Page 3 of 3, 37 Part time BA Programs in Languages in Europe for 2024

In your study of English, you’ll find out how the language works and how it varies depending on the context. You’ll also explore its history, its politics, and how it came to be such a hugely influential global language. Your French studies will cover a range of aspects relating to the language and its cultures around the world. On completion, you’ll be an independent and intercultural user of French, have a wide-ranging understanding of how the English language is used to influence, and persuade.

This flexible degree allows you to study two modern languages – from French, German and Spanish – or to combine one of them with English. Learning a language and about how languages work (including English) opens doors to other cultures and communities and gives you the experience of the world that goes deeper than the average tourist trip. It can also provide a key to the global workplace. By the end of your studies, you’ll understand how language is structured and used in different contexts and be an effective and culturally aware communicator – attributes that are increasingly valuable in today’s global environment.

This degree explores human communication by focusing on the English language, its history, diversity and flexibility. You’ll learn what distinguishes machine language from human language and how people adapt and change their ways of communicating in multilingual and multicultural contexts. You’ll investigate how language works from written texts and conversations down to words and the smallest units of sounds, through words, conversations and written texts.

If you love the written and spoken word, this course is for you. As a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to the English language and literature, you'll investigate how the English language is used in a variety of global contexts, and explore literature from different historical periods and in diverse cultural settings. You’ll explore writing and speech in a wide range of forms and develop your skills in the interpretation of literary and non-literary texts.

This degree in English language and English language teaching explores the application of language alongside current practice and developments in teaching and testing. You will gain the skills and knowledge to design and produce materials for language lessons, and develop analytical and critical thinking skills.

The BA (Hons) English degree course combines the creative and the critical, the personal and the social, and the historical and the contemporary.

Our BA (Hons) English and Creative Writing degree course will support you in developing a rigorous and creative writing practice, while also honing your critical and analytical abilities.