Languages

Is this your course? http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/prospectus/courseDetails.do?id=4848012012

Looking at the first year modules you seem to still do quite a lot of German (even though it's a minor), I suppose because it doesn't look like you have any unrestricted credits. In which case if you want to learn a language at the MLTC you wouldn't have it count towards your degree and I think you'd have to pay. My language is an even split, so no minor. So I can't advise on that but I don't think it makes a lot of difference tbh, aside from the obvious credit split. Do you have any specific questions for people to answer?

I don't know the lecturer in question but a lot of lecturers are a bit funny. Of course he may have been trying to make the intro lecture interesting and I imagine he would be fine as a tutor. I would maybe consider deleting his name from here though, just in case he googles himself!

Yes that is my course
What course are you doing?
So would I still learn the german section in the jessop west building?
Ermm not sure about specific questions as such...not yet.
Haha yeah i suppose so....of yeah i have now thanks!!

Yeah I'm sure you'll be with all the other people doing German, you'll just have less German modules. Although you probably will end up in the same position as a lot of people doing a Modern Lang degree as you could have 80 credits Maths and 40 credits German, for example. People doing 3 languages will have 40 of each (or 60, 40, 20). Languages aren't just in Jessop West though, you could end up all over. My course is English and French, so similar but mine is a 50/50 split.

Ahh ok then Thanks for clearing that up
Ooh cool...are you enjoying your course?
Sorry to be a bit nosey but how're you finding sheffield uni as a whole?

Yes I like the split, best of both worlds really. Languages dept is good. As is the uni. The union has just been re-done and was voted 1st in the country not that long ago. Uni's really close to the city centre but the accomdation (Endcliffe/Ranmoor) is far enough out so it's not noisy etc but you can still walk places. The area around the uni is also nice. I really like it

Awww that all sounds v v good even if you are a little biased being a student yourself :P
Im just wondering if its too close to home as im from york....how far away did you live?

Obviously I would say it's really good but everyone else says the same. Have you been on an open day yet? People who do often say that it has a nice 'atmosphere'.

I live an hour away. I know loads of people who live fairly near but it doesn't mean you have to go home all the time. Your parents aren't just going to turn up lol so really it's an advantage as if you do want to go home it's cheaper and you don't have to spend so long on the train. The only 'disadvantage' I can think of (and I'm not sure it really is) is that there may be a higher proportion of people from your school applying. But there were only 5 other people from my year going to Sheff so not too bad.