UCAS
A
degree in Dutch Studies at Hull
- Assessment
- Careers
opportunities
- Degree
content
- Fieldwork
- Interviews
- Learning
and tutorial support
- Number
of applicants/offers
- Placement
(work/study overseas)
- Ratings
for teaching and research
- Study
facilities
- Study
time
Assessment
Dutch
Studies uses a variety of different assessment methods, consisting
usually of a combination of continuous assessment and a written
examination. Some courses are
assessed only by continuous assessment, consisting mainly of a group
project. The continuous assessment can take the form of essays,
translations, computer-based exercises, and oral presentations.
After
the four years, the final degree mark is made up as follows:
- - second
year average mark: 30%,
- - third year
average mark: 10%,
and
- - fourth
year average mark: 60%.
Careers
opportunities
The
university careers service rates very highly in national league tables,
and the
The
various skills which you will acquire during your Dutch Studies Single and
Joint Honours degree are widely sought after by employers.
You will be a fluent writer and speaker of Dutch. In addition, you
will be able to translate Dutch into English. And don’t forget that you
are native speaker of English, something very much sought after in
Flanders and the Netherlands.
In
a more general sense, the degree course
will help you develop your communication and presentation skills,
and knowledge of IT. It will given you experience of teamwork, working to
deadlines, thinking practically and logically and constructing convincing
arguments.
You
will also be one of only a small number of graduates with these skills, as
only one other British university offers a Single or Joint Honours degree
in Dutch Studies. It is, in fact, the only university offering the
combination of South-East Asian Studies and Dutch.
Many of our graduates are therefore able to make use of their
knowledge of the Dutch language when looking for a career in the UK or in
Flanders and the Netherlands. Our
specialised translation and interpreting modules in the final year enable
an increasing number of students to enter translation traineeships.
- In recent
years graduates in Dutch Studies have gone on to pursue careers
Degree content
Students
spend about half of their time following core modules that involve the
(1)
Literature and Art: a survey course, a reading course of Dutch
texts, and specialist courses in nineteenth and twentieth century
literature, colonial literature, gender in Dutch literature and film, as
well as the literature and art of the seventeenth century, the so-called
Golden Age of the Netherlands, or medieval literature and art;
(2)
Linguistics: history of the language, sociolinguistics, and the
description of the language;
(3)
History: a survey course on contemporary Dutch and Flemish society,
and specialist courses in nineteenth and twentieth century socio-economic
history, colonial history, as well as the history of the seventeenth
century.
This
allows students to either explore many different aspects of Dutch and
Flemish literature, history and culture, or to specialise in a particular
area that is of particular interest to them, such as social and economic
history, literature and film, gender and literature and film, or aspects
of the language. The first
year acts as a foundation year in which students learn the basics of the
language and may follow introductory modules in the history, literature
and language.
Fieldwork
During
the year abroad (year 3) students study at a Dutch or Flemish university
with which the department has exchange agreements. These universities are:
the University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Amsterdam, the Erasmus
University Rotterdam, and the
University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and the Universities of Antwerp
and Leuven in Flanders, including the Erasmushogeschool of Translation and
Interpreting in Brussels. The
students research and write a dissertation of
Interviews
- All
applicants are invited to attend one of a number of open days, during
which
Learning and
tutorial support
- Most
students who begin a degree in Dutch Studies have no qualifications
- Each student
is allocated a personal supervisor who will help with
- Numbers
of applicants/offers on the course
-
- Number of
applicants (1999/2000): 30
-
- Number of
offers (1999/2000): 30
Placement
(work/study overseas)
- All single
honours students spend at least nine months of their third year in
Ratings for
teaching and research
- The
department was rated 20/24 in the Spring 1996 Teaching Quality
Assessment
- exercise,
and was awarded a 3 in the Research Assessment Exercises of 1992 and
- Staff have
published extensively, particularly in the fields of modern Dutch
literature and the history and description of Dutch. See Research
Interests for more details of staff's work.
Study
facilities
Our
excellent university library has over one million volumes, as well as
large
Study time
- Our
10-credit modules involve approximately 100 hours of study, and the
total
- student
workload should be around forty hours per week. Of this total,
students
- can expect
to spend between 12 and 15 hours in lectures/seminars per week, and
- the rest of
time reading and preparing work.
- University of Hull
- Dutch Studies
- Cottingham Road
- Hull HU6 7RX
- Tel: +44 (0)1482 465893
- Fax: +44 (0)1482 465020
- Email: s.drop@selc.hull.ac.uk
- Any
comments to:
- B.Schludermann@selc.hull.ac.uk
