Language and Politics Unit Catalogue

ECOI0008: The modern world economy 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX70 OT30
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Aims: The aim of this Unit is to equip students with an historical, institutional and descriptive understanding of economic issues and institutions in a global context. The Unit is appropriate for specialist students of economics and will support and provide a relevant policy context for first year units in introductory micro and macroeconomics. The Unit is also appropriate for non-specialist students, who may wish to take only one or two course units in economics, and will introduce them to some of the central principles of economics via the policy questions and institutional arrangements which confront modern economies. Learning objectives: By the end of the course unit, students should be able to develop an informed commentary on both academic and more popular arguments on: 1. Patterns of growth and development at national, regional and global levels. 2. The role of multilateral corporations in the global economy. 3. The impacts of globalisation on the workforces of both developed and developing economies. 4. The scope for national economic policies within the globalised economy.
Content:
Growth and development in the world economy since the Second World War; patterns of international trade and investment; the role of multi national corporations; employment and income distribution in the world economy; limitations on national policy effectiveness; international economic institutions and the regulation of international trade, investment and finance. Key text: Peter Dicken, 'Global Shift'.

ECOI0009: The modern world economy 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES30 EX70
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This Unit is a continuation from ECOI0008 The Modern World Economy 1. Its aim is to provide students with an understanding of the economic issues which have affected various regions of the world in the post second world war period. It is designed to be accessible to both specialist and non-specialist students of economics. Learning objectives: By the end of the course unit students should be able to understand: 1. The determinants of economic activity in selected regions of the world economy. 2. The reasons why there are significant differences in this activity among such regions. 3. The policy issues which confront nations within these regions.
Content:
The course unit comprises three regional studies: the European Union, Transitional Economies of East and Central Europe, East Asia. European Union: The development of economic integration in Europe; static and dynamic effects of economic integration; trade creation and diversion and the economics of customs unions; factor mobility and the common market; fiscal and monetary harmonisation; optimum currency areas and the European Monetary System; the role of the European Central Bank and the problem of Europe-wide macroeconomic policy. Transitional Economies: Central planning, operation and failure; the state of transition today; expanding the European Union to embrace Central and Eastern Europe. East Asia: Interpretations of the East Asian "miracle" (pre-1997); causes and consequences of the current crisis; longer term prospects for sustainable development. Key texts: D. Swann 'The Economics of the Common Market'. James Forder, ' Both Sides of the Coin: The Arguments Against the Euro and EMU'. F. McDonald, 'European Economic Integration'. D. Dyker (ed), 'The European Economy'. D. Gros and A., 'Steinherr Winds of Change'. Grahame Thompson (ed), 'Economic Dynamism in the Asia-Pacific World Bank The East Asian Miracle'.

ECOI0023: Social change and development
Semester 2
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre ECOI0077
Aims & learning objectives:
Aim: To introduce students to some of the key concepts and methods used in the social analysis of change and international development, grounding theoretical exploration in practical approaches to particular issues. Learning objectives: Students should learn how the key concerns of sociology (social structure and social relations) and social anthropology (culture) can be used to extend understanding of the process involved in social change and international development. By the end of this course unit students should be equipped critically to discuss the concepts and practice of social change drawing on the analytical traditions of sociology and social anthropology and the experience of a range of contexts in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This course unit builds on the foundations laid in ECOI0077 Introduction to International Development. It focuses on development as something that happens: social change. This complements ECOI0043 Governance and the Policy Process in Developing Countries, which considers development as something which is done: policy and programme intervention.
Content:
Social change and development as essentially contested: both as concepts and as forms of practice. A way of ordering the world by contrasts: in time - tradition/modernity; and space - first/third world; and in time as space - modern=western. Models of social change and the implication of sociology and anthropology in these. Interrogating notions of identity, tradition and modernity: in colonialism; in notions of city and countryside; poverty and progress; health and reasoning; cultures of production and exchange. The dynamics of social change: in divisions of labour and within households. Issues around agency, consciousness and social/political action. The implications of globalization and the post-colonial order. Key text: Roger Keesing,'Cultural Anthropology: A Contemporary Perspective'. Nancy Scheper-Hughes, 'Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everday Life in Urban Brazil'.

ECOI0040: International relations 1: A history of international relations theory
Semester 1
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
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The aim of this Unit is to provide students with an understanding of the main concepts, theories and perspectives used to study international relations, and to introduce them to the historical development of those aspects of international relations theory that are relevant today. By examining how different types of historical international systems have existed in the past, what caused wars to occur and what helped to maintain peace, students will have a better idea of the causes of conflict and cooperation today. Learning objectives: By the end of this course unit students should be able to do the following:
* identify the main perspectives of international relations
* explain the key Western thinkers and their ideas which contributed to the main perspectives on international relations
* explain how the key thinkers, ideas and concepts are related to the development of different historic international systems. Although the unit can be studied as a self-contained module, it forms part of a specialist stream in international relations with ECOI0041.
Content:
An historical survey of the main theories of international relations and the main historical state-systems in which they arose: the Greek-state system, the middle ages, the Renaissance and the emergence of the modern state system. The course unit examines a series of important, enduring questions in international relations theory about international systems: (1) what were the origins of different international systems; (2) what factors contributed to order and stability; and (3) what factors promoted not only disorder and instability, but also system-wide change, the change to to an entirely different type of international system. Key texts: Michael Doyle,'Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism'. Torbjorn Knutsen,'A History of International Relations Theory'. Joseph Nye,'Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory And History'.

ECOI0041: International relations 2: contemporary international relations
Semester 2
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
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The aims of this Unit are to provide students with an understanding of how contemporary thinkers have contributed to the main perspectives of international relations; to consider the impact of globalisation on international relations; to show how international conflict has changed in the twentieth century, particularly since the end of the Cold War; to provide students with an understanding of how diplomacy has changed in the twentieth century. Learning objectives: By the end of the course unit students should be able to:
* critically evaluate the main perspectives of international relations
* explain the impact of the end of the Cold War on global security
* explain what international relations scholars mean by globalisation, and critically evaluate what impact it has had on international relations
* explain how the changing nature of international conflict has posed new challenges for humanitarian organisations in developing countries Although the unit can be studied as a self-contained module, it forms part of a specialist stream in international relations with ECOI0040.
Content:
Topics include how International Relations has changed since the end of the Cold War, the State, and non-state actors, the balance of power, problems of diplomacy, international organisation, war and international conflict, nationalism, religion and international stability and international political economy. A set of themes emerge from these topics that are ethical in nature: the relationship between order and justice, state sovereignty and humanitarian intervention, the nature and meaning of international obligation in a society of sovereign states, the idea of universal human rights and cultural relativism, and ways of maintaining international order: the balance of power, international regimes, and new approaches to global governance. Key texts: J. Goldstein,'International Relations'. C. Kegley and E. Wittkopf,'World Politics: Trend and Transformation'. Gordon Graham,'Ethics and International Relations'.

ECOI0042: Politics of developing countries: ethnicity, religion and nationalism
Semester 1
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
Requisites: Pre ECOI0078
Aims & learning objectives:
Two of the most important developments at the end of the Twentieth Century are the global spread of democracy and the resurgence of religion, ethnicity and nationalism in politics. Therefore the aim of the Unit is to provide students with an understanding of the ongoing saliency of ethnicity, religion and nationalism to the politics of selected post-communist and developing countries. The learning objectives are that by the end of the course unit students should be able to:
* critically evaluate the role of ethnicity, religion and nationalism in the main perspectives of development
* understand the role of religion and revolution in South Africa, Poland and Latin America
* understand the role of Islam in different types of Muslim countries
* understand how religion challenges the secular state in India, Turkey, Algeria and Egypt. Although the unit can be studied as a self-contained module, it forms part of a specialist stream in the Policy Process and Politics of Development with ECOI0043 Governance and the Policy Process in Developing Countries and ECOI0080 Policy and Politics.
Content:
Introduction to the politics of developing countries; the concepts of ethnicity, religion and nationalism; the transition to democracy; the consolidation of democracy. Case studies of: Poland, Yugoslavia, South Africa, Turkey, India, Algeria, Egypt and Latin America. Key texts: J. Esposito and J. Voll,'Islam and Democracy'. Jeff Haynes,'Religion and Politics in the Third World'. Jeff Haynes,'Religion in Global Politics'. David Westerlund (ed),'Questioning the Secular State'.

ECOI0043: Governance and the policy process in developing countries
Semester 2
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES40 OR10
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The aim of this Unit is to provide an explanation of the dynamics of governance and the workings of the policy process in developing countries. The learning objectives are that students should develop a critical undetstanding of the policy process in the developing country context, applying and extending their knowledge of the key concepts of power and the institutions through which it is expresed. This unit can be studied as a self-contained module, which complements in particular ECOI0023 Social Change and Development. It also forms part of a specialist stream in the Policy Process and Politics of Development with ECOI0042 The Politics of Developing Countries: Religion, Ethnicity and Nationalism and ECOI0080 Policy and Politic.
Content:
Good governance: the genesis of the concept, its practical implication. State, non-state and civil society actors in development. Policy formulation and implementation in developing countries; policy networks; the roles of external doners; corruption. Institutionalizing good governance, promoting inclusionary practice. Key texts: Grindle and Thomas,'Public Choices and Policy Change: The Political Economy of Reform in Developing Countries'. Turner and Hulme,'Governance, Administration and Development'. R. Rhodes,'Understanding Governance'. Wuyts, Marc. Mackintosh, Maureen and hewitt, Tom (eds),'Development Policy and Public Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Open University. R Grillo and R L Stirrat (eds) 1997. Discourses of Development. Anthropological Perspectives. Oxford: Berg.

ECOI0077: Introduction to international development
Semester 1
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
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The aim of the Unit is to introduce students to the major issues in international development. The learning objectives are that students should: 1. Learn to 'think sociologically' about international development issues 2. Have some knowledge of the development of capitalism and the nation-state system and the ways in which these have interacted to produce problems of poverty, international debt and violence 3. Appreciate the different contributions to understanding development made by different social science disciplines 4. Understand the ideological arguments between the major development paradigms.
Content:
From mercantilism to globalisation; the current structure of the world economy and polity; the diversity of poor country trajectories; disciplinary approaches to international development; development paradigms; wealth and poverty; trade, debt and the international financial institutions; violence; gender relations; the environment; development and the development industry. Key texts: Peter Preston,'Development Theory'. Diana Hunt,'Economic Theories of Development'. Ankie Hoogvelt,'Globalisation and the Postcolonial World'. Katy Gardner & David Lewis,'Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge'. Andrew Boyd,'An Atlas of World Affairs'.

ECOI0078: Developing countries in world politics
Semester 2
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
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The aim of the Unit is to give students an introduction to the main personalities and events in the international arena since 1945 which have contributed to the present position of developing countries in the current global order. Learning objectives: By the end of the course unit students should be able to identify the main personalities and events in world politics and explain their influence on the politics and economics of developing countries. They should be able to explain the role of developing countries in the origins and development of the Cold War, and have an appreciation of the main debates about the Cold War.
Content:
The emergence of the League of Nations and the United Nations system; Bretton-Woods; Developing Countries in the Cold War; India and South Asia: Independence and Partition; Southeast Asia and Peasant Revolutions; African independence and the South African liberation struggle; the Middle-East: Arab nationalism and oil wealth; Latin America: revolution and dictatorship. Key texts: Peter Calvocoressi,'World Politics Since 1945'. Geir Lundestad,'East, West, North, South: Major Developments in International Politics Since 1945'. J. Dunbabin,'The Post-Imperial Age: The Great Powers and the Wider World'.

ECOI0079: Economics of politics
Semester 2
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 CW20
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The aim of this Unit is to apply introductory microeconomic theory to analyse political behaviour. Students will investigate the extent to which a rational choice model sheds insight on political behaviour and political institutions. Thus, the intention is to provide students with an integrative link between their understanding of economic theory and political science. The learning objective is that by the end of the course students will be able to apply introductory microeconomic theory to analyse political behaviour. They will be able to use microeconomics to explain and predict why governments prefer one policy option to another. They will be able to assess the costs involved in democratic decision making processes. They will be able to identify and assess alleged 'failings' of the political processes and associated prescriptions.
Content:
The course unit begins with a review of microeconomic welfare theory. This is applied to explain and predict the behaviour of politicians, bureaucrats, voters and pressure groups. The implications of adopting different collective decision making rules are investigated. Case studies are used to illustrate theory. Assessment is offered of the public choice school's assertion that government failure leads to an excessively large public sector. Key texts: K.A. Shepsle and M.S. Bonchek,'Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behavior and Institutions'. J. Cullis and P. Jones,'Public Finance and Public Choice'.

ECOI0081: Economic organisation of the European Community
Semester 2
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX80 ES20
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The aim of this course unit is to apply introductory microeconomic and macroeconomic principles to a range of European policy areas. The learning objective is that students will have enhanced their understanding of European economic issues begun in The Modern World Economy and to demonstrate the value of theoretical analysis.
Content:
The following topics will be covered: EU trade policy and the economics of customs unions; Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies of the EU; fiscal harmonisation and EU budgetary policy; EU environmental policy; EU industrial and competition policy; European Monetary Union and exchange rate arrangements. Key texts: T. Hitiris,'European Union Economics'. M.J. Artis and N. Lee (eds),'The Economics of the European Union'. A. El-Agraa (ed),'The European Union'.

ESML0001: French written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
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Aims & learning objectives:
To stimulate the production of authentic and accurate written and spoken French; to provide a grounding in French grammatical and syntactic structures; to revise, broaden and consolidate grasp of lexis and grammatical structures; to extend awareness of style and linguistic register; to develop skills in translation from French into English; to practise receptive and communicative skills.
Content:
(a) Translation: varieties of register, written translation from French into English, introduction to essay writing. (b) Grammar/creative writing: introduction to résumé, systematic practical grammar course, introduction to CALL multimedia, development of lexis. (c) Spoken Language: comprehension, text recreation, controlled oral production, course-related conversation sessions.

ESML0002: French written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0001
Aims & learning objectives:
To stimulate the production of authentic and accurate written and spoken French; to provide a grounding in French grammatical and syntactic structures; to revise, broaden and consolidate grasp of lexis and grammatical structures; to develop awareness of style and linguistic register; to develop skills in translation from French into English; to practise receptive and communicative skills.
Content:
(a) Translation: varieties of register, written translation from French into English, introduction to essay writing, dictée. (b) Grammar/creative writing: introduction to résuméé, systematic practical grammar course, development of lexis, prose translation, text comparison. (c) Spoken Language: comprehension, text recreation, controlled oral production, course-related conversation sessions.

ESML0003: French cultural studies 1A: Styles & genres in French culture
Semester 1
Credits: 3
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Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
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Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to a wide range of modern French literature, film and art, as a basis for the detailed study of poetic, narrative and dramatic technique, and to explore a variety of critical approaches. To encourage students to study texts in a number of different ways, and to help them to develop the confidence to reach and express their own critical responses.
Content:
The language of poetry: metaphor, music and image as meaning. The language of art: form, meaning and the nature of representation. The language of film: basic techniques and critical theories, questions of point of view, the relationship of literature and film. The language of theatre: the role of the interpreter, questions of performance.

ESML0004: French cultural studies 1B: Changing viewpoints in the novel
Semester 2
Credits: 3
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Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0003
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to a wide range of modern French literature, film and art, as a basis for the detailed study of poetic, narrative and dramatic technique, and to explore a variety of critical approaches. To encourage students to study texts in a number of different ways, and to help them to develop the confidence to reach and express their own critical responses.
Content:
Prose narrative and the novel: reading strategies and the role of the reader; questions of the narrator and point of view; the nineteenth-century novel as an introduction to French culture and society after 1850; self-reflexive fiction in the twentieth century.

ESML0005: French politics & society 1A: Introduction à la politique et à la société françaises
Semester 1
Credits: 3
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Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
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Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the study of French politics and society from the 1930s to1945.
Content:
A chronological survey of France since the 1930s which examines issues including: the decline of rural France; politics in the inter-war period; the Popular Front; the Second World War, Occupation and Resistance. Seminars provide a forum for discussion and consolidation of lectures as well as providing study skills session for note taking and writing historical commentaries.

ESML0006: French politics & society 1B: Introduction à la politique et à la société françaises
Semester 2
Credits: 3
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Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0005
Aims & learning objectives:
By the end of this semester students should have a solid background in 20th Century France, understand some of the key aspects of French politics and society, and have acquired essential analytical and writing skills in French.
Content:
Post-war expansion; decolonization; changes in French society since 1945; the coming of the Fifth Republic; May 1968; and the victory of the Left in 1981 together with contemporary French politics and society. Seminars provide a forum for discussion and consolidation of the lectures as well as providing study skills sessions for argumentative essay writing.

ESML0007: French written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0002
Aims & learning objectives:
To continue the production of authentic and accurate written and spoken French; to provide further work in French grammatical and syntactic structures; to revise, broaden and consolidate grasp of lexis and grammatical structures; to extend awareness of style and linguistic register; to develop skills in translation from French into English; to practise receptive and communicative skills.
Content:
(a) Translation: varieties of register, written translation from French into English, extempore translation, cloze tests. (b) Grammar/creative writing: introduction to guided essay, systematic practical grammar course, development of lexis. (c) Spoken Language: comprehension, text recreation, controlled oral production, course-related conversation sessions.

ESML0008: French written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites: Pre ESML0007
Aims & learning objectives:
To continue the production of authentic and accurate written and spoken French; to provide further work in French grammatical and syntactic structures; to revise, broaden and consolidate grasp of lexis and grammatical structures; to extend awareness of style and linguistic register; to develop skills in translation from French into English; to practise receptive and communicative skills.
Content:
(a) Translation: varieties of register, written translation from French into English, extempore translation, cloze tests, dictée. (b) Grammar/creative writing: introduction to guided essay, systematic practical grammar course, development of lexis, text comparison. (c) Spoken Language: comprehension, text recreation, controlled oral production, course-related conversation sessions.

ESML0009: French cultural studies 2A: Violence & disintegration
Semester 1
Credits: 3
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0004
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an introduction to major artistic and literary movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, whose theories are fundamental to contemporary cultural thought; to develop further the comparative study of genres begun in the First Year; to increase the awareness of the language of the visual image, including painting and photography,and develop students' confidence in forming and expressing critical responses.
Content:
A comparative analysis of the work of selected writers and artists within the following movements: Symbolism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism.

ESML0010: French cultural studies 2B, option 1: Conflicting realities: film in France in the 1920s & 1930s
Semester 2
Credits: 3
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to Conflicting Realities: Film in France in the Twenties and Thirties
Content:
Through comparing and contrasting surrealist and poetic-realist films, this option will provide an understanding of the development and language of film, its history and critical theory. Films to be studied will include Un chien andalou (Buñuel, 1929), La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939) and Le Jour se lève (Carné, 1939).

ESML0011: French politics & society 2A: Les années Mitterrand
Semester 1
Credits: 3
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Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0006
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on and develop understanding of key structures and institutions of French political life, introduced in Year 1. To evaluate elements of change and continuity in the 1980s and 1990s using the framework of the Mitterrand presidency. To encourage students to take notes and extract relevant information from written and audio-visual material in French; to discuss topical political, social and economic issues in French in seminars; to build up a student 'log' over the course of the term, comprising lecture and seminar notes, and notes from preparatory and background reading, which will be of use in revision for the examination.
Content:
(a) Lectures: Introduction - les grands evenements; film François Mitterrand, une vie a l'epreuve du pouvoir; Approches de la culture politique en France; la construction de la Nation a travers la culture - les grands travaux; Pouvoir Presidentiel et elections legislatives 1981-1995; l'evolution des themes politiques pendant les deux septennats; l'immigration; la France et l'Europe; Mitterrand et l'economie. (b) Seminars: François Mitterrand, l'homme et son image; l'apres-Mitterrand; les elections presidentielles de 1995; le chomage et l'exclusion; la position; la position de la France a la fin des annees Mitterrand.

ESML0012: French cultural studies 2B, option 2: First person camera: French cinema & the auteur tradition
Semester 2
Credits: 3
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Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to First Person Camera: French Cinema and the Auteur Tradition
Content:
This option will explore the nature of first person viewpoint in film, in relation to the auteur theory and will focus upon the depiction of personal childhood memory in films such as Zèro de conduite (Carnéé, 1933), Les 400 coups (Truffaut, 1959) and Au Revoir les enfants (Malle, 1987).

ESML0013: French written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0008
Aims & learning objectives:
To develop advanced skills in the comprehension and production of written French; To provide a structured but informal context for the development of a variety of advanced oral skills. To exploit competence in written and oral French developed during the first two years of the course and, where appropriate, during the third year placement in France (or equivalent).
Content:
Written Language: translation from French into English; summarization and re-writing (in French); language commentary (in French); analysis of style and register (contemporary social, political, literary). Spoken Language: explication and debate, through lector-led group discussion and individual presentation. Material covers a wide range of political, social, cultural subjects, within the context of current French concern.

ESML0014: French written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
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Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX38 CW17 OR27 OT18
Requisites: Pre ESML0013
Aims & learning objectives:
To develop advanced skills in the comprehension and production of written French. To provide a structured but informal context for the development of a variety of advanced oral skills. To exploit competence in written and oral French developed during the first two years of the course and, where, appropriate, during the third year placement in France (or equivalent). By the end of the unit, students should be able to communicate effectively and sensitively with native speakers of French on social, political and cultural topics, orally and in writing in a broad range of appropriate registers and in both professional and social contexts.
Content:
Written Language: translation from French into English; summarization and re-writing (in French); language commentary (in French); analysis of style and register (contemporary social, political, literary). Spoken Language: explication and debate, through lector-led group discussion and individual presentation, focusing on and in preparation for the requirements of the final oral examination. Material covers a wide range of political, social, cultural subjects, within the context of current French concern.

ESML0015: French national option F1: La France et l'Europe
Semester 1
Credits: 6
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Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine the relations between France and the wider European area (including the former USSR) in the post-war world, with specific emphasis on developments since the late 1980s. The general focus will be the broad field of international relations which will be narrowed down to three specific and inter-related areas: economic and commercial interests; foreign policy and diplomacy; military policy and security. The unit will examine the tensions which have always existed in French policy towards Europe between a nationalist and an internationalist impulsion. In the three areas noted above, protectionism, individualism and national independence have constantly vied with liberalism, international cooperation and alliance solidarity. These dichotomies go beyond the traditional right/left divide in French politics and have always run as a deep fissure within both the broad left and the broad right. At the same time, since the end of the 1980s, France has been faced with a new dichotomy; whether to prioritise the deepening of the Community of 12 (the Maastricht process) or, on the contrary, to pursue the old Gaullist vision of a broader Europe "from the Atlantic to the Urals". Particular emphasis will be placed throughout the course on the complex but crucial role played by Franco-German relations.
Content:
Four hours will be devoted to each of the following: 1. The historical background to France's relations with Europe. 2. France and the EEC (1958-85). 3. French foreign and defence policy (1958-89). 4. France, the Single Market and Maastricht. 5. French European security policy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Taught in French.

ESML0016: French national option F2: La France urbaine
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To study the importance of urban life in contemporary debate on social issues and French national identity, using authentic French material (including film and video); to use a variety of disciplinary sources to explore urban life in France, especially urban sociology, anthropology, political sociology and policy studies; to examine cultural representations of French urban life. The unit aims to give students a deeper understanding of social issues in France today; to develop reading, listening and discussion skills in the French language.
Content:
Approaches to urban studies; urban policy; "la banlieue'"; politics and towns; the "new towns" policy; violence and urban life; media representations of urban life; case studies. Taught in French.

ESML0017: French national option F3: La femme en France au vingtième siècle
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW33 ES67
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to various aspects of feminist thought and to situate some of the main debates within feminism. Through a series of theme-based seminars, to analyse women's involvement in events of the 20th century in France, notably the two World Wars and the suffragist and feminist movements. The 20th Century has brought significant social change and this course will seek to evaluate the extent to which these changes were gendered . By the end of the course students should have gained a better understanding of gender issues within contemporary French society. (Note: the second year option on Women in France is not a pre-requisite, although students who attended that option will find that this is an opportunity to pursue their interests).
Content:
The first couple of weeks will be devoted to exploring a range of feminist ideas. Then we will move into discussions based on student presentations around a series of themes related to women's lives. These might include: women and war; suffragism, feminism and women's activism; women and violence; politics and power; representations of women; women in ethnic minorities. Taught in French.

ESML0019: French national option F5: French comedies from Molière to Beaumarchais
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
Aims & learning objectives:
The unit is for those who wish to familiarize themselves with and enjoy some of the classic comedies which have become central to French cultural consciousness and can still be guaranteed to fill a theatre even today. It is also intended to appeal to those whose principal motivation is that they find these texts funny. Most important, it requires absolutely no prior knowledge of the literary background or the historical context. The aims of the course are to introduce the social, political and historical background of the texts and to examine those aesthetic and dramaturgical considerations which are so often inextricably linked with the background. In particular, to explore through these texts the development away from a rigid and hierarchized social structure towards the struggle for individuality and liberty which is often identified with the Revolution. Students will also notice faint glimmerings of a shift towards female emancipation.
Content:
MOLIERE: L'Avare, Le Malade imaginaire; MARIVAUX: Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard, Les Fausses Confidences; BEAUMARCHAIS: Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de Figaro. These plays are all in prose. Anyone curious to look at a verse play could choose Molière's Les Femmes Savantes or Regnard's Le Légataire universel which are not, however, formally on the syllabus. First-time readers may find it helpful to read the two Beaumarchais plays in the order stated.

ESML0020: French national option F6: French autobiography
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this unit will be to trace the evolution of autobiographical writing in France throughout the modern period and to examine the ways in which writers have explored the themes of personal identity, memory, reality and imagination and the polarity between public and private history.
Content:
History of autobiography and autobiographical theory; theories of selfhood and identity; the powers of memory, nature and culture in the development of personality, with reference to a range of texts reflecting the development of autobiographical writing in French. Students will be expected to prepare seminar papers on writers or topics of their choice.

ESML0022: French national option F8: Specialist language - translation A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0008, Co ESML0023
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the techniques of documentary translation from French to English in a number of specialized registers.
Content:
Introduction to professional translating, glossaries, house style, translation critique.

ESML0023: French national option F8: Specialist language - translation B
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 CW50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the techniques of documentary translation from French to English in a number of specialized registers.
Content:
Introduction to professional translating, glossaries, house style, translation critique.

ESML0024: French national option F9: Specialist language - interpreting A
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: OR100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the techniques of interpreting.
Content:
Introduction to professional interpreting: liaison, consecutive and simultaneous.

ESML0025: French national option F9: Specialist language - interpreting B
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: OR100
Requisites: Co ESML0024
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the techniques of interpreting.
Content:
Introduction to professional interpreting: liaison, consecutive and simultaneous.

ESML0026: French national option F10: Surrealism
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
Aims & learning objectives:
To explore the idea of Surrealism as a revolutionary movement; to examine the aims and achievements of the Surrealists; to encourage individual involvement and response through an analysis of a wide variety of 'texts'.
Content:
An analysis of the theories and practice of surrealism and their expression through literature, art, and film. Set 'texts' will include L Aragon, Le Paysan de Paris; A Breton, Manifestes du Surréalisme; Nadja; A Breton & P Soupault, Les Champs magnétiques; L Buñuel; Un chien andalou; L'Age d'or; P Eluard, Mourir de ne pas mourir; S Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams.

ESML0027: French national option F11: La persuasion et la propagande
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine the respective roles of persuasion and propaganda in French society today, parallels being drawn also with other countries. Where does persuasion end and propaganda begin? How do today's politicians market themselves to the electorate? Have the techniques changed over the years?
Content:
After initial work on the definitions of the evolution of persuasion and propaganda, students pass onto investigations of particular areas of debate, events or political parties in a contemporary context. Their findings are presented as seminar contributions. Taught in French.

ESML0028: French national option F12: Environnement, société, développement
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
Environmental issues regularly appear in the news and increasing numbers of people currently attach great importance to them. However, the issues themselves are rarely clear-cut; they are subject to competing interpretations and to conflicts of interest, indicating a need for critical distance in the treatment of the subject. Within a context of open-ended evaluation, the aim of this course is to explore environmental issues in terms of their political, social and economic dimensions and to assess their importance. Most of the work will concentrate on discussing developments in France today, but as by their very nature environmental questions go beyond national boundaries, the course will take the international dimension into account.
Content:
The major themes to be surveyed are: (1) the ideas behind environmentalism and political ecology; (2) green politics in France today; (3) environmental policy-making in France and the EU; (4) the environment, business behaviour and green consumerism; (5) the impact of environmentalism on French society today. Students have the opportunity to focus on a suitable mix of themes which particularly interest them. Taught in French.

ESML0029: French national option F13: Culture et identité dans la France contemporaine
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit will examine the relationship between identity and culture at times of social and political change. It will explore the way in which the identities of different social groups are expressed within the economic, political and cultural contexts of contemporary France. The aim is to examine elements of the French identity taking into account students' own experience of France and its diversity. The unit will pay particular attention to the construction of identities through cultural forms such as museums, language, literature, music, film and the media.
Content:
Introductory lectures will familiarize students with various theoretical approaches to the study of both culture and identity. Students will then examine the social and cultural frameworks for thinking about the question of what it means to be French. Seminars and case studies will examine themes such as heritage, memory, migrations, nation, tradition and popular culture. Taught in French.

