Modern Languages

MA in Modern Languages

Mode: part-time

This MA programme allows you to take a broad range of units in the languages, literatures, cultures, histories and societies of Europe and the Hispanic and francophone worlds.

Languages offered: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Available pathways:

• European Literatures
• Identities and Cultures
• Visual Cultures
• War and Culture

All routes encourage a comparative approach across the School of Modern Languages and the Faculty of Arts subjects and are designed to develop your research skills, whether for further academic work or a professional career.

Programme Structure

Compulsory Units
All MA routes include common core units:

• Concepts of Europe
• Research Skills

Plus one of the following:

• European Literature of Ideas
• European Society
• Language Unit

Optional Units
The remaining units can be taken freely across the pathways or kept within a specific route. Each pathway offers a core unit setting out the essential methodology and research questions of the discipline, and a range of taught units or guided research options. Sample units include:

• Contemporary Fiction from Angola and Mozambique
• Constructing German Identity since 1800
• The End of the Spanish Regime
• Literary Representations of the Great War
• Reflecting on the Third Reich in German Literature and Film
• Regional and Minority Languages in Europe
• Representations of Islam
• The Rise of the Novel in 19th-century Europe
• Terrorism Italian Style
• War on Screen

Dissertation
Approximately 15,000 words detailed research of a theme arising from the taught components.