The challenges which students on the Master [120] in Modern Languages and Literature: German, Dutch and English prepare for are those of becoming an expert in two foreign languages and a responsible person capable of contributing to the main issues and challenges of a contemporary, multicultural society.
At the end of their course, students on the Master [60] in Modern Languages and Literature: General, will demonstrate expertise in the two foreign languages studied, chosen from English, German and Dutch. This expertise relates to very high level communication competencies, characterised by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages as those of the “advanced user, C1”.
Students will be able to manage scientific research in order to critically analyse and interpret discourse at a linguistic, literary and cultural level.
Students will also be able to transfer their knowledge and implement it in a specific way in different professional contexts depending upon the type of discourse in question, such as the learning and teaching of languages, editing, culture and continuing education, business, communication, new technologies or scientific research. Their training enables them to adapt in a flexible and dynamic fashion to new challenges in the world of work and continuing development.
With these qualities, students of modern languages are therefore intellectuals in the field of humanities, able to adopt a critical posture (as regards third parties and themselves) and have a proactive attitude which will enable them to contribute to the significant issues and challenges of a contemporary multicultural society.
On successful completion of this programme, each student is able to :
At the end of their course, students on the Master [60] in Modern Languages and Literature: General, will demonstrate expertise in the two foreign languages studied, chosen from English, German and Dutch. This expertise relates to very high level communication competencies, characterised by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages as those of the “advanced user, C1”.
Students will be able to manage scientific research in order to critically analyse and interpret discourse at a linguistic, literary and cultural level.
Students will also be able to transfer their knowledge and implement it in a specific way in different professional contexts depending upon the type of discourse in question, such as the learning and teaching of languages, editing, culture and continuing education, business, communication, new technologies or scientific research. Their training enables them to adapt in a flexible and dynamic fashion to new challenges in the world of work and continuing development.
With these qualities, students of modern languages are therefore intellectuals in the field of humanities, able to adopt a critical posture (as regards third parties and themselves) and have a proactive attitude which will enable them to contribute to the significant issues and challenges of a contemporary multicultural society.
On successful completion of this programme, each student is able to :
A. Disciplinary and interdisciplinary skills
1. In linguistics, to rigorously situate, analyse and interpret linguistic output in-depth (from different genres, registers and approaches) from two languages from amongst English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch from a textual, historic, stylistic, rhetorical and thematic point of view.
2. Recognise, from within the literature of at least two modern languages (set out at 1 above) and within European and non-European literature, links relating to circulation, similarities and also differences and specific features between different authors, works and general historical and literary trends.
3. Describe and examine the theories used by the literature under consideration as a tool for anthropological exploration and a preferred method of gaining access to another culture.
4. Understand questions of literary theory and produce a critical reading (description, analysis and interpretation) of a text by employing specific methodological and conceptual tools (such as, for example, narratology, poetics, dramaturgy, semiotics, psychology, psychoanalysis or sociology).
5. Describe and analyse the specific status of literature throughout history and in contemporary society, in the different forms it can take (essay, novel, poetry, graphic novel, cinema, theatre, opera, etc.).
6. Become highly expert in two modern languages (from those referred to at 1 above), in the different levels of linguistic analysis (phonetics and phonology, vocabulary and phraseology, syntax, semantics, text and speech).
7. Analyse oral and written output in the two modern languages (from those referred to at 1 above), taking into account historical, regional, social and stylistic variations (linguistic varieties). (…)
8. Develop and implement appropriate methods for the creation and management of a corpus of linguistic data, problematize a research question concerning the relationship between language and context, and successfully complete linguistic analyses in the different theoretical frameworks studied during the course and seminars.
9. Become expert, at least to level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages in the two modern languages both orally and in writing, on normative and argumentative levels, achieving excellence in the formulation of thoughts, reading ability, comprehension of different types of text and composition.
10. Develop, on the basis of language and literature and culture studies, reflective and critical knowledge and approaches allowing students to become an actor in modern society, an intellectual in the area of humanities, critical (towards third parties and themselves), and open to a dialogue between language, literature and other artistic and scientific knowledge.
11. If the research focus course is chosen
12. If the business language elective is chosen
13. If the research focus course is chosen: