Admissions

UCAS Code
See below for course combinations

View college options of Modern Languages and Linguistics

Brief Course Outline

Duration of course: 4 years (including compulsory year abroad)
Degree awarded: BA

Course statistics for 2012 entry

Intake: 25
Applications shortlisted for interview: 84.4%
Successful applications: 33.8% Open days

Contact details

Modern Languages
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages,
41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF
+44 (0) 1865 270750
Please email us at reception@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
View Modern Languages website

Linguistics
Centre for Linguistics and Philology, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG
+44 (0) 1865 280400
Please email us at
enquiries@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk
View Linguistics website

Modern Languages and Linguistics

Courses tab icon

Work placements/international opportunities

Refer to entry for Modern Languages.

A typical weekly timetable

Your week’s work will include a tutorial on linguistics or literature, in or arranged by your college, a linguistics class and language classes on different skills relating to the language or languages you study, and five or six lectures.

1st year
Courses Modern Language: Same as for Modern Languages Linguistics: General linguistics Phonetics and phonology Grammatical analysis	Assessment First University examinations: Seven written papers, including translation and literature
2nd and 4th years
Courses Modern Language: Same as for Modern Languages Linguistics: General linguistics History of the language you will be studying Structure and use of that language in its modern form One or two specialist options, for example: Syntax, Semantics, Phonetics and phonology, Sociolinguistics or Psycholinguistics	Assessment Final University examinations: Eight or nine papers and an oral examination are taken

You can either study Linguistics with a Modern Language you already speak, or with a Modern Language you’d like to learn from scratch.

For the following course combinations you would usually be expected to have the Modern Language to A-level (or another academic equivalent).

Linguistics and:

	UCAS code
French	RQ11
German	RQ21
Modern Greek	QQ71
Italian	RQ31
Portuguese	RQ51
Russian	RQ71
Spanish	RQ41

The following course combinations allow you to begin studying a Modern Language from scratch.

Linguistics and:

	UCAS code
Beginners' Modern Greek	QQ72
Beginners' Italian	QR13
Beginners' Portuguese	RQ5D