Romanian and Spanish

Romanian and Spanish is a linguistically and culturally rich combination that brings together two Romance languages with very different histories, geographies, and cultural profiles. Spanish is one of the world's major languages, spoken by around half a billion people across Spain, Latin America, and beyond, and carries a literary tradition of extraordinary breadth and influence. Romanian, by contrast, is spoken primarily in Romania and Moldova and is the easternmost major Romance language, preserving features that reflect its origins in the Latin of the Roman provinces of Dacia while also incorporating significant Slavic, Greek, and Turkish influences that reflect the distinct history of the region.

At University College London you will study this four-year full-time degree with a typical entry tariff of 152 points. UCL's School of European Languages, Culture and Society provides expert teaching in both Spanish and Romanian, and the programme develops your proficiency in both languages while also engaging you with the literatures, cultures, and histories they carry. You will study Romanian language from foundational or intermediate level through to advanced competence, alongside Spanish in which you are likely to develop a high level of fluency.

The literary and cultural content of both programmes gives you engagement with bodies of work that are less familiar in UK higher education, particularly in the Romanian case, providing the distinctive perspective of a specialist that is genuinely rare.

Graduates with high-level Spanish and Romanian are well placed for careers in diplomacy, international business, translation and interpreting, journalism, and organisations that operate in or with South-Eastern Europe and Latin America. The Romanian language specialism is particularly valuable given how few UK graduates have it, opening doors in areas including EU institutions, international law, and business in the rapidly developing Romanian economy. Further study in Hispanic studies, Romanian studies, linguistics, or European studies is a natural route for those seeking to specialise.