Modern Languages with International Relations Royal Holloway University of London

Overview

In your third year of this Modern Languages with International Relations course at Royal Holloway University of London you will have the exciting opportunity to spend a year working, teaching or studying abroad when you will immerse yourself in the language and culture, truly broadening your horizons in the process.

• Our Modern Languages research staff are engaged in research at the highest level internationally; we are in the top 10 of UK Modern Language departments for research quality and the top in London (Research Assessment Exercise 2014).

• On graduation you will have language and analytical skills in one or more modern languages, together with additional knowledge of culture, society and history, culture and society that will give you a valuable competitive edge in an increasingly globalised world.

• We have an active and engaged student community, and there are opportunities to take part in debating, Model United Nations and party political societies on campus.

Career opportunities

Including politics into your studies at Royal Holloway provides you with a wide range of important transferable skills, enabling you to approach problems in a rigorous, analytical and critical way and to communicate clearly and concisely in both speech and writing. Our graduates leave us with skills and knowledge that not only makes them attractive to employers in a broad spectrum of careers, but prepares them for further advanced study and research.

Many of our graduates also go on to further study, entering postgraduate courses both at Royal Holloway and at other prestigious institutions around the world. In fact, six-months after graduation, 90% of our most recent graduates are enhancing their skills with further study or forging careers in companies and institutions such as:

• Bloomberg

• The Church of England

• Citigroup

• The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

• The Conservative Party

• Ernst & Young

• The European Commission

• Global Capital

• HM Treasury