BA History and a Modern Language
About this course
BA in Modern Languages and History, combining language study with historical analysis. Core topics include research methods. Students can choose from Chinese, French or Spanish, with two language pathways depending on prior knowledge. A year abroad is available at a partner university or through a work placement.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB
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What students say
Based on about 128 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Teaching on my course: 89%
- Learning opportunities: 82%
- Assessment and feedback: 84%
- Academic support: 93%
- Organisation and management: 76%
- Learning resources: 91%
- Student voice: 84%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 325 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 91%
- Left higher education: 6%
- Moved to a lower qualification: 3%
What graduates do next
Based on about 117 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university
- Working: 58%
- Working and studying: 12%
- Further study: 14%
- Unemployed: 7%
Most common jobs
- Administrative occupations: 20%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 15%
- Teaching and Childcare Support Occupation: 10%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 5%
- Find their work meaningful: 67%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 50%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 30%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 260 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North East: 1%
- North West: 4%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 1%
- West Midlands: 8%
- East of England: 5%
- London: 19%
- South East: 10%
- South West: 16%
- Wales: 37%
- Northern Ireland: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 275 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- A levels: 96%
- Access course: 1%
- No formal qualifications: 1%
Modules
- History in Practice Part 1: Questions, Frameworks and Audiences.
- Global Histories
- Spanish Upper Elementary
- Spanish Elementary
- Mandarin Chinese Upper Elementary
- Mandarin Chinese Elementary
- French Upper Elementary
- French Elementary
- Introduction to Hispanic Studies
- Introduction to Chinese Studies
- Introduction to French and Francophone Studies
- A World Full of Gods
- Projecting the Past: Film, Media and Heritage
- Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
- Myth, Narrative, and Identity: Storytelling and Society
- Making History: Historians, Evidence, Audiences
- Spanish Intermediate
- Spanish Upper Intermediate
- Mandarin Chinese Upper Intermediate
- Mandarin Chinese Intermediate
- French Intermediate
- French Upper Intermediate
- Hispanidad in the World
- The World and Language of Business (Spanish Intermediate)
- The World and Language of Business (Spanish Upper Intermediate)
- The World and Language of Business (Chinese)
- China in the World
- Introduction to Specialised Translation
- Global France: French and Francophone Cultures
- The World and Language of Business (French Intermediate)
- The World and Language of Business (French Upper Intermediate)
- Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World
- Reading History
- Everyday Life in Medieval Britain c1200–1600
- A History of the Supernatural
- Accessible Pasts
- The British Civil Wars
- European Enlightenment(s): The View from the Margins
- America: From Revolution to Reconstruction
- Modern France
- Europe's Dark Century
- Stalinism: State, Society, and Environment
- Close Neighbours, Dangerous Foes: China, Japan and Modern East Asia
- Politics and People in Modern Britain: Protest, citizenship and the state
- Environmental Histories
- Chwyldro, Diwylliant a Radicaliaeth, 1789–1914
- Heroes and Villains in the Middle Ages
- Myth, Narrative, and Identity: Storytelling and Society
- Spanish Advanced
- Mandarin Chinese Advanced
- French Advanced
- Culture & Conflict in Latin America
- Final Year Dissertation - Spanish (in Spanish)
- Final Year Dissertation - Spanish (in English/Welsh)
- Specialised Chinese
- Sinophone Cultures: Hong Kong, Taiwan & Chinese Diasporas
- Final Year Dissertation Chinese (in English/Welsh)
- Student Teaching Module
- Global Narratives of Colonialism, Slavery & Their Legacies
- Global Cinemas: Representation, Subjectivity, History
- Cold War Cultures: Power, Conformity, and Dissent c. 1948–1990
- Final Year Dissertation - French (in French)
- Of Oceans and Islands: Ecology and Environment in Francophone Arts and Literature
- Final Year Dissertation French (in English/Welsh)
- Histories of Asia: Ancient to Early Medieval
- War, Violence and Imperialism in the Ancient World
- Bodies and the Embodied Experience in the Ancient World
- Researching History: Dissertation
- East Asia in a Global Second World War
- Spies and Espionage in the Medieval World
- Witchcraft and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1750
- Health and Illness in Early Modern Britain
- Mobile Lives: Travel, Exile, and Migration in the Early Modern World
- Native American History
- Utopias of Extremism: Revolutions in Comparative Context
- Czechoslovakia: The Twentieth Century in Miniature
- France under Occupation
- Inside the Third Reich
- Violence and Ideology in the Inter-War Soviet Union
- Change, Conflict, and Mass Mobilisation in Republican China, 1911-1945
- Peripheral Reverberations of the French Revolution
- Mayhem and murder: Investigating the Victorian Underworld
- The Making of British Socialism
- Public and Private: Gender, Identities and Power in Twentieth Century Britain
- Jews, Europe and the World
- Meiji Restoration, Meiji Revolution – Japan’s 19th century transformation
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA History and a Modern Language at Cardiff University earn?
The median salary is £26,000 after 15 months, £23,500 after 3 years, £29,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £24,000 and £36,000. The £29,500 median after five years is £3,500 less than the UK median for Language and area studies (other).
What do graduates of BA History and a Modern Language at Cardiff University do next?
84% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA History and a Modern Language at Cardiff University?
89% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA History and a Modern Language at Cardiff University?
The typical offer is ABB at A level. The average entrant had 132 UCAS points.
How many students continue on BA History and a Modern Language at Cardiff University?
91% of students continued into their second year, and 6% left higher education.