Phil recently wrote a comment to his previous post on Montpellier, and since it's kinda hidden somewhere in the blog, I thought I'd re-post it right here. Thanks again Phil, good news for those that are on track to Montpellier!
Hey,
here is an extension to this first and quite critical impression. The courses I had in the meantime are really quite the opposite of the ones before. They really seem to be in their comfort zone with social sciences here and the courses negotiation (for env. resources) and nature politics as well as some other social course, which I cant be bothered to look up right now, are really interesting and definitely new land for me. Here the limiting factor is unfortunately still the french language. Even though I understand the stuff theoretically it is still an effort to listen and it gets hard to concentrate after a while as the density of info is pretty high. We get interesting guest speakers as well and the only negative thing is that we still dont know any exam dates.
I just wanted to let you know that my perception of Montpellier changed a bit since I last reflected on it and that it might be quite a cool place to go if you want to go deeper into social science and social science theory and if your french is quite alright to begin with. I remind you that I did not speak a word before starting the course with the fild trip to french guyana...
Ciao
Phil
Hey,
here is an extension to this first and quite critical impression. The courses I had in the meantime are really quite the opposite of the ones before. They really seem to be in their comfort zone with social sciences here and the courses negotiation (for env. resources) and nature politics as well as some other social course, which I cant be bothered to look up right now, are really interesting and definitely new land for me. Here the limiting factor is unfortunately still the french language. Even though I understand the stuff theoretically it is still an effort to listen and it gets hard to concentrate after a while as the density of info is pretty high. We get interesting guest speakers as well and the only negative thing is that we still dont know any exam dates.
I just wanted to let you know that my perception of Montpellier changed a bit since I last reflected on it and that it might be quite a cool place to go if you want to go deeper into social science and social science theory and if your french is quite alright to begin with. I remind you that I did not speak a word before starting the course with the fild trip to french guyana...
Ciao
Phil
Hi SUTROFOR students,
ReplyDeleteI'm a Dutch student at Oxford University and potentially a new student on your course starting in Copenhagen next year. I am currently trying to find out more about the program and its quality. I would love to skype or email with anyone who would be willing to share their experiences, recommend (or not) the course to me and answer some questions!
My email address is: milja.fenger@hmc.ox.ac.uk
Regards,
Milja
Hi Milja, I'll contact you soon...
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