How many hours of work do you do on this course: Philosophy and History of Art at UCL

Jdawg19

as title states, it is a course I am interested in and want to know what I am getting myself into.

Thanks.

Reply 1

DataVenia

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Original post by Jdawg19

as title states, it is a course I am interested in and want to know what I am getting myself into.

Thanks.

Any university undergraduate degree is nominally "sized" at 1200 hours of work per year, where 10 hours is 1 credit - so 120 credits per year.

The way courses vary is in how much of that time is in lectures, seminars, etc. and how much is independent study. (There's a lot of independent study at uni.)

UCL say in the web page for this course (here) that "22% of a student's time during the two teaching terms will be spent in lectures, seminars and tutorials. The remainder of your time will be spent in independent study and assessment."

Reply 2

artful_lounger

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You can look at the timetable for this year: https://timetable.ucl.ac.uk/tt/homePage.do

Looks like 1st year philosophy modules are 1 hr lecture and 1 hr seminar and history of art 2 hr lecture +/- 2 hr seminar. So probably 10-12 contact hours a term. Of course you are realistically expected to be spending about 30-40 hours a week on your studies including contact hours, so a lot of time will be spent on independent study/preparation for seminars/working on assignments etc.

May be fewer contact hours in later years.

Reply 3

Jdawg19

Original post by DataVenia

Any university undergraduate degree is nominally "sized" at 1200 hours of work per year, where 10 hours is 1 credit - so 120 credits per year.
The way courses vary is in how much of that time is in lectures, seminars, etc. and how much is independent study. (There's a lot of independent study at uni.)
UCL say in the web page for this course (here) that "22% of a student's time during the two teaching terms will be spent in lectures, seminars and tutorials. The remainder of your time will be spent in independent study and assessment."