EU-funded European Masters DEGREE

EU-funded European Masters DEGREE

‘Crossways in European Humanities'

This MASTERS programme offers 26 scholarships per year of 21,000 euro (£14,000 sterling, or about 25,000 US dollars) to non-EU nationals.

 It is addressed to the top 5% of students graduating with a first degree in modern European languages and literatures (particularly French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese or English).

It involves mobility within Europe and study at two or three European Universities: St Andrews (Scotland), Perpignan (France), Bergamo(Italy), Lisbon (Portugal), Sheffield (England).

It allows students to compose an integrated  personal study programme out of tried and tested elements of existing programmes, now made available in combination by these Universities.

It delivers to its successful graduates a joint or multiple European Masters Degree.

It is available in a two-year (four-semester) European Masters format, or else, for suitably qualified applicants, in a 1-year variant, with direct entry into Year 2 (semesters three and four).

It opens the way to intending PhD students interested in some aspect of European Literature, Art and Thought, particularly in the fields of cultural identity studies, heterologies, cultural hybridization, media, publishing and communication.

It is professionally qualifying for leadership roles in a variety of Europe-oriented employment.

ENQUIRIES. All general enquiries about eligibility and application to mundus@univ-perp.fr  For St Andrews home-base University: enquiries to bf@st-and.ac.uk

Please consult http://www.mastermundushumanities.com

Applications for 2006-8 open on 1^st March 2006 and close on 15^th May 2006.