ABOUT YOUR COURSE The main difference between studying at higher education and studying at school or college is that you will be expected to take more responsibility for your own learning. One of the aims of higher education is to develop your skills as a lifelong learner so that you can face new challenges later in life and know how to deal with these successfully (see the ‘Learning and Teaching’ section).
IT’S UP TO YOU
WHAT YOUR COURSE WILL LOOK LIKE
Taking responsibility for your own learning means that you will have to organise your own time in order to ensure that you can engage with your studies. Engagement will include, for example: attendance at timetabled sessions (eg. lectures, seminars, etc.); completion of work required for a timetabled session (eg. viewing and reading material available on Canvas, the University’s virtual learning environment); additional reading of books and journals to enhance your knowledge of a subject; accessing additional resources, such as study skills workshops; and completion of assessment tasks.
Your course will consist of a set of modules, which are blocks of teaching and learning based around a particular theme or topic relating to the subject that you are studying.
You will be withdrawn from the University if you fail to engage with the academic requirements of your course of study, within 50 days of the course start date, following repeated and reasonable attempts by the University to contact you.
COURSE GUIDE When you enrol on a course you will be able to access the Course Guide. The Course Guide is an important document which contains essential information that you should refer to throughout your period of study. Download it from e:Vision or visit: wlv.ac.uk/courseguides
Each module is given a number of academic credits. The number of credits relates to the amount of study time that you will need to do in order to complete the module. As a general rule, 1 credit = 10 hours of study – so, for a 20 credit module you would expect to study for 200 hours. This time includes: • all contact time with members of staff • preparation for study • independent learning • preparing and completing assessment activities. You will collect academic credits every time you pass a module. These credits accumulate towards the total number of credits required for the qualification that you are studying. The University’s Academic Regulations detail how many credits you will need to achieve for the qualification that you are studying, and how many of these credits you should be achieving in each academic year.
