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Undergraduate
BA German and Italian
Who
is it for?
There
are many good reasons for choosing to study for a degree in
a modern European language:
- French,
German, Italian and Spanish are key languages in Europe
today, with an ever-strengthening role. As you advance
towards the standard required for graduate status, you
will inevitably acquire the ability to read, speak and
write a European language accurately and with ease
- you
will also be developing the incisiveness and confidence
which come with appraising intellectual issues: with each
essay you write, you exercise and refine your judgement
- degree-level
work gives you an intimate first-hand familiarity with
a European culture which will put you on a cosmopolitan
'wavelength' in life and in your reading
- exploration
of another culture, past as well as present, is an enriching
experience, giving historical perspective and enhanced
moral, cultural, social and aesthetic vision
- alongside
these intrinsic reasons, there may well be (legitimately)
an ulterior reason: to enhance your career prospects.
Graduates in these subjects can expect to have achieved
a broad range of transferable skills, communicative competence
and the ability to discriminate and analyse
- the
intellectual and personal qualities which degree-level
work in the humanities develops are in demand in the work-place,
particularly now, as Europe becomes one nation.
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