| Unit name | Advanced Language |
|---|---|
| Unit code | MODLM2040 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
| Unit director | Emeritus Professor. Basker |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | School of Modern Languages |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit is envisaged as an optional training unit on the MA programme in Modern Languages, and is made available to taught postgraduates on other programmes. Based on existing fluency (normally an undergraduate degree in the relevant language), it enables students to achieve advanced reading and oral skills in one of: Catalan, Czech, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish. The unit will focus on (i) the higher registers of the modern language, particularly its political, literary and academic registers, and (ii) the language of cultural and historical sources of the sort that students examine in their units on the MA programme in Modern Languages. Through intensive tuition in a fortnightly one-and-a-half-hour class throughout the two teaching blocks, some conducted in the relevant language, and through extensive preparation for these classes students will develop their ability to express themselves on political, literary and historical topics and to read and translate into English sources and scholarship in these areas.
