Our commitment to teaching
The Faculty of Social Sciences and Law is committed to providing its students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, with:
- an excellent learning and teaching experience
- good learning facilities
Teaching staff
Staff in the Faculty work on significant social sciences and law research and applied policy work. Their teaching reflects this research at every level, whether in individual units or programmes.
Programmes
Programmes taught in the Faculty are regularly updated to ensure that units are current, relevant and reflect the latest research. Programme and Unit Catalogues provide detailed information on what you will be studying.
How we teach
Learning and teaching may be offered in these ways:
- Lectures
- Seminars and workshops
- Tutorials
- Independent learning by the student e.g. research on a topic
- Blackboard (on-line) resources
Student feedback
Students who study in the Faculty are encouraged to feed back on their experience at the end of each unit and programme that they complete. This feedback is used to improve programmes and units every year.
Learning and teaching facilities
Students in the Faculty can access the following facilities during their studies:
- Libraries and IT rooms - Arts and Social Sciences Library, Law Library, Education Library
- Computing rooms - in the Computing Centre and some schools and departments. Some University halls of residence are equipped with IT facilities
- Seminar rooms - in most departments
- Common rooms / social space - in some schools and departments
- On-line resources - 'Blackboard'
- Graduate Centre - for research students