Programme Specification for the 2024/5 academic year
BA (Hons) History and Global Cultural Studies (4-year)
1. Programme Details
Programme name | BA (Hons) History and Global Cultural Studies (4-year) | Programme code | UFA4HPSSML51 |
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Study mode(s) | Full Time Part Time |
Academic year | 2024/5 |
Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
The BA (Hons) Global Cultural Studies (4-year) programme is an exit route only and not available for direct application.
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 Modern Languages and the other half from History.
History at the University of Exeter gives you the tools you need to study the history that interests you. It develops a broad foundation of skills and knowledge in the first year, builds on this in the second year as you begin to become an independent researcher, and culminates in the opportunity to produce highly specialised work in the final year, including the study of a particular subject in depth. There is a huge amount of module choice available to you, covering time periods from the Roman Empire to the early twenty-first century, and topics as diverse as migration and mobility, indigenous peoples in Latin America, the history of health and its politics, women in society, the Vikings, magic and witchcraft in early modern Europe, and histories of material things.
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 Global Cultural Studies 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
The BA (Hons) History and Global Cultural Studies (4-year) is a four-year full-time programme of study at Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF) level 6 (as confirmed against the FHEQ). The programme may also be taken part-time in up to seven years. This programme is divided into three stages. Each stage is normally equivalent to an academic year.
5. Programme Modules
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 a suitable programme of study at an approved partner institution;
- 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 an approved partner institution, 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
Stage 1: 75 credits of compulsory modules, 45 credits of optional modules
45 credits of compulsory History modules, 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language, 15 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 HIH1137.
b select 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language.
c select HIH1421 Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History OR HIH1422 Understanding Modern History.
You may also:
d select 15 credits of Sources and Skills History modules.
You must:
e 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 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. Please note for students of Modern Languages Portuguese (Single Honours or Combined Honours) MLP1002 is compulsory.
Compulsory Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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HIH1137 | Becoming a Historian: Core [See note a above] | 15 | Yes |
MLX S1 Compulsory Language Modules 2023-4 [See note b above] | |||
MLF1001 | French Language | 30 | No |
MLF1052 | French Language for Beginners | 30 | No |
MLG1001 | German Language | 30 | No |
MLG1052 | German Language for Beginners | 30 | No |
MLI1001 | Italian Language | 30 | No |
MLI1052 | Italian Language for Beginners | 30 | No |
MLM1052 | Beginners Chinese | 30 | No |
MLP1052 | Portuguese Language for Beginners | 30 | No |
MLR1001 | Contemporary Russian Written and Oral | 30 | No |
MLR1030 | Russian Language for Beginners | 30 | No |
MLS1001 | Spanish Language | 30 | No |
MLS1056 | Spanish Language for Beginners | 30 | No |
HIH1421 | Understanding Medieval and Early Modern History [See note c above] | 30 | No |
HIH1422 | Understanding Modern History [See note c above] | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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HISS S1 new BA SH opt 2023-4 [See note d above] | |||
HIH1002 | Losing an Empire, Finding a Role: Britain Since 1945 | 15 | No |
HIH1014 | The Body in Eighteenth-Century Britain | 15 | No |
HIH1042 | Murder in Early Modern England | 15 | No |
HIH1043 | The Collapse of Communism in Central-Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union | 15 | No |
HIH1051 | Everyday Life in the Anglophone Caribbean, c.1900-1966 | 15 | No |
