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Department of European Studies & Modern Languages, Programme Catalogue 2008/09


UHEU-AKB03: BA (hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and Russian)

Leading to the award of BACHELOR OF ARTS IN MODERN LANGUAGES AND EUROPEAN STUDIES (FRENCH AND RUSSIAN)

Mode of attendance: Thick sandwich


Year 1, Academic Year: Part 1 Stage 1

Designated essential units
EU10621 French written and spoken language 1 12 Credits
EU10635 Russian written & spoken language 1 (advanced entry) 12 Credits

Year 1, Semester 1: Part 1 Stage 1

Compulsory units
EU10003 French cultural studies 1A: form & genre in French culture 3 Credits
EU10005 French politics & society 1A: Introduction à la politique et à la société françaises 1 3 Credits
EU10083 Russian cultural studies 1A: Introduction to Russian culture (post A level) 6 Credits
EU10103 Introduction to European studies 6 Credits

Year 1, Semester 2: Part 1 Stage 1

Compulsory units
EU10004 French cultural studies 1B: Changing viewpoints and narrative strategies 3 Credits
EU10006 French politics & society 1B: Introduction à la politique et à la société françaises 2 3 Credits
EU10087 Russian politics & society 1A: Russia before 1917 - Directed study 3 Credits
EU10088 Russian politics & society 1B: Russia before 1917 3 Credits
EU10104 Europe since 1945 6 Credits

Year 2, Academic Year

Compulsory units
EU20622 French written & spoken language 2 12 Credits
EU20636 Russian written and spoken language 2 12 Credits

Year 2, Semester 1

Compulsory units
EU20009 French cultural studies 2A: from realism to abstraction: disintegration of the image 3 Credits
EU20011 French politics & society 2A: De Mitterrand à Chirac, ruptures et continuités 3 Credits
EU20090 Russian cultural studies 2A: Russian literature from Chekhov to Zoshchenko 3 Credits
EU20091 Russian politics & society 2A: Soviet Russia 1917-1985 3 Credits
EU20726 European integration 6 Credits

Year 2, Semester 2

Compulsory units
EU20093 Russian cultural studies 2B: Soviet Russian literature & cinema in the 1920s & 1930s 3 Credits
EU20094 Russian politics & society 2B: Reform & reconstruction in Russia since 1985 3 Credits
Optional Units: Select 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
EU20407 Border crossings: memory and identity in contemporary Europe 6 Credits
EU20416 Totalitarian politics 6 Credits
EU20424 Introduction to the teaching of English as a foreign language (TEFL) 6 Credits
EU20724 Policies and policy-making in the EU 6 Credits
Optional Units: Select 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
EU20575 Capitale et province: régionalismes français 6 Credits
EU20576 The experience of women during the Second World War 6 Credits
EU20577 French drama in the political & social context of the 1930s & 1940s 6 Credits
EU20578 Images & identities in flux: French cinema & the Auteur tradition 6 Credits
EU20579 Images of conflict: the French at war 6 Credits
EU20580 Spectres du passé: le cas de Vichy 6 Credits
EU20611 Immigration in France 6 Credits
EU20619 Women between worlds: images of exile in francophone literature and the visual arts 6 Credits
EU20666 Blasting the past: the European avant-garde 6 Credits
EU20667 La France et la mondialisation 6 Credits
EU20668 The French "events" of 1968 6 Credits

Year 3, Academic Year

Compulsory units
EU20300 Year abroad 60 Credits

Year 4, Academic Year

Compulsory units
EU30623 French written and spoken language 4 12 Credits
EU30637 Russian written and spoken language 4 12 Credits
Optional Units: Select between 0 and 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
AA00021 Choose nothing from this list of options 0 Credits
EU30643 European film 12 Credits

Year 4, Semester 1

Optional Units: Select between 0 and 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
AA00001 Choose nothing from this list of options 0 Credits
EU30107 Culture & national identity 6 Credits
EU30294 In search of Europe (1) - the cold war 1945 - 1989 6 Credits
EU30468 Transitions to democracy 6 Credits
EU30732 The politics of ethnicity, religion, and nationalism 6 Credits
EU30741 US global politics 6 Credits
MN30040 European integration studies 1 6 Credits
Optional Units: Select 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
EU30099 Russian national option R2: Literature & society in modern Russia 6 Credits
EU30101 Russian national option R4: Gorbachev & Perestroika 6 Credits
Optional Units: Select 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
EU30017 French national option F3: La femme en France au vingtième siècle 6 Credits
EU30019 French national option F5: French comedies from Molière to Beaumarchais 6 Credits
EU30020 French national option F6: French autobiography 6 Credits
EU30429 French national option F15: Le leadership contemporain 6 Credits
EU30528 French national option F16: les scandales politiques en France 6 Credits

Year 4, Semester 2

Optional Units: Select between 0 and 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
AA00011 Choose nothing from this list of options 0 Credits
EC30041 Global governance and the contemporary challenges of under-development 6 Credits
EU30108 European option E2: Politically committed European culture: the end of an era? 6 Credits
EU30295 In search of Europe 2: nationalism, regionalism and convergence in Europe since 1989 6 Credits
MN30059 European integration studies 2 6 Credits
SP30012 European social policy: a comparative approach 6 Credits
Optional Units: Select 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
EU30102 Russian national option R5: Politics in post-communist Russia 6 Credits
EU30384 Russian national option R3: modern Russian cinema 6 Credits
Optional Units: Select 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
EU30018 French national option F4: Films of the nouvelle vague 6 Credits
EU30027 French national option F11: La persuasion et la propagande 6 Credits
EU30028 French national option F12: Environnement, société, développement 6 Credits
EU30029 French national option F13: Culture et identité dans la France contemporaine 6 Credits
EU30660 French national option F19: Travelling identities: postcolonial culture in literature and the visual arts 6 Credits