BA Modern Languages (2 languages: 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 (2 languages: French, German, Portuguese or Spanish), a modern languages degree centred on the acquisition of advanced linguistic proficiency and cultural knowledge across two chosen languages. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Human Behaviour, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The programme includes a compulsory third year spent abroad completing a residence abroad portfolio through study, work experience, or a teaching assistantship. The first year establishes foundational linguistic competencies and cultural backgrounds through modules such as French Language Stage 4, German Language Stage 4, Introduction to French and Francophone Studies, and Introduction to German Studies. During the second year, students prepare for their period abroad with modules like Preparation for your Third Year (Abroad), alongside cultural studies such as Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World. Optional modules across the degree span specialized interests including Corpus Linguistics: Working with Large-scale Text Data, Audiovisual Translation, and Public Service Interpreting. In the final year, students undertake advanced compulsory study such as Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative, and have the option to complete a substantial independent research project 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
- Language, Ideologies and Attitudes
- Portuguese accelerated language stages 1-2
- Spanish Language Stage 4
- Applications of Linguistics
- Elements of Linguistics: Sound, Structure and Meaning
- Understanding History and Society
- Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World
- Preparation for your Third Year (Abroad)
- 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
- 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
- Encounters with Bodies in Lusophone Cultural Narrative
- 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
- 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