanish)
- Final Year Dissertation - Spanish (in English/Welsh)
- Specialised Chinese
- Sinophone Cultures: Hong Kong, Taiwan & Chinese Diasporas
- Final Year Dissertation Chinese (in English/Welsh)
- Student Teaching Module
- Global Narratives of Colonialism, Slavery & Their Legacies
- Global Cinemas: Representation, Subjectivity, History
- Cold War Cultures: Power, Conformity, and Dissent c. 1948–1990
- Final Year Dissertation - French (in French)
- Of Oceans and Islands: Ecology and Environment in Francophone Arts and Literature
- Final Year Dissertation French (in English/Welsh)
- Histories of Asia: Ancient to Early Medieval
- War, Violence and Imperialism in the Ancient World
- Bodies and the Embodied Experience in the Ancient World
- Researching History: Dissertation
- East Asia in a Global Second World War
- Spies and Espionage in the Medieval World
- Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1750
- Health and Illness in Early Modern Britain
- Mobile Lives: Travel, Exile, and Migration in the Early Modern World
- Native American History
- Utopias of Extremism: Revolutions in Comparative Context
- Czechoslovakia: The Twentieth Century in Miniature
- France under Occupation
- Inside the Third Reich
- Violence and Ideology in the Inter-War Soviet Union
- Change, Conflict, and Mass Mobilisation in Republican China, 1911-1945
- Peripheral Reverberations of the French Revolution
- Mayhem and murder: Investigating the Victorian Underworld
- The Making of British Socialism
- Public and Private: Gender, Identities and Power in Twentieth Century Britain
- Jews, Europe and the World
- Meiji Restoration, Meiji Revolution – Japan’s 19th century transformation