talkingtocactus
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^ i imagine there are student visas available but i don't know how you'd go about getting one - i would suggest talking to the unis you're interested in and getting the info from them. i would be pretty surprised if they also didn't have something on their websites about how to apply from abroad, including info on visas and where to go. obviously it's different but i'm hoping to study in france after my degree and french unis definitely have this info on their websites, as do british ones.
not the dreaded early modern period which no one, however well qualified, can quite agree on in terms of dates!?:guffaw::guffaw:
i'm about to start 2nd year of french & linguistics. at least i think i am - i was ill during exams and had to submit a final assignment late and i haven't been told a mark yet. i got pretty much straight firsts all year so i'll be very surprised if they don't pass me to next year but you never know!
so yes, 2nd year french and lings - this year there is one compulsory lings module and one "not compulsory but you have to do it" module (!?) - plus i have to do my french language course. i only have 3 modules a year which is quite nice - officially i'm a part time student, my college does almost exclusively part time, mature students, and are very very accommodating because most students have jobs, kids, lives etc and most haven't studied for at least 10 years, but you still get a full university of london degree, so it's pretty good.
i did my last degree there (finished in 2008) which was in politics, philosophy & history. i really only wanted to do pols and phil but this particular uni only do those with history attached (much like oxford does PPE) - anyway, by about mid 2nd year i'd realised that i didn't like phil anymore, and thought pols was ok but was utterly into the history. strange how things work out - my last two years i really focussed on the history and did my dissertation in history (although some politics were involved too) - it was on how romantic fiction aimed at women in the first world war implicitly supported the government recruitment campaigns to encourage men to be cannon fodder. although that wasn't quite how i worded it! history is a pet subject for me, i adore it. i don't do traditional history much, i'm not that interested in rulers and battles and stuff, i'm more of a social historian and could even classify myself as a marxist historian (you don't need to be a marxist to be a marxist historian, it's just a term, although i'm probably not far off a marxist in at least some areas). so basically i love periods where a lot of social change happened - my "babies" are medieval european history (especially the 9th - 12th centuries) and the "long 19th century" which runs from around 1780 to 1918, and covers the industrial revolution and all the attendant upheaval, and, of course, the first world war which is something i'm very into. i would say i was passionate about it but i don't think it's possible (or right) to be passionate about war!
i like my french & linguistics degree - i've always loved france and french as a language, i'm reasonably good at it, and french history and politics fascinate me too - all that revolution and republicanism (with a small "r"!) - right up my street! i enjoy linguistics too - i've always been a bit of a dictionary geek, i'm fascinated by how languages evolve and change and merge. also i'm something of a grammar fascist so it's interesting from that point of view too (and it's slowly converting me). the first two years of lings is pretty dry, a lot of technical stuff, theory and so on, but we've done some sociolinguistics (which, obviously, relates to history and a bit of politics and philosophy too) and i *loved* that, sociolinguistics is definitely going to be my pet area, i think.
hopefully i want to go to france after this degree and do a masters in something to do with history, but in french - ideally something to do with language and history.
hmm that was quite a waffle...
not the dreaded early modern period which no one, however well qualified, can quite agree on in terms of dates!?:guffaw::guffaw:
i'm about to start 2nd year of french & linguistics. at least i think i am - i was ill during exams and had to submit a final assignment late and i haven't been told a mark yet. i got pretty much straight firsts all year so i'll be very surprised if they don't pass me to next year but you never know!
so yes, 2nd year french and lings - this year there is one compulsory lings module and one "not compulsory but you have to do it" module (!?) - plus i have to do my french language course. i only have 3 modules a year which is quite nice - officially i'm a part time student, my college does almost exclusively part time, mature students, and are very very accommodating because most students have jobs, kids, lives etc and most haven't studied for at least 10 years, but you still get a full university of london degree, so it's pretty good.
i did my last degree there (finished in 2008) which was in politics, philosophy & history. i really only wanted to do pols and phil but this particular uni only do those with history attached (much like oxford does PPE) - anyway, by about mid 2nd year i'd realised that i didn't like phil anymore, and thought pols was ok but was utterly into the history. strange how things work out - my last two years i really focussed on the history and did my dissertation in history (although some politics were involved too) - it was on how romantic fiction aimed at women in the first world war implicitly supported the government recruitment campaigns to encourage men to be cannon fodder. although that wasn't quite how i worded it! history is a pet subject for me, i adore it. i don't do traditional history much, i'm not that interested in rulers and battles and stuff, i'm more of a social historian and could even classify myself as a marxist historian (you don't need to be a marxist to be a marxist historian, it's just a term, although i'm probably not far off a marxist in at least some areas). so basically i love periods where a lot of social change happened - my "babies" are medieval european history (especially the 9th - 12th centuries) and the "long 19th century" which runs from around 1780 to 1918, and covers the industrial revolution and all the attendant upheaval, and, of course, the first world war which is something i'm very into. i would say i was passionate about it but i don't think it's possible (or right) to be passionate about war!
i like my french & linguistics degree - i've always loved france and french as a language, i'm reasonably good at it, and french history and politics fascinate me too - all that revolution and republicanism (with a small "r"!) - right up my street! i enjoy linguistics too - i've always been a bit of a dictionary geek, i'm fascinated by how languages evolve and change and merge. also i'm something of a grammar fascist so it's interesting from that point of view too (and it's slowly converting me). the first two years of lings is pretty dry, a lot of technical stuff, theory and so on, but we've done some sociolinguistics (which, obviously, relates to history and a bit of politics and philosophy too) and i *loved* that, sociolinguistics is definitely going to be my pet area, i think.
hopefully i want to go to france after this degree and do a masters in something to do with history, but in french - ideally something to do with language and history.
hmm that was quite a waffle...
