Level 1 and Level 2 can be fitted together to make a complete course running from October-May. The course does not concentrate on scientific French. This course in spoken and written French is designed for students have completed the French Intermediate Level 1 course, or who have reached an equivalent standard. Students who have taken the Level 1 course are encouraged to spend some time in a French-speaking country during the summer vacation preceding the Level 2 course. A course designed to introduce the German language to students in the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Provision is made in the first instance for complete beginners.
This course is a continuation course from Level 1. Admission is dependent on successful completion of Level 1 or evidence of equivalent attainment in German. The aim of this course is to introduce students to Environmental Geoscience. In particular, the concept of the Earth System as the operation of inter-linked components of the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere is stressed. This concept is used to study the interaction between geology, chemistry, physics and biology affecting the surface processes of the planet that together form the characteristics of the environment in which we live.