ESML0030: German written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The unit pursues a dual aim. (1) To refresh and consolidate students knowledge and understanding of grammatical structures; to enable them to apply the acquired skills to the production of coherent and fluent written composition; to introduce them to a variety of German texts dealing with appropriate contemporary issues. (2) To improve students communicative and listening skills (oral/aural) and to expand their vocabulary so that they are able to express themselves clearly in everyday as well as in academic contexts as appropriate; to enable students to formulate their own ideas and to interact effectively in German and to adjust flexibly to various situations by using a suitable register.
Content:
(1) In respect of i. the consolidation of German language structures: this unit focuses on the various classes of words, their declension and their function within the phrase/ sentence; ii. written communication: a variety of linguistic skills are developed by means of translation into and from German and essay writing in German (2) Spoken language classes may consist of free discussions with the entire group, interactive exercises (e.g. role play, small-group discussions, one-to-one exchange of ideas). Austrian and German video material and newspaper articles form the basis for discussion and assessment, whilst improving awareness of contemporary life in the German-speaking world.

ESML0031: German written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0030
Aims & learning objectives:
The unit builds on ESML0030, pursuing the same dual aim. (1) To refresh and consolidate students knowledge and understanding of grammatical structures; enable them to apply the acquired skills to the production of coherent and fluent written composition; to introduce them to a variety of German texts dealing with appropriate contemporary issues. (2) To improve students communicative and listening skills (oral/aural) and to expand their vocabulary so that they are able to express themselves clearly in everyday as well as in academic contexts as appropriate; to enable students to formulate their own ideas and to interact effectively in German and to adjust flexibly to various situations by using a suitable register.
Content:
(1) In respect of i. the consolidation of German language structures: this unit focuses on complex grammar points and German syntax; ii. written communication: a variety of linguistic skills are developed by means of translation into and from German and essay writing in German. (2) Spoken language classes may consist of free discussions with the entire group, interactive exercises (e.g. role play, small-group discussions, one-to-one exchange of ideas). Austrian and German video material and newspaper articles form the basis for discussion and assessment, whilst improving awareness of contemporary life in the German-speaking world.

ESML0032: German cultural studies 1A: Kultur der Weimarer Republik
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the culture of the Weimar Republic in its socio-political context, in particular through close study of representative texts and films. To make students aware of the formal characteristics and expressive potential of forms of cultural production such as autobiography, film and short story. To develop their analytical capacities and self-confidence in the evaluation of works of culture.
Content:
Will include the study of a) Texts: Ernst Toller, Eine Jugend in Deutschland, Franz Kafka, Erzahlungen; b) Film: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.

ESML0033: German cultural studies 1B: Drittes Reich und Nachkriegsjahre (1933-61)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0032
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to significant aspects of German culture in the period 1933-61 through a close study of representative texts and films seen in their socio-political context. To make students aware of the formal characteristics and expressive potential of forms of cultural production such as the short story, the novel, autobiography, drama, poetry and the film. To enable students to develop their critical capacities and their ability to reach well-reasoned conclusions in their evaluation of works of culture.
Content:
Lectures will introduce students to the principal features of German cultural life during the Third Reich and in the immediate post-war years. Seminars will be devoted to critical analysis of selected texts and films which are representative of the period.

ESML0034: German politics & society 1A: Deutschland und Österreich 1918-1939
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
We will trace the most important political, social and economic developments in inter-war Germany and Austria. At the same time, students will get practice in German comprehension, speaking and writing. Students should learn to follow straightforward lectures in German and take notes from them; understand vocabulary and concepts relevant to the history of the period; make short oral presentations in German and facilitate seminar discussion as part of a panel.
Content:
i) Weimarer Republik (1918-1933) a. Deutschland zwischen Krieg and Diktatur b. Die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung in der Weimarer Republik c. Der Aufstieg der NSDAP ii) Das Drittes Reich (1933-1945) a. Ein Überblick über die wichtigsten Entwicklungen zwischen 1933 und 1945 b. Umgestaltung von Staat und Gesellschaft im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland iii) Die Erste Republik Österreich a. Gründung und Festigung der Republic (1918 - 1926) b. Der Weg in die Krise c. Bürgerkrieg und autoritärer Städndestaat. Taught in German.

ESML0035: German politics & society 1B: Von der doppelten Staatsgründung bis zum Mauerbau
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0034
Aims & learning objectives:
To convey in German the most significant political and social developments from 1945 to 1963; to give students practice in understanding lectures in German and taking notes, to introduce relevant vocabulary and concepts, and to assist students in discussing and writing on the above issues in German.
Content:
i) Westdeutschland: Adenauer-Ara (1945-1963) a. Die Politik des Allinerten (1945-1949) b. Das Grundgesetz c. Konrad Adenauer und 'Kanzlerdemokratie' d. Die Entwicklung der westdeutschen Gesellschaft in den 50er jahren ii) Ostdeutschland: vom Aufbau zum Mauerbau (1945-1961) a. Vorgeschichte and Gründung der DDR b. Der Volksaufstand vom 17 Juni 1953 c. Entwicklungen in der DDR 1953-1961. Taught in German.

ESML0036: German written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0031
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on knowledge (grammatical accuracy and range of vocabulary) and writing skills acquired in Year 1. Having successfully completed this unit, students should be able, at the appropriate level, to: translate texts (German to English); summarize English texts into German and write short essays expressing a personal opinion on a given topic.
Content:
German to English translation, English to German summarisation, German essay-writing in response to text-based questions.

ESML0037: German written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites: Pre ESML0036
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on knowledge (grammatical accuracy and range of vocabulary) and writing skills acquired in Year 2 semester 1. Having successfully completed this unit, students should be able, at the appropriate level, to: translate texts (German to English) with an increased awareness of nuance of meaning; summarize English texts (as wide-ranging in topic and style as time and circumstances permit) into German and write short essays with good grammatical awareness and fluency of style, and to translate a dictated English text into German.
Content:
German to English translation, English to German summarisation, German essay-writing in response to text-based questions; extempore German-to-English translation.

ESML0038: German cultural studies 2A: Kultur in der Bundesrepublik von 1961 bis zur Gegenwart
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0033
Aims & learning objectives:
To study the development of cultural life in the German Federal Republic over the years when the two German states were separated by the Berlin Wall. To refer in detail both to proseworks and films produced during this period and to more recent works taking stock of divided Germany from a post-unification perspective. To focus on a number of key cultural phenomena of these years: (i) personal experiences of life in the West, and especially in West Berlin, after the building of the Wall; (ii) the challenge to the self-confidence of the Federal Republic represented by the events of 1968 and their aftermath; and (iii) the struggle for gender equality in the context of the 1970s and 1980s.
Content:
A framework of lectures will provide an overview of this era from the West German perspective and an introduction to the work of the authors and film-makers to be studied. The seminars will focus on the analysis of representative works of the period and the changing post-unification view of its significance. Works to be studied are likely to include Heinrich Böll, Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, Peter Schneider, Der Mauerspringer, Margarethe von Trotta, Die bleierne Zeit and Schneider/von Trotta, Das Versprechen.

ESML0039: German cultural studies 2B, option 1: Max Frisch und die Schweiz
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
Aims & learning objectives:
To enable students i) to acquire a critical awareness of cultural and political developments in Switzerland in the twentieth century with particular reference to the period 1933-1974, and ii) to reach firmly based conclusions about the nature and validity of Max Frisch's critique of Swiss society in this period.
Content:
Lectures will introduce students to the work of a major writer, Max Frisch, and place it within the context of major political and cultural developments in 20th Century Switzerland. Seminars will be devoted to critical analysis of representative texts by Frisch. Taught in German.

ESML0040: German cultural studies 2B, option 2: Berlin als Kulturmetropole 1918-1933
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
Aims & learning objectives:
To assess the importance of Berlin as a cultural metropolis during the Weimar Republic. To examine the significance of theatre and cinema as centres of creative innovation and political debate, and to identify new methods being used by prose writers to describe the often overwhelming experience of city life. To examine the cliché of Berlin as a 'decadent' city in the light of subsequent literary and cinematic evidence.
Content:
A framework of lectures will provide the cultural and political context within which Berlin's importance during this period is to be assessed, and give an overview of the work of the writers and film-makers to be studied more closely in seminars. The seminars themselves will allow students the opportunity to analyse key fictional, theatrical and cinematic works of the period (e.g. Brecht/Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper, Kästner, Fabian, Lang Metropolis and Ruttmann Sinfonie einer Großstadt) and to take a critical look at the image of Berlin provided by works such as Fosse's Cabaret. Taught in German.

ESML0041: German cultural studies 2B, option 3: Ideologie und Kultur im Dritten Reich
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine the principal elements of Nazi ideology and their transmission by means of the Gleichschaltung (coordination) of the media, literature, film and art. Also to assess the role played by the intelligentsia with reference to a liberal conservative (Ernst Wiechert) and members of the resistance (Jan Petersen, Hans und Sophie Scholl).
Content:
Will include the study of a) Texts: extracts from the prose writing of Hitler and Arthur Dinter, examples of Nazi song, Ernst Wiechert, Der weisse Buffel, and resistance fiction and poems. b) Films: Das blaue Licht, Hitler: eine Karriere, Die Weisse Rose. Taught in German.

ESML0042: German politics & society 2A: Geteiltes Deutschland 1961-1989
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0035
Aims & learning objectives:
To study relations between the two German states from the Hallstein-Doktrin, through Brandt's Ostpolitik to the collapse of the GDR and unification; to analyse the main features of the economic and social system of each of the two German states; to build on the vocabulary and concepts previously acquired and to assist students in discussing and writing on the above issues at an advanced level of German.
Content:
i) DDR: vom Mauerbau bis zur deutschen Einigung a) Aspekte der DDR-Identitat (Politische Kultur, Alltag und Stasi) b) BRD und DDR: ein kritischer Systemvergleich c) Frauen und Soziale Sicherheit d) Das Jahr der Wende ii) BRD: vom Mauerbau bis zur deutschen Einigung a) Deutsch-deutsche Beziehungen b) 1968 und die Folgen c) Kohl-Ara (1982-1989)

ESML0043: German pols & soc 2B opt 1: Lebensumbruche und Integrationsprozesse in Deutschland seit der Wende
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this unit is to explore how German society, state, politics and economy have evolved since the collapse of the GDR and German unification, with emphasis on the new Bundeslander. The learning objectives are to develop an awareness and understanding amongst students of the key issues relating to the process of German Unification and to enable them to articulate this in both spoken and written German.
Content:
Subjects for close study include the formal process of unification; social, political and economic change in the new Bundeslander, the different experiences and mentalities in eastern and western Germany and the persistence of die Mauer im Kopf, GDR nostalgia; the lasting effects of the activities of the GDR's state security (Stasi and Vergangenheitsbewaltigung); the transformations experienced by various social categories (e.g. youth, women, the elderly, foreigners) in the wake of unification. Taught in German.

ESML0044: German politics & society 2B, option 2: Berlin von der geteilten stadt zur neun haupstadt
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine the social and political experience of life in both halves of Berlin between 1945 and 1989, as a microcosm of the effects of the division of Germany on its population. To take full account of the changes which have taken place in the city since the collapse of the GDR and which have brought about its reinstatement as the capital of Germany.
Content:
Subjects for close study include: everyday life in both halves of the city during the Cold War; propagandist portrayals of life in the 'other' half of the city; the changes brought about by détente in the 1970s and 1980s; the unification process and resistance to it in East Berlin; the physical reconstruction of Berlin since 1989; problematic aspects of Berlin's transition to capital city; the 'Mauer im Kopf' as a continuing phenomenon of the 1990s. Taught in German.

ESML0045: German politics & society 2B, option 3: Popmusik und jugenkultur
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this unit is to explore how German popular music reflects and responded to political and social developments in Germany over the last four decades. Popular music and popular culture are introduced as the object of academic analysis and a mirror of contemporary German (youth) culture.
Content:
The study of German politics and history from the perspective of the manifold protest movements provides the basis for the analysis of the lyrics of popular music from Heintje to Die Prinzen and Pur. We will conclude with the analysis of the Berlin-centred Techno-Movement as a phenomenon expressing the Zeitgeist of the 1990s.

ESML0046: German politics & society 2B, option 4: Die Frau in der deutschen Gesellschaft
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The course aims at encouraging awareness of gender as a social variable which must be taken into account just as we take account of class, race, geography and generation when examining the social and political life of Germany. It will examine how gender differences and attitudes towards gender roles affect the roles and representations of women in German society today. The purpose of this unit is to enable students to express themselves both in written and spoken German on issues relating to gender in the political and social structures of German society, to acquire relevant concepts and to demonstrate a basic understanding of the academic treatment in Germany of the issues involved.
Content:
The course will examine the changes which 'Frauenbilder' and the 'Frauenrolle' have undergone and highlight certain aspects of woman's role in society today. In this context, it will look at the specific experience of women in contemporary Germany, focusing on questions of rights, legislation, equal opportunities on the one hand, and on the representation of women in economic, social, cultural and political structures on the other. Taught in German.

ESML0047: German politics & society 2B, option 5: Der Deutsche Sozialstaat
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this unit is to explore the social impact of processes of economic globalisation on unified Germany. Students are made familiar with the historical evolution of the 'Modell Deutschland' and its transformation in the 1990s.
Content:
In its first half the unit covers the evolution of the German welfare system and the emergence of the so-called 'nivellierte Mittelstandsgesellschaft'. In the second half we will concentrate on the management of new phenomena like mass-unemployment, 'neue Armut', economic competition from newly industrialising countries, drastic cuts in the social welfare provision etc.

ESML0048: German written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0037
Aims & learning objectives:
To refine students' ability to translate competently from German into English in a variety of contemporary registers. To develop their summarisation skills so that they are able to produce a précis in sophisticated German of a complex English text on a subject of broad contemporary interest. To enable students to write coherent, well-argued and grammatically correct essays in German in response to issues raised in complex German texts. To enhance students' knowledge of the spoken language acquired during their year abroad so that they are able to converse fluently on contemporary issues and deliver sophisticated oral presentations on topics of their choice.
Content:
Written language: (a) Translation from German into English is the focus of one of the two weekly hours. The main emphasis in this semester will be placed on dealing with texts written in more colloquial registers. (b) The second weekly hour is devoted to the production of German in summarisation and essay-writing exercises. In this semester particular attention will be devoted to developing essay-writing skills. Spoken language: The emphasis is on project work carried out both on a group and an individual basis, with the chosen topics of an appropriately complex and controversial nature.

