Language, Culture and History: Dutch Studies MA

UCL (University College London)

Advance your Dutch language skills while learning about Dutch culture, giving you crucial and in-demand expertise ideal for today’s job market. The Language, Culture and History: Dutch MA incorporates the study of Dutch literature, history and society. Taught at UCL, you’ll benefit from access to the university’s renowned scholars and one of the largest Dutch libraries outside of the Low Countries. The Dutch Studies pathway of the Language, Culture and History MA provides the opportunity for in-depth study of Dutch literature, culture, history and society. It offers the opportunity to improve Dutch language skills as part of the course, along with the methods, concepts and theories essential for the intercultural labour market. There are seven language routes on the MA course: Dutch Studies pathway French and Francophone Studies pathway German Studies pathway German History pathway Hispanic Studies pathway Italian Studies pathway Scandinavian Studies pathway The Language, Culture and History: Dutch Studies MA, comprises of one compulsory module. This core module provides a combination of methodology and research topics (historiography, literary studies, cultural studies), and is designed to work as a postgraduate-level foundation. Providing you with the specific skills and knowledge to research, write academic essays and the dissertation. You will also take optional modules and a dissertation. If you choose the 60-credit dissertation, you take 90 credits of optional modules. If you choose the 90-credit research dissertation, you take fewer optional modules (60 credits), in favour of writing an extended dissertation to focus on your own interests. The course is suitable for students with a first degree or equivalent with an interest in Dutch language, history, culture and society, or the impact Dutch had or continues to have in the world. Reading knowledge of Dutch is required, but this can also be improved as part of the course.