Year 1, Year 2 and Final Year module descriptions for all our programmes.
From 24-25 several of our UG Programmes will have a slightly different look for Year 1 as we phase in new core courses. Click on the Programme links below for more details.
We are keen to ensure students feel part of a community °ÄÃÅÀúÊ·¿ª½±¼Ç¼ and therefore offer programme-specific core modules in Year 1, that students take together with their respective cohort. These provide a broad sense of the discipline and an opportunity to share learning experiences. They also support students to make informed choices for their future years of study to carve out a degree pathway that suits them.
All descriptions include information about the content, assessment, reading lists and academic contact details. This information is a guide only and may be subject to change without notice. Elective modules offered as part of the programmes may be withdrawn in the event of low uptake. If you have any queries about our modules, please contact the Teaching and Student support team via askUCL.
Timetable
About ELCS Modules
Year 1
- ELCS Modules
- Comparative Literature
Modules:
- LITC0001 - Cultural Encounters in World Literature
- LITC0002 - How To Read Texts
- LITC0007 - Re-Imagining the Self: Reading Chinese Short FictionÌý(not running in 24-25)
- LITC0010 -ÌýTopics in the Modern Novel 1Ìý(from 24-25: Topics in Modern Literary Fiction)
- LITC0027 - Canons and Creativity: Period, Context, Text
- LITC0028 -ÌýFrom Page to Stage: How to Read Plays
- LITC0031 - Political Histories in Latin American CultureÌý(not running in 24-25)
From 24-25, Y1 Comparative Literature students will be required to take: LITC0001, LITC0002, LITC0010, LITC0027, LITC0028.
From 24-25, Y1 Comparative Literature with Year Abroad students will be required to take: LITC0001, LITC0002, LITC00010, LITC0027.- Dutch
- DUTC0001 - An Introduction to Dutch Language and Culture
- DUTC0003 - Born out of Rebellion: The Netherlands from the Dutch Revolt to the Eve of World War I
- DUTC0004 - Modern Dutch Literary Texts
From 24-25, DUTC0003 and DUTC0004 will be replaced by the new core modules:ÌýIntroduction to Dutch Studies 1 (various topics including history and literature);ÌýIntroduction to Dutch Studies 2 (various topics including cultural studies).
- French
A-level French (or equivalent) is a prerequisite for all FREN* modules (except modules designed for ab initio students, i.e., French for Beginners and French Lit in Translation):
- FREN0002 - Use of French 1
- FREN0004 - Projects in the French LanguageÌý(not running in 24-25)
- FREN0005 - The Making of Modern France
- FREN0006 - Reading French Texts
- FREN0008 - French FilmÌý(not running in 24-25)
- FREN0065 - French Oral 1
- FREN0069 - French Literature in Translation
- FREN0079 - French for Beginners 1
From 24-25, FREN0005 and FREN0006 will be compulsory core modules for all (post A-level) Joint Honours, Major/ Minor, and Single Honours students taking French.
- German
- GERM0001 - Modern German Language 1
- GERM0002 - German for BeginnersÌý(from 2024-25: German for Beginners 1)
- GERM0003 - Introduction to German HistoryÌý(Not running in 2024 - 25)
- GERM0005 - Introduction to German Film since 1945Ìý(Not running in 2024 - 25)
- GERM0007 - An Introduction to German LinguisticsÌý(Not running in 2024 - 25)
- GERM0072 - Introduction to German LiteratureÌý(Not running in 2024 - 25)
From 2024-25, there will be two new compulsory core modules for all Joint Honours, Major/ Minor, and Single Honours students of German: Introduction to German Studies 1 (literature; film); Introduction to German Studies 2 (history; linguistics).
- Italian
- ITAL0001 - First Year Italian LanguageÌý
- ITAL0002 - Cinema and Literature from War to ReconstructionÌý(not running in 24-25)
- ITAL0003 - Introduction to Dante's InfernoÌý(not running in 24-25)
- ITAL0006 - Italian Culture under FascismÌý(not running in 24-25)
- ITAL0008 - Introduction to Renaissance ItalyÌý(not running in 24-25)
- ITAL0004 - Introduction to Linguistics and Syntactic TheoryÌý(not running in 24-25)
- ITAL0007 - Patriotism, Death, Modernity. Making sense of WW1Ìý(not running in 24-25)
From 24-25, there will be two new compulsory core modules for all Joint Honours, Major/ Minor, and Single Honours students of Italian: Introduction to Italian Studies 1 (various topics including literature and history); Introduction to Italian Studies 2 (various topics depending on staff availability).
