Our Department

Languages and Culture delivers a wide variety of degree schemes and provides a lively environment for study. The department is also small enough to allow students and staff to work closely together. When you study in Languages and Culture you are constantly encouraged to achieve your very best.

About 60 undergraduate students enrol each year on a degree with us, studying one, two or three languages, or combining a language with a non-language subject. Visiting students from other countries enhance the international flavour of life in the department. Additionally, Languages and Culture has a vibrant postgraduate culture, with students enrolled on MA programmes (in Translation or in Modern Languages research) and studying for PhDs.

Our Languages

Our degrees schemes combine Chinese, French, German and Spanish as major subjects. Our major schemes all have the same aims: students achieve high-level language skills and in-depth understanding of the relevant cultures and complement this with courses that are comparative and trans-national (European and/or global) in nature.

Italian can also be taken as a minor subject and students are encouraged to reach an advanced (B2/C1) level.

Our Approach

Our approach to teaching and research is an exciting and intellectually challenging synthesis of languages and wide-ranging cultural studies.

Our research contributed to several different submissions in the latest research assessment (REF2021) including Art and Design, and English Language and Literature, highlighting the department’s strong interdisciplinary collaborative approach.