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I've had to think as a first year, someone who's just done her first year,
about what I've learnt, what haven't I learnt, what I should have learnt this year but I
didn't, in order to come up with changes that should be implemented for the first year,
and things that I would like to cover next year that wouldn't be on the curriculum anyway.
I would like to do some things that would focus on teamwork, because we only had one
module that covered that this year, and certainly more things on communication. I would certainly
like more things where we have to stand up and talk. There's a scheduled change for the
second year, there's a module called 'Numerics and Optimisation', where previously it was,
what is nicknamed the 'Chalk and talk' module, where it's mainly based on lectures, and it's
moderated, 80 percent exam, 20 percent coursework, it might be changing to 100 percent coursework,
and these pieces of coursework are done in teams, so there will be several team work
projects there, and that's improving team work skills, project management skills and
communication skills in presenting what we've done. So that is a change that if it goes
through, I would be very very happy with.