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Part IA

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In your first year you will study four units:

Note that new languages will be added to the History/Modern languages degree program from October 2018. The full range of languages available from October 2018 will be:

  • Post A Level (or equivalent) languages: French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
  • Ab initio (from scratch) languages: German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Modern Languages papers

Core language papers for post-A-level French, German, Italian, Russian or Spanish

Paper No. Paper
B1 Use of the foreign language
B2 Translation from the foreign language
Oral B Oral examination B

Core language papers for German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish from scratch (ab initio)

Paper No. Paper
A1 Use of the foreign language
A2 Translation from the foreign language
A3 Introduction to literature/culture (titles vary according to language studied)
Oral A Oral examination A

Students will take the relevant introductory Modern Language paper:

Paper No. Paper
Fr1 Introduction to French literature, linguistics, film and thought
Ge1 Introduction to German studies
It1 Texts and contexts
Sp1 Introduction to the language, literatures and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world
SL1 Introduction to Russian culture

History papers

Students will take two papers from the following range:

Paper No. Paper
12 European History, 770 BC- AD69
13 European History, 31BC-AD900
14 European history, c. 900 - c. 1450
16 European History, 1450-1760
17 European History, 1715-1890
18 European History, since 1890
19 History of political thought to c.1700
20 History of political thought from c.1700 to c.1890
21 Empires and world history from the fifteenth century to the First World War
23 World History since 1914

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