This information helps you prepare for Registration Week. which is the first week of UCL's term starting on Monday 28 September 2009: what to do before term starts, where to go when you arrive, what meetings you have in ESPS and in your teaching departments when you get here, and where you will meet other ESPS students. Keep checking this page before the start of term: information will be progressively uploaded. A summary of the week's events is given below.
Before term starts
During Registration Week
After the Welcome meeting at 10:00 on Monday 28 September you will have an appointment with one of the ESPS tutors to discuss and confirm your module choices. The appointments list is currently provisional, so please check it again on the first day of term, when it will also be posted on the Notice Board in the ESPS Common Room (G20, Ground Floor, Foster Court North).
You will attend a module registration session where you will be shown how to register your modules on Portico (see section 5.2 of the Student Handbook). This session will take place on Thursday 1 October.
You will visit the departments of your chosen subjects to familiarise yourself with their locations and to find out where the teaching will take place, and if there is a reading list or other set of instructions to be noted before teaching begins. Click here for a list of departmental registration times. This list will also be displayed on the Notice Board in the ESPS Common Room. Remember also to check your obligations with the departments of your chosen subjects.
You should check once again that your timetable is clash-free, using the UCL Online Timetable. The UCL Online Timetable displays your personal timetable week by week, and lets you find out what is being taught, when, where and by whom across UCL. Use it to confirm whether your chosen modules will fit in your timetable. (More guidance in the ESPS Student Handbook.)
If you have any problems in connection with module registration you should return to Nick or Tessa.
The first few days of term often seem hectic. To help you, and in addition to your personal tutor Dr Kristin M. Bakke, UCL operates the 'Transition at UCL' programme. This is a student-led support network to help new students adjust to university and overcome initial challenges and anxieties in consultation with their peers. As part of this programme, several 'Mentors' - experienced ESPS students - will guide new students through the features of university life and academic study in a series of talks and informal gatherings held throughout the first year. See http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transition/getting-started
Registration Week Meetings
| Date |
Event |
Location |
Further details |
Mon 28 Sept
10:00 - 11:00
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Welcome meeting |
Room 101, First Floor, Foster Court |
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Mon 28 Sept
11:00 - 13:00
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Module choice tutorial
(with ESPS member of staff)
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ESPS staff offices (Ground Floor, Foster Court North) |
Please wait in the ESPS Common Room (G20, Ground Floor, Foster Court North) for your tutorial. The final list of appointment times will also be posted in the Common Room.
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| Mon 28 Sept - Thurs 1 Oct |
Visit departments of chosen modules |
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List of registration times (also on Notice Board, ESPS Common Room). Check the list while waiting for your module choice tutorial in the Common Room.
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Tues 29 Sept
10:00
|
IS Induction |
AV Hill Lecture Theatre (C3 on this map). Access to the AV Hill Lecture Theatre is easiest from Malet Place. The entrance is at the top of the steps next to the Medical Sciences arch.
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| Wed 30 Sept 11:00 |
Enrolment for UK students |
Old Refectory, Wilkins Bldg, Gower St
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| Wed 30 Sept 14:00 |
IEHLPP core module preliminary meeting |
Pearson LT, Pearson Bldg (North East Entrance)
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Please purchase the study pack for this module on Monday afternoon from Tessa in Room G18, Ground Floor, Foster Court North. (Cost £12) |
| Wed 30 Sept 14:30 - 15:30 |
Talks:
- Careers
- Voluntary Service
- European Society
- 2nd & 4th year students
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Graduates
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Pearson LT, Pearson Bldg (North East Entrance)
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This will involve talks from UCL's Volunteer Services Unit and UCL Careers Service as well as talks from students in other year groups and from ESPS graduates. These talks will help both new and continuing students to familiarise themselves with the challenges of the year you're about to enter. |
Wed 30 Sept 15:30-16:00 |
'Meet your Mentor' |
Pearson LT, Pearson Bldg (North East Entrance) |
ESPS 'Mentors' from Years 2 and 4 have been assigned to advise you on settling in and study-management during Term 1. Directly after the talks (above) you will get to meet your Mentor in small groups. |
| Wed 30 Sept 16:00 |
Party
All students and staff
|
Portico Steps
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This is where new students and those in different year groups first get to know one another. |
Thurs 1 Oct
10:00-13:00
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Module registration on Portico (assisted by Portico staff) |
Chadwick 0.4, Public Cluster
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A guide to Portico module registration can be found in the ESPS Student Handbook. |
| Thurs 1 Oct 14:00 - 15:15 |
Transition Programme Information Session |
JZ Young LT Anatomy (Access to this LT is via the entrance to the Anatomy building on Gower Street, The LT is immediately ahead of you as you enter the building.
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Thurs 1 Oct
16:00
surnames A-H
16:45
surnames J-Z
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Library Tour |
Meet Ms Bess Ryder by the statue in the Main Library. |
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| Fri 2 Oct |
Fresher's Fayre |
Cloisters and Front Quad |
Your chance to sign up to UCL Union clubs and societies. |
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