American Studies in Another Culture and Climate: Experiences from the Year Abroad
03/02/2016
When applying for courses at the University of Nottingham, I saw that the Cultures, Languages and Area Studies departments offered many students the chance to do a year abroad. Having decided to undertake a Joint Honours degree in Politics and American Studies, and having achieved the necessary academic requirements, I was lucky enough to be …
Pursuing the Nottingham Advantage Award in France
02/02/2016
Fran McKay, a French and History student, has used her extracurricular work as a teaching assistant in France to pursue the Nottingham Advantage Award alongside her degree, and blogs about her experiences below. The Nottingham Advantage Award is an award-winning scheme that has been developed to help students to participate in activities that develop the …
A Student’s Experience: From American and English Studies to Football…
27/01/2016
Emma Branston came to Nottingham to study American Studies and English as a first year in 2014. Here she reflects on some of her experiences so far… From the green campus to the encouraging and helpful staff, Nottingham provides the perfect environment for studying. The joint honours degree programme of American Studies and English has …
The Creative Student Network at the University of Nottingham
25/01/2016
The unique Creative Student Network was the reason I chose to study at Nottingham. It is a collection of talented students, staff, academics and industry representatives that come together to provide an insight into the creative industries. Throughout the year the network hosts a variety of workshops that aim to better a students understanding of …
A Year in Louisiana: an American and Canadian Studies Student Abroad
22/01/2016
In August 2014 I left England to begin my year abroad at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Having never visited the States before, let alone Louisiana, I was a little nervous about what I had gotten myself into. Luckily, everything surpassed my expectations, from the campus and the location, to the climate and …
Returning to Russian Studies at Nottingham
20/01/2016
I began an MA (by research) in September 2015: I am looking at the impact of politics on Russian heavy metal music in the mid-1980s. I actually started studying Russian at Nottingham in 2002 and graduated in German and Russian in 2006, but to come back during the centenary year for Russian Studies at Nottingham …
“Work hard, play hard”: First Year at Nottingham
19/01/2016
“Work hard, play hard.” Never has that old motto been more appropriate than for the first year of studying at the University of Nottingham. Although first year doesn’t count towards your final degree result, it is important to do as well as you can and make sure you give yourself a good platform …
The first year of French and Francophone Studies
18/01/2016
What better way to continue your passion for French than the French and Francophone Studies course at the University of Nottingham? My first year here was incredible. As a straight French student I had the opportunity to study a wide variety of French subjects: French grammar, history, literature, politics, film and translation. Not to mention …
Rethinking Literary Realism in Global Comparative Perspective – Leverhulme Trust funds Nottingham-led International Research Network
11/01/2016
More than a hundred years ago the rise of the modernist avant-garde seemed to make obsolete the literary Realism that dominated nineteenth-century European literature. However, realist forms of representation remain well and truly alive in literature, and also in photography, film, and the digital media. The transformation and return of realist poetics after modernism and …
Learning languages at Nottingham
18/12/2015
Emma with friends in Cádiz, Spain I started my UoN career as an undergraduate studying French and Beginners’ Spanish. Starting a language ab initio was daunting at first …
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