University of Wales Swansea

Courses in Swansea were much more lecture-based than the courses I took at my home institution. This took some adjusting. However, I found that in my American Studies and psychology courses, the professors were interesting and very well informed, so it was nice to listen to their lessons and theories. I also found it very illuminating to take their American Studies courses because they take information that I thought I knew, both inside and out, and turned it on its head by offering new perspectives and ideas that I hadn't considered.

The one thing I really didn't enjoy about the courses at Swansea was that most of them based your grade for the entire semester on one giant exam that was given at the end of the term. Over the course of my 15 years of formal education I had always been evaluated in my classes on a periodic basis, so I was not as prepared as I could have been at Swansea to demonstrate everything I had learned by taking only one test.

visit LOTS of them in the first two weeks. You can only get a good idea of what best suits you if actually attend the classes. Once you've chosen your courses after two weeks, you are stuck with them, so choose wisely.

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I can't really say anything about courses cause I prepared my degree thesis when I was there. I used to stay in a office with phd students.

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Maybe teachers should pay more attention for the assesment of international studnts

If you are into History and especially Economic History and you have a week spot for unconventional teachers, try Dr. Latham. He cracked me up with his jokes and triggered my interest in Economic History by means of his studies.

No, because the way I was being tutored was extremely good (unlike in Germany)

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