Modern Languages - BA (Hons)

Course overview

Our Modern Languages BA is unlike any other course of this kind in the UK. Our innovative degree hones your communication and intercultural competences whilst equipping you with a range of skills across areas such as digital, teaching and communication, ensuring you are career-ready from day one.

Kent offers unparalleled flexibility and personalised language learning paths tailored to your individual learning style, your strengths, and aspirations. This approach means whether you have studied a language for their GCSEs or A-levels, or if you are studying languages from scratch at Kent – you can expand your skills and achieve fluency. In your first year, you can refine existing language skills or explore one or several new languages in the friendly and informal environment of our Language Lab. With options including Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish, you will begin at a level suited to you, making rapid progress and setting your own pace in your studies.

You graduate with more than linguistic proficiency. You'll leave with a comprehensive cultural, social, and political understanding of the areas where your chosen languages are spoken, and of the relations among them. You’ll become an expert of the globalised world and be equipped with the knowledge to navigate and address crucial societal issues. You will be prepared to thrive in diverse career paths across the globe, from international business to diplomacy, education, and beyond.

Your future

The ability to speak more than one language is a key asset in the global employment market, and one that employers seek out. This means you can flexibly work across many fields and industries, and of course, across different countries.

Beyond your language skills, you will graduate equipped with skills such as, communication, mediation, analysis and leadership. These give you confidence to offer creative solutions when faced with challenges, and the ability to express your ideas with clarity and passion. These are skills that make employers take notice, and you will be able to make change happen in the places you want to see it.

Our graduates are proof of this, going into fields as varied as: international banking, diplomacy, publishing, journalism, interpreting and translating, media, marketing and language teaching. Wherever your passions and future lie, through studying Modern Languages at Kent, you will have the tools needed to get there.