12-12-2004, 08:08 PM
Hmmm. The way I understand it, your higher education seems to be differently constructed than ours. Whereas you pick individual classes (1 hour here, 1 hour there) to form a full "course" (consisting of several classes), we choose 1 course, which contains several classes or "modules"/"subjects".
For instance, when I took my English undergraduate course, I had the following classes
* American studies
* Translation
* Grammar
* Lexicology
* Phonetics
* British studies/Methods and didactics (you could choose between these two. I chose the latter.)
Each "class" in this course was between 2-8 hours pr week.
However, a couple of weeks back I ran into the teacher I had for American studies and chatted with him about how his course was this year, and he explained that the English undergraduate course had been subdivided into "modules", letting people choose a compilation of classes instead of 1 course consisting of several classes. I guess this is the system used in America?
Upside to this, is that you have better freedom in shaping your education the way *you* want it.
For instance, when I took my English undergraduate course, I had the following classes
* American studies
* Translation
* Grammar
* Lexicology
* Phonetics
* British studies/Methods and didactics (you could choose between these two. I chose the latter.)
Each "class" in this course was between 2-8 hours pr week.
However, a couple of weeks back I ran into the teacher I had for American studies and chatted with him about how his course was this year, and he explained that the English undergraduate course had been subdivided into "modules", letting people choose a compilation of classes instead of 1 course consisting of several classes. I guess this is the system used in America?
Upside to this, is that you have better freedom in shaping your education the way *you* want it.