ESML0049: German written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX38 CW17 OR27 OT18
Requisites: Pre ESML0048
Aims & learning objectives:
To refine students' ability to translate competently from German into English in a variety of contemporary registers. To develop their summarisation skills so that they are able to produce a précis in sophisticated German of a complex English text on a subject of broad contemporary interest. To enable students to write coherent, well-argued and grammatically correct essays in German in response to issues raised in complex German texts. To enhance students' knowledge of the spoken language acquired during their year abroad so that they are able to converse fluently on contemporary issues and deliver sophisticated oral presentations on topics of their choice.
Content:
Written language: (a) Translation from German into English is the focus of one of the two weekly hours. The main emphasis in this semester will be placed on translating texts written in more formal registers. (b) The second weekly hour is devoted to the production of German in summarisation and essay-writing exercises. In this semester particular attention will be paid to developing summarisation skills. Spoken language: As before, project work will be carried out both on a group and an individual basis. Additional emphasis will now be placed on developing students' presentational skills in preparation for their oral examination.

ESML0051: German national option G2: Deutsche Schriftsteller im Exil
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
Aims & learning objectives:
To consider the effects of exile on the life and work of selected German writers who emigrated during the period of fascist rule in Germany; to analyse the reception of those writers in their countries of exile and in the divided Germany of the 1950s and 1960s,to enable students to evaluate the contribution of émigré writers to twentieth-century German culture.
Content:
Students are asked to purchase the following texts (available in paperback): Stefan Heym, Der Fall Glasenapp; Anna Seghers, Der Ausflug der Toten Mädchen; Lion Feuchtwanger, Moskau 1937. Students are also asked to view the following films, copies of which will be made available on video: Hangmen also Die (dir. Fritz Lang); The Seventh Cross (dir. Fred Zinnemann). Taught in German.

ESML0052: German national option G3: Umbau 21: Bundesrepublik Deutschland am anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 CW25 OT25
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of the unit is to explore the challenges unifed Germany has to confront after the Kohl era and at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Processes like the collapse of communism, German unification, economic globalisation, etc., necessitate a fundamental rethinking of Germany's established political practices and institutions.
Content:
The option will analyse the major challenges to (a) Germany's political system, (b) Germany's economic system, (c) Germany's social system, and (d) Germany's role in Europe and international politics. We will discuss possible paths of societal modernisation and the strategies used by the political leadership. Taught in German.

ESML0053: German national option G4: Kultur und Politik in der ehemaligen DDR
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Students must have taken either ESML0038, or ESML0042. Aims & learning objectives:
This unit will examine the development of literature and film in the political context of the GDR to provide an overview of the development of literature and film in the political context of the GDR and to assess the distinctive qualities of the GDR culture. It will take full account of the way in which perspectives on GDR culture have changed since German unification. Through the close study of a number of key texts and films it will identify some major thematic concerns of the period following the rejection of socialist realism as a cultural doctrine.
Content:
Lectures will provide an overview of the key events in the GDR's cultural history and highlight problems involved in dealing with GDR culture from today's perspective. Seminars will focus on representative literary texts and films of the period between 1961 and 1989, including works by Christa Wolf, Günter de Bruyn, Volker Braun, Frank Beyer and Konrad Wolf.

ESML0056: German national option G6: Mensch - Natur - Technik
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Students must have taken either ESML0038, or ESML0042. Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the debate on technology and social modernisation in contemporary German culture and to explore the role of literature and film in posing practical and ethical questions about man's relationship with the natural environment. The main part of the course will consist of seminar presentations and discussion of texts and films.
Content:
Texts: Wilhelm Raalse, Pfisters Mühle, Max Frisch, Homo Faber; Jurij Koch, Der Kirschbaum; Carl Amery, Der Untergang der Stadt Passau; Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Der Untergang der Titanic; Christa Wolf, Störfall. Films: Veit Harlan, Die goldene Stadt; Werner Herzog, Aguirre. Taught in German.

ESML0058: German national option G8: Gender und transformatsionzprozesse in Deutschland
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
To permit a systematic study of significant processes of social change in contemporary Germany which have become intensified by Germanys unification process, European integration and the pressures of the global market. The unit will examine primarily the impact of processes of social transition and transformation on the identity, social position and opportunities of women both as citizens affected by institutional and structural reform and as agents of change. Selected areas will be analysed chiefly through the prism of gender, but other dimensions will also be explored. An examination of both old and new challenges to traditional gender role attributions and a study of gender as a social variable and a social determinant provides the chief analytical framework in which issues such as the withdrawal of the welfare state, economic and political reform, changing patterns of employment, technological advance, mobility of labour and patterns of migration will be discussed.
Content:
A comparative analysis of the goals, achievements and limitations of the women's movement as a social movement in the old Federal Republic with women's position in the former GDR will provide the background against which current debates about reform and redefinition within the women's movement in Germany will be examined. In the light of this historical perspective and of more recent developments in the new Federal states opportunities and perspectives for women's political participation and the development of strategies for social and institutional reform will be examined. The unit will cover topics such as: The first German women's movement, its goals, achievements and objectives; women in Nazi Germany and in the post war period of reconstruction and consolidation; impact, opportunities and perspectives of the new women's movement in the 1960's; a comparision with the position of women in the GDR; the 'Wende' and Germany's unification process; the period of transition and transformation since 1990; counting the cost and identifying perspectives and strategies for the future. Taught in German.

ESML0059: German national option G9: Die Massenmedien in Deutschland
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
to develop an understanding of the principles of mass communication and an awareness of the common features of European mass media and peculiarities to the German system; to develop an appreciation of the implications of technological advances in this field, particularly vis-à-vis the perspective of global communications.
Content:
theory of communication and mass communication; structure and character of the media; historical developments in the German media (pre-1945; FRG; GDR); legal aspects of the media environment; media ethics; funding and inter-media competition; new media - from Btx to the Internet in one generation; media as a political tool; the impact of German unification on the media of both former German states. Taught in German.

ESML0060: Italian written & spoken language 1A (ab initio)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To give students a systematic grounding in the fundamental structures of Italian grammar, and to enable them to employ those structures correctly in short written texts within a communicative context, and orally in a variety of practical and everyday situations. Aural comprehension and oral communication skills are developed thanks to the use of audio-visual material and constant contact with native speakers. The objective is to bring students to an intermediate level of knowledge of Italian.
Content:
Written Language: The study of the basic morphological aspects of Italian grammar will be based on a textbook, with additional use of specially prepared material. Students complete a graded series of exercises in grammar and are introduced to brief translation passages. Spoken Language: conversation groups, role-playing, paired activities, supervised audio-visual activities, also leading to written practice in communicative contexts.

ESML0061: Italian written & spoken language 1B (ab initio)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0060
Aims & learning objectives:
To consolidate the knowledge acquired in Semester 1, to complete the study of Italian grammar and syntax, to widen students' general vocabulary, to introduce them to the vocabulary of the press and contemporary writing, and to extend their aural comprehension/oral skills to a larger number of situations and contexts through contact with native speakers and the use of audio-visual material. The objective is to bring students to 'A' level standard by the end of the semester.
Content:
Written Language: The study of Italian grammar will be completed through the textbook already used in the Semester 1 module and will be integrated with handouts covering the more complex topics in Italian grammar and syntax such as the subjunctive, the gerund, and the sequence of tenses. Students work on grammar exercises and prose/translation passages drawn from contemporary sources. Spoken Language: conversation groups, role-playing, paired activities, supervised audio-visual activities leading to more creative and contextualised written assignments, continue in this module.

ESML0062: Italian written & spoken language 1A (post A level)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To consolidate students' existing knowledge of Italian grammar and syntax, and to enable them to deploy these structures correctly in written texts and exercises. Aural comprehension and oral communication skills in practical contexts are developed through the use of authentic audio-visual material and class contact with native speakers.
Content:
Written Language: a grammar text is used to revise the fundamentals of the language and as a basis for regular exercises. Translation texts are used to familiarise students with contemporary written Italian, in particular the language of the press and modern narrative. Spoken Language: conversation groups, role-playing, supervised audio-visual classes provide practice in the spoken language and are used as a stimulus for creative written work.

ESML0063: Italian written & spoken language 1B (post A level)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0062
Aims & learning objectives:
To expand students' knowledge of Italian grammar and syntax and to enable them to deploy these structures fluently and effectively in the production of written texts and exercises. Aural comprehension and oral communication skills are further extended through the use of advanced audio-visual material and class contact with lectors.
Content:
Written Language: more complex grammatical problems are studied with the aid of specially prepared handouts and explored through regular exercises. Excerpts from the Italian press and other authentic sources are used to expand writing skills in more formal contexts. Spoken Language: the oral activities from Semester 1, such as supervised audio-visual practice and role-playing, will continue and equip students with more sophisticated communicative skills for more formal contexts.

ESML0064: Italian cultural studies 1A: Introduction to Italian cultural history
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to some of the key periods in Italian cultural history. To study the emergence of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema and narrative and to analyse its political and social significance. To familiarise students with the basic concepts of narrative in film and literature.
Content:
The artistic and intellectual development of Italy since the Renaissance and its importance for contemporary Italian society. The Neorealist cinema, the key films of this movement, their narrative techniques and their critical reception.

ESML0065: Italian politics & society 1A: Italian foundation history (1860-1914)
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To teach Italian economic, social and political history from Unification to the First World War in the context of European and international developments. To enable students to develop critical and analytical skills for an understanding of the study of history with particular reference to Italian history. To make students familiar with essential political terminology in Italian.
Content:
The Unification of Italy. The difficult construction of a sense of nationhood. Political liberalism and the emergence of the transformist variant of parliamentary politics. The division between 'legal Italy' and 'real Italy' in the nineteenth century. Industrialisation and the emergence of organised labour. Political Catholicism, anarchism and socialism. Economic liberalism and protectionism. The rise of nationalism. Italy between neutrality and intervention.

ESML0066: Italian cultural studies 1B: Italian writing of the 19th and 20th centuries
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW33 ES67
Requisites: Pre ESML0064
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the main developments in Italian prose and poetry in the 19th Century and to analyse a number of short contemporary texts. To teach students to develop their critical and analytical skills.
Content:
Lectures will cover selected prose and poetry by the major 19th Century writers and will introduce students to issues in women's writing. The seminars will concentrate on contemporary short stories by men and women writers.

ESML0067: Italian politics & society 1B: Italian fascism
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0065
Aims & learning objectives:
To teach Italian history from the origins to the collapse of fascism in the context of European and international developments. To further develop skills in historical analysis and to introduce students to theories of democracy and totalitarianism. To make students familiar with cultural, sociological, political and economic interpretations of fascism.
Content:
Italy in the First World War. The 'biennio rosso' and the origins of fascism. Mussolini's rise to power. The creation of a fascist dictatorship. Fascism and national identity. Church and State under fascism. Economic crisis and fascist economic policies. Foreign policy. The alliance with Hitler. Italy in the Second World War. The fall of Mussolini, the armistice and the Resistance movement. Interpretations of fascism.

ESML0068: Italian written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Students must have taken either ESML0061, or ESML0063. Aims & learning objectives:
To broaden students' command of contemporary written Italian with greater emphasis on resolving complex grammatical points; to build on the communication skills acquired in the Year 1, and to improve oral proficiency and aural comprehension.
Content:
Written Language: prose and translation exercises from a variety of literary and non-literary texts; general essays. Spoken Language: role-playing, paired and group activities, dictation, summarisation of audio-visual texts in Italian, reading, conversation classes.

ESML0069: Italian written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 OR26 CW20
Requisites: Pre ESML0068
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on students' linguistic competence as acquired in Semester 1. To expand students' vocabulary in social and cultural areas and to develop sensitivity to style and register.
Content:
Written Language: prose and translation exercises from a variety of literary and non-literary texts; general essays. Spoken Language: role-playing, paired and group activities, dictation, summarisation of audio-visual texts in Italian, reading, conversation classes.

ESML0070: Italian cultural studies 2A: Italian writers of the early 20th Century
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0066
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the textual and cultural awareness acquired in Year 1 and to provide an overview of Italian cultural production from the beginning of the 20th Century. To develop students' critical awareness of the main intellectual debates of the century.
Content:
This core module will be based upon key examples of Italian 20th Century novel, poetry, and short story, from the primo Novecento to the Fascist period. Lectures and seminars will address literary as well as social/political developments, such as the Southern question, Fascism, and women's issues.

ESML0071: Italian politics & society 2A: Italy since 1945
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0067
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide a historical overview of the main political and social events of the post-war period in Italy. To equip students with the appropriate analytical skills to permit a critical evaluation of the period.
Content:
The course will pay attention to the following areas: the period of reconstruction; the effects of the Cold War on Italy's domestic affairs; collective movements of the l960s and l970s; the political system; the major political parties.

ESML0074: Italian written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0069
Aims & learning objectives:
To refine students' competence in written and spoken Italian; to extend the range of terminology and linguistic registers, including the political and economic. To perfect students' skills in translating texts from and into Italian in a variety of registers. To develop their summarisation skills and enable them to express complex ideas and arguments in writing. To draw upon students' periods of residence in Italy in order to strengthen oral fluency and conversational skills.
Content:
Written Language: prose, translation, summarisation (in Italian); analysis of style and register (contemporary social, political and literary). Spoken Language: précis-writing, presentations, lector-organised discussion and debate on issues linked to Year 4 Options and Italian current affairs.

ESML0075: Italian written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX56 CW17 OR27
Requisites: Pre ESML0074
Aims & learning objectives:
To further develop and consolidate students' skills in translating complex texts from and into Italian, and in developing a sophisticated argument in the form of a long essay in Italian. To enable students to converse competently and fluently and to deliver sophisticated oral presentations in Italian on social, political and cultural topics.
Content:
Written Language: prose, translation, and essay writing classes based on excerpts from the press, contemporary writers and specialised journals. Spoken Language: Oral presentations, lector-organised discussion and debate on political, social and cultural topics.

ESML0077: Italian national option IT2: The novel, the cinema & Italian society
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine how cinema and narrative have cross-fertilized to produce an artistically satisfying critique of Italian society. The unit will focus on three literary texts and their reworking by leading directors. Attention will be given to the narrative techniques appropriate to each medium, to novel and film theory, to the problems of adaptation and to the recurring theme of the relationship between the individual and the political system in Italy.
Content:
Tomasi di Lampedusa Il Gattopardo, Alberto Moravia Il conformista and Leonardo Sciascia Il contesto. Adaptations by Luchino Visconti, Bernardo Bertolucci and Francesco Rosi. Taught partly in Italian.

ESML0078: Italian national option IT3: Scrittrici Italiane del ventesimo secolo
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide students with a general overview of 20th century Italian women's writing, an in-depth knowledge of four texts by major Italian women writers, an awareness of gender issues, and an understanding of the way in which the narrative text functions. The unit will look at the place of women in Italian literature both as objects of representation and producers, through an analysis of texts which illustrate the changes in the material and cultural situation of women which have occurred in Italy during this century. Students will be encouraged to make use of different modes of textual analysis, including feminist theory.
Content:
Grazia Deledda, Cosima (1937), Mondadori (1986); Dacia Maraini, Donna in guerra (1975), Einaudi, (1997); Francesca Sanvitale, Madre e Figlia (1984), Einaudi, (1994); Elsa Morante, Aracoeli, Einaudi, (1982). Taught partly in Italian.

