Frequently asked questions (degree courses)
If you are not sure which course to take or are thinking about whether you should take a course with us at all, this information will help
Feel free to contact the appropriate Language Co-ordinator if you have any questions.
Frequently asked questions on our degree courses
- In 2015-16 LSE adopted a new academic year structure. This change included the introduction of a reading week in week 6 of both the Autumn Term and Winter Term.
- There is an expectation that all students are in attendance (at LSE) for each reading week.
- We recommend that any Year 1 or Year 2 students thinking about taking one of our modern language courses in the next academic year investigate this possibility well in advance of the course choice system opening.
- Please check the pre-requisites for modern language courses as approval, from the Course Convenor, to select a particular course is compulsory. NB: access to this form is only possible when logged into your LSE account.
- Undergraduate students register using the online course choice system on the Student LfY.
- Some Departments, including us, will cap courses each year. This means that places on those course will be limited to a specific number of students.
- On Student LfY course choice system these courses are labelled as 'capped'.
- As soon as the number of students registered reaches the capped number the status of the course will change to 'full' and no one else will be able to select it.
- You can check the current limits with the Students Service Centre.
- It may be, for various reasons, that the course you want to take is not listed. Therefore there is an option on Student LfY to 'request an unlisted course'.
- Remember it may be that your degree programme will not allow you to take this course or just that you need to get approval from your Department.
- Either way if you really want to see if you can take the course it is worth a try.
- Not all courses will be available in a current session.
- This may be due to staff absence or low registrations in preceding years.
- If you feel the course should be made available then please email languages@lse.ac.uk us to register your interest.
- Any interest shown will be taken into account when planning for future years.
If you are a student at the University of London and wish to take the course as an intercollegiate student please follow the advice from the LSE Student Services Centre Intercollegiate registration.