Programme Specification for the 2019/0 academic year
BA (Hons) History and European Cultural Studies
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) History and European Cultural Studies | Programme code | UFA4HPSSML38 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Part Time Level 1 |
Academic year | 2019/0 |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
The BA (Hons) European Cultural Studies (4-year) programme is not available for direct application; it is only available as an exit route from the BA Modern Languages following failure of one of the non-condonable Study or Work Abroad modules, SML3010, SML3020, or SML3025 at stage 3.
This programme will give you a thorough grounding in the main themes and methods of two progressive disciplines, History and Modern Languages. This Combined Honours degree enables you to divide your time equally between these related subject areas. While at the University of Exeter, you will study half of your modules from the BA Modern Languages programme and the other half from History.
History at the University of Exeter builds on a broad foundation in the first year, to highly specialised work in the final year, including the study of a particular subject in depth and a dissertation on a topic of personal interest. At the Streatham Campus our research expertise ranges from pre-history through to the twenty-first century incorporating international, economic, cultural and social history and many geographical areas including the Americas, parts of Asia, Britain and Europe. Our particular strengths lie in political, social, maritime, military, naval and medical history.
The Modern Languages side of the programme offers choice between the study of one of seven major languages (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish), taught by experienced language specialists including native speakers and academic staff at the cutting edge of research in their particular discipline. Progression through the programme will combine the acquisition of language with the study of the literature, history, film and linguistics of the language disciplines as well as advanced translation practice. You will develop a high level of proficiency in reading, writing, understanding and speaking your selected language, providing you with valued skills for future careers. A carefully arranged choice of modules enables you to focus more towards language skills or to learn about the society in which a particular language is spoken. These cultural modules cover topics as broad as history, politics, philosophy, literature and cinema; they complement the language study within the programme and further ground your understanding of the language of your choice.
As a whole, BA History and Modern Languages offers you a coherent programme of study, balancing core elements with a choice of specialist topics to suit your individual aspirations and requirements.
Advice and guidance on your programme can be sought from your personal tutor and programme director. All staff offer regular office hours that you can drop into without a prior appointment for this purpose.
3. Educational Aims of the Programme
This programme aims to develop your competence in the subject-specific and research skills required in both History and Modern Languages, through extended engagement with your chosen languages and through relevant methodological, critical and theoretical contexts. As you progress through the programme, you will acquire a thorough grounding in the core principles of History and Modern Languages through study which engages you imaginatively in the process of understanding and analysing both language and history and culture. In Modern Languages modules, you will train towards a high level of proficiency in reading, speaking, writing and listening, with the aim of enabling you to communicate readily in personal and professional arenas. Throughout the History programmes stress is laid on the need to analyse, discuss and deploy historical evidence in a variety of settings and not simply on the ability to memorise. You will learn through lectures, tutorials and seminars, with a growing emphasis at each successive level on student-led learning. Modules are designed to encourage you to think about long-term developments and processes of historical change, and to make comparisons between countries and cultures. This helps you progress from the more tightly defined topics studied at A level. Modules are also designed to encourage you to think and write analytically about these broad subjects. They emphasise historical questions that require you to identify patterns across time, or between countries, and to isolate common or competing trends, instead of concentrating on short-term or single explanations.
History and Modern Languages offer detailed subject knowledge, broad coverage and a wide range of choice. You will also acquire advanced competence in core academic, personal and key skills, providing a basis for career progression in the academic and professional worlds. You will be exposed to a variety of teaching and assessment methods within appropriate learning environments, supported by feedback and monitoring of your progress. You will also be able to develop your independent study skills through individual research.
The programme provides an intellectually stimulating, satisfying experience of learning and studying, and forms a sound basis for further study in these or in related disciplines. It aims to develop a range of subject-specific, academic and transferable skills, including high order conceptual literacy and communication skills of value in graduate employment. History and Modern Languages encourage you to become a global citizen, a questioning member of society, and provides thorough training for further study or a specialist career. You may utilise the skills you develop in a range of sectors, including translation, museums, consultancy, market research, the civil service, education, teaching, new media industries, journalism and publishing, research, charities, information science, advertising and public relations.
