Literature and Modern Languages

Description

The University of Essex is one of the UK's leading academic institutions, ranked ninth nationally for research excellence following the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).

BA Literature and Modern Languages enables you to combine the study of a wide range of literature options with one or two modern languages, from French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Your literature component seeks to answer questions like: how has literature changed between the time of Shakespeare and today? What happens when you approach English literature from a European perspective? What kind of language do we use in order to understand and analyse literary texts? Your modern languages component has a triple focus on developing language proficiency, cultural awareness and professional skills (not only translation skills but also web and publishing skills, and film production and video editing skills, such as subtitling and voiceover).

Our focus on skills aims to help you acquire a wide range of employability skills which enhance your career prospects.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our course are flexibility and choice. In your first year you take two compulsory modules and two optional modules, one must be a language option. During your second and final years all your modules are optional, two must be literature modules, one must be a language module and the last can be from either. You will spend your third year abroad. There is a great deal of choice for these optional modules due to the extensive range of modules offered by our departments.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

Introduction to Literature;
Close Reading Skills/Writing Skills;
one language option; and
one language option or humanities or social science option

Year 2

Two literature options;
one language option; and
one language option or one literature option

Year 3

Year abroad

Year 4

Two literature options;
one language option; and
one language option or one literature option

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

A-levels: ABB-BBB
GCSE English: C
IB: 32-30 points (we consider IB certificates at the Higher Level on a case-by-case basis)
Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 level three credits at merit (or above).
If French or Portuguese is taken as the major language, A-level French or Portuguese/Spanish (or equivalent) is required. German, Italian and Spanish can be studied as the major language either from scratch, via our intensive route, or via our post A-level route. All languages can be studied from scratch as the minor language.
If you are interested in studying a language for which you consider yourself to be a native speaker, please contact our Undergraduate Admissions Office.
English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at Essex, please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance.