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Study Details: Full and part time
The MSc in Language and Intercultural Communication is an interdisciplinary degree programme that aims to provide a pedagogically grounded and practical understanding of issues surrounding the study of language and intercultural communication.
It is based on the premise that, to help learners develop into multi-lingually and multi-culturally aware world citizens, language teachers must work for maximum integration between language and culture teaching.
While this is now a desired goal of foreign language courses in the European context, and also in Asia, Australia and the USA, a growing body of literature suggests that the study of language and intercultural communication is not approached in a critical and engaged manner in the classroom. This lack of critical engagement may have a detrimental effect on deep culture learning.
Building on existing strengths and developments in intercultural language education, this programme will introduce specialised theories, concepts and principles that see intercultural communication as a form of social practice embedded in potentially shifting global processes, and contributes to the creation of autonomous and reflectively thinking practitioners, who are able to deploy their teaching skills in rapidly changing contexts of intercultural language teaching provision.
A UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent, in a relevant discipline.
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On completion of the degree, you can expect to be employed worldwide in all areas of intercultural language education.
Example roles include:
Every year we have the pleasure to accommodate representatives from large teacher recruitment agencies, who talk to our students about the benefits of becoming an intercultural language teacher, in addition to conducting interviews with candidates who are short-listed for language teaching posts.
The MSc in Language and Intercultural Communication is also a good introduction to undertaking further research at PhD level.
Semester 1
You must complete four core courses in semester 1 (September – December):
Semester 2
You must complete one core course and two option courses in semester 2 (January – April).
Core course:
Each option course is worth 20 credits. One of the options must be from the list of SCQF Level 11 courses below.
These courses are offered to all students on the languages masters programmes (MSc TESOL, MSc Language Education) in the School of Education:
The second option can be either:
This must be approved by the Programme Director.
You must complete a 12,000-word Dissertation in semester 3 (May – August):
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