BA French and Spanish (with a year abroad)
Entry requirements
A level: AAB including at least one of French or Spanish IB: 35 points including 5 in at least one of French or Spanish, at Higher Level. BTEC: DDD. An A Level or equivalent qualification in either French or Spanish will be required.
About this course
BA (Hons) French and Spanish (with a year abroad), a French and Francophone Studies and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies degree focusing on linguistic proficiency, society, politics and culture. The first year covers initial competencies through French Language and Cultures: Upper Intermediate, Spanish Language and Cultures: Upper Intermediate, Understanding Language in the Real World, and Understanding French-speaking Cultures and Societies. The second year progresses with French Language and Cultures: Advanced and Spanish Language and Cultures: Advanced, alongside optional modules covering topics such as cinema and sociolinguistics. The fourth year involves advanced study including French Language and Cultures: Proficient and Spanish Language and Cultures: Proficient. Students spend the third year abroad on a work placement, internship, or study period at a partner institution.
Modules
- French Language and Cultures: Upper Intermediate
- Spanish Language and Cultures: Upper Intermediate
- Understanding Language in the Real World
- Understanding French-speaking Cultures and Societies
- Understanding Spanish-speaking Cultures and Societies
- Intensive French Language and Cultures: Beginner
- Intensive Spanish Language and Cultures: Beginner
- Understanding French-speaking Cultures and Societies
- Understanding Spanish-speaking Cultures and Societies
- English Past and Present
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Syntactic Structures
- French Language and Cultures: Advanced
- Spanish Language and Cultures: Advanced
- Multiple identities in 21st Century Spain
- World Cinemas: Representing National and Transnational Societies and Cultures
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language I
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language II
- Acoustic Phonetics and Phonological Analysis
- Sociolinguistics
- The Language of Turn and Sequence
- Aspects of a Theory of Syntax
- Language Acquisition
- Plurilingualism, Multilingualism and Transnational Languages: Concepts, Strategies and Approaches
- Laicité: religious freedom or state repression?
- French Language and Cultures: Proficient
- Spanish Language and Cultures: Proficient
- Translation: Methodology and Practice
- Myths, Memories and the Legacy of the French Occupation (1940-44)
- World Cinemas: Representing National and Transnational Societies and Cultures
- Latinos in the USA
- Independent Study in Languages and Cultures
- Independent Study in Translation
- Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
- Multimodality: Language and the Body
- Psycholinguistics: Language Processing
- Topics in Psycholinguistics: Language Processing
- Neurolinguistics: Language and the Brain
- Linguistic Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
- English Place-names across Time and Space
- Bilingualism
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language II