BA Modern Languages
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBC (Required subjects: A-level in the appropriate language(s) at grade B for the advanced level language pathway There is no language requirement for the beginners' language pathway but at least one essay-based subject is required at grade B and only one language can be studied at this level We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C) Please note that if you choose to apply for this course you will need to provide details of which languages you wish to study on your UCAS application form. For further details on how to do this please visit our How to apply page.) IB: 6,5,5, in Higher Level or 32 points overall including 5 in the appropriate language if taken at Higher Level if the advanced level language pathway is required or 5 in an essay based subject for the beginners level.
About this course
BA in French and Francophone Studies and Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Core topics include research methods, communication and writing, and critical and analytical thinking. The third year is spent abroad, formally assessed as part of the degree, in a country where one of the target languages is spoken. Language modules are taught and assessed entirely in the target language with instruction from native speakers.
Modules
- Critical Analysis for Linguists
- French Advanced Written I
- French Advanced Oral I
- French Ab Initio Written I
- French Ab Initio Oral I
- German Advanced Written I
- German Advanced Oral I
- German Ab Initio Written I
- German Ab Initio Oral I
- Italian Advanced Written I
- Italian Advanced Oral I
- Italian Ab Initio Written I
- Italian Ab Initio Oral I
- Spanish Advanced Written I
- Spanish Advanced Oral I
- Spanish Ab Initio Written I
- Spanish Ab Initio Oral I
- Key French Texts: The Individual and Society
- The Visual Image in French Culture and Society
- Tales of the City: Introduction to Thematic Analysis
- International Film 1: Contexts and Practices
- The Birth of Film
- French Language: Culture and Translation
- Introduction to German Studies
- Strange Encounters: Texts and Contexts in Modern German Culture
- Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and their Heritage
- Journeys of Identity Discovery, Subversion and Destruction in the Hispanic Worlds
- Spanish Language: Culture and Translation
- French Language II
- German Language II
- Italian Language II
- Spanish Language II
- Writing Romance and Desire
- Cinema in France
- Advanced French Translation: Skills and Practice
- Death, Desire, Decline: Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka
- Belonging and the Self in Contemporary German Fiction and Film
- Postwar Italian Cinema: the Auteur Tradition
- Art and Literature in Renaissance Florence
- Fake News, Gossip, and the Pursuit of Truth: From Renaissance Newsletters to Online Journalism
- Advanced Spanish Translation: Skills and Practice
- Deceit, Desire and the Self: Literature of the Spanish Golden Age
- Seducing the Nation: Spanish Film 1940s to 1980s
- Conflict in Latin American Literature
- Year Abroad
- Pratique du Français III
- German Language III
- Advanced Italian III
- Spanish III
- From Aestheticism to the Avant-Garde
- Transnationalism, Diaspora and Globalisation in Contemporary Film: Dissertation
- Modern Languages Dissertation
- Text and Image in France: from Cubism to the Present
- Blindness and Vision in French Culture
- Villains and Villainy in Early Modern French Theatre
- Redefining the Erotic in Contemporary French Literature and Film
- Narrative and Identity: The German Novel from the 18th to the 21st Century
- National Socialism and the Third Reich in German Film and Visual Culture from 1933 to the Present