European Languages in Europe and Beyond

Description

This course is for students undertaking a first year course in European languages or in European Union studies. The course is open to all undergraduates irrespective of their discipline. It covers a range of topics relating to languages of Europe: how they developed and spread as a group of languages, as isolates, or the way in which (inter)national languages of Europe developed. The course also looks at the role languages play in the European Union, and how the construction of Europe insists on protecting language diversity.