Course Overview

Crucially, Aston languages degrees aim to prepare you for working life in the 21st century at a time when the world of employment is being revolutionized by artificial intelligence and automation. In this context, they focus closely on helping you develop excellent intercultural understanding, the power of persuasion, empathy, and skills for deep-listening, problem-solving and cross-systems thinking. They also offer a series of modules focused on routes into employment, not only in the language industries but right across professional life. In the final stage of our language degrees, it is possible for students to take a series of modules that lead to an additional €˜Translation Studies exit award. By acquiring intercultural communication competencies, technological skills, and negotiation skills in multicultural contexts, our graduates become equipped for successful careers in the growing international language industries. The value of a language degree is all the greater when combined with a discipline like a history. Working closely with experienced historians, youll have opportunities to study topics such as nationalism, state-building, and inter-state relations; the history of war and peace; religious and ethnic conflict; trauma and memory; and issues of globalization in the present that can only be understood by looking to the past. For example, youll learn how the British Empire helped to create the NHS, why Britain voted to stay in the EU in 1975 and why Margaret Thatcher became the first pop star of British international relations.

General Eligibility

BBC (standard offer) BCC (with EPQ or Core Maths minimum grade B) CCC (contextual offer*)

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement