French and Italian
Year 1
Core modules
You can take both languages from Advanced level, or one from Advanced level and one from Beginner level. So you will select two advanced modules or one advanced module plus two beginner modules from:
- French Language (Advanced)
- Italian Language (Advanced)
- French Language (Beginners) 1 and 2
- Italian Language (Beginners) 1 and 2
Alongside your language modules, you will take the following cultural studies modules:
- Introduction to French Studies
- Introduction to Italian Studies
Option modules
Choose two further cultural studies options – one for each language – from:
- 20th Century French Literature
- Introduction to Francophonie
- Authors and Genres
- Italy Since 1945
Year 2
You will continue your language learning from the relevant levels – either at Post-Advanced level or as Post-Beginner level:
- French Language (Post-Advanced)
- French Language (Post-Beginners)
- Italian Language (Post-Advanced)
- Italian Language (Post-Beginners)
Plus two option modules from:
- Introduction to French Linguistics
- Challenging Perspectives: Conflict and Relations in French Culture
- Bande Dessinée
- Media and Cultural Practices in France
- French Urban Space: From City of Lights to the Banlieue
And two option modules from:
- Italian Linguistics
- History of Italian Cinema
- Italian Society and Culture under Fascism
Year abroad
Year 4
Core modules
You will continue your language learning post-Year Abroad by studying:
- French Language (Proficiency)
- Italian Language (Proficiency)
Option modules
Choose two option modules from:
- Bilingual Writing and Self-Translation: Literature in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Immigration and Ethnicity in Colonial and Post-Colonial France
- Norms and Margins in French Cinema
- Interpreting French
- Gender and Power in Contemporary France
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 1
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 2
- Extended Essay
Plus two option modules from:
- Contemporary Italian Fiction
- Postwar Italian Directors
- Visions of Modernity
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 1
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 2
- Extended Essay
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
French and Spanish
Year 1
Core modules
You can take both languages from Advanced level, or one from Advanced level and one from Beginner level. So you will select two advanced modules or one advanced module plus two beginner modules from:
- French Language (Advanced)
- Spanish Language (Advanced) 1 and 2
- French Language (Beginners) 1 and 2
- Spanish Language (Beginners) 1 and 2
Alongside your language modules, you will take the following cultural studies modules:
- Introduction to French Studies
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies
Option modules
Choose two further cultural studies options – one for each language – from:
- 20th Century French Literature
- Introduction to Francophonie
- Latin American Literature and Film
- Introduction to Spanish Literature and Film
Year 2
You will continue your language learning from the relevant levels – either at Post-Advanced level or as Post-Beginner level:
- French Language (Post-Advanced)
- French Language (Post-Beginners)
- Spanish Language (Post-Advanced)
- Spanish Language (Post-Beginners)
Plus two option modules from:
- Introduction to French Linguistics
- Challenging Perspectives: Conflict and Relations in French Culture
- Bande Dessinée
- Media and Cultural Practices in France
- French Urban Space: From City of Lights to the Banlieue
- Languages in the Classroom
And two option modules from:
- The Mexican-US Borders: History, Culture, Identity
- The Spanish Civil War in Literature and Film
- Contemporary Mexican Cinema
- Drugs and Displacement in Contemporary Colombian Culture
- Hispanic Documentary Film
- Latino/a Literature and Culture in the United States
- South American Narratives of Dictatorship and Exile
- The Spanish Silver Age (1900 to 1950): A Revolution in Language
- Languages in the Classroom
Year abroad
Year 4
Core modules
You will continue your language learning post-Year Abroad by studying:
- French Language (Proficiency)
- Spanish Language (Proficiency)
Option modules
Choose two option modules from:
- Bilingual Writing and Self-Translation: Literature in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Immigration and Ethnicity in Colonial and Post-Colonial France
- Norms and Margins in French Cinema
- Interpreting French
- Gender and Power in Contemporary France
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 1
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 2
- Extended Essay
Plus two option modules from:
- Boom Literature: Language and Creation
- Cinematic Representations of Latin America: Local versus Global
- The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
- Putumayo: the History and Culture of a Latin American Conflict Zone
- Contemporary Women's Writing in Spain
- Spain and its Others
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 1
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 2
- Extended Essay
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Italian and Spanish
Year 1
Core modules
You can take both languages from Advanced level, or one from Advanced level and one from Beginner level. So you will select two advanced modules or one advanced module plus two beginner modules from:
