Undergraduate Prospectus 2021

Bangor University 2021 UCAS Code: Bangr B06 bangor.ac.uk WE’RE CLOSER Contents 04 Open Days THAN YOU THINK NEWCASTLE 06 ViVicce-Chancellor’se-Chancellor’s Welcome 08 BaBanngorgor at a Glance 14 MeMeeett Our Students 16 LLoocationcation 20 StuStuddents’ents’ Union 22 ClClububss & Societies LEEDS BANGOR 24 SpSporortt at Bangor MANCHESTER 28 AAcccommodationcommodation DUBLIN LIVERPOOL SHEFFIELD 34 SkSkiillslls & Employability CHESTER 42 InIntternationalernational Students WREXHAM 48 StStuudentdent Support 52 StuStuddyy Support 54 LeLeaarningrning Resources BIRMINGHAM 56 MaMatuturere Students 58 TuTuititionion Fees 60 BuBurrsariessaries & Scholarships To Bangor from: 64 How toto Apply Liverpool by car SWANSEA 90 minutes CACARRDIFFDIFF LONDON Manchester by car 120 minutes

Birmingham by car SSOOUTHAMPTONUTHAMPTON 180 minutes London by train 195 minutes

Contents 1 Course List 2021

71 Environmental Science, Forestry, Geography & Conservation 83 Biology & Zoology 95 Ocean Sciences 109 Computer Science 117 Electronic Engineering 123 Medical Sciences 129 Health Sciences 135 Psychology 143 Sport, Health & Exercise Sciences 155 Accounting, Banking, Business, Economics, Finance, Marketing & Management 173 Law 179 Social Sciences 183 Politics 185 History & Archaeology 197 Literature, Language, Linguistics, Film, Journalism and Media 223 Philosophy & Religion 225 Modern Languages & Cultures 239 Music, Theatre & Performance 243 Education, Childhood and Youth Studies & Product Design

2 Course List Course List 3 Open Days 2020

Saturday Saturday OPEN DAYS OPEN DOORS

OPEN MINDS Sunday Sunday Saturday

Bangor is a beautifully situated university with a high rate of student 11 25 07 satisfaction. OCT OCT NOV

Come and see for yourself, and To book a place or find out more visit: discover that our location, between www.bangor.ac.uk/openday the mountains and the sea, isn’t the and for further information call only thing that makes us special. 01248 382005 or 01248 382420

4 Open Days Open Days 5 “At Bangor, we place our students at the heart of all that we do and strive to deliver an all-round student experience WELCOME that is as unique as it is rewarding. We’ve recently invested millions of pounds in developing new academic, social and FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR sports facilities, making it an even more attractive place for our students to study and to live. We received a Gold Award – the highest rating possible in the national Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF 2017), which means our teaching is of the highest quality. In addition, our research is of truly international quality and attracts staff and students from all over the globe. We pride ourselves on the comprehensive academic, financial and personal support available to all our students and see a degree as being far more than a qualification alone – it is an exercise in development and self-improvement. Our relationships with partners in the region and with the local community also give our students numerous opportunities to gain valuable work experience and to benefit from a huge catalogue of volunteering opportunities. All this takes place in an area of outstanding beauty and contributes to the Bangor experience as being totally unique.”

Professor Iwan Davies Vice-Chancellor, Bangor University

6 Welcome Welcome 7 A UNIVERSITY YOU CAN in the world for COUNT ON Commitment to Sustainability 8th in the UI Green Metric 2018 for Teaching Excellence TEF, 2017

in the UK for Student Satisfaction*

Bangor University’s outstanding results in the 2019 National Student Survey saw us ranked top 10* in the UK for student satisfaction, for the third year running. Nin the UK for o.1Clubs & Societies TOP40 WhatUni Awards 2018 in the UK for Research Quality** 4TH BEST **Excluding specialist institutions & single-submission universities. REGION TOP3 SEREN NEWS in the world to visit in the UK for Accommodation Lonely Planet 2017 WhatUni Awards 2019 *Excluding specialist institutions.

8 Bangor at a Glance Bangor at a Glance 9 FREE clubs & societies The Students’ Union, Undeb Bangor, provides much of the focus for student activities and entertainment. You can A warm & friendly try something new, or get together with people who have the same interests environment as you. A major plus at Bangor is that Many of our students choose Bangor student membership of the Students’ because of the small and friendly Union clubs and societies is free. nature of the University and town. The university offers a relaxed environment for students to socialise, learn and make friends for life. DISCOVER BANGOR

International university experience Award-winning accommodation With over 10,000 students from all over the world, Bangor offers Social life & entertainment All first year students are guaranteed a a multicultural, multilingual room at one of our two accommodation Academi, the official student club, is the place to go sites. Our accommodation is modern, experience. The University is for night time socialising. Bar Uno, on the Ffriddoedd also situated within one of the comfortable and convenient, and the student village and Barlow’s, on the St Mary’s student ideal way to settle in to student life. most vibrant bilingual areas in villages are other popular venues for students. the UK and both English and Welsh can be seen and heard in The Pontio centre is a landmark building which links Details of our halls guarantee can all aspects of life. Bangor University and the community which surrounds be found at www.bangor.ac.uk/ it. In addition to providing a base for the Students’ Union, hallsguarantee Pontio houses a cinema, theatre, lecture theatres, and places to eat.

10 Discover Bangor Discover Bangor 11 Student support is our priority We offer a friendly and caring study environment and the health and wellbeing of our students is important to us. To help you make the most of SUPPORTING YOU your time at university, you’ll be given as much help and support as possible with health and welfare matters as EVERY STEP OF THE WAY well as your academic work (see page 48).

Welcome Week A range of events and activities to welcome new students are held during Welcome Week. Along with activities organised by the Students’ Union, Campus Life and your academic School, Peer Guides will be on hand to help you to settle in to university life (see page 48).

Study Support Work Placements and Experience You’ll be allocated a Personal Tutor to provide advice and support during your We offer a wide range of personal and time here. The Study Skills Centre offers career development opportunities to help additional academic support including you prepare for your future. These include help with academic writing, revision, a Placement Year, International Experience maths and statistics (see page 52). Year, the University‘s internship scheme and volunteering projects offered by the Students’ Union (see pages 20, 34-39).

12 Supporting Our Students Supporting Our Students 13 Welcome week was great! WHAT OUR I made so many new friends and got to visit Snowdon, “Bangor is so ethnically diverse STUDENTS learn some traditional which is really good because you dances, joined in activities meet people that you wouldn’t LOVE ABOUT and try the local food. The necessarily meet in other places. highlight so far for me has I wanted a change of pace from BANGOR been making new friends whilst studying what you London and Bangor is a refreshing love, surrounded by change from city life for me. I really stunning scenery.” enjoy it here.” Alexandros Mitroudis From Athens, studying Marine Biology Abraham Makanjuola & Zoology From London, studying French and Economics with International Experience

“I chose Bangor as it had a “It’s easy to settle in at welcoming atmosphere. I felt very Bangor with the support of Peer Guides and lots of comfortable here from day one. activities. Bangor Pier is a Living in halls has improved my great place to go running, confidence a lot, it gives me and societies have been a independence but with the support good way for me to make of the university thanks to on-site new friends.” Sian Furber security. I’ve made so many friends From Wrexham, studying and you feel like one big family.” Primary Education

Rowena Lang From Mold, Flintshire, studying Psychology

14 Meet Our Students Meet Our Students 15 “Wonderful position. On one BREATHTAKING side are the mountains of the Snowdonia National Park, on the other side is the Menai Strait. Bangor boasts the BACKDROPS best university setting in the UK, with parts within 6 feet of the sea.”

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16 Location Location 17 The town and the pier Most of our buildings and halls There’s no getting away from it – the location, are a short walk from the city ADVENTURES the scenery and the surrounding area are centre where you’ll find a variety amongst the reasons why many of our students of national chain stores and smaller local businesses. BETWEEN choose to come here. One thing’s for sure, all this on your doorstep definitely adds a different Bangor Pier is a short walk away LECTURES where you can take some time dimension to student life. away from your studies to relax and try the best scones in Wales.

Beautiful beaches The stunning beaches on the “The course was perfect and offered a lot that nearby island of Anglesey others could not. Then I looked into the are popular spots for University and immediately fell in love with sunbathing, swimming and the location and its natural beauty.” days out with friends. Meera Misty From Northamptonshire, studying Consumer Psychology with Business Snowdonia National Park The many attractions of Snowdonia for sports enthusiasts are obvious. Even if you’re not the outward-bound type there’s still plenty to explore in the surrounding area. Visit historical towns such as Beaumaris, Conwy and Caernarfon (all with their own castles) or scenic villages like Beddgelert and Betws y Coed.

18 Location Location 19 Free membership of clubs & societies Membership of the Students’ Union’s THE BEATING HEART clubs and societies is free so it’s easy to get involved in sport and other OF BANGOR activities while you’re a student here. With over 200 clubs and societies to choose from, it’s not hard to see why the Students’ Union plays a central part in many students’ lives at Bangor Much of your social life at Bangor University (see overleaf). will revolve around the Students’ Union.

The Students’ Union, Undeb Bangor, provides services, support and activities for students. A separate entity from the University, the Union represents students on all matters.

The Students’ Union is run by elected Sabbatical Officers and strives to get the best for you. It is there to promote your welfare and interests, and to provide a channel of communication between you and the University.

The biggest event of the year Work in the community The Students’ Union, Undeb Bangor, hosts Serendipity There are over 50 volunteering projects to get – the Welcome Week Fair and biggest event of the involved with from working with children and the year. The event showcases the Students’ Union’s elderly, to sports projects to working with mental award winning student-led opportunities and gives health projects. you a chance to get involved in anything from societies The skills and experience you’ll gain through and sports teams, to volunteering projects. You can volunteering will be attractive to employers, and also meet the University’s Student Services teams as you can get accreditation for your involvement with well as a variety of local and national organisations. Undeb Bangor Volunteering through the Bangor Employability Award (see page 37).

20 Students’ Union Students’ Union 21 Societies include:

WHATUNI? ACAPELLA CHESS DOG WALKING STUDENT ACwHOaICrEds AFRO CARIBBEAN CHRISTIAN UNION FEMINIST 2019 WINNER UNLIMITED CLUBS & SOCIETIES ANIMATION CIRCUS FILM ART COMEDY GAMING LEAGUE EXPERIENCES BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION HERPETOLOGY WITH FREE CLUBS & SOCIETIES BRASS BAND DISNEY ISLAMIC

We’ve been rated top in the UK Your time at university provides an ideal opportunity to try out a new activity for the first time with like-minded for clubs and societies* and all our people. The various student-run societies cover a range JAPANESE Students’ Union clubs and societies of hobbies and other interests and you’ll also find some JAZZ are free to join. that complement your academic studies. KOREAN *What Uni Student Choice Awards 2017, 2018 and 2019 LAW LITERATURE LGBTQ+ “The best thing about Bangor are all the amazing MUSIC WRITERS GUILD clubs and societies which are a great PHOTOGRAPHIC YOGA way of meeting new PSYCHOLOGY ZOOLOGICAL people and making SCI-FI great friends.”

Dylan Hannigan SEWING Full list at: From Hackney, studying Business www.undebbangor.com/ Studies STORM FM opportunities/societies

22 Free Clubs & Societies Free Clubs & Societies 23 Sports Facilities The University’s main Sports Centre, Other local facilities include a 25-metre Canolfan Brailsford, is situated in the heart of swimming pool with high diving facilities Ffriddoedd, the main student village. in Bangor, the National Mountain Centre (Plas-y-Brenin), and Plas Menai, the Sport Indoor sporting facilites include: Wales National Outdoor Centre. • a state-of-the-art two storey gym READY WHEN A number of Sports Scholarships, worth • a 9-platform Olympic and functional up to £3,000 a year are offered to students training area with sporting ability (see page 63). • two sports halls YOU ARE • aerobics studio • cycling studio • multi-route climbing and bouldering wall “The social life in Bangor is great • four squash courts and I’m involved with many of the • The Dome – a tennis and netball facility sports teams like the Canoe Club (BUCC), Canoe Polo (BUCP) and • armoury for fencing and indoor archery at the Normal site many more.” • fitness room at St Mary’s student village Cameron Hancock From Coventry, studying Geography Outdoor facilites include: • floodlit synthetic pitches for football, rugby and hockey • natural grass pitches for American football, quidditch, lacrosse and ultimate frisbee • outdoor pitches and athletics track at Treborth • games area with facilities for football, basketball and outdoor games at St Mary’s student village.

We work in partnership with Snowdonia Watersports, an outdoor activity base on the shores of Llyn Padarn which provides a base for the University rowing programme and other water/mountain based clubs.

24 Sport at Bangor Sport at Bangor 25 Sports Clubs at Bangor

American Football Lacrosse Archery Mountain Walking RAISE YOUR Athletics Mountaineering Badminton Netball Basketball Octopush Boxing Paintballing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Pole Fit Canoeing Power Lifting & Canoe Polo Weight Lifting GAME Cheerleading Quidditch Cricket Rowing Cycling Club Rugby League Dance Rugby Union Dodgeball Sailing Equestrian Skate “My highlights have been the Athletic Fencing Snooker & Pool Union and all the sports clubs you can Football Snowsports experience and join free of charge.” Futsal Squash Gaelic Football Sub-Aqua Chrystal Williams Gymnastics Surfing From Bolton, studying Psychology Golf Swimming Handball Tennis Hockey Trampolining Jiu-Jitsu Triathalon Judo Ultimate Frisbee Karate Volleyball Ki-Aikido Wakeboarding & Athletic Union Kungfu & Taekwondo Windsurfing The Athletic Union, part of Undeb Full list at: Bangor (the Students’ Union) looks www.undebbangor.com/opportunities/sports after Sports Clubs. There are currently over 60 sports Clubs at Bangor – all free to join. Each The beauty of Bangor is that activities such as club is welcoming and friendly, with climbing, hillwalking and a range of water sports many social events alongside the are a short bus ride away. If you join a club that sporting activities. participates in these activities then you won’t even have to worry about transport.

26 Sport at Bangor Sport at Bangor 27 “I love living in halls! You get to What type of accommodation know people you wouldn’t usually is available? meet and it also gives you All accommodation is self-catered, and kitchens independence. ” are shared with fellow halls’ students making Caitlin Riley them a great place to socialise. All kitchens will From South Yorkshire, studying English have basic facilities such as cookers, fridges and Literature and Media freezers, kettles, microwaves, toasters and an WELCOME ironing board. Students need to bring their own TO THE CAMPUS cutlery, pots, pans, crockery and iron. En-suite accommodation En-suite rooms with a private shower and toilet in a more recently built residence.

Ffriddoedd Village Standard accommodation (shared facilities) Rooms with private bedrooms and shared bathroom and kitchen facilities. Our student accommodation Town Houses is in the top 3 in the UK and we The closest you can get to living in your own house – one front door, shared with friends. This option is guarantee a room in halls for great for groups and returning students. * all first year students . Both Studios student villages are within A self-contained individual living space. walking distance of University buildings, giving easy access to lecture halls and libraries.

St Mary’s Village Why live in halls of residence? As a University we encourage you to apply for a place in halls of residence, as living in halls provides the best introduction to university life. They are the perfect place to make new friends and develop strong bonds of friendship that can last a lifetime.

*For full details of our Halls’ guarantee go to: www.bangor.ac.uk/hallsguarantee

28 Accommodation Accommodation 29 BBQ at Ffriddoedd Village

St Mary’s is ideally located for Bangor city ST MARY’S centre and the range of shops on the high street. This is a student village of 600 rooms, VILLAGE with the range of accommodation including en-suite rooms, studio apartments and town houses. There is also a small bar, takeaway café and snack bar next to the student lounge, a shop, launderette, learning lounge, bookable social kitchens and study rooms, fitness room, outdoor recreation and games area, mini cinema and a performance and music space.

The largest accommodation site is in Upper FFRIDDOEDD Bangor, about 10 minutes walk from College Road, the Science buildings and the city centre. The VILLAGE Ffriddoedd student village has a shop, launderettes and student lounges. The rooms on this village are predominantly en-suite. Also in the village is Bar “Living in halls has been one of “In halls, students have the Uno, the student bar, serving meals and drinks the best experiences ever. I have support of the Mentor Team if through the day and the Brailsford Centre, the made so many great memories they are struggling living away University’s sports and recreation centre. living with my flat mates.” from home or with any other Georgina Matta issues they might have.” From Cairo, studying English Literature and Creative Writing Anneka Dinham From Wolverhampton, studying Creative Studies

30 Accommodation Accommodation 31 Other facilities Accommodation for Welsh speakers Our student villages are situated close to the city so you’re and learners How much will it cost? never far from shops, pubs and cafes of all types. There is One residence offers the opportunity for students to Bangor has a lower cost of living than many a range of eating venues which are open to all. These are immerse themselves in a Welsh language environment. parts of the UK and Hall fees reflect this – they situated at the Ffriddoedd village (Bar Uno and Ffriddoedd There is a vibrant social scene with a wide range of also include all bills for internet, heating, Shop), in the Main University Building (Café Teras and Teras activities arranged by the students. electricity, hot water, Campus Life and gym Lounge), at the St Mary’s village (Barlow’s bar, takeaway membership and basic contents insurance. café and shop), and at the Pontio Arts and Innovation Accommodation for those with a Centre (cafe, bar and kiosk). All our catering outlets use disability or health condition Hall fees are calculated for the full academic local and Fairtrade products whenever possible. session. As a guide, here are the September When you apply you should indicate any disability or www.bangor.ac.uk/eo/catering 2020 approximate weekly figures: long-standing health condition that might affect the Both student villages are equipped with state-of-the-art accommodation you require. Our Disability Adviser will • Shared Facilities from £100 sports and fitness facilities. Following a multi-million then assess your case and advise the Halls Office about • En-suite Facilities from £120 pound refurbishment, the Brailsford Centre is home to your accommodation. We have a number of accessible • Studios from £166 3 gyms, 2 sports halls, 2 studios, a climbing wall and an rooms available. indoor tennis and netball facility. At the St. Mary’s student village there’s a fitness suite and an outdoor multi-use Mentors and security games area. Gym membership is included with all Bangor The Halls have Senior Wardens and a large team of University accommodation. student mentors. The mentors are responsible for “Life in halls is awesome. I love Internet access communal life, student welfare and discipline. They how there’s a lovely mix of assist with all pastoral care and help foster a friendly All single study bedrooms have internet access, both community spirit in the Halls. Although Bangor is a having your own space but at hard wired and Wi-Fi, but you need to bring your own laptop relatively safe place to live, we have Security Staff on the same time, the opportunity or tablet. call 24 hours a day. to integrate with your hall mates through shared facilities and activities.”

Ene Igoche, from Lagos, studying at the School of Campus Life Health Sciences The Campus Life events programme is run by the Residential Life team and student coordinators for all residents of Bangor University Halls. Our events include kayaking, How do I find out more? mountain walks, film nights, music events, pizza parties and life skills workshops – and Visit the University website at it’s all included. The perfect opportunity to www.bangor.ac.uk/studentlife take a break from study and meet new people. and the accommodation pages at www.bangor.ac.uk/campus-life www.bangor.ac.uk/halls www.campuslifebangor.co.uk

32 Accommodation Accommodation 33 Career and employability support and initiatives offered include:

YOUR FUTURE Work experience and Placement Year STARTS HERE enterprise activities Take a Placement Year between Prepare for your future by Years 2 and 3 of your degree to taking up one of our University gain valuable work experience internships or getting involved working in a field relating to Our wide range of personal and Work experience and enterprise activities in one of our many enterprise your course. ‘With placement and entrepreneur activities year’ will be added to your career development programmes Our Skills and Employability Service provides a wide range of (see page 37). degree title (see page 36). give you every opportunity to resources to help you achieve your graduate ambitions. From the prepare for the future and get your minute you arrive we’ll be there to advise you and provide practical information on work experience, vacation jobs, and term-time work career off to a flying start. and help you to identify what you want to do after graduation. We’ll even continue to support you for three years after graduation. To help enhance your employability, we provide a year-round programme of individual guidance, workshops and employer International Experience Programme Bangor Employability talks. We also offer additional services that provide part-time Boost your prospects through our International Experience Programme, Award employment, voluntary experience, summer work and where you have the option of studying overseas for an extra year (see page 49). Log your extra-curricular project-based placements. activities and complete a short Academic departments and Colleges also run their own events online personal development to support student employability. These careers events and programme to receive an conferences allow you to meet employers and alumni from employability award certificate sectors and industries that are relevant to your field of study, when you graduate (see page 37). and will provide an opportunity to understand how the transferable skills gained during your course can be applied to a wide range of careers. TARGET connect TARGET connect is the University’s online student employment Volunteering service where you can easily manage your career pathway and Bangor Students’ Union runs search opportunities, book one-to-one appointments and volunteering projects that range workshops. We’re here to help you find term-time employment from environmental projects to fit in around your studies, vacation work and, most importantly, to sport and social projects graduate opportunities nationally and locally. Additionally, we (see page 21). also advertise work experience, internship opportunities and voluntary work.

