Ellen, Leanne and I set off in the morning with our list of courses that we were interested in and the room numbers of the respective lecturers. We decided to go to all of them together so that we would have a better understanding of the options and to meet the lecturers.
I had been interested in a Module named ‘Urban Matters Pool’. There were a few courses in this module that focused on art and architecture, aesthetics and methods of implementation. The descriptions were intriguing and the type of work that they were going to explore sounded exciting. We went to find the tutors, but we were told only one was available. We greeted her in German and began to explain that we were Erasmus students who were interested in the module and would like to find out more information about it. We must have come at a bad time as she was very abrupt and quite unhelpful. She gave us no guidance or further explanation of the courses. She did tell us when the lectures started but said that they would all be in German. Overall, I felt a bit down after this as that had knocked my top 3 course choices immediately off my list.
We moved on and went to find more lecturers from different departments. A number where not around and even when speaking to secretaries from individual departments, we did not get any closer to finding where or when they would be in. Once again I realised how lucky we are in Portsmouth
The day was intense and quite draining, but we had learnt a lot about the university system and about the range of tutors and courses. We now had a list of options with only a few more to chase up. Next week will be another test, the introductions to the individual units. I hope that by the end of next week I will have my timetable arranged and be ready to fully engage with the tasks.