- Spanish Language (Advanced) 1 and 2
- Italian Language (Advanced)
- Spanish Language (Beginners) 1 and 2
- Italian Language (Beginners) 1 and 2
Alongside your language modules, you will take the following cultural studies modules:
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies
- Introduction to Italian Studies
Option modules
Choose two further cultural studies options – one for each language – from:
- Latin American Literature and Film
- Introduction to Spanish Literature and Film
- Authors and Genres
- Italy Since 1945
Year 2
You will continue your language learning from the relevant levels – either at Post-Advanced level or as Post-Beginner level:
- Spanish Language (Post-Advanced)
- Spanish Language (Post-Beginners)
- Italian Language (Post-Advanced)
- Italian Language (Post-Beginners)
Plus two option modules from:
- Italian Linguistics
- History of Italian Cinema
- Italian Society and Culture under Fascism
And two option modules from:
- The Mexican-US Borders: History, Culture, Identity
- The Spanish Civil War in Literature and Film
- Contemporary Mexican Cinema
- Drugs and Displacement in Contemporary Colombian Culture
- Hispanic Documentary Film
- Latino/a Literature and Culture in the United States
- South American Narratives of Dictatorship and Exile
- The Spanish Silver Age (1900 to 1950): A Revolution in Language
- Languages in the Classroom
Year abroad
Year 4
Core modules
You will continue your language learning post-Year Abroad by studying:
- Spanish Language (Proficiency)
- Italian Language (Proficiency)
Option modules
Choose two option modules from:
- Contemporary Italian Fiction
- Postwar Italian Directors
- Visions of Modernity
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 1
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 2
- Extended Essay
And two option modules from:
- Boom Literature: Language and Creation
- Cinematic Representations of Latin America: Local versus Global
- The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
- Putumayo: the History and Culture of a Latin American Conflict Zone
- Contemporary Women's Writing in Spain
- Spain and its Others
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 1
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 2
- Extended Essay
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
French, Italian and Spanish
Year 1
You can take both languages from Advanced level, or one from Advanced level and one from Beginner level. So you will select two advanced modules or one advanced module plus two beginner modules from:
- French Language (Advanced)
- Italian Language (Advanced)
- Spanish Language (Advanced) 1 and 2
- French Language (Beginners) 1 and 2
- Italian Language (Beginners) 1 and 2
- Spanish Language (Beginners) 1 and 2
Alongside your language modules, you will take the following cultural studies modules:
- Introduction to French Studies
- Introduction to Italian Studies
- Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies
And one option module from:
- 20th Century French Literature
- Introduction to Francophonie
- Authors and Genres
- Italy Since 1945
- Latin American Literature and Film
- Introduction to Spanish Literature and Film
Year 2
You will continue your language learning from the relevant levels – either at Post-Advanced level or as Post-Beginner level:
- French Language (Post-Advanced)
- French Language (Post-Beginners)
- Italian Language (Post-Advanced)
- Italian Language (Post-Beginners)
- Spanish Language (Post-Advanced)
- Spanish Language (Post-Beginners)
Plus two option modules from:
- Introduction to French Linguistics
- Challenging Perspectives: Conflict and Relations in French Culture
- Bande Dessinée
- Media and Cultural Practices in France
- French Urban Space: From City of Lights to the Banlieue
- Italian Linguistics
- History of Italian Cinema
- Italian Society and Culture under Fascism
- The Mexican-US Borders: History, Culture, Identity
- The Spanish Civil War in Literature and Film
- Contemporary Mexican Cinema
- Drugs and Displacement in Contemporary Colombian Culture
- Hispanic Documentary Film
- Latino/a Literature and Culture in the United States
- South American Narratives of Dictatorship and Exile
- The Spanish Silver Age (1900 to 1950): A Revolution in Language
- Languages in the Classroom
Year abroad
Year 4
Core modules
You will continue your language learning post-Year Abroad by studying:
- French Language (Proficiency)
- Italian Language (Proficiency)
- Spanish Language (Proficiency)
Option modules
Choose two option modules from:
- Bilingual Writing and Self-Translation: Literature in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Immigration and Ethnicity in Colonial and Post-Colonial France
- Norms and Margins in French Cinema
- Interpreting French
- Gender and Power in Contemporary France
- Contemporary Italian Fiction
- Postwar Italian Directors
- Visions of Modernity
- Boom Literature: Language and Creation
- Cinematic Representations of Latin America: Local versus Global
- The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
- Putumayo: the History and Culture of a Latin American Conflict Zone
- Contemporary Women's Writing in Spain
- Spain and its Others
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 1
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 2
- Extended Essay
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.