Counting down...

So what y'all are saying is that I'm probably reading the last novel I'm going to have time for until my course is over! LOL

Yup, your life as you know it, is over! 

Yup, your life as you know it, is over! 

Yeah, but my new one is just about to begin!

How long are the lectures usually?

The fascination is there but so is the ADD. 

How long are the lectures usually?

The fascination is there but so is the ADD. 

There may be differences between universities, but most straight-forward lectures (i.e. sitting in a lecture theatre with a professor standing at the front) are usually about 50 minutes to an hour - at my university, they were 5 minutes past the hour to 5 minutes to the hour (e.g. 9.05-9.55am). But if you have seminars or practical classes they could be anywhere from 1 to 3 hours - it really depends on the type of course you are doing.

As a first-year undergrad, I had about 8 lectures of 50 minutes length, 2 hours of problems class, 1 hour of tutorial meeting, and 3-6 hours of lab per week, but as a fourth-year undergrad, I had 2 50-minute lectures, 1-hour of tutorial and a 3-hour dissertation meeting per week and that was it.

Oooh, completed my online application tonight. Biometrics on Friday. Talk about counting down...

ksands experience for undergrad sounds exactly like how it is in the US.

Class that meet 3x per week - 50 min each, 2x per week, 1 hr 20 min.  So at least it's not any different than if you were in school here 

According to the program prospectus, I have a total of three 2 1/2 hour lectures, two 1 1/2 lectures and two courses that take place of over the course of two 6 hour days.

I prefer concentrated classes (get it all done in one day rather than broken up over the week) but they do get wearisome.    

I prefer concentrated classes (get it all done in one day rather than broken up over the week) but they do get wearisome.    

I think my brain might melt. Or explode. Either way it would be messy.

Class that meet 3x per week - 50 min each, 2x per week, 1 hr 20 min.  So at least it's not any different than if you were in school here 

That's nearly the same except that for an 11-week semester (as was my undergrad), you only have 2x 50 minute classes per week per 10-credit course/class. For a 20-credit class you might either have 4x50 minutes per week for 1 semester or 2x50 minutes per week over 2 semesters. However, at Bristol, they run on 6-week teaching blocks, so you might have 3x 50-minute classes per week for 6 weeks instead of 2x 50-minute classes for 11 weeks.

The main difference with class schedules is that in the US you get MWF classes (50-minutes) and Tu/Th (1hr 20min), which are scheduled at the same time on each day. This is not the case in the UK - classes are generally all the same length independent of the day and they are not structured as MWF or Tu/Th -for one lecture course you might have your classes on Monday morning and Thursday afternoon, but for another lecture course you might have them on Tuesday afternoon and Friday morning.

Because you don't have to worry about possible scheduling conflicting in different subjects (you usually only take classes in your major), each department usually works to it's own independent schedule and class structure.

Thanks for the clarification Kristen.    Another thing for me to be happy about!

Like I said, I'd rather the concentrated format - 15 weeks in a semester here gets to be TOO long!