French and Linguistics (with a year abroad)

About this course

French and linguistics is a pairing that develops language proficiency and cultural understanding alongside the systematic scientific study of how language itself works. French brings access to one of the world's great literary and cultural traditions and to a language spoken across Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond. Linguistics asks the underlying questions: how are languages structured? How do they change over time? How do children acquire them? How do sounds, words and sentences combine to create meaning? Together the two disciplines develop both practical communicative competence and the analytical tools to understand what language is and how it functions. This four-year full-time degree at the University of York includes a sandwich year with a work placement alongside the year in which language study is pursued intensively abroad. You will be taught in French, with a focus o

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 50% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 10% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 15% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 15% of graduatescards →

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