BA Music and Modern Languages & Cultures
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB IB: 33, typically with 5 in Higher Level Music and a modern foreign language; 32, typically with 5 in Higher Level Music and a modern foreign language, and B in the extended essay
About this course
BA in Music and Modern Languages & Cultures, a Modern Languages and Music degree combining language acquisition with historical, cultural and musicological studies. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Historical Research, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Ethics & Professional Practice, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme incorporates a compulsory third year spent studying or working abroad in a country relevant to the chosen language. The first year introduces foundational studies through modules such as Digital Skills for Music, History of Western Music, and Understanding Modern French and Francophone Cultures, alongside optional choices like Music in a Global Context or Composition. The second year advances linguistic proficiency alongside core studies in Arts of Persuasion, Musicology, and Work in Music, with options including Translation and Revolutions and Revolutionary Trends. The third year consists of an international placement abroad for language immersion. The final year focuses on advanced language proficiency and professional competencies alongside compulsory modules like Composition and Performance, while optional modules allow specialisation in areas such as Orchestration and Arrangement, Ensemble Performance, and Social Approaches to Multilingualism.
Modules
- Digital Skills for Music
- History of Western Music
- French Advanced
- French Beginner Intensive
- Understanding Modern French and Francophone Cultures
- German Advanced
- German Beginner Intensive
- Understanding German and Dutch Histories and Cultures
- Dutch Beginner
- Russian Advanced
- Russian Beginner Intensive
- Russian and Czech Cultures in the Age of Empire and beyond
- Czech Beginner
- Spanish Advanced
- Spanish Beginner Intensive
- Understanding Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese Histories and Cultures
- Catalan Beginner
- Portuguese Beginner
- Music in a Global Context
- Composition
- Popular Music Studies
- Psychological Foundations of Music
- Performance
- Music Analysis
- Euro-Visions: Imagining and Questioning Europe
- Language at Work
- Resist! The Art of Protest in Berlin and Amsterdam
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language: https://sheffie
- Arts of Persuasion
- Musicology
- Work in Music
- 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
- 'That is not my (hi)story'. Shaping the future of our inherited past
- Languages of Gender and Sexuality
- Language and the Self
- Translation
- Revolutions and Revolutionary Trends
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language: https://sheffie
- French Year Abroad
- Germanic Studies Year Abroad
- Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
- Russian and Slavonic Studies Year Abroad
- Luxembourg Studies Year Abroad
- Composition
- Performance
- French Proficient
- German Proficient
- Dutch Proficient
- Russian Proficient
- Czech Proficient
- Spanish Proficient
- Catalan Proficient
- Portuguese Proficient
- Orchestration and Arrangement
- Sound and Moving Image
- Community, Music and Education
- Ensemble Performance
- Social Approaches to Multilingualism
- Comparative Critique of Consumer Culture
- Tales of Cities. Mapping and Marketing the Urban as a Site of Encounter and Conflict
- Migration and its Representations Across Cultures
- Global Careers in Languages
- Music and Performance
- You'll also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All module in a language of your choice from several o