BA English and Modern Languages & Cultures
About this course
BA in English and Modern Languages & Cultures BA, an English and Modern Languages degree centred on the relationship between language, literature, and culture across Europe and beyond. Core topics include Research Methods, Communication & Writing, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Design & Creative Practice. Students spend the third year either studying or working abroad to immerse themselves in a foreign language and culture. The first year introduces foundational literary study alongside intensive or advanced modern language training in subjects such as French, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Czech, Catalan, or Portuguese, paired with historical and cultural modules. Optional choices in the first year let students explore subjects such as Contemporary Literature, Hybrid Forms: Reading Genre, and The Creative Writing Lab. The second year builds on these language and literary foundations through compulsory modules like Arts of Persuasion and Romantics, Victorians and Moderns (a), alongside options including Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Hollywood Cinema. Following the compulsory year abroad, the final year features Project Module 1, advanced language proficiency study, and optional modules such as The Invention of Romanticism and Renaissance Literature, Modern Crisis.
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Entry requirements
A Level: ABB IB: 33, typically with 5 in a Higher Level modern foreign language; 32, typically with 5 in a Higher Level modern foreign language, and B in the extended essay
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Admissions (2022 entry, home applicants)
Offer rate 92%: 48 offers from 52 applications, from the university's Freedom of Information return.
What students say
Based on about 7 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 94%
- Learning opportunities: 85%
- Assessment and feedback: 83%
- Academic support: 92%
- Organisation and management: 79%
- Learning resources: 86%
- Student voice: 94%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 22 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 70%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Further study: 10%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Teaching Professionals: 25%
- Elementary occupations: 20%
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 10%
- Business and public service associate professionals: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 70%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 50%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 50%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 60 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 12%
- Yorkshire and the Humber: 42%
- East Midlands: 7%
- West Midlands: 4%
- East of England: 5%
- London: 8%
- South East: 11%
- South West: 9%
- Scotland: 2%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Silver for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Renaissance to Revolution: Early Modern Literature
- Writing Revolutions: Restoration to Romanticism
- French Advanced
- French Beginner Intensive
- Understanding Modern French and Francophone Cultures
- German Advanced
- German Beginner Intensive
- Dutch Beginner
- Understanding German and Dutch Histories and Cultures
- Russian Advanced
- Russian Beginner Intensive
- Czech Beginner
- Russian and Czech Cultures in the Age of Empire and beyond
- Spanish Advanced
- Spanish Beginner Intensive
- Catalan Beginner
- Portuguese Beginner
- Understanding Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese Histories and Cultures
- Contemporary Literature
- Hybrid Forms: Reading Genre
- Wonders, Warriors, and Werewolves: Intro to Medieval Literature and Language
- Reading Theatre and Film
- Myth, Scripture and Story: Biblical and Classical Sources in English Literature
- The Creative Writing Lab
- Darwin, Marx, Freud
- Euro-Visions: Imagining and Questioning Europe
- Language at Work
- Resist! The Art of Protest in Berlin and Amsterdam
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language: https://sheffie
- Arts of Persuasion
- Romantics, Victorians and Moderns (a)
- French Higher Advanced
- French Intermediate Intensive
- German Higher Advanced
- German Intermediate Intensive
- Dutch Intermediate
- Russian Higher Advanced
- Russian Intermediate
- Czech Intermediate
- Spanish Higher Advanced
- Spanish Intermediate Intensive
- Catalan Intermediate
- Portuguese Intermediate
- Literature and Critical Theory (a)
- English Works: Foundations
- Chaucer
- Shakespeare
- Good Books: Intertextual Approaches to Literature and the Bible
- Hollywood Cinema
- The Art and Politics of Hip Hop
- 'That is not my (hi)story'. Shaping the future of our inherited past
- Language and the Self
- Languages of Gender and Sexuality
- Revolutions and Revolutionary Trends
- Translation
- English Works: Enhanced
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language: https://sheffie
- French Year Abroad
- Germanic Studies Year Abroad
- Hispanic Studies Year Abroad
- Russian and Slavonic Studies Year Abroad
- Luxembourg Studies Year Abroad
- Project Module 1
- French Proficient
- German Proficient
- Dutch Proficient
- Russian Proficient
- Czech Proficient
- Spanish Proficient
- Catalan Proficient
- Portuguese Proficient
- The Invention of Romanticism
- Renaissance Literature, Modern Crisis
- Research Topics in Theatre and Film
- Mod Cons: Exploring the Long 20th Century
- Middlemarch
- Creative Writing: Poetry, Poetics, Fusion - (De)Constructi(ve)ing Selves
- The Idea of America
- Crime and Transgression in Romantic Literature
- Fin de siècle Gothic
- Project Module 2
- Creative Writing: Fiction: Bodies in Landscapes
- Chaucer
- Life After Death? Romantic Poets and Writing the Afterlife
- Reading Animals
- Privilege and Subversion in Early Modern Drama, 1580-1700
- Languages of Gender and Sexuality
- Revolutions and Revolutionary Trends
- Language and the Self
- 'That is not my (hi)story'. Shaping the future of our inherited past
- Translation
- Migration and its Representations Across Cultures
- Why Read? Literature in the World
- You will also have the option to select 20 credits of Languages for All modules in your chosen language: https://sheffie
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield earn?
The median salary is £27,000 after 15 months, £24,500 after 3 years, £31,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,000 and £34,500. The £31,500 median after five years is £2,500 more than the UK median for English studies.
What do graduates of BA English and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield?
94% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield?
The typical offer is ABB at A level. The average entrant had 148 UCAS points.
What is the offer rate for BA English and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield?
92% of home applicants received an offer for 2022 entry: 48 offers from 52 applications, according to the university's Freedom of Information return.
Does BA English and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has a compulsory year abroad.
How many students continue on BA English and Modern Languages & Cultures at University of Sheffield?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.