34 Careers & Employability Careers & Employability 35 Employers on campus Languages for all Work placements and experience “I graduate from Bangor Every year Bangor welcomes hundreds of Broaden your horizons, open doors to other cultures To boost your employability you can choose to do University very happy with employers to inspire and enthuse our students at and become more employable by learning a new a placement as part of almost all undergraduate careers fairs, skills and information sessions and language, or improving existing language skills at the confidence in myself employer-led modules for real life problem our evening classes. Available languages normally degrees we offer at Bangor. Placements can be a year that it’s not just a degree solving experience. include: French, German, Spanish, Italian and in length (taken between years 2 and 3), 3 months or Chinese (Mandarin). Please note: these classes may 2 weeks (minimum 70 hours, taken during year 2). I’ve gained. I have worked Internship Scheme incur additional cost. on my self-development An opportunity to gain paid, graduate level work Bangor Employability Award You’ll be supported throughout this period by a and Employability Services experience in the University’s academic Schools dedicated member of staff within your School. If you have helped me a lot in and service departments. The work varies from The BEA gives you the opportunity to log take the shorter placement you’ll have the opportunity marketing, web design, or student engagement extra-curricular activities that you take part to include it in your HEAR document. If you take the becoming the person projects, to research project support, field work in whilst at University (e.g. volunteering, clubs year option you’ll also have ‘with placement year’ I am today.” or data management. and societies, work experiences, part-time work, learning a new language etc.) and the added to your degree title. Fazeelat Hamid Peer Guide Scheme opportunity to complete a short programme of Medical Sciences graduate Being a Peer Guide offers the ideal opportunity to personal development, interactive tasks and Bangor University has close links with major participate more fully in student life, along with workshops. Your Higher Education Achievement companies, public sector and M-SParc – Menai developing interpersonal and organisational skills. Report (HEAR) will list some of the achievements, Science Park. Students have been placed on work Graduate employers recognise and value the skills roles and training that you participate in formally experience with hosts such as Santander Bank, you gain through being a Peer Guide. through the University. Siemens Healthineers, Coutts, Venue Cymru, WRU, B-Enterprising For more information contact: BBC Cymru, Zip World and Gen2. E: [email protected] B-Enterprising collaborates with internal and T: 01248 382071 If you see this logo on a page, it indicates external partners to provide students with that there are work placement opportunities opportunities to develop their enterprise and available if you follow that course. entrepreneurship skills. Budding entrepreneurs are supported through the provision of one-to-one business mentoring, start-up workshops and funding opportunities to develop and grow their ideas. Prototyping and incubation facilities are available to our students and graduates through “The activities I participated in with Pontio Innovation and M-SParc. B-Enterprising and the funding I gained “Bangor has given me a multitude helped me to start a small side of opportunities to improve my business. The skills I learned helped me to stand out at my interview and I employability and personal development.” got the graduate job I wanted.” Sowmiya Shivati Alexandra Vinca from Surrey, studying Physical Oceanography Business & Computer Information graduate

36 Careers & Employability Careers & Employability 37 Here are the experiences of some of “I felt supported throughout the work taster our students who took part in work experience, having regular contact with the “My internship at Venue placements, internships, and the Skills and Employability Service. The Cymru provided me with the Bangor Employability Award during placement has certainly helped to identify which areas of work I’d like to enter into opportunity to practically their time at Bangor University. following graduation. I definitely think the apply some of the concepts placement will help me gain future that were covered in my employment and it has provided me with degree. It had only been two invaluable practical experience.” weeks since I completed my Stephanie Davies Zoology with Herpetology student who went on a work internship when I received a placement at the Welsh Mountain Zoo job offer from General Electric. I would say that acquiring such an offer from an organisation that is ranked 13th in the Fortune 500 list “I took part in lots of employability support activities which taught me was largely due to this a lot of skills I’d need for the working “For the Bangor Employability Award I took opportunity.” world; through workshops, online part in many sporting activities and sat on Andrew Demehin resources and seminars… I also several committees, which contributed to a BSc Accounting and Finance graduate completed two summer placements large number of the points I gained. In addition, – in the United Arab Emirates and in I was involved in the Enterprise by Design Scheme. I was a participant in the National Bristol, both times working for the Sporting Competition and did an extra course same offshore geoscience company. on effective presenting. I found that really useful – to use some of the knowledge and skills Through these activities I have become much that I’d learnt in my degree…” better at time management and handling stress and pressure. They put me in different “The course provides plenty of lecturer and types of situations, which allowed me to Emily Riley mentor contact, which gave me access to become more flexible with how I handle new Graduated with a degree in Geological strategic help to achieve my career goals.” Oceanography. She is now working as challenges and different types of people.” a graduate Geotechnical Engineer for Tideway Thomas Mott Kathryn Howard on London’s Thames Tideway Tunnel project. From Darwen, studying Product Design, whose From Cornwall, Electronic Engineering graduate jewellery work went on sale at a local art gallery

38 Careers & Employability Careers & Employability 39 Examples of subjects & destinations “Working at a school in Australia helped me to develop skills such as time management, independence and determination. Forestry: Canada and Norway I instantly made friends with the other staff members who GO BEYOND Biology: USA and Netherlands worked in the same boarding house and I remain friends with them.” Ocean Sciences: Norway and USA Banking & Finance: France and Spain Danial Tomos Jones Sociology: Australia and Finland From Caernarfon, Sport Health and Exercise Science graduate BANGOR Psychology: Netherlands and USA Linguistics: Spain and Denmark We put our ‘go beyond’ philosophy into Modern Languages: France, Germany, Italy, Spain practice by giving our students the Education: Australia and Finland opportunity to study much further afield as part of their degree programme. Studying abroad is a great opportunity to study with specialists, see a different way of life and broaden your horizons. With international experience of this kind, you’ll really improve your career prospects. Depending on the course, you may be able to spend between 3 and 12 months studying abroad during your second year and your work will contribute towards your degree. You can also take a year out on our International Experience Programme where you will study for one extra year during your degree. There are a wide variety of destinations to choose from and when you graduate you will have ‘with international experience’ added to your degree title. If you plan to study in a country where English is not spoken natively, there may be additional language support available for you. For more information go to: www.bangor.ac.uk/studentexchange Please note: the fee is reduced for any semester of a course that is undertaken abroad. You are advised to check the website for the latest fee information: www.bangor.ac.uk/student-administration/fees

40 Careers & Employability Careers & Employability 41 How to apply International Students may apply directly to Entry requirements the university by using the Online Application Portal: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/ INFORMATION FOR Academic entry requirements applying/home The portal allows you to For entry onto the first year of a 3 or 4 year undergraduate/ submit the application, supporting documents Bachelor degree we ask for a school leaving qualification and also allows you to download the offer letter INTERNATIONAL when released. equivalent to the British school leaving qualification. Candidates may also apply using the UCAS Students whose school leaving qualification do not meet STUDENTS system. Please see page 67 for more details. our entry requirements may opt for the International EU candidates must apply through UCAS. Incorporated bachelor degree. This is a 4 year bachelor degree with Year Zero run by Bangor University Pre-sessional English courses International College (BUIC) on our campus. See next page for more information on Bangor University International If you do not have the required English language level for undergraduate study you College. For more details visit: www.bangor.ac.uk/buic can enrol on a pre-sessional course. The Students from over 80 countries You can check the entry requirements from your country length of the course will depend on the IELTS worldwide choose to study at by visiting: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/countries (or equivalent) grade you currently have. Bangor every year and make up Direct entry into year 2 and 3 The courses are designed to improve your over 17% of the total student English language skills in an academic context, Candidates who have completed one or more years at including writing in appropriate academic population. Amongst these another University or who have obtained a HND/Diploma styles, listening and note-taking, extended countries, we have students from from a higher education institution may apply to enter reading and seminar/presentation speaking. directly into the second year of a bachelor degree. In order Bahrain, China, Colombia, Ghana, If your current English language level is to secure entry, candidates must have studied a similar below that required to join a pre-sessional India, Iraq, Japan, Malaysia, syllabus at the same academic level as that delivered in course (IELTS 4.0 or equivalent), don’t worry: the first year of the degree in Bangor. The same principle Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, USA and ELCOS also offers ‘Pathway to Pre-sessional’ numerous European countries. applies for third year entry. courses, designed to bring your level to IELTS English language 4.0 equivalent as efficiently and quickly as possible so that you can then enrol on our All international students need to demonstrate their English pre-sessional course. language ability through their high school English grades “I am very confident about my future For more information on pre-sessional or test score. Our minimum requirements are: IELTS – 6.0 career because the education and the and Pathway to Pre-sessional courses, with no element below 5.5 for most courses. please visit: skills I have been taught at Bangor Some courses require higher scores – please see: www.bangor.ac.uk/int/english University will help me a lot in starting www.bangor.ac.uk/international/future/englishlanguage my professional career.”

Muhammad Yasir Shahab From Pakistan, studying Business Studies

42 International Students International Students 43 Bangor University International Cost of living Accommodation College (BUIC) The cost of living while studying here will be down to Our accommodation is in the Top 3 in the UK and we Fees If your school leaving qualification is not equivalent to individual circumstances. However, Bangor is considered guarantee* all first-year students a room in University 2020 undergraduate fees for international students the British school leaving qualification, you will need one of the most economical places to study and was accommodation providing they apply by the published (from countries outside the European Union): to complete a ‘Year Zero’ to allow you to progress onto recently ranked 1st in the UK for the lowest cost of living deadline. Our student accommodation is within walking • £14,500 – Arts & Humanities degree level study at Bangor University. for students (Totally Money, 2019). distance of most University buildings and the city centre. • £15,300 – Creative Writing, Music, Linguistics Year Zero, the first year of a 4 year International Accommodation fees include: Campus Life and gym International scholarships • £14,500 – Education Incorporated Bachelor Degree is offered by Bangor membership, all bills for internet, heating, electricity and In recognition of the outstanding talent of many University International College (BUIC) on our campus. hot water, and basic contents insurance. • £14,800 – Business, Economics, Management international students, we have a highly prestigious & Marketing, Law The programme of academic subjects, study skills and international scholarship fund, worth over £1 million. All accommodation is self-catered, which gives you the • £15,300 – Accounting, Banking & Finance English language training is designed specifically to option of buying meals at any of the site outlets or Scholarships of up to £4,000 per year are available to prepare you for undergraduate study at Bangor University. preparing your own. Bangor has a number of • £16,500 – Biological Sciences, Environmental undergraduate students. Candidates are considered for supermarkets and shops selling food from all over Science, Forestry & Conservation, If you fall marginally short of the academic entry scholarship on application and the scholarship amount is the world. Geography, Ocean Sciences, Zoology requirements, you may be considered for the International confirmed in the offer of admission. Candidates who • £15,800 – Healthcare Sciences, Medical Year 1 (IY1) programme, which allows you to complete achieve outstanding results in their final school certificate It is possible for students to be accommodated in single Sciences, Sport, Health & Exercise your degree in three years instead of four years. may be upgraded to the highest value award of £4,000 per sex groups in a number of halls. Students who would Science year. The International Scholarships are only available to prefer this option should make this request when BUIC is an Embedded College at Bangor University, which students who are classified with an ‘overseas’ fee status. returning the accommodation application form. • £16,800 – Electronic Engineering is run in partnership with education provider, Oxford • £15,000 – Design Studies International Education Group. All programmes taken at Applications for undergraduate study will be considered All international students coming to Bangor with their the college are validated by Bangor University and for an international scholarship – a separate application families should contact the Student Housing Office • £16,300 – Computer Science, Psychology delivered by Oxford International. does not need to be made. For more details: for help and advice regarding renting appropriate Fee levels are correct at time of printing, but may be www.bangor.ac.uk/international/future/scholarship accommodation in the private rented sector: Academic routes include: subject to change. For current fee information go to: T: +44 (0)1248 382034 www.bangor.ac.uk/international/future/finance • Business, Management and Finance E: [email protected] _and_scholarship • Electronic Engineering and Computer Science For more details about accommodation, please refer to • Law, Social Sciences, Psychology and Media pages 28-33 and see: www.bangor.ac.uk/international/ BUIC entry requirements applied/accommodation • IELTS 4.5 (with no skill below B1) with 12 week Travel to Bangor pre-sessional English programme, or Manchester International Airport is within a one and a half • IELTS 5.0 (with no skill below 4.5) with 6 week hour drive along the A55/M56 and there are direct trains pre-sessional English programme, or from London and Crewe. The A55 expressway along the • IELTS 5.5 (with no skill below 5.5) north Wales coast provides fast and easy access to and from the UK motorway network. and • High school certificate or equivalent from your *For full details of our Halls’ guarantee go to www.bangor.ac.uk/hallsguarantee home country

44 International Students International Students 45 International student support “Bangor is a beautiful city and the English language support for Moving to study and live in a new country can be a surrounding area is equally aesthetically international students International students’ benefits: pleasing. The places near the sea act as daunting experience. That’s why we aim to ensure that The ELCOS centre at Bangor University provides free Personal greeting you are well prepared before you arrive and are given as perfect stress-busters, the views from the English language support for a range of modules to much help as possible to settle down once you get here. hilltops are breathtaking. The scenic beauty international students enrolled for undergraduate or New international students arriving for Welcome Week will be met at Manchester Airport and We are a top 10 UK University for Student Support (What of this city makes it a memorable one. The postgraduate courses at Bangor University. Bangor train station and are brought to their Uni 2019). people are very friendly and welcoming Please see: bangor.ac.uk/elcos which is a very likeable trait for students like accommodation in Bangor. During our International Welcome Programme there will International Student Ambassadors me who have travelled halfway across the be a series of events where you will have an opportunity Peer Guide world away from their family and friends.” International students in their 2nd, 3rd and 4th years to learn about Bangor and the University. As well as the at Bangor are appointed as International Student You will have a Peer Guide – a second or third year information sessions, these will include local trips, social Sreya Arun Chattopadhyay Ambassadors to represent the University and provide student who will be available to help you with any events and a ‘Welcome Day’ where you will meet From India, studying Criminology & Criminal Justice a support network for prospective new students. advice or information you will need during your first representatives of the University, the Students’ Union and There are over 20 International Student Ambassadors weeks and months at Bangor. the various departments that will be supporting you from many countries including Brazil, Cameroon, International Student Ambassadors during your studies. China, Colombia, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Throughout your time at Bangor the staff in our Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Our International Student Ambassadors support International Student Support Office are available to USA and Vietnam. The team of Ambassadors run a international students from the application process assist and advise you on a range of welfare matters from range of events during Welcome Week and during the right up to their graduation day (see previous visa issues to health, finance, and working. year. They also offer help and support to individual column for details). students on a range of matters. For pre-arrival information and guidance: International societies You can see our Ambassadors at www.bangor.ac.uk/ International Student Support Office There are numerous international societies run by international/studentprofiles/ambassadors and from T: +44 1248 382882 the Students’ Union. this page e-mail them with any questions or ask their E: [email protected] advice about living and studying at Bangor. www.bangor.ac.uk/international/support Opportunity to explore Follow the International Education Centre: Trips are regularly organised to places of interest, We strongly recommend that disabled students contact e.g. Liverpool, Manchester, Chester and the capital the Disability Adviser in advance of arrival: “With regards to the teaching Facebook: BangorUniversityInternational of Wales, Cardiff. Other local events are also T: +44 1248 382032 Twitter: @BangorUni_Intl quality here at Bangor specially organised for international students. E: [email protected] Instagram: @BangorInternational Txt: 01248 371811 University, I found a high-level education that stems from the Student support Further information about studying and living in the UK The International Student Support Office runs visa can be obtained from: efficiency of the teachers and workshops to help students with their visa • The British Council: www.britishcouncil.org or their excellent interaction with extension applications. It also provides advice on a the British Council office in your country. range of issues related to living and studying in the the students.” UK/Bangor. • UKCISA: www.ukcisa.org.uk Marhi Saad Salenazy From Saudi Arabia, studying History and Heritage

46 International Students International Students 47 How Student Services can help: Practical help Welcome Week From house hunting to managing your budget, we provide help and advice on the practicalities of SUPPORT To help you settle into university life, meet new student life. If your circumstances change and you people and make Bangor feel like home, we organise need to interrupt your studies, there’s advice on FOR STUDENTS a Welcome Week for new students. hand to help you make the best choices for you. The aim is to give you an exciting, busy and Student Counselling Service At Bangor, we place a high priority on fun-packed first week, so that you have no time to be We have a wide range of friendly, expert-led bored or miss home. You’ll attend an official welcome caring for and supporting our students. workshops to support your wellbeing, and a free to the University, your academic School and the From the moment you arrive you’ll be given and confidential counselling service on an Students’ Union will organise various activities appointment or ‘drop in’ basis. as much help and support as possible with throughout the week, and there’ll be plenty of Peer health and welfare matters as well as your Guides to help you find your way around and settle in. Mental health adviser academic work. Peer Guides Our mental health advisers assist students to manage their studies and can identify sources of Our Peer Guide scheme is recognised as one of the helpand support. largest and most successful in the UK. Partner GP Surgery “Everyone was so supportive Our Peer Guides are all current Bangor students “Bangor is exemplary when it as they’re the best people to help you settle. Designated daily surgeries with our partner during Welcome Week. It was comes to giving support to the After all, it isn’t that long since they were new GP surgery. students, ranging from counselling incredibly easy to settle in.” students themselves. Personal contact to employability, housing, visas Caitlin Riley They will be on hand to help you find your feet A named contact person for students from care etc. Staff go out of their way to From South Yorkshire, studying English quickly, both within your course and socially. They within Student Services. help the students.” Literature and Media arrange social activities, show students around and generally give advice. International Student Welfare Upoma Rashid From Bangladesh, studying at Bangor Our students volunteer to be Peer Guides because The International Student Welfare Office can help Business School they want to help new students have the same great with issues such as liaising with University start that they had. Once you’re settled into University departments or public and local organisations. We life, you might want to become a Peer Guide yourself, also run various courses to help improve English and be part of the special Bangor welcome. language skills. For more information: Chaplaincy Team Student Services, Neuadd Rathbone, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DF Our Chaplaincy Team provide support for all members of the University, regardless of their T: 01248 382024 religious beliefs. E: studentservices@ bangor.ac.uk www.bangor.ac.uk/studentservices

48 Student Support & Services Student Support & Student Services 49 Personal Learning Support Plan Additional support includes: (PLSPs) Personal support PLSPs set out arrangements and strategies to Provision of specialist mentors and practical overcome barriers to studying, such as extra time in assistants to make studying and everyday tasks examinations. Our unique PLSP app ensures that more manageable. We also have specialist tutors DISABILITY your information is shared in confidence, with your who can assist with coursework and organisation permission and on a need to know basis, to ensure (e.g. managing time, workloads and stress). SERVICES your individualised arrangements are in place. This includes support with maths and statistics, Assessments for specific and support through the medium of Welsh. learning differences (SpLDs) Exam adjustments If you meet with disability-related Students who have not already been assessed for Help arranging adjustments to examinations and barriers to studying at University, SpLDs (such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or attentional assessments. difficulties) can have an informal screening and full we can provide support throughout Disability Tutor diagnostic assessment where necessary. your time here at Bangor. As well Work closely with your academic School’s as Disability Services, Disability Bangor University Access Centre Disability Tutor. Disabled Students Allowances (DSAs) help to meet Tutors promote and inform Supportive equipment inclusive and accessible provision extra course costs students can face as a direct result of disability. Our accredited Assessment Arrange loan of equipment e.g. digital recorder. in our academic Schools. Centre helps students to apply for DSA funding and Assistive Technology Rooms carries out study needs assessments. Arrange access to the University’s Assistive Students with mobility difficulties Technology Rooms. If you experience mobility difficulties, you are Disabled Students Allowances (DSAs) advised to come along to the University; whilst Bangor is a small city it is very hilly. Staff will be Help you apply for DSAs from your funding provider. Tell us your requirements pleased to give advice and show you around so please get in touch with us to discuss your Assess mental health needs It is best to make contact early so that requirements. “The unpredictable nature we can discuss your requirements with of my condition means I Our team of Mental Health Advisers assess mental you – we contact everyone who ticks the health needs and provide information about mental disability box on their UCAS form. No have good days and bad health issues, and the services and support which might be available. need to wait until you enrol – if you have For more information: days, and so having a an offer you can register online with PLSP in place is Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD and other SpLDs Disability Services prior to enrolment to Disability Services, Student Services, Lower Ground ensure support is in place wherever Floor, Rathbone,Bangor University Bangor, Gwynedd, reassuring that even on Advice and specialist support is available to possible for the start of your course. LL57 2DF bad days I have access students with SpLDs. E: [email protected] to support.” www.bangor.ac.uk/studentservices/disability

50 Disability Services Disability Services 51 STUDY Study support at Bangor University Study Skills Centre Individual writing Online resources • A Personal Tutor to provide advice and support. The Study Skills Centre can provide & study skills Our website includes guides • Additional support available through the Study Skills help with the transition to university appointments on academic writing, SUPPORT Centre – including help with academic writing, revision, and on-going support with your reading and research, oral You can book individual maths and statistics. academic studies. The centre communication skills, provides a range of individual and appointments with our Study • Subject-specific resources to support your study range, referencing and exam skills. group-based learning opportunities. Advisers to discuss individual from the School of Ocean Sciences’ research ship to an needs, and to focus upon work “The best thing about being MRI scanner, Botanic Gardens and a natural history Further information can be found at: that you are doing for your a student at Bangor for me is the museum. www.bangor.ac.uk/studyskills assignments. great care Bangor University takes • On-going enhancement of study support including a £1.5 million upgrade of learning spaces across of its students and the wide variety the campus. of resources available. It makes it • Extra investment in the library service, including easy to learn!” 24/7 opening on the main sites. Mathematics and Pablo Hierrezuelo statistics drop-ins From Malaga, studying Marketing with French Personal Tutor These provide tailored support When you become a student you will be allocated a with statistical packages and Personal Tutor. You will meet regularly with your concepts, and also with basic Personal Tutor throughout your course, and he/she is numeracy. there to provide advice and support on both personal and academic matters. The meetings with your Personal Tutor are a means of getting regular feedback on your academic progress, to help you get the best out of your course and realise your Academic skills full potential. As well as these regular meetings, you can workshops ask to see your Personal Tutor at other times for advice Topics typically covered include: and support. Your Tutor will try his/her best to help or, if managing academic study, necessary, refer you to another member of staff or other analysing task requirements, services for support or guidance. reading critically, using the work of other writers, developing your research and getting the most out of exams.

52 Study Support Study Support 53 Library and Archive Services • Our four libraries provide a range of attractive study environments including collaborative work Information Technology Services areas, meeting rooms and silent study spaces. LEARNING IT Facilities • Electronic resources are accessible on and off RESOURCES We have several computer rooms and areas (some open campus 24/7 and encompass all subject areas. 24/7) and there are also wireless access and laptop • There is wifi access in all our libraries as well as power plug-in points in many locations across the study support rooms with assistive technology campus. Every bedroom in every hall has wireless equipment and Braille embossers. internet access (some also have additional wired • We house one of the largest university based We have extensive IT facilities for your connections). Speeds are equivalent to local domestic archives not only in Wales, but also the UK. fibre broadband and supports major streaming and Allied to the Archives is the Special Collections use, four libraries, purpose built Media gaming services. of rare printed books. facilities and a Study Skills Centre. Experienced staff are here to help you Online Learning and Lecture Capture get the best out of our resources The University’s virtual learning environment Blackboard is available on and off-campus for all users. If a lecturer during your study at Bangor. has opted to use the Panopto lecture capture service, it records audio, and whatever is displayed on the computer desktop (e.g. Power Point slides). You can use this to review what you have learnt in lectures. myBangor Subject-specialist resources We have a range of other learning resources. myBangor provides online access to information and These include: services to support you at University. For example, through myBangor you can: • a multimedia Language Centre • a £3.5M ocean-going research ship • enrol online and view your timetable and calendar • tropical marine, temperate marine and • see your marks and provide feedback on modules freshwater aquaria • view your financial account with the University • a natural history museum • view your Personal Learning Support Plan (if you have one). • a £1.5M MRI scanner • Treborth Botanic Garden on the edge of the Menai Strait – all divisions of the plant kingdom are represented across its 45 acres and it’s also home to the native red squirrel population and a heron colony • a farm with research programmes in crops, agroforestry and environmental sciences.

54 Learning Resources Learning Resources 55 You may be considering studying full-time, or, if you are local to north Wales, then the option of studying a part-time degree may be more Financing your studies attractive. As a mature student and depending on your • Amongst the services that will be of interest individual circumstances, you may be eligible to you are the Mature Students’ Adviser within for additional financial support. For example, MATURE Student Services, the financial advice and students who are parents may be eligible for support offered by the Money Support Unit, extra assistance such as the Childcare Grant STUDENTS and the study skills support offered by the or the Parent’s Learning Allowance, while Study Skills Centre (see page 53 for details). there are also grants for those with adult dependents. • A Mature Students’ Adviser within Student We welcome applications from Services to offer assistance on a range We also have a Hardship Fund to assist mature students and will do as of issues. students who experience unexpected much as we can to help and • The Students’ Union has a Mature Students’ financial hardship. support you during your time here. Senator to make sure that the needs of mature Money Support Unit students are fully represented. Student Services: • The Study Skills Centre offers workshops and T: 01248 383566/383637 resources to support students throughout the E: [email protected] transition to, and progression through, university. • Money Support Unit offers financial advice and support for mature students. You’re welcome to contact the Mature Students’ Adviser: T: 01248 382072 E: [email protected]

“As a mature student, I found the “Bangor University is my local Peer Guiding Scheme a huge university and the welcome, benefit to me. My Peer Guide support and quality of education helped me find my feet and I don’t think I would have coped in the first that I received there means that it week without her. Thank you!” turned out to be one of my best ever decisions.” Samantha Bridge BN Nursing Darleen Jones From Caernarfon, Childhood Studies graduate

56 Mature Students Mature Students 57 Tuition fees – UK and EU students Paying for your living costs For 2020/21 the fees were set at £9,000 a year for Students from the UK can apply for a Maintenance Loan to Tuition fees – international full-time undergraduate courses. The fee is reduced help pay for living expenses such as accommodation, food, students for any semester of a course that is undertaken books, etc. These loans do not have to be repaid until you Scholarships of up to £4,000 are available abroad. The tuition fee for 2021/22 is still to be set and graduate and start earning more than £25,725 a year. for international undergraduate students. you are advised to check the website for the latest fee HELP WITH In 2020/21, eligible students from Wales are entitled to a information: See page 45 for information about tuition non-repayable Welsh Government Learning Grant. Eligible www.bangor.ac.uk/student-administration/fees fees for international students, or get further students will receive a £1,000 Maintenance Grant and may FINANCE details from the International Education Centre For UK students studying their first HE course, the also be eligible for an additional means-tested grant. Extra by e-mailing: [email protected] tuition fee payment is a deferred payment – i.e. you financial support is also available in the form of grants or don’t have to pay the tuition fee until you graduate and allowances for some categories of students, e.g. disabled Information on fees and loans Advice is available before you apply start earning over £25,725 a year. You defer payment students, those with dependants. As this prospectus is prepared a long time in and whilst you are studying, through of your tuition fee until after you graduate through a For EU and international students, you should usually be able advance, we advise you to seek the latest Tuition Fee Loan. The Tuition Fee Loan is paid directly Student Services. to find information on scholarships from your Ministry of information on fees and loans. to the University by the Student Loans Company on Education, appropriate inter-university organisations or your your behalf. More information is available on these British Council representative. It’s worth remembering that the cost websites: If you are an EU non-UK national and have lived in an EU of living in Bangor is generally lower The cost of living in Bangor is generally lower than in other country for at least five years before the start of your Students from England: parts of the UK. Many students, however, find part-time or than in other parts of the UK – Bangor course, the deferred payment of the tuition fee should casual work during the holidays and/or term-time to help www.gov.uk/student-finance also apply to you. EU students are advised to visit this University has been ranked number cover costs. We have our own student employment bureau, Students from Wales: website: www.gov.uk/student-finance one for the most affordable places for Target Connect, which can help you to find something www.studentfinancewales.co.uk university students in the UK Additional course-specific costs suitable (see page 34). Students from Scotland: www.saas.gov.uk (Totally Money, 2019 ). Depending on the course you are studying, there may be additional course-specific costs that you will be Students from N. Ireland: required to meet. These range from costs relating to a www.studentfinanceni.co.uk particular core or compulsory module that you’ll be Students from the rest of the EU should go to required to complete to achieve your qualification (e.g. www.direct.gov.uk/uni or contact Student compulsory field trips, uniforms for students on Finance EU, which offers advice to EU students placement, DBS check), costs relating to professional about student finance in the UK: 0141 243 3570 body membership, travel to placements, specialist You can also contact the University for advice software, personal safety equipment, or optional costs and information: such as graduation events for your course, optional field trips, or Welcome Week trips. Please see the course Money Support Unit Student Services, description on the website for details of any additional Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2DG course-specific costs. T: 01248 383566/383637 E: [email protected]

58 Tuition Fees Tuition Fees 59 Bangor Bursary Start-up bursaries The Bangor Bursary Scheme provides additional support Start-up bursaries of £1,000 are available for those for those from lower income families to help with course entering the University from care, or estranged related costs such as books, equipment and travel. Based students aged under 25. The start-up bursaries are on 2019/20 figures, the Bangor Bursary means those from intended to cover course related costs such as books, BURSARIES the UK (excluding Wales*) and the EU, could receive up to equipment, travel and study aids. These are one-off, £3,000 in extra financial help over the duration of a three non-repayable bursaries which will be paid in the first What’s the difference between year course. year only. bursaries and scholarships? The bursaries offered at the University are As you would expect from a university Bangor Bursaries are available on top of any loans and Bursaries for re-locating families other University bursaries you may be eligible for. Students awarded according to certain criteria – as long that places great emphasis on student in receipt of other bursary payments (e.g. NHS, Social & Up to £1,000 available in the first year of study only. as you meet the criteria and have completed support, we are keen to offer extra Health Care Council) are not eligible for the Bangor Bursary This bursary is for UK students with a household the necessary student support form, then you scheme. Your eligibility for a Bangor Bursary depends on: income of below £25,000 who will be relocating to study should automatically receive the relevant help to students and have a range of at Bangor University. bursary award. bursaries and scholarships. • your household income; based on 2019/20 figures, all those with a household income below £40,000 will get Bursaries for homeless students However, the majority of the Scholarships offered are awarded upon merit (see overleaf). a bursary of either £1,000 or £500 a year from the Up to £500 available in the first year of study only. For example, those who excel in the University’s University Students with no fixed abode prior to starting at Bangor Entrance Scholarship examinations can be and University can apply for this bursary to help with the awarded Merit Scholarship awards worth up to initial university costs. • the course you are studying; you must be studying on a £3,000. full-time undergraduate course with a tuition fee of £9,000 payable to Bangor University. The bursaries are available to students from the UK (excluding Wales*) and the EU and do not have to be paid back. Your eligibility for a Bangor Bursary will be assessed as part of the statutory means test carried out when you complete the student finance application form. This means: • you will not have to apply directly to the University for a Bangor Bursary – you will automatically receive it provided you meet the criteria and have correctly completed the student finance application form for your funding organisation • as you need to complete the student finance application form every year, then the amount of Bangor Bursary you may be eligible for may also change from year to year. More information about the 2021/22 Bangor Bursaries scheme will be available on the University website as soon as details are confirmed. *Please see page 59 for information on the Welsh Government Learning Grant

60 Bursaries & Scholarships Bursaries & Scholarships 61 Entrance & Merit Scholarships Sports Scholarships SCHOLARSHIPS As part of Bangor’s Entrance Scholarships Scheme, We also offer Sports Scholarships worth up to there are approximately 40 Merit Scholarships of up a maximum of £3,000 per year, which are to £3,000 available to those who excel in the available in a scheme developed to recognise Bangor offers a generous University’s annual Entrance Scholarships sporting potential and develop sporting scholarship scheme, with around examinations. To be considered for the Merit excellence. The scholarships aren’t limited to Scholarships and other Entrance Scholarships, you any particular sport or to students on any £100,000 awarded each year to have to: specific courses. However, in most cases, preference will be given to those individuals undergraduate students. • complete an Entrance Scholarships application who will be able to represent Bangor University form (closing date January 15, 2021 for the 2021 in the British University and Colleges Sport Entrance Scholarships) (BUCS) competitions. • sit an examination in the subject of your choice, (with the exam being held at your school/college To apply for the 2021 Sports Scholarships you on a specified date in January). need to complete and return the application form by March 31, 2021. Please see: Bangor’s Entrance Scholarships include a number www.bangor.ac.uk/sportscholarship of trust fund scholarships, scholarships awarded by local authorities in Wales and subject scholarships, Academic Scholarships such as the School of Law Scholarship, School of Some subjects also offer their own Education Normal Fund Scholarship, School of scholarships, for example: Music, Linguistics Computer Science Scholarship and the School of and English Language, Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Scholarship. Electronic Engineering.

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62 Bursaries & Scholarships Bursaries & Scholarships 63 Minimum Requirements for qualifications within the UCAS tariff system If you are applying for a degree course, then the points total should include at least two GCE A level or equivalent qualifications. For certificate and APPLY TO diploma programmes you will normally need at least Entry requirements one A level or equivalent or two AS level or We are committed to broadening equivalent passes. Please note that more specific BANGOR opportunities to enter Higher Education and entry requirements will be given on the individual accept students with a wide range of course pages. qualifications and backgrounds. We consider UNIVERSITY For a full explanation of the UCAS tariff visit: each application on its merit – assessing www.ucas.com/ucas/undergraduate/ your potential to succeed on and benefit getting-started/entry-requirements/ from the course. You will need to have a ucas-undergraduate-tariff-points good standard of literacy and numeracy. We also value good IT and communication International students skills. The University may adopt a flexible You will need to have achieved an internationally approach to your application should your recognised English Language qualification or test results not quite match the terms of your score. Please see page 43 for full information. original offer. Access courses and mature entry We welcome your application if you are taking a validated Access course. We also encourage applications from mature students who can “Bangor in three words? demonstrate the motivation and commitment to study a university programme. Home from home.” International Baccalaureate Luke Davis From Surrey, studying Computer You will usually need to have been awarded the full Information Systems diploma and offers may vary according to the course you are applying for. Irish Leaving Certificate We particularly welcome applicants from Ireland who expect to be awarded the Irish Leaving Certificate (Higher). We would normally expect applicants to achieve a minimum of four Highers.

64 How to apply How to apply 65 Disabled students International applicants How to apply We encourage applications from disabled students, When to apply? If you are applying from outside the UK or EU, irrespective of your nationality, you can apply at any including those with long-term health conditions, We advise you to apply as early as you can as we will For all full-time higher education courses at time between 1 September 2020 and 30 June 2021. mental health difficulties and specific learning start considering applications and making offers universities and colleges in the UK, you should apply Remember to allow enough time to make entry differences, such as dyslexia or dyspraxia, and aim straight away. If you are applying from within the UK online at www.ucas.com (T: 0371 468 0468). There clearance or immigration arrangements; also travel to provide equality of opportunity for all students. or European Union (EU), irrespective of your are full instructions online to make it as easy as and accommodation arrangements, which can take If you are disabled, or have additional needs, we nationality, we should receive your application possible for you to fill in your online application. longer during the summer when immigration would encourage you to let us know as soon as between 1 September 2020 and 15 January 2021. When completing your application, you should enter possible so we can put appropriate arrangements departments are busy. the UCAS code for Bangor University Bangr B06 in place where necessary. These could include Late Applications together with the course code and short form of the accommodation requirements, access to course title (e.g. N400 BA/AF for Accounting and buildings, support workers, or adjustments to (i.e. between 15 January 2021 and 30 June 2021) Finance), which you will find on the relevant page in teaching and assessment. Late applications will continue to be forwarded to this prospectus or online at UCAS. For joint degree universities by UCAS and will receive consideration Please contact the Disability Services as soon as programme codes please see pages 69-70. where places are still available. possible to find out about what adjustments may Please ensure that all the information provided in be required whilst at Bangor. What happens after application? support of your application is accurate and If you receive an invitation to attend for interview When we receive your application from UCAS, our complete. Offers will normally be based on this or to visit an Open Day, please feel free to contact Admissions Office works closely with the relevant information and any inaccuracies and omissions one of the Advisers if you have any particular academic School to consider whether we can make may invalidate an offer. requirements, or if you would like to meet to you an offer, which may be conditional upon your For further information please contact: discuss any questions you may have. achieving certain grades in your forthcoming The Admissions Office, Bangor University, examinations. The Admissions Office then returns Disability Services Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2TF details of the offer to UCAS who, in turn, will officially T: 01248 383620/382032 T: 01248 383717 inform you of our decision. E: [email protected] E: [email protected] If we have offered you a place, the academic School www.bangor.ac.uk/studentservices/disability will usually contact you informally sending you further information and inviting you to visit on one of our UCAS Applicant Visit Days held between January and April. These give you an opportunity to meet staff and students, to have a tour of Bangor and the surrounding area and to see the various facilities. If you are unable to attend on the specified days we are happy to arrange a private visit. Please visit our website at: www.bangor.ac.uk or e-mail [email protected]

66 How to apply How to apply 67 You can choose to study two subjects in equal proportions Archaeology and: Cymraeg (Welsh)# and: to gain a joint honours degree. The title would reflect your History V103 BA/HA Rheolaeth Busnes# Q5N2 BA/CRB combination (e.g. BA (Hons) English and French). Look up Chinese (4 years) T102 BA/CHCY Accounting and: English Literature 3Q5Q BA/CEL one of the subjects you are interested in to find out what French (4 years) NR41 BA/FrA French (4 years) QR51 BA/WFr subjects you can combine with it, and the UCAS course code. German (4 years) NR42 BA/GA German (4 years) QR52 BA/GW Italian (4 years) NR43 BA/AIt History QV51 BA/HW Subjects with # beside them indicate that they are studied Spanish (4 years) NR44 BA/ASp Italian (4 years) QR53 BA/ItCy through the medium of Welsh (Welsh for Beginners BA Linguistics QQ15 BA/LW Banking and: Music QW53 BA/MuW (Hons) is not taught entirely through the medium of Welsh). Accounting NN43 BSc/AccB For joint honours degrees which are studied entirely Philosophy and Religion VVQ5 BA/PRW French (4 years) NR31 BA/FrB Sociology LQ35 BA/SW through the medium of Welsh, please refer to the Welsh German (4 years) NR32 BA/GB Spanish (4 years) QR54 BA/SpCy JOINT prospectus. In many instances, courses feature modules Italian (4 years) NR33 BA/BIt Sport Science BA/SpSW which are also available in Welsh. Please contact us for Spanish (4 years) NR34 BA/BSp Welsh History QVM2 BA/WHW further information. Business and: Sport Science* C6N1 BSC/SSB Economics and: This list is indicative of the combinations possible (other Chinese L1T1 BA/EcCH combinations may be possible – please check at the Business Management and: French (4 years) LR11 BA/FrEc German (4 years) LR12 BA/GEc application stage). Chinese (4 years) N1T1 BA/BMCH French (4 years) N2R1 BA/BMFR History LV11 BA/HEc HONOURS German (4 years) N2R2 BA/BMG Italian (4 years) LR13 BA/EcIt It is also possible to study a subject ‘with’ another, in a²/ ³ Italian (4 years) N2R3 BA/BMI Social Policy LL14 BA/SPEc to ¹/³ split. See the main subject entries for details of these Spanish (4 years) N2R4 BA/BMS Sociology LL13 BA/SEc ‘with’ programmes. Spanish (4 years) LR14 BA/EcSp Childhood and Youth Studies and: Psychology X319 BA/CYP Electronic Engineering and: Social Policy X317 BA/CYSP Music H6W3 BSc/EEM Sociology X315 BA/CYSS English Language and: Chinese and: Chinese T123 BA/ELCH Business Management N1T1 BA/BMCH English Literature QQC3 BA/ELLit Cymraeg T102 BA/CHCY Film Studies PQ3J BA/FSELan Economics L1T1 BA/EcCH French (4 years) QR3C BA/ELFr English Language T123 BA/ELCH German (4 years) QR3F BA/ELG English Literature T124 BA/LITCH Italian (4 years) QR3H BA/ELIt Film Studies T125 BA/FSCH Journalism PQ53 BA/ELJO French T104 BA/CHFR Linguistics Q140 BA/LEla German T105 BA/CHG Psychology CQ83 BA/ELPsy Italian T106 BA/CHIT Sociology LQ3J BA/ELSoc Linguistics T101 BA/CHL Spanish (4 years) QR3K BA/ELSp Spanish T107 BA/CHSP English Literature and: Chinese T124 BA/LITCH Creative Writing and: Creative Writing 2P17 BA/ENCW English Literature 2P17 BA/ENCW Criminology and Criminal Justice 3M9Q BA/ECCJ Film Studies P3W8 BA/FSCW Cymraeg (Welsh)# 3Q5Q BA/CEL Media Studies WP83 BA/CWMS English Language QQC3 BA/ELLit Music WW38 BA/MusCW Film Studies 3P3Q BA/FSEL Criminology and Criminal Justice and: French (4 years) O6CD BA/FEL Cymdeithaseg# LM3Y BA/CCCJ German (4 years) 3N7S BA/GEL English Literature 3M9Q BA/ELCJ History 3QV1 BA/ELH French (4 years) MR91 BA/FrCr Italian (4 years) O9V3 BA/ELI German (4 years) MR92 BA/GCr Linguistics 1Q3Q BA/ELL Health and Social Care LM52 BA/HSCCCJ Media Studies 3HPQ BA/MEN History MVX1 BA/HCr Philosophy and Religion 3VQV BA/PREN Italian (4 years) MR93 BA/CrIt Sociology 3L3Q BA/SEL Polisi Cymdeithasol# LM4X BA/PCCJ Spanish (4 years) 3YTS BA/EL1S Psychology MC98 BA/CrP Social Policy LM49 BA/SPCr Film Studies and: Sociology LM39 BA/SCr Chinese T125 BA/FSCH Spanish (4 years) MR94 BA/CrSp Creative Writing P3W8 BA/FSCW English Language PQ3J BA/FSELan English Literature 3P3Q BA/FSEL French (4 years) PR31 BA/FSFr4 German (4 years) PR32 BA/FSGer History P3V1 BA/FSH Italian (4 years) P0R3 BA/FSI Music WW36 BA/MusFS Professional Writing W6W8 BA/PWF Spanish (4 years) PR34 BA/FSSpan4 Welsh History VP23 BA/WHFS

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68 69 French and: Italian and: Professional Writing and: Accounting (4 years) NR41 BA/FrA Accounting (4 years) NR43 BA/AIt Film W6W8 BA/PWF Banking (4 years) NR31 BA/FrB Banking (4 years) NR33 BA/BIt Media P3W9 BA/PWM Business Management (4 years) NR21 BA/BMFR Business Management (4 years) N2R3 BA/BMI Chinese T104 BA/CHFR Chinese T106 BA/CHIT Psychology and: Criminology and Criminal Justice (4 years) MR91 BA/FrCr Criminology and Criminal Justice (4 years) MR93 BA/CrIt Childhood and Youth Studies X319 BA/CYP Cymraeg (Welsh)# (4 years) QR51 BA/WFr Cymraeg (Welsh)# (4 years) QR53 BA/ItCy Criminology and Criminal Justice MC98 BA/CrP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Economics (4 years) LR11 BA/FrEc Economics (4 years) LR13 BA/EcIt English Language CQ83 BA/ELPsy English Language (4 years) QR3C BA/ELFr English Language (4 years) QR3H BA/ELIt Linguistics Q1C8 BA/LP English Literature (4 years) 06CD BA/FEL English Literature (4 years) O9V3 BA/ELI Social Policy CL84 BA/SPP Film Studies (4 years) PR31 BA/FSFr4 Film Studies (4 years) P0R3 BA/FSI Sociology CL83 BA/SP German (4 years) RR12 BA/G4F French (4 years) RR13 BA/FI FORESTY, GEOGRAPHY History (4 years) RV11 BA/HFr German (4 years) RR23 BA/GI Social Policy and: Italian (4 years) RR13 BA/FI History (4 years) RV31 BA/HIt Childhood and Youth Studies X317 BA/CYSP Linguistics (4 years) QR11 BA/LFr Linguistics (4 years) QR13 BA/ItL Criminology and Criminal Justice LM49 BA/SPCr Marketing (4 years) NR51 BA/MktFr Marketing (4 years) NR53 BA/MktItal Economics LL14 BA/SPEc Music (4 years) RW13 BA/MuFr Music (4 years) WR33 BA/MuIt Health and Social Care LL54 BA/HSCSP AND CONSERVATION Philosophy and Religion VVR1 BA/PRF Philosophy and Religion VVR3 BA/PRI History LV41 BA/SPH Spanish (4 years) RR14 BA/FS Spanish (4 years) RR43 BA/SI Psychology CL84 BA/SPP Sport Science R1C6 BA/FrSpS Sport Science CR6H BA/ItSSc Sociology LL34 BA/SocSP German and: Journalism and: Sociology and: Accounting (4 years) NR42 BA/GA English Language PQ53 BA/ELJO Childhood and Youth Studies X315 BA/CYSS Banking (4 years) NR32 BA/GB Media Studies PP53 BA/JMS Criminology and Criminal Justice LM39 BA/SCr Business Management (4 years) N2R2 BA/BMG Cymraeg (Welsh)# LQ35 BA/SW Applied Terrestrial and Marine Ecology BSc Chinese T105 BA/CHG Linguistics and: Economics LL13 BA/SEc Criminology and Criminal Justice (4 years) MR92 BA/GCr Chinese T101 BA/CHL English Language LQ3J BA/ELSoc Conservation with Forestry BSc Cymraeg (Welsh)# 4 years) QR52 BA/GW Cymraeg (Welsh)# QQ15 BA/WL English Literature 3L3Q BA/SEL Economics (4 years) LR12 BA/GEc English Language Q140 BA/LEla Health and Social Care LL53 BA/HSCS Environmental Conservation BSc English Language (4 years) QR3F BA/ELG English Literature 1Q3Q BA/ELL History LV31 BA/SH English Literature (4 years) 3N7S BA/GEL French (4 years) QR11 BA/LFr Linguistics LQ31 BA/SL Environmental Science BSc/MEnvSci Film Studies (4 years) PR32 BA/FSGer German (4 years) QR12 BA/LG Media Studies LP33 BA/MSSoc French (4 years) RR12 BA/G4F Italian (4 years) QR13 BA/ItL Psychology CL83 BA/SP Forestry BSc History (4 years) RV21 BA/HG Psychology Q1C8 BA/LP Social Policy LL34 BA/SocSP Italian (4 years) RR23 BA/GI Sociology LQ31 BA/SL Welsh History LVH3 BA/WHS Geography BA/BSc/MGeog Spanish (4 years) QR14 BA/LSp Linguistics (4 years) QR12 BA/LG Spanish and: Marketing (4 years) NR52 BA/MktGer4 Geography with Environmental Forestry BSc Marine Biology and: Accounting (4 years) NR44 BA/ASp Music (4 years) WR32 BA/MuGe Banking (4 years) NR34 BA/BSp Philosophy and Religion VVR2 BA/PRG Marine Biology and Oceanography F17 BSc/MBO Wildlife Conservation BSc Marine Biology and Zoology CC13 BSc/BMZ Business Management (4 years) N2R4 BA/BMS Spanish (4 years) RR24 BA/GS Creative Studies (4 years) WR94 BA/CStSp Sport Science R2C6 BA/GSpS Marketing and: Chinese BA/CHSp Health and Social Care and: French (4 years) NR51 BA/MktFr Criminology and Criminal Justice (4 years) MR94 BA/CrSp Criminology and Criminal Justice LM52 BA/HSCCCJ German (4 years) NR52 BA/MktGer4 Cymraeg (Welsh)# (4 years) QR54 BA/SpCy Cymdeithaseg# LM3Y BA/CCCJ Italian (4 years) NR53 BA/MktItal Economics (4 years) LR14 BA/EcSp Related Degrees Polisi Cymdeithasol# LL5K BA/PCHSC Spanish (4 years) NR54 BA/MktSp English Language (4 years) QR3K BA/ELSp Physical Geography and Oceanography (p.104) Social Policy LL54 BA/HSCSP Sport Science* C6N5 BSC/SSM English Literature (4 years) 3YTS BA/EL1S Sociology LL53 BA/HSCS Film Studies (4 years) PR34 BA/FSSSpan4 Media Studies and: French (4 years) RR14 BA/FS Geological Oceanography (p.103, p.108) History and: Creative Writing WP83 BA/CWMS German (4 years) RR24 BA/GS Marine Environmental Studies (p.106) Archaeology V103 BA/HA English Literature 3HPQ BA/MEN History (4 years) RV41 BA/HSp Criminology and Criminal Justice MVX1 BA/HCr Journalism PP53 BA/JMS Italian (4 years) RR43 BA/SI Ocean Science (p.105) Cymraeg (Welsh)# QV51 BA/HW Music PW33 BA/MSMus Linguistics (4 years) QR14 BA/LSp Economics LV11 BA/HEc Professional Writing P3W9 BA/PWM Marketing (4 years) NR54 BA/MktSp Zoology with Animal Behaviour (p.90) English Literature 3QV1 BA/ELH Sociology LP33 BA/MSSoc Music (4 years) WR34 BA/MuSp Film Studies P3V1 BA/FSH Music and: Philosophy and Religion VVR4 BA/PRS Zoology with Conservation (p.91) French (4 years) RV11 BA/HFr Creative Writing WW38 BA/MusCW Sport Scicence CR6K BA/SpSSc German (4 years) RV21 BA/HG Cymraeg (Welsh) QW53 BA/MuW Zoology with Marine Zoology (p.94) Italian (4 years) RV31 BA/HIt Sport Science and: Electronic Engineering W3H6 BA/MEE Business* C6N1 BSC/SSB Zoology with Climate Change Studies (p.87) Philosophy and Religion VVV1 BA/PRH English Literature 32N6 BA/ELM Social Policy LV41 BA/SPH Cymraeg (Welsh)# CQ65 BA/SpSW French (4 years) RW13 BA/MuFr French R1C6 BA/FrSpS Zoology with Primatology (p.88) Sociology LV31 BA/SH Film Studies WW36 BA/MusFS Spanish (4 years) RV41 BA/HSp German R2C6 BA/GSpS German (4 years) WR32 BA/MuGe Italian CR6H BA/ItSSc Zoology with Ornithology (p.89) History and Welsh History and: History and Welsh History WV32 BA/MuHWH Marketing* C6N5 BSC/SSM Music WV32 BA/MuHWH Italian (4 years) WR33 BA/MuIt Spanish CR6K BA/SpSSc Media Studies PW33 BA/MSMus Philosophy and Religion VVW3 BA/PRM Spanish (4 years) WR34 BA/MuSp Welsh History and: Welsh History VW2H BA/WH Cymraeg (Welsh) # QVM2 BA/WHW Film Studies VP23 BA/WHFS Philosophy and Religion and: Music VW2H BA/WH Cymraeg (Welsh) # VVQ5 BA/PRW Philosophy and Religion VVV2 BA/PRWH English Literature 3VQV BA/PREN Sociology LVH2 BA/WHS French VVR1 BA/PRF German VVR2 BA/PRG History VVV1 BA/PRH Italian VVR3 BA/PRI Music VVW3 BA/PRM Spanish VVR4 BA/PRS Welsh History (Hanes Cymru) VVV2 BA/PRWHH Physical Geography and: Oceanography F840 BSC/PGO *subject to validation

70 71 APPLIED TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE ECOLOGY CONSERVATION WITH FORESTRY BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course codes: This degree will teach you how to You will study 120 credits in each UCAS course codes: Forests are the most biodiverse You will study through a mixture of C180 BSc/ATME; C183 BSc/ApTME apply ecological sciences to the year, through a range of lectures, 5DKD BSc/CWF of all terrestrial ecosystems and lectures, tutorials, seminars and (with placement) real-world needs of sustainable tutorials, seminars and fieldwork. 5DLD BSc/CWF4 (with placement contain the vast majority of the fieldwork. Our courses are modular Length: 3 years (4 years with management and natural resource Our courses are modular. Although year) world’s terrestrial species. This and comprise suites of compulsory placement) conservation across terrestrial and some modules are, by necessity, Length: 3 years (4 years with degree provides an understanding and optional modules. The latter placement) marine ecosystems. Current thinking compulsory, others are optional, of this biodiversity, the ways in allow you to expand your studies into in environmental management allowing you to expand your ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: which it is influenced by people, new areas or develop specialisms Typical offer is a minimum of 120 tariff points recognises the need for holistic studies into new areas or develop Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff and the role that forests can play that interest you. from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: practices which acknowledge the specialisms that are of particular points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: in reducing the impacts of human • A Levels: including grade C in a science interrelatedness of the terrestrial interest to you. • A Levels: including grade C in a science activities, including climate change. Year 1 subject at A2 level (e.g. Biology, Geography, and aquatic environments. As well subject at A2 level (e.g. Biology, Geography, Geology, Environmental Sciences/Studies, The degree focuses on the principles This is an introduction to the as studying fundamental ecology, Year 1 Geology, Environmental Sciences/Studies, of biological conservation, forest principles of conservation, forestry Amanita muscaria (Fly Agaric). In forest Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Economics, Looking at human-wildlife conflict in Uganda Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Economics, Statistics, Psychology). Excluding General you will develop skills that allow ecology and forest ecosystem and management. ecosystems fungi play an important role in Compulsory modules may include: on the Tropical Field Course Statistics, Psychology). Excluding General carbon cycling and plant nutrient capture. Studies. you to assess the impact of policy function, and the ways in which decisions on management. You will • Ecology and Evolution Studies. Compulsory modules may include: • International Baccalaureate Diploma HOW WILL I LEARN? • International Baccalaureate Diploma forests can be managed to meet Optional modules may include: (including H5 in a science subject) be well prepared for the future job • Environmental Data and Analysis • Ecosystem Function and Services The modules offered use a wide (including H5 in a science subject) conservation objectives. There are • Field Course: Tenerife • Access: Science/Environmental-based market as public and private sector • Academic Tutorials • Environmental Management and Conservation variety of teaching methods ranging • Access: Science/Environmental-based opportunities to study abroad in the • Environmental Issues Access course organisations are increasingly • Ecosystem Function and Services • Forestry in the 21st Century from lectures, practicals and Access course second year and to spend up to 12 • Renewable Energy • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in paying attention to the sustainability • Environmental Management and Conservation • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in • Environmental Data and Analysis Countryside Management, Applied Science, fieldwork to seminars and tutorials. months working for a conservation • Environmental Policy and environmental impact of their • Organismal Diversity Countryside Management, Applied Science, • Academic Tutorials Forestry & Arboriculture, or Animal Seminars and tutorials concentrate or forestry organisation. • The Forestry Profession operations. Forestry & Arboriculture, or Animal • Field Course: Making Snowdonia Management: DDM Year 2 on problem solving, study skills Management: DMM • Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing • City & Guilds Extended Diploma in development and reinforcing WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • City & Guilds Extended Diploma in Year 2 • Tropical Conservation Field Course Countryside Management, Forestry & WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Compulsory modules may include: material taught in lectures; their Countryside Management, or Forestry & • Bangor is one of the leading UK Arboriculture, or Animal Management: • This course is the only one of its • Conservation Practice relaxed and informal atmosphere Arboriculture: Merit universities for forestry and This year builds upon the first year Distinction kind offered by UK universities, and develops your understanding HOW WILL I LEARN? • Marine Ecology also encourages lively debate over • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended conservation. We use a wide variety of teaching • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended made possible by Bangor’s range of the practice of conservation. • Research Methods & GIS current and contentious issues. Diploma in Forestry & Arboriculture or • The University teaches and does methods ranging from lectures, Diploma in Land & Wildlife Management: of leading international expertise in Land & Wildlife Management: Merit You take optional modules in those Distinction • Field Course: Environmental Conflict Courses are assessed using a research on many aspects of the practicals and fieldwork to seminars terrestrial and marine sciences. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted aspects of forestry that interest you • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in variety of methods with an average conservation and management of and tutorials. Seminars and • The degree course comprises a Optional modules may include: • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is most. Laboratory Skills: DDM split of 60% coursework and 40% natural resources. tutorials concentrate on problem unique blend of modules from • Principles of Conservation not accepted. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. examination. All modules make • We are situated in an ideal location solving, study skills development Environment, Natural Resources • Behavioural Ecology International school leaving qualifications Compulsory modules may include: International school leaving qualifications extensive use of the University’s and college diplomas are accepted, subject for study, close to ancient semi- and reinforcing material taught in and college diplomas are accepted, subject and Geography, Ocean Sciences • Vertebrate Biology • Silviculture and Inventory ‘Blackboard’ virtual learning to minimum English Language requirements: natural woodlands and other sites lectures; their relaxed and informal to minimum English Language requirements: and Biological Sciences. • Introduction to Herpetology • Principles of Conservation environment, which provides direct www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs of conservation importance. atmosphere also encourages lively www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Our location is ideal for fieldwork • Marine Physiology and Behaviour • Conservation Practice access to learning resources, course We also welcome applications from mature • The University owns 82 ha of debate over current and contentious We also welcome applications from mature – located just metres from the • Plant Diversity and Conservation applicants. • Research Methods & GIS applicants. documents and lecture notes. If woodland, many of them semi- issues. Courses are assessed using seashore, with the mountains of *For full details go to our website and for a full • Forestry or Conservation Field Course *For full details go to our website and for a you opt for the placement year, you natural, which are used for a variety of methods involving Snowdonia National Park providing Final Year list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go will spend your third year working teaching. Optional modules may include: coursework and examination. a spectacular backdrop to the city. Students take Marine Conservation www.ucas.com. to www.ucas.com. with a relevant organisation gaining • We have an enthusiastic group • Silviculture All modules make extensive use • Close links with environmental and Exploitation as a compulsory valuable career experience. of staff, with new academic • Catchment Processes of the University’s ‘Blackboard’ bodies e.g. The Snowdonia Society, module, and also work with a appointments in a number of key • Forest and Woodland Management virtual learning environment, which Natural Resources Wales and the supervisor to design and carry CAREER PROSPECTS conservation and forestry-related provides direct access to learning British Trust for Ornithology help out a piece of original research. Graduates have gone on to work disciplines. Final Year resources, documents and notes. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL us to train graduates capable of There is a wide range of optional INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE as environmental managers, EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • We run week-long field courses in In the final year you can choose to Page 87 addressing the scientific basis modules including Forest Ecology, ecologists or conservation advisors Page 87 the first, second and final years of write a conservation management for the sustainable management Environmental Policy, Freshwater CAREER PROSPECTS in terrestrial and aquatic contexts, the degree. plan, and you will carry out an This degree will equip you for a WANT TO KNOW MORE? of natural resources, and the Ecosystems, Wildlife Ecology and in the UK and overseas. Others WANT TO KNOW MORE? • We have local, national and independent research project in a broad range of careers, including Admissions Co-ordinator ecological impact of policy and Conservation, Forest Ecology, Admissions Co-ordinator have gone on to further study and international links with a variety topic that particularly interests you, woodland conservation, woodland management decisions across Ornithology, Primatology, Human Tel: 01248 382281 research. It is possible to take the of governmental agencies and under the supervision of a member management and forest certification INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL land and water use and industry in Aspects of Conservation. Students INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 382281 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] course as either a three-year degreeEXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] NGOs who are actively working on of academic staff. in both the public and private Page 234 Page 234 the public and private sector. have the option of going on a week- Page 234 Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences or over four years with a sandwich www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences conservation projects and issues. sectors. There is a constant demand long field course to Tenerife or a Compulsory modules may include: year working with a relevant • We pay for student membership for good graduates in forestry- longer tropical field course to Africa. • Forest Ecology conservation organisation in the UK of the Institute of Chartered related subjects, and every year we or overseas. Foresters. • Forest Ecosystems • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation help our graudates to find a whole range of roles across the UK and beyond. 72 73 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: As environmental concerns become The modules we offer use a wide D447 BSc/ECon; D448 BSc/ECon4 ever more pressing, there is an variety of teaching methods ranging (with placement year) increasing need to understand how from lectures, practicals and Length: 3 years (4 years with fieldwork to seminars and tutorials. placement) we can effectively conserve species, habitats and ecology. This course Seminars and tutorials concentrate ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: gives a theoretical grounding in how on problem solving, study skills Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff populations and communities work development and reinforcing points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: and a practical understanding of the material taught in lectures; their • A Levels: including grade C in a science issues surrounding environmental relaxed and informal atmosphere subject at A2 level (e.g. Biology, Geography, conservation. We teach the skills also encourages lively debate over Geology, Environmental Sciences/Studies, needed by conservation professionals current and contentious issues. Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Economics, Courses are assessed using a Statistics, Psychology). Excluding General for monitoring habitats and species Studies. and we demonstrate the importance variety of methods with an average • International Baccalaureate Diploma of social and economic factors in split of 60% coursework and 40% (including H5 in a science subject) achieving successful conservation. examination. All modules make • Access: Science/Environmental-based extensive use of the University’s Access course. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? ‘Blackboard’ virtual learning • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in • Bangor’s location, between the environment, which provides direct Countryside Management, Applied Science, Menai Strait and Snowdonia access to learning resources, course Forestry & Arboriculture, or Animal The course allows you to experience cutting-edge experiments Management: DMM National Park, offers unrivalled documents and lecture notes. If • City & Guilds Extended Diploma in opportunities for learning about you opt for the placement year, you ecology, conservation and the WHAT WILL I STUDY? Final Year will spend your third year working Countryside Management, Animal You will study 120 credits in each Students take a compulsory module Management or Forestry & Arboriculture: natural environment. with a relevant organisation gaining Merit • Successful conservation relies on year, through a range of lectures, in Human Aspects of Conservation valuable career experience. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended an interdisciplinary approach. Our tutorials, seminars and fieldwork. as well as selecting from a wide Diploma in Land & Wildlife Management: supportive, friendly and accessible Our courses are modular. Although range of others, including Wildlife CAREER PROSPECTS Merit staff have a range of expertise some modules are, by necessity, Ecology and Conservation, Marine Graduates from this programme • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in covering conservation, ecology, compulsory, others are optional, Conservation and Exploitation, and have gone on to become Laboratory Skills: DMM allowing you to expand your Coping with a Changing Planet. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. environmental science, forestry, conservation or environmental and the social sciences. studies into new areas or develop They also work with a supervisor managers in the UK and overseas International school leaving qualifications and specialisms that are of particular to design and carry out a piece of college diplomas are accepted, subject to • We have close links with as well as carrying out further study minimum English Language requirements: many of the local conservation interest to you. original research. The management and research or teacher training. Learning about vegetation and habitat management in Snowdonia National Park www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs organisations including Natural plan – where students develop It is possible to take the course as We also welcome applications from mature Resources Wales, the British Trust Year 1 a plan for an area of Snowdonia either a three-year degree or over applicants. for Ornithology and Snowdonia National Park – is a unique feature four years with a sandwich year “The course gave me the core skills needed to conduct research which has an *For full details go to our website and for a Compulsory modules may include: National Park Authority which help of the Bangor degree and gives working with a relevant conservation influence on practical conservation projects. This was also supplemented by full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Ecosystem Function and Services valuable professional training. to www.ucas.com. students gain understanding of • Environmental Management and Conservation organisation in the UK or overseas. knowledge in related fields such as environmental policy, soil science, and forestry. conservation practice. Students have the option of going on • Ecology and Evolution a week-long field course to Tenerife For my BSc dissertation I explored CITES in the United Arab Emirates and if the • We have excellent links with • Environmental and Data Analysis implementation of this convention had been effective. conservation organisations or a longer tropical field course to • Academic Tutorials Africa. throughout the world. Staff and • Field Course: Making Snowdonia students are currently working in After my BSc I decided to pursue an MSc in Environment and Development at the INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL London School of Economics and Political Science. I am currently completing a EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Madagascar, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Year 2 Page 87 Bolivia, Kenya and Bangladesh. PhD at the National University of Singapore (NUS)... My research is focused on Compulsory modules may include: Payments for Ecosystem Service (PES) schemes and their implementation in WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Principles of Conservation Southeast Asia. Admissions Co-ordinator • Research Methods & GIS

• Field Course: Environmental Conflict I believe my success thus far has been down to my BSc in Bangor.” INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 382281 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] Page 234 Pwww.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciencesage 234 Optional modules may include: • Conservation Practice FRANCESCA MCGRATH • Behavioural Ecology BSc Environmental Conservation graduate • Catchment Processes • Plant Diversity and Conservation • Climate Change 74 75 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE BSc [Hons] or MEnvSci BSc [Hons] or MEnvSci

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? The optional modules available in UCAS course codes: Environmental Scientists are Year 2 build on those in Year 1 to F900 (BSc); F901 (BSc with Placement needed more than ever by industry, develop some focused specialisation Year); F850 MEnvSci government and society. The within your degree. Length: 3 years (BSc); 4 years (MEnvSci) Environmental Science degree brings together information Year 3 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: from a wide range of subjects You will complete your Honours Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff to explore some of the most Project; an individual research points for BSc and 128 for MEnvSci from a important environmental issues, project on a topic of interest to you, Level 3 qualification* e.g.: such as climate change, pollution, possibly in conjunction with an • A Levels: including grade C in a science conservation, and food security. outside organisation. subject at A2 level (e.g. Biology, Geography, Geology, Environmental Sciences/Studies, Compulsory modules may include: Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Economics, The degree is broadly based with its roots in biology (giving you an • Pollution and Environment Statistics, Psychology). Excluding General • Environmental Geochemistry Studies. understanding of organisms, their • International Baccalaureate Diploma environments and their commun- • Renewable Energy (including H5 in a science subject) ities), chemistry (providing an • Environmental Issues • Access: Science/Environmental-based understanding of many natural • Waste Management and Utilisation Access course environmental processes and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in pollution), earth science (giving you In addition to the compulsory Countryside Management, Applied Science, a background in global processes), modules, you choose from a wide Forestry & Arboriculture, or Animal Environmental Science students analysing water samples for petroleum pollution and land and water resource range of options including a field Management: DMM for BSc, DDM for course to Tenerife. MEnvSci management. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? WHAT WILL I STUDY? • City & Guilds Extended Diploma in • We are internationally renowned You will study 120 credits in each Year 4 Countryside Management, Animal A combination of such subject areas, for our work in the environmental year, through a range of lectures, If you choose to follow the 4-year Management or Forestry & Arboriculture: combined with many practical sciences. tutorials, seminars and fieldwork. Master of Environmental Science Merit for BSc, Distinction for MEnvSci sessions and field trips, creates a • This degree draws on our • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in Our courses are modular. Some (MEnvSci) degree, Years 1 and 2 degree that is both fascinating and strengths in biological sciences, Laboratory Skills: DMM for BSc, DDM for modules are compulsory, others are are the same as for the BSc degree; rewarding. ocean sciences and chemistry. MEnvSci optional, allowing you to expand your however, you do not undertake • Bangor’s location makes it an • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted studies into new areas or develop the Honours Project in Year 3 and • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended ideal place to study environmental specialisms that interest you. instead choose more optional Diploma is not accepted. science as there is access to a wide modules. The aim of the fourth year International school leaving qualifications and “The course is great and really range of natural environments Year 1 is to develop your scientific skills Soil measurements on the Tenerife field course college diplomas are accepted, subject to enjoyable, incorporating just ranging from the coast to the and to increase your employability. minimum English Language requirements: the right amount of biology, varied landscape of the Snowdonia Compulsory modules may include: www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs With the support of experienced HOW WILL I LEARN? CAREER PROSPECTS chemistry and earth and National Park with its long history • Ecosystem Services and Function We also welcome applications from mature staff members, you will complete The course utilises a wide variety The broad base of the degree environment modules, with of multiple land use, mining and • Essential Chemistry* applicants. a Masters-level independent of teaching methods ranging from provides considerable flexibility in quarrying. Field trips are central • Ecology and Evolution *For full details go to our website and for a weekly field trips, so you research project on a topic of your lectures, practicals and fieldwork terms of career opportunities. You full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go throughout our Environmental • Chemistry in Biology and the Environment quickly gain both practical and choice. You will undertake a work to seminars and tutorials. The can expect to find employment in to www.ucas.com. Science degree. • Environmental Data and Analysis theoretical skills.” placement of at least 4 weeks at a majority of the fourth year on the industrial organisations, advisory • We have close links with local, • Academic Tutorials location of your choice, to provide MEnvSci degree is practical-based. agencies, local government, and in FOUNDATION YEAR national and international • Field Course: Making Snowdonia Assessment includes presentations, research and development, either Subject to validation, from NATALIE CHIVERS you with real-life professional organisations that employ interviews, coursework, within Europe or overseas. The September 2020 a Foundation INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL MEnvSci graduate experience. You will also undertake EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE environmental scientists, helping *Those without a sufficient the Business Planning for the Green examinations and practical reports. course also provides a good basis Year programme will be offered Page 87 us to ensure that our degree is background in chemistry will take Economy module, which focuses All modules make extensive use for teaching and work in the media. in Environmental Science. The relevant and up to date. the Essential Chemistry module. on the growing importance of of the University’s ‘Blackboard’ Postgraduate study or research Foundation Year degree is a WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Our degrees are accredited by environmental sustainability for virtual learning environment, which leading to a PhD is also an option. 4-year course for applicants Admissions Co-ordinator the Institution of Environmental Year 2 modern business. You will also take provides direct access to learning who do not quite meet the entry Science (IES). Following an resources, course documents and requirements for the 3-year INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 382281 Compulsory modules may include: a module on Strategic Environmental These degrees are EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] accredited degree will make you lecture notes. degree or who would benefit from Page 234 Page 234 • Water, Air and Soil Pollution Management, which will give you professionally www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences more employable and you will get a further year’s study. Following • Catchment Processes professionally-recognised skills in a accredited by the numerous benefits throughout completion of the Foundation Year, • Instrumental Methods for Non-Chemists key area of employment. Institution of your degree. students progress to Year 1 of the • Research Methods & GIS Environmental associated degree programme. • Field Course: UK Sciences. Please see the website for details. 76 77 GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY BA/BSc [Hons] / MGeog BA/BSc [Hons] / MGeog

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Year 2 compulsory modules may Year 4 UCAS course codes: Geography is the subject of our time, include: Students on the MGeog degree L700 BA/Geog dynamic and constantly evolving • Climate Change follow the same Year 1 and 2 F800 BSc/Geog as the world around us changes. It • Geohazards programme, but undertake a Year L702 BA (with placement year) F806 BSc (with placement year) bridges the gap across social and • Catchment Processes 3 MGeog Project. The fourth year of F801 MGEOG/G natural sciences, and at Bangor we • People, Space and Place our MGeog programme is mainly Length: 3 years for BA/BSc or 4 years take an interdisciplinary approach. • GIS and Research Methods focused on your own research for BA/BSc with placement year and Our degrees allow you to explore • Field Course: UK allowing you to specialize according 4 years for MGeog the physical processes that shape to your interests, undertake work- the Earth, the social, cultural and Optional modules may include: based learning and provide a deeper ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: economic processes that influence • Water, Air and Soil Pollution understanding of geographical GCSE: Grade C/4 in Mathematics and English people and places, and the human- • Ice and Oceans approaches. Language or Welsh. Typical offer is based on a minimum 120 tariff points for BA/BSc and 128 environment relationships. Our • Sustainable Development for MGeog from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: students develop their knowledge • Identity and Diversity HOW WILL I LEARN? • A Levels: (including a C grade or above in A2 and a broad understanding of • Geography Outdoors Your learning will take place in a Geography). geography, alongside professional • Earth and Ocean Observation range of different settings from • International Baccalaureate Diploma and transferrable skills that allow Bangor’s location is ideal for studying Geography lectures and laboratory classes and (including grade H5 or above in Geography them to compete successfully It is possible to take the BA and BSc field classes to seminars and small- at the Higher Level). for jobs in a range of careers and • Gain international experience by Sustainability and Governance. degrees as a 4-year ‘with placement group tutorials. Seminars provide • Access: Science or Environmental/Land- sectors. studying at one of our partner Our programmes introduce you year’ degree. You would undertake the opportunity for you to discuss based or Humanities course (merit grade institutions abroad as part of your to a range of research methods the placement during Year 3. and analyse new material, ideas and required in the Geography element). degree. and IT, GIS, and statistical skills. • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? concepts with other students and Countryside Management or Applied • Our programmes offer you • Our degrees are accredited by the You will develop professional and Final year BA/BSc the tutor. Small-group tutorials may Science: DDM flexibility, you can pick and chose Royal Geographical Society (with transferrable skills that employers In your final year you can select be structured around study skills • City & Guilds Extended Diploma in modules that allow you to focus on IBG). value. During your final year you from a range of modules that allow development or problem solving, Students mapping at Cwm Idwal, Snowdonia Countryside Management: Distinction the physical side, the human side, • We have excellent links with will conduct your own research you to specialise in areas that most but also give you the opportunity • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in or the interactions between them. relevant organisations, such as under staff guidance, allowing you to interest you. you will conduct your to ask questions, raise issues or CAREER PROSPECTS Laboratory Skills: DDM Geography graduates are highly • You will be taught by research- the Forestry Commission, Natural showcase your abilities developed own research (Honours Project) explore material taught in lectures. The BA, BSc and • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted England, the Snowdonia National throughout your studies. employable and are in demand due • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended active staff and award-winning under staff guidance, allowing you to Field work is an integral part of MGeog Geography teachers, who will support and Park Authority, Natural Resources showcase the abilities you developed our Geography programmes, and to the transferable skills and subject Diploma is not accepted. knowledge they develop during their degrees are International school leaving qualifications guide you throughout your studies Wales, as well as the regional Year 1 and Year 2 throughout your studies. there will be lots of opportunity to accredited by the and college diplomas are accepted, subject in a welcoming environment. offices of the Centre for Ecology The first year focuses on key Advanced field skills and training is get into the field and learn valuable studies. You will graduate with a widely-respected degree that opens Royal Geographical to minimum English Language requirements: • Our multidisciplinary team of staff and Hydrology, Welsh Water and knowledge and skills. Students are available through our optional Year 3 skills. You will have access to the Society. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs have expertise that span glacial the Environment Agency. Some able to switch between BA and BSc field courses to Tenerife or southern University’s ‘Blackboard’ virtual up career possibilities in both the We also welcome applications from mature and riverine environments to food of these organisations contribute courses at the end of the first year if Spain (Barcelona). learning environment, which private and public sectors. Bangor applicants. geographies and rewilding. to teaching; whilst others provide they wish. hosts learning resources, course graduates have gone on to careers *For full details go to our website and for a • Many of our modules also offer placements opportunities. Compulsory modules may include: documents and lecture capture in environmental consultancy, full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Our Geographical Information Year 1 compulsory modules may • Honours Project management, teaching and many to www.ucas.com. half and full-day field excursions, recordings (where available) for Systems Suite allows students include: • Rivers, Coasts and Oceans more. Geography degrees also The BSc and MGeog taking advantage of Bangor’s your modules. You will be assessed Geography degrees unique location, which is set to study spatial relationships • Earth Systems and Processes • Settlement Systems in a variety of ways: essays, oral provide the foundation for further between environmental, climatic, • Earth, Climate & Evolution • Governing Society and Environment postgraduate study and research. are professionally against the backdrop of the or poster presentations, reports, accredited by dramatic north Wales coastline, biological and social data. • Human Geography exams, practical tasks, etc. Some Geography students can enhance • Understanding Society Optional modules may include: their employability by registering for the Institution of Menai Strait, and the mountains of • Environmental Geochemistry assessments may involve group Environmental INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Environmental Data and Analysis the Bangor Employability Award. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Snowdonia National Park. • Current Environmental Issues work. Modules generally have an Sciences. Page 87 • Fieldwork allows you the You will study 120 credits in each • Academic Tutorials and Key Skills average assessment split of 60% year. Our programmes are modular, • Field Course: Making Snowdonia • Geoarchaeology opportunity to go outside the • Current Issues in Human Geography coursework and 40% examination. WANT TO KNOW MORE? with some compulsory and some lecture theatre. We run field • Food Geographies Admissions Co-ordinator courses in Snowdonia and SW optional. Our BA, BSc and MGeog Year 2 programmes begin with a broad The second year will provide you • Coping with a Changing Planet England in Years 1 and 2, with the • Environmental Policy INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 382281 foundation, spanning human and with deeper subject knowledge, EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] option to go to southern Spain or • Renewable Energy Page 234 Page 234 physical geography topics. Years introduce you to specialist www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences Tenerife in Year 3. • Professional Placement • Boost your employability with 2 and 3 have increasing choice so techniques and fieldwork skills, you can specialise in the topics that and developing your own research. • Catchment Modelling and Analysis an optional work placement, • Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing either through our Professional interest you most. Our programmes Students may convert onto the Placement module or through a focus on key global challenges, such MGeog at the end of Year 2. year-long Placement. as Climate Change, Natural Hazards, 78 79 GEOGRAPHY WITH ENVIRONMENTAL FORESTRY FORESTRY BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Compulsory modules may include: COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course code: This degree combines developing You will study 120 credits worth • Honours Project UCAS course codes: We have been teaching forestry at You will study 120 credits in each F803 BSc/GEF an understanding of the physical of modules in each year. Some • Forest Ecology D500 BSc/For; D501 BSc/F (with Bangor for more than 110 years, year, through a range of lectures, F804 BSc/GEF4 (with placement year) processes that shape the world modules are compulsory, others are • Rivers, Coasts & Oceans placement year) and there has never been a more tutorials, seminars and fieldwork. Length: 3 years (4 years with with understanding relationships optional. Fieldwork is an integral Length: 3 years (4 years with placement) placement) exciting time to enter the profession. Courses are modular and optional between humankind and the part of the course with dedicated Optional modules may include: Our degrees will prepare you for the modules allow you to expand your ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: environment and how sustainable field study modules in addition to • Field Course: Tenerife ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: challenge of managing forests for studies into new areas or develop GCSE: Grade C/4 in Mathematics and English management of environmental field visits associated with subject • Forest Ecosystems & Services Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 the many benefits they provide, at a specialisms that interest you. Language or Welsh.Typical offer is based on resources can benefit society. The modules. Professional skills, work • Management Plan tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: time of global environmental change. a minimum 120 tariff points from a Level 3 world’s forests, vital to the global experience and networks with • Current Environmental Issues • A Levels: including grade C in a science Years 1 and 2 qualification* e.g.: ecosystem and covering 30% of the potential employers can be gained • Environmental Policy subject at A2 level (e.g. Biology, Geography, Forests, vital to the global Year 1 provides an introduction • A Levels: (including a C grade or above in A2 world’s land area, are key to this. through the Professional Placement • Renewable Energy Geology, Environmental Sciences/Studies, ecosystem, cover 30% of the world’s to the ecological, economic and Geography) You will develop a broad range of module and Placement Year option. • Waste Management Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Economics, • International Baccalaureate Diploma Statistics, Psychology). Excluding General land area. Forestry is concerned environmental principles on which (including grade H5 or above in Geography subject knowledge and transferable • Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing Studies. with the understanding and forestry is based. In Year 2, you at the Higher Level) skills and will be prepared for the Year 1 • International Baccalaureate Diploma sustainable management of these will develop your understanding of • Access: Science or Environmental/Land- challenge of managing forests for HOW WILL I LEARN? (including H5 in a science subject) forests for the benefit of society. these principles and apply them to based or Humanities course (merit grade the many benefits they provide, Compulsory modules may include: We use a wide variety of teaching • Access: Science/Environmental-based forestry practice. Subjects studied required in the Geography element) at a time of significant global • Earth Systems and Processes methods ranging from lectures, Access course WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? during the first two years include Forest Measurement in Snowdonia • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in environmental change. • Forestry in the 21st Century laboratory practicals and fieldwork • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in • We were the first university to offer tree and wood identification, site Countryside Management or Applied • Environmental Data and Analysis to seminars and tutorials. Seminars Countryside Management, Applied Science, HOW WILL I LEARN? Forestry degrees. assessment, tree measurement, We combine the teaching of theory in Science: DDM WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Academic Tutorials and Key Skills and tutorials concentrate on problem Forestry & Arboriculture, or Animal Management: DMM • We have excellent links with silviculture and inventory, forest • City & Guilds Extended Diploma in • The dramatic coastline and • Field Course: Making Snowdonia solving, study skills development lectures, seminars and tutorials with Countryside Management: Distinction • City & Guilds Extended Diploma in forestry organisations in the UK health, forest management and the application of theory in forest- • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended rugged mountains of north Wales, • Ecosystem Services & Function and reinforcing material taught in Countryside Management, or Forestry & and overseas, and these are used geographical information systems. combined with the facilities of a lectures. Courses are assessed based practical classes and week- Diploma in Forestry & Arboriculture: Arboriculture: Merit in our teaching programmes. By the end of the second year you long field courses. The relaxed and modern University department, Year 2 using a variety of methods with an • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended Distinction • We have a comprehensive library will have acquired the knowledge informal atmosphere of seminars • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in make Bangor an excellent place to average split of 60% coursework and Diploma in Forestry & Arboriculture: Merit collection in Bangor, a forestry and understanding needed for a Laboratory Skills: DDM study Geography. Compulsory modules may include: 40% examination. The University’s • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted and tutorials encourages lively experimental area nearby, and are sandwich placement year, should debate over current and contentious • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • This course takes full advantage • GIS & Research Methods ‘Blackboard’ virtual learning • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is within easy travelling distance of you wish to do one. International school leaving qualifications and of our superb location including, • Climate Change environment, provides direct access not accepted. issues, and there are opportunities college diplomas are accepted, subject to International school leaving qualifications and public and privately-owned forests. to discuss some of the same issues minimum English Language requirements: the coast and mountains of north • Silviculture & Inventory to resources, documents and notes. college diplomas are accepted, subject to • The University owns 82 ha of Year 3 Wales and our proximity to the • Forest and Woodland Management with forestry professionals during www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs minimum English Language requirements: woodland, many of them semi- You will integrate the knowledge forest visits. Courses are assessed Snowdonia National Park. • Field Course: UK CAREER PROSPECTS? We also welcome applications from mature www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs natural, which are used for that you have acquired to write a using a variety of methods involving • We have excellent links with Geography and forestry graduates We also welcome applications from mature applicants. teaching. forest management plan for a local coursework and examination. *For full details go to our website and for a forestry organisations in the UK Optional modules may include: are highly employable. This is a applicants. • We have an experienced group forest area. If this is your final year, full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go and overseas, and these are used • Water, Air and Soil Pollution widely-respected degree that opens *For full details go to our website and for a We make extensive use of the of staff, with new appointments you will undertake an independent University’s ‘Blackboard’ virtual to www.ucas.com. in our teaching programmes. • Sustainable Development up career possibilities in public, full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go in forestry and a number of research project (Honours Project) • We have a comprehensive library • Earth and Ocean Observation private and non-governmental to www.ucas.com. learning environment, which related disciplines, and excellent on a topic that interests you, under provides direct access to learning collection in Bangor, a forestry • Catchment Processes organisations both in the UK interaction with local professional the supervision of academic staff. experimental area nearby, and are • Geohazards and overseas. Our degrees also resources, course documents and foresters. There are optional modules in forest lecture notes. within easy travelling distance of provide the foundation for further • We run week-long field courses in ecology, forest ecosystems, the public and privately-owned forests. Year 3 postgraduate study and research. the first, second and final years of forestry profession, environmental CAREER PROSPECTS • The University owns 82ha of Students complete their Honours the degree. issues, environmental policy, woodland, used for teaching. Project (supervised by a member Employers are always looking for • There are opportunities for renewable energy, and advanced GIS good forestry graduates who are INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • There are opportunities for of staff) which is an opportunity INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL studying abroad (usually in Canada and remote sensing. You can also EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE self-motivated and enjoy working Page 87 studying abroad (usually in Canada to study in detail, a topic that Page 87 or Finland) during the second choose to go on a week-long field or Finland) during the second year particularly interests you. The third with people. A high proportion of our year. If you opt for the four-year course in Tenerife. graduates find a forestry-related job WANT TO KNOW MORE? • We pay for student membership year study tour to Europe is seen WANT TO KNOW MORE? programme you will spend a year Admissions Co-ordinator of the Institute of Chartered by many students as a highlight. Admissions Co-ordinator within six months of graduation, and working in the forestry profession, are employed by public, private and Foresters. Students also have the option to gaining relevant experience and Tel: 01248 382281 Tel: 01248 382281 non-governmental organisations INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL integrate the knowledge that they INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL increasing your employability. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] both in the UK and overseas. Page 234 Page 234 have acquired in the first two years Page 234 Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences • We pay for student membership Our unique history, reputation to write a forest management plan of the Institute of Chartered for a local forest area. and teaching excellence makes Foresters. Bangor Forestry graduates highly employable.

80 81 WILDLIFE CONSERVATION BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? translating conservation science Year 3 BIOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY UCAS course code: We aim to graduate individuals who into policy, is based at Bangor, C328 BSC/WLC have a detailed understanding of giving students a unique insight Compulsory modules may include: C332 BSC/WLCP (with placement all aspects of conservation science, into the policy process. • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology BSc/MBiol year) including the founding principles of • We have close links with • Honours Project Length: 3 years (4 years with Biology with Biotechnology BSc/MBiol (Biotechnology) placement) ecology, evolution, environmental many of the local conservation • Advances in Conservation management, and who are able to organisations including Snowdonia Zoology BSc/MZool ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: apply this understanding to wildlife National Park Authority, Natural Optional modules may include: Zoology with Animal Behaviour BSc/MZool (Animal Behaviour) GCSE: Grade C/4 in Mathematics and English conservation. Resources Wales and the British • Marine Conservation and Exploitation Language or Welsh. Typical offer is based on Trust for Ornithology which help • Freshwater Ecosystems Zoology with Conservation BSc/MZool (Conservation) a minimum 112 tariff points from a Level 3 As a student on this course, you will students gain understanding of • Advances in Behaviour Zoology with Herpetology BSc/MZool (Herpetology) qualification* e.g.: have the opportunity to go on a field conservation practice. • Marine Mammal Science • A Levels: including grade C in a science trip to Tenerife or Uganda. • We also have excellent links • Advanced GIS and Remote Sensing Zoology with Marine Zoology BSc/MZool (Marine Zoology) subject at A2 level (e.g. Biology, Geography, Geology, Environmental Sciences/Studies, with conservation organisations • Life in Wetlands Zoology with Climate Change Studies BSc/MZool (Climate Change Studies) Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Economics, On this course, you will gain throughout the world. Staff and • Primatology Zoology with Primatology BSc/MZool (Primatology) Statistics, Psychology). Excluding General knowledge and understanding of students are currently working in • Ornithology Studies. the need for an interdisciplinary and Madagascar, Costa Rica, Colombia, • Forest Ecosystems Zoology with Ornithology BSc/MZool (Ornithology) • International Baccalaureate Diploma multidisciplinary approach to the Ghana, Kenya and Bangladesh for • Forest Ecology (including H5 in a science subject) study and management of wildlife. example. • Tropical Conservation Field Course • Access: Science/Environmental-based You’ll learn about the issues • Field Course: Tenerife Access course. concerning the monitoring and WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Human Aspects of Conservation Related Degrees • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Countryside Management, Applied Science, management of wildlife both Applied Marine Biology (p.96) for their intrinsic value and as a Year 1 HOW WILL I LEARN? Forestry & Arboriculture, or Animal Applied Terrestrial and Marine Ecology (p.72) Management: DMM natural resource to be exploited in a You will take 120 credits each year • City & Guilds Extended Diploma in sustainable and ethical manner. Compulsory modules may include: made up of lectures, practicals and Biomedical Science (p.125) Countryside Management, Animal Through a range of compulsory • Environmental Data and Analysis interactive exercises, as well as field Environmental Conservation (p.74) Management or Forestry and Arboriculture: and optional modules, you’ll be • Organismal Diversity trips and tutorials. Assessment is by Environmental Science (p.76) Merit taught the principles, nomenclature • Environmental Management and Conservation a mixture of formal examination and • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended terminology and concepts of applied • Ecosystem Function and Services continuous assessment. Teaching Forestry (p.81) Diploma in Land and Wildlife Management: Marine Biology (p.97) Merit ecology, ecosystem functions, • Ecology and Evolution methods range from lectures, • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in ecosystem services, environmental practicals and fieldwork to seminars Marine Biology and Oceanography (p.101) Laboratory Skills: DMM policy and conservation science Year 2 and tutorials. Marine Biology and Zoology (p.99) • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. and will gain knowledge and International school leaving qualifications and understanding of fundamental Compulsory modules may include: CAREER PROSPECTS Marine Environmental Studies (p.106) college diplomas are accepted, subject to ecological, social and economic • GIS and Research Methods This degree will develop intellectual Marine Vertebrate Zoology (p.100) minimum English Language requirements: concepts and how they relate • Principles of Conservation and practical skills, as well as Medical Biology (p.126) www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs to wildlife conservation and • Conservation Practice numeracy, communication and We also welcome applications from mature Medical Sciences (p.124) applicants. management. information technology (IT) abilities, *For full details go to our website and for a Optional Modules may include: interpersonal and self-management Wildlife Conservation (p.82) full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Sustainable Development skills and professionalism in a to www.ucas.com. • Bangor’s location, between the • Evolution and Genetics context specific to the conservation Menai Straits and Snowdonia • Marine Ecology world. National Park, offers unrivalled • Field Course: ACE INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL opportunities for learning about • Behavioural Ecology You will be ready for employment EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 ecology, conservation and the • Plant Diversity and Conservation in a broad range of fields including natural environment outside the • Vertebrate Biology wildlife conservation and other WANT TO KNOW MORE? class room. • Introduction to Herpetology professions requiring an ability to Admissions Co-ordinator • Successful conservation relies on • Introduction to Ornithology synthesize a variety of concepts and an interdisciplinary approach. Our • Introduction to Primatology ideas and to take a multidisciplinary Tel: 01248 382281 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL supportive, friendly and accessible view. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] Page 234 Pwww.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciencesage 234 staff have a range of expertise covering conservation, ecology, environmental science, forestry, and the social sciences. The Centre for Evidence Based Conservation, a world-recognised centre for 82 83 BIOLOGY BIOLOGY WITH BIOTECHNOLOGY BSc [Hons] / MBiology BSc [Hons] / MBiol [Biotechnology]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Year 4 - Master in Biology COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course codes: This degree will develop your This is an extended undergraduate UCAS course codes: Biotechnology is the application of C100 BSc/B BSc knowledge of the diversity of Year 1 programme which allows students C511 BSc/BBio BSc biology to improve quality of life, Year 1 C101 MBiol/Bio MBiol form and function within the plant to graduate either with BSc (Hons) C510 MBiol/Biot MBiol and the health of our planet, via Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MBiol Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MBiol and animal kingdoms. We place Compulsory modules: at the end of the third year or with the innovative use of cellular and Compulsory modules: emphasis on evolutionary, ecological • Organismal Diversity a Master at the end of the fourth molecular processes to develop • Principles of Life ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: • Ecology and Evolution ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: • Organismal Diversity GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and and and environmental aspects, and year. Sufficient standard must be GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double beneficial technologies and products. Double Award Science. Typical offer is based provide you with a firm foundation in • Biology Practical Skills 1 achieved at the end of Year 2 for Award Science. Typical offer is based on You will study microbial, plant and • Tutorials on a minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and cell and molecular biology. We take • Principles of Life 1 progression onto the Masters year a minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and animal biology. The biotechnology • Practical Skills 1 & 2 minimum 128 for MBiology from a Level 3 full advantage of the varied local • Tutorials following completion of Year 3. minimum 128 for MBiol from a Level 3 component will reveal how the • Ecology and Evolution qualification e.g.: environments – from the mountains qualification* e.g.: earliest biotechnologists have had • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in of Snowdonia to the coastline of the Year 2 Compulsory modules: • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in a significant impact upon human Year 2 Biology if studying 1 other science subject Biology if studying 1 other science subject - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, Irish Sea for field courses and final- Compulsory modules: • Advanced Research Skills - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, life by harnessing the fermentative Compulsory modules: year projects. In the third year there • Masters Research Project capabilities of microorganisms Environment Science, Geography, Geology; • Bioscience Skills Environment Science, Geography, Geology; • Bioscience Skills Study Human Immunology or grade B in Biology if not studying another is an opportunity to choose a wide • Evolution & Genetics or grade B in Biology if not studying another to produce food products such • Principles of Life 2 science subject. For MBiol - including grade range of subject areas from environ- • Principles of Life 2 Module titles and combinations are science subject. For MBiol - including grade as bread, cheese, beer and wine. • Evolution and Genetics Year 4 B in Biology. mental to medical biology. subject to change. B in Biology You will develop your knowledge The Master in Biology • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For Optional modules: • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For of the ways in which modern Optional modules: (Biotechnology) is an extended BSc -including H5 in Biology. For MBiol - WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Field Courses HOW WILL I LEARN? BSc - including H5 in Biology. For MBiol - biotechnology offers breakthrough • Field courses - Spain / Florida undergraduate programme allowing including H6 in Biology • Cutting-edge science is integral to • Invertebrates You will have a range of lectures including H6 in Biology products and technologies to combat • Invertebrate Biology • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For students to graduate either with BSc BSc -DMM including Merits in 4 Biology our research programmes, and • Plant Diversity and Conservation and practicals each week, BSc - DMM including Merits in 4 Biology disease, reduce our impact on • Human Immunology (Hons) at the end of the third year modules**. For MBiology - DDM including feeds through into the teaching • Principles of Conservation supplemented with 2-day field modules**. For MBiol - DDM including the environment, feed the hungry, • Introduction to Herpetology or with a Master at the end of the Merits in 4 Biology modules**. environment. Our expertise in • Introduction to Herpetology courses, and tutorials in years 1 Merits in 4 Biology modules**. reduce our energy demands, provide • Integrative Zoology fourth year. Sufficient standard must • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) biology covers aspects of stress • Behavioural Ecology and 2. The final year includes a • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) cleaner energy, and produce safer, • Plant Diversity & Conservation be achieved at the end of Year 2 for / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall biology, energetics, adaptation • Integrated Zoology dissertation project, supervised / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall cleaner and more efficient industrial • Medical Microbiology progression onto the Masters year including 4 Biology modules ** to change, population genetics, • Human Immunology by a staff member on a subject of including 4 Biology modules** processes. • Vertebrate Biology following completion of Year 3. • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass biogeography, molecular ecology, • Medical Microbiology your interest. Assessment is by • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass • Cell Biology • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted climate change and carbon • Vertebrate Biology formal examination and continuous • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Genomic Instability & Disease • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is Compulsory modules: not accepted. stores, cell and genomic biology, assessment. Welsh-medium not accepted. • Cutting-edge science is integral • Advanced Research Skills International school leaving qualifications and environmental microbiology, Year 3 modules are also available. International school leaving qualifications and to our research programmes and Year 3 • Masters Research Project college diplomas are accepted, subject to neurobiology and development. college diplomas are accepted, subject to feeds through into the teaching minimum English Language requirements: • Our excellent facilities include: a Compulsory modules: CAREER PROSPECTS minimum English Language requirements: environment. Our expertise Compulsory modules: HOW WILL I LEARN? www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Botanical Garden; our own Natural • Dissertation Biologists pursue a range of www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs in biology and biotechnology • Environmental Microbiology & Biotechnology You will have a range of lectures We also welcome applications from mature History Museum containing a • Science and Employability Skills careers from being environmental We also welcome applications from mature encompasses studies into medical • Drug Development and practicals each week, applicants. applicants. • Science and Employability Skills comprehensive collection of Optional modules: consultants to working in research and environmental microbiology, supplemented with field courses, *For full details go to our website and for a invertebrate and vertebrate and development, the health service *For full details go to our website and for a plant biology, marine biotech- • Dissertation full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Advances in Behaviour full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go and tutorials in years 1 and 2. The to www.ucas.com. material and extensive marine and • Molecular Ecology and Evolution and further education. to www.ucas.com. nology, fisheries genetics, cell and Optional modules: final year includes a dissertation **For a list of the acceptable science freshwater aquaria; and the Robert • Attack and Defence in Plants ** For a list of the acceptable science genome biology, neurobiology and • Molecular Ecology & Evolution project, supervised by a staff modules/subject areas, see the website. Edwards Laboratory for teaching • Medical Genetics modules/subject areas, please visit the development. • Systematics & Diversity member on a subject of your cell and molecular biology. • Forest Ecosystems website. • Our excellent facilities include • Medical Genetics interest. Assessment is by formal • Bangor’s location makes it an two well equipped microbiology examination and continuous • Chemical Biology FOUNDATION YEAR • Attack and Defence Plants ideal place to study biology – the research laboratories; a Botanical assessment. Welsh-medium • Forest Ecology Subject to validation, from • Freshwater Ecosystems 2 range of soil types, climate and • Freshwater Ecosystems Garden; our own Natural • Forest Ecosystems modules are also available. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL September 2020 a Foundation INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE topography provides numerous • Human Evolutionary Biology EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE History Museum containing a • Chemical Biology Page 87 diverse habitats, all within easy Year programme will be offered Page 87 comprehensive collection of • Fish Physiology in Biology. The Foundation Year • Primatology CAREER PROSPECTS reach for field-based studies. invertebrate and vertebrate Graduates will possess a wealth • Environmental Microbiology & Biotechnology degree is a 4-year course for • Life in a Changing Climate WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Bangor is home to the divisional WANT TO KNOW MORE? material; and extensive marine and of skills and knowledge that will • Primatology applicants who do not quite meet • Life in Wetlands Admissions Administrator offices of Natural Resources Wales Admissions Administrator freshwater aquaria. be relevant to many employment • Life in a Changing Climate the entry requirements for the • Ornithology and the Centre for Ecology and • Bangor’s location provides a sectors including hospital INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 • Life in Wetlands 3-year degree or who would INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 • Forest Ecology EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Hydrology, both of which have EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE range of soil types, climate and laboratories, research organisations, E-mail: [email protected] • Parasites and Pathogens benefit from a further year’s E-mail: [email protected] • Parasites and Pathogens Page 234 Page 234 close links to the University and Page 234 Page 234 topo-graphy, provides numerous multidisciplinary consultancies, www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences • Ornithology study. Following completion of www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences • Human Evolutionary Biology staff associated with this course. diverse habitats, all within easy industrial companies, research the Foundation Year, students • Exchange programmes and reach for field-based studies. charities, government departments progress to Year 1 of the Module titles and combinations are opportunities for studying abroad and agencies, educational associated degree programme. subject to change. available – see introductory pages establishments, research councils Please see the website for details. of this prospectus for details. and the private sector. 84 85 ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY WITH CLIMATE CHANGE STUDIES BSc [Hons] / MZoology BSc [Hons] / MZoology [Climate Change Studies]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Year 4 COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Bangor University is exceptional Year 4 UCAS course codes: Zoology is all about the study of The Master in Zoology is an extended UCAS course codes: Sir David Attenborough has called in that it has its own zoological The Master in Zoology is an extended C300 BSc/Zoo BSc animals. In this degree you will Year 1 undergraduate programme which C319 BSc; C321 MZool climate change humanity’s greatest museum, botanical garden and undergraduate programme allowing C301 MZool/Zoo MZool explore the diversity of animal form allows students to graduate either Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MZool threat; resulting in the loss of university farm – all of which are students to graduate either with BSc Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MZool Compulsory modules: and function, and the evolution and with BSc (Hons) at the end of the ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: civilisations and the extinction of used for teaching and research. (Hons) at the end of the third year ecology of the major animal groups. • Organismal Diversity third year or with a Master at the much of the natural world. This or with a Master at the end of the ENTRY REQUIREMENTS • Ecology and Evolution GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double You will discover how animals end of the fourth year. If at the end Award Science. Typical offer is based on course will equip you with the WHAT WILL I STUDY? fourth year. Sufficient standard must Award Science. Typical offer is based on interact with one another and their • Practical Skills 1 of Year 2 a sufficient standard is a minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and knowledge and skills to be an be achieved at the end of Year 2 for a minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and environments, and learn about their • Practical Skills 2 achieved, then progression onto minimum 128 for MBiol from a Level 3 essential part of the solution David Year 1 progression onto the Masters year minimum 128 for MBiol from a Level 3 development. • Tutorials the Masters year will be permitted qualification* e.g.: Attenborough has called for. following completion of Year 3. qualification* e.g.: • Principles of Life following completion of Year 3. • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in Compulsory modules: • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Biology if studying 1 other science subject Zoology covers a huge range • Organismal Diversity Compulsory modules: Biology if studying 1 other science subject Year 2 - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, • Principles of Life 1 - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, • Cutting-edge science is integral to Compulsory modules: Environment Science, Geography, Geology; of topics including taxonomy, • Advanced Research Skills our research programmes, and Compulsory modules: • Advanced Research Skills physiology, evolution, morphology, • Practical Skills • Masters Research Project Environment Science, Geography, Geology; or grade B in Biology if not studying another • Ecology and Evolution or grade B in Biology if not studying another feeds through into the teaching • Bioscience Skills • Masters Research Project science subject. For MBiol - including grade biodiversity, and behaviour. This science subject. For MBiol - including grade environment. Our expertise • Evolution & Genetics B in Biology course covers one of the most • Tutorials HOW WILL I LEARN? B in Biology encompasses: population biology • Vertebrate Biology HOW WILL I LEARN? • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For important and topical fields in On this course students are required • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For and genetics; locomotion and • Integrative Zoology You will have a range of lectures and BSc - including H5 in Biology. For MBiol - science: climate change. Various Year 2 to take 120 credits each year made BSc - including H5 in Biology. For MBiol - including H6 in Biology energetics; environmental practicals each week, supplemented aspects will be covered from the Compulsory modules: up of lectures, practicals, and including H6 in Biology physiology; endocrinology; Optional modules: with field courses, and tutorials in • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For science behind climate change, interactive exercises, as well as • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For • Principles of Conservation BSc - DMM including Merits in 4 Biology • Evolution and Genetics BSc - DMM including Merits in 4 Biology parasites; biodiversity; years 1 and 2. The final year includes modules**. For MBiol - DDM including to the socio-economic impacts • Climate Change field trips and tutorials in years 1 development. • Field Courses – Arizona, Florida, India, Spain a dissertation project, supervised by of environmental change. You and 2. The final year can include modules**. For MBiol - DDM including • Principles of Life 2 Merits in 4 Biology modules**. • BioScience Skills Merits in 4 Biology modules**. • Our excellent teaching facilities a staff member on a subject of your • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) will learn about the links and an integrated research project, • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) include a Natural History Museum • Introduction to Herpetology interest. Assessment is by formal / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall interactions between zoology and which is supervised by a member • Behavioural Ecology Optional Modules: / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall which boasts an exceptionally examination and continuous including 4 Biology modules** climate change. How are animals • Conservation Practice of staff on a subject to suit the including 4 Biology modules** comprehensive collection of • Invertebrates assessment. Welsh-medium • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass affected? How are they adapting? student’s interests. Modules become • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass • Primatology Field Course • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted • Invertebrates insects and vertebrate material, modules are also available. What implications does this • Behavioural Ecology more specialised as the degree • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted and extensive marine and • Local Field Trip • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is have on wildlife and ecosystem progresses and the number of • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is not accepted. • Principles of Life 2 freshwater aquaria with a suite of CAREER PROSPECTS conservation? How are the actions of compulsory modules varies between not accepted. Year 3 International school leaving qualifications and • Vertebrate Biology International school leaving qualifications and temperature controlled rooms. Zoologists have gained employment college diplomas are accepted, subject to some animals affecting our climate? • Introduction to Herpetology years. Assessment is by a mixture of college diplomas are accepted, subject to • Bangor’s location makes it an Compulsory modules: in wildlife management, minimum English Language requirements: You will also be equipped with • Integrated Zoology formal examination and continuous minimum English Language requirements: ideal place to study zoology as we • Science and Employability Skills environmental consultancy, and www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs extensive field, laboratory and data • Field Course - Arizona, India, Florida, Spain assessment.interest. Assessment www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs have an extensive range of local • Dissertation local and national media, whilst We also welcome applications from mature analysis skills. • Primatology Field Course is by formal examination and We also welcome applications from mature terrestrial and aquatic habitats for some have undertaken a range of applicants. continuous assessment. Welsh- applicants. *For full details go to our website and for a • Local Field Trip field trips. Optional modules: postgraduate programmes. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? medium modules are also available. *For full details go to our website and for a • Exchange programmes and full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Our location presents the best full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Freshwater Ecosystems 2 to www.ucas.com. Year 3 to www.ucas.com. opportunities for studying abroad • Molecular Ecology & Evolution ** For a list of the acceptable science natural laboratory in the UK. You CAREER PROSPECTS ** For a list of the acceptable science are available – see introductory • Life in a Changing Climate modules/subject areas, please visit the won’t have to travel to visit the Compulsory modules: Zoologists have gained employment modules/subject areas, please visit the pages for details. • Life in Wetlands website. most important and varied field • Dissertation in Biological Science in wildlife management, website. • Attack and Defence in Plants sites – they’re on our doorstep. • Science and Employability Skills environmental consultancy, and • Bangor is home to the divisional • Life in a Changing Climate local and national media. Others • Human Evolutionary Biology FOUNDATION YEAR • Ornithology offices of the Centre for Ecology have undertaken a range of Subject to validation, from and Hydrology (CEH), the Natural Optional modules: postgraduate programmes, whilst • Primatology September 2020 a Foundation INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Resources Wales (NRW), the Royal • Freshwater Ecosystems graduates with a knowledge of EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Parasites and Pathogens Year programme will be offered EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 Page 87 Society for the Protection of Birds • Advances in Behaviour climate change studies could • Advances in Behaviour in Zoology. The Foundation Year • Molecular Ecology and Evolution • Animal Survival Strategies (RSPB) and North Wales Wildlife find themselves employment in WANT TO KNOW MORE? degree is a 4-year course for WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Animal Survival Strategies • Developmental Biology Trust (NWWT), all of which have government funded agencies, Admissions Administrator applicants who do not quite meet Admissions Administrator close links to the university and • Life in Wetlands charities, NGOs, research groups the entry requirements for the staff associated with this course. • Primatology and even financial organisations INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 3-year degree or who would INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 • Attack and Defence in Plants EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] • The School is also part of the new interested in the effects of climate Page 234 Page 234 benefit from a further year’s Page 234 Page 234 • Ornithology www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences Environment Centre for Wales change. study. Following completion of which is a partnership venture • Human Evolutionary Biology the Foundation Year, students between Bangor University and progress to Year 1 of the the Natural Environment Research Module titles and combinations are associated degree programme. Council’s Centre for Ecology & subject to change. Please see the website for details. Hydrology. 86 87 ZOOLOGY WITH PRIMATOLOGY ZOOLOGY WITH ORNITHOLOGY BSc [Hons] / MZoology [Primatology] BSc [Hons] / MZoology [Ornithology]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Our excellent teaching facilities Optional modules: COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? the degree is conducted. • Molecular Ecology and Evolution UCAS course codes: This course provides a sound and include a zoology museum with • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation UCAS course codes: Birds have a high profile as model • We are unusual among British • Animal Survival Strategies C329 (BSc); C32P (BSc with broad zoological training, with a a diverse collection of vertebrate • Freshwater Ecosystems 2 C330 (BSc); C3P0 (BSc with organisms in zoology, and are the universities in having our own • Life in a Changing Climate Placement Year); C333 (MZool); C33P special focus on a fascinating group and invertebrate specimens, • Advances in Behaviour Placement Year); C334 (MZool); C3P4 focus of growing conservation substantial Zoology Museum, and • Life in Wetlands (MZool with Placement Year) (MZool with Placement Year) Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MZool of mammals – primates. Zoology including primates, a growing • Molecular Ecology and Evolution Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MZool concern due to the alarming decline being part of the Environment • Attack and Defence in Plants covers a huge range of topics collection of non-human primate • Animal Survival Strategies of many species. There is a growing Centre Wales, which is a • Parasites and Pathogens ENTRY REQUIREMENTS including taxonomy, physiology, and early human fossil casts, • Life in a Changing Climate ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: demand for professional scientists partnership venture between GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double evolution, morphology, biodiversity, marine and freshwater aquaria • Life in Wetlands GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double with specialised knowledge and Bangor University and the Natural Module titles and combinations are Award Science. Typical offer is based on and behaviour. Primatology is and a botanical garden close to • Attack and Defence in Plants Award Science. Typical offer is based on skills relating to birds. This course Environment Research Council’s subject to change. a minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and a dynamic discipline offering the Menai strait. • Parasites and Pathogens a minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and combines traditional zoology with Centre for Ecology & Hydrology minimum 128 for MBiol from a Level 3 students the opportunity to bridge • The School is also part of the new • Human Evolutionary Biology minimum 128 for MBiol from a Level 3 an emphasis upon avian biology (CEH). The School of Natural Year 4 qualification* e.g.: many fields, from the zoological Environment Centre for Wales qualification* e.g.: and diversity, and is delivered Sciences also has a research farm, The Master in Biology • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in Biology if studying 1 other science subject strands mentioned above to which is a partnership venture Year 4 Biology if studying 1 other science subject along with aspects of conservation botanical gardens, and a pigeon (Biotechnology) is an extended - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, between Bangor University The Master in Zoology is an extended - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, management and practices. Our aim loft. undergraduate programme allowing Environment Science, Geography, Geology; psychology and even archaeology. and the Natural Environment undergraduate programme allowing Environment Science, Geography, Geology; is to provide you with a combination students to graduate either with BSc or grade B in Biology if not studying another The course combines classic field Research Council’s Centre for students to graduate either with BSc or grade B in Biology if not studying another of a sound and broad zoological WHAT WILL I STUDY? (Hons) at the end of the third year science subject. For MBiol - including grade and experimental approaches Ecology and Hydrology. (Hons) at the end of the third year science subject. For MBiol - including grade training that covers both pure and or with a Master at the end of the B in Biology with cutting-edge technology to or with a Master at the end of the B in Biology applied aspects of animal life, and Year 1 fourth year. Sufficient standard must • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For solve some of the most fascinating WHAT WILL I STUDY? fourth year. Sufficient standard must • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For specialist ornithological knowledge be achieved at the end of Year 2 for BSc - including H5 in Biology. For MBiol - theoretical conundrums in zoology be achieved at the end of Year 2 for BSc - including H5 in Biology. For MBiol - and skills Compulsory modules: progression onto the Masters year including H6 in Biology including H6 in Biology • Organismal Diversity • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For and provide solutions to the urgent Year 1 progression onto the Masters year • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For following completion of Year 3. conservation challenges facing one following completion of Year 3. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Principles of Life 1 BSc - DMM including Merits in 4 Biology Compulsory modules: BSc - DMM including Merits in 4 Biology • Practical Skills modules**. For MBiol - DDM including of the most threatened groups of modules**. For MBiol - DDM including • The provision of a diversity of Compulsory modules: Merits in 4 Biology modules**. mammals on the planet. • Organismal Diversity Compulsory modules: Merits in 4 Biology modules**. laboratory and field zoology • Ecology and Evolution • Advanced Research Skills • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) • Principles of Life 1 • Advanced Research Skills • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) experience is an important • Tutorials • Masters Research Project / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Tutorials • Masters Research Project / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall component of the course, as is including 4 Biology modules** • Bangor’s established zoological • Practical Skills including 4 Biology modules** the acquisition of transferable Year 2 HOW WILL I LEARN? • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass and primatological research • Ecology and Evolution HOW WILL I LEARN? • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass skills (data analysis, group work, You will take 120 credits each year • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted Compulsory modules: • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is programmes place cutting-edge Year 2 You will take 120 credits each year • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is presentational and writing skills, • Introduction to Ornithology made up of lectures, practicals, and not accepted. science centre stage, and this made up of lectures, practicals, and not accepted. IT skills). Students have the • Evolution and Genetics interactive exercises, as well as International school leaving qualifications and feeds our teaching. Compulsory modules: interactive exercises, as well as International school leaving qualifications and opportunity to undertake a field • BioScience Skills field trips and tutorials in years 1 college diplomas are accepted, subject to • Our expertise encompasses • Evolution and Genetics field trips and tutorials in years 1 college diplomas are accepted, subject to trip with an ornithological focus at and 2. The final year can include an minimum English Language requirements: studies on biogeography, evolution • BioScience Skills and 2. The final year can include an minimum English Language requirements: the beginning of the second year. Optional Modules: integrated research project, which www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs and behaviour, molecular • Introduction to Primatology integrated research project, which www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs We offer specialist ornithology is supervised by a member of staff We also welcome applications from mature We also welcome applications from mature • Principles of Conservation ecology, population genetics and is supervised by a member of staff modules in second and third years, • Conservation Practice on a subject to suit your interest. applicants. developmental biology, as well Optional modules: on a subject to suit your interest. applicants. and a wide range of ornithological Modules become more specialised *For full details go to our website and for a • Principles of Conservation *For full details go to our website and for a • Invertebrates full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go as primate behavioural ecology, Modules become more specialised full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go dissertation project opportunities. • Behavioural Ecology as the degree progresses and the primate (including human) • Conservation Practice as the degree progresses and the • Bangor is a UK centre of research number of compulsory modules to www.ucas.com. • Invertebrates to www.ucas.com. • Principles of Life 2 ** For a list of the acceptable science evolutionary anatomy and ecology, number of compulsory modules ** For a list of the acceptable science excellence in ornithology, with • Vertebrate Biology varies between years. Assessment is modules/subject areas, please visit the and human evolution. • Behavioural Ecology varies between years. Assessment is modules/subject areas, please visit the four full-time faculty specialising by a mixture of formal examination • Principles of Life 2 • Introduction to Herpetology • Budding primatologists will be part by a mixture of formal examination website. in avian evolution, behaviour, • Integrated Zoology and continuous assessment. of a School with an established • Vertebrate Biology and continuous assessment. physiology and conservation, interest. Assessment is by formal • Introduction to Herpetology • Field Course - Arizona, India, Florida, Spain and growing primatology research interest. Assessment is by formal and many other staff who have • Introduction to Primatology examination and continuous INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL group, through which they can • Integrated Zoology examination and continuous INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL ornithological interests. We also assessment. Welsh-medium EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Local Field Trip Page 87 engage with ongoing research • Field Course - Arizona, India, Florida, Spain assessment. Welsh-medium Page 87 benefit from expert input to this modules are also available. • Primatology Field Course activities and interact with modules are also available. degree from the Wales office for Year 3 WANT TO KNOW MORE? specialist staff. • Local Field Trip WANT TO KNOW MORE? the British Trust for Ornithology, CAREER PROSPECTS Admissions Administrator • Bangor’s location makes it an ideal CAREER PROSPECTS Admissions Administrator which is located at Bangor Compulsory modules: Zoologists have gained employment place to study zoology, as we have Year 3 Zoologists have gained employment University. Students will not only • Dissertation in Biological Science in wildlife management, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] an extensive range of local habitats Compulsory modules: in wildlife management, EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] enjoy the resources expected • Science and Employability Skills environmental consultancy, and Page 234 Pwww.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciencesage 234 teeming with animal life. • Dissertation in Biological Science environmental consultancy, andP age 234 Pwww.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciencesage 234 of a modern centre of animal • Ornithology local and national media. Others • We offer a range of field and local and national media, whilst biology but will also benefit from have undertaken a range of • Science and Employability Skills Optional modules: laboratory experiences and the • Advances in Primatology some have undertaken a range of the proximity of an exceptional postgraduate programmes. chance to do placements or postgraduate programmes. range of terrestrial, marine and • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation • Freshwater Ecosystems 2 exchanges with industry. freshwater habitats where field work, which is an integral part of • Advances in Behaviour 88 89 ZOOLOGY WITH ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR ZOOLOGY WITH CONSERVATION BSc [Hons] / MZool [Animal Behaviour] BSc [Hons] / MZool [Conservation]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course codes: The desire to understand the UCAS course codes: Increasing interest in environmental Year 1 C3D3 BSc/ZWAB (BSc) behaviour of animals has lead to the C3L2 (BSc); CD3P (BSc with conservation by governments and Year 1 C302 MZool/AB (MZool) Placement Year) development of a separate branch Compulsory modules: the public alike means that we Length: 3 years BSc or 4 years MZool CD34 MZool/Cons (MZool) Compulsory modules: of zoology, called ethology. You will • Organismal Diversity now require a new generation of Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MZool • Organismal Diversity ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: gain a grounding in zoology with a • Ecology and Evolution trained professional scientists with a • Ecology and Evolution GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double consideration of the mechanisms, • Practical Skills 1 sound zoological knowledge and an ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: • Practical Skills 1 Award Science. Typical offer is based on functions, development and evolution • Practical Skills 2 GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double appreciation of the issues involved • Practical Skills 2 a minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and of animal behaviour. The degree • Principles of Life Award Science. Typical offer is based on in local and global conservation. This minimum 128 for MZool from a Level 3 • Environmental Management & Conservation specifically looks at the mechanisms, • Tutorials a minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and course provides traditional zoology qualification* e.g.: functions, development and evolution minimum 128 for MZool from a Level 3 • Tutorials • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in (taxonomy, morphology, physiology of behaviour. Year 2 qualification* e.g.: and cell biology) with an emphasis Biology if studying 1 other science subject • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in Year 2 - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, Biology if studying 1 other science subject upon animal ecology (biodiversity, WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Compulsory modules: Environment Science, Geography, Geology; - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, population and community ecology Compulsory modules: • Cutting-edge science is integral • Bioscience Skills or grade B in Biology if not studying another Environment Science, Geography, Geology; and behavioural ecology). In addition, • Conservation Practice to our research programmes, • Evolution & Genetics science subject. For MZool - including grade or grade B in Biology if not studying another you will take courses which provide • Bioscience Skills B in Biology and feeds through into the • Behavioural Ecology science subject. For MZool - including grade an appreciation of the need for • Evolution & Genetics • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For teaching environment. Our B in Biology environmental conservation and • Principles of Conservation BSc - including H5 in Biology. For MZool - expertise encompasses studies Optional modules: • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For the means by which conservation including H6 in Biology • Principles of Conservation Baboon pictured in Kruger National Park on Fish sampling in the Everglades, Florida into biogeography, evolution and Conservation field trip BSc - including H5 in Biology. For MZool - objectives can be achieved. The Optional modules: • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For • Field Courses – Arizona, India, Florida, Spain including H6 in Biology behaviour, as well as molecular course establishes links between • Field Courses Year 4 BSc - DMM including Merits in 4 Biology • Invertebrates • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For ecology, population genetics and We are continuously incorporating the academic learning environment • Principles of Life 2 The Master in Zoology (Conservation) modules**. For MZool - DDM including • Integrative Zoology BSc - DMM including Merits in 4 Biology Merits in 4 Biology modules**. developmental biology. student feedback and novel and external environmental and • Invertebrate Biology is an extended undergraduate • Principles of Life 2 modules**. For MZool - DDM including • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) • Our excellent teaching facilities developments into our degrees, conservation organisations in the • Introduction to Herpetology programme which allows students • Introduction to Herpetology Merits in 4 Biology modules**. / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall include a Natural History Museum which can result in changes to the • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) form of project work and practical • Behavioural Ecology to graduate either with BSc (Hons) • Vertebrate Biology including 4 Biology modules** which boasts an exceptionally module content in all years. / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall management plans. • Integrative Zoology at the end of the third year or with a • Principles of Conservation • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass comprehensive collection of insects including 4 Biology modules** • Vertebrate Biology Master at the end of the fourth year – • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted and vertebrate material, and an • Conservation Practice HOW WILL I LEARN? • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? see page 86. extensive marine and freshwater You will have a range of lectures and • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted not accepted. Year 3 • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is • Cutting-edge science is integral to Year 3 International school leaving qualifications and aquaria with a suite of temperature practicals each week, supplemented our research programmes, and HOW WILL I LEARN? not accepted. Compulsory modules: college diplomas are accepted, subject to controlled rooms. Compulsory modules: with field courses, and tutorials in International school leaving qualifications and feeds through into the teaching You will have a range of lectures and minimum English Language requirements: • Bangor’s location makes it an • Advances in Behaviour years 1 and 2. The final year includes college diplomas are accepted, subject to environment. Our expertise • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation practicals each week, supplemented www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs ideal place to study zoology and • Animal Ethics and Welfare a dissertation project, which is minimum English Language requirements: encompasses evolutionary and • Science and Employability Skills with field courses, and tutorials We also welcome applications from mature animal behaviour as we have an • Science and Employability Skills supervised by a member of staff www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs population ecology of vertebrates; • Dissertation in years 1 and 2. The final year applicants. extensive range of local terrestrial • Dissertation on a subject to suit your interests. We also welcome applications from mature *For full details go to our website and for a population genetics; and climate Optional modules: includes a dissertation project, which and aquatic habitats teeming with Assessment is by a mixture of applicants. change and wetland ecology. is supervised by a member of staff full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go *For full details go to our website and for a • Advances in Behaviour animal life for field trips. Optional modules: formal examination and continuous • Situated adjacent to Snowdonia on a subject to suit your interests. to www.ucas.com. • Molecular Ecology & Evolution full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Systematics & Diversity • Exchange programmes and assessment. Welsh-medium National Park, Bangor is ideally Assessment is by a mixture of ** For a list of the acceptable science • Animal Survival Strategies to www.ucas.com. • Freshwater Ecosystems modules/subject areas, please visit the opportunities for studying abroad modules are also available. located for this degree. Bangor formal examination and continuous • Freshwater Ecosystems ** For a list of the acceptable science • Life in Wetlands website. are available. is also home to the divisional assessment. Welsh-medium • Attack and defence in plants modules/subject areas, please visit the • Attack and Defence in Plants CAREER PROSPECTS website. offices of Natural Resources Wales modules are available. • Ornithology • Human Evolutionary Biology Zoologists have gained employment and the Centre for Ecology and • Primatology • Ornithology “They have a good mixture in wildlife management, Hydrology, both of which have CAREER PROSPECTS INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Life in a Changing Climate • Primatology between applied modules environmental consultancy, and INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL close links to the University and Conservation zoologists work mostly EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Life in Wetlands EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Parasites and Pathogens Page 87 and modules with the theory local and national media, whilst Page 87 staff associated with this course. in government organisations or in • Human Evolutionary Biology • Animal Survival Strategies behind it... All the lecturers some have undertaken a range of Biological Sciences is also part of non-governmental organisations WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Parasites and Pathogens • Life in a Changing Climate are incredibly invested in their postgraduate programmes. WANT TO KNOW MORE? the Environment Centre Wales. (e.g. National Trust, RSPB). Ranges Admissions Administrator Admissions Administrator • Molecular Ecology & Evolution studies and always happy to Year 4 • Exchange programmes and of career paths are available within The in Zoology (Animal opportunities for studying abroad these organisations, from wildlife INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 help with any problems.” Master INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 Module titles and combinations are EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE are available – see introductory monitoring and assessment to Page 234 Page 234 Behaviour) is an extended under- E-mail: [email protected] subject to change. www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences graduate programme which allows Page 234 Pwww.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciencesage 234 pages for details. the practical implementation of ANN-SOPHIE WARKENTIN conservation management plans. Zoology with Animal Behaviour students to graduate either with BSc (Hons) at the end of the third year or with a Master at the end of the fourth year – see page 86. 90 91 ZOOLOGY WITH HERPETOLOGY BSc [Hons] / MZool [Herpetology]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course codes: Reptiles and amphibians are C304 BSc/ZH BSc increasingly appreciated as Year 1 C303 MZool/Herp MZool model organisms in many fields Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MZool of zoology, and are the focus of Compulsory modules: growing conservation concern • Practical Skills 1 ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: • Practical Skills 2 GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double due to the alarming decline of Award Science. Typical offer is based on a many species. This means that we • Organismal Diversity minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and minimum now require a new generation of • Ecology & Evolution 128 for MZool from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: trained professional scientists with • Principles of Life • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in specialised knowledge and skills • Tutorials Biology if studying 1 other science subject relating to these animals in addition - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, Year 2 Environment Science, Geography, Geology; to a broad zoological background. Invasive snake species This degree combines traditional or grade B in Biology if not studying another Compulsory modules: Year 4 science subject. For MZool - including grade zoology with an emphasis upon • Bioscience Skills B in Biology amphibian and reptile biology and The Master in Zoology (Herpetology) • Evolution & Genetics is an extended undergraduate • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For BSc - diversity, and is delivered along • Introduction to Herpetology including H5 in Biology. For MZool - including with aspects of conservation programme which allows students H6 in Biology management and practices. Optional modules: to graduate either with BSc (Hons) • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For BSc - • Field Course at the end of the third year or with a DMM including Merits in 4 Biology modules**. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Conservation Practice Master at the end of the fourth year – For MZool - DDM including Merits in 4 Biology see page 86. modules**. • Cutting-edge science is integral to • Principles of Life 2 • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) our research programmes, and • Vertebrate Biology feeds through into the teaching • Invertebrate Biology We are continuously incorporating © Simon Webster© Simon Webster / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall including 4 Biology modules** environment. Our expertise • Behavioural Ecology student feedback and novel • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass in zoology and herpetology • Integrative Zoology developments into our degrees, • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted encompasses studies into • Principles of Conservation which can result in changes to the • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is not population and evolutionary module content in all years. 1 2 accepted. “I was impressed with the department ecology; biogeography and Year 3 International school leaving qualifications and HOW WILL I LEARN? and the facilities as well as being able to college diplomas are accepted, subject to molecular phylogeny of reptiles and amphibians; population Compulsory modules: You will have a range of lectures 3 talk individually to the staff.” minimum English Language requirements: www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs genetics; energetics and • Science and Employability Skills and practicals each week, We also welcome applications from mature physiological adaptation • Advances in Herpetology supplemented with field courses, OPEN DAY VISITOR COMMENT applicants. to environmental change; • Dissertation and tutorials in years 1 and 2. The *For full details go to our website and for a full neurobiology and development. final year includes a dissertation 1 Fruit bat image list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to • Our excellent teaching facilities Optional modules: project, supervised by a staff taken by staff www.ucas.com. • Advances in Behaviour member on a subject of your 2 Zoology students include a Natural History Museum ** For a list of the acceptable science modules/ • Molecular Ecology & Evolution interest. Assessment is by formal on a local field trip subject areas, please visit the website. containing a comprehensive 3 Study Primatology collection of invertebrate and • Life in Wetlands examination and continuous on the Zoology • Attack and Defence in Plants assessment. Welsh-medium degrees vertebrate material, marine and freshwater aquaria and facilities • Ornithology modules are also available. • Primatology “I thoroughly enjoyed my time at for holding reptiles. • Bangor’s location makes it an ideal • Freshwater Ecosystems 2 CAREER PROSPECTS Bangor. Not only does it have a great INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Animal Survival Strategies Herpetologists work mostly in EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE place to study zoology as we have Natural Sciences department with Page 87 an extensive range of terrestrial • Life in a Changing Climate government or non-governmental knowledgeable and approachable staff, and aquatic habitats which are in • Human Evolutionary Biology organisations, ecological it possesses a real community spirit and WANT TO KNOW MORE? easy reach for field trips and final • Parasites and Pathogens consultancy and zoological institutes a friendly atmosphere.” Admissions Administrator year projects. as well as universities. • Bangor is home to the divisional INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 A range of career paths is available DAVE JACKSON EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] offices of Natural Resources Wales Page 234 Page 234 within these organisations, including Graduate www.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciences and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, both of which have research, conservation breeding, close links to the University and wildlife monitoring and assessment, staff associated with this course. implementation of conservation • Exchange and studying abroad are management plans and evolutionary available – see introductory pages. biology. 92 93 ZOOLOGY WITH MARINE ZOOLOGY BSc [Hons] / MZool [Marine Zoology] OCEAN SCIENCE COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course codes: In this degree you will receive a C350 BSc/ZMZ (BSc) thorough grounding in general Year 1 C353 MZool/MarZ (MZool) zoology by exploring the diversity Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MZool of animal form and function, and Compulsory modules: learn how animals interact with • Organismal Diversity ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: • Ecology and Evolution GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double each other and their environment. Award Science. Typical offer is based on In addition, you will acquire a • Principles of life a minimum 112 tariff points for BSc and knowledge of marine invertebrates, • Practical Skills 1 • Practical Skills 2 minimum 128 for MZool from a Level 3 fish and mammals, their adaptations Applied Marine Biology qualification* e.g.: to the marine environment, and their • Tutorials • A Levels. For BSc - including grade C in behaviour, physiology and ecology Soldier fish Marine Biology BSc/MSci Biology if studying 1 other science subject conservation. Year 2 - Chemistry, Physics, Maths, Psychology, Year 4 Marine Biology and Zoology BSc/MSci Environment Science, Geography, Geology; Compulsory modules: Marine Vertebrate Zoology BSc/MSci WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? The Master in Zoology (Marine or grade B in Biology if not studying another • Bioscience Skills Zoology) is an extended under- science subject. For MZool - including grade • Cutting-edge science is integral to Marine Biology and Oceanography BSc/MSci • Evolution & Genetics graduate programme which allows B in Biology our research programmes, and • Integrative Zoology Physical Oceanography MSci • International Baccalaureate Diploma. For students to graduate either with BSc feeds through into the teaching • Marine Physiology & Behaviour BSc - including H5 in Biology. For MZool - environment. Our expertise in (Hons) at the end of the third year or Ocean Science BSc including H6 in Biology marine zoology encompasses Optional modules: with a Master at the end of the fourth Geological Oceanography BSc/MSci • BTEC National/Extended Diploma. For year – see page 86. BSc - DMM including Merits in 4 Biology endocrinology, development, • Principles of Conservation Physical Geography and Oceanography BSc modules**. For MZool - DDM including growth, energetics and adaptation • Principles of Life 2 of marine organisms, as well as • Introduction to Herpetology We are continuously incorporating Marine Environmental Studies BSc Merits in 4 Biology modules**. student feedback and novel • City & Guilds Advanced Technical (1080) their phylogeography and genetics. • Field Courses Ocean and Geophysics BSc / Extended Diploma: Distinction overall • Our excellent teaching facilities • Vertebrate Biology developments into our degrees, including 4 Biology modules** include an extensive marine and which can result in changes to the • Access to HE in the Sciences**: Pass module content in all years. freshwater aquaria with a suite Year 3 Related Degrees • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted of temperature controlled rooms • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is and a Natural History Museum Compulsory modules: HOW WILL I LEARN? Applied Terrestrial and Marine Ecology (p.72) not accepted. • Fish Physiology You will have a range of lectures and International school leaving qualifications and which boasts an exceptionally Environmental Conservation (p.74) comprehensive collection of • Science and Employability Skills practicals each week, supplemented college diplomas are accepted, subject to with a series of field courses, and Environmental Science (p.76) minimum English Language requirements: vertebrate material. • Dissertation tutorials in years 1 and 2. The Zoology with Conservation (p.91) www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Bangor’s location, in close Optional modules: We also welcome applications from mature proximity to the Irish Sea and the final year includes a dissertation Zoology with Marine Zoology (p.94) applicants. • Animal Survival Strategies project, which is supervised by a Menai Strait, makes it an ideal • Freshwater Ecosystems Geography (p.78) *For full details go to our website and for a place to study marine zoology – member of staff on a subject to suit full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Life in a Changing Climate providing a range of habitat types your interests. Assessment is by a to www.ucas.com. • Human Evolutionary Biology mixture of formal examination and ** For a list of the acceptable science for field courses and study sites for • Attack and Defence in Plants final-year projects. continuous assessment. Welsh- modules/subject areas, please visit the • Primatology medium modules are also available. website. • The degree enables students to • Ornithology benefit from the wider marine • Life in Wetlands science community present in CAREER PROSPECTS • Molecular Ecology & Evolution Our graduates have undertaken a Bangor, as you also have the • Marine Conservation & Exploitation INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL opportunity to access modules range of careers in fisheries biology, EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Parasites and Pathogens government organisations, local Page 87 and expertise in Ocean Sciences • Marine Mammal Science and in the Environment, Natural and national media, and further WANT TO KNOW MORE? Resources and Geography. education. Admissions Administrator • Exchange programmes and opportunities for studying abroad INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONALTel: 01248 388616 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCEE-mail: [email protected] are available – see introductory Page 234 Pwww.bangor.ac.uk/natural-sciencesage 234 pages for details.

