BA (Hons) Modern Languages at Wolverhampton Poly, graduated 1979.
I went to London University's Westfield College for an interview for Modern Languages and they offered me a place but I left with a feeling of dread - the course was three years exploring fascinating subjects like Spanish Literature of the Golden Age and other gems; when I asked about actual language learning they said "Oh you might be able to go to France or Spain for a month". Gawd!
Then I went to Wolverhampton Poly for an interview and come home with the dreadful feeling of gloom lifted: they offered a four-year course with year three spent abroad; language lab, a smattering of European and Latin-American political history and economics, a science and technology module, some computing, a third language for one year and phonetics. Oh, and almost no literature. I enjoyed the course, went to Granada for two months followed by three in Huelva as English Assistant in an Opus Dei college, then five months at Grenoble Uni supposedly doing Sciences Politiques but actually doing very little. (The first lecture we attended was two hours on "La théorie et le concept du fétischism selon Freud et Marx" so we didn't go to many more lectures after that, especially as we had no exams to do.)
After that experience I was ready for anything and it seems to have shaped my life because eventually I drifted into a job in export sales where I worked for a while in Paris and now do use my French and my job consists of convincing customers that my company is trustworthy, in an environment where everybody is accustomed to being cheated and ripped off. I love the internationality of my job and relish the communication challenges.
I also agree strongly that for the Polys to want to become Universities was the biggest cop-out ever.