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BA Modern Languages and English Language

University of Reading

Institution
University of Reading
Level
undergraduate
Subject
BA Modern Languages and English Language
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
RQ93
Typical offer
A-level BBB, IB 30

Entry requirements

A level: BBB IB: 30 points overall

About this course

BA in English Language and Linguistics and Hebrew and Jewish Studies, combining language study with linguistics. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Language & Translation. The third year includes a period abroad combining language learning with a work placement. Optional modules are available in Arabic, British Sign Language, Chinese, Japanese, Modern Greek, or Russian.

Modules

  • Sounds, Grammar and Meaning
  • English Language and Society
  • Beginners French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
  • Intermediate French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
  • Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language I
  • Globalization and Language
  • 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
  • Optional Language Modules
  • Introduction to Linguistics
  • What is Comparative Literature?
  • Greats of European Cinema
  • Thinking Translation: History and Theory
  • The Making of Modern Spain and Latin America
  • Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Culture
  • English Grammar and Phonology
  • Sociolinguistics
  • 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
  • 'Apocalittici e integrati': Intellectuals and Society in Twentieth Century Italy
  • Transatlantic Exchanges: Latin America in the Global Nineteenth Century
  • Science, Perversion, and Dream in Global Fantastic Literature
  • Language and the Mind
  • Language and Gender
  • Analysing Speech
  • 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
  • Introduction to English Language Teaching
  • Global Ecologies: Discourse, Environment and Society
  • 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
  • Crisis, Change, Opportunity: Italy from 1968 to the Present
  • Memory, Dictatorship and Cultural Resistance in the Southern Cone
  • Language and Power
  • Child Language Development
  • Issues in Bilingualism
  • Language in Professional Communication
  • Professional Communication Project
  • 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
  • Identity and Conflict in Modern Europe
  • Teaching the Language Skills
  • Language and Migration