BA Modern Languages (3 languages: Chinese, French, German, Portuguese 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 (3 languages: Chinese, French, German, Portuguese or Spanish), a Modern Languages degree centred on linguistic proficiency and cultural studies across multiple global traditions. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, and Human Behaviour. The curriculum includes a compulsory residence abroad period in the third year, culminating in independent portfolio work. The first year establishes fundamental competencies through modules such as Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics Students, Chinese Language Stage 1A, French Language Stage 4, and Introduction to French and Francophone Studies, alongside introductory options in linguistics and society. Moving into the second year, students prepare for international placement through Preparation for your Third Year (Abroad) while choosing from diverse specialized topics like Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data, Discourse Analysis, and Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America. The third year is spent abroad completing a Residence Abroad Portfolio. The final year involves re-entry support via Seeing and Being Seen. Period Abroad Re-entry alongside advanced options including Audiovisual Translation, Public Service Interpreting, Second Language Acquisition, and the Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Dissertation.
Modules
- Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics Students
- Chinese Language Stage 1A
- 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
- Preparation for your Third Year (Abroad)
- Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
- Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data
- 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
- 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