BA Modern Languages (4 years)
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 30 points overall
About this course
BA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Cultural modules address the literary, cinematic, and historical traditions of the relevant countries. The programme offers specialisation in one language or a combination of two or three from French, German, Italian, and Spanish, with entry at beginner, intermediate, or advanced level. A compulsory year abroad in the third year includes a language placement.
Modules
- Beginners French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
- Intermediate French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language I
- Ideas of Frenchness 1
- Ideas of Frenchness 2
- The Making of Contemporary Germany
- Belonging in Germany
- Making Italians: A Journey in the History and Culture of Modern Italy
- Introduction to Linguistics (for students of Italian)
- The Making of Modern Spain and Latin America
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Culture
- Liberty and Empire in the Making of the Modern World
- Optional Language Modules
- Induction to Linguistics
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- Intermediate French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language I
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language II
- The First World War: Then and Now
- Cinema of Germany
- Transatlantic Exchanges: Latin America in the Global Nineteenth Century
- One country, many languages. Linguistic variety and society in contemporary Italy
- Culture, communication and context: contemporary challenges in the interconnected world
- Optional Language Modules
- How to Think in French
- Children’s Books in France
- Glorification, Denial and Contempt – Reconstructing Austria's Past
- Modern and Contemporary Spanish Narratives
- Culture and Revolution in Modern Latin America
- Society, Thought, and Art in Modern Europe
- Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
- Study Year Abroad
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language I
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language II
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language III
- Philanthropy à la française : The History of Ideas and Practices in the French Third Sector
- The German Language and National Identity
- Memory, Dictatorship and Cultural Resistance in the Southern Cone
- Language and Power
- Optional Language Modules
- May '68
- French Popular Music and Society
- War on Screen - Germany and its Films about WWII
- Language, Diversity, and Inclusion: The Representation of Otherness in the Italian Context
- Narrating the Colombian Conflict
- Writers and Publishers in Spain
- Future Worlds in Film
- Extended Essay