Engineering, Science and Mathematics

Core modules

Foundation English Skills 1
You will be taught to 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
You will improve all your abilities developed in FES1 with greater accuracy, speed, coherence, organisation and presentation.

Study Skills in the British Environment
You will be taught to 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
You will complete a self-study project on a topic that you will take, in consultation with your tutor, from the academic discipline that you plan to study at degree level.

Pure Mathematics 1
You will be taught to 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
You will be taught further algebra, co-ordinate geometry, trigonometry, differentiation, integration, numerical methods and vectors.

Applied Mathematics 1
You will be taught vectors, forces and equilibrium, relative motion, Newton’s Laws of Motion, friction and work, energy and power.

Applied Mathematics 2
You will learn about advanced vectors, forces as fixed vectors, centres of gravity/centres of mass and particle dynamics.

Physics 1
You will be taught sound, reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction, electromagnetic waves, strengths of solids, fluids, heat and gases and the structure of the atom.

Physics 2
You will learn about electrical current and charge, potential difference, resistance, capacitance, transistors and amplifiers, electrical fields, gravitational fields, magnetic fields and electromagnetic fields.