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Modern Languages
The Modern Languages Program offers a range of postgraduate programs
in French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. The Program has a strong commitment
to research.
COURSES OFFERED
The following postgraduate courses are available:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Honours Master of Arts by Research
- Graduate Diploma in Arts (Modern Languages)
- Graduate Diploma in Arts (Japanese)
FACILITIES
The Program's teaching is supported by a computer laboratory,
language laboratory and private study and by a range of audio-visual
and multi-media equipment and materials. The Program has extensive
collections of recorded audio and video materials in French,
Italian, Spanish and Japanese.
CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS
The following areas of research are available to candidates
undertaking the Honours Master of Arts degree by research
and the Doctor of Philosophy degree:
- Occitania and French and European minorities
- Computer-aided language learning (French, Italian, Spanish,
Japanese)
- Linguistics applied to the teaching of French, Italian,
English and Japanese as a second language
- Intonation analysis
- Language teaching methodology and materials development
at the secondary and tertiary levels
- Language contact involving immigrant languages
- Language, gender and ethnicity
- Language and social identity
- Applications of linguistics
- Language and education
- Language policy and planning in Australia
- Cross-cultural communication
- 20th Century Italian novel and society
- Private life in 13th and 14th century Italian novellistica
- Italo-Australian studies
- Italian lexicography
- Translation (English-Italian, Italian-English)
- Contrastive linguistics: English-Italian
- Systemic functional linguistics: Japanese
- Japanese language education
- Japanese theatre and literature
- Japanese economic and social issues
- English for Academic Purposes
- Language teaching methodology in Italian
- Theory and Practice of Translation
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Content and duration: Students normally complete
the course in a minimum of six sessions of full-time study
(not including Summer Session) or part-time equivalent.
Entry requirements
To enrol in the degree, students need a Bachelor of Arts (or
equivalent qualification) with Honours at Class II division
ii or higher, or an Honours Master of Arts with a strong performance
in the minor or major thesis.
Program of Study
The Doctoral Thesis must be a minimum of 80,000 words in length.
The thesis will be on a topic to be decided by the student
in consultation with a supervisor appointed by the Program.
HONOURS MASTER OF ARTS
Students entering the program with an Honours degree at a
standard of at least Class II, Division 2 will be required
to complete a major thesis.
or
or
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ARTS (MODERN LANGUAGES)
The purpose of the Graduate Diploma in Arts is to provide, in a recognised
university course, a means for graduates with limited acquaintance with
European or Asian languages, thought and culture to acquire competence in
these areas at a reasonably advanced level.
Students are required to complete 28 credit points from Undergraduate Arts
schedule under Languages. The remaining 20 credit points may be chosen from
subjects listed under Modern Languages or other Programs in the Arts schedule.
These will be approved by the Head of Modern Languages Program.
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ARTS (JAPANESE)
The purpose of the Graduate Diploma in Arts (Japanese) is to provide candidates
with one year as a full-time student at a Japanese University.
BA (Japanese) and BA/BCom (Japanese) graduates who qualify and are accepted
for entry into the Graduate Diploma in Arts (Japanese) take the following
subject:
This diploma is only available to graduates in Japanese studies from the
University of Wollongong. |
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