I've just finished sociology at YSJ, here are some of my opinions and answers.
1) first semester I was at uni 4 days (off Tuesdays) lectures are always 2 hours long. Second semester I had 3 2 hr lectures on a Monday (9-11,2-4,4-6) then 1 Tuesday. Of Wednesday. 2 Thursday 11:30-1:30 then 5:30-7:30 off Friday which meant longer weekends.
2) assignments in first semester were easy. 1 group presentation, 1 individual and 1 essay. You must submit your assignments online. This will get explained when you start. Semester 2 is a little harder. I've submitted 3 3000 word essays.
3) I've never had a 1-1, whoever my tutor was didn't even bother to contact me. Not even once. He's the course director but I don't think he was much of good help. I was exposed to depression and he never reached out to me either.
4) I didn't like the course at all, the modules weren't interesting, to me they were irrelevant. Some lecturers couldn't be bothered and were extremely shy, if your gonna be a lecturer you need to be passionate, happy, make he course fun. Lecturers made it boring, I actually fell asleep. I feel like almost everything I've learnt has been no use to me at all.
5) Lots of people dropped out within days cos sociology didn't seem like they thought it was
6) to end on a more positive note, the students in my classes who were doing sociology and crim combined loved he course. I've had classmates say they couldn't do sociology on it's own, doing it with criminology makes it more interesting and enjoyable, in the second semester you do sociology of deviance which I actually loved! It's influenced me to do it with psychology at my new university as I'm not going back to York St. John again. Hope this helps, few positives and negatives but I like to be honest. When I asked before I started people weren't honest with me. Best of luck! Sorry for the massive paragraph x
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