- Language and Culture
- Scandinavian Studies
- SCAN0001 - Basic Danish (full year)
- SCAN0002 - Basic Danish A (term 1 only)
- SCAN0066 - Basic Danish B (term 2)
- SCAN0003 - Basic Swedish (full year)
- SCAN0004 - Basic Swedish A (term 1 only)
- SCAN0005 - Basic Norwegian (full year)
- SCAN0006 - Basic Norwegian A (term 1 only)
- SCAN0068 - Basic Norwegian B (term 2)
- SCAN0007 - Basic Modern Icelandic (full year)
- SCAN0008 - Basic Modern Icelandic A (term 1 only)
- SCAN0064 - Basic Modern Icelandic B (term 2 only)
- SCAN0009 - Introduction to Linguistics and the Scandinavian LanguagesÌý(Not running in 2024 - 25)
- SCAN0010 - Nordic StorytellingÌý(Not running in 2024 - 25)
- SCAN0011 - Histories and Cultures of the Nordic Region (full year)Ìý(Not running in 2024 - 25)
- SCAN0012 - Histories and Cultures of the Nordic Region A (term 1 only)Ìý(Not running in 2024 - 25)
- SCAN0013 - Introduction to Old Norse
- SCAN0014 - Vikings and Material Culture
From 2024-25, there will be two new compulsory core modules for all Joint Honours, Major/ Minor, and Single Honours students of Scandinavian Studies: Introduction to Nordic Studies 1 (various topics including literature and history); Introduction to Nordic Studies 2 (cultural studies).
- Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Spanish:
A-level Spanish (or equivalent) is a prerequisite for all SPAN* modules:
- SPAN0001 - Spanish Language I
- SPAN0005 - Experiments in Modern Spanish DramaÌý(not running in 24-25)
- SPAN0006 - Introduction to Spanish FilmÌý(not running in 24-25)
- SPAN0011 - Cultural Responses to the Mexican RevolutionÌý(not running in 24-25)
- SPAN0015 - Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies
- SPAN0093 - Literary Migrations in Latin American CultureÌý(not running in 24-25)
From 24-25, Y1 Joint Honours, Major/ Minor and Single Honours students of Spanish and Latin American Studies will be required to take the following core modules: Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies 1Ìý(history and culture up to 19C); Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies 2Ìý(history and culture up to present day).
Major/ Minor and Single Honours students will also be required to take two other core modules: Power of WordsÌý(literature); Power of ImagesÌý(visual culture).
Portuguese:
Year 2
- ELCS Modules
- ELCS0032 - Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe
- ELCS0033 - Utopias and Dystopias in 20th Century Literature
- ELCS0035 -ÌýTheatre Translations and Adaptations
- ELCS0036 - Topics in Film Studies 1
- ELCS0037 - Topics in Film Studies 2
- ELCS0038 - Aspects of European Thought
- ELCS0039 -ÌýCultures Of Conflict
- ELCS0040 - Post-1945 European Literature
- ELCS0042 - Topics in Linguistics 1
- ELCS0043 - Topics in Linguistics 2
- ELCS0045 -ÌýPost-Conflict Heritage
- ELCS0047 - Topics in Visual Representation
- Comparative Literature
- LITC0011 - Imitation, Invention, Authorship
- LITC0012 -Ìý Word, Image, Sound
- LITC0014 - Urban Tales: The City in East Asian LiteratureÌýÌý
- LITC0016 - Digital Textile Analysis (Literary Lab)
- LITC0025 -ÌýMemory and Literature in a Globalised CultureÌýTerm 1 at UG level
- LITC0033 -ÌýStrays: Lost & Found in the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
- LITC0035 -ÌýGlobal Literature and the Climate Crisis
- Dutch
- French
- FREN0009 - Introduction to Literary Theory
- FREN0010 - The Medieval Period
- FREN0011 -ÌýThe Renaissance Period
- FREN0014 - Romanticism and Modernity: The 19th Century
- FREN0016 - France: Culture & Society
- FREN0017 -ÌýFrench Film History
- FREN0018 - Contesting Frenchness: Francophone Literatures
- FREN0066 - Use of French 2
- FREN0067 - French Oral 2
- FREN0070 - French Literature 2
- FREN0071 - French for Beginners 2
- FREN0074 - A Century of Conflict and Crisis: France,Ìý1870-1970
- German
- GERM0001 - Modern German Language 1
- GERM0009 - German Translation and Reading Comprehension
- GERM0010 - Aspects of 20th Century German History (This module will now run in Term 1)
