University of Sheffield Fresher - Ask me anything!

Do you know how easy it would be for me to change from Business Management to Business Management and Economics?

By the way, this is a really useful thread - thank you! I'll have to think up some more questions to ask

Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

Hey, Its really good of you to take so much time out to respond to people's questions (I say this as a keen procrastinator myself ) but yeah, it is always reassuring to hear from someone with first-hand experience

I do have a few questions, unfortunately not directly related to Sheffield -It was originally one of my initial choices though, and I visited on an open day, and was very impressed.. the only thing that stopped me applying was that the grades for the politics course seem slightly out of my reach

So i was wondering if I could be so cheeky as to ask a couple of general questions;

How is Yorkshire as a place? (from down south and hopefully I will be heading up your way, just not Sheffield) i.e have you visited the Dales?

Do you know anything of how languages are taught? - i realise they are specific to different unis but it would be nice to have some sort of idea

Sorry for the long passage, though I expect you're probably quite familiar with them in your line of studying

Not sure if this has already been asked, but here goes. Basically, some courses at some unis let you take a couple of modules from outside of your course in the first year. On the page of the course I want to study at Sheffield (Journalism BA) it doesn't mention whether this is possible or not. Any ideas?

Also, is anyone you know in the horse riding club/team? Any idea how active it is?

Yep, it's possible, and for journalism in the first year you get 40 credits to use either within the department or in any other department subject to their requirements. Modules can either be 10 or 20 credits so you pick and choose based on your timetable and obviously your interests.
In my first year I did tabloid journalism (10), gender sexuality and society (10 - that's a sociology module) and gender in East Asia (20)
In the second year you only get 20 credits to use as you please and you pretty much have to choose from within the department (this year it was alternative media or language and journalism)
I hope that makes sense, I remember how confusing it was to understand the whole credits/unrestricted modules thing when I first started!

just noticed that i need to pick an option for 10 credits in first year, too. but how exactly is it supposed to work? read something about module declaration during intro week... i mean, do they really make us pick a module at that day even though no one probably has a clue about its content? seems kinda daunting.

Assuming I pass my level 1, I'd like to study level 2 in sign language at university. Any idea if that will be possible at part of a society or would it be an extra on top of my degree? I'm doing medicine. Not entirely sure how extra modules would work as part of that, but I'm curious.

Assuming I pass my level 1, I'd like to study level 2 in sign language at university. Any idea if that will be possible at part of a society or would it be an extra on top of my degree? I'm doing medicine. Not entirely sure how extra modules would work as part of that, but I'm curious.

Oh, another quick question about taking extra modules. Does it matter if all of your extra modules are autumn term ones, or it is advisable to ensure some are spring term to even out the workload?