 Meet a student who chose the Engineering and Computing Foundation route
Foundation English Skills 1
Develop your ability to read academic texts, write extended texts, write subjective notes, listen effectively 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
Learn 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
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
Understand and interpret straight lines and linear equations, set theory and probability, statistics, linear programming, indices and logarithms and experimental laws.
Pure Mathematics 2
Learn further algebra, co-ordinate geometry, trigonometry, differentiation, integration, numerical methods and vectors.
Applied Mathematics 1
Learn 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
Learn about 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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