HIH1053 | Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages | 15 | No |
HIH1138 | Medieval, Manufactured? Uses and Reuses of the Middle Ages | 15 | No |
HIH1408 | The Dissolution of the Monasteries | 15 | No |
HIH1411 | From Wigan Pier to Piccadilly: Britain between the Wars | 15 | No |
HIH1501 | The Viking Phenomenon | 15 | No |
HIH1505 | The First Crusade | 15 | No |
HIH1506 | The First Day of the Somme | 15 | No |
HIH1585 | Ladies of the Night: Prostitution in the Victorian World | 15 | No |
HIH1586 | Early Modern Venice: Representations and Myths | 15 | No |
HIH1597 | Serfdom in Late Medieval England | 15 | No |
HIH1600 | Images of Stalinism | 15 | No |
HIH1607 | JFK | 15 | No |
HIH1612 | Renaissance Florence 1350-1550 | 15 | No |
HIH1614 | Environment and Industry, 1750-1950: Global Perspectives | 15 | No |
HIH1615 | Imperial Science, Race, and Exploration in the Long 19th Century | 15 | No |
HIH1616 | Producing Poverty: Peasants in a Global Perspective, 700-1300CE | 15 | No |
HIH1618 | Body, Border, Partition: Understanding Violence in South Asia | 15 | No |
HIH1140 | Confinement, Care, Cure: Psychiatric Institutions in the Twentieth Century | 15 | No |
HIH1539 | Early Modern Things: Materials as Historical Sources | 15 | No |
HIH1534 | Maritime Power in the Age of Nelson | 15 | No |
HIH1532 | The History of Strategic Thinking | 15 | No |
HIH1412 | Early Modern Magic and Witchcraft | 15 | No |
MLX S1 Chinese Option Modules 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
MLM1010 | China of the Senses: Approaching Chinese Culture and Environments | 15 | No |
MLM1013 | A Brief History of Modern China (1861-Present) | 15 | No |
MLX S1 French Option Modules 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
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 |
MLF1018 | The Devil is in the Detail: An Introduction to the Short Story in French | 15 | No |
MLX S1 German Option Modules 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
MLG1014 | A Nation Remembers: Issues in German Cultural Memory | 15 | No |
MLG1017 | Turning Points in German History 1200 - 2000 | 15 | No |
MLG1021 | Outside In: An Introduction to Outcasts and Outsiders in German-language Literature and Film | 15 | No |
MLX S1 Italian Option Modules 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
MLI1016 | Italy Inside Out: Popular Visual Narratives about Italy | 15 | No |
MLI1121 | A Thousand Faces: Cultures and History in 19th-Century Italy | 15 | No |
MLX S1 Portuguese Option Modules 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
MLP1002 | Introduction to the Lusophone World | 15 | No |
MLX S1 Russian Option Modules 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
MLR1023 | Russia: Empire and Identity | 15 | No |
MLR1006 | An Emotional Experience: Russian Literature and the Expression of Feeling | 15 | No |
MLX S1 Spanish Option Modules 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
MLS1067 | Ideology in the Hispanic World | 15 | No |
SML1067 | Ideology in the Hispanic World | 15 | No |
MLS1068 | An Introduction to the Literature and Film of Spain | 15 | No |
MLS1064 | An Introduction to the Hispanic World: Texts in Context | 15 | No |
MLS1066 | The Making of Modern Latin America: History Through Literature and Culture | 15 | No |
MLS1164 | A Journey of Discovery: Hispanic Global Culture | 15 | No |
MLX S1 Neutral Option Modules 2023-4 [See note e above] | |||
SML1207 | Introduction to Film | 15 | No |
SML1208 | Language, Culture, and International Relations | 15 | No |
SML1002 | Constructing Nature: Stories we Live By | 15 | No |
SML1018 | The Devil Is in the Detail: An Introduction to the Short Story in French | 15 | No |
Stage 2
Stage 2: 30 credits of compulsory modules, 90 credits of optional modules
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:
f select 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language.
g select 60 credits from the lists of optional History modules in Routwe A, B, C or D; you must take either HIH2001 Doing History: Perspectives on Sources or HIH2237 Doing History in the Digital Age if you intend to select HIH3005 History Dissertation or HIH3006 Research Project Dissertation in the final stage). HIH2237 is non-condonable.
h 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. It is your responsibility to ensure that credit for SML modules can be counted towards the language of your study, where this is necessary for your credit count.
