BA Modern Languages
Entry requirements
A level: AAA IB: 38 (including core points) with 666 at HL
About this course
BA in Modern Languages, a Russian Studies and Modern Languages degree focusing on written and spoken foreign languages alongside the literature and thought of European cultures. Students include a compulsory year abroad spent studying at a university, working as a paid language assistant, or undertaking an internship. The first year covers practical language work and the study of important works and topics in the literature of each language, with further options including film studies and literary theory. The second year progresses to periods of literature alongside optional subjects such as historical and contemporary linguistics. Optional modules allow specialisation in areas like detailed studies of individual authors and texts, while courses with beginners' Russian involve completing the year abroad in the second year.
Modules
- Practical language work
- Study of important works and/or topics in the literature of each language
- Further options in addition to the above, including: film studies; literary theory (French); medieval studies (German/Spanish); key texts in French or German thought; short fiction (Spanish); Polish and Church Slavonic (Russian)
- A period of literature (medieval, early modern or modern) in each language
- Optional subjects, including historical and contemporary linguistics; detailed study of individual authors and texts
- As above, but with a greater choice of optional subjects
- Courses with Beginners’ Russian (or a Middle Eastern language) have their year abroad in the second year. Students attend centrally organised courses at partner institutions. For Russian, this currently takes place in Tallinn, Estonia. The third year is spent in Oxford
- Working as a paid language assistant in a school;
- undertaking an internship;
- and/or studying at a university