ESML0079: Italian national option IT4: Women in Italian society
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
The role and position of women in post-war Italy has undergone substantial change. These changes have explicitly and implicitly challenged a number of core Italian institutions and practices - the Family, the Church and the hegemony of the political parties to define the political agenda and to establish modes of political organization. This unit aims to examine transformation in women's lives during the post-war period. It will discuss the extent to which cultural, political and social factors affect women's changing aspirations.
Content:
The course will focus on the following areas: women and the family, women and the family, women and work, the women's movement, women in the political sphere and ethnic minority women. Taught partly in Italian.

ESML0081: Russian written & spoken language 1A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To consolidate knowledge of basic grammar, broaden vocabulary and improve aural comprehension. To develop fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content:
Prose and essay composition; translation into English; grammar revision; conversation. Students must be qualified in Russian to approximately A-level standard.

ESML0082: Russian written & spoken language 1A (ab initio)
Semester 1
Credits: 12
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide a systematic grounding in the Russian language. To introduce students to the main structures of Russian grammar and basic vocabulary. To develop good pronunciation and intonation.
Content:
The Colloquial Russian course with extensive use of specially prepared explanatory material along with exercises and drills from a variety of sources; pronunciation, intonation and conversation practice; language laboratory work.

ESML0083: Russian cultural studies 1A: Introduction to Russian culture (post A level)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To acquaint students with some key texts of 19th century Russian literature and improve translation skills.
Content:
Set texts will normally be chosen from A S Pushkin, The Queen of Spades and selected lyric poetry; I S Turgenev, First Love; A P Chekhov, The Seagull. Students must be qualified in Russian to approximately A-level standard.

ESML0084: Russian written & spoken language 1B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0081
Aims & learning objectives:
To further consolidate knowledge of basic grammar, broaden vocabulary and improve aural comprehension. To further develop fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content:
Prose and essay composition; translation into English; grammar revision; conversation.

ESML0085: Russian written & spoken language 1B (ab initio)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0082
Aims & learning objectives:
To continue a systematic grounding in the Russian language up to approximately A-level standard. To ensure that students acquire a firm grasp of the main structures of Russian grammar and of basic vocabulary, and are able to express themselves in a variety of contexts. To develop the ability to take part in simple everyday conversation. To develop reading ability to the point at which less complex works of literature can be read with the aid of a dictionary.
Content:
The Colloquial Russian course with extensive use of specially prepared explanatory material along with exercises and drills from a variety of sources; pronunciation, intonation and conversation practice; language laboratory work.

ESML0086: Russian cultural studies 1B: Introduction to Russian culture (ab initio)
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites: Pre ESML0082
Aims & learning objectives:
To familiarise students with literary Russian and introduce them to classical pre-Revolutionary literature. To read (in Russian) and discuss a well-known literary text.
Content:
Lectures on the history of Russian literature; reading and discussion of Chekhov's Lady with a Little Dog.

ESML0087: Russian politics & society 1A: Russia before 1917 - Directed study
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Students must take ESML0088 at the same time as this unit. Aims & learning objectives:
To permit post A-level students of Russian (and others requiring a six-credit unit) to make a more detailed study of topics covered in Russian Politics and Society 1B (ESML0088).
Content:
As for Russian Politics and Society 1B (ESML0088).

ESML0088: Russian politics & society 1B: Russia before 1917
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To offer an outline history of Russia focusing on the geopolitical, social and cultural factors which shaped its development and to examine in detail the problems posed by industrial development and social change in the late 19th and early 20th centuries culminating in the revolution of 1917. To introduce some classic literary texts to illuminate the moral and political dilemmas of the 19th century. To develop skills in historical analysis.
Content:
The first Russian states and the rise of Moscow; modernization and westernization in 1680-1855. Reform and reaction under Alexander II (1855-1881); Russian society in the mid-19th century as reflected in Turgenev's Fathers and Children; industrialization and its impact on society; the emergence of a revolutionary movement; dilemmas of Russian revolutionaries as reflected in Lenin's What is to be Done?; Dostoevsky's critique of 19th century Russian social values in Crime and Punishment; ethnic minorities and national movements in the Russian Empire before 1917; women and the women's movement before 1917; Chekhov's depiction of peasant life at the end of the 19th century; the revolution of 1905 and the granting of a constitution by Nicholas II; the successes and failures of constitutional rule 1906-1914; the First World War and the collapse of the imperial regime.

ESML0089: Russian written & spoken language 2A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0084, Pre ESML0085
Students must have taken either ESML0084, or ESML0085. Aims & learning objectives:
To deepen knowledge of Russian grammar, expand lexis and develop translation skills in several registers. To give students practice in expressing themselves in writing. To improve aural comprehension and to begin to develop fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content:
Written Language: systematic review of Russian grammar with exercises and drills drawn from a variety of sources; translations into Russian and English with discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Essay writing in Russian with discussion of stylistic points and vocabulary. Spoken Language: small group conversation on a range of themes; role-playing; task-based use of audio-visual material. To assist vocabulary acquisition, work in written and spoken language will be organised around themes of geography & peoples and culture & recreation.

ESML0090: Russian cultural studies 2A: Russian literature from Chekhov to Zoshchenko
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0083, Pre ESML0086
Students must have taken either ESML0083, or ESML0086. Aims & learning objectives:
To present an overview of Russian literary development in these years; to encourage the development of skills in literary analysis and criticism.
Content:
Three writers (studied in key works): Chekhov, Blok, Zoshchenko

ESML0091: Russian politics & society 2A: Soviet Russia 1917-1985
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine the character and evolution of the communist political and social order from 1917 to 1985. To develop skills in historical and political analysis and essay and seminar techniques.
Content:
The establishment of Bolshevik power under Lenin 1917-1921; the New Economic Policy and the struggle for power in the Communist Party in the 1920s; Stalin's drive for industrialization and rule by terror in the 1930s-40s; the USSR in the Second World War; reform and its limits under Khrushchev and Brezhnev in the 1950s-70s; the structure and problems of the Soviet political system in the early 1980s.

ESML0092: Russian written & spoken language 2B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX54 CW20 OR26
Requisites: Pre ESML0089
Aims & learning objectives:
To deepen knowledge of Russian grammar, expand lexis and develop translation skills in several registers. To give students practice in expressing themselves in writing. To improve aural comprehension to the point at which the gist of a TV news item can be understood and to develop fluency in spoken Russian at the level of everyday conversation.
Content:
Written Language: systematic review of Russian grammar with exercises and drills drawn from a variety of sources; translations into Russian and English with discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Essay writing in Russian with discussion of stylistic points and vocabulary. Spoken Language: small group conversation on a range of themes; role-playing; task-based use of audio-visual material. To assist vocabulary acquisition, work in written and spoken language will be organised around themes of social issues, history and politics.

ESML0093: Russian cultural studies 2B: Soviet Russian literature & cinema in the 1920s & 1930s
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0090
Aims & learning objectives:
To present an overview of Russian literary development in these years; to encourage the development of skills in literary analysis and criticism.
Content:
Two writers (studied in key works): Olesha, Akhmatova. Films by Eisenstein.

ESML0094: Russian politics & society 2B: Reform & reconstruction in Russia since 1985
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0091
Aims & learning objectives:
To examine the reform and collapse of the communist order between 1985 and 1991 and the ensuing problem of economic and political reconstruction. To develop skills in historical and political analysis, and essay and seminar techniques.
Content:
The origins, development and failure of Gorbachev's reform programme 1985-91; ethnic and social developments in the post-Stalin USSR and their bearing on the collapse of communism; the Russian Federation and its neighbours after the disintegration of the USSR; Yeltsin's attempt to build democracy and a market economy in Russia; the role and position of women in the late Soviet and post-Soviet eras.

ESML0095: Russian written & spoken language 4A
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Pre ESML0092
Aims & learning objectives:
To consolidate knowledge of Russian grammar, further expand lexis and further develop translation skills. To enable students to translate modern literary Russian and non-technical academic and journalistic Russian, into English. To enable students to translate selected English passages into Russian, and to express ideas and arguments in writing. To improve fluency in spoken Russian.
Content:
Written Language: translation into and from Russian and discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Conversation and audio-visual classes. Spoken Language: discussion of selected topics on a range of themes (ecology, social issues, feminism etc).

ESML0096: Russian written & spoken language 4B
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX56 CW17 OR27
Requisites: Pre ESML0095
Aims & learning objectives:
To consolidate knowledge of Russian grammar, further expand lexis and further develop translation skills. To enable students to translate modern literary Russian and non-technical academic and journalistic Russian, into English with minimal use of a dictionary. To enable students to translate selected English passages into idiomatic Russian, and to express complex ideas and arguments in writing. To develop fluency in spoken Russian.
Content:
Written Language: translation into and from Russian and discussion of grammatical points, lexis etc. Conversation and audio-visual classes. Spoken Language: discussion of selected topics on a range of themes (culture, politics in Russia etc).

ESML0099: Russian national option R2: The twentieth century Russian novel
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 ES33
Requisites: Pre ESML0093
Aims & learning objectives:
The novel is arguably Russia's greatest contribution to European culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. This unit concentrates on some of the greatest prose works of the 20th century examining them in their socio-political context and exploring the human effects of the cataclysms and conflicts of the last 70 years of Russian history.
Content:
Among the works to be studied are the following (subject to availability in print): M Bulgakov, Master i Margarita
*; E Zamiatin, My; A Solzhenitsyn, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha; B Pasternak, Doktor Zhivago
*; Iu. Olesha, Zavist'; N Ostrovskii, Kak zakalialas' stal'.
*As these novels are fairly long, you are advised to read them before the start of the academic year.

ESML0101: Russian national option R4: Gorbachev & Perestroika
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0094, Pre HASS0005
Students must have taken either ESML0094, or HASS0005. Aims & learning objectives:
To investigate political and social developments in the years 1985-1991 in greater depth than in ESML0094.
Content:
Origins of perestroika; glasnost and democratization; nationalities issues and conflicts; the collapse of communism.

ESML0102: Russian national option R5: Politics in post-communist Russia
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0094, Pre HASS0005
Students must have taken either ESML0094, or HASS0005. Aims & learning objectives:
To examine the dilemmas of economic and political reconstruction and of external relations posed by the collapse of the communist political order in Russia, and efforts to resolve these problems since August 1991. To develop skills in political analysis and seminar techniques.
Content:
Political institutions and actors in Russia in August 1991; dimensions of the crisis surrounding the collapse of Soviet communism; theoretical approaches to transition; first steps of the political leadership; reform and political conflict; dilemmas of foreign policy; political elites; civil society; political culture; 1993 Constitution; elections and party formation; legal order and corruption; local government; federalism and ethnic politics; gender politics; prospects.

ESML0103: Europe 1A: Introduction to European studies
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To begin an exploration of the historical and cultural identity of Europe; to introduce basic political concepts (nationalism, imperialism, communism and fascism) in a European historical context; to introduce cultural studies as a discipline in the context of European culture in the first half of the twentieth century.
Content:
Defining Europe - history, languages and culture; nations and empires in 19th Century Europe; the First World War; communism and fascism in interwar Europe; the Second World War; studying European culture; images of war in 20th Century Europe.

ESML0104: Europe 1B: Europe since 1945
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To compare the experience of Eastern and Western Europe since 1945; to introduce students, in this context, to analysis of the political structure and culture of liberal democracies and to analysis of the structures and problems of modern economies; to examine the interaction of culture and politics in post-war Europe.
Content:
Europe in the Cold War era; politics and culture in post-war Europe; economic and social change in Western Europe; liberal democratic politics in Europe - elections and party systems; political culture; the rise and fall of European communist states and command economies; economic and political problems in the age of globalisation; postmodernism in European culture.

ESML0105: Europe 2A: Politics of the European Union
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to key theories of European integration; to trace the development of the E.C. from the 1950s to the present; to examine issues of contemporary relevance to European integration. Students will develop an awareness and understanding of European integration issues and be able to discuss them on the basis of background knowledge attained during lectures and readings.
Content:
Theories of European integration; the origins of the E.C.; the Rome Treaty and the Single Act; Britain and the E.C; the road to Maastricht; the institutions of the E.C. and E.U.; the democratic deficit; the 1996 Inter Governmental Conference; the E.U. as a world actor; monetary union; citizenship and "the people's Europe"; the E.U., Eastern Europe and enlargement; the future of the E.U.

ESML0107: European option E1: Intellectuals & identity in contemporary Europe
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an overview of nationalism in various twentieth-century European contexts and of the role of intellectuals (both literary authors and social/political commentators) in influencing debates on issues such as national identity. The changes in post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe will provide a focus for the latter part of the unit.
Content:
The work of intellectuals such as Barzini, Konwicki, Grass, Arendt and Foucault.

ESML0108: European option E2: Politically committed European culture: the end of an era?
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an historical understanding of the development of politically committed culture (literature and film) in the post-1945 era in both Eastern and Western Europe. To take account of the factors which led to the growing disillusionment on the part of creative intellectuals regarding the value of their efforts to bring about socialism with a human face: the dominance of Stalinism during the Cold War, the crushing of reform movements in Eastern Europe (especially the Prague Spring in 1968), general scepticism in Western Europe since the 1960's regarding the value of committed culture. To study some examples of the post-engagement culture in Eastern Europe and Russia since the collapse of communism. The close study of works by leading authors of the post-1945 period will provide the focus for the seminars which form the core of the unit.
Content:
Introductory lectures on the issue of commitment and French, German, Italian, Czech and Russian attitudes to it. A selection from the following range of works: A dossier of Camus's writing, De Sanctis: Bitter Rice; Wolf: The Quest for Christa T., Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Perec: Things; Sciascia: Candido; Klíma: Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, Makanin: Baize Table with Decanter.

ESML0109: French cultural studies 2B, option 7: Camus & the Algerian question
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to an analysis of Camus and the Algerian question, 1948-1960.
Content:
This option will examine the social and moral dilemmas posed by the French colonization of Algeria, as exemplified in the life and work of Camus. Analysis of texts such as L'Exil et le royaume, La Chute and Le Premier homme will be used to explore Camus's ambivalent relationship with his native country, and the conflicting demands of political evolution and personal authenticity.

ESML0110: European option E3: European film 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Co ESML0111
Aims & learning objectives:
To develop an understanding of the nature and role of cinema in contemporary Europe, through the study of concepts of personal, national and European identity, and the detailed analysis of a wide range of European films
Content:
This course will focus upon film as personal statement, and will analyse selected works of directors in West and East Europe with specific reference to questions of identity, memory, autobiographical narrative and point of view.

