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


UHEU-AKB19: BA (hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (Spanish and Italian)

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

Mode of attendance: Thick sandwich


Year 1, Academic Year: Part 1 Stage 1

Designated essential units
EU10632 Italian written & spoken language 1 (advanced entry) 12 Credits
EU10638 Spanish written and spoken language 1 12 Credits

Year 1, Semester 1: Part 1 Stage 1

Compulsory units
EU10064 Italian cultural studies 1A: Introduction to Italian cultural history 3 Credits
EU10065 Italian politics & society 1A: Italian foundation history (1860-1914) 3 Credits
EU10103 Introduction to European studies 6 Credits
EU10455 Spanish politics & society 1A: introduction to Spanish politics & society 1 3 Credits
EU10552 Spanish cultural studies 1A: introduction to 20th Century Spanish culture 3 Credits

Year 1, Semester 2: Part 1 Stage 1

Compulsory units
EU10066 Italian cultural studies 1B: Italian writing of the 19th century 3 Credits
EU10067 Italian politics & society 1B: Italian fascism 3 Credits
EU10104 Europe since 1945 6 Credits
EU10456 Spanish politics & society 1B: introduction to Spanish politics & society 2 3 Credits
EU10553 Spanish cultural studies 1B: introduction to contemporary Spanish culture 3 Credits

Year 2, Academic Year

Compulsory units
EU20633 Italian written and spoken language 2 12 Credits
EU20639 Spanish written and spoken language 2 12 Credits

Year 2, Semester 1

Compulsory units
EU20070 Italian cultural studies 2A: Italian writers of the early 20th Century 3 Credits
EU20071 Italian politics & society 2A: Italy since 1945 3 Credits
EU20467 Spanish politics & society 2A: Introduction to contemporary Latin American studies 3 Credits
EU20556 Spanish cultural studies 2A: Introduction to 20th and 21st century Latin American culture 3 Credits
EU20726 European integration 6 Credits

Year 2, Semester 2

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:
EU20614 Italy in the 1960s and 1970s: Social transformation and political and cultural dissent 6 Credits
EU20615 Italian politics and culture in the 1990s 6 Credits
Optional Units: Select 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
EU20676 Cultural memory in post-1975 Spain 6 Credits
EU20677 The Spanish second republic and the civil war 1931-1939 6 Credits
EU20678 Revolution and dictatorship in Latin America 1950-2000 6 Credits
EU20679 Contemporary Argentina, Chile and Brazil: history, society, identity 6 Credits

Year 3, Academic Year

Compulsory units
EU20300 Year abroad 60 Credits

Year 4, Academic Year

Compulsory units
EU30634 Italian written and spoken language 4 12 Credits
EU30640 Spanish 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:
EU30077 Italian national option IT2: The novel, the cinema & Italian society 6 Credits
EU30548 Italian national option IT9: organised crime & democracy in Italy 6 Credits
Optional Units: Select 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
EU30568 The politics of democracy & development in Latin America 6 Credits
EU30674 National identity during Francoism: the role of literature and cinema 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:
EU30078 Italian national option IT3: Scrittrici Italiane del ventesimo secolo 6 Credits
EU30549 Italian national option IT10: Italy & migration 6 Credits
EU30671 Italian national option IT11: Political terrorism and its legacy in Italy 6 Credits
Optional Units: Select 1 Unit(s) from the following list:
EU30569 The post-Franco party political system in Spain 6 Credits
EU30675 In search of Latin America: diversity and the dream of unity 6 Credits
EU30728 The international relations of Latin America 6 Credits