Available Modules
Modules available for Visiting Students provided by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures 2026-27 - pending final confirmation
Please complete the module preferences form here if you are based in the SMLC to indicate the modules you would like to take. Please note that the modules listed may be subject to change and some modules are operating with very limited spaces available.
Students based outside of the SMLC, e.g. in English, History, etc., who are interested in taking a module listed below should complete the form here to register their interest.
Modules do not require a proficiency in the given language unless otherwise stated.
There is no guarantee that any modules listed below will run in future years.
French Studies Modules
Full Year, September-June (30 CATS/15 ECTS)
Terms One and Two, September-March (24 CATS/12 ECTS)
Term One, September-December (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
- FR117 English-French Translation for Erasmus Students
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FR245 In the Family Way: Birth, Sex and Death in Seventeenth-Century French Culture
- FR256 The Right in France, from the Dreyfus Affair to the Present (*)
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FR268 French Cinema and Society from the First to the Second World War
- FR350 The French Revolution (*)
- FR363 Reframing History: French popular revolt in the graphic novel
Term Two, January-March (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
- FR117 English-French Translation for Erasmus Students
- FR272 Updating Madame Bovary: the novel, the graphic novel, the film
- FR346 Occupation: Everyday Life in Vichy France 1940-1944
- FR373 Screens, Streets and Selves: Culture and Transformation of France in the Long 1960s
Note: FR117 is available only to native French speakers
(*) indicates that a module requires a native understanding of the French language, or an A-Level in French or an international equivalent
German Studies Modules
Term One, September-December (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
- GE217 Film in the Weimar Republic and under National Socialism
- GE331 German memories of WWII: From Perpetration to Suffering (*)
- GE339 Exploring Zeitgeist: Politics, Culture and Society in Germany Today (*)
- GE343 English & German Translation (For Exchange Students)
Term Two, January-March (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
- GE220 Violent Women in the German Cultural Imagination
- GE332 The Self and the Others I: Identity, Gender and Ethnicity in German Culture around 1800 (*)
- GE343 English & German Translation (For Exchange Students)
Note: GE343 is available only to native German speakers
(*) indicates that a module requires a native understanding of the German language, or an A-Level in German or an international equivalent
Hispanic Studies Modules
Term One, September-December (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
- HP209 Spanish and English Translation
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HP212 Knowing Women: Gender, Education and Power in Hispanic Writing (*)
- HP214 Latin American Counterpoints: Cultural Representations of Slavery in the 20th Century
- HP318 Crime and Punishment in Spanish Film
- HP321 Nature and Modernity in Latin America
Term Two, January-March (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
- HP2yy The Spanish Avant-Garde: Theatre, Film, Painting
- HP205 Galician Connections: Culture and Identity on the Atlantic Rim
- HP223 Climate Fictions in the Hispanic World
Note: HP209 is available only to native Spanish speakers and is not available to students based outside the SMLC
(*) indicates that a module requires a native understanding of the Spanish language, or an A-Level in Spanish or an international equivalent
Italian Studies Modules
Full Year, September-June (30 CATS/15 ECTS)
Term One, September-December (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
- IT315 Experiments in Narrative: Telling the Past
- IT324 Renaissance Florence
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IT338 Italian and English Translation for Visiting Students (!)
- IT414 Italian and English Translation for Visiting Students (^)
Term Two, January-March (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
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IT316 Present Futures: Questions of Marginality in Contemporary Italy
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IT338 Italian and English Translation for Visiting Students (!)
- IT414 Italian and English Translation for Visiting Students (^)
(!) indicates that a module requires B2/C1 Italian proficiency
(^) indicates that a module requires C1/C2 Italian proficiency
Translation and Transcultural Studies Modules
Full Year, September-June (30 CATS/15 ECTS)
Term One, September-December (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
Note: LN313 is not available to students based outside the SMLC
Cross-School Modules
Term Two, January-March (15 CATS/7.5 ECTS)
Language modules
Language modules should be done through the Language Centre (i.e. modules with the code 'LL'). You can consult the list of Language Centre modules here
Modules from other departments
We can only offer spaces on modules that are provided by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. If you wish to take modules from other departments, then you will need to contact those departments directly.