Language Training

Language training is available to all students in Hungarian, Polish and Russian. In year 1, all students must study one of these core languages. Teaching is available for beginners in all languages, intermediate in Polish and intermediate and advanced in Russian. The International Master language courses aim to provide students with linguistic competence in the relevant language. The courses are taught to enable students to acquire sufficient linguistic knowledge and translation skills to be able to read texts in the given language and to use these texts in their studies; and to be understood in basic everyday communicative situations. The only linguistic precondition for entry to the International Master programme is that students must provide evidence of proficiency in English in cases where English is not the student’s native language.

Students will start their language training in Tartu in semester 1 before continuing with their chosen language in semester 2 in Glasgow.

Students with advanced knowledge of a particular language from the region will be required to learn another Central and East European language.

Students can opt to take optional language training in the local languages of their third mobility university. For Hungarian (Corvinus) and Polish (Jagiellonian), students can continue their language training from year 1. For Bosnian (UNSA), Georgian (Ilia State) and Kazakh (KIMEP), students can take these languages in addition to the languages studied in year 1. Estonian and Ukrainian languages can also be taken as additional language courses in semester 1 at Tartu. Additional language courses can be taken based on personal needs and interests, but these are not counted towards fulfilling the CEERES curriculum.