Welcome to the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures

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30 June
1 July
15 September
16 September

We are one of the UK’s largest modern language units, ranked 5th for research power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. We offer taught and research degrees in French and Francophone Studies; German Studies; Russian and Slavonic Studies; Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies; Translation Studies and Mandarin Chinese.

Our undergraduate degree programmes offer language study from beginners’ level in all our languages and we have a large postgraduate community, made up of UK and international students.

The Language Centre

In addition we are home to the Language Centre, which offers a broad range of high quality language classes and additional language services, including a programme of evening classes.