BA Modern Languages and Arabic
Entry requirements
A-Level: ABB-BBB IB: 32/655-30/555 BTEC: DDM
About this course
BA in Modern Languages and Arabic, a modern languages degree centred on Arabic combined with French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish within Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Modern Languages. Core topics include Language & Translation, Historical Research, Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme allows studies to be structured around individual interests or specific career-orientated pathways, dividing time equally between the two chosen languages with a year spent abroad in an Arabic-speaking country. The first year covers core foundations through compulsory language modules such as Elementary Arabic Language I, Elementary Arabic Language II, French Language, German Language, Italian Language, Contemporary Russian Written and Oral, and Spanish Language. Students can also choose from optional modules exploring historical, cultural, and religious themes. The second year continues with intermediate and advanced compulsory language training including Intermediate Arabic Language II, French Language, Written and Oral, German Language, Written and Oral, Italian Language, Written and Oral, Contemporary Russian Written and Oral I, and Spanish Language, Written and Oral. Optional modules allow further specialisation in areas such as regional history, literature, cinema, and cultural studies.
Modules
- Elementary Arabic Language I
- Elementary Arabic Language II
- French Language
- German Language
- Italian Language
- Contemporary Russian Written and Oral
- Spanish Language
- Introduction to Islam
- Introduction to Persian History and Culture
- Introduction to Islamic Archaeology
- Elementary Turkish I
- Elementary Turkish II
- Histories of the Middle East, 600-1800 C.E.
- Religious Communities of the Middle East: Culture, Endangerment and Survival
- The Making of Modern France
- The Devil is in the Detail: An Introduction to the Short Story in French
- The French Language, Present and Past
- An Introduction to French Thought
- A Nation Remembers: Issues in German Cultural Memory
- Turning Points in German History 1200 - 2000
- An Emotional Experience: Russian Literature and the Expression of Feeling
- Russia: Empire and Identity
- Italy Inside Out: Popular Visual Narratives about Italy
- A Thousand Faces: Cultures and History in 19th-Century Italy
- Comparative Literatures and Cultures: Theories and Approaches
- Reading Comparatively
- Introduction to Film
- Language, Culture, International Relations
- The Making of Modern Latin America: History Through Literature and Culture
- An Introduction to the Literature and Film of Spain
- Intermediate Arabic Language II
- French Language, Written and Oral
- German Language, Written and Oral
- Italian Language, Written and Oral
- Contemporary Russian Written and Oral I
- Spanish Language, Written and Oral
- Regions and Empires in Islamic Archaeology
- Magic and the Abrahamic Religions
- Islamist Movements: From the Muslim Brothers to the Islamic State
- Gender-Identity and Modernity in the Middle East
- Islamic Law and Society
- Ethnography of the Middle East
- Conflict and Peacemaking Palestine/Israel
- Classical Islamic History
- Muslims in Britain
- Political Economy of Development in the Middle East
- Intermediate Turkish I
- Intermediate Turkish II
- A History of the Modern Middle East, 1900-2014
- Revolutions! Art and Society in France, 1770-1830
- Evolution of the French Language
- Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment
- Violence and Virtue: Early Modern French Theatre
- Subversive Texts: Baudelaire and Rachilde
- Berlin - Culture, History and Politics
- Gender, Race and Migration in 20th and 21st-century German Literature
- Migrating Texts: Classical Reception, Adaptation, Translation
- Research Skills in Languages and Cultures
- Contemporary Latin American Cinema
- Multilingualism in Society
- Tales of Freedom, Necessity and Providence
- From Page to Screen: Female Detectives in Literature, Film, and Television
- Exploring Revolution: The Making of Soviet Society and Culture in the 1920s
- Apocalypse/Utopia: the Russian Roots of Revolution
- Other Shores: Exile and Emigration in Russian Literature
- Federico Garcia Lorca: Theatre and Poetry
- The Latin American Short Story
- Catalonia Is Not Spain? Modern Catalan Culture in Context
- "What is Love? And Do I Need It?" An Introduction to Spanish Renaissance Love Poetry
- Fiction in Post-War Spain: Voices of Conformity and Subversion