As well as your timetabled sessions, your own reading, and personal assignments, there are also a variety of support services we provide to help you learn and tackle any difficulties you might have. Your course tutor may advise you to use these services. You'll probably find yourself far more successful if you do. But no one at a University will force you do so. For each unit, you are likely to have three or four timetabled hours each week - more in the case of subjects with practical, laboratory or studio elements, or professional courses in health subjects where there is a large clinical practice element.
Lectures are the most formal type of teaching, usually used to introduce key knowledge and concepts.
Lecture groups are often large. Sometimes they are followed or preceded by seminars, in which a smaller group of students will discuss issues arising from the lecture or work through case studies. Seminars are intended to be interactive. You will need to do preparatory and follow up work in order to benefit. You gain most if you are well prepared and participate actively.