English Literature and French BA (Hons) – 2020 entry

We’re one of the UK’s leading universities for English literature and French, with our modern languages and linguistics courses ranked in the UK top 10 by the Guardian University Guide 2020 and top 10 in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019. We’re also top 10 for creative writing (The Complete University Guide 2020 and The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019) and Surrey achieved 100 per cent overall satisfaction for French studies in the National Student Survey 2019.

This course is innovative and interdisciplinary, allowing you to develop a high level of literary, linguistic and cultural competence.

A Professional Training placement provides you with the opportunity to develop your professional, academic and personal potential, equipping you to be adaptable, resilient, globally minded, confident, entrepreneurial and digitally savvy in the workplace. These qualities are widely recognised by employers and many of our students are offered employment on graduation by their placement provider.

The Professional Training placement year gives our students an insight into their subject and career potential, and early access to professional experience. It can be invaluable in developing work-based skills and helping them secure a graduate career.

If you do not have French at the required level but you have achieved GCSE grade A* in a modern language OR you expect to achieve at least A-level grade B in a modern language, we can consider offering you a place in the French ab initio group. Ab initio study will involve additional contact hours and intensive study of the language during the first year of the programme. Please be aware: English language would not be treated as a modern language.