4. Programme Structure
5. Programme Modules
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.
http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module. You are expected to balance your credits in each stage of the programme, taking 60 credits from History, and 60 credits from Modern Languages. On the Modern Languages side of your programme, you will normally take optional content modules appropriate to your degree stage and corresponding to your compulsory language module.
The College of Humanities, however, takes the view that in Combined Honours programmes you would be incapable of reaching a satisfactory standard in the chosen language if you took fewer than 60 credits per year in it. Accordingly you may not exercise the modularity option in Modern Languages (modularity is where you are permitted to take elective modules from other disciplines that are not included in the programme specification). However, it would be possible for you in certain cases, to exercise the right from the History side of your programme alone.
At stages 1, 2 and 4, you will take one compulsory language module amounting to 30 credits in total. At stage 3, you will spend a year abroad in one of the following ways:
- on an Erasmus/Socrates exchange or other approved programme of study;
- as an Assistant in a school under the scheme arranged by the British Council;
- in approved paid or voluntary employment.
The year may be spent either in one country where a language of study is spoken or, if suitable arrangements can be made, divided between two countries. Exceptionally, other arrangements may be approved by the Director of Education. On the year abroad you are required either to take a compulsory module which tests your language acquisition, your intercultural competence and develops employability skills and environmental awareness, or, if you study at a University on an Erasmus exchange you will be assessed on the basis of the marks obtained at the host university and an oral examination held on your return to Exeter.
Stage 1
15 credits of compulsory History modules, 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language, 45 credits of optional History modules, and 30 credits of Modern Languages modules
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
a select HIH1400.
b select 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language.
c select 45 credits from this list of optional History modules.
d select 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language; on the Modern Languages side of your programme, you may select a maximum of 15 credits of either the SML- or HUM-coded modules for the year. Please note that certain modules may only be available to students on Single Honours programmes, or to students who have taken a particular language module. This information will be given in the pre-requisites or co-requisites section of the relevant module descriptor.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIH1400 | Making History [See note a above] | 15 | Yes |
| MLX S1 BA comp language 2019-0 [See note b above] | |||
| MLF1001 | French Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLF1052 | French Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLG1001 | German Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLG1052 | German Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLI1001 | Italian Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLI1052 | Italian Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLM1052 | Beginners Chinese | 30 | Yes |
| MLP1052 | Portuguese Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLR1001 | Contemporary Russian Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLR1030 | Russian Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
| MLS1001 | Spanish Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLS1056 | Spanish Language for Beginners | 30 | Yes |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HISS S1 BA CH opt 2019-0 [See note c above] | |||
| HIH1014 | The Body in Eighteenth-Century Britain | 15 | No |
| HIH1018 | 'War without Hate': The North African Campaign, 1940-1943 | 15 | No |
| HIH1022 | A History of Children and Childhood in Modern Europe | 15 | No |
| HIH1024 | From Bound Feet to 'Half the Sky': Women and Modern China | 15 | No |
| HIH1027 | A History of Epidemics from the Plague to Zika | 15 | No |
