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Year 1, Year 2 and Final Year module descriptions for all our programmes.
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 Elective modules offered as part of the programmes may be withdrawn in the event of low uptake.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 selcs-cmii.students@ucl.ac.uk.
Timetable
About ELCS Modules
Year 1 (These modules have not yet been updated for 2023-24)
- ELCS Modules
- Comparative Literature
Modules:
- LITC0001 - Cultural Encounters in World Literature
- LITC0002 - How To Read Texts
- LITC0003 - Intimate Strangers: Devils, Monsters, Beasts
- LITC0007 - Re-Imagining the Self: Reading Chinese Short Fiction
- LITC0010 - Topics in the Modern Novel 1
- LITC0027 - Canons and Creativity: Period, Context, Text
- LITC0028 - From Page to Stage: How to Read Plays
- Dutch
- 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):
- German
- Italian
- ITAL0001 - First Year Italian Language
- ITAL0002 - Cinema and Literature from War to Reconstruction
- ITAL0003 - Introduction to Dante's Inferno
- ITAL0005 - Creating Italy. The long XIX century
- ITAL0006 - Italian Culture under Fascism
- ITAL0008 - Introduction to Renaissance Italy
- ITAL0004 - Introduction to Linguistics and Syntactic Theory
- 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)
- SCAN0067 - Basic Swedish B (term 2)
- 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 Languages
- SCAN0010 - Nordic Storytelling
- SCAN0011 - Histories and Cultures of the Nordic Region (full year)
- SCAN0012 - Histories and Cultures of the Nordic Region A (term 1 only)
- SCAN0013 - Introduction to Old Norse
- SCAN0014 - Vikings and Material Culture
- 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 Drama
- SPAN0006 - Introduction to Spanish Film
- SPAN0010 - Civilisation and Barbarism in Argentine Literature
- SPAN0011 - Cultural Responses to the Mexican Revolution
- SPAN0012 - The Latin American Supernatural
- SPAN0015 - Introduction to Spanish and Latin American Studies
- SPAN0093 - Literary Migrations in Latin American Culture
Portuguese:
Year 2
- ELCS Modules
- ELCS0032 - Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe
- ELCS0033 - Utopias and Dystopias in 20th Century Literature
- ELCS0035 - Theatre Translations and Adaptations
- ELCS0036 - Topics in Film Studies 1
- ELCS0037 - Topics in Film Studies 2
- ELCS0038 - Aspects of European Thought
- ELCS0039 - Cultures Of Conflict
- ELCS0040 - Post-1945 European Literature
- ELCS0042 - Topics in Linguistics 1
- ELCS0043 - Topics in Linguistics 2
- ELCS0045 - Post-Conflict Heritage
- ELCS0047 - Topics in Visual Representation
- Comparative Literature
- LITC0011 - Imitation, Invention, Authorship
- LITC0012 - Word, Image, Sound
- LITC0014 - Urban Tales: The City in East Asian Literature
- LITC0016 - Digital Textile Analysis (Literary Lab)
- LITC0025 - Memory and Literature in a Globalised Culture Term 1 at UG level
- LITC0033 - Strays: Lost & Found in the Nineteenth-Century European Novel
- LITC0035 - Global Literature and the Climate Crisis
- Dutch
- French
- FREN0009 - Introduction to Literary Theory
- FREN0010 - The Medieval Period
- FREN0011 - The Renaissance Period
- FREN0014 - Romanticism and Modernity: The 19th Century
- FREN0016 - France: Culture & Society
- 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, 1870-1970
- German
- GERM0001 - Modern German Language 1
- GERM0009 - German Translation and Reading Comprehension
- GERM0010 - Aspects of 20th Century German History
- 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
- GERM0070 - The New German Cinema
- Italian
- ITAL0009 - Second Year Italian Language
- ITAL0012 - Italy 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
- ITAL0048 - Italians Abroad: A History of Italian Migration 1790–today
- ITAL0049 - Advanced Translation (link coming soon)
- Language and Culture
- Scandinavian Studies
- SCAN0015 - Intermediate Danish
- SCAN0017 - Intermediate Swedish (Full Year)
- SCAN0018 - Intermediate Swedish A (Term 1 only)
- SCAN0019 - Intermediate Norwegian
- SCAN0070 - Intermediate Swedish B
- SCAN0020 - Intermediate Norwegian
- SCAN0021 - Intermediate Modern Icelandic
- SCAN0022 - Intermediate Modern Icelandic Language A
- SCAN0065 - Intermediate Modern Icelandic Language B
- SCAN0023 - Nordic Literature in Context
- SCAN0025 - Nordic 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 - Spanish 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: Criminality and Gender in 19th Century European Culture and History
- ELCS0026 - The 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
- ELCS0049 - 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
- LITC0038 - Queerstories and Queeory
- LITC0039 - Transcultural East Asia
- LITC0042 - Proust and His Contemporaries
- LITC0043 - Hamlet From Page to Screen
- LITC0044 - Fashion Cultures
- Dutch
- French
- FREN0001 - Advanced Translation
- FREN0003 - French Oral 3
- FREN0019 - French Essay
- FREN0025 - Dominating Texts: Literary Power Relations in 20th Century Writing
- FREN0031 - Legendary Histories
- FREN0034 - Realism: Looking Awry in Nineteenth-Century France
- FREN0038 - Cultures of AIDS in France: History, Policy and Representation
- FREN0039 - Gender, 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 Equality
- FREN0048 - Topics in Modern French History: À la guerre comme à la guerre: France and the First World War
- FREN0068 - Use of French 3
- FREN0020 - French: Translation into English (Affiliates only) 1
- FREN0021 - French: Translation into English (Affiliates only) 2
- German
- GERM0020 - Discussion and Essay in German
- GERM0021 - 'Parzival'
- GERM0022 - History and Representation: The Holocaust as a Case Study
- GERM0029 - Language, Power and Ideology
- GERM0036 - Black Germany
- GERM0037 - Surveillance (link coming soon)
- GERM0040 - Weimar and Nazi Film
- GERM0062 - Advanced German Translation
- GERM0060 - German: Translation from and into English (Affiliates only) 1
- GERM0063 - German: Translation from and into English (Affiliates only) 2
- GERM0064 - War and Violence in Twentieth Century Germany Term 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 - Cultures of Tradition and Modernity in Postwar Italy
- ITAL0024 - Dante: Divina Commedia
- ITAL0026 - Identity and Performance in Renaissance Italy
- ITAL0032 - Words and Images: Italian Film Adaptations
- ITAL0033 - English 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) - Term 1 or Term 2
- ITAL0034 - English Academic Writing and Translation Skills (Italian Affiliates only)
- ITAL0043 - "Cavalieri" in Italian Cultural History, from the Unification to Berlusconi
- Language and Culture
- ELCS0099 - Dissertation (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 Cinema
- SCAN0044 - Nordic Landscapes
- SCAN0046 - Vikings and Valkyries in Contemporary Culture
- SCAN0049 - Viking-Age Scandinavia A - 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 Century
- 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 - The 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: