Tomorrow is Monday 5th September 2011. Tomorrow
is the day that my LLB degree officially starts. You guessed it, tomorrow is
the day of my first LLB lecture. After having a quick look at my first semester schedule, I thought that I would share it with you; hopefully it will be useful to you, especially if you are currently considering applying to study law or haven't received your schedule yet and would like to see what to expect.
All first year LLB students were split into
three smaller ‘working groups’ – I was assigned to group 3. These working
groups are set out to encourage students to take a more active participation in
class, as there are less students in the group, allowing the lecturer more time
to interact with each student.
After a quick look at the schedule for the first semester,
it does seem like working group 3, my group, drew the short straw, as we have
the majority of the early starts; on the plus side it does mean that we finish
earlier and have more of a free day. Our first lecture will be Monday at 11:00
and is expected to last until around 13:00. The class is called, ‘Legal Skills
A – IT for Lawyers’ and will last the entire semester. I’m not too sure what to
expect from the lecture, but I am fairly confident that I at least know where
the class is being held!
As for tomorrow, that is the only class that I have on that
day, so will have a bit of free time in the afternoon and will be looking at
taking advantage of that time to take my camera into town – albeit that the
weather is on my side!
Tuesday I have a workshop to attend – ‘Workshop: Starting
your Academic Career’, however this time I will be in working group 3B. 3B is
basically the original working group 3, but split into two additional groups,
group A and group B. The workshop starts at 11:00 and lasts for around an hour.
However, I also have a written English examination from 16:00 to 18:00, giving
me a four hour break in between.
Wednesday is also quite a light day, and luckily no more
examinations, for this week anyway! My first and only lecture of the day, ‘Introduction
to Law and Legal Systems’ starts at 9:00 and ends at 11:00.
Now we reach what I think are going to be my busiest two
days academically. Thursday my class, ‘Legal Skills A’, once again starts at
9:00 and lasts two hours until 11:00, when I then have another lecture, this
time on ‘Legal History’ which also lasts two hours. So I start at 9:00 and
finish at 13:00; meaning four hours of lectures without a break… definitely
getting busier as the week progresses.
Friday I get a bit of a lie-in, as I start at 10:00! My
second ‘Legal History’ lecture for the week, and it only lasts an hour,
although it is followed (again, with no break!) with another hour class of ‘Introduction
to Law and Legal Systems’ which finishes at 12:00. I then have a three hour
break before my next class, ‘Introduction to Dutch Language and Culture’ which
starts at 15:00. Luckily, I can get home in around 20 minutes, plus waiting
time, on the bus, so I won’t have to wait around for three hours up town.
So as you can see, some days definitely busier than others
and quite a few ‘early’ starts. I was told before applying to study law that it
was much more of a ‘self-study’ degree, meaning that I wouldn’t have as much
contact time with teachers or lecturers as other degrees, such as Business or Psychology,
and I think this will be a nice change of pace from what I have experienced in
the past. As a whole, I don’t think that the schedule is too bad and should
give me a bit of time to do any reading that I have between classes and to also
carry on progressing with my hobbies.
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