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Programme structure: Comparative Literatures and Cultures (BA) - what's running in 2022/23

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Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Faculty of Arts Category Teaching Block
List A:
Comparative Literature: What is it and how can we practise it? MODL10016 20 Mandatory TB-1
List B: Choose 20CP from this list
Medieval and Renaissance Italy ITAL10034 20 Optional TB-1
Understanding Russia: History & Identity RUSS10041 20 Optional TB-1
Shaping France FREN10032 20 Optional B TB-1
List C: Choose 20CP from this list
Introduction to Visual Cultures MODL10018 20 Mandatory TB-2
List D: Choose 20CP from this list
Living Religions East THRS10065 20 Optional TB-2
Modern German Thought and Thinkers GERM10038 20 Optional TB-2
List E: Choose 20CP from this list
Representations of Francophone Cultures FREN10013 20 Optional TB-2
Language and Power: Introductions to German History GERM10039 20 Optional TB-2
Understanding Russia: Literature & Visual Culture RUSS10042 20 Optional TB-2
List F: Choose 20CP from this list or choose an additional 20CP from B-E above.
Sustainable Development UNIV10001 20 Optional TB-2
City Futures: Migration, Citizenship, and Planetary Change UNIV10005 20 Optional TB-2
Creative Futures: Tools for Changing the World UNIV10007 20 Optional TB-2
Understanding global problems using data: inequality, climate change and the economy UNIV10008 20 Optional TB-2
Decolonise the Future! UNIV10009 20 Optional TB-2
Science of Happiness UNIV10010 20 Optional TB-2
Beginners French UWLP10001 20 Optional TB-4
Post-Beginners French UWLP10002 20 Optional TB-4
Intermediate French UWLP10003 20 Optional TB-4
Beginners German UWLP10004 20 Optional TB-4
Post-Beginners German UWLP10005 20 Optional TB-4
Intermediate German UWLP10006 20 Optional TB-4
Beginners Modern Standard Arabic UWLP10008 20 Optional TB-4
Beginners Spanish UWLP10009 20 Optional TB-4
Post-Beginners Spanish UWLP10010 20 Optional TB-4
Intermediate Spanish UWLP10011 20 Optional TB-4
Beginners Japanese UWLP10012 20 Optional TB-4
Beginners Mandarin Chinese UWLP10013 20 Optional TB-4
Beginners Italian UWLP10014 20 Optional TB-4
Post-Beginners Italian UWLP10015 20 Optional TB-4
Beginners Russian UWLP10016 20 Optional F TB-4
Beginners Korean UWLP10018 20 Optional TB-4
Beginners Catalan UWLP10025 20 Optional TB-4
Beginners Portuguese UWLP10026 20 Optional TB-4
Choose open units OPEN 20 Optional
Certificate of Higher Education   120      

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