Applied Development Studies

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...focus on American writers from that era. Simple enough, right? So people that may tell you, when applying, that this is some "Dossers Degree", as I was told (by a schoolteacher, no less), where you fail to get to grips with traditional academic disciplines, are completely wrong. You get to grips with all these disciplines, the only difference between doing a degree in English Literature (by means of comparison) and American Studies is purely the focus on a particular nation. Indeed, by covering the traditional disciplines of Literature, History, Politics, Film and Culture, American Studies graduated emerge with a lot of skills that other graduates do not, having developed a wider variety of skills as a result of studying a wider variety of topics and not being confined to one unique and distinct discipline. American Studies is among... Read review

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Advantages: helpful, well organised, supportive, good atmosphere
Disadvantages: can't see any

...The Development Studies School at UEA is based in the Arts building and is linkied with the ODG -overseas development group which also runs from the aerts building. There are variuos Masters degrees in Dev- my one, the MA in International Relations and Development Studies being one of them. The staff are very helpful and friendly and the recent induction programme is very well organised so if you come from another university it is not too daunting. There are many international students taht come to this department and there is a great deal of suport for them here as well as for home students. The course structures depend on individual degrees and I have to wait and see what the work load is going to be like... Read review

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Advantages: Friendly and inexpensive
Disadvantages: Some areas to avoid

...I've been studying in Liverpool for six years (long story!) and i love it here and will be sorry to go. The strange thing is it took me a while to realise this. When applying to univeristies, the only reason I applied to Liverpool was for the football. The univeristy invited me for an interview and so I travelled up by train. I'm from London and this was the furthest North I have ever been. On arriving here two things struck me, one that people were actually talking to each other in the street and two that loads of people did actually sound like an episode of Harry Enfield! On coming here I had alot of fun, but after a while noticed it was all get abit "samey", same places same bars and doing the same stuff. At the time I blamed this on Liverpool, but now realise that no matter where you got the same things going to happen, its just... Read review

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