What will I learn?
**Why choose this course**- Our focus is on your employability, preparing you for careers in journalism, consultancy, publishing, diplomacy, marketing, media, international finance, communications, translation, education, and copywriting.- Get industry-ready with our award-winning Professional Training placements and study abroad opportunities at Surrey, with opportunities at companies such as EDF, Volkswagen, Macmillan, Disney and with our partner universities across the globe.- Our English and Spanish degree is a course for the digital age, in which you'll develop 'future-proof' skills that are highly valued by employers, such as applied creativity, problem solving and emotional intelligence.- You’ll study English modules which balance traditional texts with modules on Writing Gaming, Queer Ecologies, Monsters, Mystics, and Demons, and The Gothic Imagination'.- The Language modules combine immersive teaching in the target language with practical skills for the academic and professional worlds. If you don’t have an A-level or equivalent in Spanish, you can start your degree as a beginner and work towards near-native fluency when you graduate.- Our English Literature and Spanish degree is renowned for excellent pastoral care with small class sizes, sector-leading staff-student ratio and an individualised approach, with Spanish at Surrey ranked 1st in the UK in the National Student Survey 2024'.**What you will study**The English Literature part of this course covers a range of literary periods, authors, genres and theories. You’ll analyse classic works, as well as innovative texts and genres, such as travel writing, nineteenth-century theatre and fiction, science-fiction, and contemporary global literatures.The Modern Foreign Language side of this course will improve your practical language skills and allow you to gain a strong understanding of how languages work.Whilst three years of the English Literature and Spanish degree is based in the UK, the course includes a Professional Training placement abroad, giving you the choice between work, study, or a combination of the two.
