I. Curriculum outline
The teaching of modern and medieval language majors consists of lectures, seminars, language courses, group oral English strengthening and supervision. For your language course, you will receive personal feedback from the teacher and teach you how to further improve your skills. For your guidance, you prepare written homework, and then you discuss it with experts in this field. In your first-year course, there are about 12- 14 hours of teaching time every week.
We will make an evaluation at the end of each year, mainly through written and oral tests, and submit extended research projects (usually papers) at the end of the third year. You can also provide a second paper instead of one. The second part is the written test paper.
1 Grade course content:
To develop your language skills, you will learn two languages, at least one of which reaches the advanced standard of A Level/IB. You should indicate in the supplementary application questionnaire which language you are interested in learning. The choice is not final, and many students change their minds before (or after) starting. The main focus of the first year course is to improve your language ability by learning all kinds of real texts, radio programs and video clips, as well as various teaching methods (including teachers' courses with a maximum of 15 students) and the supervision of each group. .
You can also read introductory articles, in which you will explore the following three or more topics: literature, linguistics, history, thought, film and art.
Level 2 course content:
In your second year's course, you always have to finish five papers. You continue to strengthen language learning, with the aim of gaining fluency in two languages' mother tongue or almost mother tongue, and choose from a wide range of papers including the following subjects: literature, linguistics, history, thought, film and art. For the introduction of languages and cultures that you haven't studied before, you can choose to use exams instead of courses in the second year.
Three or four courses:
Grade 3: In the course of the third year, you will spend at least eight months abroad, during which you need to prepare a course as one sixth of your final grade. It can be a thesis, a translation project or a linguistic project. Just before the beginning of your fourth year, you took an oral exam at Cambridge University.
CET-4: You need to submit six papers. You are free to focus on one language, combine options of two or more languages, take comparison options and/or choose two options from some other courses (such as English and history). You can use one or two languages for advanced language work, focusing on literature, linguistics, thought, history, film and other disciplines. There are also some comparative papers that allow you to combine the learning of two languages. At present, it includes papers on the body and linguistics of European films, Germanic languages, Roman languages and Slavic languages. Many students change one of their papers into another (currently 8000- 10000 words).
Second, the course overview
Cambridge curriculum has unique flexibility and interdisciplinary. You can pursue your interests in many fields, from Italian Renaissance art to modern Brazilian movies, medieval German folk stories, and then to Stalin's Russian socialist realism. Modern and medieval linguistics courses also include linguistic options, such as the historical and cognitive dimensions of the language you are learning.
All our students learn two languages, one of which can be learned from scratch (except French and Latin, which require advanced A Level/IB standards). No matter how proficient you are when you arrive, you can at least leave in a way close to your mother tongue. Most of our language courses are offered by native English speakers.
Our college is one of the largest in China. It consists of six departments, all of which are internationally renowned experts in their respective fields. In Guardian University Guide 20 18, Cambridge ranks among the best in modern language and linguistics.
Third, the language of instruction.
The language of instruction is optional: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Alternatively, you can combine any of them with classical Latin (if you are above Grade A /IB) or classical Greek (you can study after Grade A or start from scratch). If you want to combine one of these modern European languages with Arabic, Hebrew or Persian, you can apply for a degree course in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. You can also combine modern European languages with history. See History and Modern Languages Course.
In the second and fourth years, it is possible to take an introductory course of language and culture that you have not studied before. The languages provided are subject to availability, but may include Catalan, Dutch, modern Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Ukrainian. Another possibility (open to any member of the university) is to take a one-year course in the university language center to gain further language qualification. Courses include basic Arabic and Mandarin; And basic, intermediate and advanced French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Four. Facilities and resources
Our students make use of rich teacher libraries, computer-assisted language learning facilities and media centers (all film research equipment), as well as customized language teaching and learning materials.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) employment prospect
Students majoring in modern and medieval linguistics can spend their third year abroad in three ways: studying in a foreign university, working as an English teaching assistant in a school, or practicing in a company. Some people used to have: working in the lifestyle TV channel in Paris; Studying history at Humboldt University in Berlin; Teaching English in Buenos Aires as an assistant to the British Council; There is an orchestra in St. Petersburg. You can customize the time of going abroad for one year according to your interests and future career goals, so that you can spend at least eight months abroad and immerse yourself in a foreign language you are learning. If you want to allocate the number of years between two countries, each country needs at least three months. For information on the number of years abroad, please refer to the college website.
In the job market, there is a great demand for fluency in foreign languages, understanding of foreign cultures and analytical and research skills. Employers, even those who are not interested in language, pay special attention to our graduates' overseas experience, independence and cross-cultural awareness.
Most graduates use their language at work and are based on many skills they developed during their degree. Our graduates have found a series of different job opportunities. Recent destinations include BBC World Service, international law firms, UNICEF and KPMG.