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Programme structure: Modern Languages (Three Language Programme) (BA) - what's running in 2022/23

Please note: you are viewing unit and programme information for a past academic year. Please see the current academic year for up to date information.

The 3 language units chosen at stage 2 level 5 must follow on from the language units chosen in Year 1. The 3 language units chosen are must pass. For further information and a definition of must pass units please see the Glossary of Terms

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
Select THREE from the following:
French Drama FREN20026 20 Optional TB-1
Paris 1857-1897 FREN20041 20 Optional TB-2
The French Language: Structures and Varieties FREN20044 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to French Cinema FREN20056 20 Optional TB-1
France in Ferment 1870-1940 FREN20063 20 Optional TB-2
Burning Books: Radicalism Before the Revolution FREN20065 20 Optional TB-2
French Thought FREN20068 20 Optional TB-2
Francophone African Literature FREN20069 20 Optional TB-2
Transforming the Tragic Hero(ine): 1770-1840 GERM20044 20 Optional TB-2
Transnational Nation: Germany 1840 - 1990 GERM20047 20 Optional TB-2
Effi Briest and her Afterlives GERM20048 20 Optional TB-1
Inventing Austria GERM20051 20 Optional TB-1
Destination Italy: Cultural Responses to Migration ITAL20032 20 Optional TB-1
Dante's Inferno (TB2) ITAL20035 20 Optional TB-2
Italian Fascism ITAL20045 20 Optional TB-2
Italian Cinema: Genre and Social Change ITAL29007 20 Optional TB-1
Republic, War and Dictatorship in Spain, 1931 - 1975 HISP20076 20 Optional TB-2
Languages of the Iberian Peninsula HISP20088 20 Optional TB-2
Mobility and Displacement in the Lusophone World HISP20120 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to Latin American Cinema HISP20114 20 Optional TB-2
Contemporary Latin(x) American Poetry HISP20115 20 Optional TB-2
Barcelona: Culture and Representations HISP20117 20 Optional TB-2
Queer Writing and Film in the Hispanic World HISP20118 20 Optional TB-1
Latin America in the Twentieth Century: A People's History HISP20119 20 Optional TB-1
Introduction to Spanish Peninsular literature since 1850 HISP20121 20 Optional TB-2
Women's Writing in Post-War Spain HISP21309 20 Optional TB-1
The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel RUSS20069 20 Optional TB-1
Russian Orthodox Culture RUSS20044 20 Optional TB-1
Engineers of the Human Soul: Soviet Culture and Politics 1917 - 1941 RUSS20060 20 Optional TB-2
Revolutionary Russia, 1881-1917 RUSS20066 20 Optional TB-2
The Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel RUSS20069 20 Optional TB-1
General Linguistics MODL20016 20 Optional TB-1
Historical Linguistics MODL20017 20 Optional TB-2
Introduction to teaching Modern Languages as Foreign Languages MODL20021 20 Optional TB-1
Migrations of Culture MODL20024 20 Optional TB-1
Popular Representation and Institutions of Culture MODL20026 20 Optional TB-2
World Cinemas: from national to transnational MODL23016 20 Optional TB-1
Woman and Nation MODL23017 20 Optional TB-1
Select one from the following:
French Language 2 FREN20001 20 Optional TB-4
German Language 2 (Post A-Level) GERM20001 20 Optional TB-4
Italian Language 2 ITAL20001 20 Optional A TB-4
Russian Language 2 RUSS20008 20 Optional TB-4
Spanish Language HISP20101 20 Optional TB-4
Select one from the following:
French Language 2 FREN20001 20 Optional TB-4
German Language 2 (Post A-Level) GERM20001 20 Optional TB-4
Italian Language 2 ITAL20001 20 Optional A TB-4
Russian Language 2 RUSS20008 20 Optional TB-4
Spanish Language HISP20101 20 Optional TB-4
Select one from the following:
German Language 2 (Post A-Level) GERM20001 20 Optional TB-4
Italian Language 2 ITAL20001 20 Optional A TB-4
Russian Language 2 RUSS20008 20 Optional TB-4
Spanish Language HISP20101 20 Optional TB-4
Portuguese Lang for Joints/ML HISP20302 20 Optional TB-4
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Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

  • 40 out of 100 – for level C/4, I/5 & H/6 units
  • 50 out of 100 – for level M/7 units

For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

  • To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 90 must be at level 5.
  • To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 90 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).

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