Kim

Dec 12, 2023

Feedback on my course

I have enjoyed parts of this course, but have also found it very frustrating. Within 3 months of joining the course, our tutor left. While I appreciate, this isn't Chrysalis's fault it was frustrating. With this in mind, my new tutor Honey has been amazing and has made my course experience much more enjoyable. I feel she was one of the better elements to my course. She was very helpful throughout my journey and was always on hand to help. Unfortunately, there are quite a few negatives to my experience. 1) I found the layout of the course work to be very confusing. I.e. component 1 having 2 modules within it. It made it confusing when submitting as numbers kept getting muddled up. Possibly having Component 1 then module A & B? 2) Having a deadline but having to hand it in a few days before so we can get access to the required reading. This has never made sense to me. What is the point in having a deadline, if we need to hand it in days before? I think access should be granted a week or two prior to the next session. For some people they couldn't get access to the reading prior to the session as they were pushed for time to make the deadline. I personally didn't have a problem with this however having to hand in before the deadline was frustrating. 3) The coursework wasn't very well weighted. At the start of the course we had lots of small assignments i.e 250 word summery etc. Then at the end of the course we had a 3000 word essay, 15 questions to answer/ write scripts for, SSP1 (2000 words) and SSP2 (1000 words). It would have been better to have the large assignments spread out throughout the course as the end feels very weighty. 4) Being told to wait for up to 3 months for our final results (which always seemed too long to wait considering we got marks back within a week usually), yet I was told by another course that they received their marks back in less than 2 weeks of handing in their final assignments. The only reason I point this out is because I am due to be starting my second year in January and apparently I am not allowed to start till I have passed year 1. I don't want to be held back because of marking taking long. 5) Uncertainty regarding information - Tutors being told something different to what we initially thought. Not sure if the information we were given was wrong or things were changed during the course? Feedback: I think work, deadline and course layout needs to be clearly set out from the start as there was a lot of uncertainty throughout the course. Without the help of my tutor Honey, I think our whole year would have struggled. She was very helpful and pleasure to work with. Overall I found my experience to be ok. I am aware that hypnotherapy isn't my main goal for this course so I am hoping the final two years will be more enjoyable as I am most excited for the counselling element of this course. I do hope details are confirmed so we can manage our time efficiently as I am aware that year 2 & 3 will be more intense.