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Students following degree programmes which incorporate periods of residence abroad in countries where French, Italian, German, Portuguese or Spanish are spoken spend 16 or 32 weeks studying, working as British Council English Language Assistants, or engaged in some other form of approved employment. Those students who are due to undertake an 8 week vacation period of residence abroad may undertake approved study, work or dissertation research.
Students studying programmes incorporating periods of residence abroad in Russia spend 8, 16 or 32 weeks studying or engaged in approved paid or unpaid work (work is only an option for those students who have an A-Level in Russian).
Students studying programmes incorporating periods of residence abroad in the Middle East, Japan and China spend 16 or 32 weeks studying at selected partner institutions.
Work - Assistantships
Many students choose to apply through the British Council to be English Language Assistants (ELAs) in countries where their language of study is spoken. The average monthly salary paid to assistants varies (up to date information can be found here). An alternative option is the Comenius scheme.
Work - Placements
Alternatively, students may use their initiative to arrange other forms of paid and unpaid work ranging from placements with blue chip companies to voluntary work. The School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures and Careers Service advertise overseas placement opportunities and offer support with every step of the application process. The Residence Abroad Coordinator is able to provide students with a list of the organisations where Manchester students have previously worked for the purposes of speculative applications.
Study
Students are able to undertake 16 or 32 week period of study with various partner institutions. The School has exchange agreements or other formal links with the institutions listed below. Some of these agreements are under the auspices of Erasmus, a European Union scheme which allows EU students to study in other EU countries as part of their UK degree.
| Discipline Area | Exchange Universities |
| Chinese | Beijing (Renmin, Tsinghua and Normal), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Guangzhou (Sun-Yat-Sen), Shandong, Shanghai (Fudan and East China Normal), Nanjing, National Taiwan, CU Hong Kong and Zhejiang |
| Japanese | Chuo, Hiroshima, Hitotsubashi, Hokkaido, Kansai, Kansai Gaidai, Keio, Kobe, Kwansei Gakuin, Kyoto, Meiji, Meiji Gakuin, Nanzan, Ochanomizu (women only), Osaka, Rikkyo, Ritsumeikan, Saitama, Tokyo, Tokyo Gaigodai, Waseda and Yamagata |
| French Studies |
Avignon ( Université d'Avignon et des pays de Vaucluse ), Haute École de Bruxelles (Institut supérieur de traducteurs et interprètes ), Geneva (Ecole de traduction et d'interpretation ) [TBC], Grenoble ( Stendhal-Grenoble 3 ), Lille 3 ( Université Charles-de-Gaulle ), Lyon II (Université Lumiere ), Lyon III ( Université Jean Moulin ), Paris IV( Sorbonne ), Poitiers , Quebec (Université de Sherbrooke), Rennes II ( Université Haute Bretagne ), Réunion ( Université de la Réunion ) and Toulouse ( Université de Toulouse II Le Mirail ), Université des Antilles et de la Guyane [TBC] |
| German Studies |
Austria: Innsbruck. Germany: Berlin (Humboldt), Freiburg, Hamburg, Heidelberg, and Leipzig. Switzerland: Basel |
| Italian Studies |
Bergamo, Bologna, Cagliari [TBC], Ferrara, Macerata, Naples (Federico II), Palermo, Perugia, Pisa, and Siena (per Stranieri) |
| Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (Spanish) | Argentina: Buenos Aires (Universidad del Salvador). Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Cuba: La Habana [TBC]. Mexico: Puebla (Universidad de las Américas). Spain: Almería, Barcelona (Autónoma and UB), Bilbao (Deusto), Logrono (Universidad de La Rioja) Madrid (Alcalá de Henares and Autónoma), Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Valencia,Valladolid (Miguel de Cervantes), and Vigo. Uruguay: Montevideo (Universidad ORT) |
| Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (Portuguese) |
Brazil: João Pessoa (Universidade Federal da Paraíba) and São Paulo. Portugal: Coimbra, Porto and Lisbon. |
| Russian Studies |
Study is arranged via RLUS (Russian Language Undergraduate Studies) at St Petersburg (The Benedict School, State University), Moscow (Language Link), Yaroslavl (State University), Tver (State University), Volgograd (Language Link) and Petrozavodsk (State University). For further information on Russian speaking residence abroad please click here. |
| Middle Eastern Studies (Arabic) |
University of Alexandria (TAFL Centre), University of Jordan , (International Institute for Teaching Arabic to Speakers of Other Languages), University of Damascus and Arab Academy (Cairo) |
| Middle Eastern Studies (Hebrew) | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Middle Eastern Studies (Persian) | University of Tehran (Dekhoda International Centre for Persian Studies) |
| Middle Eastern Studies (Turkish) | University of Istanbul |