Course Provision:

The Graduate School of Education prepares Modern Languages graduates, including Irish, to teach in post-primary schools. NICILT, a unit within the Graduate School, supports language teaching and learning throughout the community, and is the co-ordinating institution for the CRAMLAP project.

The Irish and Celtic Studies department teaches:
Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Manx, Old Irish

Ab Initio courses: Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Manx (in MA course)

General/Civilization courses: Irish Studies course

Course Provision:

Celtic languages taught: Irish (in the Department of Modern Irish and the Language Centre), Scots Gaelic, Welsh, Basque (taught in Dept. of Old Irish)

Ab Initio courses: Welsh (taught in conjunction with Dept of Old Irish)

General/Civilization courses: Introduction to Irish Studies (Dept of Old Irish)

Other Regional/Minority Languages taught in institution:

Basque (see above)

Course Provision:

Celtic languages taught: Irish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Breton

Ab Initio courses: Irish (diploma

General/Civilization courses: Introductory course in Celtic Studies

Course Provision:

Celtic languages are taught: Irish (every autumn), Welsh (every 2nd year)

General/Civilization courses: Contrasting Gaelic (for student’s who have done Modern Irish) Scottish Gaelic and Manx; Celtic mythical texts; translation (Modern Irish texts); ‘Celtic Civilisation’

Course Provision - TWO TYPES OF PROVISION

1 - A DEGREE IN BRETON: BA in 3 years, Master degree in 5 years, Doctorate 8 years

• course content: three "basic" domains: literature, linguistics, civilisation. All courses through breton literature: ancient and modern / poetry and prose/ literary analysis linguistics : phonetics-phonology-semiology / grammar / translation civilisation : contemporary and ancient (celtic and modern breton, irish etc.)
• course delivery: year is divided in 2 semesters (12 weeks each);
  formal lecture (usually 2h/week or 1.30h/week);
  tutorial (3h/week or 2h/week depending on the levels) both written and
  oral in small-group teaching;
  self learning equipment facilities (ausio-visual equipment in the
  MEDIATHEQUE, or Labs for instance)
• assesment: we have to stick to the assesment frame established by our University (and voted by various Councils); continuous assesment (writeten and/or oral); final exams (written and/or oral) at the end of each semester

ALL THESE COURSES ARE AVAILABLE IN DISTANCE TEACHING (paper documents and/or web) in Service Universitaire d'Enseignement à Distance (SUED)

2. Breton (or Irish or Welsh ) as a foreign Language in another Degree. A foreign Language is compulsory to get a BA or Master. Breton Irish and Welsh are in the list (20 languages in R2) the students can choose.

These languages can be taken as: "full beginner" (48h/semester = 4h/week);
as "continuous language" (it has been studied in High School) 24h/semester.

• course content: a comprehensive approach of the language
• course delivery - lessons delivered by the Breton Dpt textbook used in Br : NI A GOMZ BREZHONEG by Mark Kerrain in Irish and Welsh, the two "lecteurs" (foreign teachers) organize their personal provision.
• assesment : id. case 1

ALL THESE COURSES ARE AVAILABLE IN DISTANCE TEACHING.