Compulsory Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
---|---|---|---|
MLX S2 Compulsory Language Modules 2023-4 [See note f above] | |||
MLF2001 | French Language, Written and Oral | 30 | No |
MLF2152 | Intermediate French | 30 | No |
MLG2001 | German Language, Written and Oral | 30 | No |
MLG2052 | Intermediate German | 30 | No |
MLI2001 | Italian Language, Written and Oral | 30 | No |
MLI2051 | Italian Language | 30 | No |
MLM2052 | Intermediate Chinese (One) | 30 | No |
MLP2052 | Intermediate Portuguese | 30 | No |
MLR2001 | Contemporary Russian Written and Oral I | 30 | No |
MLR2030 | Intermediate Russian | 30 | No |
MLS2001 | Spanish Language, Written and Oral | 30 | No |
MLS2156 | Spanish Language (ex-beginners) | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
---|---|---|---|
HISS S2 new BA CH opt A 2023-4 [See note g above] | |||
HIH2011A | Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe | 30 | No |
HIH2014A | Decolonisation and the Collapse of the British Empire, 1919-1968 | 30 | No |
HIH2032A | Europe 1650-1800: From Enlightenment to Romanticism | 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 |
HIH2137A | Inventing Modern Man: Constructions of Mind, Body, and the Individual, 1400-1800 | 30 | No |
HIH2138A | History of Development: Ideologies, Politics, and Projects | 30 | No |
HIH2145A | Spain from Absolutism to Democracy | 30 | No |
HIH2179A | The American Empire | 30 | No |
HIH2185A | China in the World, 1500-1840 | 30 | No |
HIH2186A | Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England | 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 |
HIH2233 | The British World c.1860-1975 | 30 | No |
HIH2234 | Sailors, Slavery and Piracy: The Atlantic World, 1600 - 1800 | 30 | No |
HIH2587 | The Other Renaissance: Religion, Knowledge, and Power in the Twelfth Century | 30 | No |
HIH2590 | An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century | 30 | No |
HIH2591 | Philip Augustus and the Making of France, 1180-1223 | 30 | No |
HIH2592 | Science, Empire, and Natural History Museums: A Global Perspective | 30 | No |
HISS S2 new BA CH opt B 2023-4 [See note g above] | |||
HIH2002 | Uses of the Past | 30 | No |
HIH2011A | Forgetting Fascism, Remembering Communism: Memory in Modern Europe | 30 | No |
HIH2037 | American Frontiers: The West in U.S. History and Mythology | 30 | No |
HIH2137A | Inventing Modern Man: Constructions of Mind, Body, and the Individual, 1400-1800 | 30 | No |
HIH2138A | History of Development: Ideologies, Politics, and Projects | 30 | No |
HIH2145A | Spain from Absolutism to Democracy | 30 | No |
HIH2179A | The American Empire | 30 | No |
HIH2185A | China in the World, 1500-1840 | 30 | No |
HIH2208A | Medieval Paris | 30 | No |
HIH2233 | The British World c.1860-1975 | 30 | No |
HIH2591 | Philip Augustus and the Making of France, 1180-1223 | 30 | No |
HISS S2 new BA CH opt C 2023-4 [See note g above] | |||
HIH2014A | Decolonisation and the Collapse of the British Empire, 1919-1968 | 30 | No |
HIH2032A | Europe 1650-1800: From Enlightenment to Romanticism | 30 | No |
HIH2036A | Albion's Fatal Tree: Capital Punishment in England, 1688-1965 | 30 | No |
HIH2186A | Deviants and Dissenters in Early Modern England | 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 |
HIH2234 | Sailors, Slavery and Piracy: The Atlantic World, 1600 - 1800 | 30 | No |
HIH2237 | Doing History in the Digital Age | 30 | No |
HIH2587 | The Other Renaissance: Religion, Knowledge, and Power in the Twelfth Century | 30 | No |
HIH2590 | An Age of Iron? Europe in the Tenth Century | 30 | No |
HIH2592 | Science, Empire, and Natural History Museums: A Global Perspective | 30 | No |
HISS S2 new BA CH opt D 2023-4 [See note g above] | |||
HIH2002 | Uses of the Past | 30 | No |
HIH2237 | Doing History in the Digital Age | 30 | No |
MLX S2 Chinese Option Modules 2023-4 [See note h above] | |||
MLM2002 | Politics of Contemporary China | 15 | No |
MLM2003 | Chinoiserie and Europeenerie: Artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe | 15 | No |
