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at some lectures in newport no students would turn up, and i mean none at all. they got us all together and one lecturer gave us a right bollacking. it was so bad that one of the girls started crying. we always made sure that someone went to the lectures after that.
i must say that the guinness was too tempting though.
deep
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Sheffield - fantastic city, great work with ARCUS and a good student life. Department was supposed to be the best when I was choosing as a naive 17yr old, but not so sure now. Some of teaching was excellent - lots of prehistory and landscapes, but on the practical side the summer digs could be pretty variable. If lucky you got to got to cool places like South Uist
- if unlucky... Doncaster [xx(]
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Bradford - still there. But I'm old - mature I mean - so I still feel able to inflict words of wisdom on you all.....
Yep, agree with Penfold. Bradford is very science/practical oriented, not as many traditional period based modules to choose from as other places. This is fine for me, but may not be for everyone.
How about extending this thread, not only where did you go, but how much (if any) fieldwork did your uni require? Bradford requires 3 weeks, between 1st and 2nd years. There is also the option of a placement year between 2 and 3.
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yep, Brat-ford too for me. Based on the provision of the placement year. Best idea ever in my opinion!
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Leeds for first degree.
six weeks in total digging but ...
we also did surveying, and fieldwalking and more to the point post X in the practicals. I had done over 12 months digging by the time I graduated.
Peter
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School of Conservation Sciences.Bournemouth. Used to be a very well respected degree-plenty of science/theory and fieldwork. Sadly, the ubiquitous "bums on seats" policy has diluted the degree beyond recognition. Unfortunately, the teaching and scientific support staff are treated as though the university has discovered something unpleasant on the sole of their clearly well-heeled shoe. As a result, some extremely talented people leave and find jobs with grown-ups instead. 7 miles of white sandy beaches and palm trees that aint plastic! The best bit has to be the fact that Bournemouth has the most beautiful females of the species per metre than heaven itself...
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Bradford, 4 year course (lovely placement)
did 8 weeks fieldwork in my fist year, 8 in second year, a whole year in 3rd year and 4 weeks in 4th year! wwooooo
very good for job opportunities!
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Oxbeast, that was Czech or Slovakian? ;P
Dzien dobry is in Polish
Anyway, thanks for info. I have to do something about my future... the question is what and where....
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Cardiff (early-mid 80s); 'Selected' in haste after failing first year in "International Transport and Maritime Studies" at UWIST. Chosen when hungover because the students in the humanities block looked more fun than the grown-ups I was with on my original course. A cry for help really. Discovered some time later at the departmental cheese and wine that they only study British archaeology there, not international stuff as I had imagined. Spose I should have read a prospectus or something. I remember my early lectures looking at site drawings with hachures etc, thinking 'what the hell is going on'. They didn't get round to site drawings until the second year....
The amount of fieldwork on offer was quite good, expecially with certain courses. This was the one thing I was better at than most, but to my chagrin the practical elements receieved NO marks at all towards the final exam.
I do remember digging with some Lampeter students later on, and they were all very poor on general technique (couldn't plan, set out a grid, use a level etc), so we did better than them in that respect.
Mind you, I remember one fellow student several weeks before the exams complaining they still couldn't understand the difference between the Neolithic and Bronze Age!
I also had two brainstorms during my exams, one suggesting beaker markings were brewery logos, the other that cremation and pastoralism go together because people generally died in the winter or away from the burial grounds, so were cremated and popped in a pot to make it easier to carry them around until they could dispose of them properly during the summer tour of the uplands.
But I was a very immature, very drunken student with a bad attitude and a poor attendence rate, so ignor my opinion...........as I always put in my C.V.
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"The best bit has to be the fact that Bournemouth has the most beautiful females of the species per metre than heaven itself"
so you've been to Wales then Troll?
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Where did everyone go to university?
