Arts 1: What might happen if you were never able to get to a tutorial?

marti8 · 01-09-2011 12:24am #1

I'm a mature student starting at UCC soon and I'm thinking of doing Politics in Arts 1 and most likley contuing with it to years 2 and 3. However in first year you have one Politics tutorial once a week, what happens if you can never (as in never!) get to it? Problem for me is I don't live in Cork, I live 40km away - a daily round trip of 80km. I'm home at 6pm on a Monday evening and would need to be up at 5.30am on a Tuesday morning as my Politics tutorial is at 9am on a Tuesday morning and the bus I have to get from the town where I live is at 7.30am, need to leave my house to get it at 7.15am. So, time wise it isn't great and I doubt very much that I'd ever make it. Would make all lectures though - so what could I expect if I never got to a tutorial? Would there be some sort of reprimand or sanction or deducted marks? Thanks.

Corkfeen · 01-09-2011 12:29am

Doesn't appear to be any marks for attendance of tutorials, so probably nothing. Although the tutors generally give great advice on writing your essays during the year and preparing. If it's anything like the history department, they probably return your essays to you too.

marti8 · 01-09-2011 1:24pm

Corkfeen wrote: »

Doesn't appear to be any marks for attendance of tutorials, so probably nothing. Although the tutors generally give great advice on writing your essays during the year and preparing. If it's anything like the history department, they probably return your essays to you too.

Yeah, I can't see where it says there are penalties for not attending tutorials, of course while there's probably no penalties it's the student who ends up losing out. But because I'm not in Cork I'll just have to roll with it, whether it impacts my studies or not. Thanks anyway.

Aodan83 · 01-09-2011 1:44pm

If you bring it up with the lecturer he/she might be able to sort something out. At the very least you can always get any notes off someone who can attend the tutorials.

marti8 · 01-09-2011 1:50pm

Aodan83 wrote: »

If you bring it up with the lecturer he/she might be able to sort something out. At the very least you can always get any notes off someone who can attend the tutorials.

Yeah, getting notes is a possibility but not really a reliable one. It depends on who you know and how well you get to know folks within your class, and Arts classes can be rather large. When I was at UCC before I found that tutorials seemeed to be more about simply discussing what you'd learned or what had been gone over in lectures rather than about exploring any new stuff. Most handouts etc seemed to be given at lectures and not at tutorials but perhaps that was just the course I was doing.

teddy b123 · 01-09-2011 4:31pm

could you get yourself put onto a later tutorial?

marti8 · 01-09-2011 4:43pm

teddy b123 wrote: »

could you get yourself put onto a later tutorial?

Yeah, I'll check when I start and know the full tutorial times so hopefully there will be a later one which won't clash with my other subject choices. For now I only know that one tutorial time.

soileir · 02-09-2011 1:05am

http://timetable.ucc.ie:8011/reporting/individual?objectclass=department&idtype=id&identifier=%23SPLUS4CFBA4%0D%0A&t=department+individual&days=1-7&weeks=5-16;20-31&periods=1-20&template=department+individual

There is the Politics department timetable as you can see there are tonnes of options for 1st year politics at various times

bizz213 · 02-09-2011 8:59am

hey im goin into 2nd year arts, im doin politics, never went to any tutorial last year for it and passed fine! no questions asked!

MadelineX · 02-09-2011 9:05am

bizz213 wrote: »

hey im goin into 2nd year arts, im doin politics, never went to any tutorial last year for it and passed fine! no questions asked!

How did you find Politics? Thinking of doing it this year. What other subjects did you do?

Sorry for all the questions but finding it hard to pick subjects 3 & 4 so would appreciate some feedback

Thanks

bizz213 · 02-09-2011 9:28am

did history(good), Politics(good), Greek and roman(awful) and religion(boring and awful), Hitory is good but u need to work at it, politics is easy and enjoyable, greek and roman has a dutch tutor who is so poor and is really an awful lecturer that it ruined my whole experience and many others who i talked to! As for religion, its grand, soooo boring but no exam at the end of the year! 2 essays, team presentation and a learning journal.. If i was u i would stay away from Greek and roman and consider avoiding religion if it is one of ur choices.. What choices do u have in mind??

MadelineX · 02-09-2011 9:39am

Thanks for that.

I want to do geography & economics. Other 2 then math studies/politics and sociology/psychology/philosophy.

bizz213 · 02-09-2011 9:47am

Geography and economics are supposed to be quite tough, heard philosophy and sociology were easy but not as enjoyable as many toght, heard psychology wasnt what anyone wanted. But everyone is different and everyone likes different things!

MadelineX · 02-09-2011 10:35am

Cheers. good to hear from the perspective of students who have just studied them. I'll try and get to as many introductory lectures as possible

PhysiologyRocks · 02-09-2011 6:26pm

I genuinely can't see why you can't get to the tutorial.

marti8 · 02-09-2011 7:43pm

PhysiologyRocks wrote: »

I genuinely can't see why you can't get to the tutorial.

Well, I would be home at 6pm on a Monday evening, I would then, to make that Politics tutorial, need to up at 5.30am on a Tuesday morning. So basically when I get home I would have to hit the sack about 2, max. 3, hours later. Now some people might do that but I sure ain't one of them, lol.

marti8 · 02-09-2011 7:49pm

soileir wrote: »

http://timetable.ucc.ie:8011/reporting/individual?objectclass=department&idtype=id&identifier=%23SPLUS4CFBA4%0D%0A&t=department+individual&days=1-7&weeks=5-16;20-31&periods=1-20&template=department+individual

There is the Politics department timetable as you can see there are tonnes of options for 1st year politics at various times

Thanks. I'll take a look and see what's what and what makes sense and doesn't clash with other subjects. You see for me I have to fit my UCC schedule around my bus schedule.

thombas123 · 06-09-2011 3:48pm

there are alot of politics tutorial times throughout the week, and u can pick whichever one suits you !! dawn french, the secretary of the politics department, is sound out as well and she ll change the slot no bother for ya !! i'm going into third year politics at the moment, but as far as i remember there was a sign up sheet outside the department office in the ORB so its easy to do, just keep an eye out for the sheet !!

Arts 1: What might happen if you were never able to get to a tutorial?

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