MLX S2 French Option Modules 2023-4 [See note h above] | |||
MLF2076 | Subversive Texts: Baudelaire and Rachilde | 15 | No |
MLF2005 | Classical myth in French and francophone cinema | 15 | No |
MLF2069 | East is East? Cross-Cultural Encounters in Medieval French Literature | 15 | No |
SML2209 | Music in Medieval Europe | 15 | No |
MLF2070 | Violence and Virtue: Early Modern French Theatre | 15 | No |
MLF2074 | Translating Exile: Contemporary Francophone Women Writers | 15 | No |
MLF2029 | Varieties of French | 15 | No |
MLF2056 | Provoking Thoughts - French Literature and Philosophy from the Renaissance to the 20th Century | 15 | No |
MLX S2 German Option Modules 2023-4 [See note h above] | |||
MLG2003 | Youth and Age: Generations in German Fiction and Film | 15 | No |
MLG2019 | Gender, Race and Migration in 20th and 21st-century German Literature | 15 | No |
MLG2018 | Berlin - Culture, History and Politics | 15 | No |
MLX S2 Italian Option Modules 2023-4 [See note h above] | |||
AHV2208 | Ideal Cities? Urban Cultures of Renaissance Italy | 15 | No |
MLI2019 | Italian(s) in the World | 15 | No |
MLI2018 | Love (and Marriage?) in Contemporary Italian Film Comedy | 15 | No |
MLX S2 Portuguese Option Modules 2023-4 [See note h above] | |||
SML2004 | Contemporary Latin American Cinema | 15 | No |
SML2002 | Cultural Connections in Southern Africa: Literature and Film | 15 | No |
MLP2002 | Portuguese as a Global Language | 15 | No |
MLX S2 Russian Option Modules 2023-4 [See note h above] | |||
MLR2021 | Understanding Russia | 15 | No |
MLR2024 | Exploring Revolution: The Making of Soviet Society and Culture in the 1920s | 15 | No |
MLX S2 Spanish Option Modules 2023-4 [See note h above] | |||
MLS2070 | Catalonia Is Not Spain? Modern Catalan Culture in Context | 15 | No |
MLS2158 | "What is Love? And Do I Need It?" An Introduction to Spanish Renaissance Love Poetry | 15 | No |
MLS2072 | Place and Identity in Contemporary Venezuelan Culture | 15 | No |
SML2004 | Contemporary Latin American Cinema | 15 | No |
MLS2061 | The Latin American Short Story | 15 | No |
MLS2045 | Federico Garcia Lorca: Theatre and Poetry | 15 | No |
MLS2073 | Literary Non-Fiction in Argentina: When Writing Meets the Real | 15 | No |
MLX S2 Neutral Option Modules 2023-4 [See note h above] | |||
HUM2005 | Tales of Freedom, Necessity and Providence | 15 | No |
SML2246 | Intercultural Communication | 15 | No |
SML2244 | Multilingualism in Society | 15 | No |
SML2003 | Research Skills in Languages and Cultures | 15 | No |
Stage 3
Stage 3: 120 credits of compulsory modules
i You must take one of these modules.
Compulsory Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
---|---|---|---|
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
Stage 4: 30 credits of compulsory modules, 90 credits of optional modules
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:
j select 30 credits of compulsory modules in your chosen language.
k You may only select a History Dissertation if you have taken Route C or D (including HIH2001 Doing History: Perspectives on Sources or HIH2237 Doing History in the Digital Age) at stage 2.
l If you select a History dissertation, you may take 30 credits from the Concepts modules, or you may take up to 30 credits outside of History unless you have taken credits outside of History at Stage 2. You must have at least 90 credits in each of your named degree subjects over Stages 2 and 3 to qualify for the award.
m If you selected History Route A or B in stage 2, you must select 60 credit Special Subject.
n select 30 credits of optional modules consisting of content related to your chosen language; you may select a maximum of 15 credits of the SML- or HUM-coded modules listed below for the year, these are additional to SML3015. You may, alternatively, take SML3030. Please note you may only select one dissertation module across the two programmes. It is your responsibility to ensure that credit for SML modules can be counted towards the language of your study, where this is necessary for your credit count.
Optional Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
---|---|---|---|
HIH3005 | General Third-Year Dissertation [See note k above] | 30 | Yes |
HIH3006 | Research Project Dissertation [See note k above] | 30 | Yes |
History UG Final Stage Concepts [See note l above] | |||
HIH3329 | The Future of History | 30 | No |
HIH3330 | Communications | 30 | No |
HIH3331 | Elites | 30 | No |
HIH3332 | Sexualities | 30 | No |
HIH3333 | Heroes | 30 | No |
HIH3334 | Civil Wars | 30 | No |
HIH3335 | Violence | 30 | No |
HIH3336 | Revolutions | 30 | No |
HIH3337 | Race | 30 | No |
History UG Final Year Special Subjects 2024-5 [See note m above] | |||
HIH3415 | Everyday Stalinism: Life in the Soviet Union, 1928-53 | 60 | Yes |
HIH3416 | Critics of Empire | 60 | Yes |
HIH3417 | The Yes, Minister Files: Perspectives on British Government since 1914 | 60 | Yes |
HIH3422 | Street Protest and Social Movements in the Modern Era | 60 | Yes |
HIH3426 | Health and its Politics in the 20th Century | 60 | Yes |
HIH3430 | From the Grand Tour to Gladiator: Modern encounters with the ancient world | 60 | Yes |
HIH3433 | Beyond Cannibalism: Indigenous Peoples and the European Colonisation of Brazil, 1500-1822 | 60 | Yes |
HIH3434 | The Body in Early Modern England | 60 | Yes |
HIH3436 | Engendering Empire: Making the British Imperial World | 60 | Yes |
HIH3437 | Death to the Traitors: Rebellion and Resisting Tyranny in the Middle Ages | 60 | Yes |
HIH3438 | The Rise of Capitalism in Britain 1660-1830 | 60 | Yes |
HIH3439 | Women's Experience in Britain: Race, Class and Gender since 1945 | 60 | Yes |
HIH3441 | Britons Abroad: The Experience of Travel, c. 1650-1900 | 60 | Yes |
HIH3442 | From Its Cradle to Its Grave? The National Health Service in Britain, 1948-Present | 60 | Yes |
HIH3444 | Them and Us: Imagining the Social "Other" in Britain since the 1880s | 60 | Yes |
HIH3448 | Britain in an Age of Revolution: War, Society and Culture, 1789-1815 | 60 | Yes |
HIH3450 | Decolonisation and Colonial Conflict | 60 | Yes |
HIH3451 | Borders and Mobilities in Postcolonial South Asia | 60 | Yes |
HIH3452 | Whiteness: A Global History | 60 | Yes |
MLX Final Stage Chinese Option Modules 2023-4 [See note n above] | |||
MLM3009 | China through the Lens: Cultural Translation and Self-Presentation | 15 | No |
MLM3008 | Introduction to Modern Chinese Literature | 15 | No |
MLM3011 | China and the Third World: Foreign Relations and Nation Building in China in the Cold War Era | 15 | No |
HUM3002 | Aliens Abroad: Science Fiction in Global Literature | 15 | No |
HUM3015 | The Place of Meaning: Gardens in Britain and China | 15 | No |
MLX Final Stage French Option Modules 2023-4 [See note n above] | |||
MLF3034 | Sociolinguistics of French | 15 | No |
MLF3078 | Philosophers, Prophets, and Mystics in French Culture | 15 | No |
MLF3050 | Music, Poetry, and Society at the Late Medieval French Court | 15 | No |
MLF3079 | Sex, Subversion and Censorship: Libertine Literature in Seventeenth-Century France | 15 | No |
MLF3080 | Les Miserables from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day | 15 | No |
MLF3046 | Dialectology in France | 15 | No |
MLF3075 | First-Person Outsiders in Modern French Literature | 15 | No |
MLF3081 | Sexual Politics: Gender Dynamics in Early Modern France | 15 | No |
EAF3520 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
MLX Final Stage German Option Modules 2023-4 [See note n 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 |
MLG3040 | Sex, Sciences and the Arts | 15 | No |
MLX Final Stage Italian Option Modules 2023-4 [See note n above] | |||
MLI3199 | Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend | 15 | No |
AHV3002 | Understanding Space in Renaissance Italy | 15 | No |
MLI3033 | Multicultural Italy | 15 | No |
HUM3002 | Aliens Abroad: Science Fiction in Global Literature | 15 | No |
EAF3520 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
MLX Final Stage Portuguese Option Modules 2023-4 [See note n above] | |||
