Course Content
Year 1
Languages
You'll take core modules in each language. These modules focus on developing your fluency, accuracy and communication expertise. Examples may include:
- German Language and Society I
- German Grammar
- Spanish Language and Society I
- Spanish Grammar
You can take either German or Spanish ab initio (not both).
If you are taking Spanish ab initio, you will follow an intensive, fast-track programme with more Spanish and less linguistics. Examples of modules may include:
- Ab Initio Spanish Language Skills
- Ab Initio Spanish Language and Society
- Ab Initio Spanish Grammar
If you are taking German ab initio, you will follow an intensive, fast-track programme with more German and less linguistics. Examples of modules may include:
- Ab Initio German Language Skills
- Ab Initio German Language and Society
- Ab Initio German Grammar
Linguistics
You will take core linguistics modules, examples of which may include:
- Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
- Introduction to Syntax
Year 2
Languages
You'll study core language modules in German and Spanish, examples of which may include:
- German Language and Cultures: Advanced
- Spanish Language and Cultures: Advanced
You will also study four option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
- The Berlin Republic
- Historical Memory in the Spanish-speaking World
- Contemporary German-speaking Film
- Hispanic Culture Through Film
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language I
- Intermediate Phonetics and Phonology
- Intermediate Syntax
- Introduction to Language Acquisition
- Linguistics as Data Science
Philosophy
You'll take two Key Ideas modules. These modules look in more depth at topics across theoretical philosophy and philosophy concerned with value, as well as the history of philosophy.
- Ethical Theory
- Religious Ethics
- Hume's Empiricism
- Rationalism: Spinoza and Leibniz
- Intermediate Logic
- Aesthetics
- Applied Ethics
- Metaphysics
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Science
- Nietzsche
- Politics and Freedom: Anarchism and Conservatism
- Kant’s Theoretical & Practical Philosophy
Year 3
- Year abroad (You can divide the year abroad between two locations, a German-speaking country and a Spanish-speaking country, or you can choose to spend the whole year in one location. )
Year 4
You'll study core language modules in your final year. These are designed to consolidate your critical skills through in-depth research and analysis. By this stage in your degree, you'll be able to demonstrate oral and written fluency, as well as accurate language use in its social and cultural contexts. In each of these modules, you will write a research essay of around 3000 words.
Examples of core modules:
- German Language and Cultures: Proficient
- Spanish Language and Cultures: Proficient
You will also study four option modules. In previous years, options have covered topics such as:
- Translation: Methodology and Practice (German)
- Contemporary German-speaking Film
- Modern German Language
- Translation: Methodology and Practice (Spanish)
- Hispanic Culture Through Film
- Latinos in the USA
- Independent Study in German
- Independent Study in Spanish
- 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
