I'm a third year and the course is great, I don't know what the first year above is talking about, writing code on paper and all that... We never did such a thing. As for saying only one module is programming related, you haven't been paying much attention clearly, since we were programming in virtually all our modules and the ones where we weren't programming we were learning about computer science, things like discrete maths, searching & sorting, etc. If you wanted a degree in programming you should've gone to a uni that offered that or gone for something like software engineering, if you want to learn computer science and all that it entails, Lancaster is good for that.
The lecturers are mostly good, no complaints there and most of them do seem to genuinely care about their students. The department itself is a bit of a mess, not particularly well-organised but they do a good enough job 99% of the time, although a few weeks ago there was a piece of coursework set for us third years where they initially removed a section because it was compromised, then they took a while deciding what to do and ended up lumping us with another piece of coursework in the middle of our exam period when we also have to prepare our final year project demonstrations... Pretty sure the guy responsible for that is no longer working here.
All things considered I've had a good experience here so far, most of my friends from college took computer science at similarly ranked universities and all their courses seemed on par or even slightly below what we're getting here at Lancaster.