Cambridge University » language centre http://wemakesites.org Your best High Education Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:12:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Cambridge university language programme http://wemakesites.org/cambridge-university-language-programme http://wemakesites.org/cambridge-university-language-programme#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:10:00 +0000 admin http://wemakesites.org/cambridge-university-language-programme This initiative, begun in 2000, offers undergraduates and postgraduates the chance to begin or maintain language skills in French or German. Other languages may be added to the programme in future years. Courses are offered at beginner and intermediate level and the programme focuses on speaking, listening and reading skills. It is free and open to postgraduates of any discipline, although places are limited. The courses run over the Michaelmas and Lent terms and require a time commitment at about 3 hours per week. A certificate will be awarded to students who complete their course satisfactorily.

BETTY AND GORDON MOORE LIBRARY

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, , CB3 OWD

Scheduled to open in October 2001 the Betty and Gordon Moore Library (BGML) is a new research library covering the physical sciences, technology and pure and applied mathematics. As a branch of the Library together with the SPL (see below) the BGML will provide access lo and support for a full range of scientific print and electronic services.

SCIENTIFIC PERIODICALS LIBRARY Bene’t Street, , CB2 3PY

The Scientific Periodicals Library (SPL) was founded as the library of the Philosophical Society in the early nineteenth century becoming a branch of the Library in 1976. The SPL will, on the opening of the Betty and Gordon Moore Library, be given specific responsibility for the biological, chemical, earth and environmental sciences and will be provisionally renamed the Central Site Science Library (CSSL) (10 p.m. during the Easter Full Term), Saturdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Reading rooms open at 9.30 a.m. There is no admission to the Library during lhe) last quarter of an hour before closing. The Library is closed on Christmas Eve and the following days up to and including the New Year public holiday and on Good Friday and the three following days, it is also closed on the Summer Bank Holiday and annually for one week in mid-September for stocktaking.

]]> http://wemakesites.org/cambridge-university-language-programme/feed 0 The language centre http://wemakesites.org/the-language-centre http://wemakesites.org/the-language-centre#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:56:00 +0000 admin http://wemakesites.org/the-language-centre Independent Learning Centre: Lecture Block A, Sidgwick Site, ,

CB3 9DA

Administration: 11 West Road, , CB3 9DP

Tel/Fax: + 44 1223 335040

The is open to all members of the . Graduate students from all disciplines can use the Centre to learn languages in a variety of ways. In the Independent Learning Centre over 120 languages are available from beginners’ to advanced level for private study. Facilities include audio, video and integrated multimedia workstations. The collection of resources include language learning courses, on-line dictioiiaries, CD-ROM databases, direct television broadcasts by satellite, documentaries on literary, cultural and historical topics and foreign language films. Graduate students may also join courses in French and German at beginners and intermediate levels during Michaelmas and Lent terms. The Language Learning Adviser is available for consultation during Full Term. The also holds equipment, CCTV, etc., which can be used by graduate students for experimentation into processes of language learning and teaching.

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