- GERM0013 - Love, Violence & Laughter: Medieval and Early Modern German Literature and Culture up to 1740
- GERM0014 - Debating Enlightenment: Literature and Culture 1740-1870
- GERM0015 - The Challenge of Modernity: Literature and Culture 1870-Present
- GERM0016 - Metropolen
- GERM0070Ìý- The New German Cinema
- GERM0075 -ÌýGerman for Beginners 2 (from 2025-26)
- Italian
- ITAL0009 - Second Year Italian LanguageÌý
- ITAL0012 -ÌýItaly since 1915. The Short Twentieth Century
- ITAL0013 - Issues in Italian Syntax
- ITAL0014 - Italian Literature 1860-1925
- ITAL0015 - Futurism in Italy
- ITAL0016 - Docudrama in Contemporary Italian Cinema
- ITAL0019 - Writing Women in Renaissance Italy (This module will now run in Term 1)
- ITAL0048 - Italians Abroad: A History of Italian Migration 1790–today
- ITAL0049 - Advanced Translation (link coming soon)
- Language and Culture
- Scandinavian Studies
- SCAN0015 -ÌýIntermediate Danish
- SCAN0017 - Intermediate Swedish (Full Year)
- SCAN0018Ìý- Intermediate Swedish A (Term 1 only)
- SCAN0019 - Intermediate Norwegian
- SCAN0070 - Intermediate Swedish BÌý
- SCAN0020Ìý- Intermediate NorwegianÌý
- SCAN0021 - Intermediate Modern IcelandicÌý
- SCAN0022 - Intermediate Modern Icelandic Language AÌý
- SCAN0065 - Intermediate Modern Icelandic Language BÌý
- SCAN0023 - Nordic Literature in Context
- SCAN0025 -ÌýNordic Politics and Society
- SCAN0027 - Intermediate Old Norse
- SCAN0072 - Advanced Scandinavian Linguistics
- Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Spanish:
- SPAN0016 - Spanish Language II
- SPAN0017 - What Women Want: Galdos and Pardo Bazan
- SPAN0018 - What Women Want: La Regenta
- SPAN0020 - Women's Writing in Latin America II
- SPAN0023 -ÌýSpanish Narrative, Essay and Drama
- SPAN0025 - Latin American Cinema:History Poitics Aesthetics I
- SPAN0033 - History of Spain in the 20th Century
- SPAN0082 - Cultural Minorities in Spanish Contemporary Literature
- SPAN0089 - Latin American Cinema: History, Politics Aesthetics II
- SPAN0091 - Writing the Dictator, Writing under Dictatorship
- SPAN0094 - Memoria, verdad y justicia in Argentine and Chilean Culture
Portuguese:
Final Year
- ELCS Modules
- ELCS0005 - Transnational Migration: European and Global Contexts
- ELCS0006 - Music, Nations, Society
- ELCS0009 - Legacies of the Holocaust in Europe (Please note this is suspended in 2023-24 and is no longer available for selection.)
- ELCS0012 - Organised Crime: Gangsters in Life and Art
- ELCS0013 - Comparative Syntax
- ELCS0017 - Sequential Art as a Form of Engagement
- ELCS0018 - Language and Ideology
- ELCS0020 - Dangerous Bodies and Lady Killers:ÌýCriminality and Gender in 19th Century European Culture and History
- ELCS0026 -ÌýThe Cinema of Resistance: Second World War
- ELCS0029 - Manufacturing Consent: Media and the Making of the Modern World
- ELCS0030 - Black Europe
- ELCS0031 - From Futurism to Surrealism: European Avant-Gardes before and after the First World War
- ELCS0049Ìý- Citizenship, Memorialisation and Modernity: The Case of Berlin
- ELCS0074 - Film and/as Philosophy
- ELCS0099 - Dissertation
- ELCS0100 - Independent Research Project
- Comparative Literature
- LITC0018 - Anthropology and Literature
- LITC0019 - Dissertation in Comparative Literature
- LITC0020 - Literature and Charisma
- LITC0022 - Publishing and Comparative Literature
- LITC0024 - Experimental Film and Video: Between Gallery and Cinema
- LITC0029 -ÌýLife Writing, Autofiction, Fictional Autobiography: Texts and Theories
- LITC0038 - Queerstories and Queeory
- LITC0039 - Transcultural East Asia
- LITC0042 -ÌýProust and His Contemporaries
- LITC0043 -ÌýHamlet From Page to Screen
- LITC0044 -ÌýFashion Cultures
- Dutch
- French
- FREN0001 -ÌýAdvanced Translation
- FREN0003 - French Oral 3
- FREN0019 - French Essay
- FREN0025 -ÌýDominating Texts:ÌýLiterary Power Relations in 20th Century Writing
- FREN0031 - Legendary Histories
- FREN0034 -ÌýRealism: Looking Awry in Nineteenth-Century France
- FREN0038 -ÌýCultures of AIDS in France: History, Policy and Representation
