The Department of Modern Languages at Aberystwyth University offers an MPhil programme in a wide range of topics. Students undertaking an MPhil often spend a considerable part of their research period working from libraries abroad and / or archives, while remaining under supervision from their mentor at Aberystwyth.

The main focus of your research degree will be a detailed dissertation, and you will receive regular supervision from specialists within the Department on its planning, creation and writing.

The MPhil normally takes one year of full-time research (two years part-time), after which students complete and submit a dissertation of up to 60,000 words.

Our postgraduates have been researching such topics as:

• Translating René Le Pays's Amitiez, amours, amourettes: rendering travelogues in the language of their destination
• The early 20th-century German women writers Ina Seidel and Vicki Baum
• The translation of audio-visual Holocaust testimony
• Regional Refugee Committee supporting refugees from National Socialism