University of Birmingham

Coming to Birmingham I had high expectations of the course, as the university is quite acclaimed. It seems, however, that the philosophy and religion department is very underrepresented and disorganised. Most teachers either have too many classes to handle each one properly or are researchers, who are not primarily interested in teaching. Moreover, for each session huge lists of recommended reading are available, leading to either students reading different things or nothing at all, which then stops the progress in class. My course, Politics & Religion, is relatively new which may account for the lack of structure.