A good set of lecture notes is an obvious help in revision for examinations. You should not be tempted to rely in any regular manner on other students lecture notes. The notes you take in lectures are your personal interpretation of a lecture, and another student s notes may make little sense to someone who has not attended a lecture personally. Equally, if you do not go through your own lecture notes very shortly after the lecture , amplifying and amending them with the use of appropriate textbooks, articles and handouts, the passage of time will ensure that your own lecture notes will make little sense even to yourself. The purpose of classes, which are an integral part of the course, is to follow up the lectures by discussion and by working through exercises or other handout material.
Attendance is compulsory , and a register of attendance is taken at each class.
Any student who is unable to attend a class must either email or write to the class teacher or see the class teacher in person to explain the reasons for absence. Under College Regulations, regular failure to attend classes, or failure to attend two successive classes in the same subject may result in the College withdrawing a student s registration and refusing to permit the student to sit the examinations. The Economics Department has a duty to enforce these Regulations. While there is some variation in individual courses, you can expect to be required to hand in at least two pieces of written work per semester, per course. As well as attendance at classes, adequate preparation and prompt production of written work are both regarded as necessary for the satisfactory completion of each course.