Master of Studies in Modern Languages

1. CandidatesAll candidates must follow a Programmecourse chosenof from those listedinstruction in theModern ‘HandbookLanguages at Oxford for Taught-Coursea Graduate Students’.

In order to gain admission to the course, applicants must show evidenceperiod of linguisticthree abilityterms. 

• 2. compatible with advanced literary study in the language(s) chosen to study. Comparative LiteratureAll candidates shall not be required to haveoffer readingA, fluencyB, C, and D as defined in more3 than two languages other than Englishbelow. 

• Unless otherwise stated, candidates will be expected to write in English unless explicit permission is obtained to write in the language (or one of the languages) studied. In the case of Comparative Literature candidates, writing in more than one language in addition to English will not be authorised.

  All candidates must follow a course of instruction in Modern Languages at Oxford for a period of three terms, unless the Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages in exceptional circumstances shall permit an extension of time, and candidates shall, when entering their name for the examination, be required to produce from their society a certificate stating that they are following the course of instruction for the period prescribed.

• 2.  All candidates shall be required to offer A, B, C, and D as defined in 3 below.

• 3. The examination shall consist of the following:

• (A)  One of the followingMethod options:

  • (i)Options Key Questionsspecified in Criticalthe Thought

  • (ii)Handbook Spacesfor ofTaught-Course Comparison

  • (iii)Graduate History of IdeasStudents in GermanyMedieval from& Modern Languages (the Eighteenthcourse to the Twentieth Century

  • (ivhandbook) Palaeography, History of the Book and Digital Humanities

  . 

  Candidates are required to submit an essay on one of the options above of between 5,000 and 7,000 words in total.

• The essays should be formatted and submitted electronically as specified in the course handbook, by noon on Thursday of Week 10 of Hilary Term.

• Each copy must have a cover sheet giving the candidate's name, college, the title of the essay, the name of the candidate's supervisor, and the title of the 'method' option submitted.

• The work submitted under (i), (ii) or (iv) must be written in English;, theunless workotherwise submitted under (iii) may be written in English or German.

  Approval must be sought for the choice of options in (A)approved by the endFaculty Board or Director of theGraduate fourth week of Michaelmas TermStudies.

• (B) A dissertation of between 10,000 and 12,000 words written in English, or, with the approval of the MedievalDirector andof ModernGraduate Languages Faculty BoardStudies, in the language appropriate to the literature concerned, on a topic connected with those offered in (A) (i), (ii), or (iii) above or (C) below, but distinct from those covered by the essays submitted under (A) or (C), and approved by the Modern Languages Board. Candidates are required to register the subject area or title of their dissertation with the Modern Languages Graduate Office by the end of the fourth week of Hilary TermExaminers. 

• The dissertation should be formatted and submitted electronically as specified in the course handbook, by noon on Thursday of Week 7 of Trinity Term.

• (C and D) Two Special Subjects

  Candidates may select two Special Subjects from those listed in the 'Handbook for Taught-Course Graduate StudiesStudents in Medieval & Modern Languages' handbookas asbeing associated with the programme which they are following; candidates may select a special subject from a different programme with the approval of their supervisor. Approval of all Special Subjects must be sought, by applicationsubject to the Modern Languages Graduate Office, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford by end of the fourth week of Michaelmas Term and will be dependent on the availability of teaching and examining resources at the relevant time.

  Candidates will normally offer two Special Subjects from the same language and area or from different areas in the same language. The Comparative Literature Programme will contain Special Subjects from two different languages.  

  Candidates will be examined on an essay, or two essays (which may be written in English, or, with the approval of the MedievalDirector andof ModernMasters Languages Faculty BoardCourses,  in the language appropriate to the literature concerned), on the topics they have agreed with the supervisor of each Special Subject. The length of the work submitted for each Special Subject should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in total.

• 4. Candidates for Comparative Literature should ensure that either at least one of the special subjects (C and D) is comparative in scope or the two special subjects are concerned with different languages. The dissertation must deal explicitly with comparative issues.

• 5. In addition to submitting the dissertation (B), students are required to submit work for assessment on all three of the non-dissertation components (A, C, and D). Of these three, the lowest passing mark will be discounted in the final assessment. No candidate who has failed any of the components (A, B, C, and D) will be awarded the degree in that examination.

• The Special Subject essays for Michaelmas Term should be formatted and submitted electronically as specified in the course handbook, by noon on Thursday of Week 10 of Michaelmas Term.  The Special Subject essays for Hilary Term should be formatted and submitted electronically as specified in the course handbook, by noon on Thursday of Week 10 of Hilary Term.

  5. In order to pass the casedegree, a student must pass all its assessed components. A candidate who has failed to satisfy the examiners in any one of resubmission,the candidatesexaminations shallmay enter again for that examination and will be required to resubmitsubmit allnew assessment material for the materialrelevant component(s) by noon of the final Monday of September following their first examination. Candidates may resubmit on one occasion only.

• Oxford 1+1 MBA programme 

  Candidates registered on the Oxford 1+1 MBA programme will follow an additional two or three month bridging programme at the end of their third term of the combined programme. 

  Each candidate will be appointed an academic advisor from the Saïd Business School to plan an individual course of study which will include as a minimum, the following two compulsory elements: 

  (i) Normally two meetings during the bridging programme with the senior advisor appointed by the Saïd Business School at the start of the Oxford 1+1 MBA programme. 

  (ii) A formatively assessed Integrative Development Plan of up to 3,000 words. Candidates would be required to critically reflect on their learning from the Masters programme and relate this both to their forthcoming MBA programme as well as to their career goals. The meetings with the advisor will frame the design, delivery and discussion of the plan.