MLP3009 | Afro-Brazil: Transatlantic Identities in Culture | 15 | No |
SML3014 | Socialist Thought and Practice in Latin America and Africa | 15 | No |
MLX Final Stage Russian Option Modules 2023-4 [See note n above] | |||
MLR3027 | The Making of Underground Russia, 1825-1917 | 15 | No |
MLR3026 | The Deceptive City: The Creation of St Petersburg in Russian Literature | 15 | No |
HUM3002 | Aliens Abroad: Science Fiction in Global Literature | 15 | No |
MLX Final Stage Spanish Option Modules 2023-4 [See note n above] | |||
MLS3037 | Women and Feminism in 20th Century Spain | 15 | No |
MLS3057 | Cross Currents: Memory, Myth and Modernity in Latin America | 15 | No |
MLS3112 | Spanish Modernists: Narratives of Identity, Gender and Nation | 15 | No |
MLS3071 | The Chilean Road to Socialism (1970-1973): What Happened and Why? Elements for a Debate | 15 | No |
MLS3067 | "Monster of Nature and Phoenix of Wits." An Introduction to the Work of Lope de Vega | 15 | No |
SML3031 | Advanced Translation Skills | 15 | No |
MLS3066 | Almodovar's Spain: Cinema and Society | 15 | No |
SML3014 | Socialist Thought and Practice in Latin America and Africa | 15 | No |
HUM3002 | Aliens Abroad: Science Fiction in Global Literature | 15 | No |
MLX Final Stage Neutral Option Modules 2023-4 [See note n above] | |||
SML3013 | Through the Language Lens: the Relationship between Language, Culture and the Mind | 15 | No |
SML3015 | Dissertation | 15 | No |
SML3043 | Migration and Multilingualism | 15 | No |
SML3041 | Green Matters in Modern Languages and Cultures | 15 | No |
SML3042 | Transcultural Devon: Creating, Analysing and Subtitling Interviews in the Context of Migration | 15 | No |
SML3009 | Intercultural Communication in a Global World | 15 | No |
SML3030 | Extended Dissertation | 30 | 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... | |
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...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 in later stages are often 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. | 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. Coursework, 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... | |
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...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 coursework assignments, 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... | |
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...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 and other coursework assessment, oral and written exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. |
7. Programme Regulations
Classification
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
Programme handbooks and other useful information can be accessed via the student gateway pages on the Exeter Learning Environment (ELE): http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/login/index.php,
Other useful information and student resources can also be accessed via ELE, including specific information on library skills, essay writing and research skills, and via StudyZone: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/students/studyzone/
All students on this programme 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.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
10. Admissions Criteria
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
12. Indicators of Quality and Standards
Certain programmes are subject to accreditation and/or review by professional and statutory regulatory bodies (PSRBs).
13. Methods for Evaluating and Improving Quality and Standards
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
College of Humanities (CHUM)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
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 Global Cultural Studies (4-year)
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] History
[Honours] Languages and related studies
23. Dates
Origin Date | 04/01/2016 |
Date of last revision | 21/09/2023 |
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