UCL or Cambridge for Spanish?
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UCL Spanish Dept. : what do people think of the present make up and course delivery (esp. films). Lost its va va voom? Tired old leftie documentaries filmed on a shoe-string does not a film course make. Cambridge, or where else for Spanish?
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by VoxdeiUCL Spanish Dept. : what do people think of the present make up and course delivery (esp. films). Lost its va va voom? Tired old leftie documentaries filmed on a shoe-string does not a film course make. Cambridge, or where else for Spanish?
Note that when applying for Cambridge Spanish, you would have to apply to do two languages (one may be from scratch)
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Let's strike while the iron is hot as it's the first time in ages that The Student Room allows me to log in without having to have the password resent etc. Would it be a good idea to allow present students to comment. I don't want generic answers from a Forum Helper (or Meddler). Also when you lot do this, you completely take the conversation the way you want to take it, and not what I want. I want the nitty gritty (ie are films modules better at Cambridge - UCL has gone completely woke (and uncultured and unintellectual) it seems to me. I am not paying 10 grand to watch stupid documentaries about indians and factory workers filmed on a black and white hand held camera from the 70s.
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by VoxdeiLet's strike while the iron is hot as it's the first time in ages that The Student Room allows me to log in without having to have the password resent etc. Would it be a good idea to allow present students to comment. I don't want generic answers from a Forum Helper (or Meddler). Also when you lot do this, you completely take the conversation the way you want to take it, and not what I want. I want the nitty gritty (ie are films modules better at Cambridge - UCL has gone completely woke (and uncultured and unintellectual) it seems to me. I am not paying 10 grand to watch stupid documentaries about indians and factory workers filmed on a black and white hand held camera from the 70s.
I am a present Cambridge student. I'm literally writing this from my university room in Sidney Sussex college. Also, there is nothing stopping other Cambridge students from commenting who may be able to provide further information about the film modules in MML. I didn't comment on that because I don't know much about it; however, I thought you should know that you would need to study two languages, in case it made your previous question moot and you got no other replies.
If you're trying to avoid "woke", however you choose to define it, Cambridge may not be the place for you. The vast majority of Cambridge students are politically left-wing and there is an active effort to decolonise the curriculum.
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Woke and learned or with an idea that for films, you need to have a good grasp of mainstream Spanish/Lat Am films and then bother with documentaries made on a shoe string about some obscure angle that is not even relevant now. I assume lecturers do this at UCL because then the student has to use their "tools" to analyse a film (instead of journal articles already written). UCL used to do The Atalante, for French films (one of many). A completely pointless film (save for giving Dita her stage name from Dita Parlo. Lecturers in Spanish and Lat Am at UCL seem to be less hot than they used to be. Two languages is fine, but I bet despite their wokeness they don't allow Spanish and Quechua (or maybe they do!).
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by VoxdeiWoke and learned or with an idea that for films, you need to have a good grasp of mainstream Spanish/Lat Am films and then bother with documentaries made on a shoe string about some obscure angle that is not even relevant now. I assume lecturers do this at UCL because then the student has to use their "tools" to analyse a film (instead of journal articles already written). UCL used to do The Atalante, for French films (one of many). A completely pointless film (save for giving Dita her stage name from Dita Parlo. Lecturers in Spanish and Lat Am at UCL seem to be less hot than they used to be. Two languages is fine, but I bet despite their wokeness they don't allow Spanish and Quechua (or maybe they do!).
"Lecturers in Spanish and Lat Amat UCL seem to be less hot than they used to be." - what relevance does this have?
Quechua isn't offered as one of the two main languages of MML, no. The languages are French (post-A Level only), Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and Russian. You could also combine one of the previous with one of Latin or Ancient Greek. Other languages may be available in later years like Catalan or Greek. You can also combine with Arabic, Hebrew or Persian as part of AMES.
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by VoxdeiWoke and learned or with an idea that for films, you need to have a good grasp of mainstream Spanish/Lat Am films and then bother with documentaries made on a shoe string about some obscure angle that is not even relevant now. I assume lecturers do this at UCL because then the student has to use their "tools" to analyse a film (instead of journal articles already written). UCL used to do The Atalante, for French films (one of many). A completely pointless film (save for giving Dita her stage name from Dita Parlo. Lecturers in Spanish and Lat Am at UCL seem to be less hot than they used to be. Two languages is fine, but I bet despite their wokeness they don't allow Spanish and Quechua (or maybe they do!).
**** outta here
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by Voxdei Two languages is fine, but I bet despite their wokeness they don't allow Spanish and Quechua (or maybe they do!).
They can only teach the languages they have specialists in, and I'm not aware of any UK universities with specialisms in Native South American languages that offer modules in them regularly. The nearest such university I'm aware of is Bonn (in Germany) which does teach Quechua (among others) in its anthropology of the Americas courses. Otherwise there are a couple of Mayanists in the IoA at UCL but they focus mainly on dark earth archaeology moreso than epigraphy and/or languages.
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by VoxdeiUCL Spanish Dept. : what do people think of the present make up and course delivery (esp. films). Lost its va va voom? Tired old leftie documentaries filmed on a shoe-string does not a film course make. Cambridge, or where else for Spanish?
I pay for courses that are led by luminaries. I don't see any - not even lecturers who are coming up in the world. But don't worry, it's the same everywhere.
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