Part II

A British university usually consists of colleges. The departments of the colleges are organized into faculties: art, law, music, economy, education, medicine, engineering, agriculture and so on. The academic year at a university has three terms whish last roughly eight to ten weeks. Each term is full of activity and the vocations between the terms – a month at Christmas, a month at Easter, and three or four months in summer – are mainly periods of intellectual digestion and private study. During the terms students have a series of lectures, seminars, tutorials and laboratory classes. Lectures are given to large groups of students while seminars are for smaller ones. Lectures and seminars are all as long as one hour. As for laboratory classes, they last two or three hours. Teaching is also carried out by tutorial system. This is the system of individual tuition which implies that each student goes to his tutor’s room once a week to read and discuss an assay the student has prepare d.

A person studying for a degree at a British university is called an undergraduate. After three or four years of study he becomes a graduate and will leave with the degree of Bachelor of Arts or Science (BA, BSc). Students can continue studying for their Master ’s degree (Master of Arts or of Science – MA, MSc) and then for the highest university degree – the Doctor’s degree (Doctor of Philosophy – PhD). They carry out a research in a particular field and do their postgraduate work.

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