MRes Modern Languages and Cultures - German Studies in Liverpool United Kingdom | University of Liverpool

Enhance your research abilities in contemporary languages and cultural studies while customizing theoretical and methodological frameworks to match your specific research goals. With guidance from specialists, you'll create a significant independent research project that contributes original insights to the field and serves as excellent preparation for doctoral studies. This MRes program, along with the Latin American Studies MRes and Film Studies MRes, offers a tailored introduction to advanced research. It empowers you to grow as an autonomous scholar while developing an innovative research initiative with support from modern languages and cultures experts.

Specializations include Basque studies, Catalan studies, Chinese studies, French studies, German studies, Hispanic studies, Italian studies, Portuguese studies, sociolinguistics, Spanish studies, and translation studies. Your degree title will correspond to your chosen specialization.

Additional MRes options are available in Latin American Studies and Film Studies. For details, please reach out to the program director.

Regardless of your specialization, the program delivers comprehensive preparation for PhD research and professional advancement. We'll support you throughout the research journey, developing valuable transferable skills such as analytical reasoning, project coordination, effective communication, and creative problem-solving.

The research methodology training will be adapted to modern languages and cultural studies, as well as your particular research focus, while providing a thorough examination of current scholarship in your chosen area. You'll collaborate to create a personalized reading list and customized assessment tasks leading to a substantial research output.

Under the mentorship of active researchers from the Department of Languages, Culture and Film, you'll learn to formulate research proposals, locate pertinent sources and evidence, organize and conduct investigations, and effectively analyze and present your results.