Celtic Studies MSt

**The information provided on this page was correct at the time of publication (November 2024). For complete and up-to-date information about this course, please visit the relevant University of Oxford course page via www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/ucas.**<br/><br/>The MSt in Celtic Studies is designed to give you the opportunity to concentrate on the study of aspects of the history and culture of Celtic-speaking peoples from antiquity to the present day. Options in language, literature and linguistics form the core of the degree, while a range of optional subjects in these areas and beyond is also available. The MSt in Celtic Studies is suitable both for students wishing to proceed to a research degree and for those who wish to spend only one year at Oxford.<br/><br/>This is a nine-month course designed to help those who already possess a good knowledge of Welsh, Irish or another Celtic language to acquire a grounding in areas of Celtic studies which were not part of their first degree course. Alternatively, it can be a path for those who wish to deepen their knowledge in a particular area of Celtic studies.<br/><br/>The MSt in Celtic Studies provides an appropriate introduction for you if you are contemplating higher research in a DPhil or PhD programme in this area.<br/><br/>Course structure<br/>You will take one core course, which will provide an introduction to the medieval Celtic languages through the close study of texts in class.<br/><br/>Other areas are taught through tutorials which may be supplemented by lecture series. A weekly Celtic research seminar brings all students together with talks by invited, mainly external speakers, run jointly in collaboration with the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth.<br/><br/>You will take two papers, either two options from a choice of:<br/><br/><br/>- Celtic linguistics;<br/><br/><br/>- medieval Irish literature; or<br/><br/><br/>- Welsh literature<br/><br/><br/>or<br/><br/><br/>- one option from the subjects listed above and one paper on a special subject to be chosen from each years course handbook.<br/><br/><br/>You will write a dissertation on an approved topic normally arising from one of the options studied, and you will also be required to develop a reading knowledge of a modern Celtic language which you have not previously studied at degree level.