University of Glasgow blether thread

You will have one tutorial lasting one hour. Whether or not you get a choice in that depends on the department, I'm not sure how politics deal with it. Some let you choose, some just put you in one.

So why do I have a tutorial in Pol but not the other courses?

You should have tutorials for all of your subjects in first year. At any rate, you know more about what's happening in first year than 99% of freshers. Enjoy the rest of your summer and ask these questions in week one. There's no hurry before then.

Doubt it tbh, French and Spanish will be good though, know a few people studying those.

Haha, that is pretty much what it is like! It doesn't take that long to walk from one side to the other, but at the change of lectures a lot of people are about and so moving is slowed right down. I was unlucky enough to have this happen to me in both first and second year! In first year I changed lecture times, and in second year I changed course instead.

Seeing as you know quite a bit about History in Glasgow, could you please help me out?

I was looking into the two subjects that would be my 40 credits for History and I realised that there were two similar options:

What's the difference between:

- History 1A: Medieval History 800-1500

and

- History 1A: Making of Europe: Three Orders 800-1500

?

The only difference I've realised is the timetable. In the 1st one, I'd have a class hour every weekday, so basically 5 hours a week.
In the second one, I'd have three x 1-hour video-conferenced lectures weekly.

Which course is better? The descriptions seem quite similar.

Thanks in advance.

I don't know why they're both listed, because that's the same course. I assume one of them is for the people in the Dumfries Campus, because they get it videolinked to them. You don't have five hours a week of that, you have three. It'll be three lectures one week and then two the following week with one seminar, which can be on any day of the week. Again though, this would be explained when you meet your adviser, no need to worry about it now.

I have a question about that... the history courses are the only ones I've seen where there seems to be 5 lectures a week. But what you're saying is different.

Can you explain it to a thicko like me!

Oh and off topic the new course catalogue says English Lit lectures are Mon - Fri. They used to just be Mon - Thu. Sucks for me! I was going to work on Fridays.

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I am seriously considering getting in touch with the uni to see if it was possible for me to do just Law rather than joint honours Law/Politics. Looking at the catalogue there is a lot of stuff I am pretty interested in studying.

Oh and off topic the new course catalogue says English Lit lectures are Mon - Fri. They used to just be Mon - Thu. Sucks for me! I was going to work on Fridays.

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you too?

I don't think you really need to bother getting in touch with them if it's other Law courses you want to do. I was supposed to be doing Law & Spanish last year, and I just deleted Spanish from my list of course options and picked up Roman Law instead, no bother. If I remember correctly, you do Politics instead of Criminal Law and your other option? It really shouldn't be a problem, once you're accepted into the Law faculty you can do pretty much whatever courses you want within it. Your only problem would very possibly be if you want to pick up something other than politics as a joint honours - in which case you'd maybe want to give the faculty in question a ring, I guess, but I doubt it would cause much trouble.