LANGUAGES AFTER 2ND YEAR - INTENTIONS FORM
ALL SECOND YEAR STUDENTS MUST FILL IN THIS FORM - WHETHER OR NOT YOU INTEND
TO CONTINUE WITH LANGUAGES.
SEND TO MLP@ST-ANDREWS.AC.UK BY END OF WEEK 4. YOUR EMAIL MUST CONTAIN
THE SUBJECT HEADING ‘INTENTIONS FORM’. DO NOT ALTER THE FORM IN ANY WAY.
PLEASE INDICATE YOUR INITIAL INTENTION BEFORE COMPLETING THE FORM:
WIYA: LANG ASSISTANT, OWN
WORK PLACEMENT, OR WHOLE
YEAR RLUS PLACEMENT IN
RUSSIA (5 YR)
UNIVERSITY / STUDY
ABROAD PLACEMENT (4 YR)
STRAIGHT TO JUNIOR
HONOURS
Note: The St Andrews Abroad programme is administered by Collaborations & Study Abroad.
Please contact CSA if you wish to apply for this programme.
YOUR DETAILS
NAME:
NATIONALITY:
ARE YOU A NATIVE SPEAKER OF ENGLISH: YES
Telephone:
NO
Email:
@st-andrews.ac.uk
Please specify your intended Honours degree subject(s):
Will your degree include Modern Languages? YES
NO
If you have answered ‘No’, you can stop filling in this form. Please submit as instructed above.
If yes, please specify which languages:
Arabic French German Italian Persian Russian Spanish
How many credits do you require for each subject in Junior Honours?
60 St Andrews Credits (one subject)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
A) Five year degree with placement abroad: presupposes acceptance into Honours.
To be eligible for a WIYA, students must gain Honours entry in all subjects that they are proposing to
take to Honours in the May examination diet prior to their WIYA year. Any student who does not
achieve Honours entry in their chosen Honours subject(s) in May must withdraw from their WIYA at
that point.
B) Four year degree with study abroad: presupposes acceptance into Honours.
You must achieve a minimum grade of 14 in the language component of the relevant core module at
the end of Semester 1 in the second year of your studies at St Andrews, and at least 13.5 in the
language components of the core modules of any other languages being taken to honours. If you do
not fulfil these academic requirements in Semester 1, then you may apply to go abroad on Erasmus
placement in Semester 2 of your Junior Honours year only.
Honours entry for Russian (11 in Semester 2) is required for all study abroad in Russia.
Please note that it is vitally important that you commit to a placement once you have been
selected for one. If for some reason you cannot take up a placement then you must inform your
study abroad coordinator in good time.
OPTIONS FOR LANGUAGES AFTER SECOND YEAR
You may apply for both options below. You may, for example, wish to apply for a university
placement (option 2), keeping a WIYA option in reserve (option 1) in case you don’t get a
university placement.
1.
FIVE-YEAR DEGREE OPTIONS (WIYA)
(a)
DO YOU WISH TO APPLY FOR A TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP?
YES
NO
In which language area? (Russian and Arabic are not available):
French
German
Italian
Spanish
NB: You are reminded that the year abroad entails a commitment to complete the
degree ‘Modern Languages With Integrated Year Abroad’ and thus to take the modules
required for that degree during the final two years of study after your return.
(b)
DO YOU INTEND TO FIND YOURSELF AN ‘INDUSTRIAL’ WORK PLACEMENT FOR THE
YEAR?
YES
NO
In which language area? (Russian and Arabic are not available):
French
German
Italian
Spanish
All proposals must be approved by Head of Department (or representative) concerned.
(c)
DO YOU INTEND TO PURSUE AN ENTIRE YEAR ABROAD IN RUSSIA AS PART OF THE
WIYA DEGREE PROGRAMME?
YES
NO
If so, do you wish to spend the entire year at one institution or split your course of study
between two universities?
Please indicate from the list below the institution(s) at which you wish to study:
Click here to select preference...
Semester 1
Click here to select institution...
Semester 2
Click here to select institution...
2.
FOUR-YEAR DEGREE OPTIONS
(a)
DO YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN THE UNIVERSITY-PLACEMENT PROGRAMME?
YES
NO
Please specify country (Lebanon/Morocco/Russia only available for one semester):
Egypt*/Lebanon*/Morocco
France
Germany/Austria
Italy
Russia
Spain/Uruguay
* These programmes are currently suspended, though you may indicate your interest in them
in case they are reactivated. Further information about the Arabic options for next year will be
available towards the end of Semester One.
Persian: you can apply to study Persian abroad via the St Andrews Abroad programme at
one of the following universities: Toronto, California, Pennsylvania, Virginia. The St Andrews
Abroad programme is run by Collaborations & Study Abroad and it is to CSA that you must
apply to participate in it.
