Modern Languages and English (Arabic)
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Year 1
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
Compulsory Modules
All students will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code ARAB1001 | Title Beginning Arabic 1 | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ARAB1002 | Title Beginning Arabic 2 | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression PFP |
| Code ARAB1171 | Title Studying the Middle East and North Africa | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL1055 | Title Writing Matters | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL1065 | Title Reading Between the Lines | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code MODL1150 | Title Worlds of Literature | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
Year 2
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.
Compulsory Modules
At Level 2, students must study 120 credits. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in English and a minimum of 60 credits in Arabic. The remaining 20 credits may be taken as optional modules in either English or Arabic, or as discovery modules. Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code ARAB2010 | Title Advanced Arabic Grammar and Translation | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ARAB2020 | Title Essential Skills in Practical Arabic | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression PFP |
| Code ENGL2030 | Title Writing Environments: Literature, Nature, Culture | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL2045 | Title Body Language: Literature and Embodiment | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
Optional Modules
Students must take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the following optional modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code ARAB2015 | Title The Shari’a: Theory, Practice, Transformations | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ARAB2091 | Title Arab Media, Politics and Society | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ARAB2181 | Title Cultures of the Arab Middle East and North Africa | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ARAB2190 | Title Global Jihad: From the Taliban to ISIS | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ARAB2310 | Title Modern Middle Eastern History | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
Students may study up to 20 credits from the from the following lists of optional modules (Baskets 1-4).
Basket 1:
Basket 2:
Basket 3:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code ENGL2095 | Title Other Voices: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Literature | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL2096 | Title The World Before Us: Literature 1660–1830 | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
Basket 4:
Students may study up to 20 credits from the from the following lists of optional modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code FOAH2020 | Title Towards the Future: Skills in Context | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code HIST2260 | Title Digital Methods for History, Art and Literature | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code MODL2015 | Title Black Europe | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code MODL2070 | Title Reception, Transmission and Translation: The Global Circulation of Literature | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code MODL2075 | Title Global Environmental Humanities | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code MODL2250 | Title Digital Communications Across Cultures | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
Discovery Modules
Students may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules
Year 3
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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Compulsory Modules
Students will be required to study the following compulsory module
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code MODL9500 | Title LCS Year Abroad | Credits 120 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression PFP |
Year 4
(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
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We are currently refreshing our courses to make sure students have the best possible experience. Where there is no module code link below the full module details are not yet available. Before you are required to enrol on a module full details will be provided.
Compulsory Modules
Students are required to take a minimum of 40 credits in each subject. Overall, students must take 100 credits across their two subjects. All students must take 40 credits as a Final Year Project module, which can be taken in - and count towards - either of their two subjects Students will be required to study the following compulsory modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code ARAB3020 | Title Advanced Skills in Arabic Language | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression PFP |
Optional Modules
Students will be required to study ONE of the following compulsory Final Year Project modules
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code ENGL3005 | Title Textual Editing Project | Credits 40 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression PFP |
| Code ENGL3041 | Title Final Year Project | Credits 40 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression PFP |
| Code MODL3300 | Title Final Year Project: Dissertation | Credits 40 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression PFP |
| Code MODL3340 | Title Final Year Project: Extended Translation | Credits 40 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression PFP |
| Code MODL3350 | Title Final Year Project: Digital Documentary (Podcast) | Credits 40 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression PFP |
Students who take their FYP in English are required to take a minimum of 20 credits and may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules:
Students who take their FYP in Arabic may take up to 20 credits from the following list of optional modules:
- The Quran and Hadith - 20 Credits
- [Title to be defined: module about cinemas and audio-visual cultures in the Middle East and North Africa] - 20 Credits
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code ARAB3072 | Title Islam and Modernity | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ARAB3110 | Title Middle Eastern Politics: Regimes, Societies and Conflict | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ARAB3888 | Title Advanced Media Arabic: Translation Skills in Text Typology | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
Students who take their FYP with English may take up to 40 credits from the following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).
Students who take their FYP in Arabic are required to take 40 credits from following list of optional modules (EITHER Basket 1 OR Basket 2).
Basket 1:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code ENGL3031 | Title Sex and Suffering in the Eighteenth-Century Novel | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3033 | Title Writing and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3034 | Title Romantic Lyric Poetry | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3059 | Title South African Writing: Apartheid and After | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3062 | Title Charles Dickens Then & Now | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3063 | Title Haunted Hinterlands: Wyrd Works and Folk Horror Fictions | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3114 | Title Forming Victorian Fiction | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3163 | Title Milton | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3321 | Title Angry Young Men and Women: Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3365 | Title Theatricalities: Beckett, Pinter, Kane | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3386 | Title Telling Lives: Reading and Writing Family Memoir | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3579 | Title Law and Literature: Transgression, Justice, and Interpretation | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3680 | Title Postcolonial London | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
Basket 2:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code ENGL3006 | Title Remixing the Renaissance | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3008 | Title Writing Modern Sexualities | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3027 | Title Shakespeare | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3061 | Title Heart Disease in Contemporary Literature | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3066 | Title The Public Poet (Creative Writing) | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3100 | Title Digital Englishes | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3153 | Title Refugee Narratives | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3314 | Title Imagining Posthuman Futures | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3391 | Title September 11 in Fact and Fiction | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3396 | Title Fictions of the End: Apocalypse and After | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3402 | Title Home Bodies: Domestic Animals in Contemporary Literature | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3407 | Title Shakespeare and Global Cinema | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code ENGL3461 | Title Imagining the United States: Citizenship, Domesticity and Slavery | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
All students may choose to take 20 credits of the following optional modules:
| Code | Title | Credits | Semester | Pass for Progression |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code MODL3200 | Title Representing the Holocaust: Transgression and the Taboo | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code MODL3410 | Title Contemporary World Literature | Credits 20 | Semester Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | Pass for Progression |
| Code MODL3600 | Title Material Cultures and Cultures of Consumption | Credits 20 | Semester Not running in 202425 | Pass for Progression |
| Code MODL3610 | Title Adventures of the Imagination: Crime and the Fantastic Across Continents | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
| Code MODL3620 | Title Decolonial Approaches | Credits 20 | Semester Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | Pass for Progression |
Discovery Modules
Students may choose to take 20 credits of discovery modules.