One of the most stressful parts about uni is the workload, particularly at the end of the semester. The twelve weeks of contact hours are slowly running out, and at the end looms what seems like hundreds of deadlines, and weeks of stress. And if you are overly dramatic like me, every time deadlines and exams are approaching, I always begin to ask myself "why am I in uni?" or "I've done a year, can I drop out now?". A discussion that comes up quite regularly when I am in uni is the workload of the different courses and which has the most work to do. Honestly, this normally happens when people on different courses start arguing over who has the most work to do, although I'm not quite sure why you would want to be on the winning side of that argument! So I can only talk about my degree, and being stressed out me, I'm going to do it the best way I know how... with some Gilmore Girls gifs!
Personally, the hardest part about the workload on my course is my broadcast modules. Every semester during my degree, we study a broadcasting module, which all apart from the first require paired work where we have to create a joint radio and TV piece, as well as an individual reflective essay and workbook. In these modules, we have to find stories to cover, shoot them, arrange interviews, record voice overs, and edit them together. And if we are all honest, we know how hard paired work can be. I haven't always been lucky with my partners, but honestly it has given me opportunity to be more responsible and have more creative control over what our final pieces look like, which is okay by me!
I have done several modules which just require coursework at the end of terms, such as a PR module (an essay), Journalism and Society (an essay), and Researching Journalism and Communications (a report, an essay, and a presentation). Throughout the semester, there isn't much work required for these modules, readings and small tasks are set to do outside of contact hours, however many people don't complete these.
Over the two years I have completed so far, I have studied two law modules, both requiring written pieces about topics such as court, parliament, and council meetings, as well as each having a law exam. In my opinion, these law exams are the hardest part of my degree, and everyone is so annoyed we have to sit them (but that's a whole other story). For my exam that I sat this month, I had 2 hours to write 3,000 words about laws, in which some are shorter 5 mark questions, however the majority are short essays at 15 marks a question.
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