A Bachelor of Arts degree with an intensive specialisation in up to 3 languages. Includes an in-country component requiring students to spend at least one semester studying in the country of their language specialisation. Financial assistance is provided to all students in this degree.

This degree course appeals to talented school leavers who wish to link humanities and social sciences studies with core study in a foreign language. Some students will be keen to deepen and broaden language and culture studies begun in secondary school or elsewhere. Others will have a desire to take up studies in a new language subject area, starting at the Beginners' level.

The degree has a subsidised study abroad component, enabling students to spend one or two semesters overseas studying at a designated university in the country of their language major. Approved studies successfully completed overseas will be credited to the student’s University of Sydney degree. In-country study enables students to enhance their linguistic fluency and cultural knowledge and prepare, if they wish, for future studies overseas.

Two areas distinguish this degree from the three year B Arts. First, the extra year enables students to deepen their specialisation in other language and non-language subject areas, as they will have greater scope for additional major sequences. Second, its in-country component enables students to spend at least one semester overseas (in the country of their language specialisation) and to have the studies completed there credited to their degree. The main purpose of this provision is to enable students to improve substantially and rapidly their linguistic fluency, but it will also enable them to proceed with studies in their other humanities subjects at the overseas university.

International students should refer to the Academic Entry Requirements for International Students available at the following link for intake availability and other information: http://www.usyd.edu.au/future_students/international_undergraduate/admissions/entry_requirements/academic.shtml</p> 

Course completion requirements

192 credit points in total including two majors from the Faculty of Arts, at least one of which must be in a language from the following subject areas: Arabic Language & Literature, Chinese Studies, French Studies, Germanic Studies, Hebrew (Modern), Indonesian & Malay Studies, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, Modern Greek Studies, Spanish Latin American Studies.

Students must maintain a minimum credit average (65%) across all units of study attemped in each calendar year in the first three years of enrolment, or until the required study abroad is completed as well as in the senior units of study in the language major attempted in each of the years in question. Candidates who fail to maintain a credit average will be transferred to candidature for the Bachelor of Arts degree in their next year of enrolment, with full credit from their Bachelor of Arts (Languages).

On campus attendance pattern

Full time

End qualification

Bachelor Degree

Course level

Bachelor

Honours availability

Additional year

Handbook website link

http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/current_students/undergrad/handbook.shtml