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Finnish

Finnish is taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at UCL SSEES.

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Undergraduate Degrees with Finnish

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Finnish language can be studied at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at UCL SSEES:

  • Finnish and East European Studies BA
  • Russian with an East European Language BA

This degree combines two modern languages, which can be taken from SSEES and/or SELCS (School of European Languages, Culture and Society)

  • Finnish (+ another language)

View all Modern Language combinations with Finnish:

LanguagesUCAS CodeEntry Requirement (A level)
Finnish and Hebrew BAR6FHABB including one of the named languages
Finnish and Yiddish BAR6FYABB including one of the named languages
Finnish and French BAR6RFAAB (A in French)
Finnish and Spanish BAR6SIAAB (A in Spanish)
Czech and Finnish BAR7CFABB
Finnish and Hungarian BAR6RHABB
Finnish and Polish BAR6FPABB
Finnish and Romanian BAR6FRABB
Danish and Finnish BAR7AFABB including one of the named languages
Dutch and Finnish BAR7DFABB including one of the named languages
Finnish and Russian BAR6NNABB
Finnish and Serbian/Croatian BAR6CFABB
Finnish and Ukrainian BAR6UFABB
Finnish and German BAR6RGABB including one of the named languages
Finnish and Italian BAR6FIABB including one of the named languages
Finnish and Norwegian BAR6RNABB including one of the named languages
Finnish and Portuguese BAR6PFABB including one of the named languages
Finnish and Swedish BAR6R6ABB including one of the named languages

UCL students on the following degrees also have the option to take Finnish as a chosen language:

  • Comparative Literature BA
  • Comparative Literature with a Year Abroad BA
  • Language and Culture BA
  • European Social and Political Studies BA

Modules

  • View all SSEES Undergraduate Modules

Taking Finnish as an Elective Module

Finnish Houses

Both undergraduate and postgraduate students on other degree programmes at UCL can take a Finnish language module as an elective (programme diet permitting).

Undergraduate

All SSEES social science undergraduate degrees offer the opportunity take Finnish language as an elective module. Students in other UCL departments may also select Finnish as an elective (programme diet permitting):

  • SEEF0026 Finnish A
  • SEEF0021 Finnish B
  • SEEF0022 Finnish C

UCL students on the following degrees also have the option to take Finnish as a chosen language:

  • Comparative Literature BA
  • Comparative Literature with a Year Abroad BA
  • Language and Culture BA
  • European Social and Political Studies BA


Postgraduate

Finnish can be taken as an elective module for all SSEES MA programmes, as well as for a number of other Postgraduate Taught degrees in other UCL departments.

Modules covering Finnish language include:

  • SEES0030 New Language: Finnish
  • SEES0020 Intermediate Language: Finnish

Evening Courses

  • Evening Courses at UCL SSEES

Contacts

  • SSEES Admissions Office: ugadmissions@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
  • Dr Riitta Valijarvi (Senior Teaching Fellow in Finnish Language)
  • Ms Evgeniia Drozdova (Admissions Tutor)

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