Questions about Durham!!!

Hi
I was wondering if anybody could help me with all these questions I've got about Durham Uni,

I'm planning to apply for 2011 for either combined honours in arts/social sciences to study french and International relations but I have no idea whether to apply for arts or social sciences! Does anyone do combined honours at durham or does anybody do French or I/R? What's the teaching like?Are you happy with the subjects/depts?

Next question... which college is best situated for these two subjects (obviously not ones in stockton) as I unfortunately don't have time to visit Durham before the UCAS deadline and generally at the uni are subjects always taught in the same subject buildings? I only ask because I recently withdrew from a uni at which I used to have spanish lectures in chemistry blocks which was slightly annoying and confusing!

sorry about all the questions! any help would be really appreciated

Next question... which college is best situated for these two subjects (obviously not ones in stockton) as I unfortunately don't have time to visit Durham before the UCAS deadline

and generally at the uni are subjects always taught in the same subject buildings? I only ask because I recently withdrew from a uni at which I used to have spanish lectures in chemistry blocks which was slightly annoying and confusing!

Durham is not a massive place, none of the colleges are very far from anywhere. Unless you have a strong desired to live as close as possible (likely, ~5 minutes as opposed to maybe 15 minutes for a further college) to your department, distance should not be a problem. Instead, you'd be best off looking them up and reading about them to see which you like the sound of.



I don't know what lecture theaters your departments would have in them, but it's doubtful that your teaching would be there. You'd quite possibly have a lot of things in Elvet Riverside (a lecture theaters/rooms block all in one place) or on the science site (where all the science type departments are together). Since all these buildings are near each other anyway, I don't think having things in any particular building would be annoying or confusing.