Course summary
Research interests include: French: Historical linguistics; early modern literature and ideas; modern literature; cinema; Anglo-Norman; historical linguistics; romance linguistics. German: Sociolinguistics, especially language attitudes, relationship between standard and non-standard varieties, language awareness, language in education, 20th-century literature and ideas. Spanish: Stylistic comparison of 19th-century Spanish novels, North African comparative colonial literature; cosmopolitanism, geoplotics, landscape, science in Latin American literature and film.
Assessment method
Doctoral thesis and a viva-voce examination.
Entry requirements
2:1 Bachelors (Honours) degree in a relevant subject area, or equivalent. Applicants whose first language is not English will require IELTS score of at least 6.5.
English language requirements
Programmes: Art; Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences; Education; History and Welsh History; Information Studies; Law (Taught LLM courses); Management and Business; Modern Languages; Welsh IELTS:6.5 with minimum 5.5 in each component TOEFL:93 with minimum component scores: Listening 17, Writing 17, Reading 18, Speaking 20. Pearson PTE: 62 with minimum scores of 51 in each component
English language requirement: Postgraduate Programmes (General)
Fees and funding
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Provider information
Aberystwyth University
Penglais
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
Wales
SY23 3FL