Specific purposes provision We delivered Languages for Academic Purposes (LAP) courses in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish to graduate students in the School of Arts and Humanities (SAH) and the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS). We ran a total of 23 courses in Michaelmas and Lent (and some in Easter too) that enrolled 269 students. We also continued to provide courses as required by a range of MPhil programmes in the Faculties of History and Divinity, and for the centres of Latin-American Studies and African Studies. We also delivered a suite of courses for the Clinical School‘s students. New languages We introduced British Sign Language (BSL) for both the general audience and Medics. The course proved to be extremely popular among the Medics. General Overall enrolment numbers were up for the year, 1518 (1282). While this is partially due to the increased Easter term figures (more below), the number of enrolments was up even when only Michaelmas/Lent courses are compared. We ran courses leading to externally examined University Awards in French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. A total of 83 students received the Award. Easter term remote, online teaching Upon the Covid-19 lockdown we took a swift decision to deliver all of our courses remotely online. To do so we chose to use Zoom for the delivery of real-time, synchronous teaching and integrated it with the already existing Moodle VLE. CULP has always featured a blended-learning mode of course delivery which meant that nearly all our teaching resources were in digital format and readily available for remote, online delivery and integration with Zoom-based teaching. The next phase consisted of intensive teacher training. We called upon the expertise of the LC Technical section, as well as ADTIS colleagues. Our Teacher Development Coordinator, Pedro Barriuso-Algar, has extensive experience in teaching online (Open University) as does the CULP Director, Dr Radić (University of Auckland, New Zealand). We rolled out a vast number of workshops and organised a supportive professional network that we later extended from the initial training phase into ongoing support. Not expecting to enrol many students, we lowered considerably the fees and looked at this term as an opportunity to gain significant experience.
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