International Foundation Year at the ISC

ENGINEERING & COMPUTING FOUNDATION

Studying engineering at Lancaster University

Leading to various degrees in:

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Core modules

Foundation English Skills 1: Develop your ability to read academic texts, write extended texts, write subjective notes, listen effectively in class and participate in classroom debate.

Foundation English Skills 2: Improve all your abilities developed in part 1 with greater accuracy, speed, cohesion, organisation and presentation.

Study Skills in the British Environment: Use your study time more effectively, improve your use of, and range of, information sources and prepare comprehensive essays in your own time to given deadlines.

Project Study: Study the life and culture of Britain today, including language and identity, the media, food, sport and leisure and the lifestyle of young people. Assessment is through completion of a researched and referenced project, undertaken by self study but with tutorial support.

Pure Mathematics 1: Understand and interpret straight lines and linear equations, set theory and probability, statistics, linear programming, indices and logarithms and experimental laws.

Route modules

Pure Mathematics 2: Further algebra, co-ordinate geometry, trigonometry, differentiation, integration, numerical methods and vectors.

Applied Mathematics 1: Vectors, forces and equilibrium, relative motion, Newton’s Laws of Motion, friction and work, energy and power.

Applied Mathematics 2: Learn about advanced vectors, forces as fixed vectors, centres of gravity/ centres of mass and particle dynamics.

Physics 1: Sound, reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, electromagnetic waves, strengths of solids, fluids, heat and gases and the structure of the atom.

Physics 2: Learn about electrical current and charge, potential difference, resistance, capacitance, transistors and amplifiers, electrical fields, gravitational fields, magnetic fields and electromagnetic fields.

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