Welsh

Welsh is one of the oldest living languages in Europe, with a continuous literary tradition stretching back over fifteen hundred years and a vibrant contemporary culture expressed through literature, music, broadcasting, and everyday community life. Studying Welsh at degree level means engaging with that full range, from medieval poetry and religious prose to modern fiction and drama, and it means developing a genuine proficiency in a language that is the everyday medium of hundreds of thousands of people in Wales and of a growing Patagonian Welsh-speaking community in Argentina. In an era when the fortunes of minority languages have become a significant political and cultural concern, understanding Welsh from the inside is also to understand how language communities sustain themselves and what is lost or gained when they change.

At Bangor University, the BSc in Welsh is taught by a department with deep expertise in Welsh language, literature, and linguistics, and is located in a strongly Welsh-speaking part of north Wales where the language is a living reality rather than an academic abstraction. The programme includes a foundation year, a sandwich year, a year abroad, and a work placement, providing an exceptionally full set of structural opportunities for professional and international experience alongside your academic study. You will develop advanced language skills, engage with Welsh literature and cultural history, and explore linguistic and sociolinguistic questions about the language's development and contemporary status.

Graduates with a Welsh degree are well placed for careers in Welsh-medium education, broadcasting, the public sector in Wales, journalism, translation, arts organisations, and community development. The degree also provides a strong foundation for postgraduate study in Welsh, Celtic studies, linguistics, or related fields.