| HIH1038 | The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Origins, Development and Impact | 15 | No |
| HIH1048 | Being a Barbarian: Identity, Memory and the Creation of Medieval Europe | 15 | No |
| HIH1051 | Everyday Life in the Anglophone Caribbean, c.1900-1966 | 15 | No |
| HIH1053 | Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages | 15 | No |
| HIH1056 | Religious Life in Tudor and Stuart England, c.1560-1700 | 15 | No |
| HIH1057 | The Opium War: the British Empire encounters the Middle Kingdom | 15 | No |
| HIH1058 | Global Health: Historical Sources and Problems | 15 | No |
| HIH1401 | Approaches to History | 15 | No |
| HIH1402 | Britain, America, and the Global Order, 1846-1946 | 15 | No |
| HIH1410 | Understanding the Medieval and Early-Modern World | 30 | No |
| HIH1420 | Understanding the Modern World | 30 | No |
| HIH1505 | The First Crusade | 15 | No |
| HIH1525 | Restoration London: Plague, Fire and History | 15 | No |
| HIH1542 | Magic and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe | 15 | No |
| HIH1547 | Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in American History, 1865-1877 | 15 | No |
| HIH1600 | Images of Stalinism | 15 | No |
| HIH1609 | The Habsburg Monarchy of Austria-Hungary 1867-1918 | 15 | No |
| HIH1610 | The Rise and Demise of the Raj: India, 1857-1947 | 15 | No |
| HIH1612 | Renaissance Florence 1350-1550 | 15 | No |
| HIH1613 | Violent Justice, Legal Reform and Revolutionary Terror: Law in Eighteenth-Century France | 15 | No |
| HIH1023 | Being Poor in England in the Long Eighteenth Century | 15 | No |
| HIH1002 | Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: Britain Since 1945 | 15 | No |
| HIH1411 | From Wigan Pier to Piccadilly: Britain between the Wars | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA French opt 2019-0 [See note d above] | |||
| MLF1014 | Love and Death in French Culture | 15 | No |
| MLF1015 | War and Conflict in French Literature | 15 | No |
| MLF1017 | The Making of Modern France | 15 | No |
| MLF1103 | The French Language, Present and Past | 15 | No |
| MLF1105 | An Introduction to French Thought | 15 | No |
| MLF1121 | French Visual History | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA German opt 2019-0 [See note d above] | |||
| MLG1014 | A Nation Remembers: Issues in German Cultural Memory | 15 | No |
| MLG1015 | Representations of Education in German Literature and Film: Satire, Trauma, Melodrama | 15 | No |
| MLG1017 | Turning Points in German History 1200 - 2000 | 15 | No |
| MLG1018 | Nature and the City in German Literature, Visual Arts and Film | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Italian opt 2019-0 [See note d above] | |||
| MLI1016 | Italy Inside Out: Popular Visual Narratives about Italy | 15 | No |
| MLI1055 | Introduction to Italian Linguistics | 15 | No |
| MLI1121 | A Thousand Faces: Cultures and History in 19th-Century Italy | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Chinese opt 2019-0 [See note d above] | |||
| MLM1012 | Modern China, a Brief History: 18th to 20th Century | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Portuguese opt 2019-0 [See note d above] | |||
| MLP1002 | Introduction to the Lusophone World | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Russian opt 2019-0 [See note d above] | |||
| MLR1023 | Russia: Empire and Identity | 15 | No |
| MLR1025 | Imperfect Murder: Reading Crime and Punishment | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA Spanish opt 2019-0 [See note d above] | |||
| MLS1066 | The Making of Modern Latin America: History Through Literature and Culture | 15 | No |
| MLS1065 | The Making of Modern Spain | 15 | No |
| MLS1064 | An Introduction to the Hispanic World: Texts in Context | 15 | No |
| MLS1067 | Ideology in the Hispanic World | 15 | No |
| MLS1016 | Gender Perspectives | 15 | No |
| MLX S1 BA ML opt 2019-0 [See note d above] | |||
| SML1207 | Introduction to Film | 15 | No |
Stage 2
30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language, 90 credits of optional modules (including 60 credits of History modules, and 30 credits of Modern Languages modules)
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
e select 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language.
f select 60 credits from this list of optional History modules (you must take HIH2001 Doing History: Perspectives on Sources if you intend to select HIH3005 History Dissertation in the final stage).
