A language and culture can't just be learned, they have to be experienced! To bring the English language and culture even more to life, the English Unit offers you a range of activities, some more recurrent and structural, others more according to the opportunities that arise - exhibitions, films in their original version or even plays organized in Namur, Brussels, Ghent, Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve...
Cultural activities
Among the cultural activities, let's mention the "classics":
- film screenings in original version in Block 1 and Block 2, always in connection with courses and exercises, and, depending on supply and interest, VO film evenings "in town";
- the monthly "book club" in Block 2, in a convivial atmosphere (tea & biscuits are on the agenda!), where we chat about our readings;
- the presentations in Block 1 around "keywords and icons of Anglophone cultures";
- the theater visits to Leuven, when the Cambridge University European Theatre Group comes to present a Shakespeare play;
- the traditional "very merry Christmas Party".
When the opportunity arises, we support our students' participation in theater productions offered by Quai 22 and the École des Langues Vivantes.
Educational tour
Once every two-three years, we organize a didactic trip, most often to London, but other destinations, such as Edinburgh, have already been proposed. On the program if it's London: guided tours to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the Houses of Parliament, and the Tower of London, free visits to major museums (Tate Britain/Modern, British Museum, National (Portrait) Gallery) and monuments, and other discoveries...
Scientific research activities
The Unit also invites its students to get a taste of scientific research. Thus, we share our subscription to the popular journal Babel - The Language Magazine with students, and, as part of the "Language and Society" course, we accompany Block 3 students if possible (depending on dates) to the annual colloquium of Belgian Anglicists (BAAHE). As part of the NaLTT research institute or in other contexts (colloquia, GermAN alumni association, etc.), we involve students in scientific conferences. Recent examples include:
- an open course taught by two guests from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), Barbara Dancygier and Adrian Lou, around multimodal comparison (multimodal simile) in 2019;
- conferences NaLTT organized in connection with our courses, around the topics of "translation and in(ter)discipline" and "point of view and multimodality" in 2018.