BA Language, Culture and Communication
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: Pass, with 30 points overall with 15 points at Higher Level.
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Language, Culture and Communication, an undergraduate degree centred on English Language and Linguistics and Modern Languages. Core topics include Research Methods, Human Behaviour, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students may choose to study one or two languages from a beginner level during the programme. The first year covers foundational subjects through Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics Students, Introduction to French and Francophone Studies, Introduction to German Studies, and Introduction to Language, Culture and Communication. The second year examines anthropological concepts and methods through Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography and Researching Language, Culture and Communication in the Global World, alongside optional choices spanning linguistics, media, and culture. The final year focuses on advanced communication and independent research through Digital Media, Language and Communication and Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation, complemented by optional modules such as Audiovisual Translation and Second Language Acquisition.
Modules
- Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics Students
- Introduction to French and Francophone Studies
- Introduction to German Studies
- Introduction to Language, Culture and Communication
- Introduction to Spain, Latin America and the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Understanding History and Society
- Applications of Linguistics
- Elements of Linguistics: Sound, Structure and Meaning
- Introduction to Ethnography: Food and Culture
- Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
- Researching Language, Culture and Communication in the Global World
- Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- Data, Culture, and Justice
- Digital Futures of the Past: Power, Ethics, and Representation
- Discourse Analysis
- Exploring French Linguistics
- Exploring Spanish Linguistics
- Ghosts on Screen
- Globalisation: Culture, Language and the Nation State
- Health, Culture, and Discrimination
- High, Popular, Mass Culture: Cultural Hybridity and Globalization in Latin America and Spain
- Intercultural Communication in a Global World
- Language and Society in the German-Speaking World
- Language, Power and Institutions: How Linguistic Practices Can Shape Our Lives
- Multilingualism
- Post-War French Thought and Culture
- Psycholinguistics
- Queering the Digital
- Sound and Voice
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language
- The EU and European Identity
- Variation and Change in English
- Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present
- Digital Media, Language and Communication
- Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation
- English as a Global Language
- Exiles, Migrants and Citizens: Narrating and documenting displacement in contemporary Spain
- Audiovisual Translation
- Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative
- Fragmented France: Cultures and Identities in Transition
- French Sociolinguistics: Challenges to Francophonie
- German-Jewish Writing Across the Twentieth Century
- Historical Memory in Modern Latin America
- Language and the City
- Minorities and Migrants: Exploring Multicultural Germany
- Public Service Interpreting
- Second Language Acquisition
- Sex, Gender and Desire
- Sociophonetic Project Module
- Streaming, Social Media, and Stans: Music Culture in the Platform Era