Course summary

One of the world's ten most widely spoken languages, Portuguese is estimated to have around 260 million speakers. Alongside English-speaking cultures, the countries in which Portuguese is spoken have had a significant international influence on literature. This joint honours programme aims to develop your critical, analytic, linguistic and creative skills. As well as language learning, you will engage with a broad range of texts in both English and Portuguese, and a variety of approaches to reading. Studying this combination shows an openness to ideas and perspectives other than your own, an essential attribute in many careers and a global marketplace. We are unique in Scotland in offering students a full academic year abroad within the four-year honours programme, regardless of whether you study or build a work placement into your time abroad. Today, graduating with a degree in Portuguese and English Literature from Edinburgh gives you the blend of specialist skills and intercultural awareness valued in a range of careers around the globe. Portuguese Study with us and you will be immersed in an extraordinary range of literature, film, music and the arts from Portugal, Brazil and Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) Africa. Many of our graduates started as complete beginners in Portuguese. Intensive language training, including a year abroad, gives you the opportunity to develop advanced speaking, writing, reading and translating skills in Portuguese. English Literature Based in the first UNESCO World City of Literature, you will study in the oldest department of English Literature in the UK, one of the longest-established in the world. You will gain the essential skills needed for the critical close reading of poetry, drama and prose and explore the cultural contexts of writing in English from the late Middle Ages to the present. At honours level, you will select courses on the basis of your own interests in specific topics, periods or literary genres. How long it takes to complete this degree programme This programme is studied over 4 years, including a year abroad. This enables us to build choice and flexibility into your studies, giving you time to explore options, find what you like and build your skills. Your first two years will be your pre-honours years. They will give you a good grounding in your subjects. In addition to studying core courses, you will broaden your education and skill set by choosing option courses from a range of subjects and disciplines. This may enable you to change the focus of your programme. Your final two years will be your honours years. You will spend Year 3 studying abroad, gaining lived experience of Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) culture. Year 4 will be tailored to your interests in specific topics or approaches to Portuguese and English Literature. Programme benefits

• Learn in the heart of a UNESCO World City of Literature.

• Study over four years, including one abroad.

• Become fluent in a major global language.

• Try out different subjects in your first two years.

• Delve into fantastic libraries and collections.

• Try your hand at creative writing and publishing.