Course summary
Overview This BA (Hons) Applied Languages degree course will transform your passion for learning languages into professional communication and linguistic skills. Study how language works, including specialist topics such as linguistics, communication theory and managing across cultures, in preparation for professional roles in areas such as a translation, interpreting, teaching and tourism. You can choose to study either:
- Two languages at advanced level: chosen from French, German, Spanish and/or English as a foreign language
- Two languages at different levels: one language at advanced level (chosen from French, German, Spanish or English as a foreign language) and one language at beginner level (chosen from French, German, Mandarin Chinese or Spanish)
- 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
- journalism and the media
- international management
- translation and interpreting
- teaching
- tourism
- finance
- marketing
Subject options
This course offers the following subject options:
- English and Mandarin
- French and English
- French and German
- French and Mandarin
- French and Spanish
- German and English
Modules
Year 1 Core modules in this year include:
- Investigating Language Practices
- Language, Learning & Teaching
- French Grade 1&2 - General Language
- French Grade 1&2 - Language in Use
- German Grade 1&2 - General Language
- German Grade 1&2 - Language in Use
- Language Project (French)
- Language Project (German)
- Language Project (Spanish)
- Mandarin Grade 1&2 - General Language
- Mandarin Grade 1&2 - Language in Use
- Spanish Grade 1&2 - General Language
- Spanish Grade 1&2 - Language in Use
- French General Language Grade 3
- German General Language Grade 3
- Spanish General Language Grade 3
- General Language Grade 6 (English)
- Clinical Linguistics
- Comparative European Politics
- Development and Democracy in Latin America
- East Asian States and Societies
- Empire and Its Afterlives in Britain, Europe, and Africa
- Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences
- English Forms and Functions
- Forensic Linguistics: Language As Evidence
- French General Language Grade 3 & 4 (Part 1)
- French General Language Grade 3 & 4 (Part 2)
- French General Language Grade 4
- German General Language Grade 3 & 4 (Part 1)
- German General Language Grade 3 & 4 (Part 2)
- German General Language Grade 4
- Global Security
- Intercultural Perspectives On Communication
- Introduction to Teaching
- Introduction to Translation
- Language and Social Justice
- Language for Professional Communication (French)
- Language for Professional Communication (German)
- Language for Professional Communication (Spanish)
- Language of Human Resource Management
- Language Project (Mandarin)
- Language Project Part 2 (French)
- Language Project Part 2 (German)
- Language Project Part 2 (Spanish)
- Managing Across Cultures (Fheq5)
- Mandarin General Language Grade 3 & 4 (Part 1)
- Mandarin General Language Grade 3 & 4 (Part 2)
- Marketing & Communication
- Modernity and Globalisation
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday
- News, Discourse, and Media
- Principles of Economic Crime Investigation
- Professional Experience
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature
- Second Language Acquisition
- Spanish General Language Grade 3 & 4 (Part 1)
- Spanish General Language Grade 3 & 4 (Part 2)
- Spanish General Language Grade 4
- Tesol (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
- Transitional Justice & Human Rights
- Trinity Certificate Teaching Practice
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response
- Working With Languages Today
- World and Transnational Cinema
- Advanced Language Project
- Business & Markets in a Global Environment (Fheq6)
- Business Planning
- Corpus Linguistics and Lexicology
- Creativity in the Language Classroom
- Dissertation
- Forensic Linguistics: Language and the Law
- France in the World: Global Actor Or Global Maverick?
- French General Language Grade 6
- Gender, Language and Sexuality
- German General Language Grade 6
- Holocaust Literatures
- International Security in the Asia-Pacific
- Interpreting 1
- Interpreting 2
- Introduction to Teaching
- Italian General Language Grade 6
- Language and Social Media
- Major Project
- Mandarin General Language Grade 6
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates
- Professional Experience
- Research Project
- Spanish General Language Grade 6
- Spoken Discourse in the Workplace
- The European Union: a Global Power in the Making?
- Translation Theory & Practice
Assessment method
You’ll be assessed through:
- oral presentations
- language portfolio
- written essays and reports
- case studies
- book reviews
- blogs
- translations
- commentaries
- interviews
- magazine production
- group and individual projects
How to apply
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
- Course code:
- Q140
- Institution code:
- P80
- Campus name:
- Main Site
- Campus code:
- -
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 104 - 112 points
A level - BBC - BCC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 25 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H3, H3, H3, H4, H4 - H3, H3, H3, H3, H4
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
T Level - Not accepted
English language requirements
Test | Grade | Additional details |
---|---|---|
IELTS (Academic) | 6 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5. |
PTE Academic | 54 | An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill. |
TOEFL (iBT) | 79 | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Trinity ISE | Pass | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components |
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Additional fee information
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP