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Undergraduate Programmes Survey/UPS 2010

A questionnaire was sent to all first, second and final-year undergraduates on departmental degree programmes in March 2010 in which students were asked to specify their year and degree programme and to reply to 9 questions (details of which are given below). We received 34 completed questionnaires – 11 from first years, 10 from second years, and 13 from final years (10 from third years and 3 from 4th years). The vast majority of respondents were happy with most aspects of provision, and so this report mainly focuses on issues of concern raised by a relatively small number of respondents. These concerns (and action to be taken to address them) will be discussed at the Undergraduate Staff-Student Liaison Committee in November 2010.

Question 1 asked ‘How happy are you with the curriculum on your course?’ The overwhelming majority of respondents indicated that they were happy with the curriculum, one even describing it as ‘perfect’. Issues of concern raised in relation to first year modules (and the number of students raising each) were: inaccurate advice given by course Director on module choice (1); LG112 was dull (= 2) and not enough help was available with assignment preparation (= 1); LG112 too concerned with theory and not enough with practice (= 1); scientific nature of LG103 makes it hard (= 2); LG modules are tedious (= 1); LA coursebooks for LA240 and LA610 hard to get hold of (= 1).

Second years were likewise generally happy with their curriculum. Issues of concern raised and the number of students raising each issue were: LG209 should cover a wider range of language disorders (= 2); first term of LG209 confused (= 1); second term of LG209 did not cover topics specified in outline (= 1); too much overlap between LG202 and LG103 (= 1); LG227 boring – 2nd term teacher read from notes (= 1); would have liked a choice of Literature modules (= 2); more thematic LA modules needed at lower levels (= 1).

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