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Another successful novelist in the Modern Languages Faculty
UNIQ Summer Schools 2012
French Film Competition 2012
New 'What's on' service
A Modern Languages degree: a career advantage
Another successful novelist in the Modern Languages Faculty
Following on from the huge success of The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, the Modern Languages Faculty is celebrating the appearance of Nicola Gardini’s fourth novel, Le parole perdute di Amelia Lynd.
Both McGuinness, Professor of French Literature, and Gardini, University Lecturer in Italian Literature, are also well known poets. Gardini has published six collections of verse and McGuinness two, one of which has been translated into Italian. Both are, of course, also held in high regard as literary critics and scholars. The two authors will be in conversation with each other and reading from their novels in the Taylorian Hall at 5.00 pm on Tuesday, 6 March, 2012.
UNIQ Summer Schools 2012
If you are interested in studying Modern Languages at Oxford, and would like to get a taster of what it would be like, why not apply to take part in a UNIQ Summer School?
UNIQ Summer schools are for UK students from state schools, currently studying for AS Levels (lower sixth form). The courses for 2012 will include French, German, Spanish and a new course in Beginners’ Languages. As well as engaging in an intense academic programme which will give you a good idea of what studying at Oxford is like, you'll have the opportunity to take part in a varied social programme including theatre trips, sports activities, and drama workshops.
For more information and to make an application, please visit http://www.ox.ac.uk/uniq
Note that applications for UNIQ Summer Schools close on 23 February 2012.
Calling all budding cinéastes! French Film Competition 2012
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at Oxford University is looking for budding film enthusiasts in Years 10-11 and 12-13 to show their imaginative engagement with the world of French cinema. To enter the competition, students in each age group are asked to re-write the ending of a film in no more than 1500 words (in English). The films for 2012 are:
Years 10-11: Le Grand Voyage, dir. Ismaël Ferroukhi (2004)
Years 12-13: On connaît la chanson, dir. Alain Resnais (1997)
A first prize of £100 will be awarded to the winning student in each age group, with runner-up prizes of £25. The teacher of each winning student will be offered free attendance at the Sir Robert Taylor Society Conference, a forum for continuing professional development and exchange between practitioners of modern foreign languages teaching in secondary and higher education (see http://sirroberttaylor.wordpress.com)
For further details about entering the competition, see the FAQs. Each essay should be accompanied by a cover sheet.
Essays and cover sheets should be submitted by email to french.essay@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk by noon on 30 March 2012.
The French Film Competition is very grateful for the generosity of the French Embassy in London and the Sir Robert Taylor Society.
New 'What's on' service
A new lecture list service is available for staff and students at:
https://hermes2.mml.ox.ac.uk/nownext/
This page shows what is currently happening in a lecture room until about 10-15 minutes before the next lecture - when it will show what is going to start.
This displays particularly well on smart-phones in landscape.
A Modern Languages degree: a career advantage
The latest annual data from the University has shown once again the benefits of a Modern Languages degree in boosting graduate prospects. The Faculty's graduating students of summer 2010 have a higher percentage in employment or further study than the University average (93% > 87%), and an even smaller figure in unemployment. National data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency indicate, furthermore, that Modern Languages graduates have one of the highest rates of employment across all subject areas, exceeded only by medical disciplines and law.
For further information about career prospects for Modern Linguists, see: http://www.languageswork.org.uk
The University has its own Careers Service for guiding and supporting students in their future planning:
http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk