BA (Hons) Modern Languages with Translation

The world's most pressing challenges don't fit neatly into one subject or discipline. This module puts you at the heart of tackling them.

Working alongside academics, fellow students and external partners, you'll contribute to real, cross-disciplinary projects addressing complex, real-world problems. The experience is designed to stretch you, building confidence, resilience and a deeper understanding of your subject in the context of today's world and tomorrow's workplace.

This is also a space for reflection. You'll draw on what you discover through these hands-on experiences to develop greater self-awareness, clarify your values and strengthen your belief in your own ability to succeed in complex, collaborative environments.

The second in a series of three modules running throughout the programme, Oxford Stories builds on the foundations of your first year and prepares you for the professional world beyond graduation.

Continue to improve your language skills in your chosen language/s as a beginner or as an intermediate entry language student.

You will engage with key models and concepts that form the field of intercultural communication. This will help you as a basis for the analysis of practical examples taken from a variety of texts. Which will be in your main languages of study, including audio-visual support.

You will learn to detect intercultural components in the source text. Translating the text in respect of the target cultural and linguistic conventions. Building your linguistic and intercultural skills

Working with different language combinations will show the importance of intercultural communication skills. Within a multilingual environment, and in the role of the translator as a cultural mediator.

This module provides an introduction to organisations, their structure and culture, and the behaviour of individuals and groups within them. This module incorporates elements which will enable you to understand your personal tendencies and will significantly contribute to your further professional success.

Continue your study of a second language

On this module, you'll learn to identify and evaluate the latest developments in consumer behaviour. Including emerging consumer trends across various consumption contexts, using psychology and appropriate research methods and tools. You'll also build a deeper understanding of diversity, inclusivity, ethics, and sustainability, as well as skills in responsible marketing.

This module will help you to develop a better understanding of language acquisition processes and language learning strategies. You'll also have opportunities to apply this knowledge and understanding to your own language learning.

Together we'll explore topics such as:

• child first language acquisition
• child bilingual acquisition
• adult second language acquisition
• and language impairment.

Do you dream of working as an English language teacher? Do you want to help adult learners grasp the English language? In this module, you’ll get to grips with English language teaching. You’ll gain a strong knowledge of teaching English, and essential skills in effective language teaching. You’ll also develop key practical skills for teaching English to adult learners. If you take this course, you’ll be able to apply to British Study Centres Oxford to complete your teaching practice, and acquire a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA). This is recognised by Cambridge Assessment as a pre-service training qualification.

In this module, you’ll explore the relationship between language, culture and globalisation. You’ll gain key analytical skills as you observe how language operates in local and global contexts. You’ll look at language through a sociolinguistic approach - considering the relationship between language and society and how they affect each other. You’ll explore how English rose to become an international language, spoken in countries all over the world. You’ll explore a range of topics, including:

• language and gender
• language and politics
• language and standardisation
• globalisation discourses
• linguistic imperialism (when we impose our language on speakers of another language).

In this module you'll look at and analyse governmental and political institutions in Europe. You'll cover policy-making, the participatory process and contemporary issues in European politics, with a focus on comparative study as well as the process of regionalisation. You'll examine:

• The evolution of democracy and citizenship in Europe
• Parties, party systems and elections in Europe
• The EU and theories of European integration
• Regional nationalism and sub-state governance in Europe
• The unique challenges facing post-communist Europe
• The rise of populist nationalism in Europe
• The politics of migration in Europe
• The European welfare state
• The impact of global challenges on European politics.

How do we govern the world, when it’s no longer dominated by states and national governments? How do different types of migration shape the movement of people across the world? In this module, you’ll get to understand the key part of international relations - borders and solidarities (groups with a common identity or interest). You’ll explore the various forms of borders and solidarities, including:

• movements across national boundaries
• regional organisations
• trade agreements.

You’ll link them to key forces and events, such as:

• NGOs
• corporations
• colonisation
• refugee movements
• the migrant ‘crisis’.

You’ll gain valuable practical and professional knowledge, as you explore major issues today, and how global governance or migration shape our lives.

This module gives you the chance to study a topic that interests you in Modern Languages with Translation. You’ll work independently, with the support of our expert academic team, and will carry out work on a small project of your choosing. You’ll gain core skills for work, including in:

• enquiry
• research
• analysis
• evaluation.

