BA Modern Languages (4 years)

Core modules include:

• Language modules in French, German, Italian and/or Spanish (depending on your chosen core language(s).

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Optional modules may include:

At least one cultural module focusing on the countries where your core language(s) is/are spoken, for instance:

• The Making of Modern France (if studying French as a core module)
• Icons of Modern Germany (if specialising in German)
• Making Italians: a Journey in the History and Culture of Modern Italy (if choosing Italian as a core language)
• Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Culture (if Spanish is taken as a core language).

The number of ‘cultural’ modules you will take depends on whether you are specialising in one specific language, or combining two or three core languages. Find our more about our core languages and the modules on offer: French Studies, German Studies, Italian Studies, Spanish Studies. 

Core modules may include:

• Language modules in French, German, Italian and/or Spanish (depending on your chosen core language(s)

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Optional modules may include:

• At least one cultural module focusing on the countries where your core language(s) is/are spoken, for instance:
• Global French Life-Stories (if studying French as a core module)
• Glorification, Denial and Contempt ; reconstructing Austria’s Past (if specialising in German)
• Italian Cinema (if choosing Italian as a core language)
• Culture and Revolution in Modern Latin America (if Spanish is taken as a core language).

The number of cultural modules you take in any one particular language depends on whether you are studying this language on its own, or in combination with others. For more information about modules on offer in each language please check our dedicated pages: French Studies, German Studies, Italian Studies, Spanish Studies

You may choose to take one or more of our ‘comparative’ modules, which enable you to study the literature, cinema or history of not one but several countries in a comparative fashion, for example:

• Society, Thought and Art in Modern Europe
• Unity, Nationalism and Regionalism.

Year abroad.

If you are studying more than one core language you will have the opportunity to split your year abroad between different linguistic spheres, or – if you started one of your core languages from beginner’s level - you can choose spend the whole year in a country where the language you started from beginner’s level is spoken.

We have an extensive network of partner institutions in Austria, France (including La Réunion in the Indian Ocean), Germany, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Cuba.

Core modules may include:

• Language modules in French, German, Italian and/or Spanish (depending on your chosen core language(s)

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Optional modules may include:

At least one cultural module focusing on the countries where your core language(s) is/are spoken, for instance:

• French Popular Music and Society
• Migration in Germany
• Crisis, Change, Opportunity: Italy from 1968 to the Present
• Writers and Publishers in Spain

The number of cultural modules you take in any one particular language depends on whether you are studying this language on its own, or in combination with others. For more information about modules on offer in each language please check our dedicated pages: French Studies, German Studies, Italian Studies, Spanish Studies

You may choose to take one or more of our ‘comparative’ modules, which enable you to study the literature, cinema or history of not one but several countries in a comparative fashion, for example:

• Cinemas of the World
• Language and Power