📖Program Curriculum
YEAR 1
The modules offered will be dependent upon the major and minor track chosen. Within your first year of BA study (second year for foundation students), students will study across all tracks and be supported by an academic advisor to select the best major and minor routes for their following years. The below provides an indicative list of what you may study within each of the tracks.
All routes
30 credits Language (current choice is between French, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese)
30 credits Liberal Arts compulsory module Culture and Language
15 credits option from Global Cultures
15 credits option from Interactions: Societies and Cities
15 credits option from any of the three tracks
15 credits Discovery module
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 2
The modules offered will be dependent upon the major and minor track chosen. The below provides an indicative list of what you may study within each of the tracks.
Students across all tracks will take 30 credits of Liberal Arts compulsory modules:
Thinking, Writing and Research across Cultures
Race and Racism in European Culture
Language and Culture Major / Global Cultures Minor
30 credits Language (continuation of language studied in first year) (Example: German II Intensive)
15 credit option from Major area (Example: Contemporary German Studies II: Berlin Cultures)
15-30 credits option(s) from Minor area (Example: Madness Past and Present and/or Performing Illness and Disability)
15 credits option from third area and/or Discovery module (Example: Economic Geographies)
Language and Culture Major / Interactions: Societies and Cities Minor
30 credits Language (continuation of language studied in first year) (Example: French II)
15-30 credit options from Major area (Example: Art in France: Manet to Picasso)
15-30 credits option(s) from Minor area (Example: The UK and the EU)
15 credit option from third area or Discovery module (Examples: Literature and Philosophy / How Do You Know? From the Culture of Facts to Post-Truth Society (16th-21st Centuries)
Global Cultures Major / Language and Culture Minor
30 credits Language (continuation of language studied in first year) (Example: Portuguese II Intensive)
30-60 credits Major area option modules* (Examples: Colonial Power and Desire: Narratives of Dissent in Portugal and Brazil /
Colonial Literatures, Post-colonial Perspectives / South African Theatre and Performance)
15 credits third area option module (Example: International Politics of the Developing World)
Global Cultures Major/ Interactions: Societies and Cities Minor
30-60 credits from Major area (Examples: Violence in Early Modern Europe / Colonial Lives and Afterlives / Facts and Fictions of Climate Change)
15-45 credits from Minor area (Examples: US Politics/ Human Rights in History)
15 credits Discovery module: London and its Museums
Interactions: Society and the Cities Major / Language and Culture Minor
30 credits Language (continuation of language studied in first year) (Example: Russian II)
30-60 credits Major area option modules* (Examples: Modernity: Theories of the State, Economy, Society / Human Rights in History: Origins, Foundations, Prospects)
15 credits third area option module (Example: The East in the West)
Interactions: Society and Cities Major / Global Cultures Minor
30-60 credits from Major area (Examples: Language in Mind / Colonialism, Capitalism & Development / Totalitarianism: Authoritarian Politics in History and Theory, 1920-2003 / London on Film: Representing the City in British and American Cinema)
15-45 credits from Minor area (Example: Latin America: Key Concepts)
15 credits Discovery module (Example: Walking the City)
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 3
The modules offered will be dependent upon the major and minor track chosen. The below provides an indicative list of what you may study within each of the tracks.
Students across all tracks will take the Liberal Arts Research Project module.
Language and Culture Major / Global Cultures Minor
Year Abroad Assessment module(s)
Language and Culture Major / Interactions: Societies and Cities Minor
Year Abroad Assessment module(s)
Global Cultures Major / Language and Culture Minor
Year Abroad Assessment module(s)
Global Cultures Major/ Interactions: Societies and Cities Minor
30 credits compulsory Research Project
30-60 credits options from Major area (Examples: Culture, Performance and Civilisation / Kinship: Geographical Perspectives / Postcolonial Studies Today)
15-45 credits from Minor area (Examples: American Politics, Carceral State and Social Movements / The Public Life of Cities)
15 credits Discovery or non-language Modern Language and Culture module (Example: Avant-Garde Theory in Europe)
Interactions: Society and Cities Major / Language and Culture Minor
Year Abroad Assessment module(s)
Interactions: Society and Cities Major / Global Cultures Minor
30 credits compulsory Research Project
30-60 credits options from Major area (Examples: The Darwinian Revolution: The History of a Dangerous Idea / Language and Health Communication / Beyond Language: Multimodality in Theory and Practice)
15-45 credits from Minor area (Examples: Islam and the West in the Middle Ages / German Thought II: Political Thought in the Twentieth Century)
15 credits Discovery or non-language Modern Language and Culture module (Example: Offstage London)
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
YEAR 4
Language and Culture Major / Global Cultures Minor
30 credits Language (Example: German III)
30 credits compulsory Research Project.
15-30 credits options in Major area (Example: Anglo-German Relations)
15-30 credits options in Minor area (Examples: On The Subject of Sex II / European Philosophy and Representation of Consciousness)
15-30 credits options in third area and/or Discovery (Example: Historical Geographies of Medicine)
Language and Culture Major / Interactions: Societies and Cities Minor
30 credits Language (Example: French III)
30 credits compulsory Research Project
15-30 credits options in Major area (Example: Language and Society in the French-Speaking World)
15-30 credits options in Minor area (Example: Politics at the End of History)
15 credits option in third area or Discovery (Example: The Modern Caribbean: Migration, Radicalism and Revolt)
Global Cultures Major / Language and Culture Minor
30 credits Language (Example: Portuguese III)
30 credits compulsory Research Project
30-60 credits options in Major area Examples: Comparative Modernisms: China and India / Beyond Crisis and Catastrophe: Environmental humanities across texts and cultures / Sea Power and Empire: Piracy, Race and Modernity)
15 credits options in third area or Discovery (Example: Gender and Politics)
(If 15 credits remain, and a 15 credit option in Modern Language minor has not been taken at Level 4 or 5: 15 credit option in Modern Language and Culture)
Interactions: Society and the City Major / Language and Culture Minor
30 credits Language (Example: Russian III)
30 credits compulsory Research Project
30-60 credits options in Major area (Examples: The Politics of Southeast Asia / Manifestos in the Modern Political Imaginary / Ethnography of Communication – Foundations and Fieldwork)
15 credits options in third area or Discovery (Example: Look Who’s Computing)
(If 15 credits remain, and a 15 credit option in Language and Culture Minor has not been taken at Level 4 or 5: 15 credit option in Modern Language and Culture)
Please note that all modules are subject to change.
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