Why does the university not make it clear where/when lectures are supposed to be?

[lauremw]

Why would a tutor need to be spoonfed? We have the answers already (well at least the answers to your tutorial questions/exams/etc).

If not on a noticeboard somewhere, or online, then ask the department secretary.

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[tylermatts]

What makes you think that if the University told us not even where our lectures were to be held, but simply where to enroll for a class this is spoonfeeding?
That is possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I don't know what your degree is, but mine isn't in being a frigging detective, and we don't get credit in class for finding the lectures. If you show me a professor who grades 50%-exam 40%-continuous assessment 10%-finding enrolment schedule, (which should be pretty easy given the number of people in this thread who appear to be taking this professor's class) I will take back this whole post. I pay £9,000/year to get an education from this University, and when I advise in to a class, I expect, and rightly so, that the University will tell me where to go to enrol in that class. This isn't the jungle, and we don't get weeded out because we get lost along the way to class, we get weeded out when we fail in the actual subject.

Bonnie is right, we did receive a list of where classes enroll.... it was in our freshers packs when we were first years- that's it, so apparently we were meant to save that for the next four years.

I'm taking a new subject this semester, Sustainable Development. It took me a great deal of time to find out where my lectures were held. First I had to figure out what department SD is in (not that it's in a department). I finally found something that had the Geosciences symbol on it. Now step two was to find the Geosciences building. Once I did this, I actually had to walk through every hallway on all 4 floors of the building looking for a notice board that said SD1000, before finally finding a small piece of paper attached to another notice board listing enrolment times (As, SD1000-not wanting to spoonfeed us-has not provided a noticeboard). Now this was obviously not impossible, as I found the enrolment schedule and made it to the class for the first day. However, why should I have to do this? Why did I have to waste 3 hours of my day on something like finding information that could easily have been posted somewhere easily accessible, posted online, or emailed to me?

[JM]

Just a wee note to anyone doing psychology
there is now a psychology board, accessible through the academic forums on the "messageboards" page.



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