新英格蘭大學(xué)

This course is aimed at highly motivated students who wish to learn one or more languages (Chinese [Mandarin], French, German, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Spanish) and become well acquainted and familiar with their culture(s). Their skills and knowledge will be further developed and enriched by spending two trimesters studying university courses in the country of their chosen language(s). This broadens graduates' career options and gives them a competitive advantage in today's increasingly multicultural and international workplace environments.

Currently, agreements or bilateral exchange agreements exist with specific universities in China (Xi'an), France (Angers, Saint-Etienne) and French-speaking Canada (Quebec City), Germany (Oldenburg, Trier) and Austria (Graz, Klagenfurt), Indonesia (Gajah Mada, Muhammadiyah), Italy (Macerata), Spain (Ja?n, Alicante) and Japan (Kagoshima, Aichi-ken, Tokyo, Kanazawa). Such agreements mean that tuition fees are waived, that help is given with finding accommodation and that an element of pastoral care is provided. Some financial assistance is available in connection with study at certain of these universities.

Career Opportunities

Examples include careers in advertising and marketing; alternative energies and resource sector; architecture and the built environment; arts; creative industries (eg, multimedia, music, film, performing arts, journalism); education; engineering; international relations; public relations; diplomacy; international law; tourism; as well as a range of public sector opportunities (eg, foreign affairs, policy, intelligence, security), international business and management (especially in international agencies and companies); law; science; social sciences; translation and editing services.

Course Aims

This course is aimed at highly motivated students who wish to learn one or more languages (Chinese [Mandarin], French, German, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Spanish) and become well acquainted and familiar with their culture(s). Their skills and knowledge will be further developed and enriched by spending two trimesters studying university courses in the country of their chosen language(s). This broadens graduates' career options and gives them a competitive advantage in today's increasingly multicultural and international workplace environments.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

demonstrate at a high-level of competence oral/aural and writing/reading skills in one or more language disciplines not including English;

critically analyse, comment upon and interpret a variety of target language usages of varying degrees of complexity;

research, plan, design and present clear, coherent and independent expositions in a variety of forms across a range of subjects; and

demonstrate general knowledge of specific inter-cultural and cross-cultural issues, practices and ethical values.