About this program
Bachelor's Degree in English and MFL
Develop your passion for reading and your talent for languages. Discover new ways to think about literature from around the world. At Southampton, you'll study the French language and culture, and English literature together to improve the way you learn. For example, you can deepen your understanding of the novel form and the culture of cities. Experience another culture with a year abroad.
This dynamic BA English and French course shows you the connections between literature, language and culture. Our English modules cover writing from around the world and its connection to politics, the arts, identity and more.
In your French studies, you can take modules that feed your love of history and culture, or you may choose to focus on linguistics. You can shape your degree to suit your interests or career aspirations.
You'll spend your year abroad at one of our partner universities in Europe, in Canada or in Guadeloupe, La Réunion or Martinique.
Admission requirements
A-levels
AAB including Grades AB in English Literature (or a related subject*) and French
International Baccalaureate Diploma
Pass, with 34 points overall with 17 points at Higher Level, including 6 and 5 at Higher Level in English Literature (or a related subject*) and French
BTEC
- Distinction in the BTEC Extended Diploma plus A in A level English Literature (or a related subject*) and A in A level French.
or
- Distinction in the BTEC Diploma plus A in A level English Literature (or a related subject*) and A in A level French.
or
- Distinction in the BTEC Subsidiary Diploma plus A in A level English Literature (or a related subject*) and A in A level French.
Other requirements
GCSE requirements
Applicants must hold GCSE English language (or GCSE English) (minimum grade 4/C) and mathematics (minimum grade 4/C)
International Students
English language requirements
If English isn't your first language, you'll need to complete an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) to demonstrate your competence in English.
For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.
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Program content
Year 1
- Academic Skills for ML students
- English on the Move
- French Language Stage 4
- Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
- Poetic Language
You must also choose from the following modules in year 1:
- Applications of Linguistics
- Elements of Linguistics - Sound, Structure and Meaning
- Humanities, the Human and the Non-Human
- Literary Transformations
- Puzzles about Art and Literature
- Reading Culture
- Reading the City
- Theory & Criticism
- World Dramas
Year 2
- French Language Stage 5
- Managing Research and Learning
You must also choose from the following modules in year 2:
- Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
- African Worlds
- Arthurian Worlds
- Brief Encounters: Writing Short Stories
- Children's Literature
- Conflicts, Crisis and Identities in the Francophone Context
- Creative Writing after Modernism
- Decolonising Modernity
- Discourse Analysis
- Exploring French Linguistics
- From Black and White to Colour: A Screen History of Race, Gender and Sexuality in Post-War Britain
- Globalisation: Culture, Language and The Nation State
- How the Arts Work: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Economics
- Images of Women
- Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in France
- Introduction to Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Language, Ideologies and Attitudes
- Learning about Culture: Introduction to Ethnography
- Modernisms
- Multilingualism
- Post-War French Thought
- Psycholinguistics
- Queens, Devils and Players in Early Modern England
- Rakes to Romantics
- Sound and Voice
- Sweatshops, Sex workers, and Asylum Seekers: World Literature and Visual Culture after Globalisation
- Syntax: Studying Language Structure
- Teaching English as a Foreign Language
- The EU and European Identity
- The Early Modern Body
- The Life and Afterlife of the Vikings
- Variation and Change in English
- Vienna and Berlin: Society, Politics and Culture from 1890 to the Present
- Women, Writing and Modernity, 1770-1830
Year 3
- Year Abroad Research Project YARP
Year 4
- English Dissertation
- French Language Stage 7
- Modern Languages Dissertation
- Seeing and being seen: Study Abroad re-entry
You must also choose from the following modules in year 4:
- American dreams? Monetized bodies, terror, and trauma in American Drama
- An ambivalent asylum: the histories and memories of refugees in early twentieth-century France
- Animal Forms: poetry and the non-human
- English as a Global Language
- Eve and the Angels: Love, War, and the End of Epic in Milton's Paradise Lost
- Fantasy Film and Fiction
- Fragmented France: Cultures and Identities in Transition
- French Sociolinguistics: Challenges to Francophonie
- German-Jewish Writing Across the Twentieth Century
- Holocaust Literature
- How the Arts Work: A Practical Introduction to Cultural Economics
- Inventing America
- Language Teaching Theory and Practice
- Language Testing and Assessment in Society
- Language and the City
- Literatures of Islands and Oceans
- Medicine and Modernity: The Science and Literature of Life in the C19th
- Minorities and Migrants: Exploring Multicultural Germany
- Revolution and Romanticism: Literature of the 1790s
- Second Language Acquisition
- Sex, Gender and Desire in French Literature and Culture
- Shakespeare Then and Now
- Sociophonetic Project Module
- Translation: Theory and Practice
- Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Culture
- Writing in a Second Language
- Writing the Novel
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please visit the university website for more information.
Tuition
- The full tuition price for local/UK students is £9,250
- The price for International/Non-UK students is £19,300
Qualification
- Final award: Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA (Hons))
- Name of award: English and French
- Interim Exit awards:
- Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE)
- Diploma of Higher Education (DipHE)
- FHEQ level of final award: Level 6
Career paths
This degree can open the door to many careers, including:
- advertising
- arts administration
- communications and marketing
- content design and copywriting
- fashion
- journalism
- public relations
- publishing
- teaching
- translation
- travel and tourism
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University of Southampton
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