| Module | Credits | Compulsory/optional |
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| French Stage 2A - Technology, Networking and the Future | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you passionate about French and francophone culture and eager to improve your basic language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence in holding meaningful conversations in French, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you're learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. |
| French Stage 2B - Wellbeing, Sustainability, Internationalism | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you passionate about French and francophone culture and eager to keep improving your language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence further in holding meaningful conversations in French, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you're learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. |
| German Stage 2A - Culture, education & study abroad | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you interested in the German-speaking countries and eager to improve your basic language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence in holding meaningful conversations in German, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you're learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. |
| German Stage 2B - Living and working in German-speaking countries | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you interested in the German-speaking countries and eager to keep improving your language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence further in holding meaningful conversations in German, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you're learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. |
| Spanish Stage 2A - Daily life, sports, holidays and festivals | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you fascinated by the Spanish-speaking world and eager to improve your basic language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence in holding meaningful conversations in Spanish, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you're learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. Join us and transform your passion into proficiency! |
| Spanish Stage 2B - Food, study abroad and job applications | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you fascinated by the Spanish-speaking world and eager to keep improving your language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence further in holding meaningful conversations in Spanish, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you are learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. |
| Japanese Stage 2A - Daily life, travel and culture | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you passionate about Japanese culture and eager to improve your basic language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence in holding meaningful conversations in Japanese, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you're learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. |
| Japanese Stage 2B - Jobs, business and accommodation | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you passionate about Japanese culture and eager to keep improving your language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence further in holding meaningful conversations in Japanese, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you're learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. |
| Mandarin Stage 2A - Language, culture & history | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you passionate about Chinese culture and eager to improve your basic language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence in holding meaningful conversations in Mandarin, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you're learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. |
| Mandarin Stage 2B - Language, culture & history | 15 Credits | Optional |
| Are you passionate about Chinese culture and eager to keep improving your language skills? This module is designed to build your confidence further in holding meaningful conversations in Mandarin, for both personal and professional use. You will gain cultural insights and broaden your perspectives, developing your intercultural awareness and a whole range of other soft skills highly valued by employers. Whether you're learning for travel, work, or pleasure, this module offers a rewarding and enriching experience. |
| Age of Extremes | 30 Credits | Optional |
| This module examines Europe's age of extremes from 1815 to 1945, a period of unprecedented upheaval. It explores how ideologies, wars and social movements reshaped society, and how modernity itself was contested and redefined. Students will investigate both the hopes and horrors of this transformative era, using a wide range of sources to understand how individuals and states navigated periods of conflict, change and renewal. |
| Sociolinguistics to Forensics: How Language Reveals Identity, Truth, and Lies | 30 Credits | Optional |
| This module guides you from foundational sociolinguistic theory to advanced forensic applications, illustrating how language both reflects social identity and uncovers deception. You'll explore how regional accents, social class, ethnicity, gender and media discourse shape our perceptions of identity and then apply discourse-analytic techniques to legal texts--courtroom exchanges, police interviews, emergency calls--to detect authenticity, authorship and truth. |
| Research Methods and Critical Practice in Media Communication | 30 Credits | Compulsory |
| This highly engaging hands-on module introduces you to core methods used in media and communications, whether you want to understand your audiences, analyse media content or consider the impact of digital communications and platforms. You will learn how to use a full range of software and digital tools in conducting research including gathering, analysing and interpreting data. Whether you're aiming for a career in media, journalism, advertising, public relations, or communication, this module will help build your confidence, critical insights and practical skills to become an effective media practitioner or researcher in a fast-shifting media terrain. |
