English and Modern Languages (One Language), BA (Hons), with study abroad

This four-year BA in English Literature and Modern Languages enhances critical thinking, cultural awareness, and communication skills through the study of English alongside French, German, or Spanish. Students spend a year abroad on a workplace, teaching, or university placement, with options to select a new language and receive additional teaching and funding for a year-one language course to accelerate proficiency. Regardless of the language chosen, participants will interpret diverse cultural and literary contexts, immerse themselves in the language, explore related societies and cultures, and analyze literature through lenses like history and politics. Course topics include translation, contemporary society, literature and film, anthropology, and history.English modules cover global writing's links to politics, arts, and identity, including creative writing, while language studies focus on linguistics, politics, and culture, tailored to proficiency levels. A year abroad is mandatory, with potential modules such as "English on the Move," "Psycholinguistics," and "Literary Transformations." Assessment involves lectures, classes, tutorials, and coursework.

English modules cover writing from around the world and its connection to politics, the arts, identity and more. You can also study creative writing. Your studies in your chosen language, either French, German or Spanish, include modules in language and linguistics and options in politics and culture. Your language modules depend on your language level. You spend a year abroad on a work placement, a British Council placement or at a partner university. Some of the modules you may study include: English on the Move Poetic Language American Gothic Animal Forms: Poetry and the non-human Writing Queerness Seeing and Being Seen: Period Abroad re-entry Psycholinguistics Sound and Voice Applications of Linguistics Language Acquisition Literary Transformations The Invention of English Literature: Medieval to Early Modern For further module information visit: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/one-modern-language-english-degree-ba#modules