Program Overview

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Modern Languages and Linguistics (2 languages: French, German or Spanish) (BA)

About this course

Develop your language skills as you explore how languages are created, learned and shaped as they are used. Choose to study French, German or Spanish alongside linguistics with this degree.

Spend a year of this 4 year degree abroad on a workplace, teaching or university placement. Develop your language skills and critical thinking while learning about the French, German or Spanish speaking world's culture, history and thought.

Whichever languages you choose, you'll:

• become immersed in the languages and familiar with how they are spoken
• develop the skills to interpret cultures and their beliefs and behaviours
• study societies and cultures related to your chosen languages

You can choose one language you have not studied. You'll get extra hours of teaching and funding for a language course abroad at the end of year 1 to make fast progress.

Choose topics and gain expertise in areas that interest you most, including:

• translation and interpreting
• contemporary society
• literature and film
• anthropology
• history

Language study paths

These are the language combinations you can choose from:

• BA Modern Languages (French and German) and Linguistics
• BA Modern Languages (French and Spanish) and Linguistics
• BA Modern Languages (German and Spanish) and Linguistics

Course structure

You study both linguistics and your 2 chosen languages, from French, German or Spanish.

Year 1 overview

You study your chosen languages and explore how they are created, learned and shaped in the situations they are used. You'll also study the history, politics and culture of the societies where your languages are spoken.

We work out which language level you are at to give you the best possible start to develop your skills.

You also get an introduction to major themes in linguistics.

Year 2 overview

You choose at least 2 linguistics modules and at least 1 language module for each of your chosen languages.

You choose modules that equip you with different ways to study cultures and languages.

These include:

• socio-historical studies
• cultural studies
• ethnography
• linguistics
• politics

Year 3 overview

You'll carry out your period abroad and get to know a foreign culture either as a student or in a work placement.

You can:

• spend the whole time in a country where 1 of your chosen languages is spoken
• split the time between 2 countries where your 2 chosen languages are spoken

You complete a portfolio of work in both English and your chosen modern languages. We support you with frequent video calls and emails.

Year 4 overview

You choose at least 2 linguistics modules and at least 1 language module for each of your chosen languages. You choose modules in cultural studies, linguistics, ethnographic, socio-historical and politics.

You can carry out research for a dissertation using the intellectual skills you've gained throughout your degree.

Entry requirements

• ABB including one named language
• Pass, with 32 points overall with 16 points at Higher Level, including 5 at Higher Level in one named language
• 60 credits with a minimum of 45 credits at Level 3, of which 30 must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit, plus B in one named language A level
• Distinction, Distinction in the BTEC National Extended Diploma plus B in one named language A level
• D3 M2 M2 in three principal subjects including one named language
• ABB from 3 A levels including one named language or AB from two A levels including one named language and B from the Advanced Welsh Baccalaureate Skills Challenge Certificate
• H1 H2 H2 H2 H3 H3 including one named language

Course structure

Year 1 modules

• Academic Skills for Modern languages and Linguistics students
• Elements of Linguistics - Sound, Structure and Meaning
• French Language Stage 4
• German Language Stage 4
• Language, Ideologies and Attitudes
• Spanish Language Stage 4
• The Making of Modern English
• Understanding Culture
• Understanding History and Society

Year 2 modules

• Managing Research and Learning
• Culture, Power and Resistance in the Portuguese-Speaking World
• Gender, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America
• Corpus Linguistics: Working with large-scale text data
• Discourse Analysis
• Ethnography of Latin America
• Exploring French Linguistics
• Exploring Spanish Linguistics
• Ghosts on Screen
• Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in France
• Language and Society in German-Speaking World
• Language, Power and Institutions: how linguistic practices can shape our lives
• Multilingualism
• Myths and Realities of Contemporary Spain
• Post-War French Thought and Culture
• Psycholinguistics
• Sound and Voice
• Syntax: Studying Language Structure
• Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• Variation and Change in English
• Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present

Year 3 modules

• Residence Abroad Portfolio

Year 4 modules

• Seeing and Being Seen. Period Abroad re-entry
• Exiles, Migrants and Citizens: Narrating and documenting displacement in contemporary Spain
• An ambivalent asylum: the histories and memories of refugees in early twentieth-century France
• Audiovisual Translation
• Fragmented France: Cultures and Identities in Transition
• French Sociolinguistics: Challenges to Francophonie
• Historical Memory in Modern Latin America
• Language Testing and Assessment in Society
• Language and Speech Disorders
• Language and the City
• Minorities and Migrants: Exploring Multicultural Germany
• Modern Languages Dissertation
• Public Service Interpreting
• Second Language Acquisition
• Sex, Soap Operas and Female Dissidents: Representations of Women in the Hispanic World
• Sociophonetic Project Module
• Travel and Identity in Francophone writing and film

Careers and employability

• Employability skills
• Career pathways
• Work experience opportunities
• Careers services and support

Fees, costs and funding

• Tuition fees
• What your fees pay for
• Bursaries, scholarships and other funding
• Scholarships and grants
• Support during your course
• Funding for EU and international students

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