BA Modern Languages and English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: BBB, including English Literature or a related subject (English Language, English Language and Literature, Drama & Theatre Studies, and Creative Writing) IB: 30 points overall, including 5 in English Literature or a related subject (English Language, English Language and Literature, Drama & Theatre Studies, and Creative Writing) at higher level
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature and Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Core topics include research methods and critical and analytical thinking. The course runs over four years and includes a year abroad in the third year. Language modules are offered at beginner's, intermediate, or advanced level depending on prior experience.
Modules
- Poetry in English
- Theory and Practice of Writing
- Beginners French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
- Ideas of Frenchness 1
- The Making of Contemporary Germany
- Making Italians: A Journey in the History and Culture of Modern Italy
- The Making of Modern Spain and Latin America
- Introduction to Drama
- Modern American Culture and Counterculture
- Shelf Life
- Ideas of Frenchness 2
- Introduction to Linguistics (for students of Italian)
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Culture
- Liberty and Empire in the Making of the Modern World
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Belonging in Germany
- Thinking Translation: History and Theory
- What Is Comparative Literature?
- Intermediate French, German, Italian or Spanish Language
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language I
- Advanced French, German, Italian or Spanish Language II
- Preparing for the Year Abroad Part 2
- 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
- Culture and Revolution in Modern Latin America
- How to Think in French
- Children’s Books in France
- Glorification, Denial and Contempt – Reconstructing Austria's Past
- One Country, Many Languages: Linguistic Variety and Society in Contemporary Italy
- Modern and Contemporary Spanish Narratives
- Culture, Communication and Context: Contemporary Challenges in the Interconnected World
- Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
- Contemporary Fiction
- Critical Thinking
- The Business of Books
- Writing America: Perspectives on the Nation
- Writing in the Public Sphere
- Society, Thought, and Art in Modern Europe
- Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
- Early Modern Literature
- Enlightenment Revolution and Romanticism
- Victorian Literature
- Shakespeare
- 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
- The German Language and National identity
- Crisis, Change, Opportunity: Italy from 1968 to the Present
- Memory, Dictatorship and Cultural Resistance in the Southern Cone
- Narrating the Colombian Conflict
- Writers and Publishers in Spain
- War on Screen - Germany and its films about WWII
- Language, Diversity, and Inclusion: The Representation of Otherness in the Italian Context
- Dissertation in English Literature
- Language and Power
- Future Worlds in Film
- Extended Essay
- Philanthropy à la française : The History of Ideas and Practices in the French Third Sector
- Literature and Mental Health
- Children's Literature
- The Bloody Stage: Revenge and Death in Renaissance Drama
- From Romance to Fantasy
- May '68
- French Popular Music and Society
- Decadence and Degeneration: Literature of the 1890s
- British Black and Asian Voices: 1948 to the Present
- Placing Jane Austen
- Shakespeare on Film
- Utopia and Dystopia in English and American Literature