LM039 query Journalism/New Media

you sure can. I don't think there are any real lectures in the course, because it's so small.

billy the squid wrote: »

are you doing the course jkeire?

I take it then that some of the modules are shared with other courses. politics lecture has 305 places on it.

Yep, politics (or sociology or non-specifically journalism modules) will be shared with all other courses that have politics as an option (e.g. Law & Euro, Euro Studies, HPSS, IR...anything).

Re: your timetable, the only things that are fixed in stone are the lectures. Everyone is assigned a specific group (in your case 3B, for example) for each of their tuts/labs (obviously for logisitic purposes) but in reality you can generally pick/choose your labs/tuts to suit yourself. To find on what time other groups are check the module timetable (module code is something like JM4021, for example) and pick/choose what ones suit you.

One word of warning - some (very, very few I might add) tutors/lecturers want you to stick to your own module group/time so my general rule of thumb is to go to your very first one as you are scheduled and then talk to the tutor and make some phoney excuse like you always wash your socks at this time so can't make this specific tutorial but that you'll go to XX time instead. Of course, use a better excuse, but usually there's no problem whatsoever and just saying 'it doesn't suit' is fine. Obviously, 9am tuts and 5pm tuts (especially on Fridays :pac:) are the least popular so other times will fill up quickly. So by at least turning up to your first one and telling the tutor that you'll be going to whatever one instead, it sort of gives you prerogative over other students who just land in the class in the situation that the class size becomes too big.

Also, it's handy in that say, for example, you miss your tut one week for whatever reason (you're sick, maybe), you can just turn up at a different time slot and sit in.