University of Bristol- psychology

I have gotten an offer to study psychology at Bristol uni next year. This might sound dumb but what are timetables like? Like how many days a week will I be expected to travel to campus.
How many lectures per week? Can this be done online or is attendance vital

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martin7

Original post by Anonymous

University timetables vary from year to year, and from one term/semester to another. So you really need to take the view that you'll need to be on campus five days a week and consider it a bonus if it turns out that there are some days where you won't need to be present. No one at this time of year will be able to tell you what the timetables will look like for the 2025/26 academic year.

If you refer to https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/2025/psychology/bsc-psychology/ you'll see that "academics ... employ a variety of teaching and assessment methods (for example: lectures, seminars, tutorials, laboratories, group work, supervision, ..., in-class presentations, and examinations)" -- so even if lectures are available online, there are other things that can't/won't be. Bear in mind that universities do attendance monitoring and are likely to pick up that you're not attending lectures, and may take the view that saying that you'll just watch them online isn't acceptable.

What are your reasons around not wanting to attend in person? Is it the cost/distance/time to travel (for example, if you want to live at home)? Or is it for health reasons, or a disability, for example? Or something else?