PLEASE HELP. Full time degree - how many hours a week?

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Sorry guys, noty horse related but I know people will see it in here. big argument with little sister who has got it into her head that her full time fashion degree that starts this september will be 9 - 5 every day. I have explained that my BSc Equine Sports Performance was more likje a couple hours 4 days a week - but she thinks my course is for dossers and not a 'real' degree like hers
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PLease can somebody back me up about the amount of lecture hours a full time course takes. I know this is silly but really need some help, as she is claiming she won't have time to work and insisting my parents fund her. Thanks
 
Even if it is 9-5 every day there are 24hrs in a day so she'll still have plenty of time to work. She could do 6pm-10pm in a supermarket or something perfectly easily.

My course is about 3-4hrs a day although sometimes they are spilt morning and afternoon with annoying amounts of time wasted inbetween but I doubt many courses are 9-5 5 dys a week.
 
If she puts in the number of hours outside lectures that she is supposed to, it will be full time. Lectures are only technically part time hours as you are "supposed to" put in the same amount of hours off your own back, as you are required to be present in lectures. It depends though on how quickly she works. IMO for most subjects it's possible to work a few hours part time around uni. In most cases it's necessary as most people don't have parents who are able to fund them through uni (I have been housed and fed by my parents for two years, that's it).
I was glad I spent my first year without working part time though.
 
In my final year at uni I did 9 hours a week and they were all on a wednesday. It was great
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I didn't even have any seminars or coursework.
 
It depends on what kind of course you are doing. When I was doing the audiology degree at southampton it was pretty much full time- a minimum of 5 hours of lectures a day, 4 days a week (hence why I hated it and gave it up LOL!!) Plus hours and hours of assingments outside of that. That was only in the first term of year 1. Years 2 and 3 would have been horrifying I expect.

I also did a BSc equine science at an agricultural college and that was a complete piss take- a few hours a week in years one and two and took barely an hour to finish the assingments required. Easy peasy.

So totally depends on where you go and where you do the course.
 
I did and Electronic & Electrical Engineering degree and we had one afternoon off a week but that was for library work.
I would say it depends how much she wants to put into it. Just because she doesn't have scheduled lessons, doesn't mean she won't have any work to do.
I worked 3 nights a week whilst doing my degree but didn't have a horse then .... for obvious reasons. I didn't expect my parents to fund me though they did send me the odd food parcel which was gratefully recieved.
 
Think a lot depends on the degree I did first year Environmental Biology and it was pretty much full time. We did a lot of core subjects that first year. Second and third year I did Applied Zoology and Agriculture and it was a lot less hours. To be sure, I'd contact the institution where the particular course is being undertaken and ask.
 
I'm doing a German degree and I do 9 hours a week max! As a general rule Science degrees (particularly core sciences like biology, chem and physics) are 9-5 every day...where as Arts degrees are a lot less (but you are expected to do more work in your free time...). I'm guessing Fashion is an Arts degree so isn't likely to be 9-5.
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Thankjs guys - I guess my point is that she WILL be able to fit a few hours in here or there. She is manipulating my parents into giving her money that they can not afford, and I had no hand outs at all while studying. I managed and so can she, she is just bit lazy and spoilt. I assure you my course is not a 'piss take', and usually about 16 hours a week lectures. We have an enormous workload on top of that of course. I'm sorry that whoever it was thought that of their equine course was made to feel like that. I have just about (it crumbled at the end) managed to fund two sick horses through two years of my course, and to do that I worked bloody hard.
 
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I'm doing a German degree and I do 9 hours a week max! As a general rule Science degrees (particularly core sciences like biology, chem and physics) are 9-5 every day...where as Arts degrees are a lot less (but you are expected to do more work in your free time...). I'm guessing Fashion is an Arts degree so isn't likely to be 9-5.
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I'd agree with this, My I've done BSc, MSc and PGCE, PGCE had the fewest in Uni hours but a lot work outside. BSc, MSc were both proper full time but I know from friends who did art degrees that the quantity of work they have to produce is ridiculous.
 
Only the science degrees with all their lab work have 9-5 days from what I know through friends (know quite a few people doing vastly different subjects)

I had 8hrs a week (6 in my third year) and that was for History. Saying that, I did a good 30hrs a week on independent work/reading/writing though and still managed a job too.

She'll have plenty of time to work!
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I study a joint honours in Applied Psychology and Sociology, going into my final year in September so I'm nervous, trying to get some work done now because I'm aiming for a first...hopefully.
I'm only in uni a maximum of 9 hours a week but there is a lot of coursework and reading, the lectures and seminars are there to inspire your reading and you do the rest of it yourself, if you want to do well its hard work. I didn't have a horse the first year, got my first horse during the xmas holidays in the second year. I wasn't going to get my own until I graduated but circumstances changed, I now live at home and commute from London to Brighton 3x a week for uni and work one day a week during term time (full time now in the holidays). Its hard work as my horse is on DIY and my social life has suffered but its so worth it, when I do go out its more fun because I'm not in the same club week in week out.
Most students work to fund their degrees, tuition fees are going up every year so students can't really be stereotypically lazy any more...especially when they have horses!! Nx
 
Sciences and medical humanities degrees tend to have more contact hours with some degrees, like medicine, taking up the entire day 9.00 - 5.00 with lectures and tutorials. Humanities and arts tend to be a lot less demanding in terms of contact time. On average I would say about 8 hours a week contact lectures/tutorials for humanities/arts. Courses will also have time allocated for study time, research, prep, etc. but to be honest we make this up to fit in with QA requirements and know that noone will put in that amount of work.
 
I'm doing chemical engineering at uni, last year it was pretty much 9 to 5 of solid lectures, we got wednesday afternoon off but so did the whole university.

We worked out that we had 21 hours a week of lectures, 3 hrs of tutorials, and 6 hours minimum of lab work per week, often the lab work went up to 8 or 9 hours.
Then we had to write it up. when i tell you that one of my lab reports went to 60 pages (yes sixty) in total you can see how long that took. so the work at home was pretty intensive.

I'm lucky my parents can afford to support me, but if they hadnt i would have had to get a job on top of that. Dont let her bully your parents into something they cant afford

oh i had a friend who in his final year of studying fashion and design had a grand total of 5 hours of lectures per week!
 
I have just finished a degree in quantity surveying. I have been doing it part time, over five years. We are in one day a week, generally 9-5, them coursework etc to do. I also work full time, work saturday eves behind a bar, and have a horse.

The full time course is three days a week, one 9-5, the others less hours.
 
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