Return to Top Prerequisites Candidates should have completed two years of study at Tufts University or another approved university and should be in good academic standing prior to their entry to University College London. A minimum grade point average of 3.3 is normally expected with an average of 3.3 in the major. Students with GPA's of 3.0, but whose grade points in their majors alone average 3.3, may be admitted. While University College does not have a political science department, courses are offered in a number of departments which carry political science or international relations credit. Arts students may well find that their official contact with faculty is less than this average, while science and engineering students may expect to be scheduled for up to twenty hours per week.
Students take a series of lecture courses which normally run for the whole year.
Associated with each lecture course are seminars, tutorials, and possibly, laboratory classes which draw on, analyze, illustrate, or amplify the topics presented in the lectures. Lecture classes can vary in size from twenty to two hundred. Students are normally expected to prepare work in advance for seminars and tutorials. Preparation can take the form of researching a topic for discussion by writing essays or solving problems. Multiple-choice questions are seldom used as a means of assessment.