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.
