- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
The MA in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures: Narratives of Conflict aims to provide students who already have a background in French, German or Spanish at undergraduate level with an opportunity to specialise in the area of literary analysis with particular emphasis on narratives of conflict in the cultures and societies of French-, German- and Spanish-speaking countries. The programme introduces students to academic research, new ideas and theoretical approaches. It aims to equip students with academic, analytical, creative, reflective and presentation skills in order to foster interest and involvement in the field of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures with specific emphasis on narratives of conflict. It also aims to enhance students’ knowledge and understanding of important concepts of European languages, literatures, cultures and societies, in particular with regard to France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Spain and Latin American countries.
Entry Requirements
Candidates normally must have obtained a BA Honours degree with at least a 2.2 (or equivalent) in French, German or Spanish. Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements:
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
Year 1
- RESEARCH SKILLS / RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- NARRATIVES OF CONFLICT (SPAIN)
- EXPRESSION ÉCRITE ET ORALE POUR ÉTUDIANTS DE MAITRISE/ADVANCED WRITING AND PRESENTATION SKILLS IN FRENCH
- ECRIRE L'EXIL 3/NARRATIVES OF EXILE 3
- ECRIRE L'EXIL 4/NARRATIVES OF EXILE 4
- NARRATIVES OF CONFLICT IN 20TH-CENTURY FRANCE: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS.
- TRADUCTION PRATIQUE
- ECRIRE L'EXIL 1
- INTRODUCTION TO INTERCULTURAL STUDIES
- NARRATIVES OF CONFLICT IN GERMAN CULTURE
- APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION STUDIES
- ECRIRE L'EXIL 2
- NARRATIVES OF CONFLICT (LATIN AMERICA)
- APPROACHES TO CONFLICT
- CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN WOMEN'S WRITING
- ORAL PRESENTATION MODULE
- MINOR THESIS
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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