 Core subject 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 and participate in classroom debate.
Foundation English Skills 2
You will improve all your abilities developed in FES1 with greater accuracy, speed, cohesion, 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.
Cell Biology
You are taught about biological molecules, cellular structure, cell division, movement through cell membranes, enzymes and metabolic pathways.
Physiology
You are taught about the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, the digestive system, osmo-regulation, control and coordination and reproduction.
Chemistry 1
You are taught formulae, equations and moles, atomic structure, introduction to redox systems, thermodynamics and bonding.
Chemistry 2
You are taught about equilibria, acidbase equilibria, kinetics and organic chemistry.
Further Studies in Biology and Chemistry
You follow further studies in genetics, ecology and plant biology plus inorganic chemistry, oxidation/reduction reactions and transition element chemistry.
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