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 Semester Module Pathway Degree Degree
Classification Regulations Lecturer Tutor Demonstrator Postgraduate
Supervisors
Postgraduate Research Committees
Semester
The academic year, which officially runs from 1 September until the 31 August,
is divided into two semesters, each of 15 weeks duration (excluding holidays).
All lectures, practicals, tutorials and examinations are conducted within these
two periods. The first semester runs from the end of September until the end of
January, e.g. this year the first semester commences on Monday 28 September 1998
and ends on Friday 5 February 1999. The second semester commences on Monday 8
February 1999 and ends on Friday 18 June 1999.
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Module
All of your lectures, practicals and tutorials are grouped together into a
series of modules. Each module contains all of the information that you are
required to study about a specific topic. Part of the University Calendar
contains a list of all of the modules offered by the University in any specific
year. Each module description will indicate the number of lectures, practicals
and tutorials, etc. that make up the module; the timetable and any compulsory
elements (i.e. elements that must be completed to obtain modular credit).
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Pathway
All of the students who study at Queen's enrol for a named degree pathway. This
means that if you study and complete a specific set of courses then when you
graduate you will be awarded a degree with a specific title. However, the
modular structure of the degree pathways at Queen's means that you can choose
some modules outside the subject(s) of your degree pathway. It may be possible
to change your pathway after entry to Queen's. Further information can be
obtained from your Advisor of Studies with whom you must discuss any proposed
change.
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Degree
A student who completes successfully the requirements of a degree pathway will
graduate with a degree. Degrees awarded by the University are normally
associated with a specific faculty.
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Degree Classification
A degree can be awarded with Honors or as an ordinary degree. Honors degrees are
classified on the basis of the marks obtained in the module examinations. The
current degree classifications are first, upper second (2.1), lower second
(2.2), and third. A detailed description of how the module examination marks are
combined to determine degree classification is given in the University Calendar.
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Regulations
The regulations govern the operation of the University and cover such areas as
admission procedures, entrance requirements, study regulations, conduct
regulations and health examination of students. Full details of all regulations
can be found in the University Calendar.
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Schools and Faculties
As a student, the people you will meet most frequently, apart from your fellow
students, will be members of staff of Queen's.
Every member of staff belongs to a "School". You can think of this
as being a group of staff organised into a unit where research and teaching is
undertaken in particular subject areas such as English or Mathematics. Each of
these academic units is led by a Head of School. whose task may be seen as that
of a manager responsible for finance and staff.
Related academic Schools are grouped into five Faculties in the University.
These are major centers of academic and financial administration. They are led
by senior staff members of the University who have the title of Dean. Deans
provide academic leadership and are responsible for the management of the
Faculties under their control. The five Faculties and their respective Deans are
as follows:
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Legal, Social and Educational Sciences
Faculty of Science and Agriculture
Deans are assisted in their work in support of students by a range of
different senior academic and administrative staff. Those who will have a
bearing on your life at Queen's are described both in this part of the Guide
for New Students and in the 'Pull-out' section located between the center
pages of this Guide.
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Lecturer
Each of the modules you elect to study will be under the control of one (or
more) lecturers. A lecturer is a member of the academic staff of the University
who is appointed to teach, undertake research and academic administration.
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Tutor
In addition to your lecturers many of the modules you study will involve you
working in a small group with a tutor. A tutor will be a member of the academic
staff (or a postgraduate student).
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Demonstrator
On those courses with laboratory components you will meet demonstrators. These
are members of staff, or postgraduate students, who are present in the
laboratory classes to assist you with the experimental work that you have to
perform.
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Postgraduate Supervisors
If you are a postgraduate research student, you will be
allocated a supervisor who will have a specialist knowledge of your field of
study. The supervisor will normally be the member of staff with whom research
students have most contact and should be the first to be contacted about any
academic queries. Their role is to give advice, help and encouragement so that
you receive a good training in research and produce a successful thesis.
Research students are informed who their supervisor is at enrolment.
There must be reqular meetings between student and supervisor,
although practices will vary from discipline to discipline. When you enrol you
will receive a copy of the University's 'Gudielines For Postgraduate Research
Students". This important reference booklet sets out both your
responsibilities and those of your supervisor as far as the progress of your
research work is concerned.
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Postgraduate Research Committees
Each Faculty has a Postgraduate Research Committee, which can
be contacted through the Faculty Office, and which includes representatives from
the different Schools in the Faculty. Its responsibilities, which are listed in
Section 1 of the University's PhD and MPhil regulations, include admitting
students, appointing supervisors and carrying out regular reviews of student
progress.
There is also a Central Postgraduate Research Committee, which
can be contacted through the Academic Division. This oversees all matters
relating to postgraduate research degrees, and its duties (which are set out in
full in Section 1 of the PhD and MPhil regulations) include considering appeals
against decisions of the Faculty Postgraduate Research Committees.
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