It has been 4 weeks since I’ve been here and it still feels good. School is going by so fast.
Westminster theatre
This week, I will talk to you about my courses here. Back in Nantes I work in accounting and finance so it was compulsory to choose some equivalent subjects here at Keele University. In England you choose your courses by yourself and it is required to take at least 4 per semester. If there is a clash on your timetable with two classes, you should switch it with another one. If you want to take more than 4 courses you have to pay more. It is like 100£ more per course. As I said in my first article, there are not lot of hours per week but it really depends on which subject you are taking. Usually there is 2 hours of lectures and one tutorial hour per course per week. Since there are few hours in the lecture, most of the spare time should be spent studying by yourself.
My timetable
The big difference it’s about the assessment. Here at Keele, we write a lot more essays than back at Nantes. It’s really different than I’m used to in France. In France we have to reproduce the professor’s work. However, it is the similar in the sense that we have to work and think by yourself. I like it, I find it is good to reflect on the stuff that I’ve learned. The buildings in which we study are all really good, from the small classes to the big amphitheater. You can find all your course on an electronic online platform. Each course has recording so you can listen to after your course to hear what the professor taught.
See you next week, enjoy your life.
Romain
