Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Modern Languages - International Relations (R9L2)

Program Description This course offers you the opportunity to combine the study of Modern Languages (75% of the course) with International Relations (25%), and spend your third year abroad.

As a Modern Languages student you will gain fluency in up to two languages of your choice - French, Spanish, German and / or Italian. Whether you start at beginners’, advanced or native-speaker level, you will study the core language components, gaining skills in writing, reading, speaking and listening, with language teaching led by native speakers.

You will also have the opportunity to explore International Relations, covering themes such as war and security, diplomacy and development, globalisation and global power relations, communication and resistance, and international political economy. You will gain a solid foundation in the history of international relations and IR theory – allowing you to understand better the complexity of contemporary global governance and the theories that explain it.

In your third year you will have the exciting opportunity to spend a year working, teaching or studying abroad when you will immerse yourself in the language and culture, truly broadening your horizons in the process.

• Modern Languages research staff are engaged in research at the highest level internationally; the department is in the top 10 of UK Modern Language departments for research quality and the top in London (Research Assessment Exercise 2014). • On graduation you will have language and analytical skills in one or more modern languages, together with additional knowledge of culture, society and history, culture and society that will give you a valuable competitive edge in an increasingly globalised world. • Royal Holloway has an active and engaged student community, and there are opportunities to take part in debating, Model United Nations and party political societies on campus.