- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 4 to 6 Years
Course details
Maynooth University is one of the main centres of research in German Studies in Ireland. The research profiles of staff members are very varied, covering all periods of German literature and including many aspects of German culture and history. The German Department offers research opportunities relating to all German-speaking countries and, uniquely, relating to theoretical and applied linguistics as well as the theory and practice of Teaching German as a Foreign Language. Other particular areas of research include travel writing, intercultural encounters, aesthetics, minorities, German-Jewish studies and postcolonial studies. Research topics from other areas need to be discussed with the prospective supervisor prior to application.
Research Environment
The School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (SMLLC) runs friendly, informal research seminars and regularly invites guest lecturers to share their expertise with the Departments in the School. Members of the Department, including postgraduate students, participate in national and international conferences. The option of jointly-supervised research with another Department from the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy or the Faculty of Social Sciences is also available.
Entry Requirements
Candidates normally must have a Masters degree with at least a 2.1 in German, or equivalent. In exceptional cases, candidates who do not fulfil this requirement may be accepted. 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
- GERMAN FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES III
- INTERNSHIP II
- CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE / PRESENTATION II
- CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE / PRESENTATION I
- GERMAN FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES II
- INTERINSTITUTIONAL SEMINAR / SUBJECT-SPECIFIC MODULE OFFERED BY OTHER INSTITUTION II
- SUMMER OR WINTER SCHOOL / EXTERNAL SHORT COURSE / MASTER CLASS III
- CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE / PRESENTATION III
- SUMMER OR WINTER SCHOOL / EXTERNAL SHORT COURSE / MASTER CLASS II
- INTERNSHIP III
- INTERNSHIP I
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- ISSUES AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
- ISSUES AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
- ISSUES AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
- ISSUES AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES
- SMLLC RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
- SMLLC RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
- SMLLC RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
- GERMAN FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES I
- INTERINSTITUTIONAL SEMINAR / SUBJECT-SPECIFIC MODULE OFFERED BY OTHER INSTITUTION I
- SUMMER OR WINTER SCHOOL / EXTERNAL SHORT COURSE / MASTER CLASS I
- INTERINSTITUTIONAL SEMINAR / SUBJECT-SPECIFIC MODULE OFFERED BY OTHER INSTITUTION III
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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