Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies Modules 2020/1
Please note, details for interdisciplinary modules within the HASS faculty can be found here.Stage One Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHV1005 | Inside the Museum | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV1006 | Visual Media | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV1008 | Topics in Art History and Visual Culture I | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV1009 | Topics in Art History and Visual Culture II | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV1011 | Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV1012 | Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF1001 | French Language | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF1015 | War and Conflict in French Literature | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF1017 | The Making of Modern France | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF1052 | French Language for Beginners | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF1103 | The French Language, Present and Past | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF1105 | An Introduction to French Thought | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF1121 | French Visual History | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG1001 | German Language | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG1014 | A Nation Remembers: Issues in German Cultural Memory | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG1017 | Turning Points in German History 1200 - 2000 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG1018 | Nature and the City in German Literature, Visual Arts and Film | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG1020 | Made in Germany: the History and Culture of a Global Brand | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG1052 | German Language for Beginners | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI1001 | Italian Language | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI1016 | Italy Inside Out: Popular Visual Narratives about Italy | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI1052 | Italian Language for Beginners | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI1055 | Introduction to Italian Linguistics | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI1121 | A Thousand Faces: Cultures and History in 19th-Century Italy | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM1010 | China of the Senses: Approaching Chinese Culture and Environments | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM1012 | Modern China, a Brief History: 18th to 20th Century | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM1052 | Beginners Chinese | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLP1002 | Introduction to the Lusophone World | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLP1003 | Language Encounters in the Portuguese-speaking World | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLP1052 | Portuguese Language for Beginners | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR1001 | Contemporary Russian Written and Oral | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR1005 | Chekhov's Major Plays | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR1023 | Russia: Empire and Identity | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR1030 | Russian Language for Beginners | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS1001 | Spanish Language | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS1016 | Gender Perspectives | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS1056 | Spanish Language for Beginners | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS1064 | An Introduction to the Hispanic World: Texts in Context | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS1065 | The Making of Modern Spain | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS1066 | The Making of Modern Latin America: History Through Literature and Culture | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS1067 | Ideology in the Hispanic World | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML1015 | War And Conflict In French Literature | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML1017 | The Making of Modern France | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML1067 | Ideology in the Hispanic World | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML1105 | Reason and Existence: An Introduction to French Thought | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML1207 | Introduction to Film | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
Stage Two Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHV2002 | Debates and Contestations in Art History | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2007 | Contemporary Visual Practices | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2009 | The New York Avant-Garde 1955-1980 | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2011 | Global Art and Empire, 1850-1950 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2012 | Revolutions: Art and Society in France, 1770-1848 | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2013 | Photography and Evidence | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2015 | Art History and Visual Culture Field Study for Blended Learning | 30 | 1, 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2016 | Contemporary Art and Curation | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2208 | Ideal Cities? Urban Cultures of Renaissance Italy | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2001 | French Language, Written and Oral | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2003 | Freedom and French Realism | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2012 | Evolution of the French Language | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2029 | Varieties of French | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2056 | Provoking Thoughts - French Literature and Philosophy from the Renaissance to the 20th Century | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2066 | Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2071 | 'Paris je t'aime': Writing the City | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2075 | Rap ta France: Narratives of National Identity in French Rap | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2152 | Intermediate French | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG2001 | German Language, Written and Oral | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG2003 | Youth and Age: Generations in German Fiction and Film | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG2018 | Berlin - Culture, History and Politics | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG2019 | Gender, Race and Migration in 20th and 21st-century German Literature | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG2047 | Language in the Goethezeit | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG2052 | Intermediate German | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI2001 | Italian Language, Written and Oral | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI2018 | Love (and Marriage?) in Contemporary Italian Film Comedy | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI2051 | Italian Language | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI2207 | Narratives of Child Sexual Abuse | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM2010 | Reading China: from Mandarins to Revolutionists | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM2012 | Politics of Art: a Cultural Studies Perspective on Modern China | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM2052 | Intermediate Chinese (One) | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLP2002 | Portuguese as a Global Language | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLP2052 | Intermediate Portuguese | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR2001 | Contemporary Russian Written and Oral I | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR2021 | Understanding Russia | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR2023 | A Russian Carnival of the Animals | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR2024 | Exploring Revolution: The Making of Soviet Society and Culture in the 1920s | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR2030 | Intermediate Russian | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2001 | Spanish Language, Written and Oral | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2017 | Images of Dissent: Spanish Film under Franco | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2045 | Federico Garcia Lorca: Theatre and Poetry | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2067 | Spain from Democracy to Dictatorship: Republic, Civil War and Francoism, 1931-1953 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2070 | Catalonia Is Not Spain? Modern Catalan Culture in Context | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2072 | Place and Identity in Contemporary Venezuelan Culture | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2156 | Spanish Language (ex-beginners) | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2159 | Key Modern Poets from Spain and Latin America | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2160 | Fiction in Post-War Spain: Voices of Conformity and Subversion | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
