Curriculum

There are two tracks in this Master programma to choose from. You choose either the language specific track or the multilingual track.  The language specific track will lead to an annotation on your international diploma suplement. This is a formal way of saying that you studied a specific language (German, English, Dutch, French, Spanish or Italian).

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT THE COURSE OVERVIEW!

In the language specific track of the programme, you will be required to complete 30 EC of language specific instruction. Half of this (15 EC) will take the form of 3 language specific courses, either from our own selection or from Masterlanguage (see below). Whether you can participate in these language specific courses depends on your oral and written proficiency in the relevant language. The other 15 EC consists of your thesis and your internship report, written at the proficiency level the programme specifies. 

• 3 non-language specific courses (15 EC)
• 2 language specific courses as well as Intercultural Consultancy (15 EC) 
• Master's thesis (15 EC), which can be combined with an internship  or research project (15 EC).

Be sure to discuss the options and requirements of a language specific track with the programme coördinator and the coördinators of the relevant language track.

Please note: Dutch students from the English language track who have taken the course Research Methods during their bachelors do not have to take the course English & Cultural Identity. They can take another language specific course in block one.

There are two tracks in this master programme to choose from. You choose either the language specific track or the multilingual track.

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT THE COURSE OVERVIEW!

In this multilingual track, the non-language specific courses (15 EC) are compulsory. In addition, you select two of the language specific courses (10 EC). In addition, the course Intercultural Consultancy is required, but you may choose the language of instruction. Whether you can participate in these language specific courses depends on your oral and written proficiency in the relevant language. In order to determine your proficiency level, you will take a language test at the start of the programme.

• 3 non-language specific courses (15 EC)
• 2 language specific courses as well as Intercultural Consultancy (15 EC) 
• Master's thesis (15 EC), which can be combined with an internship  or research project (15 EC).

Your thesis and your internship report will be written at the proficiency level the programme specifies. 

Important note for course registration:

We encourage students in the multilingual track to take their language specific courses in a language other than English. Students in the multilingual track may take language specific courses in the languages that are assigned to in their admission declaration. Multilingual track students who choose to follow a course in any of these assigned languages, will be given the option to produce and turn in course assignments in English, regardless of the language used for teaching, reading, listening, and speaking in the course.

To fulfil your compulsory choice components, you may choose to enrol in a selection of the national Masterlanguage (MaLa) programme. See the course overview below. In case this Masterlanguage course is organised in block 3 the thesis may expand in to block 4.
Masterlanguage courses in semester 2 can replace 5 or 10 EC of the internship.

More information regarding Masterlanguage can be found at their website:  https://masterlanguage.nl/en/. This is also the place where you need to enroll in the courses.

French
Block 3: Regards croisés sur la linguistique
Block 3: Lieux de mémoire (880-1600)

Italian
Block 3: Italianissimo: Laboratorio di perfezionamento 2

Spanish
Block 2: La imagen del mundo hispánico
Block 3: Español en contacto hoy

BEWARE: In case you want to enroll in other MaLa courses you have to obtain permission from the board of examiners. Take a look here: https://students.uu.nl/en/hum/intercultural-communication/practical-inf…

If you wish to deviate from the curriculum, you must first ask your programme’s Board of Examiners for approval or exemption. In case your request is granted, the changes will be processed in OSIRIS and integrated into your exam programme and Study Progress Review.

In order to graduate, you will need to meet your programme's exam requirements as described in the Education and Examination Regulations. Based on these criteria and your Study Progress Review, the Board of Examiners determines whether you have graduated. The courses that are listed on your Study Progress Review will appear on the International Diploma Supplement (IDS), the attachment that you receive with your diploma. Note that courses listed under the heading ‘Results-Other’ are not part of the examination syllabus and do not appear on the IDS.

If you have questions about your Study Progress Review or find errors in it, contact the Student Desk Humanities.