Foreign language knowledge provides a clear advantage in today's job market and is a great way to enhance your CV; language skills show an awareness of other cultures and help make you a real ‘citizen of the world'.
Language lessons are different from your other lectures and involve lots of communicative activities. You will interact with native speaker tutors and other learners in a collaborative atmosphere. If you opt to join our Uniwide classes you can meet students from all over the university.
The rates of progression and satisfaction ratings are high. You will have a great story to tell future employers and you’ll pick up a range of transferable skills.
The following languages are available to study:
Spanish, Classical Latin, Modern Standard Arabic, French, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, German, Italian and English as a Foreign Language.
For further information about courses, contact s.aldred@mmu.ac.uk. For administrative information contact optforlanguages@mmu.ac.uk.
Opt for a language in 2019
What you need to do:
- Find out if you can take the language for credits next academic year (your programme leader is the best person to ask)
- Tick the language and level on your Options form – if you can’t or don’t wish to study it for credits, you can choose Uniwide EXTRA (a fee of approx. £235 chargeable)
- Wait to be contacted by the office with the online Uniwide enrolment form
- Enrol using the Uniwide Enrolment Form - use the Rough guide to Uniwide levels if you are not sure which level you are at
- Check your timetable nearer the start of the new academic year to find out times of classes
You are welcome to attend the live enrolment event in September if you would like to meet a tutor in advance of the course.
The next enrolment will take place in September 2019
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To find out what level to study, view our Rough guide to Uniwide levels or our guide on Benchmarking Uniwide Languages.
- To see what levels will be running in 2018/19, view our Uniwide available levels 2018-19
- Our teaching is based on competency levels that can be achieved as outlined by the Common European Framework of Languages.
Students who do not have the option to study a language as part of their degree can sign up to Uniwide Extra. E-mail optforlanguages@mmu.ac.uk for more information.
15 Credit Units
15 credit units run for 2 hours per week over two terms (September - April). Units are available for all CEFR levels (Beginners to Mastery). *Subject to viability. Students will be assessed on these units in all 4 language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. (The listening tests occur before Christmas. Speaking, reading, writing tests take place at the end of term 2).
30 Credit Units
On 30 credit units you will take a language unit (15 credits) and a content unit (15 credits). The language unit follows the same pattern as the 15 credit unit. The content unit is project-based (independent study and research on a topic of individual interest). The topic will be agreed with your language tutor / home department and the assessment will be via a presentation in term 3.
Student Support on Uniwide Language Courses
- Drop-in sessions
- Facebook groups
- Moodle support
For more information see our Uniwide FAQs
Contact Information
Phone: +44 (0)161 247 3888
Email: optforlanguages@mmu.ac.uk
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