Studying English: What's It Like?

31/01/2025 46 min

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Episode Synopsis

Stay tuned to hear Nadia, 3rd-year student, share everything you need to know about studying English at Cambridge! A full list of discussion points can be found below.

00:00 Introductions
00:50 Why did you choose to study English? And why Cambridge?
02:00 Do you have more freedom in the English degree compared to English at A Level?
03:10 How does English at Cambridge compare to English at other universities?
05:40 What are supervisions? And what are English supervisions like?
10:30 What’s the course structure for English at Cambridge?
12:50 Is there any overlap between departments when it comes to the modules you study?
13:50 Being able to choose modules outside of the English department
14:20 Studying translated texts, the theory of translation itself, and other languages
18:15 What is Practical Criticism? And why is it so central to the English course at Cambridge
28:10 Why is there a compulsory paper on tragedies?
32:50 What modules are you doing?
36:00 Dissertations in the English course
37:20 Choosing between studying English or History
41:00 Choosing between Oxford and Cambridge for studying English