University undergraduate students studying in the Monica Partridge Building Digital Hub. Friday November 5th 2021.

Modern Language Studies BA

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

This is the course for true language lovers, giving you the opportunity to study three languages. If your passion is being able to communicate with people from around the globe, and you dream of having the opportunity to immerse yourself in other cultures – then this is course is for you!

During your time with us, we’ll guide you through your three chosen languages (one of which may be from beginners' level) helping you push yourself towards fluency in preparation for your year abroad.

Many of our students say the year abroad is their course highlight. Not only do you have the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in all three of your chosen languages and cultures, but spending time abroad can make you more independent and confident. Taking yourself out of your comfort zone won’t only benefit your degree, it’ll shape the person you are to become.

Indicative modules

Optional

Year 1

French 1: Beginners

Optional

Year 1

French 1

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Year 1

Introduction to French and Francophone Studies

Optional

Year 1

German 1: Beginners

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Year 1

German 1

Optional

Year 1

Introduction to German Studies

Optional

Year 1

Portuguese 1: Beginners

Optional

Year 1

Culture and Society in Brazil, Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa

Optional

Year 1

Russian 1: Beginners

Optional

Year 1

Russian 1

Optional

Year 1

The Clash of Empires: History of the Balkans from Alexander the Great to Napoleon

Optional

Year 1

From Tsarism to Communism: Introduction to Russian History and Culture

Optional

Year 1

The Soviet Experiment

Optional

Year 1

Serbian / Croatian 1: Beginners

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Year 1

Spanish 1: Beginners

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Year 1

Spanish 1

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Year 1

Literature in Spanish

Optional

Year 1

Modern Latin America

Optional

Year 2

French 2 - Beginners

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Year 2

French 2

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Year 2

Introduction to French and Francophone Studies

Optional

Year 2

French Cinema: The New Wave

Optional

Year 2

Contemporary Francophone Cinema and Social Issues

Optional

Year 2

On Location: Cinematic Explorations of Contemporary France

Optional

Year 2

Literature and Politics in Modern France

Optional

Year 2

Introduction to Contemporary Science Fiction

Optional

Year 2

Huit Tableaux: Art and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (1799-1871)

Optional

Year 2

Enlightenment Literature: An Introduction

Optional

Year 2

La France en guerre: Memoires de la Premiere Guerre Mondiale

Optional

Year 2

Varieties of French

Optional

Year 2

Nineteenth Century French Narrative

Optional

Year 2

Gender and Language in French

Optional

Year 2

German 2 - Beginners

Optional

Year 2

German 2

Optional

Year 2

Leben und Arbeiten in Deutschland: Introduction to Contemporary Germany

Optional

Year 2

Life and Demise of the GDR

Optional

Year 2

Introduction to Literary Translation

Optional

Year 2

Reason and its Rivals from Kant to Freud

Optional

Year 2

Sex, Gender and Society in Modern Germany

Optional

Year 2

From Dictatorship to Democracy

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Year 2

From Democracy to Volksgemeinschaft

Optional

Year 2

Investigating the German Language

Optional

Year 2

History of German language from early beginnings to the present day

Optional

Year 2

Exploring the German Archive: Ideology and State in Newspaper Cuttings and Family Papers

Optional

Year 2

Portuguese 2: Beginners

Optional

Year 2

Nation Building and National Identities in the Lusophone World

Optional

Year 2

Russian 2 - Beginners

Optional

Year 2

Russian 2

Optional

Year 2

Media in Russia

Optional

Year 2

Gulag Archipelago: Stalin’s Prison Camps

Optional

Year 2

Screening Russia: Film and Society from the Tsars to Putin

Optional

Year 2

Yugoslavia from Creation to Collapse

Optional

Year 2

The History and Culture of Early Rus' c.800-1400

Optional

Year 2

Serbian / Croatian 2

Optional

Year 2

Spanish 2: Beginners

Optional

Year 2

Spanish 2

Optional

Year 2

New World(s): Contacts, Conquests and Conflict in Early Modern Hispanic History and Culture

Optional

Year 2

Modern Spanish and Spanish American Literature and Film

Optional

Year 2

Luso-Hispanic Cinemas

Optional

Year 2

Arts Work Placement Module

Mandatory

Year 3

Year abroad

Optional

Year 4

French 3

Optional

Year 4

The Everyday in Contemporary Literature and Thought

Optional

Year 4

People and Propaganda: Representing the French Revolution

Optional

Year 4

Citizenship, Ethnicity and National Identity in Post-War France

Optional

Year 4

French Documentary Cinema

Optional

Year 4

Difficult Women: 1789-1945

Optional

Year 4

Contemporary Francophone Cinema: The Personal and The Political

Optional

Year 4

Subtitling and Dubbing from French into English

Optional

Year 4

Language Attitudes and French

Optional

Year 4

German 3

Optional

Year 4

Mythology in German Literature

Optional

Year 4

Language and Social Media in Germany and Beyond

Optional

Year 4

Widerstand und Opposition in der DDR

Optional

Year 4

Portuguese 3

Optional

Year 4

Brazilian Slave Society

Optional

Year 4

Memory and the Future in Iberian and Latin American Culture and Politics

Optional

Year 4

Russian 3

Optional

Year 4

Russian Popular Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Optional

Year 4

The World of Orthodox Sainthood

Optional

Year 4

Serbian / Croatian 2

Optional

Year 4

Myths and Memories: Histories of Russia's Second World War

Optional

Year 4

Language Project in Russian and Slavonic Studies

Optional

Year 4

Serbian / Croatian 3

Optional

Year 4

Spanish 3

Optional

Year 4

Spanish American Narrative and Film

Optional

Year 4

Politics and Literature in Contemporary Spain

Optional

Year 4

Business and Society in Spain

Optional

Year 4

Making the Cuban Revolution: Ideology, Culture and Identity in Cuba since 1959

Optional

Year 4

Literature and Film under Franco

Optional

Year 4

Translation, Power and Gender in the Spanish-speaking World

Optional

Year 4

Interpreting

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About modules

The above is a sample of the typical modules we offer, but is not intended to be construed or relied on as a definitive list of what might be available in any given year. This content was last updated on Wednesday 2 October 2024. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

University undergraduate student Cole Pearce studying in Nightingale Hall accommodation's library, University Park. November 5th 2021.

I think the workload of learning three languages can be challenging. However, it is only like taking 6 different other modules on a different course. Personally, I find the more languages you learn, the more you understand each one separately as well as their own.

Lucy Collyer

Modern Language Studies BA (French, German, Russian)

Course data

75%of students say teaching staff have supported their learning well.

Data for Modern Language Studies (Full time) at University of Nottingham, the, over two years

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