Step 3 – Meeting your Programme Director
You are required to attend a meeting with your Programme Director to choose your optional units for the final year of your degree. At this meeting you will be able to discuss your options with your Programme Director before making your choices. You will complete a‘course unit plan’ at the meeting to record your choice of units – it is important that you retain a copy of your choices so that you can self-select your optional courses on the Student System in July. If you are unable to complete your choice of units in the meeting with your Programme Director, your completed and signed form must be handed in to the Student Support Office no later than Friday 13th May 2016.
*It is important that you retain a copy of your Course Unit Plan as you will need to enrol on your optional units yourself over the summer period.*
Copies of the third year draft 2016-17 timetable will be made available at the meeting and on the School intranet so you can choose clash free options, however please note that the timetable is still draft at the stage as we do not have final timetable allocations until the end of the summer. No compulsory units should clash. You must make sure that your timetable is clash free when you return in September when room booking information has been released.
There are two reasons for asking you to choose optional units at this time of year; i) to provide all students with a personalised timetable at the beginning of the new academic year; ii) to ensure that the lecture theatres booked for your lectures are of an appropriate capacity for the cohort. You will, of course, still be able to change optional course units up to the end of the second week of each ‘early’ semester one unit and after the end of the first week for ‘late’ semester units and ‘early’ semester two units..
The Programme Director Course Unit Selection Clinics will take place w/c 25th April 2016 and a detailed timetable will be sent to you prior to the Clinics.
Placement students
You may want to discuss your options with your Personal Advisor before making your choice of optional units. You can do this by contacting them via email (or if you have not filled in a second meeting form on the intranet yet, this would be a good time to do that, so you can update them on your progress as well as getting advice).
If your placement is in the Manchester area you may wish to attend the Programme Director meetings.
Once you have decided which optional units you would like to choose, please complete the relevant course unit plan and return it to studentsupportoffice.fls@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 13th May 2016.
*It is important that you retain a copy of your Course Unit Plan as you will need to enrol on your optional units yourself over the summer period.*
Intercalating Medical students
If you are an intercalating medical student you will meet with your Programme Director in September when you have an active SoBS record on the Student System.