The Department of European Languages teaches French, German, Italian and Spanish, offering you an attractive range of degree schemes. German, Italian and Spanish offer beginners courses, which can lead on to degree level study, as well as advanced courses. We attach great importance to the practical study of language both in its written and spoken forms, and in addition we offer a range of cultural, literary and linguistic modules. Although there are formal lectures of the traditional kind, much time is also devoted to computer-assisted learning, and all students have regular oral classes with native speakers. The Department is of a size that permits good staff-student relations and classes are small in comparison with those found in many universities.
Assessment is by a combination of regular work assignments and examinations.
There is a departmental workroom, well stocked with reference works for student use, and a special area with a range of foreign newspapers and magazines. Each of the languages has an active student society. An attractive feature of all the degree schemes is a period of residence abroad. You should therefore, before entry to the University, apply to your local Education Authority for a four-year loan. Students studying two languages will normally divide their time abroad equally between higher-education institutions in two countries.