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Law and european studies anyone?
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28-12-2007 9:38pm#1
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It has been a long time since I've been drunk...well not really I was drunk last night but it has been a long time since I've come home drunk and posted here
Ava learn how to spell....you'll not get far in Law & European Studies (or any course for that matter) if every second sentence you type in an essay contains gems such as "agezzzzzz" (I hope I got the right number of z's in there).
And to be my usual helpful self I'm sure a few people here will be able to fill you in on some of the law parts of the course not sure about the European Studies part of it though. You may have to wait until people get back from the Christmas break before you get a few responses.0 -
You sound like the type of person that would be exactly suited to this course.
Posers.
Ah now, play nice... This is just part of the Laccy/LEuro rivalry!
Get over yerselves...HPSS is the best
OP, from the European Studies view I know that friends of mine who have taken French have found it increasingly difficult and very hard to obtain good grades in (not pointing fingers, but the department has, shall we say, 'set high standards' in that it doesn't like giving As)... It's harder than Spanish up to about 3rd year after which point Spanish becomes notoriously difficult. I'm going on what I've heard from friends doing these subjects.
In addition to that, the other part of European Studies means taking a politics/history/sociology elective along with you throughout your course. These are supplementary modules that can be a nice break from hardcore law subjects.
As ninty9er pointed out, from September (ie it's an option for you now) there is the new course LM029 Bachelor of Laws (Law Plus) which is more law-based and doesn't have a compulsory language component like Law and Euro. There still are elective options though.
Have a look at them both at the prospectus website.
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It has been a long time since I've been drunk...well not really I was drunk last night but it has been a long time since I've come home drunk and posted here
Ava learn how to spell....you'll not get far in Law & European Studies (or any course for that matter) if every second sentence you type in an essay contains gems such as "agezzzzzz" (I hope I got the right number of z's in there).
And to be my usual helpful self I'm sure a few people here will be able to fill you in on some of the law parts of the course not sure about the European Studies part of it though. You may have to wait until people get back from the Christmas break before you get a few responses.
You are souch a downer! it was obviously a theme that he was using because he is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (lol) excited to go to UL (wooo! UL!!!)
who knows, maybe you knew that and were triing to be funny, but that sounded so negative.0 -
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lecturers do not look kindly on answers written in your own bastardized version of the English language.
shouldn't that be bastardised....you should maybe ensure that your spell check is on English (Ireland) rather than tha bastardized English (US) version.
I've pulled a few lecturers who seem to think they're on the other side of the pond and not this side where English was conceived!!0 -
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shouldn't that be bastardised....you should maybe ensure that your spell check is on English (Ireland) rather than tha bastardized English (US) version.
I've pulled a few lecturers who seem to think they're on the other side of the pond and not this side where English was conceived!!
Well spotted....poxy Firefox Beta not being available in UK-English yet. Yep a lot of lecturers in CSIS seemed attached to the American version of the English language as well to my annoyance on occasion.0 -
Well spotted....poxy Firefox Beta not being available in UK-English yet. Yep a lot of lecturers in CSIS seemed attached to the American version of the English language as well to my annoyance on occasion.
It's perfectly acceptable to use American English spellings of things such as 'program' (as opposed to the English 'programme') when referring to technological innovations, as these were invented at "the other side of the Pond" and therefore it is technically correct to use the American spelling.
With regard to the '-ised' versus '-ized' argument, it is difficult to determine where to draw the line: many sticklers will insist on the former but the latter is perfectly correct in the Queen's English these days also. They are generally substitutable, but it is deemed more appropriate to use '-ized' only for more modern, American words as well as scientific and technological terms and to use the more traditional '-ised' for others.
So, law, eh? 0 -
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bluedolphin wrote: »It's perfectly acceptable to use American English spellings of things such as 'program' (as opposed to the English 'programme') when referring to technological innovations, as these were invented at "the other side of the Pond" and therefore it is technically correct to use the American spelling.
With regard to the '-ised' versus '-ized' argument, it is difficult to determine where to draw the line: many sticklers will insist on the former but the latter is perfectly correct in the Queen's English these days also. They are generally substitutable, but it is deemed more appropriate to use '-ized' only for more modern, American words as well as scientific and technological terms and to use the more traditional '-ised' for others.
So, law, eh?
It's all about consistency. If you start of using American English, than continue using it, and vice versa. However, I remember reading in a grammar book that even when using British English, we spell it 'program' when talking about computer programs, as these originated on the other side of the Pond, as you said, but use 'programme' for TV shows, booklets you buy at matches, schedules of conference events etc.
Going back to the OP's comments, if you are really only interested in doing Law, I would do that new Law Plus course that bluedolphin mentioned. I did Law and European Studies, and I found that while the European Studies stuff were interesting enough (I did French and Politics) I found in third and fourth year they could be a bit repetitive and distracting from the amount of time needed to put into the law modules. With French we were given small little niggly assignments every week, these could be annoying compared to say the Law modules where it was just an end of term exam or Politics where there might be one big essay plus an exam.0
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