Some of the key issues first-year history students raise when asked about the differences between school and university are: independent learning, thematic course coverage, fewer contact hours, coping with lectures and seminars, and all that reading…
A systematic survey of first-year students by Queen Mary University of London also noted some disparities between students’ expectations and the realities of their first-year experience. See Figure 1. The greatest differences were in the expected difficulty of the course and the much broader historical coverage students were expected to deal with (as opposed to their more focused sixth-form studies in history). So, what’s the reality of university-level history?
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