Stage Three Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHV3000 | Art History and Visual Culture Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3002 | Understanding Space in Renaissance Italy | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3003 | The Face | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3005 | Queer Visual Practices | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3007 | Global Modernisms | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3008 | Performance Art | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3009 | Paris to the World: Modelling the Modern City | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3012 | Installation Art | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3013 | Art, Industry and the Modern, 1840-1900 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3006 | The Invention of Modern Love | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3034 | Sociolinguistics of French | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3046 | Dialectology in France | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3069 | Writing Women and Strange Monsters | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3073 | Proust's a la Recherche du Temps Perdu | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3075 | First-Person Outsiders in Modern French Literature | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3078 | Philosophers, Prophets, and Mystics in French Culture | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3080 | Les Miserables from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3111 | Advanced French Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG3036 | Dictatorships on Display: History Exhibitions in Germany and Austria | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG3037 | Coping with Catastrophe: German Culture, Literature and Politics in the Interwar Years | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG3039 | What Did the German Kaiserreich Do for Us? Questions to a New Nation (1870-1914) | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG3040 | Sex, Sciences and the Arts | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG3111 | Advanced German Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI3028 | Italian Varieties and Dialects | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI3029 | Italian Film Through Stardom | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI3111 | Advanced Italian Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI3199 | Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM3009 | China through the Lens: Cultural Translation and Self-Presentation | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM3111 | Advanced Chinese Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLP3005 | Changing voices: tracing the development of Portuguese over time | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLP3111 | Advanced Portuguese Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR3019 | Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR3026 | The Deceptive City: The Creation of St Petersburg in Russian Literature | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR3027 | The Making of Underground Russia, 1825-1917 | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR3111 | Advanced Russian Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3037 | Women and Feminism in 20th Century Spain | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3057 | Cross Currents: Memory, Myth and Modernity in Latin America | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3065 | Spain and 1898: from Disaster to Modernity | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3066 | Almodovar's Spain: Cinema and Society | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3067 | "Monster of Nature and Phoenix of Wits." An Introduction to the Work of Lope de Vega | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3068 | Staging Conflicts: Spanish Romantic Drama | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3070 | Understanding Contemporary Spain Through Graphic Novels | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3111 | Advanced Spanish Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3010 | Work and Study Abroad | 120 | 1, 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3020 | Study Abroad at a Partner University (with Assessment in the Foreign Language) | 120 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3025 | Internship Abroad Combined with Study at a Partner University Abroad | 120 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3031 | Advanced Translation Skills | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3041 | Green Matters in Modern Languages and Cultures | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3042 | Transcultural Devon: Creating, Analysing and Subtitling Interviews in the Context of Migration | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
Masters Modules
| Code | Module Title | Credits | Term(s) | ELE link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHVM001 | Institutions and Agencies: the Business of Contemporary Art | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHVM002 | Arts of the Contemporary World | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHVM003 | Art Writing | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHVM004 | Internship | 30 | 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHVM005 | Dissertation | 60 | 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHVM006 | Curatorial Project | 60 | 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM113 | Dissertation in Global Literatures and Cultures | 60 | 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM114 | Dissertation by Practice in Global Literatures and Cultures | 60 | 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM115 | Global Literatures and Cultures Work Placement | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM145 | Translation Dissertation | 60 | 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM150 | Translation Theory | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM151 | The Practice of Translation | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM152 | Specialist Translation 1 | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM153 | The Translation Profession | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM154 | Translation Work Placement / Project | 15 | 2 and 3 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM156 | Translation as Literary and Creative Practice | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM157 | Introduction to Interpreting: Consecutive and Liaison | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM158 | Translation as Cultural and Intermedia Practice | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM235 | Key Concepts for Global Literatures and Cultures | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SMLM236 | Latin American Cinema: Race, Nation and Representation | 30 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