- FREN0039 -ÌýGender, Race and Sexuality
- FREN0043 - Fiction and the Archives: Rewriting Criminal Stories in Early Modern France
- FREN0044 - The Front National and Far Right Politics in France
- FREN0045 - Discourses of EqualityÌý(not running in 24-25)
- FREN0048 -ÌýTopics in Modern French History: À la guerre comme à Ìýla guerre: France and the First World War
- FREN0068 -ÌýUse of French 3
- FREN0020 - French: Translation into English (Affiliates only)Ìý1
- FREN0021 - French: Translation into English (Affiliates only)Ìý2
- German
- GERM0020 - Discussion and Essay in German
- GERM0021 - 'Parzival'
- GERM0022 -ÌýHistory and Representation: The Holocaust as a Case Study
- GERM0029 - Language, Power and Ideology
- GERM0036 - Black Germany
- GERM0037 - Surveillance (link coming soon)
- GERM0040 -ÌýWeimar and Nazi Film
- GERM0062 - Advanced German Translation
- GERM0060 - German: Translation from and into English (Affiliates only)Ìý1
- GERM0063 - German: Translation from and into English (Affiliates only)Ìý2
- GERM0064 -ÌýWar and Violence in Twentieth Century GermanyÌýTerm 2
- GERM0067 - Art and Identity: German - Language Writing and Culture after 1945 (link coming soon)
- Italian
- ITAL0021 - Final Year Italian Language
- ITAL0022 - Nation, Culture and Society
- ITAL0023 -ÌýCultures of Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Italy
- ITAL0024 - Dante: Divina Commedia
- ITAL0026 -ÌýIdentity and Performance in Renaissance Italy
- ITAL0032 - Words and Images: Italian Film Adaptations
- ITAL0033 -ÌýEnglish Academic Writing and Translation Skills
- ITAL0043 - "Cavalieri" in Italian Cultural History, from the Unification to Berlusconi
- ITAL0020 - Fourth Year Italian Language for ESPS Finalists (EISPS students only)
- ITAL0033 - English Academic Writing and Translation Skills (Italian Affiliates only)Ìý- Term 1 or Term 2
- ITAL0034 - English Academic Writing and Translation Skills (Italian Affiliates only)Ìý
- ITAL0043 - "Cavalieri" in Italian Cultural History, from the Unification to BerlusconiÌýÌý
- Language and Culture
- ELCS0099 - DissertationÌý(optional)
- Scandinavian Studies
- SCAN0027 - Intermediate Old Norse
- SCAN0030 - Advanced Danish
- SCAN0031 - Advanced Swedish
- SCAN0032 - Advanced Norwegian
- SCAN0033 - Advanced Modern Icelandic
- SCAN0034 - Advanced Project Work in Danish, Norwegian or Swedish
- SCAN0035 - Translation from the Scandinavian Languages
- SCAN0036 - Dissertation in Scandinavian Studies
- SCAN0037 - Crime and Small Communities in Nordic Literature
- SCAN0040 - Advanced Old Norse
- SCAN0041 - The Vikings in Europe
- SCAN0042 - Nordic CinemaÌý
- SCAN0044 - Nordic Landscapes
- SCAN0046 - Vikings and Valkyries in Contemporary Culture
- SCAN0049 -ÌýViking-Age Scandinavia AÌý- Term 1 or Term 2
- SCAN0072 - Advanced Scandinavian Linguistics
- SCAN0063 - Viking-Age Scandinavia
- Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Spanish:
- SPAN0033 - History of Spain in the Twentieth CenturyÌý- Level 6.Ìý(Please note this is suspended in 2023-24 and is no longer available for selection.)
- SPAN0034 - Spanish Language III
- SPAN0035 - Translation into Spanish 1
- SPAN0042 - Spanish Film from the 1990s: New Ways of Seeing (II)
- SPAN0048 - The Battle for Memory in the Contemporary Spanish Novel: Part I, The Transition to Democracy
- SPAN0049 -ÌýThe Battle for Memory in the Contemporary Spanish Novel: Part 2, Democracy Consolidated
- SPAN0051 - Childhood in Latin American Cinema
- SPAN0078 - Spanish: Translation into English 2
- SPAN0079 - Contemporary Catholicisms in Latin American Culture: Experimentation, Perversion, Revolution
- SPAN0080 - Crime Fictions in Latin America
- SPAN0085 - Mayas, Aztecs, and Incas: The Native Peoples of the Americas prior to the Spanish Conquest
- SPAN0092 - Creating the Urban Margins in Latin America
- SPAN0095 - Film Adaptation in the Americas
- SPAN0100 - Activism, Film and Visual Arts in Latin America (Please note this is suspended in 2023-24 and is no longer available for selection.)
Portuguese: