Program Overview

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Program Overview

The Bachelor’s degree programme in European Languages and Cultures focuses on the wide literary, cultural, historical, social, and political spectrum of Europe, with specific emphasis on British or Irish literature and linguistics.

Why English?

The English specialization within the degree programme in European Languages and Cultures focuses on the wide literary, cultural, historical, social, and political spectrum of Europe, with specific emphasis on British or Irish literature and linguistics. You will familiarize yourself with English linguistics, further develop your English proficiency, and follow a number of general lectures in the fields of English linguistics and literature in a European context.

Program Structure

• The program allows you to combine the Politics and Society profile within European Languages and Cultures with courses in Journalism or International Relations, or focus on modern literary history, for example via a comparative study of European writers.
  • In your second or third year, you can spend a semester at a university abroad.
  • Your Bachelor’s degree programme is rounded off with a thesis, in which you discuss a topic in the field of English language, literature, culture, politics, or society in a European context.

Career Opportunities

Depending on your choices of profile, Minor, and possible Master’s degree programme, you may find a career as an editor, journalist, or publisher, at an international organization or in the business world, or perhaps as an academic researcher in the field of European Studies. In addition, the English specialization within ETC also grants admission to the Master of Arts in English Teaching programme, where you can gain your grade-one teaching qualification, after following a pre-master minor in English Language and Culture.

Admission Requirements

• A-levels/vwo eindexamen/Abitur or equivalent with English as a subject is obligatory to be admitted to English as a major language.