Handbook-1
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- Bu səhifədəki naviqasiya:
- Academic Tutor
- Director of Undergraduate Studies
- School Contact with Careers Office
- University Contacts
- Modules and Semesters
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your Personal Tutor, you should consult your Year Tutor in the first instance, but if there is any conflict, you can make alternative arrangements through the Director of Undergraduate Studies or the Head of School. Requests to change tutors will be dealt with strictly confidentially. It is your responsibility to ensure that you attend any meeting arranged by or with your personal tutor. The School has Welsh-speaking members of academic staff. You may request to have tutorials in the medium of Welsh (subject to availability). Note the academic staff include female members of staff if you prefer to discuss your problems with a female.
In the first year, your Academic Tutor will meet you and a small number of other tutees every week throughout the session. These timetabled meetings give you an opportunity to discuss your academic work in many different ways. They provide help in explaining things that may not have been clear in lectures. They allow you to go through solutions to exercises. They provide an opportunity for you to gain experience in talking about physics and explaining your ideas to other people; to help develop your communication skills, you may be asked to prepare and deliver a short talk (10 minutes) to the tutorial group. They also provide a forum in which to develop your understanding of the subject and to discuss its wider implications. Your tutor might also give help and guidance on extra reading or further examples in areas of physics, astronomy or related mathematics. Tutorials are a unique opportunity to tailor teaching methods specifically to your needs; make the best use of them! In the second year you are timetabled to see your Academic once every fortnight (in “odd” teaching weeks). We currently adopt the policy to try to retain the same Academic Tutor from Year 1 to 2, though this is not always possible. In the third and fourth years (the latter if you are studying for an MPhys degree), your project supervisor acts as your academic tutor; it is more usual in these years, when studying more advanced material, to seek academic advice directly from individual lecturers. All modules will include opportunities for open discussion, which might be through examples classes, other small groups or by the lecturer holding “drop-in” sessions. If for some reason you wish to change your academic tutor, please see the Year Tutor in the first instance. Requests to change tutors will be dealt with strictly confidentially. It is your responsibility to ensure that you attend any meeting arranged by or with your academic tutor.
Year Tutor The Year Tutor is in overall charge of the organisation of a particular teaching year. You should consult the Year Tutor if you experience any general difficulties with any area of your learning experience. The Year Tutor will be monitoring your progress on a week-to-week basis. You must make sure that any changes of programme or major difficulties are discussed with your year tutor and recorded in writing. Director of Undergraduate Studies The Director of Undergraduate Studies oversees the overall programme of undergraduate studies in the School. If your Academic Tutor or Year Tutor is unable to help you, or you are not satisfied with
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the help you have received or you have problems of a confidential nature, you should arrange to see him/her. The Director of Undergraduate Studies might also interview students whose performance is giving the School cause for concern to find out more about their problems, to encourage them, and to make sure they have the appropriate help; our ambition is for you all to do well and to fully realise your true potential.
The School’s Careers Liaison Officer provides a link with the University’s Careers Office. Information on careers will be posted on the Careers Noticeboard, which is situated at the North Building end of the bridge to the Trevithick. Careers advice sessions are organised through the School. University Contacts A range of useful contacts for the wider University is available here: https://intranet.cardiff.ac.uk/students/directories
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11. Y OUR D EGREE Degree Schemes The School of Physics and Astronomy currently offers the following degree programmes: Four-Year Single Honours MPhys Degree: MPhys Physics MPhys Astrophysics MPhys Physics with Astronomy Three-Year Single Honours BSc Degree: BSc Physics BSc Astrophysics BSc Physics with Astronomy
BSc Physics with Medical Physics BSc Physics and Music BSc Theoretical and Computational Physics
Five-Year Single Honours MPhys Degree inclusive of a one-year placement: MPhys Physics with (with Professional Placement)
MPhys Physics with Astronomy (with Professional Placement) Four-Year Single Honours BSc Degree inclusive of a one-year placement: BSc Physics with (with Professional Placement) BSc Physics with Astronomy (with Professional Placement) Three-Year Joint Honours BSc Degree: BSc Mathematics and Physics Details of the modules taken in each of the above degree programmes are given in the School’s Module Catalogue. Transfer between most programmes is possible at the end of Year 1; transfers between programmes should be discussed with your Personal Tutor or the Year Tutor. The School also participates in a number of Foundation courses, which form part of the Foundation Year offered by the School of Engineering. Modules and Semesters Teaching is based on a system of modules organised in two teaching periods, or semesters. Most modules are either single modules (10 credits) or double modules (20 credits), but some larger units are also available. Normally you take six single modules (or their equivalent) in each semester and each module is examined during or at the end of the semester in which it is taught. In this system there are examinations twice a year, in mid January and at the end of May/early June. The teaching methods within each module are chosen to suit the material. Many modules are delivered entirely through lectures, but most include some exercise classes, group work or problem-solving classes. These modules are usually assessed mainly by traditional examinations with some continual assessment. Other modules are based entirely on laboratory work or other activities. The methods of assessment in these modules reflect the nature of the module content. The modules which you study will be determined largely by your choice of degree programme. There is some choice, however, which allows you to study specialised modules in physics or free-standing modules such as European languages, business studies or other complementary subjects. Your Yüklə 0,66 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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