Linguistics and Modern Languages & Cultures

This combination of linguistics and modern languages and cultures will deepen your understanding of how language works, how it changes, and how it shapes societies.

Become a global linguist and transform how you see the world through the study of language and place.

Study the inner workings of language and apply your knowledge to a choice of one or two foreign languages - enhancing your understanding with an exploration of the history, literature and culture of those languages.

Splitting your time between the School of English and the School of Languages, Arts and Societies, you’ll have access to a variety of areas of study.

With the School of English, choose from modules such as first and second language acquisition, theoretical linguistics, language and gender, and accents and dialects.

With the School of Languages, Arts and Societies, along with the study of your chosen language(s), you’ll explore topics including visual cultures, literary studies, post-colonialism and film. Combined with a year abroad, you’ll leave University as a global graduate with career opportunities available to you across the globe.

The academic aptitude and personal skills that you develop on your degree will make you highly prized by employers, whatever your chosen career path after university:

• excellent oral and written multilingual communication

• intercultural awareness

• independent working

• time management and organisation

• planning and researching written work - Articulating knowledge and understanding of texts, concepts and theories

• leading and participating in discussions

• negotiation and teamwork

• effectively conveying arguments and opinions and thinking creatively

• critical reasoning and analysis

Why study this course?

• Combine linguistics with one or two languages - Choose from 10 languages (German, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech, Catalan, Italian, and Luxembourgish) to enhance your linguistic knowledge and understanding.

• Learn from the experts - Our teaching staff are experts in a wide range of areas: 90% of our research is rated world-leading by the latest Research Excellence Framework and you’ll find this research woven into their teaching, so your learning sits at the cutting edge of the subject.

• Year abroad - The year abroad in third year enables you to immerse yourself in the language, culture and society of the language or languages you study.

• Invest in your future - The training you receive during your time with us provides you with capabilities in analysis, communication, and adaptability, which form part of a skill set that will set you apart in the graduate market.