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Welsh • Middle Welsh Prose: Aspects of the style and structure of traditional tales, questions relating to the background of non-fictional prose; textual studies • The Laws of Hywel Dda: Textual and comparative studies • The Literature of the Valleys: Individual authors and significant themes • Welsh Drama: Particularly eighteenth-century interludes and modern drama • Literary criticism and modern Welsh literature • Eisteddfod Culture • Popular literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries • The literary renaissance of the eighteenth century
Hispanic Studies Spain • Golden-age literature • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry • Twentieth-century Spanish theatre • Catalan poetry • Catalan theatre • Contemporary Spanish film • National and regional identity in post-Franco Spain • Literary translation Spanish America • Twentieth-century prose and poetry • Women’s writing and gender; feminist theory • The economic history of Spanish America, particularly of Chile • Contemporary Spanish American film • Spanish American nation building • Twentieth-century Argentine literature and culture • Twentieth-century Chilean literature and culture • Twentieth-century Mexican literature and culture • The formation of the twentieth-century Mexican literary canon • Chicano/a and Mexico-US border studies
Italian • Twentieth-century history • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative • Cinema and theatre • Cultural studies French • Medieval Literature, especially women writers (the French Department also houses the externally-funded Anglo-Norman Online Hub project has a large resource of digitised medieval texts, linked to the Anglo-Norman Dictionary) • Eighteenth-century drama, fiction and literary ideas (including Théâtre de la foire, the plays of Marivaux, Diderot) • Nineteenth- and twentieth-century novelists (Balzac, Zola, Proust) • Women’s writing and Gender (Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Françoise Sagan, Feminist approaches to literature) • Drama of the twentieth century • Politics and literature (eighteenth,nineteenth and twentieth centuries) • Politics and religion • Area Studies (history of social and political ideas, propaganda and literary discourse) • Colonialism, postcolonialism, Algeria, Indochina, Francophone Africa • War and Culture studies
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Taught courses – Translation MA in Translation with Language Technology Postgraduate Certificate in Translation Technology MA Literary Translation Taught courses – Literatures and Cultures MA Comparative Literature MA Gender and Culture (based in department of English) MA yn y Gymraeg MA Modernisms (based in department of English) Research opportunities MPhil/PhD by research Distance PhD programme in Applied Linguistics Full-time PhD
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Taught Courses The range of LLM degrees offered by the School of Law gives students the advantage of choice and specialism. Students are able to gain an in-depth knowledge in International Maritime Law, International Commercial Law, International Trade Law. Students wishing to combine any of these disciplines can do so through our LLM in International Commercial and Maritime Law. Following their studies at Swansea, the majority of our graduates obtain prominent positions of employment within the legal profession, shipping industry, financial and banking sectors and academia. The School also offers new taught master’s programmes, focusing on the concept of globalisation and its impact on law and various legal orders. The global economy is the powerful driving force for the more general globalisation of all sectors of law. The LLM in Law and Globalisation deals with the emerging global economic and commercial law,
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German • Ballads and popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day. Romanticism, particularly Hoffmann • Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women's writing, translation and reception studies • Nineteenth-century realism, particularly Stifter and Fontane. Nietzsche. German and Austrian society and literature from Naturalism to Expressionism, particularly Andreas-Salomé, Benn, Einstein, Kaiser, Schnitzler and Sternheim • Anglo-German literary relations
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