g select 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language; on the Modern Languages side of your programme, you may select a maximum of 15 credits of either the SML- or HUM-coded modules listed below for the year.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLX S2 BA comp language 2019-0 [See note e above] | |||
| MLF2001 | French Language, Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLF2152 | Intermediate French | 30 | Yes |
| MLG2001 | German Language, Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLG2052 | Intermediate German | 30 | Yes |
| MLI2001 | Italian Language, Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLI2051 | Italian Language | 30 | Yes |
| MLM2052 | Intermediate Chinese (One) | 30 | Yes |
| MLP2052 | Intermediate Portuguese | 30 | Yes |
| MLR2001 | Contemporary Russian Written and Oral I | 30 | Yes |
| MLR2030 | Intermediate Russian | 30 | Yes |
| MLS2001 | Spanish Language, Written and Oral | 30 | Yes |
| MLS2156 | Spanish Language (ex-beginners) | 30 | Yes |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HISS S2 BA CH opt 2019-0 [See note f above] | |||
| HIH2014A | Decolonisation and the Collapse of the British Empire, 1919-1968 | 30 | No |
| HIH2001 | Doing History: Perspectives on Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH2002 | Uses of the Past | 30 | No |
| HIH2018A | The 'Savage Continent'? Everyday Violence in 1940s Europe | 30 | No |
| HIH2019A | Science, Technology and Medicine in the Cold War | 30 | No |
| HIH2030A | Peoples and Empires in Latin America, 1492-1820s | 30 | No |
| HIH2032A | Europe 1650-1800: From Enlightenment to Romanticism | 30 | No |
| HIH2034A | Anarchism: Theory, Practice, History | 30 | No |
| HIH2036A | Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965 | 30 | No |
| HIH2037 | American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology | 30 | No |
| HIH2108A | Stuart England | 30 | No |
| HIH2181A | The Witchcraze in Europe and its Colonies c.1300-1800 | 30 | No |
| HIH2182A | The Re-Birth of Europe? Renaissance and Renewal in the Long Twelfth Century | 30 | No |
| HIH2185A | China in the World, 1500-1840 | 30 | No |
| HIH2200A | Islam and the Making of Medieval Europe, c.600-1300 | 30 | No |
| HIH2203A | Crime and Society in England, 1500-1800 | 30 | No |
| HIH2208A | Medieval Paris | 30 | No |
| HIH2209A | African American History | 30 | No |
| HIH2218A | Religion, Society and Culture in Tudor England | 30 | No |
| HIH2224A | African Modernities: Popular Cultures in Twentieth Century Africa | 30 | No |
| MLX S2 BA French opt 2019-0 [See note g above] | |||
| MLF2003 | Freedom and French Realism | 15 | No |
| MLF2012 | Evolution of the French Language | 15 | No |
| MLF2029 | Varieties of French | 15 | No |
| MLF2056 | Provoking Thoughts - French Literature and Philosophy from the Renaissance to the 20th Century | 15 | No |
| MLF2063 | Crime and Punishment in French Fiction | 15 | No |
| MLF2066 | Intimate Spaces of the French Enlightenment | 15 | No |
| MLF2065 | Contemporary French Film: Issues and Debates | 15 | No |
| MLF2069 | East is East? Cross-Cultural Encounters in Medieval French Literature | 15 | No |
| MLF2070 | Violence and Virtue: Early Modern French Theatre | 15 | No |
| MLF2071 | 'Paris je t'aime': Writing the City | 15 | No |
| MLF2074 | Translating Exile: Contemporary Francophone Women Writers | 15 | No |
| SML2243 | Text and Image in Early European Culture | 15 | No |
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA German opt 2019-0 [See note g above] | |||
| MLG2003 | Youth and Age: Generations in German Fiction and Film | 15 | No |
| MLG2018 | Berlin - Culture, History and Politics | 15 | No |
| MLG2038 | Comic Perspectives on German History in Literature and Film | 15 | No |
| MLG2047 | Language in the Goethezeit | 15 | No |
| SML2243 | Text and Image in Early European Culture | 15 | No |
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Italian opt 2019-0 [See note g above] | |||
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
| SML2243 | Text and Image in Early European Culture | 15 | No |
| MLI2018 | Love (and Marriage?) in Contemporary Italian Film Comedy | 15 | No |
| MLI2220 | Politics and Religion in Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Chinese opt 2019-0 [See note g above] | |||
| MLM2010 | Reading China: from Mandarins to Revolutionists | 15 | No |
| MLM2011 | Encounters and Entanglements: Chinese Art in Global Perspective | 15 | No |
| MLM2012 | Politics of Art: a Cultural Studies Perspective on Modern China | 15 | No |
| SML2243 | Text and Image in Early European Culture | 15 | No |
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Portuguese opt 2019-0 [See note g above] | |||
| MLP2002 | Portuguese as a Global Language | 15 | No |
| MLP2005 | Travelling Identities in the Lusophone World | 15 | No |
| SML2243 | Text and Image in Early European Culture | 15 | No |
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Russian opt 2019-0 [See note g above] | |||
| MLR2021 | Understanding Russia | 15 | No |
| MLR2022 | Soviet History from the Revolution to the Death of Stalin | 15 | No |
| MLR2023 | A Russian Carnival of the Animals | 15 | No |
| SML2243 | Text and Image in Early European Culture | 15 | No |
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA Spanish opt 2019-0 [See note g above] | |||
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
| SML2243 | Text and Image in Early European Culture | 15 | No |
| MLS2017 | Images of Dissent: Spanish Film under Franco | 15 | No |
| MLS2045 | Federico Garcia Lorca: Theatre and Poetry | 15 | No |
| MLS2060 | Love and Death in Spanish Drama | 15 | No |
| MLS2061 | The Latin American Short Story | 15 | No |
| MLS2067 | Spain from Democracy to Dictatorship: Republic, Civil War and Francoism, 1931-1953 | 15 | No |
| MLS2070 | Catalonia Is Not Spain? Modern Catalan Culture in Context | 15 | No |
| MLS2072 | Place and Identity in Contemporary Venezuelan Culture | 15 | No |
| MLS2158 | "What is Love? And Do I Need It?" An Introduction to Spanish Renaissance Love Poetry | 15 | No |
| MLS2159 | Key Modern Poets from Spain and Latin America | 15 | No |
| MLX S2 BA ML opt 2019-0 [See note g above] | |||
| SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
| SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
| HUM2004 | Making a Career in Publishing | 15 | No |
Stage 3
120 credits of compulsory modules.
h You must take one of these modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLX S3 BA comp year abroad 2019-0 [See note h above] | |||
| SML3010 | Work and Study Abroad | 120 | Yes |
| SML3020 | Study Abroad at a Partner University (with Assessment in the Foreign Language) | 120 | Yes |
| SML3025 | Internship Abroad Combined with Study at a Partner University Abroad | 120 | Yes |
Stage 4
30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language, 90 credits of optional modules (including 60 credits of History modules, and 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language)
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
i select 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language.
j select 60 credits of optional modules in History, if selecting History Sources and Context modules; you must select both the Sources module and its co-requisite Context module.
k select 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language; on the Modern Languages side of your programme, you may select a maximum of 15 credits of either the SML- or HUM-coded modules listed below for the year. Please note you may only select one dissertation module across the two programmes: either EAF3514, or SML3015, or SML3030.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLX SF BA comp language 2019-0 [See note i above] | |||
| MLF3111 | Advanced French Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLG3111 | Advanced German Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLI3111 | Advanced Italian Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLM3111 | Advanced Chinese Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLP3111 | Advanced Portuguese Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLR3111 | Advanced Russian Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
| MLS3111 | Advanced Spanish Language Skills | 30 | Yes |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HISS SF BA Comparative modules 2019-0 [See note j above] | |||
| HIH3617 | News, Media and Communication | 30 | No |
| HIH3618 | Power Elites: Ruling Groups across Space and Time | 30 | No |
| HIH3619 | Sexualities | 30 | No |
| HIH3626 | Heroes: Conceptions, Constructions and Representations | 30 | No |
| HIH3629 | Disease | 30 | No |
| HIH3632 | Violence | 30 | No |
| HIH3628 | Civil Wars | 30 | No |
| HISS SF BA Sources and Contexts 2019-0 [See note j above] | |||
| HIH3021 | China's Intellectual Elites - Ideas and Networks 1860s-1960s: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3022 | China's Intellectual Elites - Ideas and Networks 1860s-1960s: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3023 | Riches and Poverty: Capitalism in Britain, 1680-1830 - Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3024 | Riches and Poverty: Capitalism in Britain, 1680-1830 - Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3036 | Britain in an Age of Revolution: War, Society and Culture, 1789-1815: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3037 | Britain in an Age of Revolution: War, Society and Culture, 1789-1815: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3056 | Them and Us: Imagining the Social "Other" in Britain since the 1880s: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3057 | Them and Us: Imagining the Social "Other" in Britain since the 1880s: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3117 | The Age of AEthelred 'the Unready': Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3118 | The Age of AEthelred 'the Unready': Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3132 | The Body in Early Modern England: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3133 | The Body in Early Modern England: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3157 | The Irish Revolution, 1912-23: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3158 | The Irish Revolution, 1912-23: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3167 | Violence or Non-Violence? Gandhi and Popular Movements in India, 1915-1950: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3168 | Violence or Non-Violence? Gandhi and Popular Movements in India, 1915-1950: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3180 | The Spanish Civil War: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3181 | The Spanish Civil War: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3182 | Critics of Empire: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3183 | Critics of Empire: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3187 | Everyday Stalinism: Life in the Soviet Union, 1928-53: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3188 | Everyday Stalinism: Life in the Soviet Union, 1928-53: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3202 | Chile Under Allende and Pinochet: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3203 | Chile Under Allende and Pinochet: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3216 | The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3217 | The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3257 | The Russian Revolution: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3258 | The Russian Revolution: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3277 | The Medieval Reformation: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3278 | The Medieval Reformation: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3296 | Street Protest and Social Movements in the Modern Era: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3297 | Street Protest and Social Movements in the Modern Era: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3314 | Governing the World: A History of Internationalism from WW1 to the Present: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3315 | Governing the World: A History of Internationalism from WW1 to the Present: Sources | 30 | No |
| HIH3316 | The Holocaust and Nazi Occupation of Eastern Europe, 1939-1945: Context | 30 | No |
| HIH3317 | The Holocaust and Nazi Occupation of Eastern Europe, 1939-1945: Sources | 30 | No |
| MLX SF BA French opt 2019-0 [See note k above] | |||
| MLF3006 | The Invention of Modern Love | 15 | No |
| MLF3034 | Sociolinguistics of French | 15 | No |
| MLF3046 | Dialectology in France | 15 | No |
| MLF3069 | Writing Women and Strange Monsters | 15 | No |
| MLF3072 | Sex and the Text: Gender and Authority in Late Medieval France | 15 | No |
| MLF3073 | Proust's a la Recherche du Temps Perdu | 15 | No |
| MLF3078 | Philosophers, Prophets, and Mystics in French Culture | 15 | No |
| MLF3079 | Sex, Subversion and Censorship: Libertine Literature in Seventeenth-Century France | 15 | No |
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | No |
| SML3036 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | No |
| HUM3001 | Communist Lives | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA German opt 2019-0 [See note k above] | |||
| MLG3036 | Dictatorships on Display: History Exhibitions in Germany and Austria | 15 | No |
| MLG3037 | Coping with Catastrophe: German Culture, Literature and Politics in the Interwar Years | 15 | No |
| MLG3039 | What Did the German Kaiserreich Do for Us? Questions to a New Nation (1870-1914) | 15 | No |
| MLG3112 | Law in Fiction | 15 | No |
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | No |
| SML3036 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | No |
| HUM3001 | Communist Lives | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Italian opt 2019-0 [See note k above] | |||
| HUM3001 | Communist Lives | 15 | No |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | No |
| SML3036 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | No |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
| MLI3028 | Italian Varieties and Dialects | 15 | No |
| MLI3199 | Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Chinese opt 2019-0 [See note k above] | |||
| MLM3010 | Ritual and Power: Text and Image of Chinese Landscapes | 15 | No |
| MLM3011 | China and the Third World: Foreign Relations and Nation Building in China in the Cold War Era | 15 | No |
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | No |
| SML3036 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | No |
| HUM3001 | Communist Lives | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Portuguese opt 2019-0 [See note k above] | |||
| MLP3002 | Afro-Brazil: Ideas of Africa in Brazilian Fiction | 15 | No |
| MLP3004 | Portuguese through Time | 15 | No |
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | No |
| SML3036 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | No |
| HUM3001 | Communist Lives | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Russian opt 2019-0 [See note k above] | |||
| MLR3026 | The Deceptive City: The Creation of St Petersburg in Russian Literature | 15 | No |
| MLR3027 | The Making of Underground Russia, 1825-1917 | 15 | No |
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | No |
