Innovative trilingual master’s programme “Learning and Development in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts” at the University of Luxembourg

Registration is now open for academic year 2010/2011

Luxembourg, 15 March 2010 - During the Open Day at the University of Luxembourg on 20 March 2010 teaching staff as well as students and alumni of the innovative trilingual MA study programme “Learning and Development in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts” will be presenting core subjects of the programme as well as some of the challenging activities offered by the programme (Saturday, March 20, Campus Walferdange, Room Montessori, 12:00).

Launched in 2007, the programme takes in 25 students per academic year, full-time and part-time mode is possible. Currently students from 35 countries participate in this programme in the learning sciences. Prerequisites are a completed three-year degree (or equivalent), the functional mastery of two of the three academic languages (English, French, German) as well as the submission of a personalized application file. Registration is now open for applicants from non-EU and EU-countries.

The study programme gives students a unique opportunity to develop their own profile as multilingual learner, actor and innovator in complex, multi facetted development processes. The four pillars of the study programme combine and contrast case-based analyses with regard to media and socio-cultural shaped learning and communication processes, information brokering and information design, multilingualism and its integration into the educational landscape, multimodality and knowledge transfer.

Experts from Luxembourg and abroad hold seminars and thus allow students to gain broad knowledge about current research trends and debates in the discussed fields. Furthermore, the academic programme includes international master classes jointly organised with complementary study programmes in the United Kingdom, France and Germany as well as workshops with business partners and educational institutions.

Succesful alumni of the programme work in the area of sustainable education, language policies, multicultural mediation and multilingual (language) learning processes, both in the area of pratical application (e.g., NGOs) as well as University based reasearch.

Information sessions on the study programme will be held on 28.4. and 9.6., 7 PM, Room Voygotsky, Campus Walferdange.

Please refer to the web site of the Master "Learning and Development in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts" www.multi-learn.uni.lu for more information on the application procedure, application deadlines, the study programme and a list of courses/topics of the programme.

You can also contact the programme coordinator Marie Delafont marie.delafont@uni.lu or the programme director, Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler (gudrun.ziegler@uni.lu), if you have further questions.