Applied Languages BA Hons
University of Portsmouth
  • Mode of Study : FULL Time
  • Duration : 4 years full-time with a year abroad
  • Start Month : September
Price: GBP18,100 Per year
International student course fee

About the Courses

Course highlights

In year three, study or work abroad in two different countries where your chosen languages are spoken, immersing yourself in their culture so you can build a career across borders

Choose to specialise in one of four areas, or mix and match:

teaching and education

translation and interpreting

culture and linguistics

business and industry

Produce your own translations and build up interpreting experience in real and simulated work environments, so you can prove your skills to employers

Have the opportunity to study a third language from Arabic, British Sign Language, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese or Spanish

Course highlights

In year three, study or work abroad in two different countries where your chosen languages are spoken, immersing yourself in their culture so you can build a career across borders

Choose to specialise in one of four areas, or mix and match:

teaching and education

translation and interpreting

culture and linguistics

business and industry

Produce your own translations and build up interpreting experience in real and simulated work environments, so you can prove your skills to employers

Have the opportunity to study a third language from Arabic, British Sign Language, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese or Spanish

Modules

Year 1

Core modules in this year include:

2 foreign languages (from Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Spanish, or English as a Foreign Language) – 20 credits

Investigating Language Practices - 40 credits

Language Project – 20 credits

Language, Learning and Teaching – 20 credits

Year 2

Core modules in this year include:

Languages

Optional modules in this year currently include:

Business and Markets in a Global Environment - 20 credits

Clinical Linguistics – 20 credits

Comparative European Politics - 20 credits

Development and Democracy in Latin America - 20 credits

East Asian States and Societies - 20 credits

Empire and Its Afterlives in Britain, Europe, and Africa – 20 credits

Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences - 20 credits

English Forms and Functions - 20 credits

Forensic Linguistics – 20 credits

France in the World: Global Actor or Global Maverick? – 20 credits

Global Security - 20 credits

Intercultural Perspectives On Communication – 20 credits

Introduction to Professional Language Services - 20 credits

Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits

Introduction to Translation – 20 credits

A third foreign language via IWLP (Arabic, British Sign Language, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, or Spanish) – 20 credits

Language for Professional Communication 1 – 20 credits

Language in Literature: Stylistics - 20 credits

Language of Human Resource Management - 20 credits

Language Project Part 2 - 20 credits

Managing Across Cultures – 20 credits

Marketing and Communication - 20 credits

Modernity and Globalisation - 20 credits

Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday - 20 credits

News, Discourse and Media - 20 credits

Principles of Economic Crime Investigation - 20 credits

Professional Communication in a Global Workplace - 20 credits

Professional Experience L5 - 20 credits

Rethinking Nazi Germany: Politics, History, Society – 20 credits

Second Language Acquisition – 20 credits

Space, Place and Being - 20 credits

TESOL (Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages) – 20 credits

The Making of the German Nation - 20 credits

Transitional Justice and Human Rights - 20 credits

Trinity Certificate Teaching Practice – 20 credits

Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response - 20 credits

Year 3

On this degree course, you'll spend your third year in 2 countries where your chosen languages are spoken.

Year 4

Optional modules in this year currently include:

Business and Markets in a Global Environment - 20 credits

Business Planning - 20 credits

Communication Theory – 20 credits

Creativity in the Language Classroom – 20 credits

Gender, Language and Sexuality – 20 credits

General Language Grade 6 (French, German, Italian, Mandarin or Spanish)

Interpreting 1 – 20 credits

Interpreting 2 – 20 credits

Language and Social Media – 20 credits

Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates – 20 credits

Professional Experience L6 - 20 credits

Research Project – 20 credits

Spoken Discourse in the Workplace - 20 credits

Translation Theory and Practice – 20 credits

Written Discourse in the Workplace - 20 credits