The Engineering & Computing foundation will give international students direct entry to Lancaster University degrees in the following fields:
- Combined Technology
- Computer Science
- Engineering (Computer Systems, Electronic, General, Mechanical, Mechatronic, Nuclear and Sustainable)
- Communications and Information Technology (ICT)
- Physics
- Psychology
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: Complete a self-study project on a topic that you will take, in consultation with your tutor, from the academic discipline that you will subsequently study at degree level.
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.
Please note we are offering scholarships for 2010-11.
Key facts
- Course length: Three terms
- Entry points: September or January
- Term dates:
September 2010 start
Term 1 – 04 October to 10 December 2010
Term 2 – 10 January to 25 March 11
Term 3 – 11 April to 17 June 11
January 2011 start
Term 1 – 10 January to 25 March 11
Term 2 – 11 April to 17 June 11
Term 3 – 20 June to 19 August 11 - Course structure: 5 core modules and 5 route modules. You take 3 modules per term plus Project Study in the final term.
- Assessment:
- End of module/term - a combination of examinations, coursework, presentations and extended essays
- Continuous - a mixture of lecture classes, small group seminar work and directed self-study