Archaeology, University of Leicester

Student Review: 2.2 /5

Ancient History and Archaeology, BA Hons

By member1169238 On 30th May 22 Verified student

I did the distance Ancient History and Archaeology course. The good is that the personal tutors are pretty great. The teachers are hit and miss, when they are good it's great, they email once a week, respond quickly, provide extra support, provide excellent feedback and follow up help on essays and make extra resources exp. videos, extra reading materials to support etc. When they are bad you will hear nothing from them week to week, take a long time to respond (10 days was the longest I had to wait, not great when the question was regarding an essay) and give basic feedback The actual course is basic, some of it is interesting but the course books are a simplified version of the additional reading. You can simply focus on the essays and forgo the course entirely and your learning won't change. The DL team are simply incompetent in every aspect. If you want decent learning don't do this course, if you want the piece of paper and don't mind casual incompetence, this course is ok.

I love the lecturers here at uni and theyre all down to earth people who genuinly want to help you and will go out their way to do so

Absolutely amazing course; quite small and the teaching is of a high quality. All the staff are really passionate and nice!

I know the names of all my lecturers and you find by the end of first year that you are relatively friendly with them all. The teaching quality is great and the warmth toward students is something I feel you wouldn't get everywhere