ESML0111: European option E4: European film 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Co ESML0110
Aims & learning objectives:
To develop further the understanding of the nature and role of contemporary European film by tracing the relationship between personal memory and identity, and history and ideology; to examine the concept of myth and identity.
Content:
In this course the personal visions of directors in West and East Europe will be analysed within the broader context of history, ideology and myth. Areas for investigation include the comparative and shared histories of European film; the legacy of the Third Reich; women and history; marginal identities; ideology; film and contemporary European society.

ESML0112: French cultural studies 2B, option 8: Images of conflict: the French at war
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Cultural Studies by applying the expertise gained so far to an analysis of Images of Conflict: the French at War.
Content:
This option will examine the French experience of warfare in the twentieth century, as expressed in literature and film. The principal focus will be on the period from 1940 to the early 1960s, and will include the themes of armed conflict, occupation, exile, war crimes, and colonial war. Examples for analysis will include novel, drama, poetry and film.

ESML0204: Chinese stage 1A (beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0205
Aims & learning objectives:
An introduction to basic Chinese ("putonghua") as a preparation to communicating in a Chinese context.
Content:
Basic Chinese grammatical forms. Recognition and production of essential Chinese characters; the Chinese phonetic system and the Pinyin system. Initial emphasis will be placed on speaking and listening. Reading and writing tasks of an appropriate nature will be gradually incorporated. Special attention will be paid to the recognition and differentiation of tones.

ESML0205: Chinese stage 1B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0204
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Chinese Stage 1A
Content:
A continuation of Chinese Stage 1A

ESML0206: Chinese stage 2A (post beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0207
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to consolidate existing knowledge of Chinese, to develop listening, reading, speaking and writing, and to reinforce grammar, in order to enable students to operate in a Chinese speaking environment.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering the appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary and there will be continued emphasis on tones and pronunciation. Teaching materials will include reading passages from a variety of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material. Students are required to give short talks and undertake writing tasks in Chinese.

ESML0207: Chinese stage 2B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0206
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Chinese Stage 2A
Content:
A continuation of Chinese Stage 2A

ESML0208: Chinese stage 3A (advanced beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0209
Aims & learning objectives:
This course builds on the Chinese covered in Chinese Stage 2 A and B in order to enhance the student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary relating to China, Singapore and Taiwan. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which Chinese is spoken.

ESML0209: Chinese stage 3B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0208
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Chinese Stage 3A
Content:
A continuation of Chinese Stage 3A

ESML0210: French stage 7A (advanced) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0211
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to consolidate, refine and enhance previous advanced knowledge of French
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to France and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which French is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0211: French stage 7B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0210
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of French Stage 7A
Content:
A continuation of French Stage 7A

ESML0212: French stage 8A (post advanced) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0213
Aims & learning objectives:
Continued consolidation and enhancement of the language already acquired in French Stage 7A and 7B
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to France and may include short works of literature or extracts from longer works. Where numbers permit, some subject-specific material may be included, covering the relevant scientific and technological areas and/or business and industry. There will be discussion and analysis in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials with the potential for small-scale research projects and presentations. Audio and video materials form an integral part of this study, along with newspaper, magazine and journal articles. Students are actively encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, by additional reading, links with native speakers and participating in events at which French is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0213: French stage 8B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0212
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of French Stage 8A
Content:
A continuation of French Stage 8A

ESML0214: French stage 9A (further advanced) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0215
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of the work outlined in French 8A and 8B
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. Teaching materials used cover a wide variety of sources and cover aspects of cultural political and social themes relating to France. Works of literature or extracts may be included, as well as additional subject-specific material, as justified by class size. This may encompass scientific and technological topics as well as materials relevant to business and industry. There will be discussion in the target language of topics relating to and generated by the teaching materials, with the potential for small-scale research projects and presentations. Audio and video materials form an integral part of this study, along with newspaper, magazine and journal articles. Students are actively encouraged to consolidate their linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, by additional reading, links with native speakers and participating in events at which French is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0215: French stage 9B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0214
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of French Stage 9A
Content:
A continuation of French Stage 9A

ESML0216: French stage 4A (intermediate) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0217
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to consolidate existing knowledge of French, to develop listening, reading, writing and speaking, and to reinforce grammar, in order to enable students to operate in a French-speaking environment.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation relating to a selection of topics. Remedial work is carried out where necessary. Teaching materials will include reading passages from a variety of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material. Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in French. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0217: French stage 4B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0216
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of French Stage 4A
Content:
A continuation of French Stage 4A

ESML0218: French stage 5A (post intermediate) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0219
Aims & learning objectives:
This course builds on the French covered in French Stage 4A and 4B in order to enhance the student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to France and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which French is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0219: French stage 5B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0218
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of course French Stage 5A
Content:
A continuation of course French Stage 5A

ESML0220: French stage 6A (advanced intermediate) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0221
Aims & learning objectives:
This course concentrates on the more advanced aspects of French with continued emphasis on practical application of language skills in a relevant context, in order to refine further the student's abilities.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. There is continued further development of the pattern of work outlined in French Stage 5A and 5B

ESML0221: French stage 6B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0220
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of course French Stage 6A
Content:
A continuation of course French Stage 6A

ESML0222: German stage 1A (beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0223
Aims & learning objectives:
An introduction to everyday German, in order to enable the student to cope at a basic level in a German speaking environment, concentrating on oral/aural communication and reading.
Content:
Initial emphasis will be placed on speaking, listening and reading. As vocabulary is acquired more attention will be given to grammar. Writing tasks of a relevant and appropriate nature will be incorporated. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work

ESML0223: German stage 1B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0222
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of German Stage 1A
Content:
A continuation of German Stage 1A

ESML0224: German stage 2A (post beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0225
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to build on language skills acquired in German Stage 1A and 1B to enhance listening, reading, speaking and writing, and to consolidate grammar, in order to enable students to operate in a German-speaking environment.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation. Teaching materials will include reading passages from a wide variety of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material. Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in German Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0225: German stage 2B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0224
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of German Stage 2A
Content:
A continuation of German Stage 2A

ESML0226: German stage 3A (advanced beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0227
Aims & learning objectives:
This course builds on the German covered in German Stage 2A and 2B in order to enhance the student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary relating to a selection of topics. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to German speaking countries and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which German is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0227: German stage 3B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0226
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of German Stage 3A
Content:
A continuation of German Stage 3A

ESML0228: German stage 7A (advanced) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0229
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to consolidate, refine and enhance previous advanced knowledge of German
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to German speaking countries and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which German is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0229: German stage 7B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0228
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of German Stage 7A
Content:
A continuation of German Stage 7A

ESML0230: German stage 8A (post advanced) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0231
Aims & learning objectives:
Continued consolidation and enhancement of the language already acquired in German Stage 7A and 7B
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to German speaking countries and may include short works of literature or extracts from longer works. Where numbers permit, some subject-specific material may be included, covering the relevant scientific and technological areas and/or business and industry. There will be discussion and analysis in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials with the potential for small-scale research projects and presentations. Audio and video materials form an integral part of this study, along with newspaper, magazine and journal articles. Students are actively encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, by additional reading, links with native speakers and participating in events at which German is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0231: German stage 8B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0230
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of German Stage 8A
Content:
A continuation of German Stage 8A

ESML0232: German stage 9A (further advanced) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0233
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of the work outlined in German Stage 8A and 8B
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. Teaching materials used cover a wide variety of sources and cover aspects of cultural political and social themes relating to German speaking countries. Works of literature or extracts may be included, as well as additional subject-specific material, as justified by class size. This may encompass scientific and technological topics as well as materials relevant to business and industry. There will be discussion in the target language of topics relating to and generated by the teaching materials, with the potential for small-scale research projects and presentations. Audio and video materials form an integral part of this study, along with newspaper, magazine and journal articles. Students are actively encouraged to consolidate their linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, by additional reading, links with native speakers and participating in events at which German is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0233: German stage 9B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0232
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of German Stage 9A
Content:
A continuation of German Stage 9A

ESML0234: German stage 4A (intermediate) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0235
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to consolidate existing knowledge of German, to develop listening, reading, writing and speaking, and to reinforce grammar, in order to enable students to operate in a German-speaking environment.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation relating to a selection of topics. Remedial work is carried out where necessary. Teaching materials will include reading passages from a variety of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material. Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in German. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0235: German stage 4B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0234
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of German 4A
Content:
A continuation of German 4A

ESML0236: German stage 5A (post intermediate) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0237
Aims & learning objectives:
This course builds on the German covered in German Stage 4A and 4B in order to enhance the student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to German speaking countries and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which German is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0237: German stage 5B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0236
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of German Stage 5A
Content:
A continuation of German Stage 5A

ESML0238: German stage 6A (advanced intermediate) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0239
Aims & learning objectives:
This course concentrates on the more advanced aspects of German with continued emphasis on practical application of language skills in a relevant context, in order to refine further the student's abilities.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. There is continued further development of the pattern of work outlined in German Stage 5A and 5B

ESML0239: German stage 6B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0238
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of German Stage 6A
Content:
A continuation of German Stage 6A

ESML0240: Italian stage 1A (beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0241
Aims & learning objectives:
An introduction to everyday Italian, in order to enable the student to cope at a basic level in an Italian speaking environment, concentrating on oral/aural communication and reading.
Content:
Initial emphasis will be placed on speaking, listening and reading. As vocabulary is acquired more attention will be given to grammar. Writing tasks of a relevant and appropriate nature will be incorporated. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work

ESML0241: Italian stage 1B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0240
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Italian Stage 1A
Content:
A continuation of Italian Stage 1A

ESML0242: Italian stage 2A (post beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0243
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to build on language skills acquired in Italian Stage 1A and 1B, to enhance listening, reading, speaking and writing, and to consolidate grammar, in order to enable students to operate in an Italian-speaking environment.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation. Teaching materials will include reading passages from a wide variety of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material. Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in Italian. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0243: Italian stage 2B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0242
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Italian Stage 2A
Content:
A continuation of Italian Stage 2A

ESML0244: Italian stage 3A (advanced beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0245
Aims & learning objectives:
This course builds on the Italian covered in Italian Stage 2A and 2B in order to enhance the students abilities in the four skill areas.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary relating to a selection of topics. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to Italy and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which Italian is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classwork

ESML0245: Italian stage 3B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0244
Amis & Learning Objectives: A continuation of Italian Stage 3A.
Content:
A continuation of Italian Stage 3A.

ESML0246: Japanese 1A (beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0247
Aims & learning objectives:
An introduction to everyday Japanese, in order to enable the student to cope at a basic level in a Japanese speaking environment, concentrating on oral/aural communication and the reading and writing of the 2 phonetic Japanese scripts and selected kanji (Chinese characters)
Content:
Initial emphasis will be placed on speaking, listening and reading. As vocabulary is acquired more attention will be given to grammar. Writing tasks of a relevant and appropriate nature will be incorporated. Course material will be drawn from a variety of sources and will include audio-visual resources. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work

ESML0247: Japanese 1B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0246
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Japanese Stage 1A
Content:
A continuation of Japanese Stage 1A

ESML0248: Japanese 2A (post beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0249
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to build on language skills acquired in Japanese Stage 1A and 1B, to enhance listening, reading, speaking and writing, and to consolidate grammar, in order to enable students to operate in a Japanese-speaking environment.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation. Teaching materials will include reading passages from a wide variety of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material. Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief interviews and undertake appropriate writing tasks in Japanese. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0249: Japanese 2B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0248
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Japanese Stage 2A
Content:
A continuation of Japanese Stage 2A

ESML0250: Japanese 3A (advanced beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0251
Aims & learning objectives:
This course builds on the Japanese covered in Japanese Stage 2A and 2B in order to enhance the student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks which will include extended use of kanji characters and an introduction to keigo (respect language) as well as covering the appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary relating to a selection of topics. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to Japan and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which Japanese is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classwork.

ESML0251: Japanese 3B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0250
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Japanese Stage 3A
Content:
A continuation of Japanese Stage 3A

ESML0252: Spanish stage 1A (beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0253
Aims & learning objectives:
An introduction to everyday Spanish, in order to enable the student to cope at a basic level in a Spanish speaking environment, concentrating on oral/aural communication and reading.
Content:
Initial emphasis will be placed on speaking, listening and reading. As vocabulary is acquired more attention will be given to grammar. Writing tasks of a relevant and appropriate nature will be incorporated. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work

ESML0253: Spanish stage 1B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0252
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 1A
Content:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 1A

ESML0254: Spanish stage 2A (post beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0255
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to build on language skills acquired in Spanish Stage 1A and 1B, to enhance listening, reading, speaking and writing, and to consolidate grammar, in order to enable students to operate in a Spanish-speaking environment.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation. Teaching materials will include reading passages from a wide variety of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material. Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in Spanish. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0255: Spanish stage 2B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0254
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 2A
Content:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 2A

ESML0256: Spanish stage 3A (advanced beginners) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0257
Aims & learning objectives:
This course builds on the Spanish covered in Spanish Stage 2A and 2B in order to enhance the student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary relating to a selection of topics. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to Spanish speaking countries and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which Spanish is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0257: Spanish stage 3B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0256
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 3A
Content:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 3A

ESML0258: Spanish stage 4A (intermediate) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0259
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to consolidate existing knowledge of Spanish, to develop listening, reading, writing and speaking, and to reinforce grammar, in order to enable students to operate in a Spanish-speaking environment.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation relating to a selection of topics. Remedial work is carried out where necessary. Teaching materials will include reading passages from a variety of sources as well as topical and relevant audio and video material. Students are required to give short presentations, conduct brief interviews and write dialogues, reports and letters in Spanish. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0259: Spanish stage 4B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co ESML0258
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 4A
Content:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 4A

ESML0260: Spanish stage 5A (post intermediate) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0261
Aims & learning objectives:
This course builds on the Spanish covered in Spanish Stage 4A and 4B in order to enhance the student's abilities in the four skill areas.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures, vocabulary and pronunciation. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to Spain and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which Spanish is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0261: Spanish stage 5B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0260
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 5A
Content:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 5A

ESML0262: Spanish stage 6A (advanced intermediate) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0263
Aims & learning objectives:
This course concentrates on the more advanced aspects of Spanish with continued emphasis on practical application of language skills in a relevant context, in order to refine further the student's abilities.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. There is continued further development of the pattern of work outlined in Spanish Stage 5A and 5B

ESML0263: Spanish stage 6B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: Foreign Language Centre
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX45 CW40 OR15
Requisites: Co ESML0262
Aims & learning objectives:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 6A
Content:
A continuation of Spanish Stage 6A

ESML0271: French politics & society 2B, option 1: Regional policy in the Fifth Republic
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so far to an analysis of Regional Policy in the Fifth Republic.
Content:
This option will examine the progress towards decentralisation brought about during the Fifth Republic, and specifically since 1981, against a background of historic centralisation of both government and administration in France. It will also explore the potential for a French contribution to the regional debate at a European level. Taught in French.

