Course Content
Year 1
Languages
- French Language and Society I
- French Grammar
- German Language and Society I
- German Grammar
If you are taking French or German ab initio, you will follow an intensive, fast-track programme with more language and less linguistics. Example modules may include:
- Ab Initio German Language Skills
- Ab Initio German Language and Society
- Ab Initio German Grammar
- Ab Initio French Language Skills
- Ab Initio French Language and Society
- Ab Initio French Grammar
Linguistics
- Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
- Introduction to Syntax
Year 2
Languages
- French Language and Cultures: Advanced
- German Language and Cultures: Advanced
You will also study four option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
- The Francophone World
- The Berlin Republic
- French Society On-screen
- Contemporary German-speaking Film
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language I
- Intermediate Phonetics and Phonology
- Intermediate Syntax
- Introduction to Language Acquisition
- Linguistics as Data Science
Year 3
- Year Abroad (You can divide the year abroad between two locations, a French-speaking country and a German-speaking country, or you can choose to spend the whole year in one location.)
Year 4
- French Language and Cultures: Proficient
- German Language and Cultures: Proficient
You will also study four option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
- Translation: Methodology and Practice (French)
- French Society On-screen
- France and the Second World War: Memory, Trauma and Identity
- Translation: Methodology and Practice (German)
- Contemporary German-speaking Film
- Modern German Language
- Independent Study in French
- Independent Study in German
- Advanced Topics in Phonetics and Phonology
- Multimodality: Language and the Body
- Psycholinguistics
- Advanced Topics in Psycholinguistics
- Neurolinguistics: Language and the Brain
- Psycholinguistic Approaches to Second Language Acquisition
- English Place-names across Time and Space
- Bilingualism
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language II
