Danish and Hungarian
Danish and Hungarian are two languages from entirely separate linguistic families that together open access to two distinctive Northern and Central European cultures. Danish is a North Germanic language spoken in Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, the language of a country with a global reputation for design, welfare policy, architecture and quality of life. Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language, unrelated to the Indo-European languages that surround it and spoken by around 13 million people in Hungary and by significant communities in neighbouring countries and beyond.
Studying both at degree level requires exceptional linguistic adaptability and rewards it with a rare and genuinely distinctive combination of expertise.
At UCL, which has one of the most extensive European language programmes in the UK, this four-year programme develops both languages to a high level while engaging you with the cultures, literatures and histories of Denmark and Hungary. You will study each language from its grammatical foundations through to advanced reading, writing and oral communication, alongside the cultural and historical contexts that give those languages their significance. UCL's academic environment in these less-commonly taught European languages is strong, with scholars who are specialists in Scandinavian and Central European studies.
The typical entry tariff is 168 UCAS points.
Graduates with knowledge of Danish and Hungarian are rare, and that rarity is an advantage in a range of professional contexts. Careers in diplomacy, European institutions, translation and interpreting, journalism, academic research, business with Danish or Hungarian connections, and cultural organisations are all accessible. The EU and international organisations value speakers of less-commonly taught EU languages, and the distinctive intellectual training that serious language study at UCL provides is valued across many sectors.
Many graduates continue to postgraduate study in Scandinavian studies, Hungarian studies, linguistics, translation or European area studies.