BA (Hons) Modern Languages
Course Overview
This flexible BA in Modern Languages empowers you to become a global citizen by mastering one, two, or even three languages, with a core focus on practical employability. The program's defining feature is a dedicated year abroad, immersing you in the cultures you study to build real-world fluency and intercultural skills. You can tailor your degree by combining advanced and beginner languages or adding specialized pathways in Translation Studies.
Key Program Highlights
- Unmatched flexibility to study one, two, or three languages from a wide portfolio
- Compulsory year abroad to deepen linguistic skills and cultural understanding
- Option to start new languages from beginner level, including Chinese and Japanese
- Specialized pathways available in Translation Studies
- Curriculum designed with a strong emphasis on global employability
Course Overview
This flexible BA in Modern Languages empowers you to become a global citizen by mastering one, two, or even three languages, with a core focus on practical employability. The program's defining feature is a dedicated year abroad, immersing you in the cultures you study to build real-world fluency and intercultural skills. You can tailor your degree by combining advanced and beginner languages or adding specialized pathways in Translation Studies.
Key Program Highlights
- Unmatched flexibility to study one, two, or three languages from a wide portfolio
- Compulsory year abroad to deepen linguistic skills and cultural understanding
- Option to start new languages from beginner level, including Chinese and Japanese
- Specialized pathways available in Translation Studies
- Curriculum designed with a strong emphasis on global employability
Requirements
Modules
- Discover: Personal, Academic and Professional Development in Modern Languages
- French Language 1 (Advanced)
- French Language 1 (Beginners)
- German Language 1 (Advanced)
- German Language 1 (Beginners)
- Spanish Language 1 (Advanced)
- Spanish Language 1 (Beginners)
- Italian Language 1 (Beginners)
- Visions of Italy on paper and screen
- Visions of Italy through music
- Mandarin Chinese Language beginners I
- Mandarin Chinese Language beginners II
- Japanese Language Beginners I
- Japanese Language Beginners II
- Red Lives: A Cultural History of Soviet Life and Its Afterlife
- Roots of the Rus': Language, Culture, and Civilisation
- Russian Language 1 (Beginners): Decoding and Discovering Russian
- Environment, Sustainability and Development in the Portuguese-speaking world
- Portuguese Language 1 (Beginners): Boas-vindas!
- Beginners Catalan Language A
- Beginners Catalan Language B
- Catalan Culture Project A
- Catalan Culture Project B
- Exploring Identities in the French and Francophone world
- Nation, Democracy, Diversity in the German-speaking world
- Introduction to Hispanic Cultures
- French Lang 2(Intermediate)
- French Language 2 (Advanced)
- German Language 2 (Advanced)
- German Language 2 (Intermediate)
- Spanish Language 2 (Advanced)
- Spanish Language 2 (Intermediate)
- Exploring Italian cities: texts and contexts
- Italian Language 2 (Intermediate)
- Cultural Industries: Creativity in Change
- Portuguese Language 2 (Intermediate): Vamos lá!
- Intermediate Catalan Language A
- Intermediate Catalan Language B
- Artistic and Literary Representations of Barcelona
- Gender, New Media and Cultural Identity
- Russian Language 2 (Intermediate): Russian Language in Action
- Japanese Language Intermediate I
- Japanese Language Intermediate II
- Mandarin Chinese Language Intermediate I
- Mandarin Chinese Language Intermediate II
- Beginners Catalan Language A
- Beginners Catalan Language B
- Intermediate Catalan Language A
- Intermediate Catalan Language B
- Artistic and Literary Representations of Barcelona
- Gender, New Media and Cultural Identity
- Global French: Communities, Politics and International Relations
- Sources of Inspiration: Creativity and Adaptation through French Texts
- Cultures of Protest and Terror in West Germany, 1967-1977
- Ideals and Ideas: The Making of Modern Germany
- Obedience and Autonomy in German Culture and Thought
- Exploring Italian cities: texts and contexts
- Cultural Industries: Creativity in Change
- 19th Century Russia through the Lens of the Novel
- Digital Media and Spanish Youth Culture
- Histories of the Excluded: Inquisition and the Birth of Human Rights
- Icons of the Hispanic World
- Mexican and Chicano Art in the Twentieth Century: Revolution and Beyond
- Reading the World in Contemporary Spanish American Fiction
- Structures and Varieties of the Modern Hispanic Languages
- Cross-Cultural Cinema: Film Adaptation beyond the Nation-State
- Cross-Cultural Cinema: Migration and Displacement
- Global Enterprise Project
- Language and power
- Teaching and Learning (languages) in the 21st century
- Work, The Future and You
- Translation in the Workplace
- IWLP Arabic Level 2A
- IWLP Arabic Level 2B
- Semester 1 Studying Abroad
- Semester 1 abroad on a work placement (including teaching assistants)
- Semester 2 Studying Abroad
- Semester 2 abroad on a work placement (including teaching assistants)
- Whole Academic Year Studying Abroad
- Whole Academic Year abroad on a work placement (including teaching assistants)
- French Language Final Year
- German Language Final Year
- Exploring the self: Dante and Leopardi
- Italian Language Final Year
- Spanish Language Final Year
- Portuguese Language Final Year: Avante!
- Thinking Otherwise: Decolonial Approaches to Contemporary Thought and Culture
- Audio-Visual Translation Project: Russian to English
- Business Russian
- Russian Language Final Year: Towards Fluency
- Contemporary Chinese Language and Business Culture Advanced I
- Contemporary Chinese Language and Business Culture Advanced II
- Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages
- Final Year Extended Independent Study Module in Modern Languages
- Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 1
- Final Year Independent Study Module in Modern Languages Semester 2
- Japanese Language Advanced I
- Japanese Language Advanced II
- Advanced Catalan Language A
- Advanced Catalan Language B