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Teaching quality is high with all the lecturers being very knowledgable in their fields. The history course is extremely diverse in the periods we covered. It’s best for students who don’t only wish to study a single period over 3 years. Feedback is generally good, but each lecturer wants very different things for their assignments which makes it hard to properly advance your writing skills because you have to be focused on what the particular marker wants. The work placement module is absolutely useless, ran by people who don’t have a clue what they’re doing and who don’t care about the students they’re more supposed to be helping.
2018,
3rd year, Historical & Philosophical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified
My course is quite good. The feedback you get for assessments is quite helpful as the tutors provide comments and marking grids and even allow for us to speak with them in person. There is a lot of reading to do on my course so even if your not in lectures, you are often still doing some work around theology. One thing I would say is that although my course is really good, we don't cover many religions in depth as we only focus mostly on Christianity which I think is a bit of a downfall. But aside from that my course is really good.
I did try but to no avail. They didn't offer any bursaries or anything to support me even though I come from a low income household. So I am just relying on my maintenance grant.
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