| Media Brands - Layouts and Identities | 30 Credits | Compulsory |
| Identity is more than just what we look like or what we do--it's about all the ways we present ourselves to the world. In this module, you will engage with visual identity and information design to create personal and professional publications that are not only attractive and easy to read but also communicate a consistent tone, personality, and visual flair. You will explore how core design principles shape magazine layouts and branded communication across websites, social media, and emerging media formats. |
| Documentary Film and Podcasts | 30 Credits | Optional |
| This exciting and creative module will allow you to develop your documentary filmmaking and podcasting skills. You will gain first-hand experience of creating engaging films and podcasts using some of the latest technologies. Whilst enhancing and developing your skills, understanding and knowledge, you will produce your very own short film and podcast, which will help to lead you into your forthcoming year and professional career. This is an exciting opportunity to learn and understanding films and podcasts at an enhanced level and will place your skills that you have learnt, into your own work. |
| Multiplatform Journalism | 30 Credits | Compulsory |
| This creative module provides an opportunity to enhance and develop your journalism skills, knowledge and understanding by allowing you to create multiplatform news content. You will develop your knowledge and understanding of online media platforms and multiplatform news content. You will gain a wider and deeper understanding of multimedia communication methods and practices along with developing the confidence to produce your own journalism content. |
| Contemporary Film and TV: US and UK | 30 Credits | Optional |
| What have you been watching? Has it made you think or feel deeply? Or, maybe even changed how you feel about something? Contemporary Film and TV wants you to bring these experiences to class, to challenge how we usually think about popular media. This module focuses on weekly screenings of films and TV shows and provides a social, cultural and historical framing, enrichening your understanding of the pivotal role films and TV play in all our lives today. |
| Texts and Screens: Literature, Film and TV Adaptation | 30 Credits | Optional |
| This module combines critical and creative approaches to film/TV adaptation. We'll explore the challenges of translating different literary genres (which might include novels, short stories, drama, and non-fiction) into film/TV form. We'll discuss theoretical debates from adaptation studies through a series of case studies, pairing texts with their screen adaptations. We'll also explore the adaptation process creatively through devising ideas for new adaptations. No prior knowledge of film studies is needed. This module is available as an option to all other Humanities Single Honours programmes. |
| Language and Imagination | 30 Credits | Optional |
| 'The limits of my language mean the limits of my world' – Ludwig Wittgenstein. This module examine ways of using language to expand the universe of your creative practice in poetry and prose. You will develop an understanding of fresh crafts and techniques, creating your own portfolio of work, and thinking about stylistic choices and the ways in which traditions have shifted and been challenged. This enables you to think about your own place in the contemporary literary field. |
| Professional Writing | 30 Credits | Optional |
| Employers require graduates able to write with clarity and an understanding of audiences. In this module, students build on their subject specialism to work with different forms of professional writing – interviews, reviews, blogs, newsletters, project bids, social media - applying different techniques to real life communications challenges. The module considers ways of presenting ideas via different platforms and environments. As well as looking at a range of situations, the module will develop other important skills: copy-editing, proof-reading, research, the use of AI and ethical considerations |
| Finding Your Future | 30 Credits | Optional |
| Producing graduates who are highly employable is a key aim of University of Hertfordshire degrees. This module helps students consider how to use their specialist academic studies in the world of graduate employment. The module focuses on career planning as well as recruitment processes including psychometric testing. There is the opportunity to do a work placement in an organisation where subject specific skills can be deployed. Overall the intention is that students will be supported in developing their job-market awareness and explore potential career pathways. |
| Love, Sex, Race and Gender | 30 Credits | Optional |
| Philosophy in recent years has focused on personal and societal factors that influence human thought, from the centrality of romantic and sexual desire to the lived realities of gender and race. What does it mean to love? Can getting dumped make us better philosophers? What is the role of sex and desire in love? How should we understand sexual perversion, pornography, role-play and fantasy? How have philosophers thought about gender and race? How do this affect what we take ourselves to be doing in philosophy? |
| Moving Stories: Migration, Society and Belonging | 30 Credits | Optional |
| This module considers the different sociological theories informing how migration is framed and understood, and the impact it has on society and belonging - for individuals and groups worldwide.
We will be evaluating different sources of qualitative and quantitative data along with visual, oral, material and digital evidence to gain insight into the political and ethical considerations surrounding migration.
This module will ask you to reflect on and challenge your own understanding and experiences of migration, society and belonging. |
