Undergraduates

Our undergraduate degree courses offer students maximum flexibility.

During a four-year degree students can expect to : 

• develop their potential to the full in at least three different academic disciplines;
• to have learned to work separately and in groups; 
• to have research experience and to have skills in amassing, analysing and ordering information;
• to have acquired essential critical abilities, as well as eloquence in oral and written expression in one or more foreign languages; 
• to have acquired a wide-ranging knowledge of all aspects of European life and culture including detailed acquaintance with the country where they have spent a full academic year.

Degree courses available:

You can :  

Study two languages:

• BA European Studies and Modern Languages.

Or, study one language:

• BA in European Studies with Politics;
• BA in European Studies with French/German/Italian/Spanish.

Or, if you prefer no foreign language component:

• BA European Studies (with the option of no foreign language at all)

You can: choose either French, Portuguese, German, Italian or Spanish as your main language.

In the case of the latter three degree schemes listed, you can start these languages from scratch and through intensive learning reach an Advanced level in one year.

You can take French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian or Portuguese as your second language option - where two languages are possible.

Optional Modules :

• 1st year options list 2012-13. (First year students take level 4 modules)
• Second and Final year options list 2012-13 (second year students take level 5 modules and final year students take level 6 modules).

Other information:

• Study Abroad (the Study Abroad period is a compulsory part of the EU Studies degrees)
• Student Handbook
• Module Directory
• Rules of Assessment

The External Examiner for EU Studies degrees and modules is Professor Galin Tihanov - Queen Mary University of London