BA Politics 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 Politics and Modern Languages & Cultures, a Politics and International Relations and Modern Languages degree centred on political analysis and cultural studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Critical & Analytical Thinking, and Global & Comparative Perspective. Students examine political issues from different cultural perspectives while studying languages within their broader political contexts. The first year covers foundational concepts through compulsory modules such as Political Analysis 1: An Introduction to Research and Scholarship and Thinking Politically: Key Concepts, alongside language training options. The second year progresses with compulsory studies in Arts of Persuasion, Political Analysis 2: How to do empirical research, and Political Theory in Practice. Further stages involve advanced language proficiencies and targeted research projects where students explore specific topics in depth with academic supervision. Optional modules span various specialized areas of global politics, cultural history, and international relations.
Modules
- Research Project 1
- French Proficient
- German Proficient
- Dutch Proficient
- Russian Proficient
- Czech Proficient
- Spanish Proficient
- Catalan Proficient
- Portuguese Proficient
- Global Careers in Languages
- Music and Performance
- Global Culture Wars
- The Ethics of Political Leadership
- Understanding Elections
- Social Approaches to Multilingualism
- Comparative Critique of Consumer Culture
- Political Psychology: The Personal Side of Politics
- War, Peace and Justice
- Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
- Corporations in Global Politics: Possibilities, Tensions, and Ambiguities
- Tales of Cities. Mapping and Marketing the Urban as a Site of Encounter and Conflict
- Migration and its Representations Across Cultures
- Political Analysis 1: An Introduction to Research and Scholarship
- Thinking Politically: Key Concepts
- 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
- Gender Politics
- British Politics
- Global Political Economy
- World Politics
- Western Political Thought
- 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 take a module from our Languages for All scheme. Examples of the languages included are
- Arts of Persuasion
- Political Analysis 2: How to do empirical research
- Political Theory in Practice
- 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
- Migration and World Politics
- Europe in Crisis
- Contemporary Security Challenges
- The Political Economy of Global Capitalism
- Africa in the World
- The Making of The Modern Middle East
- Oppression and Resistance
- You will also have the option to take a module from our Languages for All scheme. Examples of the languages included are