Lancaster uni timetable

Hello,
I am thinking of taking chemistry next year at Lancaster univeristy preferably and was just wondering what the timetable for lessons and practical work is going to be like.
For example, are somedays going to long (9am to 6pm) or is there variation in the lengths e.g. some days you may only have 5 hours of work and other days mayber 7 hours.

Thanks
James

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Original post by Anonymous #1

Hello,
I am thinking of taking chemistry next year at Lancaster univeristy preferably and was just wondering what the timetable for lessons and practical work is going to be like.
For example, are somedays going to long (9am to 6pm) or is there variation in the lengths e.g. some days you may only have 5 hours of work and other days mayber 7 hours.

Thanks
James

Daughter does physics and if its anything like that then her first year consisted of Mondays being the full on day with lectures and labs in the afternoon for 2-3 hours. Tuesday was lectures/seminars but not as full on as monday. Wednesday was afternoons, she had a lie in. Thursday was couple of lectures, workshop if needed, Friday was literally one lecture and that was it. She did her problem sheets/coursework/re writing her notes on the wednesday night, friday afternoon and sunday night. Saturdays she had off, and Sunday days. Socialising/cleaning/laundry would be fit in between. With it being a core science, if you are taking in teaching + independant learning is its like a full time job.
Shes in her integrated masters year now, so not as many lectures as shes got her masters project, so she works saturday morning/sunday evening at a shop in town. Shes taking on an extra programming module in C++ so thats been taking her time up as well (she was taught python throughout).
Her flatmate studied biochem and it was pretty similar in hours. Its just a case of doing the timetable and then slotting everything around it, and also making sure you have at least a day to yourself to unwind and chill.

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Original post by Anonymous #1

Hello,
I am thinking of taking chemistry next year at Lancaster univeristy preferably and was just wondering what the timetable for lessons and practical work is going to be like.
For example, are somedays going to long (9am to 6pm) or is there variation in the lengths e.g. some days you may only have 5 hours of work and other days mayber 7 hours.

Thanks
James

Hi James,
I'm currently in my 3rd year studying physical geography at Lancaster. From what i've found there are different working times each day and these tend to change each term, as you take different modules each term and some modules may have more labs ect. Each day is different as you may have lectures, practical and workshops at different times each day throughout the week, so for instance some days i only have 2 hours of time tabled lessons like lectures, but other days i might have 6 hours + of timetabled lessons, if i have had a lab and lectures that day so it really varies, but it balances out over the course of the week. Lessons can technically run from 9am to 7pm, however usually your finished by 5pm.
Hope this helps!
-Jasmine (Lancaster Student Ambassador)

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Original post by Anonymous #1

Hello,
I am thinking of taking chemistry next year at Lancaster univeristy preferably and was just wondering what the timetable for lessons and practical work is going to be like.
For example, are somedays going to long (9am to 6pm) or is there variation in the lengths e.g. some days you may only have 5 hours of work and other days mayber 7 hours.

Thanks
James

Hiya,

I'm a third-year chemistry student at Lancaster so hopefully I can help!

I can't quite remember first-year hours but there was definitely a lab for one full afternoon a week. I would probably say that on average there were about 12-15 contact hours total week. This varied. For example, in week 5 of each term there were slightly less contact hours because we would have some assessments. Also, in first year a third of your credits is made up by your chosen minor. This meant that my hours varied depending on when those modules were running as well.
In second year, my contact hours were about 15-20 a week. This was made up of labs, workshops and lectures.

Some days are 9-6. For example, I do a module now where we have labs all day. However, other days there may be a lecture a 10 and another one at 4. I try to treat my degree as much like a job as possible because it is recommended to spend 40 hours total a week on chemistry, including contact hours. I find that when I am not in timetabled sessions there is enough coursework, reading, prepping etc. to make up these hours!

Hope this helps
-Beth (Lancaster Student Ambassador)

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