Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies Modules 2023/4
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) |
| MLF1017 | The Making of Modern France | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF1018 | The Devil is in the Detail: An Introduction to the Short Story in French | 15 | 2 | 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 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG1017 | Turning Points in German History 1200 - 2000 | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLG1021 | Outside In: An Introduction to Outcasts and Outsiders in German-language Literature and Film | 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 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI1052 | Italian Language for Beginners | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI1121 | A Thousand Faces: Cultures and History in 19th-Century Italy | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM1010 | China of the Senses: Approaching Chinese Culture and Environments | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM1013 | A Brief History of Modern China (1861-Present) | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM1052 | Beginners Chinese | 30 | 1 and 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) |
| MLR1006 | An Emotional Experience: Russian Literature and the Expression of Feeling | 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| MLS1068 | An Introduction to the Literature and Film of Spain | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS1164 | A Journey of Discovery: Hispanic Global Culture | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML1002 | Constructing Nature: Stories we Live By | 15 | 2 | 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 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML1208 | Language, Culture, International Relations | 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) |
| 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) |
| AHV2018 | Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres | 30 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2019 | Common Threads: Art, Craft and Activism | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2020 | Deconstructing the Dutch Golden Age: Nationalism, Exceptionalism and Decline | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2021 | American Photographs | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2022 | Animals in Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2023 | Global Impressionisms | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2024 | Renaissances North and South: Italy and the Netherlands | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV2208 | Ideal Cities? Urban Cultures of Renaissance Italy | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2001 | French Language, Written and Oral | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2005 | Classical myth in French and francophone cinema | 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) |
| MLF2069 | East is East? Cross-Cultural Encounters in Medieval French Literature | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2070 | Violence and Virtue: Early Modern French Theatre | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2074 | Translating Exile: Contemporary Francophone Women Writers | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF2076 | Subversive Texts: Baudelaire and Rachilde | 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 | 1 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI2019 | Italian(s) in the World | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLI2051 | Italian Language | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM2002 | Politics of Contemporary China | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM2003 | Chinoiserie and Europeenerie: Artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM2052 | Intermediate Chinese (One) | 30 | 1 and 2 | 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) |
| 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) |
| MLS2045 | Federico Garcia Lorca: Theatre and Poetry | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2061 | The Latin American Short Story | 15 | 2 | 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 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2073 | Literary Non-Fiction in Argentina: When Writing Meets the Real | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2156 | Spanish Language (ex-beginners) | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS2158 | "What is Love? And Do I Need It?" An Introduction to Spanish Renaissance Love Poetry | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML2004 | Contemporary Latin American Cinema | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML2209 | Music in Medieval Europe | 15 | 1 | 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 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3003 | The Face | 15 | 1 | 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 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3012 | Installation Art | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3016 | Conceptual Art | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3017 | 'Queen City of Europe': Art, Culture and Society in Renaissance Antwerp, c.1500-70 | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| AHV3019 | Artists' Film and Video | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3046 | Dialectology in France | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3050 | Music, Poetry and Society at the Late Medieval French Court | 15 | 1 | 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) |
| MLF3079 | Sex, Subversion and Censorship: Libertine Literature in Seventeenth-Century France | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3080 | Les Miserables from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLF3081 | Sexual Politics: Gender Dynamics in Early Modern France | 15 | 2 | 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) |
| 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) |
| MLI3033 | Multicultural Italy | 15 | 2 | 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 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM3008 | Introduction to Modern Chinese Literature | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM3009 | China through the Lens: Cultural Translation and Self-Presentation | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM3011 | China and the Third World: Foreign Relations and Nation Building in China in the Cold War Era | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLM3111 | Advanced Chinese Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLP3009 | Afro-Brazil: Transatlantic Identities in Culture | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLP3111 | Advanced Portuguese Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR3026 | The Deceptive City: The Creation of St Petersburg in Russian Literature | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLR3027 | The Making of Underground Russia, 1825-1917 | 15 | 1 | 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 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3057 | Cross Currents: Memory, Myth and Modernity in Latin America | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3066 | Almodovar's Spain: Cinema and Society | 15 | 2 | 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) |
| MLS3071 | The Chilean Road to Socialism (1970-1973): What Happened and Why? Elements for a Debate | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3111 | Advanced Spanish Language Skills | 30 | 1 and 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| MLS3112 | Spanish Modernists: Narratives of Identity, Gender and Nation | 15 | 1 | 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) |
| SML3014 | Socialist Thought and Practice in Latin America and Africa | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | 1 | 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 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3041 | Green Matters in Modern Languages and Cultures | 15 | 2 | 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) |
| SML3043 | Migration and Multilingualism | 15 | 1 | View on ELE (current students only) |
| SML3044 | Migration in World Cinema | 15 | 2 | View on ELE (current students only) |
