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English Literature and Spanish BA (Hons)

University of Surrey

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  • Qualification

    Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

  • Location

    Stag Hill

  • Study mode

    Sandwich / Placement

  • Start date

    15-SEP-25

  • Duration

    4 Years

Course summary


Why choose this course

• Our focus is on your employability, preparing you for careers in journalism, publishing, marketing, media, communications, education, and copywriting.
• A course for the digital age in which you'll develop 'future-proof' skills that are highly valued by employers such as applied creativity, problem solving and emotional intelligence, plus modules which balance traditional texts with modules on Writing Gaming, Queer Ecologies, Monsters, Mystics, and Demons, and The Gothic Imagination'.
• Excellent pastoral care with small class sizes, sector-leading staff-student ratio and an individualised approach.
• Outstanding professional placement and study abroad opportunities with companies such as EDF, Volkswagen, Macmillan, Disney and with our partner universities across the globe.


What you will study

The English literature part of this course covers a range of literary periods, authors, genres and theories. You’ll analyse classic works, as well as innovative texts and genres, such as travel writing, nineteenth-century theatre and fiction, science-fiction, and contemporary global literatures.The foreign language component is taught almost exclusively in Spanish, giving you high-level language training. You can spend your third year on placement in a country where Spanish is spoken, giving you the opportunity to study English literature at one of our partner institutions across Europe and/or work in one of the many companies with which we have links.

Application deadline

29 January

Tuition fees

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Entry requirements

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QUALIFICATION TYPE

A level

A level : BBB

Overall: BBB. Alternatively, ABC with grades of AB in the required subjects.Required subjects: Spanish and either English Language or English Literature.If you do not have Spanish at the required level but you have achieved GCSE grade A* in a modern language OR you expect to achieve at least A-level grade B in a modern language, we can consider offering you a place in the Spanish ab initio group. Ab initio study will involve additional contact hours and intensive study of the language during the first year of the progra

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University of Surrey

University of Surrey

  • University League Table

    12th

  • Campus address

    University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, England

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    English

    24th out of 96 1

    3rd out of 47 4

  • Entry standards

    / Max 202
    125 62%

    48th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    80.0 80%

    12th

    9

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.37 84%

    7th

    51

  • Entry standards

    / Max 217
    n/a

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    92.0 92%

    1st

    13

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.34 83%

    3rd

    1

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