How many hours a week was your uni course?

RomanNose · 26 Jun 2012 at 10:42

I am just curious to see how much work different courses have. It would also be helpful to put your contact time and how much you worked in your free time.

RomanNose · 26 Jun 2012 at 11:05

Dr House said:
About 38 to 40 starting at 7 to 8 am.

*Looks at username*
I guess this is medicine?

RomanNose · 26 Jun 2012 at 12:56

Moses said:
Why are you asking?

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I think I have about ten hours a week, in terms of contact hours... which sounds ridiculous!

I am just curious, seems like there is a huge difference between courses.
For the people who did 10 hours a week, did you think you had too much free time and would rather have the course compressed?

RomanNose · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:06

Moses said:
A huge difference in headline figures, but it's kinda meaningless. Someone could do twenty hours of private study, whilst another does ten... with the latter actually learning/doing more than the former!

Then, some people have loads of contact hours (sciences, for example) whilst others don't have many (I'm a law student)... but that doesn't mean the chemist does more work than the law student. I only had about ten hours a week of contact time, but I had to do a truly ridiculous amount of work outside of that... whilst my chemistry studying friend had to do less... so, overall, we were probably in a roughly similar position.

But no, I wouldn't want my course compressed! The fact that I have a quarter of the headline hours of a course with forty hours of contact doesn't mean I could do the course in a quarter of the time!

Yeah I imagine that your one of the exceptions where you do much more outside work than contact Though there are probably people on here who did 20 hours in total and 10 hours contact and I wonder what they think.

RomanNose · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:16

Moses said:
Do you mean me specifically, or my course? Everyone on my course has to do loads of work, outside of the contact hours... otherwise they fail/do horribly!

I mean your course. Though it does change in third years when you have projects to do but generally I think most people have more contact hours than they work.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/31_10_06_universities.pdf
This is quite an interesting document, they didn't give an average teaching hours but they gave average study hours which is 12.

RomanNose · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:28

Moses said:
CBA reading a big document - want to highlight specific parts?

Lots of people will have more contact hours than they work outside of that (eg. people with forty hours of contact)... but that's unsurprising!