Foreign Perspectives

Well, that’s an easy question: it’s the English course that I need to complete my modern languages degree.

The snag is that you need to tell them a) before you know the results of the course before it and b) in the midst of the hardest part of your current course. Therefore, it’s best to have decided upon the course for 2009 before you have even started the course for 2008.

Now, up to now, this hasn’t been a problem for me. I started the French way back in 2002 and for the next three years obviously I was going to be doing successive French courses. Likewise for the Spanish from 2005. Getting towards the end of the degree threw me a little but made the next logical course the English one which completes the BA (Honours) Modern Languages degree.

Now, you’re probably thinking that I’ve reached the end of the degree therefore there aren’t any more courses to consider.

In a sense that’s right but once you’ve stopped studying for a while it’s really, really hard to get going again as I found out when I left an 8 year gap between the BSc (Hons) Computer Science and the MBA. Therefore, I have kept going with small courses ever since. Nothing major for sure between 1993 and 2002 but enough to keep the brain ticking over and that made it a whole lot easier to get going on the current degree.

Anyway, I’m sort of toying with the idea of starting off on a science degree for a change They work in a similar way to the languages in that I’d pick up two diplomas along the way. One major difference is that most of the courses are 30 points rather than 60 which makes them considerably more doable.

So, ’tis probably going to be S104 next year. Or it might be The Art of English which would complete a Diploma in English.

Must get a coin out when the signing up time arrives 🙂