| SML3036 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | No |
| HUM3001 | Communist Lives | 15 | No |
| MLR3019 | Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA Spanish opt 2019-0 [See note k above] | |||
| MLS3037 | Women and Feminism in 20th Century Spain | 15 | No |
| MLS3057 | Cross Currents: Memory, Myth and Modernity in Latin America | 15 | No |
| MLS3061 | Religion, Revolution and Counterrevolution | 15 | No |
| MLS3065 | Spain and 1898: from Disaster to Modernity | 15 | No |
| MLS3066 | Almodovar's Spain: Cinema and Society | 15 | No |
| MLS3067 | "Monster of Nature and Phoenix of Wits." An Introduction to the Work of Lope de Vega | 15 | No |
| MLS3068 | Staging Conflicts: Spanish Romantic Drama | 15 | No |
| MLS3069 | Mediated Lives: Intermedial Fiction from Latin America | 15 | No |
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | No |
| SML3036 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | No |
| HUM3001 | Communist Lives | 15 | No |
| MLX SF BA ML opt 2019-0 [See note k above] | |||
| SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
| SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
| SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
| SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | No |
| SML3036 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| SML3040 | Women in Translation: Gender and Publishing in the 21st Century | 15 | No |
| HUM3001 | Communist Lives | 15 | No |
| AHV3003 | The Face | 15 | No |
6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
1. Identify History and Modern Languages as broad subject disciplines. | ILOs 1-8 are acquired through lectures, seminars, workshops, study groups, tutorials and other learning activities throughout the programme. The degree of specialisation of subject knowledge increases during the programme. Modules at final stage are most closely related to the research specialism of the staff teaching the module. The precise method of teaching varies according to each module. On team-taught modules you will normally engage in both lectures and seminar groups. In smaller options you will normally spend most of your contact time in seminar groups and workshops. 1, 2 and 3 are developed at stage one in the Making History module, Understanding the Medieval and early Modern World and Understanding the Modern World though lectures, seminars, and written work. 1 is further developed especially in the Uses of the Past module at stage two. 2 and 3 form the backbone of all modules taken at all stages, but the level of complexity and nuance develops. 4 is a requirement of all modules, but there is particular primary source emphasis - developing in complexity as you progress through the stages of the programme - at stage 1 in Sources and Skills, Understanding the Medieval and early Modern World and Understanding the Modern World, at stage 2 Doing History, and at final stage in the Special Subject and Dissertation (if chosen). Core language modules at Stage 1 include an introduction to language-learning strategies, with subsequent stages requiring you to make systematic use of the self-access material available in the library, in the Foreign Language Centre, and via web-based resources. Language modules at each stage use authentic materials in the chosen language/s, both written (texts in a variety of styles and registers) and spoken (oral classes with native speakers, together with use of TV and the electronic media). These forms of target-language material are used in a variety of ways, including reading or listening comprehension, translation, and production of related material in the chosen language/s through exercises such as summarising, essay-writing and oral presentations. Instruction is reinforced by regular formative assessment. Formal grammar is usually taught, both in seminars and through guided study of a textbook, at a level appropriate to each stage of the programmes and to level of achievement at the outset of the programme. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, coursework, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, oral and written exams, other written reports/projects, and (if chosen) a dissertation. Essays, exams and presentations are especially significant within the programme because they assess each of the skills, 1-8. The assessment criteria pay full recognition to the importance of the various skills outlined. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
9. Demonstrate understanding of the linguistic principles required to assimilate and analyse the structure of a foreign language. | These skills are developed throughout the programme in all modules, with the emphasis becoming more complex as students move from stage to stage. They are developed through lectures and seminars, written work, and oral work (both in presentation and seminar discussion), and reinforced through the range of modules across all stages. They will culminate in the substantial and independent research skills demonstrated within the dissertation (if chosen) and special subject modules. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, oral and written exams, other written reports/projects, and (if chosen) a dissertation. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
