Dialogue:

Tutor: Have you settled in?

Anna Maria: Yes, I feel quite at home now. I haven't got used to the food yet, but I'm enjoying the life on campus.

Tutor: Good. Now we'd better make sure you enjoy your studies. We offer a very wide range of options on the foundation course, as you know; but you can only take six modules -do you know what you want to do yet?

Anna Mafia: Yes, more or less, but I'm not sure whether to do biological sciences or German.

Tutor: Well, that's quite a difference. You want to do computer studies, don't you?

Anna Maria: Mmmmm, yeh.

Tutor: Well, let's see-you elected to do physical sciences, basic electronics, art and design CAD-that computers and design-isn't it?

Anna Maria: Computer-aided design actually, "CAD", but...

Tutor: Oh, right-anyway, CAD and..., and English. That's quite a range. Don't you want to do maths-or computer programming, for example? Why don't you choose to do art and design?

Anna Maria: Well, I'm interested in electronics-in computer-especially in writing computer games. I'd like to produce educational software, educational games, eventually. I've taught myself a lot of programming- I... I don't think I'd benefit much from a foundation level course.

Tutor: No... no, I see that-go on.

Anna Maria: So, er, I want the basics-the physical science and electronics I was hopeless at physics in school and we didn't have electronics-but I was good at maths-I don't think I need that.

Tutor: And the art and design?

Anna Maria: That will be good for my graphics-I need that to produce games-CAD too-I've never done CAD before.

Tutor: No-right-they've got some powerful packages in the computer graphics and CAD offices-you'll enjoy that. So... that leaves English. It's mostly English lit. I know your English is very good, but did you know you can take English as a foreign language as one of the modules in the foundation year?

Anna Maria: No... no, I didn't. That's great - if they've got classes at my level. I don't have any problem speaking-but my writing is...

Question: The tutor asks Anna Maria why she has chosen ______. 

- computer

- art and design

- maths


art and design