I study at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj, which is the largest in the country with more than 40,000 students. The university has a total of 21 faculties scattered throughout the city. There is therefore no campus, but various small and large building complexes. I myself study at three locations in the center of Cluj. In addition to Romanian, the degree programs are often offered in Hungarian, English, German and French.Unfortunately, I was unlucky enough to be assigned to the European Studies faculty instead of Economy, for example. For my culture and management studies, this only means the distant connection that I learn something about the history of European culture. As my Erasmus semester is compulsory, I am "lucky" that the courses I take here will still be credited to me, provided I hopefully pass them. I attend the German lectures on the course. The course is also offered in English, French and Romanian. As I was afraid that I would have enough problems getting to grips with the subjects of political science, European studies, European integration and European history and passing the exams, I chose German over English. Some of the teaching methods are unfortunately very ... dusty.[caption id="attachment_345" align="alignleft" width="300"] Source: citynews.ro[/caption]The students are mostly intimidated and passive, and in turn also very disrespectful. The lecturers, on the other hand, sometimes force you to take notes constantly, get loud and leave little room for discussion. It seems to me that there is not much mutual respect. Even though I only have lessons four days a week, I'm always totally exhausted on Thursday evenings. I have to constantly write excerpts and study countless texts on political philosophy to prepare for the seminar. Sometimes I'm annoyed that I can't use the time to learn more about cultural management before I write my Bachelor thesis next semester. Nevertheless, I can of course gain something from the whole thing and find it very exciting to get to know and understand the history of Europe, and I don't want to paint a bad picture of the university. I know from other Erasmus students that they attend very exciting courses with young, fresh lecturers, where the students are also enthusiastic and will definitely take a lot with them. Ojemine. sponsored by: