MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES - …

MODERN LANGUAGES AND

CULTURES

SCHOOL OF ARTS, LANGUAGES AND CULTURES Undergraduate courses 2019

manchester.ac.uk/languages

WHY MANCHESTER?

38TH WORLD 8TH EUROPE 6TH UK

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017

IN EUROPE FOR MODERN LANGUAGES

QS World University Rankings 2018

WE ARE THE MOST TARGETED UNIVERSITY IN THE UK FOR TOP GRADUATE EMPLOYERS

The Graduate Market in 2018, High Fliers Research

FLEXIBILITY IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I ENJOY STUDYING AT MANCHESTER SO MUCH. LAST SEMESTER I STUDIED FRENCH CINEMA AND NOW I`M LOOKING AT THE IMPACT OF EVENTS LIKE THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN FRANCE.

GEORGE WHITEHEAD FRENCH AND SPANISH BA

40,000

STUDENTS

PALAVER

160

COUNTRIES

A MULTICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

TAKE PART IN OUR ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF LANGUAGE AND PERFORMANCE

GRADUATES GO ON TO WORK IN DIVERSE AREAS E.G. TV, JOURNALISM, POLITICS, EDUCATION & INTERPRETING

OUR

AWARD-WINNING

CAREERS SERVICE ADVERTISES OVERSEAS PLACEMENTS AND OFFERS SUPPORT THROUGH THE APPLICATION PROCESS

100+

LANGUAGE SUBJECTS AND COMBINATIONS

30+

INTERNATIONAL AND LANGUAGE-RELATED STUDENT SOCIETIES

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MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Our Modern Languages provision is amongst the broadest and most diverse in the UK, featuring nearly 100 different subject combinations.

We offer nine different European, East Asian and Middle Eastern languages to degree level: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. You can also learn Catalan as part of the Spanish course, and learn Polish as part of the Russian course.

You'll benefit from excellent teaching, student support and cutting-edge study facilities, as well as from the vibrancy and cultural diversity of Manchester itself, Western Europe's most multilingual city. With placement options available at partner universities and in professional environments across the globe, a compulsory third year abroad gives our undergraduate students unforgettable and invaluable personal and professional experience.

All our languages can be studied from scratch (ab initio) or post-A-level, whether you choose to study for a Single Honours degree - focusing on one language and culture or region - or for a Joint Honours degree - combining two languages together or one language with a subject like History, English Literature or Business and Management. As a Single Honours student, you'll also have the option to study subjects from across the breadth of Humanities and The University College for Interdisciplinary Learning.

Language study offers much more than just language fluency. You'll explore diverse aspects of the culture, society, history, politics and literature of the countries in which your chosen languages are spoken, helping you to develop intercultural awareness and communication skills ? both highly valued by employers. Through your studies you'll acquire transferable expertise at the very heart of language learning, including enhanced powers of perception and interpretation and advanced decision-making and multitasking skills.

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I already had a background of learning Japanese, but what attracted me to the department here was that the ability levels were split, so I would be able to study with people with a similar aptitude. The department itself is also very small so the teaching is much more personal.

Jessica Speed, BA Linguistics and Japanese

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OUR COURSES

Single Honours: Arabic Studies BA (4 years) Chinese Studies BA (4 years) East Asian Studies BA (3 years) French Studies BA (4 years) German Studies BA (4 years) Italian Studies BA (4 years) Japanese Studies BA (4 years) Middle Eastern Studies BA (3 years) Russian Studies BA (4 years) Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies BA (4 years)

Joint Honours: Modern Language Joint Honours BA (4 years) English Language and a Modern Language BA (4 years) English Literature and a Modern Language BA (4 years) Film Studies and a Modern Language BA (4 years) History and a Modern Language BA (4 years) Linguistics and a Modern Language BA (4 years) Latin and a Modern Language BA (4 years) Modern Language and Business & Management BA (4 years) Politics and a Modern Language BA (4 years)

We also offer language study in combination with Biosciences and Mathematics. For more information visit our course finder: manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate

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How to apply:

manchester.ac.uk/study/ undergraduate/applications

Please note that the course units listed in this brochure only represent a sample of the full breadth of available units for each course. For up-to-date course information, including unit detail and entry requirements in full, visit our course finder: manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate

Please see corresponding subject brochures for more information on Joint Honours courses.

Did you know? Our three-year Middle Eastern Studies BA and East Asian Studies BA offer you the opportunity to study the cultures, histories, societies, economics and politics of a region with optional language learning.

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MODERN LANGUAGES

COURSE STRUCTURE

Most of our modern languages courses are four years and include a year abroad.

Year 1 is a blend of compulsory language units (tailored to your ability, whether post-Alevel or ab initio), plus units on culture and society.

Your degree becomes more flexible as you progress into Year 2.Choose optional units in literature, film, popular culture, history, politics, linguistics, translation and interpreting.

YEAR 1, 2 & 4: YEAR 3:

SINGLE HONOURS = 120 CREDITS PER YEAR

80 credits of compulsory and optional course units from within your discipline + 40 credits of free choice course units from across the Faculty of Humanities

Residence abroad

Please note that the course structure above varies for East Asian Studies BA, Middle Eastern Studies BA and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies BA. Please see course detail from page 10 onwards for more information.

YEAR 1: YEAR 2 & 4:*

YEAR 3:

JOINT HONOURS = 120 CREDITS PER YEAR (TWO MODERN LANGUAGES OR ONE MODERN LANGUAGE + ONE OTHER SUBJECT)

60 compulsory and optional credits = language 1 + 60 compulsory credits and optional = language 2 / other subject

40 compulsory credits = language 1 + 40 compulsory and optional credits = language 2 /other subject + 40 optional credits from your chosen languages or other subject

Residence abroad

* Tailor your degree ? with most subject combinations you can weigh your studies more heavily toward one subject or the other up to an 80/40 credit split.

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I was drawn to Manchester's high ranking on league tables and the fact that it's such a well-regarded research university ...it was one of the few universities that gave me the option to combine post A-level German with ab initio Russian.

Jessica Zanzottera, BA German and Russian

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