English and Spanish University of Southampton

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 Spanish 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