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Welcome
The Department of European Languages at Aberystwyth University offers students the chance to study French, German, Italian and Spanish at both beginners' and advanced level, in a research-active academic environment.
We teach modules on the history, literature and linguistics of these languages - crucial, we believe, to gaining a full understanding of any language and its cultural context. Many of our courses pool our expertise in individual languages in order to offer a wider European perspective, e.g. Modern European Cinema or the MA in Modern European Culture.
We take seriously our two major commitments: our teaching (our commitment to you, as students), and our research. You will be taught by top-flight research-active academics, from year one onwards.
Most of our teaching is done in small groups. Most staff are native-speakers of the languages they teach and so there is considerable exposure to the languages being studied, even outside formal language classes. It also makes for a strongly "European" atmosphere in the Department.
TEACHING HOURS AND CLASS SIZES
* At least 3 ½ hours of language classes per language per week
(more for beginners).
* Weekly conversation classes below 10 students.
* Language classes not more than 20 students.
* Twenty-credit ‘content’ modules: 2 hours per week.
* Most class sizes 10-20 students.
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In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, we were ranked 8th/9th out of 27 units which submitted to European Studies. With 20% of our research graded 4* ('world-leading'), we had more than twice the panel average in this key category.
The Department is extensively involved in research activities at international level (see also News and Conferences). We have secured several times the sector average in prestigious (and competitive) external funding. Colleagues' research in literature and linguistics is regularly published in article and book form, often in the countries concerned. Staff are active as conference organizers, both here in Aberystwyth, and in events run elsewhere (Bristol, Paris, Tangiers, Innsbruck) and in giving papers in the UK and particularly, abroad.
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 European Languages at Aberystwyth is Number 1 for student satisfaction in the 2009 National Student Survey!
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Guest lecture
Professor Ludwig Eichinger, director of the world famous Institut fuer deutsche Sprache in Mannheim will be in Aberystwyth to give a talk on
'An old acquaintance in a new milieu - the German language on the European marketplace.'
The talk, organised by Dr. W. Davies, will be on Wed., November 18 at 6.15 in A14, Hugh Owen Building . |
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Intern advertisement: Details >> here
Congratulations
Dr. Wini Davies has been
invited to be on the scientific committee of Sociolinguistics Symposium 18.
Dr. Davies will also
be giving papers at a conference on Monolingual Multilingualism at the Free University, Berlin in October and at the Women in German Studies Conference in November. She will be giving guest lectures at Birmingham University in October and at Leeds University in March 2010.
Grant
Dr Karina Lindeiner-Stráský has been awarded a Small Research Grant from the British Academy to pursue archival research for her project 'Im Urteil der Zeit: a cultural history of German "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" in literature, film, and the media'.
Grant
Professor David Trotter has been awarded £66,353 as the Aberystwyth element of a joint Heidelberg-Aberystwyth grant from the AHRC and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). >> More
Congratulations
Professor David Trotter has been invited by AERES (Agence de l'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur), to be a member of a research evaluation committee that will assess the research output and future projects of a major research group, Sens, Informatique, Texte, Histoire (directed by Professor Olivier Soutet) at the Sorbonne (Université de Paris-IV). AERES, established in 2007, is the French equivalent of the UK's RAE and TQA.
Conference hosted by the Department of European Languages
OUR INNER ANIMAL
AND THEORIES OF CREATIVITY
ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
Thursday 11 and Friday 12 September 2008
This two day conference aims to attract interdisciplinary and international contributions from scholars in the fields of French literary studies and thought, comparative literature and classical studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and visual arts.
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Conference
IV International Conference Tangier 16 - 19 May 2008
"Borders, Beats, and Beyond" Performing Tangier 2008
The fourth international Tangier conference will focus on the city as a site of trans-cultural encounters in art, literature, music, and politics in all periods up through the present and projecting into the future.
Contributions by Dr José Goñi Pérez, Ms Maud Michaud, Ms María Porras Sánchez
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The The Anglo-Norman Dictionary Project, directed by Professor David Trotter, in the news. |
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“The Anglo-Norman Dictionary, in its revised form, will make possible a comprehensive reassessment of this element of the impact of the Norman Conquest, and will make visible an aspect of the enduring influence of the Anglo-Normans which is every bit as important as the castles and cathedrals which they built. As a result, Clemenceau was not altogether wrong when he said that English was just badly-pronounced French”. |
>> More on the press release,  BBC Radio 4 broadcast, BBC World Service, BBC Wales: Good Morning Wales (audio file), and BBC News website . |
Award
In November 2007, Professor Trotter attended the ‘Séance de rentrée solennelle sous la Coupole' of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris, on the occasion of the formal announcement of the award of the Prix de La Grange for his edition of Albucasis.
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