Purpose
Course Reps are the foundation of student representation, promoting a partnership between students, academic staff, and SU. They ensure that the experience and feedback of their peers are represented throughout their studies
Term of Office: One academic year
Objectives
Provide students with opportunities to give feedback on all aspects of their experience such as:
- Learning and Teaching
- Assessment & Feedback
- Learning Community
- Employability
- Campus Facilities
- Wellbeing & Support
- Seek to resolve feedback informally with appropriate staff (see key contacts).
- Provide agenda items highlighting academic feedback and present them at the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC).
- Endeavour to make sure that feedback is: Accurate, Balanced, Constructive, Depersonalised & Evidenced.
- Work in partnership with your department staff to ensure that your cohort are kept up to date on how feedback is being actioned.
- Make yourself known and promote the Rep system to the students you represent.
Attends
- SU Student Rep Training
- Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) – Once a term
- SU Big Rep Meeting – Once a year
- Informal meetings with academic staff, Subject Chair, SU President and/or SU
Key Contacts
- Your fellow course reps
- Subject chair for your department
- EDI Reps for your department
- SU President Exeter
- SU Academic Representation & Advocacy Coordinator
- Student Experience Coordinator
- Director of Education and Student Experience (DESE) for your department.
- Tutors and Lecturers
Purpose
Work alongside Course Reps and Subject Chairs to monitor and champion Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. EDI Reps gather feedback from students in minoritised groups and share this feedback with fellow reps and their department making sure that these discussions are mindful of the whole student community.
Term of Office: One academic year
Objectives
- Maintain a working understanding of EDI issues and how they may affect students in your cohort.
- Gather feedback from student in minoritised groups, notably BAME, International, Disabled, LGBTQ+ and Mature students.
- Represent EDI issues at the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) and occasionally attend other meetings to provide feedback and discuss actions.
- Regularly meet with other EDI Reps to share concerns raised across department to feedback to a higher level via The SU.
- Seek to resolve feedback informally with appropriate staff (see key contacts).
- Provide agenda items highlighting academic feedback and present them at the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC).
- Endeavour to make sure that feedback is: Accurate, Balanced, Constructive, Depersonalised & Evidenced.
- Work in partnership with your department staff to ensure that your cohort are kept up to date on how feedback is being actioned.
- Make yourself known and promote the Rep system to the students you represent.
Attends
- SU Student Rep Training
- Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) – Once a term
- SU Big Rep Meeting – Once a year
- Informal meetings with academic staff, Subject Chair, SU President and/or SU
Key Contacts
- Course Reps for your department
- Subject chair for your department
- Your fellow EDI reps
- SU President Exeter
- SU Academic Representation & Advocacy Coordinator
- Student Experience Coordinator
- Director of Education and Student Experience (DESE) for your department.
- Tutors and Lecturers
Some departments in Exeter have porfolio rep roles, such as employability, study abroad and placement reps. These roles are still invited to SSLCs and function just like course reps, but with a specialism in a certain area. Please refer to the course rep role descriptor above for a general idea of what you will be doing in these roles.
Want to take on an extra challenge?
If you have been a course rep before and would like a bigger role in representing students, you could nominate yourself to be a Department Rep (Falmouth) or Subject Chair (Exeter)!
Find out more about these roles on our Elections Page.
If you have any more queries about how to become a Course Rep, Department Rep or Subject Chair, please email studentvoice@thesu.org.uk.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have some questions before you sign up? Please check our FAQ below!
Why is my course/year group not listed in the sign up form?
This is most likely because we have enough reps for your course/year group! We are no longer accepting reps for the following courses/year groups:
FALMOUTH
- BA Animation Year 2
- BSc Business & Marketing (online) Year 3
- BA Drawing Year 2
- BA Fashion Design Year 2
- BA Film Year 2
- BA Film Year 3
- BA Fine Art Year 3
- BA Game Development subject area Year 3
- BA Graphic Design Year 2
- BA Illustration Year 2
- BA Illustration (online) Year 2
- BA Interior Design (online) Year 2
- BA Interior Design (online) Year 3
- BA Media Production Year 2
- BA Musical Theatre Year 2
- BA Musical Theatre Year 3
- BA Photography Year 2
- BA Photography (online) Year 2
- BA Post Production & Visual Effects Year 2
- BA Post Production & Visual Effects Year 3
- BA Television Year 2
- BA Television Year 3
- BA Textile Design Year 2
EXETER
- BMBS (Medicine) Year 3
- BSc Business Year 2
- BSc Business & Environment Year 3
- BA History & Politics Year 2
- BA History & Politics Year 3
- Human Science Year 3
- Law w/ Business Year 2
- Law w/ Business Year 3
- BSc Marine Biology Year 2
- BA Politics and International Relations Year 2
If your course is not in this list/you believe you should still be able to sign up to be a rep, please contact studentvoice@thesu.org.uk
Course reps collect feedback from their course cohort to present in meetings with course staff, and then work with course staff to find solutions to any problems and bring about any changes students would like to see.
Exeter also have specialist reps who focus on specific areas of your academic experience, such as EDI and employability.
You can find out more about what a course rep does here!
How much time would I have to commit to the role?
For Falmouth, you will need to attend a Student-Staff Liaison Group (SSLG) meeting once a study block, which are normally around 2 hours long. You may also also be invited to check-ins with your department rep, and would need to put in some hours to collect and write up feedback ahead of the SSLG. We estimate that you need to commit 8 hours to the role per study block.
For Exeter, you will attend an Student Staff Liaison Group (SSLC) once every term, which are normally around 2 hours long. You may also be invited to check-ins with your Subject Chair, and would need to put in some hours to collect and write up feedback ahead of the SSLC. We estimate that you need to commit 8 hours to the role per term (though this is usually less in 3rd term).
If you still can't find the answer to your questions, you can contact us at StudentVoice@thesu.org.uk