TEACHING & LEARNING

• Lecturers cannot force you to learn, but they will provide you with information, handouts and directed learning through references.
• Keep up to date with your study by working steadily and attend lectures and seminars - the more you miss the less information you will have to help you with your studies. Much of the information given during a lecture is verbal and needs to be recorded in your notes.
• The lecturers will give some notes to you, but it may help if you keep your notes neat, clean and legible, sectioned by topic with new subjects starting on new pages and leaving spaces for the addition of comments after you have done additional reading.
• Don't file notes and forget them! You should try to understand the topic of the lecture or seminar as you are doing it. Often the lecturer will give you some exercises to do in your own time that will help with your understanding of the subject - but don't leave these exercises for weeks or months, as by that time hints or ideas will be forgotten.

Chill!

Don't worry if you can't do something the first time as all of us learn by mistakes!