N.B. If you wish to apply to more than one country you MUST indicate an order of
preference. Also, please note that exchanges with certain universities in Lebanon and Russia
are available only for one semester but may be combined with study in a second country.
Below is a list of the Universities with which we have exchanges, with the main subjects being
offered. Other subjects may be available so please ask if you do not see the information you
require. Please note that while every consideration will be given to your personal choice the
final choice will be made by subject coordinators on academic grounds. All Russian courses
are run through the organization RLUS, whose application process will be explained to
students by the YA coordinator for Russian in their preliminary meeting in the Semester 1 in
the year preceding their departure.
For participation in the University Placement programme, please indicate your order of
preference (1-3) in the year or semesters of choice below. In the case of Italian and Russian,
please indicate your preferred semester for both languages. Other destinations are wholeyear exchanges. Russian is only available for one- emester on the four-year degree option. A
full year abroad is not possible for Joint Honours in Management and Spanish.
PLEASE SELECT YOUR ORDER OF PREFERENCE (click on drop down menus):
Full year:
1 Preference 1...
2 Preference 2...
3 Preference 3...
OR
Semester 1:
1 Preference 1...
2 Preference 2...
3 Preference 3...
Semester 2:
1 Preference 1...
2 Preference 2...
3 Preference 3...
COUNTRY/UNIVERSITY
EGYPT
CAIRO (currently suspended)
FRANCE
PERPIGNAN
SCIENCES PO (Paris)
SORBONNE (Paris)
TOULOUSE
SUBJECTS/PROGRAMMES
AVAILABLE
Most subjects
French
Spanish
Russian
French
IR
Modern History
Management
Art History
History
(Ancient, Med & Mod)
French, German,
Italian, Latin
Russian, Spanish
History
(Ancient, Med & Mod)
French, German,
Italian, Latin, Linguistics
Russian, Spanish
GERMANY / AUSTRIA
BONN
LÜNEBURG
VIENNA
ITALY
PADUA (S1 or S2, or whole year)
TURIN (S1 or S2, or whole year)
VERONA (S1 or S2, or whole year)
LEBANON
BEIRUT (S1) (currently suspended)
MOROCCO
RABAT: (S1 or S2) Qalam wa-lawh
RUSSIA
MOSCOW (S1 or S2, or whole year)
ST PETERSBURG (S1 or S2, or whole year)
YAROSLAVL (S1 or S2)
PETROZAVODSK (S1)
Most subjects
RU, EC and MN students
please contact coordinator.
Some modules in the Arts
faculty require knowledge of
Latin.
Cultural studies
Most subjects
Most subjects
Most subjects
Most subjects
Arabic
Arabic
Language Link
Benedict School
St Petersburg State
University
Yaroslavl State University
Petrozavodsk State
University
TVER (S1 or whole year)
Tver State University
KAZAN (S2)
SPAIN
ALCALA
Language Link
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
VALLADOLID
POMPEU FABRA BARCELONA
Spanish
Modern History
Art History
Spanish
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Art History
French
Two schemes:
a) year long:
Economics
GRANADA
b) first term of Senior
Honours year:
SP4102 Spanish only; corequisite: SP4099 Spanish
Dissertation
Most subjects
(b)
DO YOU WISH TO STUDY AT A UNIVERSITY IN URUGUAY? YES
(c)
DO YOU WISH TO GO STRAIGHT INTO JUNIOR HONOURS (no year abroad)?
YES
(d)
NO
NO
If you are a student of Spanish, do you wish to consider SP4102, with first term in Pompeu
Fabra?
YES
NO
SP4102 includes three months'
residence at Universitat Pompeu
Fabra in Barcelona from midSeptember to late December of your
Senior Honours year, for study of
Spanish only. The module also
requires taking up SP4099, Spanish
Dissertation, to be started during
stay in Barcelona
3.
JOINT-HONOUR STUDENTS:
For participation in the Assistantship scheme, the University Placement programme or
the Work Placement programme, you must obtain written permission from the Head of
School in your joint subject, and hand that letter to the School Office by the end of
Week 11 (scanned document or email from the relevant joint subject will suffice).
Students considering SP4102/RU3102 are also advised to discuss this with their nonlanguage departments(s) in order to ensure that the distribution of credits and any
other requirements are clearly understood in advance.
4.
COMMENTS, QUERIES?
Please see the relevant coordinator in the first instance, and leave any comments in the box
provided:
ARABIC:
Dr Elmaz
FRENCH: Dr Prest (Work Placements) (S1 only), Dr Carson (University Placements)
GERMAN: Dr Cusack (S1 only)
ITALIAN:
Dr Bond
RUSSIAN: Dr Donovan
SPANISH: Dr Fernandez
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Dr Finer
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