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The Facts
UCAS Code:
R2R7
Standard Requirements:
A Levels: AAA IB: 38 with 666 at HL For other qualifications, check the Oxford University website.
Required Subjects:
German, Polish
Advisable Subjects:
None stated by the university.
None stated by the university.
Applicants must submit between two and three pieces of school/college work by 10 November 2022. All candidates are required to submit one graded piece of classwork in the chosen language and one piece of graded text of any topic in English to display writing proficiency. If taking multiple languages, a writing sample in each language must be submitted except if taking the language as a beginner.
All Modern Languages: 161 (93% interviewed, 39% successful)
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The Lowdown
Studying Modern Languages is a great way to explore various cultures and expand your horizons. Oxford has a large Modern Languages department and offers numerous languages and combinations of languages. It is possible to study one or two languages that you have previously studied at A Level (or equivalent), or choose one familiar language along with a new language. There is also the option of pursuing a single language course in either French, German, Russian or Spanish. Other languages can be studied in over 60 combinations and available languages include Polish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech (with Slovak), Portuguese, Russian and Modern Greek. It’s a large course with an annual intake of over 160 undergraduates, of whom about 70% tend to be women.
The Oxford course offers some degree of flexibility in the modules you can pick. Although Oxford is somewhat more literature-heavy than most other universities, there are also linguistics, gender, and film options. The course is split half-and-half between language studies and literature, with the option to replace some of the literature with other papers after the first year. Teaching takes place in the form of lectures, language classes, seminars and tutorials. Students are expected to write essays on literature (in English) and complete translations into and out of their foreign language.
The year abroad is a major part of the course. Students go abroad in their third year unless they take Beginners’ Russian, in which case they spend their second year abroad. There is a lot of latitude in what students can do during their year abroad. Some students choose to work as language assistants in schools, others complete internships abroad, and others study at a foreign university.
An A Level (or equivalent) in your chosen language is required, except for beginners’ languages.
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