📖Program Curriculum
Compulsory modules include
Code Module Convenor
HS1JH1 Journeys through History 1Power and People DR Daniel Renshaw
HS1JH2 Journeys through History 2 Culture and Concepts' PROF Anne Lawrence
HS1RSO Research Skills and Opportunities in History DR Ruth Salter
Optional modules include
Code Module Convenor
FR1IFC Introduction to French Culture DR Veronica Heath
FR1L1 Beginners French Language DR Marine Orain
FR1L2 Intermediate French Language DR Marine Orain
FR1L3 Advanced French Language I MRS Celine Biart
FR1MMF The Making of Modern France DR Marjorie Gehrhardt
GM1IMG Icons of Modern Germany DR Ute Wolfel
GM1L1 Beginners German Language MS Regine Klimpfinger
GM1L2 Intermediate German Language DR Claire Ross
GM1L3 Advanced German Language I DR Alice Christensen
GM1TG German Texts and Genres DR Ellen Pilsworth
IT10MI Making Italians A Journey in the History and Culture of Modern Italy PROF Daniela La Penna
IT1IL Introduction to Linguistics MR Federico Faloppa
IT1L1 Beginners Italian Language MS Rita Balestrini
IT1L2 Intermediate Italian Language MRS Enza Siciliano Verruccio
IT1L3 Advanced Italian Language I DR Chiara Ciarlo
ML1COMP What is Comparative Literature? DR John McKeane
ML1GEC Greats of European Cinema PROF Julia Waters
ML1IL Introduction to Linguistics MR Federico Faloppa
ML1TRANS Thinking Translation History and Theory DR Claire Ross
SP1I1 Icons of Spain and Latin America From conquest to independence; from revolution to globalisation DR Cherilyn Elston
SP1L1 Beginners Spanish Language DR Denisse Lazo-Gonzalez
SP1L2 Intermediate Spanish Language MR Oscar Garcia Garcia
SP1L3 Advanced Spanish Language 1 MS Angela Mira Conejero
SP1SLAC Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Culture DR Maria Reyes Baztan
Core modules include
Language modules in French, German, Italian or Spanish (depending on your chosen core language)
Optional modules may include
Kingship and Crisis in England c.1154-1330
Women of the Medieval World
The First World War Then and Now
At least one cultural module focusing on the countries where your core language is spoken, for instance
Global French Life-Stories (if studying French as a core language)
Glorification, Denial and Contempt ; reconstructing Austria’s Past (if studying German as a core language)
Italian Cinema (if studying Italian as a core language)
Culture and Revolution in Modern Latin America (if studying Spanish as a core language).
Year abroad.
We offer a range of destinations that currently includes
If you are taking French as a core language Montpellier, Paris, Geneva, Toulouse, La Réunion
If you are taking German as a core language Augsburg, Regensburg, Vienna, Potsdam, Graz, Tübingen
If you are taking Italian as a core language Florence, Siena, Naples, Padua, Bologna, Pisa, Rome
If you are taking Spanish as a core language Havana, Madrid, Sevilla, Oviedo, Mexico (Puebla), Salamanca
Core modules include
Language modules in French, German, Italian or Spanish (depending on your chosen core language)
Optional modules include
Medieval Magic and the Origins of the Witch-Craze
The Colonial Experience Africa, 1879-1980
Gothic Architecture, Money and Cultural Identity
At least one cultural module focusing on the countries where your core language is 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
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