BA Modern Languages and Politics (1 language: French, German or Spanish)
About this course
Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages and Politics (1 language: French, German or Spanish), a Modern Languages and Politics (1 language: French, German or Spanish) degree centred on combining language acquisition with the study of political structures and global affairs. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, and Human Behaviour. Students spend the third year abroad on a workplace, teaching, or university placement. The first year introduces core foundations through modules such as Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics students, Comparative Politics, Engaging Political Ideas, and Introduction to International Relations, alongside introductory study of a chosen language. The second year features preparation for the third-year period abroad through specific preparatory coursework, while offering various optional modules covering specialized themes. The final year involves transitioning back from the period abroad via re-entry modules alongside advanced optional study. Optional modules span numerous specialised areas across politics and linguistics, and students may undertake a dissertation in Politics & International Relations or a Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation.
Modules
- Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics students
- Comparative Politics
- Engaging Political Ideas
- Introduction to French and Francophone Studies
- Introduction to German Studies
- Introduction to International Relations
- Introduction to Spain, Latin America and the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Applications of Linguistics
- Elements of Linguistics - Sound, Structure and Meaning
- Foundations of Modern Politics
- Global Dilemmas: Reading Contemporary Politics
- Understanding History and Society
- Preparation for your Third Year (Abroad)
- Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
- Children and Human Rights
- Chinese Politics
- Contemporary Theories of Justice
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with large-scale text data
- Democratic Theory
- Discourse Analysis
- Education Policy and Reforms: Global Experiences and Local Contexts
- Ethics of War
- European Power and the Geopolitics of Europe and Asia
- Exploring French Linguistics
- Exploring Spanish Linguistics
- Gender, Power and Politics
- Ghosts on Screen
- Global Justice: Poverty, Inequality and the Environment
- Globalisation: Culture, Language and The Nation State
- Green Political Thought: Humans and other stories
- Health, Culture, and Discrimination
- High, Popular, Mass Culture: Cultural Hybridity and Globalization in Latin America and Spain
- Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
- Jews in Germany before the Holocaust
- Language and Society in German-Speaking World
- Language, Power and Institutions: how linguistic practices can shape our lives
- Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
- Migration, Borders, Refuge: Political Ethics in an Age of Mobility
- Multilingualism
- Partisans, Public Opinion and Elections: Understanding the Political Mind
- Political Thinking
- Post-War French Thought and Culture
- Psycholinguistics
- Public Opinion in Action: What we know and how we know it
- Qualitative Research in Politics & International Relations
- Reinventing Democracy: Innovation, Participation and Power
- Sound and Voice
- Syntax: Studying Language Structure
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language
- The EU and European Identity
- The Government Lab
- 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
- Children and Human Rights
- Chinese Politics
- Democratic Theory
- Digital Media, Language and Communication
- Dissertation in Politics & International Relations
- Education Policy and Reforms: Global Experiences and Local Contexts
- Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative
- Ethics of War
- European Power and the Geopolitics of Europe and Asia
- Fragmented France: Cultures and Identities in Transition
- French Sociolinguistics: Challenges to Francophonie
- German-Jewish Writing Across the Twentieth Century
- Global Justice: Poverty, Inequality and the Environment
- Green Political Thought: Humans and other stories
- Historical Memory in Modern Latin America
- Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
- Language and Speech Disorders
- Language and the City
- Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation
- Migration, Borders, Refuge: Political Ethics in an Age of Mobility
- Minorities and Migrants: Exploring Multicultural Germany
- Partisans, Public Opinion and Elections: Understanding the Political Mind
- Public Opinion in Action: What we know and how we know it
- Public Service Interpreting
- Reinventing Democracy: Innovation, Participation and Power
- Second Language Acquisition
- Sex, Gender and Desire
- Sex, Soap Operas and Female Dissidents: Representations of Women in the Hispanic World
- Sociophonetic Project Module
- The Government Lab