16. Apply advanced literacy and communication skills in appropriate contexts including the ability to present sustained and persuasive written and oral arguments. | Personal and key skills are delivered through all modules, and developed in lectures, workshops, study groups, tutorials, work experience and other learning activities throughout the programme. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, oral and written exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. ILOs 16-21 are also strongly developed in the course of the portfolio of assessed essays and other written work produced through all stages of the programme. These assessments work on the principle of offering formative feedback to support the development of your written work within as well as between modules. Feedback on one assignment is intended to inform the next piece of work you undertake on the module; the next piece of work on the programme, or the future learning of graduates. ILO 22 is associated especially with the range of group presentations taking place in modules. Group presentation assessment brings into focus an important range of skills for students, including sharing workloads, responsibility for tasks, team-working, collaborative and communicative skills. Individual contributions to group work are also assessed individually, most often in the form of a reflective presentation report. ILOs 23-24 are also accomplished in the course of ‘real-time’ formal assessments such as presentations and end of module exams, which occur in all four levels of the programme. |
7. Programme Regulations
Programme-specific Award Rules
Your degree classification will be calculated from the credit-weighted average marks for stages 2 and 4 combined in the ratio 1:2 respectively.
Classification
Full details of assessment regulations for all taught programmes can be found in the TQA Manual, specifically in the Credit and Qualifications Framework, and the Assessment, Progression and Awarding: Taught Programmes Handbook. Additional information, including Generic Marking Criteria, can be found in the Learning and Teaching Support Handbook.
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
All students within History and Modern Languages have a personal tutor for their entire programme of study and who is available at advertised ‘office hours’. There are induction sessions to orientate you at the start of your programme. A personal tutoring system will operate with regular communication throughout the programme. Academic support will be also be provided by module leaders. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.
Programme handbooks and other useful information can be accessed via the student intranet: http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/taughthandbook/ .
Other useful information and student resources can be accessed via the Exeter Learning Environment (ELE): http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/login/index.php , which has specific information on library skills, essay writing and research skills.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
Please refer to the University Academic Policy and Standards guidelines regarding support for students and students' learning.
10. Admissions Criteria
Undergraduate applicants must satisfy the Undergraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Postgraduate applicants must satisfy the Postgraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Specific requirements required to enrol on this programme are available at the respective Undergraduate or Postgraduate Study Site webpages.
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.
The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.
(http://as.exeter.ac.uk/support/admin/staff/qualityassuranceandmonitoring/tqamanual/fullcontents/)
12. Indicators of Quality and Standards
The programme is not subject to accreditation and/ or review by professional and statutory regulatory bodies (PSRBs).
13. Methods for Evaluating and Improving Quality and Standards
The University and its constituent Colleges review the quality and standard of teaching and learning in all taught programmes against a range of criteria through the procedures outlined in the Teaching Quality Assurance (TQA) Manual Quality Review Framework.
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
College of Humanities (CHUM)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
College of Humanities (CHUM)Not applicable to this programme
Partner Institution
Not applicable to this programme.
17. Programme Accredited / Validated by
0
18. Final Award
BA (Hons) History and European Cultural Studies
19. UCAS Code
Not applicable to this programme.
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | 480 |
ECTS credits | 240 |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] Languages and related studies
Level 1
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 26/07/2016 |
Date of last revision | 23/08/2019 |
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