Below the radar, students are taking opportunities to learn languages as part of their studies, as an elective module, or as an extra-curricular bolt-on.
If you're not convinced that a joint honours programme is right for you, it's worth investigating if your university will allow you to take an elective module from outside of your normal department.
It also recommended that the Department for Children, Schools and Families (now the Department for Education) 'includes speech, language and communication, both as a core requirement and as an elective module, in the new Masters in Teaching and Learning' (Recommendation 23).
The two respondents who taught an elective module required their students to produce a report for assessment.
In the United States of America (USA), 'The art of doctoring', was introduced as an elective module to third and fourth year students.
For example, participants are asked whether to work on an elective module or not and if so they can choose which module they want to work on.
Dr Corinna Wagner, English lecturer, University of Exeter The programme itself has core and elective modules, as well as a research component and dissertation.
"The general MBA is a good foundation and most offer elective modules in specialist areas such as fashion," she says.
Sports Engineering is one of three possible focus areas the students can choose by selecting certain required and elective modules.
The NUS Master of Science (AMM&NS) degree requires the student to take 4 compulsory courses and 4 elective modules.
The other is the elective module(s) in the school curriculum where students carry out an individual presentation or a group interaction based on the knowledge, skills, and experience gained in these elective modules.