ESML0272: French politics & society 2B, option 2: 'Capitale et province'
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so far to an analysis of 'Capitale et province'.
Content:
This option will examine the French experience of regional and provincial identities, and of 'Paris et le désert français' from social, political, cultural and linguistic perspectives. The emphasis will be on ways in which difference is asserted in the face of modern tendencies towards sameness and globalization, with analysis of a wide range of historical and modern texts and visual material. Taught in French.

ESML0273: French politics & society 2B, option 3: The role & position of women in French society
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so far to the role and position of women in French society.
Content:
This unit will examine the role and position of women in French society. The course will analyse women's rights in terms of legislation (divorce, abortion, the notion of equality) and explore women's involvement in the labour market, politics and government. Taught in French.

ESML0274: French politics & society 2B, option 4: French local politics
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so far to French local politics.
Content:
The focus of the course will be the analysis of political behaviour in the local/regional context. Particular attention will be paid to the sociological and cultural factors that shape patterns of electoral behaviour. Taught in French.

ESML0275: French politics & society 2B, option 5: Rural society in contemporary France
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so far to Rural society in contemporary France.
Content:
The focus of the course will be the development of French rural society. It will examine the recent history of the countryside and how rural communities have adapted to the pressures of social and economic change. Taught in French.

ESML0276: French politics & society 2B, option 6: The experience of women during the Second World War
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so far to the experience of women during the Second World War.
Content:
This unit will explore the experience of women during the Second World War, the Occupation and Liberation. It will examine the ways in which French women developed strategies for survival and how some were drawn towards collaboration or resistance. It will analyse the importance of the Liberation and its impact on women's lives. Taught in French.

ESML0277: French politics & society 2B, option 7: La France: une société au pluriel
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so far to La France: une societé au pluriel.
Content:
Changing social structures in France; social reproduction and mobility; the nature and effects of the French educational system; the social backgrounds of political, administrative and business elites; case-studies of persisting social disadvantage in France. Taught in French.

ESML0278: French politics & society 2B, option 8: Political communication from party & individual
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so far to an analysis of political communication from party and individual.
Content:
This option will examine the increasing use of political communication in the Fifth Republic, tracing how the development of mass communication has led to the increasing 'sophistication' of presentation of the political message. It will also provide students with the tools to analyse political communication within the French context. Taught in French.

ESML0279: French politics & society 2B, option 9: France coming to terms with the German occupation of 1940-44
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics & Society by applying the expertise gained so far to an analysis of France coming to terms with the German Occupation of 1940-1944 some fifty years on.
Content:
This option will examine the ways in which France has come to terms with the Occupation of 1940-1944, by taking post-war events and individuals connected with the Occupation (e.g. Paul Touvier, Renéé Bousque, François Mitterrand, Maurice Papon) and investigating reactions to those events and individuals. Taught in French.

ESML0280: Italian cultural studies 2B, option 1: Decadentismo: Luigi Pirandello & Italo Svevo
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
Aims & learning objectives:
To build upon the knowledge acquired during the core module in Semester 1 and to explore in depth: Decadentismo: Luigi Pirandello and Italo Svevo
Content:
This option will look at the central role of Pirandello and Svevo in creating Italian modernism (Decadentismo), taking account of developments in both narrative and theatre and will place them in the wider context of European modernism.

ESML0281: Italian cultural studies 2B, option 2: Post-war Italian cinema
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
Aims & learning objectives:
To build upon the knowledge acquired during the core module in Semester 1 and to explore in depth: Post-War Italian Cinema
Content:
This option will examine the works of three directors (Visconti, Fellini, and Antonioni) whose films set the tone and created the international reputation of Italian cinema in the 1960s.

ESML0282: Italian cultural studies 2B, option 3: Post-war Italian narrative
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0070
Aims & learning objectives:
To build upon the knowledge acquired during the core module in Semester 1 and to explore aspects of Post-War Italian narrative in greater depth.
Content:
This option will consider a range of writers from the end of the Neorealist period (Pavese) to the younger writers of the eighties and nineties, including a number of women novelists.

ESML0283: Italian politics & society 2B, option 1: Migratory movements & migrants in post-war Italy
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
To explore aspects of post-war Italian Politics and Society and to build on the development of skills in political and social analysis: Migratory movements and migrants in post-war Italy.
Content:
This option explores a variety of migratory processes to and from Italy since 1945. It considers both internal and external migratory trends and studies in some detail some communities of Italians abroad and recent migrants who have settled in Italy.

ESML0284: Italian politics & society 2B, option 2: Political scandals in Italy since 1945
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
To explore aspects of post-war Italian Politics and Society and to build on the development of skills in political and social analysis: Political scandals in Italy since 1945.
Content:
This option examines some of the most alarming threats Italian democracy has had to contend with, including attempted coups d'etat, secret masonic lodges, the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, as well as the Mafia.

ESML0294: European option E5: In search of Europe (1) - Europe divided
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To explore the concept of Europe 1945-1989. To discuss the implications for both Western and Eastern Europe of Soviet-American rivalries during the Cold War.
Content:
The Cold War; strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet bloc before 1989; Cold War and détente in Western Europe (1960s-1980s); 1989 and the collapse of Cold War era political systems.

ESML0295: European option E6: In search of Europe (2) - Europe in the 1990s: towards unification?
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To explore the concept of Europe since 1989, examining the nature of European, national and regional identities.
Content:
Immediate consequences of 1989; the resurgence of particularism; forces for integration.

ESML0298: French politics & society 2B: option 10: La France dans le monde
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the students' knowledge of French politics by analysing the main features of French foreign policy in the principal areas of the world where significant French influence still prevails.
Content:
This option will examine two main issues. First, the foreign policy-making process in Fifth Republic France. Second, the evolution of French diplomacy with regard to the key issues and regions of the post-war world: NATO and the Atlantic system, European integration, Africa, the Arab world, the Pacific. The student group will have the chance of broad coverage or of concentration on a restricted number of regions.

ESML0300: Year abroad
Academic Year
Credits: 60
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To promote the development of high-level language skills in an appropriate foreign environment; to acquire personal experience and understanding of the appropriate foreign culture(s).
Content:
To carry out an agreed programme or programmes of work and/or study in a foreign environment appropriate to the student's language combination. The nature, scope and assessment is determined by the choice of language(s), placement(s) and country/countries, in consultation with Year Abroad Coordinators, Course Tutors, Personal Tutors and Director of Studies.

ESML0371: Italian politics and society 2B, option 3: The representation of Italy
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
The courses objective is to use the work of eminent Italian novelists, sociologists, essayists and film directors to "bring to life" students textbook knowledge of certain key moments in Italian post-war history.
Content:
Subjects covered include: the partisan struggle against the Germans; the Mafia; the DC and the PCI; terrorism; political corruption and the tangentopoli scandal. Works by major figures such as Sciascia, Rossellini, Amelio and Arlacchi will be studied. Students will be expected to read very widely in Italian.

ESML0373: French politics & society 2B, option 11: Political scandals in France
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To build on the experience of Politics and Society by applying the expertise gained so far to an analysis of Political Scandals in France.
Content:
This option will focus on the numerous scandals that are one of the most prominent features of French politics, how they emerge, how they develop and how they are resolved. Scandals offer a unique means of looking at the inner workings of an entire political system. The course will concentrate on specific case studies, such as the "affair" of the Rainbow Warrior, the "scandal" of the avions renifleurs, le carrefour du développement, and the Bernard Tapie affair.

ESML0384: Russian national option R3: Modern Russian Cinema
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0093
Aims & learning objectives:
To acquaint students with recent developments in Russian cinema, from the late Soviet period (early 1980s) through to the mid-1990s. To provide an overview of the cultural and political background; to analyse film as text; to examine some key films of the period.
Content:
Brief history of Soviet film 1917-85; some critical tendencies in the late stagnation years; Gorbachev's policy of 'glasnost' in the arts; the 'unshelving' of previously banned films in the late 1980s; the end of Soviet film and the emergence of the new Russian cinema post-1991.

ESML0385: European political thought
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
Students should acquire a solid understanding of the history and development of political theory in Europe.
Content:
The course provides a survey of the major European politcal thinkers from Niccolo Machiavelli to Antonio Gramsci.

ESML0388: French national option F7: Les partis politiques en France
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0011
Aims & learning objectives:
To study the role played by political parties within the democratic process in France, their history, development, organisation, strategies and programmes since the turn of the century, and to examine what role they play today in French politics in the light of the Fifth Republic's avowed goal of putting an end to partisan divisions. To offer students the opportunity to develop their research skills and to gain a better understanding of the way the French political system works as a whole.
Content:
The major topics surveyed will be the following: the partisan system before 1958, the bipolarisation after 1958, the organisation of parties, the funding of political parties, and the emergence of new political forces.

ESML0389: Italian national option IT6: The crisis of the Italian State
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this course is to discuss and analyse the crisis of the Italian I Republic and the period of political transition that has followed the collapse of the Berlusconi government.
Content:
Subjects covered include: academic explanations for the crisis of the I Republic; political parties in contemporary Italy; constitutional reform; Italy and the European Union. Students will be expected to read widely in Italian.

ESML0389: Italian national option IT6: The crisis of the Italian State
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0071
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this course is to discuss and analyse the crisis of the Italian I Republic and the period of political transition that has followed the collapse of the Berlusconi government.
Content:
Subjects covered include: academic explanations for the crisis of the I Republic; political parties in contemporary Italy; constitutional reform; Italy and the European Union. Students will be expected to read widely in Italian.

ESML0407: Border crossings: memory and identity in contemporary Europe
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims and Learning Objectives: To challenge assumptions about European and national identities: to enable students to appreciate the complexity, diversity and interrelated nature of European cultures.
Content:
An exploration of shifting identities in contemporary Europe, through a variety of written and visual media, with particular reference to geographical and linguistic boundaries, and the themes of exile, migration, memory and forgetting.

ESML0410: Political ideologies
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES50 EX50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide a grounding in the study of political ideologies, namely the thought which has been central to modern political debate, and to show the importance of ideas to the study of politics. By the end of the unit students should be able to demonstrate i) an understanding of the notion of ideology, and of the key political ideologies discussed, and ii) an ability to engage with and analyse the main debates and arguments discussed in the course.
Content:
The lectures will focus on the main ideologies which have helped shape the modern world, together with more methodological debates surrounding the study of ideology. Lectures will include: what is 'ideology'?; liberalism; conservatism; Marxism; social democracy; nationalism; feminism; ecologism; and the 'end of ideology' debate.

ESML0411: Politics Dissertation 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: OT100
Requisites:
This unit is for BSc Politics with Economics students only. Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of the unit is for students to design and conduct a research project on an approved politics topic (NB politics is understood broadly to include related political aspects of related subjects such as social policy). The objective is for students to attain research skills, the ability and confidence to work and conduct primary research independently, and a critical awareness of the importance of methodology and analysis in political research and writing. (Further details of the Politics Dissertation are given in the Student Handbook for Politics with Economics students.)
Content:
Students will choose a specific research topic, in consultation with a suitable supervisor, and design a research project.

ESML0412: Politics dissertation 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: OT100
Requisites:
This unit is for BSc Politics with Economics students only. Aims & learning objectives:
To complete work undertaken in Politics Dissertation 1 unit (ESML0411).
Content:
Discussion, further reading and writing up of a 10,000 word research project.

ESML0414: American politics
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim is to provide students with a knowledge and understanding of central arguments and debates relating to the American political system, and to equip them to contribute to these debates, citing relevant evidence.
Content:
The course applies the concepts and theories of political science to the United states of America, assessing the role played by formal and informal political entities. Notions of liberal democracy are assessed by reference to debates on the role of political parties, interest groups, elites and political culture on political outcomes in America. A number of case studies consider the political significance from a European perspective of questions of race and poverty, judicial review, and the American foreign policy process.

ESML0415: Media politics
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim is to provide students with a grounding in the theory and practice relating to the political significance of the mass media, with reference to a number of case studies. Students should attain an awareness of the significance of the media in the public sphere and in the democratic process. They should also attain skills in conceptualising the media's role.
Content:
The course examines alternative theories of the political role of the mass media, and applies these to case studies. Topics include the Frankfurt School and mass culture, Marxist and pluralist notions of the media, the 'propaganda model', notions of public broadcasting, cinema and politics, the global role of the media, and the media and war.

ESML0416: Totalitarian politics
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To further student's knowledge of comparative politics and history by examining 20th century European communist and facist movements and regimes, with particular attention being paid to the relevance of the concept of 'totalitarianism' to these. The main focus will be on Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. By the end of the unit, students should be able to demonstrate: i) an understanding of the main theories of the rise, nature and failure of communism and fascist regimes; ii) familiarity with the concept of 'totalitarianism' and debates relating to its use.
Content:
The concept of 'totalitarianism'; the role of ideas and ideology in the genesis of fascist and communist movements and regimes; state and leadership in communist and fascist regimes; coercion and support; the Holocaust; the decay of communism; the possibility of the revival of fascism and communism in Europe.

ESML0417: British politics
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide a grounding in the study of the British political system, including wider aspects of Britain's relations with the EU. Students will attain a broad knowledge of British Politics, and the skills of being able to engage with the main arguments and debates, and analyse major problems in the subject area.
Content:
The lectures will focus on a wide range of specific topics central to beginning to study politics (parties, institutions, etc.). Lectures will include: conservatism; social democracy; voting behaviour; the media; electoral systems; parliament; executive; Britain and the European Union.

ESML0422: French national option F14: Marguerite Duras - Femme du siècle
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: CW33 ES67
Requisites: Pre ESML0009
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the work of Marguerite Duras and to examine her contribution to some of the major literary and intellectual debates of mid- to late-twentieth century France. To explore the stylistic and thematic evolution of Duras's oevre, through discussion of such issues as family relations, oppression, personal identity, gender and sexuality.
Content:
The unit will focus primarily on the following novels: Un barrage contre le Pacifique (1955); Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein (1964); the very short text, 'L'Homme asses dans le couloir' (1981); L'Amant (1984); La Douleur (1985) and L'Amant de la Chine du nord (1991). Some reference will also be made to Duras's use of visual media.

ESML0423: German national option G10: Territorium und Nation. Die 'deutsche Frage' seit 1945
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0042
Aims & learning objectives:
The unit will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the origins, development, and future of the 'German Question'. Building on students' knowledge of post-war German history, this will be done by systematically analysing the links between the two concepts of territory and nation and how they are affected, or were affected by, German domestic and foreign policy and the relationship between the two German states and their neighbours in the context of the Cold War, the collapse of the East Bloc, and the democratisation of the former socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Content:
Topics of lectures and seminars will include the relationship between East and West German, Ostpolitik, German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, the integration of refugess, expellees, and Aussiedler in the Federal Republic, and the political influence of expellee organisations on German foreign policy. The unit is taught in German.