In this module, you’ll collect, analyse and present primary data of cultural aspects that interest you, using methodological approaches and techniques that best fit your research. You’ll gain core critical skills for your final year, as you analyse your data and the data-collection process, as well as the wider cross-cultural experiences of individuals, groups and communities, either in the UK or abroad. You’ll also present the outcomes of your independent research at an academic conference, giving you vital skills for your future career.

On this module you'll have the the opportunity to:

• Improve your knowledge and competence in cross-cultural communications
• Explore challenges posed by visual culture; its translation and adaptation
• Understand the main translation strategies available for types of material in context
• Expand your cultural and/or linguistic understanding of the cultures of your chosen language
• Engage with a broad variety of materials from the target culture in its visual and written forms
• Advance and develop your presentation skills
• Improve and progress your ability to work well and collaborate as part of a team
• Undertake extensive research on material from the visual culture of your target language.

Examples of explored themes can include translation of cultural references. Such as:

• humour, of visual elements such as emoji
• censorship
• ideology
• translation/adaptation of pragmatic aspects such as register, politeness etc.

Continue to progress your language skills in your chosen language/s as a beginner or as an intermediate entry language student.

Continue further with your study of a second language .

For this advanced module, you need a very high linguistic competence in French or Spanish. You’ll translate texts from the target language into English. We’ll cover a broad span of texts, contexts, styles and registers, including newspapers, literary texts and blogs. You’ll enhance your ability to translate texts creatively and precisely, following parameters of

• register
• style
• purpose
• audience
• meaning.

What should world leaders do? How much power should countries give each other? And how should states and individuals behave towards each other? In this module, you’ll get to understand the key questions in world politics. You’ll explore:

• how we determine rights and duties
• how we both enable and restrict dominance
• how issues of race, gender and class interact
• in relation to world politics.

You’ll choose one of three topics that on international ethics and power - human rights, migration and immigration, or racism and colonialism.

In this module you’ll examine the production and naturalisation of socio-political identities and the inter-related politics of resistance to these identities and using these identities.

You will investigate the links between localised, everyday practices of identity and national/global forms of domination, exclusion and hierarchy - focusing on Western, liberal democratic states.

Explore the ways in which practices of domination, exclusion and hierarchy are both perpetuated and legitimised, and challenged by individuals and communities. You’ll also cover issues of race, gender, class and imperialism.

The Independent Study Module gives you the opportunity to explore a legal topic in greater depth, working closely with an academic whose research interests align with your chosen area. It allows you to investigate issues that go beyond the taught curriculum and develop expertise in a subject that reflects your interests and future ambitions.

You'll build advanced research, analysis and academic writing skills as you engage with legal scholarship, case law and contemporary debates. Students on our named pathways complete their project within their area of specialism, providing an opportunity to deepen their knowledge and showcase their expertise.

Whether you're considering postgraduate study, legal practice or another professional path, the module enables you to pursue an area you're passionate about while developing the independent learning skills valued by employers and researchers alike.

This module is compulsory if studying one of the named pathways.

You'll embark on the second of three action-orientated experiential modules that form a spine of Supportive Challenge learning opportunities which run throughout the programme of study. You'll be offered the opportunity to draw meaningful, practical experiences to develop personal awareness and self-efficacy while developing your understanding of your chosen subject or profession in the context of the contemporary world and the future world of work.

You'll also be allowed to experience the real-world of the so-called 'wicked problems' which are complex and cannot be addressed by only one subject, discipline or professional context. You'll immerse yourself in interactive projects, enhancing your understanding and aspirations and cultivating deep personal values leading to a greater sense of self-belief, confidence and resilience in your ability to succeed in complex contexts.

This module will help you apply previously acquired marketing knowledge within an international context. Brands operating in international markets need to be mindful of the various challenges posed by an ever changing and dynamic global market. Proactively understanding these global market dynamics helps brands establish a sustainable competitive advantage. Being successful is not enough, brands must also be mindful of the various ethical and sustainable issues in a global context and respect cultural differences in different markets.

In this module you’ll explore practices of conflict management and peacebuilding in societies which experience violent conflict. You’ll cover three key areas;

• conceptualise peace and the causes and dynamics of contemporary conflict
• investigate models of peacemaking
• understand how building a sustainable peace can be achieved by societies emerging from war.

You’ll compare a variety of case studies to draw conclusions about these challenges and processes, alongside analysing current cases of violent conflict, critically evaluating peacebuilding processes and asking questions about the quality of peace that often emerges.