Languages and Cultures
UCL
Do you speak more than one language? Are you already studying a language or even two? Do you like exploring literature, films, art, music, food and all sorts of other cultural aspects of other countries? Are you curious about what studying languages and cultures at university would be like? Then come to the UCL Languages and Cultures Summer School! The School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) teaches no fewer than 11 different languages, and alongside these languages we also have a vast range of courses in everything cultural: French cinema, Italian Renaissance study, Latin American poetry, German medieval comic tales, material ‘stuff’ in the Viking age, Dutch sociolinguistics, and many more.
The Summer School will draw on as much of these languages and cultures as we can fit in one week through a combination of seminars and workshops. There will be lessons in French, Spanish, and German for those of you who study these languages, as well as some sessions with new and lesser-taught languages (like the Scandinavian ones). We will introduce you to our collections at UCL showing you how we use these in our teaching. To set it all up, we will start with considering what how and why we learn foreign languages. The weeklong project task will be based on this session, while allowing you to use examples from all the other classes to explore the connections between language and culture even further.
24 July 2023
- 28 July 2023
25 PROGRAMME PLACES
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
On track to meet: A-Levels: ABB
Contextual Offer: A-Levels: BBB
GCSEs: English Language at grade B or 6 and Mathematics at grade C or 5.
Foreign language required, to include French or Spanish if studied as the main language.
IB Diploma: 32 points. A total of 16 points in three higher level subjects, with no score lower than 5, to include a foreign language.