What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?

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  1. KingTaurus's Avatar
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    What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?
    Hi I know Keele offer languages to learn on the side of the degree, Nottingham do aswell, what others ones do?
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    Re: What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?
    pretty much all unversities will have a language centre of some sort.
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    Re: What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?
    York lets you take a "Languages for All" instead of one of your modules on most of their courses in the first year and actively encourages it for some subjects.
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    Re: What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?
    As above, I think most/all universities allow you to take some language courses as part of your degree.

    I did Physics at Manchester, and I know they let you take plenty of language modules if you wanted.

    I suppose the only question is what you want to learn, every university will offer the basics (French, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin), but you might find only the bigger universities will offer Urdu or Vietnamese or something. Also the larger the university, the more likely you are to find plenty of other people in the same position i.e. learning that language from nill while taking another degree.
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    Re: What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?
    Pretty much every university that has a language department, I'd imagine. You can take a language as part of your degree or take evening classes. (I'm taking Italian this coming academic year in the evening. )
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    Re: What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?
    Yeah, I want to take Arabic alongside my Politics degree, and I think pretty much every one that I've looked at offer language courses. I expect most will, it's a really useful skill to have
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    Re: What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?
    Quite a lot of universities do.
    At Lincoln they have a whole host of languages you can do additional modules in. It was one of the best things i've done all year!
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    Re: What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?
    (Original post by KingTaurus)
    Hi I know Keele offer languages to learn on the side of the degree, Nottingham do aswell, what others ones do?
    UEA do for all courses in the Politics department and they offer a good range of languages at all levels.
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    Re: What universities offer languages to learn on the side of your degree?
    Manchester's is called the LEAP programme . . . these programmes are quite common and sometimes include less common languages such as BSL
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