Languages: French, German, Italian & Spanish

Language activities

Below you will find links to some sample material from our degree courses. They should give you a taste of some of the things you might study here with us.

Course summaries

Below you will find short summaries of the course content of our various language programmes in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Please note all languages are offered as ab initio routes. Only French, German and Spanish have post-A level routes.

Find out more about our:

  • BA History and French

  • BA French and Philosophy

  • BA German and Philosophy

Find out more about the year abroad

Read about University of York students' adventures on the year abroad at our Languages Students abroad blog.

Meet your tutors

You can find to out more about some of your tutors and what motivates them over on the Meet your Tutors page. Scroll down to the Language and Linguistics section to meet one of our French lecturers, Dr Géraldine Enjelvin. On the same page, you'll also find a profile of Dr Sam Hellmuth and and an interview with Dr George Bailey, both of whom specialize in one of the areas of linguistics you'll study, Phonetics and Phonology.

Find out more about Languages for all

Interested in taking a language for credit alongside your degree? Why not consider a module with Languages for all, the university-wide language provider based in our department.