UCL
21 July 2025
- 25 July 2025
20 programme places
Entry requirements
A-Levels: A foreign language preferred.
GCSEs: English Language at grade B or 6 and Mathematics at grade C or 4.
Scottish Advanced Highers: A foreign language preferred.
Welsh Baccalaureate: A foreign language preferred.
Cambridge Pre-U Principal Subjects: A foreign language preferred.
Access to HE Diploma: A foreign language preferred.
*Please note that these requirements are based on the contextual subject and qualification requirements for relevant undergraduate programmes for 2025 entry.
For information specifically about UCL’s undergraduate programmes (including the grade requirements) please see the UCL Undergraduate Courses webpage (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate/).
Please note the Summer School will provide a taste of studying at UCL and we therefore advise you check the UCL Admissions grade requirements and speak to your teacher about your academic suitability.
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 so much 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.
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