Lectures and seminars at the University of Birmingham
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My course is Social Policy
And it's taught through seminars and lectures
and lectures are where you just listen to lots of information
and I have about 8 – 9 contact hours with that
and then I also have seminars
which are a chance to discuss or and dissertation meetings
which is a chance to have one to one contact time with your tutor
and they help you out with any problems you may have.
I take Chemical Engineering
And the course comprises of about 20+ hours of lectures per week
including laboratories and tutorial sessions as well.
The structure is basically where you go to lectures
you take down notes and the tutorial sessions are
sessions where you can ask questions about specific
parts of the lectures you don’t understand
or parts of the course that you’ve been taught but don’t necessarily understand either
And you also have a personal tutor who
you meet with like you know I think about twice a term
and you have an opportunity to speak to them about any problems that you may be having with the course
you know any material that you may not understand, you can actually go to your personal tutor
and you can talk with them about anything that you’re finding a bit difficult.
My course because I do Mathematics
and Psychology but it's 2/3 Maths
it’s mainly lectures and example classes
so I have about 13 hours of lectures a week
two hours of computer labs where you just use Mathematics and computer software
and about 3 to 4 hours of example classes
where you just talk about problems with postgrads if you’ve got problems with the work
and you have to hand in exercises and things like that.
My Chemistry course is taught with mostly labs
we’ve got about a day and half of labs
and about 20 hours a week of lectures.
During the course of a year as well we also have tutorials
which are smaller group sessions where we talk to the tutors
and we get to talk about the course content
we get to ask any questions on a one – to – one basis
and we just get to interact more with the other students as well.
My course is taught with lectures and labs mainly
we don’t have many seminars or tutorials
I mean they are in the timetables so if you need any of help with any of the theory
you can go and sit in and get extra help from PhD students or the course teachers.
At the beginning of term we have about 14 contact hours
where we have a lot of lectures and we go through theory, through the slides
and we have reports for that, for coursework.
The way that you’re taught at university is quite different from sixth form because
and colleges and things like that
because you basically have a few lectures but you also have seminars
and lectures are usually your whole course
meeting up and just receiving information from one of the lecturers on a particular topic
and a seminar is where you meet in small groups
and you're asked to kind of discuss the range of ideas you heard about in your lecture
and to just go through things in more detail
so you get a better idea of what the course is about.
At university your timetable will consist of a mixture of lectures and small group teachings
which are also known as seminars.
Depending on your course
the number of people in lectures may vary.
For my course we have about 400 people in a big lecture theatre.
In small group seminars again depending on your department
it varies between ten people to about 20.