How many hours of lectures / seminars is normal

[Marmitemyway]

Is it me or do the amount of hours you get of lectures etc vary massively from course to course and uni to uni
Ds at a Russell group looks like he’s got 6 hours a week over 3 days whilst other friends have way more - I understand sciences have more due to lab time etc but
is there a norm ? Just seems so few for the £!

My ds (STEM/RG) has minimum 14 hours teaching a week over 5 days and made up of lectures (mostly) plus labs and tutorials.

DSs timetable currently has eight hours of lectures and four hours of seminars a week. This is a top ten university (first year) doing a humanities subject.

Hes supposed to do around twenty hours of self guided learning on top of that each week though.

Maybe he doesn’t have his full time table yet then - he’s just finished freshers week

My daughter (doing a science degree, in her second year) has around 15 hours of timetabled lectures and seminars and they are expected to do a similar amount of independent study.

It's seriously varies a lot between courses, between universities, and some of the amounts of teaching, I just wouldn't consider it qualifiers as a decent teaching course - it is not good enough, but these are all the things you have to consider and investigate.

I went to a Russell group uni and in one module I was in for two hours every two weeks. I had to do a lot of reading and work though.

24 hours per week is standard for students doing a science or engineering degree. This is in an university outside the UK.

I didn't even get Wednesday afternoon off for sport. Least hours was friend's psychology degree. 6 hours a week. She did have to write an essay a term though.

5 afternoon lab sessions to write up and projects to complete. 2 hours lectures per unit and tutorials on top of practical stuff. Seriously overworked compared to the arts people.

3 hours of lectures and 6 hours iof seminars per week (no seminars in first and last weeks of each term) - Social Sciences at an RG. Six essays in total a term (3 midterm and 3 final).

Totally depends on the course. I had friends with 8hrs a week and I had 34hrs a week. Humanities seemed to have the least with sciences and medicine having the most.

24 hours a week contact time here (UK post-92 university, maths).

my dd got her timetable and I was surprised in my day it was a timetable we’re every week was the same, for her every week is entirely different

Uni is about independent study. I can guarantee every one of his modules requires a significant amount of reading and essay writing/research on top of his contact hours.

He would need to drive this

Does your DS have seminars on top of the 6 hours of lectures?
A friend at uni only had 6 hours of lectures. She was studying English Lit. They were expected to read a number of books a week, which they then discussed in seminars, plus it was an essay heavy topic. I had 15 hours a week lectures, with lots of work to do outside of the lectures
Friends who were engineers had lectures all morning, labs all afternoon but the only work they had to do outside of that was write uo the labs (that was first year, didn't live with any engineers behind that)
But it varies necessarily, subject depending

I have 4 hours of lectures, 2 hours of workshop, 2 hours of seminars a week. Eng and phil degree. Fuckton of reading to do tho. Dd is doing History at a top uni and similar sort of timetable.

I did law at Russell group a few years ago.

Was 2 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial for each module. I was on a 2 year degree so did 4 subjects 1 semester and 5 another (4 full year ones and 1 half years)

So 12 hours a week was normal. Was glad when it all went online and didn't have to travel an hour for just 1 hour long tutorial.

Oxford - 2 tutorials per week.

There are lectures, but they're not compulsory.

DC on STEM course RG uni and first term in first year was 23 hours contact time plus whatever independent work on top of that. Dropped to 19 hours for second term and increased to 26 hours in second year.

4-5 contact hours (whether lecture, seminar, workshop, lab, tutorial) per module. 3 modules per semester.

What's he studying? Admittedly I went to uni 20 years ago, but it was normal for Humanities then. I had between six and ten contact hours depending on the course, but obviously you're expected to be working a lot more than that. I also had to read the equivalent of three books a week, plus read accompanying theory. It was quite hard to be self-motivated, to be honest - harder than friends who were in the lab all day.

Plus side was that I had time to do a few hours of work as well.

Depends on the subject and the style of teaching, and it can vary from 1st to 3rd/4th year. Years 1/2 involve a lot of transferring tools, concepts and approaches to enable a greater degree of self-study in years 2/3/4.

Sciences involve a lot of info-dump lectures plus supervised hands-on practical/lab sessions. Humanities can adopt an approach that focusses on a greater element of guided self-study.

The value-add to the individual student is total lecturer time, and that includes non-contact marking/feedback generation as well as direct contact chalk-and-talk.

If you're only see the £s you haven't understood the value of education or how it's delivered.

I’m a lecturer in a humanities subject. Our guideline is that a student should be studying ten hours for every contact lecture/seminar hour — lot of reading needed.

Varies - dd2 had 28 or so including labs, classes and lectures. Dd1 has done 2 degrees, first one around 10 hours second one around 18

I did a history and languages degree and had 8-10 hours of classes spread over four days.

I did a languages degree at a red brick RG. One of the languages was from scratch and termed as a “hard” language so I had more contact hours. I had 8 hours for that language, 3 for the post A-level one and probably 4-5 hours for my “content” modules. That’s a lot for arts/humanities though, and due to the language hours.