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If you come to study for a degree in the Arts at the University of Nottingham, we hope first
of all that we're going to give you an exciting intellectual adventure, an adventure into ideas.
One thing employers realise is that Arts degrees equip students with skills for life. So as
well as learning a particular discipline you'll get a range of skills that will come along
with that.
There will be some traditional lectures in big lecture theatres but we find particularly
in the arts that dialogue and discussion are very important, so we encourage a lot of
small group teaching.
University of Nottingham puts a lot of resources into its teaching and learning facilities.
There's a range of libraries on campus of which we're proud.
There are just thousands and thousands of books that you can just delve into, immerse
yourself in the field that you're looking at and also online subscriptions to journal
articles as well, those have been a god send as well.
We also have number of department specific facilities so School of English contains drama
for instance, so we have performance spaces available there.
We have a specialist Digital Humanities Centre that's accessible to all students and staff.
The Digital Humanities Centre is essentially a place with a lot of technology: computers,
scanners, cameras, video cameras.
We want our students to get an experience of the world. That's easier for us as a university
than some others. We have overseas campuses in China and Malaysia and we have a number
of students who go there, but as well as that we've got a range of other exchange schemes
that we fully encourage students to participate in. We send students to Australia, Canada,
the United States, South America.
So in my second year at Nottingham I went to UNSW in Sydney as part of my Philosophy
course for a semester, which was fantastic. I met a whole range of brilliant people who
I'm still in contact with and I got to travel around some of New Zealand and Thailand on
my way home too which was pretty cool. I absolutely loved it. I could never say I regretted it,
it was the best choice of my uni degree so far.
What the mentoring system does in essence is, it puts incoming students into small groups
of a maximum of three students, and it puts them in contact with a senior student from
year two, year three, possibly a masters student who then becomes their mentor and coaches
them through some of those practical tasks and basically becomes a critical friend for
them.
This is an exhibition put on by Crop Up Gallery. It's curated by a curator called Costanza
Bergo, and it's an exhibition of all work by an artist called Remo Mattera.
So we're all students, this is a student run curatorial group. It gives you a huge wealth
of experience into real life industry situations. I think it's always important to gain as much
experience as you can during your degree.
Well I, I feel quite proud to be at the University of Nottingham because we are so strong in
the Arts. I think the sign of a really good world leading university is that is has a
strong Arts faculty, and I'm proud to say the University of Nottingham has that.
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