The average contact hour of politics degree programmes

I just want to know how many contact hours per week a degree in politics normally requires.

I don't know much. It seems that some universities like Manchester, Aberystwyth, Bristol, Leeds only require about 6 hours a week, while Essex, London Us, lancaster, Aberdeen, warwick require 8 hours. Birmingham and Southampton require 12 hours!

Is it related to teaching quality? :confused:

Correction is welcome :redface:

Reply 1

yeung3939

OP

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Oh! I mean the total hours of lectures, siminars, class, tutorials.

Thanks.

Reply 2

c_raw9787

Do you mean that because some Unis require less hours that the teaching quality is less? If you do, I don't think that's the case because Bristol, for example, achieved better in the Teaching Quality Assessment than Southampton but requires less hours. I don't know much about it though.

Reply 3

martynwilliams

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Universities do not, and do not anticipate having to spoon feed their students their degrees. In a science based subject, obviously the contact and teaching time is going to be more than what you’d expect in a humanities subject, such as politics.

There’s a reason why you “read” a degree. Universities will specify how much time they expect you to engage in private study in each module.

Lectures are designed to introduce you to the outline of the topic under discussion; seminars are designed to engage you in debate on the topic. Private study should be used to widen and deepen your own knowledge of the subject ready for the exam/essay, etc.

Reply 4

yeung3939

OP

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Oh!

I am simply surprised by the low contact hours of UK degree programmes. The contact hour of University of Hong Kong LLB, in which I am enrolling, is more than 15 hours per week.

What a great difference in teaching methodology!

Reply 5

Researcher Lond

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yeung3939

I just want to know how many contact hours per week a degree in politics normally requires.

I don't know much. It seems that some universities like Manchester, Aberystwyth, Bristol, Leeds only require about 6 hours a week, while Essex, London Us, lancaster, Aberdeen, warwick require 8 hours. Birmingham and Southampton require 12 hours!

Is it related to teaching quality? :confused:

Correction is welcome :redface:

8 hours for Government (which is LSE's name for Politics) at LSE. Classes last an hour each, as do lectures, though in my first year my GV100 module had some 2 hour lectures, rather than the standard 1 hour lecture.