By allowing students to study a semester abroad at university level, this module aims to provide them with the opportunity to significantly improve their skills in the target language;

To provide students with the opportunity to follow content modules at university level in the target language that enhance their knowledge in areas of study relevant to their degree programme;

To provide students with the opportunity to widen and consolidate their inter-cultural competence.

(LO1) When finishing MODL215, students will have successfully fulfilled the learning outcomes of the language and the content modules they have completed at their host university.

(LO2) By successfully adapting to the system of study at their host university, students will have demonstrated that they have acquired the academic skills and competence to study abroad.

(LO3) By successfully adapting to everyday life outside the UK, students will have demonstrated that they have acquired the inter-cultural competence to live abroad.

(S1) Global citizenship - cultural awareness

(S2) Communication (oral, written and visual) - academic writing (including referencing skills)

(S3) Time and project management - personal organisation

(S4) Global citizenship - understanding of equality and diversity

(S5) Improving own learning / performance - self-awareness / self-analysis

Teaching method 1 - Study Placement.
Independent language learning, allowing students to follow modules in the target language at their host university and interact successfully in the foreign environment, constitutes an indispensable aspect of MODL215. Language modules taken at levels 1 and 2 at Liverpool, will have equipped students with the necessary skills to improve their command of the target language independently while abroad.

In their second year at Liverpool, students attend sessions preparing them for their third year of study abroad. These sessions include: (a) instructions about all relevant details in respect to the Erasmus pathway at a foreign university, (b) a peer mentoring scheme meeting at which Year 2 students, by establishing direct contact with final year peer mentors, can learn about any aspect of the year abroad experience, (c) pre-departure briefing meetings at which outgoing students are instructed by staff, for example, about the format of l earning and teaching at their Erasmus partner universities, the selection of appropriate modules or the completion of the Erasmus Learning Agreement.

When making their module choices at their host university, students are required to register for at least one language module. The MLC Erasmus Policy provides further details about the specific profile of this compulsory language module in a particular country.

While doing MODL215, students are required to stay in close contact with the relevant subject area Erasmus coordinator at Liverpool in order to ensure that any potential problem in relation to learning and teaching issues is detected and addressed at an early stage.

The syllabuses for the various modules each student selects while away as an Erasmus student are set up by the convenors in charge at the host university.