BA Modern Languages (3 years)
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 30 points overall
About this course
BA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, combining multiple language study with cultural analysis. Students can study up to three core languages from French, German, Italian, and Spanish, with additional languages including Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese. The three-year programme includes an eight-week language placement and cultural modules covering literary and cinematic traditions, history, politics, and linguistics.
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
- What is Comparative Literature?
- Greats of European Cinema
- Introduction 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
- '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
- Optional Language Modules
- 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 and Revolution in Modern Latin America
- Society, Thought, and Art in Modern Europe
- Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism in Europe
- Global Ecologies: Discourse, Environment and Society
- 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
- 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
- Identity and Conflict in Modern Europe