Overview

You can study your chosen language on this 4-year degree with our expert language tutors, working towards native-like proficiency and cultural fluency in both spoken and written language.

You’ll combine this with linguistics, studying a range of different disciplines including sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, phonetics, morphology and syntax, discourse analysis and language disorders.

This English and German BA course offered by the University of Southampton gives you the chance to study cultural topics linked to your chosen language, including migration and displacement, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and film and cultural memory.

You can take careers-focused modules to help open career paths. You’ll examine topics such as translation and interpretation.

You’ll spend a year of your degree abroad on a workplace, teaching or university placement. We have opportunities all over the world including Europe, South America and North America. You can develop your language skills in a new environment while learning about the French, German or Spanish-speaking world's culture, history and thought.

Career

This degree will allow you to develop and evidence subject-specific and targeted employability skills. This includes the required skill set for a range of future careers, further study, or starting your own business.

The skills you can expect to focus on and gain from this course include:

Research

Critical thinking

Self-management

Confidence

Communication

Creativity

Problem solving

Resilience

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Managing Research and Learning

The Worlding of English Literature

Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost

Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

African Freedoms and The Novel

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-21 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-14 00:00:00

Language

English

Duolingo English Test

120

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TOEFL^® IBT

92

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PTE Academic

67

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

480 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Southampton, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Language Studies German and Scandinavian studies View 1249 other Bachelors in Language Studies in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

Duolingo English Test

120

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TOEFL^® IBT

92

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PTE Academic

67

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IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

One of the following:

A-levels: AAB including Grades AB in English Literature (or a related subject) and German
International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass, with 34 points overall with 17 points at Higher Level, including 6 and 5 at Higher Level in English Literature (or a related subject) and German
BTEC: Distinction in the BTEC Extended Diploma plus A in A level English Literature (or a related subject) and A in A level German or Distinction in the BTEC Diploma plus A in A level English Literature (or a related subject) and A in A level German or Distinction in the BTEC Subsidiary Diploma plus A in A level English Literature (or a related subject) and A in A level German.

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Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

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Non-residents

24800 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

9535 GBP / year

≈ 9535 GBP / year

Living costs

Southampton

United Kingdom

697 - 1093 GBP / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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