College structure New College of the Humanities

1 college structure

1.1 facilities , fees
1.2 courses
1.3 teaching

college structure
facilities , fees

the registry, bedford square

the college has building called registry in bedford square one-to-one , small group tutorials take place. registry contains rooms lectures. in addition, college s students have access university s facilities, including senate house library , student central block-books rooms first-year students student accommodation providers in bloomsbury, westminster, st pancras , tufnell park. nch has offered classes since october 2012, annual fees £9,250.

courses

the college offers tuition 53 undergraduate programmes featuring major , minor options in art history, creative writing, economics, english, history, law, philosophy , politics , international relations, single honours law llb, , philosophy, politics , economics ba. in addition, undergraduate students complete courses in applied ethics, critical reasoning, science literacy, , professional development programme. science literacy course includes teachers, richard dawkins teaching evolution, lawrence krauss teaching cosmology , particle physics, steven pinker lecturing brain, , daniel c dennett lecturing on consciousness.

teaching

nch offers 10:1 student-teacher ratio. subject-area convenors—including historian suzannah lipscomb of university of east anglia, , philosophers ken gemes birkbeck , naomi goulder bristol university—will recruit , lead teaching staff. lipscomb wrote college offers students 12–13 contact hours week, including 2 tutorials, 1 of them one-to-one.

the 14 academics named partners teaching, though hold full-time jobs elsewhere, several in united states. nch website refers them professoriate, led criticism largely absent one. grayling responded @ least 1 well-known academic deliver lecture every day of academic year, though of teaching done others. guardian wrote dawkins, krauss, , jones deliver 2 lectures week in scientific literacy between them, on 2 terms, , blackburn 10–20 lectures year. krauss, physics professor @ arizona state university, said visit month during first year, , give 10-15 lectures. zuckerman teach 20 hours; said pay comparable fees visiting professors in united states. colley , cannadine—married each other , employed princeton university—will teach @ nch 1 hour each in first academic year. singer, employed both princeton , university of melbourne, agreed give 1 lecture in first year, told guardian might more.

on 10 january 2013, college announced sir trevor nunn had been appointed visiting professor of drama in english faculty.

in may 2014 reported independent research replicated annual hepi academic experience survey showed college s academic experience had exceeded expectations of 63% of students. more twice comparative statistic (28%) russell group university students of humanities , social sciences in hepi 2014 annual student experience survey. same research showed nch students experienced 40% more contact time peers @ russell group universities, completed twice many assignments, , received feedback on assignments in person more twice often.