Hello,
I'm new here, I'm in my first year of Uni after doing a foundation year at the same university too last year.
I do Film and theatre studies, as a joint honours student the class sizes are fairly small, so there's only 9 of us in some of my sessions.
I've run into a bit of an issue that I'm not sure what to do, I work as a health advocate across Europe and have done so for around two years being a national advocate before that and am required to attend a conference abroad in a couple of weeks time. The conference is 5 days and I'd be missing 2 lectures which is 8 hours of teaching. (two of the days are a weekend)
I'm already worried that I'll be missing too much particularly from one of my lectures which is practical theatre and group work that I can't catch up on by just reading myself, I've had to miss one of these lectures already due to a medical emergency so I'm not sure what to do for the best.
Has anyone else ever missed practical group work? Do you think it's possible to still get a good grade out of it in the end? I'm just aware that there are only 9 people in my class so my absence will be noticed but I feel a duty to the conference too because it's what I do the whole of the time I'm not in lectures. It's the first time it's crossed over before so it's a bit of a challenge choosing between the two.