BA Linguistics and Modern Languages & Cultures
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB IB: 33, typically with 5 in a Higher Level modern foreign language; 32, typically with 5 in a Higher Level modern foreign language, and B in the extended essay
About this course
BA in Linguistics and Modern Languages & Cultures, an English Language and Linguistics and Modern Languages degree exploring the structural intricacies of human speech alongside international cultural traditions. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students spend the third year abroad studying or working in a country connected to their chosen language. The first year introduces foundational subjects through compulsory modules such as Sounds and Structures of English, Style in Language, French Advanced, and Understanding Modern French and Francophone Cultures. The second year expands linguistic expertise with compulsory study including Phonetics, First Language Acquisition, Arts of Persuasion, and French Higher Advanced. In the third year, all students complete a year abroad placement to immerse themselves in another linguistic and cultural environment. The final stage incorporates independent investigation through compulsory modules such as Research Project 1 and Research Project 2, alongside a broad selection of optional topics spanning historical linguistics, syntax, sociolinguistics, and regional cultural studies.
Modules
- Core modules: Research Project 1 Research Project 2
- French Proficient
- German Proficient
- Dutch Proficient
- Russian Proficient
- Czech Proficient
- Spanish Proficient
- Catalan Proficient
- Portuguese Proficient
- Advanced Syntax
- Historical Pragmatics
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- Constructed Languages
- Second Language Acquisition
- Psychology of Language
- Social Approaches to Multilingualism
- Tales of Cities. Mapping and Marketing the Urban as a Site of Encounter and Conflict
- Comparative Critique of Consumer Culture
- Migration and its Representations Across Cultures
- Global Careers in Languages
- Music and Performance
- Language and Social Justice
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules.
- Sounds and Structures of English
- Style in Language
- French Advanced
- Understanding Modern French and Francophone Cultures
- German Advanced
- German Beginner Intensive
- Dutch Beginner
- Understanding German and Dutch Histories and Cultures
- Russian Advanced
- Czech Beginner
- Russian and Czech Cultures in the Age of Empire and beyond
- Spanish Advanced
- Spanish Beginner Intensive
- Catalan Beginner
- Portuguese Beginner
- Understanding Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese Histories and Cultures
- Chinese 1
- Korean 1
- Japanese 1
- Inventing Traditions in China, Japan and Korea
- History of English
- Early Englishes
- Linguistic Theory
- Living Englishes
- Language and Creativity
- Euro-Visions: Imagining and Questioning Europe
- Language at Work
- Resist! The Art of Protest in Berlin and Amsterdam
- Arts, History and Culture in East Asia
- Politics, Economy and Society in East Asia
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language.
- Phonetics
- First Language Acquisition
- Arts of Persuasion
- French Higher Advanced
- French Intermediate Intensive
- German Higher Advanced
- German Intermediate Intensive
- Dutch Intermediate
- Russian Higher Advanced
- Russian Intermediate
- Czech Intermediate
- Spanish Higher Advanced
- Spanish Intermediate Intensive
- Catalan Intermediate
- Portuguese Intermediate
- Chinese for Non-Specialists II
- Japanese for Non-Specialists 2
- Korean for Non-Specialists 2
- Global Citizenship and East Asia: Responding to Contemporary Challenges
- Historical Linguistics
- Syntax
- Phonology
- The History of Persuasion
- Language and Cognition
- Exiles and Monsters: Reading Old English
- Sociolinguistics
- 'That is not my (hi)story'. Shaping the future of our inherited past
- Language and the Self
- Languages of Gender and Sexuality
- Translation
- Revolutions and Revolutionary Trends
- Narrative Experiments
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules.
- Twentieth-Century East Asian History: Dynamism, Destruction and Dissent
- Film, Television and Screen Cultures in East Asia
- Music and Sound in East Asia
- International Relations in East Asia: Power, Identity and Security
- Everyday East Asia: Ethnographic Approaches
- French Year Abroad
- Germanic Studies Year Abroad
- Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
- Russian and Slavonic Studies Year Abroad
- Luxembourg Studies Year Abroad