Below you will find more information on where and how your teaching and assessments will take place during the Warwick Summer School.
For course specific entry requirements, module information and to find out more about our teaching team, please make sure you look at the specific course pages.
Teaching and Learning
Each course offered at the Summer School contains 62 hours of teaching. These hours of study include:
lectures
seminars/workshops
revision classes
guest lectures
study groups
Students are also expected to complete 88 hours of independent study throughout the programme.
Frequently Asked Questions: Teaching
Due to the intensive nature of the Warwick Summer School, students are expected to attend all timetabled teaching activity, to engage with the teaching material and to spend an average of 2-3 hours per day in self-guided study.
Guest lectures are part of the timetabled teaching activity and so are compulsory.
To get the most out of the summer school experience, we also strongly encourage students to actively participate in the social programme.
Students registered for Warwick Summer School must attain a minimum of 75% authorised attendance of the timetabled teaching activity. If students fall short of this threshold, they will not be awarded a certificate of completion and they will not be able to sit the exam/submit final assessment.
Authorised attendance includes any sickness absence during the course of the programme that has been properly notified and recorded.
An attendance register will be taken at the beginning of teaching session so students need to ensure they arrive on time in order to be marked as attended.
We strongly advise you to make sure that you select the right course before starting the Summer School. In the event that a student wants to change courses, a maximum of one course change is permitted within the first two days of the teaching session, subject to there being space available on the new course. Due to the intensive nature of the programme, it is not possible to make changes after this because students will have missed too much material and it causes disruption to other students.
Students should not expect to be able to access course content once their course has concluded. We advise students to download and save or print any materials during the programme that they would like to keep.
Assessment
All of our courses have an optional assessment, which is usually a two-hour exam on the final day of the programme.
Some of our courses assess students via other methods such as coursework or presentations, please see each course webpage for further information.
Towards the end of the final week, there will be revision classes for courses which have an optional 2-hour examination.
Frequently Asked Questions: Assessment
The Summer School does not offer re-takes of examinations, whatever your result in the original examination.
Certificates, Transcripts and Credit Transfer
All students will be awarded a certificate of attendance by the University of Warwick upon completion of the programme and this is sent to students after the programme comes to an end. In addition to an attendance certificate, students who sit the optional course assessment will also be sent an official University of Warwick transcript of results which can often be used for credit transfer at your home institution. Students who wish to gain credit should contact their Study Abroad Office or the office at their university that deals with external credit.
It is ultimately up to a student's home institution as to how much credit is awarded but we are happy to provide any necessary information to your registry or academic advisor to help them evaluate our courses. Students in previous years who have successfully transferred credits for our courses have received 7.5 ECTS/3 US credits. It is advisable for students to ensure they check with their home institution about credit transfer prior to their arrival.
Teaching Facilities
Teaching will take place at Warwick's beautiful self-contained campus in the heart of England. Our campus is designed to cater for all of your learning needs. And, we’re constantly reimagining how to make this space both welcoming and intellectually enriching.
You can benefit from a variety of flexible, well-equipped study spaces and teaching facilities across the University. The Oculus, our outstanding learning hub, houses state-of-the-art lecture theatres and innovative social learning and network areas. The University Library provides access to over one million printed works and tens of thousands of electronic journals, and you'll find flexible individual and group study spaces in our three Learning Grids.
Frequently Asked Questions
Certificates, Transcripts and Credit Transfer
Students will automatically receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of a Summer School course (provided they have met the minimum level of 75% attendance.) This certificate will state the name of the student and the course they studied.
Students who choose to sit the final exam or submit the assessment will also receive a transcript of results. The transcript of results will state the name of the student, the course they studied, the exam mark and the grade.
Certificates are distributed in hard copy at the Summer School Farewell Event.
Transcripts are automatically sent to students via email by the middle of September. You should keep this safe in case you need it for credit transfer approval or for future reference.
If you would like us to email a copy of your transcript directly to someone at your University who deals with credit transfer please let us know. We are happy to send your transcript directly to whomever deals with credit transfer requests.
If you have misplaced your transcript from a course taken in previous years, you can request a copy from our Summer School Office.
Please note, we will send the transcript electronically unless otherwise requested and we aim to respond to requests for transcripts within two weeks. If you require a hard copy of your transcript, this will be sent via regular post, so the postal times can vary. The following are rough estimates of postal times for some countries. Please take this into consideration when ordering.
UK: 2-3 days
Mainland Western Europe: 1 week
Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey: 1-2 weeks
USA: 1-2 weeks
Brazil: up to 2 weeks
India: 4 -6 weeks
China: 4-6 weeks
Warwick Summer School courses do not count towards a degree at Warwick, so current Warwick students are unable to seek credit for the programme.
Teaching Facilities
We can make special examination and assessment arrangements (e.g., extra writing time, rest periods, the use of equipment etc.) because of an existing condition (i.e., physical, medical, or psychological) and/or learning disability (e.g., dyslexia). Special arrangements can only be made based on documented evidence from an official source (e.g., doctor’s note). This must be submitted to the Summer School Office within the first three days of the start of the programme.
Late applications for special arrangements will not normally be considered except in very specific circumstances.
If you experience an unexpected, last minute medical problem which you think warrants special examination arrangements, please contact the Summer School Office as soon as possible for advice.
