Teaching and learning
You will learn through a combination of lectures, laboratory sessions and tutorial classes. Your total contact or teaching time will be around 19 hours per week in your first year. You will be expected to spend Assessment Modules are assessed depending on the time on independent study of the work being carried out. For and coursework or lab reports. nature example, if the module involves practical Overall, this means that you work only, the assessment will be based should be spending 30-40 hours on laboratory reports alone. For nonpractical modules, you will have various on your studies each week. combinations of assessment including Modular structure
Your degree will be taught in modules, each covering a different topic. Typically, modules will be taught through a number of hours each of lectures and problems classes/ tutorials. Practical laboratory modules, such as ‘Scientific Measurement’, have fewer lectures and are almost entirely delivered in the teaching laboratory.
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weekly coursework, termly assignments, and end-of-semester examinations.
Independent study At university, you will be expected to undertake a large amount of independent study. Your individual study time could be spent preparing for tutorials and lectures, reading, assessing data from experiments, completing lab reports and revising for exams.
