Law lectures/classes/timetable

hi i just wanted to check with those who are currently already in law school about the flexibility of classes and timetables.. im hoping to get a place in CHH but if i do end up in stoke bishop i'd definitely kill myself walking to campus everyday.. so im wondering if anyone could tell me if i'm able to pack my lessons so that they fall only on say, 3 days? i know some universities are very flexible that way, in that they allow the students to attend the time slots that are convenient for them.. not sure about Bristol though. could anyone enlighten me on this please? thank you

Reply 1

IAJTHOMAS

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Lectures are fixed for the whole year in the first year, there are no alternative lectures. You will get one a day for four days a week, and two on one day for the first half of the term, but then that lecture group stops and you have 4 instead of 6 lectures. Lectures are not compulsory.

You get a 5 1 hour tutorials a week, and 1 2 hour seminar. It is possible to attend different ones of these with tutor's permission but i doubt they'd let you do it on a regular basis, especially since you reason is, "I can't be arsed"
Tutorials are compulsory, but effectively, as long as you don't miss 3 in a row they don't mind.

BTW, which unis let you pick and choose your timetable, surely there would be chaos, not know whether you have an empty tutorial or 50 people?

Reply 2

ciara

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IAJTHOMAS

Lectures are fixed for the whole year in the first year, there are no alternative lectures. You will get one a day for four days a week, and two on one day for the first half of the term, but then that lecture group stops and you have 4 instead of 6 lectures. Lectures are not compulsory.

You get a 5 1 hour tutorials a week, and 1 2 hour seminar. It is possible to attend different ones of these with tutor's permission but i doubt they'd let you do it on a regular basis, especially since you reason is, "I can't be arsed"
Tutorials are compulsory, but effectively, as long as you don't miss 3 in a row they don't mind.

BTW, which unis let you pick and choose your timetable, surely there would be chaos, not know whether you have an empty tutorial or 50 people?

Ditto what he said, except it's 5 tutorials and 1 seminar a fortnight, not every week!

I can imagine it might be a bit of a hassle being a Stoke Bishop lawyer, but then again you can make the most of going in to the university by staying and working in the library during the day. In fact, I should imagine a long walk would be a perfect way to stay more disciplined in general! You'll probably get into CHH though, in which case the fact that there's only 1 lecture a day or something is kinda cool.

Reply 3

IAJTHOMAS

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ciara

I can imagine it might be a bit of a hassle being a Stoke Bishop lawyer, but then again you can make the most of going in to the university by staying and working in the library during the day. In fact, I should imagine a long walk would be a perfect way to stay more disciplined in general!

Nah, I'm primarily responsible for my friends viewing lawyers as having a degree of laziness and lack of work rivaling historians. *sigh* i was hoping i would have developed one of those work ethic things by now.

Reply 4

Phil_D

IAJTHOMAS

Nah, I'm primarily responsible for my friends viewing lawyers as having a degree of laziness and lack of work rivaling historians. *sigh* i was hoping i would have developed one of those work ethic things by now.

Oi! We'll have none of that historian bashing, Ian. I do plenty of work, thank you very much.

Reply 5

IAJTHOMAS

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Yeah, right :smile:

(says person with 1 hour of tutorials and no lectures all term... :biggrin:

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Reply 6

zen

OP

thanks very much for all your replies but im hoping perhaps anyone of you already in law could show me your timetable in year 1? that would be able to tell me how many modules, lectures, classes etc there are in a day and how long does an average day of classes/lectures last as well as what to expect from my future schedule. thanks in advance

Reply 7

TJ_2005

Very well... my 1st year timetable, which generally applies throughout the autumn and spring terms, is as follows:

Odd Week:

Mon: Tort lecture @ 14.00
Tues: Tort tutorial @ 12.10
Wed: Contract lecture @ 10.00;Property lecture @ 12.10
Thur: Contract lecture @ 11.10; Criminal tutorial @ 12.10; Criminal lecture @ 15.00
Fri: Constitutional Rights lecture @ 11.10; Contract tutorial @ 14.00

Even Week:

Mon: Property tutorial @ 09.00; Tort lecture @ 14.00
Tues: Constitutional Rights tutorial @ 12.10; Law & State seminar @ 14.00
Wed: Contract lecture @ 10.00; Property lecture @ 12.10
Thur: Contract lecture @ 11.10; Criminal lecture @ 15.00
Fri: Constitutional Rights lecture @ 11.10

First year lectures/tutorials are 50 minutes long, while seminars are generally 2 hours (supposedly with a 10 minute break) - the ‘start times’ are: 09.00; 10.00; 11.10; 12.10; (13.00 is lunch throughout the university); 14.00; 15.00; and 16.00.

NB. I have omitted from this timetable my appointments in Starbucks which, but for the arrangements detailed above, are scheduled for all hours between 09.00 and 17.00, Monday - Friday (inclusive). Mine's a double shot, tall, skinny latte...