Leading to various degrees in:
- Combined Technology
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Communications and Information Technology (ICT)
- Mathematics & Statistics
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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.
Key facts
- Course length: Three terms
- Entry points: October or January
- Term dates:
October 2008 start
Term 1 – 6 October to 19 December 08
Term 2 – 12 January to 27 March 09
Term 3 – 14 April to 19 June 09
January 2009 start
Term 1 – 12 January to 27 March 09
Term 2 – 14 April to 19 June 09
Term 3 – 22 June to 21 August 09 - 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