Modern Languages and History of Art and Visual Culture

About this programme

This Joint Honour course offers you the opportunity to combine study of Modern Languages and History of Art and Visual Culture and to spend your third year abroad. A degree in Modern Languages and History of Art and Visual Culture offers you the opportunity to gain valuable and highly sought-after foreign language skills while exploring the visual arts produced in different languages, places, and historical periods. The programme is taught by academics from the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures who are experts in European and world literatures and cultures and whose research is multilingual, transnational, and interdisciplinary. As a student of Modern Languages, you will gain fluency in a language of your choice – French, German, Italian, or Spanish. Whether you start at beginners’ or advanced speaker levels, you will gain skills in writing, reading, speaking and listening. You will study core language components for the language you have chosen, being taught wholly or in part by native speakers. As a modern linguist, you will develop excellent communication and research skills and combine proficiency in multiple languages with cross-cultural perspectives. In your third year you will have the opportunity to spend a year working, teaching or studying abroad, where you will immerse yourself in another language and culture, truly broadening your horizons in the process. The remainder of your modern languages study will give you an opportunity to explore the literature, art, culture and history of the language area you are studying, from seventeenth-century Fr