Welsh and Celtic Studies (Astudiaethau Cymreig a Cheltaidd) MA

**Join us to explore Welsh literature, language and culture through an international and interdisciplinary lens.**<br/><br/>Our MA Welsh and Celtic Studies programme allows you to investigate and explore the relationship between literature, language, culture and identity across the centuries – from medieval literature to contemporary fields such as language planning and policy.<br/><br/>This is an open and flexible programme, enabling you to tailor its content to your interests and matched with the wide-ranging and diverse research specialisms of our staff.<br/><br/>Under the supervision of renowned experts in their fields, youll become part of a dynamic, challenging and transformative research and scholarship community. One of our main strengths is the impact and influence of our research on the world around us – politically, linguistically, culturally and socially. We have broken new ground in a range of different subject areas, and these advances inform our MA programme.<br/><br/>Choosing to study with us is an opportunity to engage with diverse and highly-relevant topics concerned with Welsh and other languages, such as:<br/>- Welsh literature and literary criticism<br/><br/><br/>- Creative writing<br/><br/><br/>- Children’s literature<br/><br/><br/>- Sociolinguistics<br/><br/><br/>- Language acquisition<br/><br/><br/>- Dialectology<br/><br/><br/>- Language planning and policy<br/><br/><br/>- Translation theory and methodology.<br/><br/><br/>Recent MA students have undertaken original and penetrating research in several notable fields, including: linguistic landscape mapping; creative literary critcism; intertextual research and Welsh medieval literature; and digital technologies and minority languages.