BA Modern Languages (1 language: French, German or Spanish)
Entry requirements
A level: BBB including one named language IB: Pass, with 30 points overall with 15 points at Higher Level, including 5 at Higher Level in one named language
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages (1 language: French, German or Spanish), a French and Francophone Studies and German and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies degree centred on linguistic development and cultural analysis. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Human Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Students spend the third year abroad on a workplace, teaching or university placement completing independent academic work. The first year establishes language foundations through modules such as French Language Stage 4, German Language Stage 4, Spanish Language Stage 4, and Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics Students. Year two continues language progression with French Language Stage 5, German Language Stage 5, Spanish Language Stage 5, alongside Preparation for your Third Year (Abroad). The final year supports transition back to Southampton with Seeing and Being Seen. Period Abroad Re-entry. Optional modules span areas such as linguistics, translation, culture, and history, with options including Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data, Audiovisual Translation, and Public Service Interpreting. Students may also undertake independent research through the Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation.
Modules
- Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics Students
- French Language Stage 4
- German Language Stage 4
- Introduction to French and Francophone Studies
- Introduction to German Studies
- Introduction to Spain, Latin America and the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Spanish Language Stage 4
- Applications of Linguistics
- Elements of Linguistics: Sound, Structure and Meaning
- Understanding History and Society
- French Language Stage 5
- German Language Stage 5
- Preparation for your Third Year (Abroad)
- Spanish Language Stage 5
- Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
- AI Utopias and the Climate Crisis
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data
- 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
- Jews in Germany before the Holocaust
- Language and Society in the German-Speaking World
- Language, Power and Institutions: How Linguistic Practices Can Shape Our Lives
- Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
- Multilingualism
- Post-War French Thought and Culture
- Psycholinguistics
- Queering the Digital
- Researching Language, Culture and Communication in the Global World
- Sound and Voice
- Syntax: Studying Language Structure
- 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
- Residence Abroad Portfolio
- Seeing and Being Seen. Period Abroad Re-entry
- English as a Global Language
- Exiles, Migrants and Citizens: Narrating and Documenting Displacement in Contemporary Spain
- Audiovisual Translation
- Digital Media, Language and Communication
- 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 Speech Disorders
- Language and the City
- Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation
- Minorities and Migrants: Exploring Multicultural Germany
- Public Service Interpreting
- Second Language Acquisition
- Sex, Gender and Desire
- Sex, Soap Operas and Female Dissidents: Representations of Women in the Hispanic World
- Sociophonetic Project Module
- Streaming, Social Media, and Stans: Music Culture in the Platform Era