Contact hours and workload
Overall workload
Your overall workload consists of class contact hours, independent learning, and assessment activities. The balance of these elements within your overall workload may vary depending on the units you choose.
Timetabled contact hours, which can be made up of lectures, seminars, and tutorials, vary throughout your course and between courses but are typically between 10 and 20 hours a week during the taught semesters.
Semester 1
You'll study five compulsory units at the same time, with weekly classes across the term.
Semester 2
You’ll choose two optional units (20 credits). You’ll switch to ‘block teaching’. For your compulsory units, you will take one unit at a time, delivered in focused periods of two weeks. Then, you will take your two optional units, which will run in parallel for three weeks.
Additional briefing sessions will be provided to help you prepare for the dissertation/practice track period and as part of the co-curricular offering of live projects. (See below for the co-curricular offering.) You will receive direct guidance from an allocated member of academic staff for your dissertation/practice track activity.
Independent learning
As well as timetabled contact hours, you're expected to undertake independent learning and assessment. Typically, this might be around 25 - 30 hours per week, and include individual research, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects, preparing coursework, presentations, or revising for exams.