Undergraduate Study

The Department offers different types of Single Honours and Joint Honours Programmes, which combine language study with modules in social and political history, literature, film, drama, art and other options.

All programmes include a year abroad except our BA in Modern Languages. The year is spent in a country where one of the languages that you are taking is spoken, or it can be divided between two countries if you are a two-language Joint or a Combined Languages student. If one of your languages is not covered in your year abroad, you spend a month in a country where it is spoken.

As our degree programmes have common language cores and similar overall structures, the department operates as flexibly as possible. If you find that your interests in languages change as you progress, you will find us prepared to consider favourably your moving from one type of degree to another. For example, we have allowed students to move between Combined, Joint and Single degrees after their first semester or first year, and even before their final year. Of course, you must have studied appropriate modules to qualify to change programme. But we try to be helpful.

Languages credit requirement

There is only one special credit requirement: that in every year our students must normally follow 40 credits, and must certainly take at least 30 credits, of practical language in every language studied at degree level. This ensures that you acquire and maintain high levels of linguistic proficiency. The other modules that you take vary from one degree programme to another.