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Future potential Modern Languages students to attend University Open Days

Hundreds of future potential Modern Languages students will be visiting the University of Southampton on Saturday 5th September and Sunday 6th September 2015 for the University Open Days. Visitors to Modern Languages may be interested to take a look at Get Ready for Languages, an online resource which aims to guide you to useful information about life as a Modern Languages student at Southampton. Continue reading →

Ethnographic Encounters at Southampton launches website

At the University of Southampton in the department of Modern Languages, students on their year abroad (YARP) have been engaged in an exciting Ethnographic Encounters project. The Ethnographic Encounters project has the overarching aim of engaging YARP students in a process of research and reflection during their period of Residence Abroad. It was funded through a departmental teaching development grant from the Higher Education Academy from February 2014 to September 2015. Continue reading →

Bookings now open for Modern Languages Lifelong Learning courses!

Lifelong Learning at the University of Southampton has recently announced an expanded programme for the coming semester, to include Modern Languages evening classes in 13 different languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English as a Foreign Language, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. Language stages are divided into three blocks across the year, running from October 2015 to April 2016. Continue reading →

A-Level results for new Southampton Modern Languages students

Congratulations to all students who received their A-Level results today and now have confirmed places to join us in Modern Languages here at Southampton from September. If you have questions about life as a student here in Modern Languages, we have the answers! Check out Get Ready for Languages, which aims to guide you to useful information about your future life as a Modern Languages student at Southampton. Continue reading →

Left Handers Day & Lefties: how can we identify handedness (or hand preference)?

Today is (apparently) International Left Handers Day…. There are few lefties among the Archaeology staff… Prof Jon Adams (our UG admissions tutor) for one – he is usually recognizable when diving as the only left handed underwater archaeologist (just see the films of the excavation and lifting of the Mary Rose). More famously (?) Leonardo da Vinci was a leftie. So why is this? Population-level right-handedness is a defining characteristic of being human. Continue reading →

Are YOU ready? Life after A levels…

Are you ready to join us? Did you get your place with us? We’re really looking to seeing you soon!  If you got your A-level grades, we’re really pleased that you’re going to be joining us in September. Let’s hope that it is with better weather than today! If you didn’t get the A level results you wanted, don’t panic! Archaeology still has a few places for suitable candidates. Continue reading →

Translating secularism conference: updated programme

Translating secularism/ Traduire la laĂŻcitĂ© Varieties of secular society 18-19 September 2015 Institut Français de Londres Professor Michael Kelly  will be hosting a two-day conference at the Institut Français de Londres on 18-19 September 2015 on: Translating secularism/ Traduire la laĂŻcitĂ©: Varieties of secular society. Please see below for the updated programme. To register for this event, please email :  tstl2015@soton.ac. Continue reading →