ESML0428: Film, politics & society
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide students with a grounding in debates about the social and political significance and "effects" of film and television drama and documentary, in various industrial, national and global contexts. Students should attain the ability to read and interpret film texts and to understand and assess the visual and other codes of film language; they should also gain a confidence in discussing and analysing the significance of film in particular political and historical contexts.
Content:
The course draws on a number of theoretical approaches to film and the mass media, and draws on theoretical work on the political and social significance of film. The course deals with questions of the construction and reception of political meaning in film and television drama, and at issues relating to film and national identity, film policy, political culture, censorship, propaganda, and the notion of documentary. Examples are drawn in particular, but not exclusively from American and European film.

ESML0429: French national option F15: Décisions et leadership
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To deepen students' understanding of decision-making and leadership processes in organisational and political life; to enhance their practical competencies in these matters; to explore methods by which individual and collective decisions are made in a range of settings.
Content:
The unit analyses decision-making and leadership at three levels: organisations, the French national polity, and the international arena (especially the EU). Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches, it identifies the social and personal characteristics of key decision-makers, explores contextual and procedural aspects, and outlines models of strategy formulation and policy making in majoritarian and non-majoritarian settings. Case studies are drawn mainly from France, supported by international comparisons and contrasts. The unit is taught in French.

ESML0430: French cultural studies 2B, option 11: Ecrire les langues francaises: recent francophone literature
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the work of several contemporary francophone writers, and to the historical, cultural and theoretical context of post-colonialism. To examine how such works challenge the certainties of traditional 'French' literature. To explore the stylistic and thematic complexities of francophone novels, poetry and films through discussion of such issues as hybridity, exile, authenticity, voice, place and gender.
Content:
The unit will focus primarily on the following literary works Azouz Begag, Le Gone de Chaâba (1986): Aimé Césaire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939); Medhi Charef, Le thé au harem d'Archi Ahmed (1983); Andrée Chedid, La Maison sans racines (1985); Tahar Ben Jelloun, La Nuit sacrée (1987) - and the films, La Haine, Le Gone de Chaâba and Le thé au harem d'Archi Ahmed. We shall also refer to a number of historical and theoretical works.

ESML0431: German cultural studies 2B, option 4: Verliebt, verlobt, verheiratet?
Semester 2
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites: Pre ESML0038
Aims & learning objectives:
Full title: Verliebt, verlobt, verheiratet? Liebe, Beziehungen und Ehe in der deutschprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. To examine cultural representations of relationships and of the institution of marriange as key areas of social change during the 1960s and 1970s. To assess the impact of wider social change (in particular of the women's movement) on the nexus of personal identity, the private sphere and society. To identify new methods being employed by prose writers as a means of authentically representing the social experiences of particular women.
Content:
A framework of lectures will provide the cultural and political context within which to study the cultural representations of the topics specified above. Lectures will also introduce students to literary developments of the period and to the authors whose texts will be studied. The seminars will provide students with the opportunity to analyse in detail the following representative works of fiction: Brigitte Schwaiger, Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer; Elfiede Jelinek, Die Liebhaberinnen; Christa Wolf, Der geteilte Himmel; Christoph Hein, Drachenblut; and a film version of Christa Wolf's short story Selbstversuch. Taught in German.

ESML0439: Spanish Stage 7A (advanced) (6 credits)
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
A course to consolidate, refine and enhance previous advanced knowledge of Spanish. Students will be able to improve their receptive and productive language skills in a variety of situations.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to Spain and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which Spanish is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0440: Spanish stage 7B (6 credits)
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
Further consolidation and enhancement of the language already acquired in Spanish Stage 7A. Students will be able to practise and further improve their receptive and productive language skills in a variety of situations.
Content:
This unit contains a variety of listening, reading, speaking and writing tasks covering appropriate grammatical structures and vocabulary. Teaching materials cover a wide range of cultural, political and social topics relating to Spain and may include short works of literature. There will be discussion in the target language of topics derived from teaching materials, leading to small-scale research projects based on the same range of topics and incorporating the use of press reports and articles as well as audio and visual material. Students are encouraged to devote time and energy to developing linguistic proficiency outside the timetabled classes, for instance by additional reading and/or participating in informally arranged conversation groups and in events at which Spanish is spoken. Audio and video laboratories are available to augment classroom work.

ESML0441: Women & politics in Europe
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
The aim of this unit is to introduce students to the relationship between gender and politics in contemporary Europe by examining theory and a number of thematic case studies. By the end of this unit students will have a basic theoretical knowledge of the relationship between women and politics and will have explored certain aspects of the realities of women's involvement in politics across Europe.
Content:
This course will first introduce some of the major debates in contemporary feminist political theory. It will then move into a comparative analysis of the relationship between women and the political processes in Europe by examining feminist movements, women's voting patterns, women's participation in government and political parties, social policy concerning women and women's involvement in the European parliament and commission.

ESML0468: Transitions to democracy
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES67 CW33
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To understand the "third wave" of transitions to democracy which began in the last quarter of the 20th century by examining the general scholarly literature on this subject and the experience of a number of individual countries in four different regions of the world (Southern Europe, Latin America, East-Central Europe, the former USSR); to develop skills in comparative political analysis and seminar techniques. Students who complete the unit successfully will be able to demonstrate:
* a clear grasp of the key issues in democratization in each region;
* familiarity with theoretical arguments surrounding "third wave" transitions;
* the ability to critically evaluate these arguments by reference to national and cross-regional case studies.
Content:
The unit will begin with a lecture introducing the "third wave" and a discussion of the nature of democracy to establish criteria. This will be followed by lectures on theories of transition, addressing the debate over structure and agency, the significance of institutional choices, and the role of civil society. Introductory lectures on the four regions will be followed by seminar case-studies of individual countries presented by students, each focusing on an aspect of transition highlighted by the experience of the country concerned. The countries and themes chosen will vary from time to time but in the first instance will be: Spain - the importance of agency and pacts; Greece - the role of the military; Colombia - the drugs trade; Chile - the issue of impunity; Nicaragua - the importance of external relations; Cuba - the limits of democracy; Poland - abortion and the role of the Church; Hungary - political parties and society; Croatia - economic development; Bosnia - war and ethnicity; Ukraine - institutions; Georgia - political culture. The unit will end with a general discussion, after which students will write an essay comparing an aspect of transition in at least two different regions. Key texts: S. Huntington The Third Wave. Democratization in the Late 20th Century (1991); D. Potter Democratization (1997).

MANG0040: European integration studies 1
Semester 1
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Students should have taken MANG0006 or MANG0070, or equivalent Economics unit. IMML students must take MANG0059 in the next semester if they take this unit. Aims & learning objectives:
To provide a basic grounding in the theory, politics and economics of European integration. Students will complete the course with a sound knowledge of European Union institutions and key economic policies.
Content:
Subjects covered will be: integration theory; EU political institutions, their legitimacy and their accountability; the EU decision-making process; EC finances and funds; the single market and Europe's lost competitiveness; competition policy; the EU, world trade and developing countries; regional policy; economic and monetary union; the enlargement of the EU, the EEA and Central and Eastern Europe. Lectures will be supplemented by case study discussions, tutorial sessions and a revision workshop.

MANG0059: European integration studies 2
Semester 2
Credits: 5
Contact:
Topic: IMML - 50% MANG 50% ESML
Level: Level 3
Assessment: ES100
Requisites: Pre MANG0040
IMML students must take this unit if they have taken MANG0040 in the previous semester. Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an advanced knowledge of the impact of European policies on individuals, managements and work organisations in the European Union. Students will complete the course unit with a detailed knowledge of social, environmental and sectoral impacts of integration and how business interests can influence the EU decision-making process.
Content:
Subjects covered will be: Social and employment policy issues and the firm; EU environment policy and its impact upon business and communities; the harmonisation of company law; sectoral impacts of the single market and business strategies; lobbying the EU; transport policy and trans-European networks; implementation of EC law; the future direction of the EU. Lectures will be supplemented by case study discussions, a decision-making game, and tutorial sessions.

SOCP0001: Introduction to social policy & the welfare state 1
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce basic concepts of social policy; to examine the historical evolution of social policy and the welfare state in Britain; to review and analyse recent developments in major social service areas; to introduce the work of 'classic' writers in social policy.
Content:
Services and sectors in Social Policy; 1834 Poor Law; the 1842 'Sanitary Report'; The Liberal Reforms and the Introduction of Pensions; Beveridge and the impact of the 2nd World war; the Post-War Welfare State; Thatcherism and Social Policy; Educational Reform; Housing; Community Care

SOCP0002: Introduction to social policy & the welfare state 2
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Pre SOCP0001
Aims & learning objectives:
To provide an introduction to social policy as a field of study. To examine the nature and extent of poverty and inequality in Britain today, as a means of developing an understanding of social policies as a field of study.
Content:
Introduction to Social Policy; Concepts and Definitions of Poverty; Social Exclusion; Evidence on the Incidence of Poverty and Inequality; Demographic Factors and their relationship to Poverty; Poverty, Gender and 'Race'; Poverty and Policy.

SOCP0005: Politics and the policy process
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Ex ECOI0080
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit introduces students to key concepts for analysing the policy-making process. By the end of the unit students should have a basic understanding of problems and issues in the making and implementation of social policy in Britain. This course has a common lecture programme with the Politics and Policy course, however each course has a separate seminar programme.
Content:
Each lecture covers one conceptual topic, including: Introduction to Policy Analysis; Theories of the State; Power; Models of Decision-making and Policy Formulation; Implementation; Street-Level Decision-Making; Organisational Constraints; Interest Groups and Policy Communities. The seminars apply these to topical issues in social policy.

SOCP0006: Political values & social policy
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 2
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit introduces students to a range of values and principles used to justify the role of the state in social policy. By the end of the module students should be familiar with the broad range of principles and should be able to apply some of them to current debates.
Content:
Each lecture will cover one core principle, including: Need, Freedom, Equality, Justice, Citizenship, Community. The seminars will apply each to one issue or problem in contemporary social policy; for example, training schemes and equality of opportunity; citizenship and rights to a basic income.

SOCP0012: European social policy: a comparative approach
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites: Pre SOCP0001, Pre SOCP0002
Aims & learning objectives:
This unit introduces students to the social policies of several European countries. By the end of the module students should have a basic knowledge of the patterns and development of welfare policies in these countries and be able to situate them in relation to models of different welfare state regimes.
Content:
The course adopts two approaches to the material. In the first part, it examines in depth the development of social policies in specific countries which represent different 'welfare regimes': Germany, Sweden, Italy and Russia/ Central Europe. Second, it then compares specific policy areas across these countries, such as pensions and health services. The module concludes by considering the impact of the EU and the prospects for converging social policies in Europe.

SOCP0043: Sociology of industrial societies 1: classical theories
Semester 1
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: ES100
Requisites: Co SOCP0044
Aims & learning objectives:
To understand the basic sociological questions, theories and evidence of industrial society
Content:
To answer the following questions: 1) How and why is industrial society distinctive? 2) Does industrial society have a logic of social differentiation, based on conflict , control, or social order? Differences in work, authority and decision making, kinship and gender, culture and community. The theories of Marx, Durkheim and Weber.

SOCP0044: Sociology of industrial societies 2: social change & social control
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Co SOCP0043
Aims & learning objectives:
To understand the changing nature of industrial societies, modern and post-modern theories and evidence of social stratification, organisation and control
Content:
To answer the following questions: 1) Do industrial societies display common trends, even superseding industrialism? 2) What are the main modes of social regulation and social control in changing societies? Theories and evidence of post-industrialism, convergence, managerialism, ethnic and gender forms of social stratification in relation to social control and citizenship.

SOCP0056: Environmental policy & the countryside
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: EX50 ES50
Requisites:
Aims & learning objectives:
To develop a clear understanding of the politics of the policy process as it applies to the countryside and the environment
Content:
Concern for the environment has become a radical and innovative element in European politics. By focusing on developments between the passage of the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act and the publication of the 1995 Rural White Paper the Unit explains the factors which have transformed the agenda of rural policy making. Corporatist politics and competitive pluralist politics are contrasted and special attention is given to the changing balance of private and public rights and responsibilities in the countryside.

SOCP0059: Core skills for social scientists: social research methods
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: CW100
Requisites: Co SOCP0110
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to classical, influential examples of investigations and research in various social sciences, and to introduce the main methods as well as philosophical and methodological issues raised by each.
Content:
Classical and influential case studies in political, sociological and psychological research; different types of methods; classification, quantification and meaning; controversial studies and their implications.

SOCP0060: Quantitative methods: Surveys & data analysis
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: EX100
Requisites: Co SOCP0110
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to the main assumptions, concepts and methods of survey methods, sampling, descriptive and inferential statistics, and to establish basic competence sufficient for investigative, exploratory data analysis using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). By the end of the course the students will be able to:
* use techniques for conducting a small surveys
* use a number of basic statistical techniques and tests employed in descriptive and inferential statistics
* use the basic functions of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) in analysing quantitative data
* recognise the broader theoretical and methodological issues that arise from (and accompany) the use of quantitative methods in social research.
Content:
Basic principles of surveys, construction of questionnaires and sampling; Basic descriptive statistics and Graphical Representation of Quantitative Data; Measures of central tendency and variability; Introduction to the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS); The normal distribution and z-scores; Tests of associations: An overview of tests for Nominal, Ordinal and Interval/ Ration variables; Introduction to Inferential Statistics; Estimates, Hypothesis testing and Predictions; Tests for significance for Nominal variables (the chi-square test).

SOCP0070: Social issues in contemporary Europe
Semester 2
Credits: 6
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 3
Assessment: PR100
Requisites:
Aims and Learning Objectives: To develop student understanding of the major social themes affecting Europe today. This unit will adopt a comparative perspective that looks at the changing boundaries social agendas in place in major European countries. The course will attempt to display elements of convergence and divergence within those different and developing social agendas.
Content:
The idea of Europe as a social entity; EU developments promoting common social policies; comparative demographics regarding family, gender, employment, labour market, education, welfare and social policies. Comparative analysis of social institutions and modes of approach to common problems.

SOCP0110: Core skills for social scientists: information technology methods
Semester 1
Credits: 3
Contact:
Topic:
Level: Level 1
Assessment: PR50 CW50
Requisites: Co SOCP0059, Co SOCP0060
Aims & learning objectives:
To introduce students to basic computing skills needed to support methods modules in Years 1 and 2.
Content:
Through practical experience students will acquire basic skills in word-processing, spreadsheets, simple databases, file management, use of networked PCs and accessing remote sources (WWWeb); competence will be assessed through practicals and through successful use of skills in later methods modules.