Foreign Perspectives

To complete my Modern Languages degree, I “just” need to do one more course and that one is English which’ll be somewhat odd as all the exams and whatnot that I’ve done over the last six years have been in foreign languages.

It does leave me with one slight problem in that the English course I need to do is half of a Diploma in English Language. It’s not that I have to do the second course due to university regulations or anything but rather that I don’t like to leave an overhang of half a diploma like that.

Therefore, it looks like I’ll be doing a course in English grammar just after the English course that I actually need to do.

After that, it’s a bit up in the air and really far too early to be thinking much about it. Not that it has stopped me thinking about it, of course.

At the moment, I would have two basic ways that I’d consider going after completing the English diploma. The first is that I’d like to do their creative writing course (which, hopefully, would improve the quality of writing here) but that has a pre-requisite Humanities course so it’s a two year deal. Alternatively, I’ve always fancied doing a chemistry degree.

Going down the creative writing route would mean that I’d have 2/3rds of an English degree, the final third consisting of two literature courses. As a bit of preparation for that I’ve just bought all the recommended books for the first of those courses. Just to see what it might be like at this point, and not really committing myself to it. I’ve also bought a couple of books for the chemistry course so there’s quite a bit of reading material lying around at the moment!