94 95 APPLIED MARINE BIOLOGY MARINE BIOLOGY BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons] / MSci

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Compulsory modules: HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: The increasing use of the seas and UCAS course codes: We are increasingly aware of the • Marine Ecology The course typically involves up C163 BSc/AmB4 (with placement coastal zones presents marine Year 1 C160 BSc/MB; C167 MSci/MB value of marine organisms for food, • Marine Biology Practical 2 to 30 hours per week of lectures, year) biologists with many challenges. Location: Most lectures are held in medicine and other products as • Marine Physiology and Behaviour practicals (laboratory and fieldwork), Location: Most lectures are held in Compulsory modules: Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and Bangor. Some 4th year lectures and How do we maximise sustainable all practicals are held at the Menai well as for their role in influencing • Ship-based Field Course private study, tutorials and project fishing yields while minimising • Marine Biology Practical 1 the climate. Marine Biology is the • Communicating Science work. Many modules include day all practicals are held at the Menai • Ecology and Evolution Bridge site. The MSci 4th year is Bridge site. Your placement can be adverse ecological effects on almost entirely held in Menai Bridge. study of organisms that occupy field trips. In Year 2 there is a day anywhere in the world. seabirds, marine mammals and • Fundamentals of Oceanography Length: 3 years (BSc); 4 years (MSci) 95% of the biosphere of our planet, Optional modules: trip and a field course based on Length: 4 years other components of the ecosystem; • Environmental Data and Analysis living in conditions ranging from • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes a research vessel and in Year 3 farm marine species without • Organismal Diversity ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: the polar seas (below -2°C) to • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy hypothesis testing exercises are ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: polluting coastal areas, and manage • Tutorial 1 GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double hydrothermal vents (greater than undertaken during the intertidal GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double increasing tourism and industry in Award Science. Typical offer is based on a 100°C). The majority of phyla are Year 3 field project. You also have the Award Science Typical offer is based on a Year 2 HOW WILL I LEARN? minimum 120 tariff points for BSc and 128 for Some modules are worth 20 credits minimum 128 tariff points from a Level 3 the coastal zone while preserving MSci from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: found in the oceans; the sizes of option of an overseas field course marine biodiversity? This degree Some modules are worth 20 credits The course typically involves up organisms range from the smallest and others 10. You will study all of in Virginia, USA. Your practical qualification* e.g.: and others 10. You will study all • A Levels (including Biology for BSc, B the compulsory modules and choose • A Levels (including B grade Biology and will give you the training in marine to 30 hours per week of lectures, grade Biology for MSci, and usually 1 other micro-organism on the planet to the work is continually assessed usually 1 other science subject - Physics, biology needed to consider these compulsory modules and choose 1 practicals (laboratory and fieldwork), science subject - Physics, Maths, Chemistry, largest invertebrates (giant squid) one optional. and examination of each module optional. private study, tutorials and project Maths, Chemistry, Geography, Geology, important ecological issues. Geography, Geology, Environmental Science/ and mammals (blue whales). This Compulsory modules: is by multiple choice questions Environmental Science/Studies, Economics, The course differs from single work. Many modules include day Studies, Economics, Psychology; excluding very popular course allows you to (MCQ), laboratory tests and written Psychology; excluding General Studies) Compulsory modules: field trips. In Year 2 there is a day General Studies) • Dissertation honours Marine Biology in that • Marine Biology Practical 2 study the fundamental aspects of • Extreme Marine Habitats examinations. The dissertation is • International Baccalaureate Diploma the emphasis in tutorial material trip and a field course based on • International Baccalaureate Diploma the biology of marine life as well as assessed by a presentation and a (including H6 in Biology and another science • Marine Ecology (including Biology for BSc; including H6 • Intertidal Field Project and your final-year dissertation is the research vessel and in Year 3 more specialised aspects such as report. subject) • Marine Physiology and Behaviour hypothesis testing exercises are in Biology and another science subject for • Marine Ecosystems and Processes • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied on applied aspects of the subject, MSci) aquaculture, fisheries and marine • Ship-based Field Course undertaken during the intertidal Science**: DDM such as fisheries, aquaculture, • Communicating Science • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied biotechnology. Optional modules: CAREER PROSPECTS • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended anthropogenic effects on marine field project. You also have the Science**: DDM • Larval Ecology The course is ideal preparation for Diploma in Environmental Conservation or organisms and on natural marine Optional modules: option of an overseas field course • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Marine Conservation and Exploitation careers in research, conservation, Countryside & Environmental**: Distinction products. The course has a • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes in Virginia, USA. Your practical Diploma in Environmental Conservation or • We are one of the largest university • Overseas Field Course VIMS marine resource management, • Access to HE Science**: Pass placement year in Year 3 in which • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy work is continually assessed Countryside & Environmental**: Distinction centres teaching Marine Sciences • Marine Mammal Science fisheries and aquaculture, • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted you have the opportunity to apply and examination of each module • Access to HE Science**: Pass in Britain and and cover the full • Shark Ecology government advisory bodies, • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted your skills in a work environment. Year 3 is by multiple choice questions range of marine sciences. • Fish Biology and Ecology the scientific media, ecotourism not accepted. (MCQ), laboratory tests and written • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is International school leaving qualifications and • Placement not accepted. • We are situated within a few and other leisure industries college diplomas are accepted, subject to WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? examinations. The dissertation International school leaving qualifications and metres of the sea, ideal for Year 4 and pressure groups, and many minimum English Language requirements: • We are one of the largest university Year 4 is assessed by a presentation and college diplomas are accepted, subject to developing your skills in collecting Undertaking the 4 year extended unrelated areas that require www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs centres teaching marine sciences Modules are worth 10 or 20 credits. a report. minimum English Language requirements: data in estuaries, on the sea shore undergraduate Master’s degree analytical skills. We also welcome applications from mature in Britain and and cover the full www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs and at sea. allows you to carry out a significant applicants. range of marine sciences. Compulsory modules: CAREER PROSPECTS We also welcome applications from mature • Our facilities include a research piece of scientific research as part of *For full details go to our website and for a • We are situated within a few • Dissertation The course is ideal preparation applicants. vessel and tropical and temperate an active research group, supervised full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go *For full details go to our website and for a metres of the sea, ideal for • Intertidal Field Project for careers in research, fisheries marine and freshwater aquariums. by one of our expert marine to www.ucas.com. and aquaculture, marine resource full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go **Similar subject areas are considered on a developing your skills in collecting Optional modules: to www.ucas.com. biologists or oceanographers. case by case basis. data in estuaries, on the sea shore management, conservation, **Similar subject areas are considered on a WHAT WILL I STUDY? Alongside your research project you • Coastal Water Processes environmental impact assessment, and at sea. • Extreme Marine Habitats case by case basis. will take modules that equip you • Our excellent facilities include government advisory bodies, Year 1 with the skills to plan experiments, • Larval Ecology the scientific media, ecotourism FOUNDATION YEAR tropical marine, temperate marine • Overseas Field Course VIMS undertake fieldwork, review and freshwater aquaria, an algal and other leisure industries and Compulsory modules: literature, understand important Subject to validation, from • Marine Mammal Science September 2020 a Foundation INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL culture unit and specialised pressure groups. To date, a high INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Ecology and Evolution ethical and safety regulations, and EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Shark Ecology EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Year programme will be offered Page 87 nutrition and microbiological proportion of Applied Marine Biology Page 87 • Fundamentals of Oceanography communicate scientific work in • Fish Biology and Ecology graduates have progressed to MSc • Environmental Data and Analysis in Marine Biology. The Foundation laboratories. • Marine Conservation and Exploitation different formats (e.g. research WANT TO KNOW MORE? or PhD degrees. WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Marine Biology Practical 1 Year degree is a 4-year course • You will be able to investigate • Marine Processes and Systems papers and presentations). You Admissions Administrator practical aspects of applied marine Admissions Administrator • Organismal Diversity will also have the opportunity to for applicants who do not quite Ocean Sciences biology through the final-year You will carry out a research Ocean Sciences attend seminars on a range on meet the entry requirements for INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL dissertation and the placement dissertation on topics that have INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Year 2 interdisciplinary subjects given by the 3-year degree or who would EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382851 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382851 benefit from a further year’s Page 234 Page 234 year (see our website for more an applied aspect, e.g. cultivation Page 234 Page 234 Some modules are worth 20 credits globally recognised researchers. E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] and others 10. You will study all of study. Following completion of www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences information on placement year). or nutrition of aquaculture www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences species, marine environmental the compulsory modules and choose the Foundation Year, students surveys, effects of fisheries on the one optional. progress to Year 1 of the environment. associated degree programme. Please see the website for details. 96 97 MARINE BIOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY BSc [Hons] / MSci

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course codes: This degree is taught between the CC13 BSc/BMZ; C169 MSci/MBZ Ocean Sciences and Biological Year 1 Location: Most lectures are held in Sciences. The Marine Biology Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and all Modules will include: practicals are held at the Menai Bridge element covers animals, seaweeds, plants and microbial life in the seas • Ecology and Evolution site. The MSci 4th year is almost • Marine Biology Practical 1 entirely held in Menai Bridge and their interactions. The Zoology Length: 3 years (BSc); 4 years (MSci) part covers all animals whether • Organismal Diversity on land or in water. The degree • Environmental Data Analysis ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: therefore gives a wide overview • Principles of Life 1 GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double of the diversity of animal life and Award Science. Typical offer is based on a ecosystems on this planet, ranging Year 2 minimum 120 tariff points for BSc and 128 for MSci from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: from the mountains to the deep sea Modules will include: • A Levels (including Biology for BSc, B trenches. The course shows how • Invertebrates opportunity to attend seminars on a grade Biology for MSci, and usually 1 other interactions between animals and • Marine Biology Practical 2 range on interdisciplinary subjects science subject - Physics, Maths, Chemistry, their environments apply equally to • Marine Ecology given by globally recognised Geography, Geology, Environmental Science/ marine, terrestrial and freshwater • Marine Physiology and Behaviour researchers. Studies, Economics, Psychology; excluding habitats. You will be introduced • Vertebrate Biology General Studies) to the fundamentals of biology, HOW WILL I LEARN? • International Baccalaureate Diploma ecology, and evolution of marine (including Biology for BSc; including H6 in Year 3 The course typically involves up Biology and another science subject for MSci) organisms and all animal groups. to 30 hours per week of lectures, • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied In addition, more applied aspects Modules can include: practicals (laboratory and fieldwork), Science**: DDM such as aquaculture and fisheries, • Dissertation private study, tutorials and project • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended parasitology and immunology are • Intertidal Field Project work. Many modules include field Diploma in Environmental Conservation or covered. • Animal Survival Strategies work. In Year 2 there is a day trip Countryside & Environmental**: Distinction • Larval Ecology and a field course based on the “My degree provided me with an excellent • Access to HE Science**: Pass WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Marine Conservation and Exploitation research vessel and in Year 3 • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted • This course is unique to Bangor. • Marine Ecosystems and Processes 1 understanding of the diversity of marine • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is not hypothesis testing exercises are life, and of how oceanographic processes accepted. • Bangor’s location makes it an ideal • Molecular Evolution and Ecology undertaken during the intertidal help create the environment in which the International school leaving qualifications and place to study terrrestrial and • Overseas Field Course VIMS field project. These are free aquatic habitats, with easy access • Marine Mammal Science organisms thrive.” college diplomas are accepted, subject to and compulsory. You also have minimum English Language requirements: to both the mountains and the sea • Shark Ecology the option of an overseas field www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs for field trips. • Fish Biology and Ecology course in Virginia, USA. Practical SAM HARTHARN-EVANS We also welcome applications from mature • Staff in both Ocean Sciences and work is continually assessed and You will carry out a research 1 Welcome Week activities BSc Marine Biology and Oceanography applicants. Biological Sciences are active in examination of each module is by *For full details go to our website and for a full research and their teaching is at dissertation which is an independent list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to multiple choice questions, laboratory the cutting edge of biology. study on topics related to any aspect tests and written examinations. www.ucas.com. of Marine Biology or Zoology. **Similar subject areas are considered on a • Facilities include a research vessel, The dissertation is assessed by a case by case basis. small workboats, tropical marine, presentation and a report. temperate marine and freshwater Year 4 aquaria, an underground The 4 year extended undergraduate “I really enjoyed studying Ocean Science “The use of research vessels and other CAREER PROSPECTS laboratory for the study of soil Master’s degree allows you to carry The course is ideal preparation for field-based teaching is very good.” at Bangor. It has a fantastic location fauna, and a zoological museum. out a significant piece of scientific careers in research, conservation, between the mountains and the sea INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL research as part of an active EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Our teaching laboratories at Ocean fisheries and aquaculture, which makes it a great place for EXTERNAL EXAMINERS’ REPORT Page 87 Sciences are a few metres from research group, supervised by one government advisory bodies, fieldwork and for outdoor activities.” the sea, enabling you to collect of our expert marine biologists or the scientific media, ecotourism WANT TO KNOW MORE? marine animals and study them oceanographers. Alongside your and other leisure industries and Admissions Administrator in the laboratory in the same research project you will take pressure groups. MEG BAKER Ocean Sciences modules that equip you with the BSc Ocean Sciences practical period. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL skills to plan experiments, undertake EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382851 Page 234 Page 234 fieldwork, review literature, E-mail: [email protected] understand important ethical and www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences safety regulations, and communicate scientific work in different formats (e.g. research papers and presentations). You will also have the 98 99 MARINE VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY MARINE BIOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY BSc [Hons] / MSci BSc [Hons] / MSci

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Year 2 HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: This degree is an ideal opportunity Some modules are worth 20 credits The course involves up to 25-35 UCAS course codes: This is an interdisciplinary degree The course involves up to 25-35 C351 BSc/MVZ; C168 MSci/MVZ for students with an interest in and others 10. You will study all of hours per week of lectures, CF17 BSc/MBO; F712 MSci/MBO that provides and in-depth study of Year 1 hours per week of lectures, Location: Most lectures are held in marine vertebrates. The degree the compulsory modules and choose practicals (laboratory and Location: Most lectures are held in the biological, chemical and physical practicals (laboratory and fieldwork), Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and all practicals are held at the Menai offers a broad overview of marine one optional. fieldwork), private study, tutorials all practicals are held at the Menai processes that occur within the Compulsory modules may include: private study, tutorials and project organisms and their habitats, and and project work. During the first oceans, steal seas and estuaries. • Environmental Data Analysis work. Throughout this degree Bridge site. The MSci 4th year is Compulsory modules will include: Bridge site. The MSci 4th year is almost entirely held in Menai Bridge general principles of marine biology, two years, lectures and practicals almost entirely held in Menai Bridge You will embark on a detailed study • Fundamentals of Oceanography we exploit our location placing Length: 3 years (BSc); 4 years (MSci) ecology, conservation, physiology • Marine Biology Practical 2 are supplemented by regular Length: 3 years (BSc); 4 Years (MSci) of life in the sea, from the smallest • Marine Biology Practicals 1 a strong emphasis on fieldwork and behaviour. More specialised • Marine Ecology small group (about 8 students) bacteria to the largest mammals. • Earth, Climate and Evolution including sea going experience. A ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: topics focus on the ecology and • Marine Physiology and Behaviour tutorials during which we develop ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: This knowledge will be underpinned • Organismal Diversity final year residential field course GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double conservation of higher order marine • Ship-based Field Course your critical appraisal and science GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double and augmented by a specialised is also available for those students Award Science. Typical offer is based on a vertebrates, including sharks and communication skills. Throughout Award Science. Typical offer is based on a understanding how the different Year 2 taking the Coastal Processes Field minimum 120 tariff points for BSc and 128 for Optional modules selected from: minimum 120 tariff points for BSc and 128 for MSci from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: marine mammals, and the role of • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes this degree we exploit our location, MSci from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: marine habitats are affected by Course module. During the first • A Levels (including Biology for BSc, B these top predators in the marine • Principles of Conservation placing a strong emphasis on • A Levels (including Biology for BSc, B key physical (such as currents, Compulsory modules include: two years lectures and practicals grade Biology for MSci, and usually 1 other ecosystem. There will also be • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy fieldwork including sea going grade Biology for MSci, and usually 1 other tides, waves and ocean mixing) • Marine Biology Practicals 2 are supplemented by regular science subject - Physics, Maths, Chemistry, opportunities to consider applied • Vertebrate Biology experience. In year 3, you will science subject - Physics, Maths, Chemistry, and biogeochemical (such as the • Marine Physiology and Behaviour small group (8 students) tutorials Geography, Geology, Environmental Science/ aspects of zoology such as fisheries, learn about marine mammal Geography, Geology, Environmental Science/ carbon cycle, nutrient recycling by • Ship-based field course during which we develop your Studies, Economics, Psychology; excluding aquaculture, conservation biology identification and survey methods, Studies, Economics, Psychology; excluding the microbial loop) processes that • Remote Sensing & Geophysics critical appraisal and science General Studies) Year 3 General Studies) and ecotourism. In addition to your individually which will involve ship and/or land- mediate interactions between the communication skills. In the final • International Baccalaureate Diploma based fieldwork. In the third year, • International Baccalaureate Diploma atmosphere, ocean and sea floor. Optional modules: year you will choose a specialist (including Biology for BSc; including H6 supervised dissertation, you will take (including Biology for BSc; including H6 in Biology and another science subject for WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? the following modules: you will carry out an individually in Biology and another science subject for • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy dissertation topic for which you will MSci) • We have a track record of world • Intertidal Field Project supervised dissertation on a topic MSci) WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Ice and Oceans receive individual supervision by • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied leading research and excellence in • Marine Mammal Observation of your choice. Assessment is • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied • We have a track record of world • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes an expert. Assessment is through Science**: DDM teaching spanning over 50 years. • Marine Mammal Science through a combination of continuous Science**: DDM leading research and excellence in a combination of continuous • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended Our expertise covers all aspects of • Shark Ecology assessment and formal examination. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended teaching spanning over 50 years. Year 3 assessment and formal examination. Diploma in Environmental Conservation or Diploma in Environmental Conservation or the marine science, with research • Fish Biology and Ecology Our expertise covers all aspects of In addition to your dissertation you Countryside & Environmental**: Distinction interests spanning tropical coral CAREER PROSPECTS Countryside & Environmental**: Distinction the marine sciences. Our research can select optional modules from CAREER PROSPECTS • Access to HE Science**: Pass reefs to the polar oceans. And select one further module from: The course is ideal preparation • Access to HE Science**: Pass interests range from tropical coral a wide range of topics, which may You will gain a comprehensive • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is • Our unique location provides • Marine Conservation and Exploitation for careers in research, • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is reefs to the polar oceans. include: understanding of marine systems not accepted. easy access to fieldwork around • Marine Ecosystems and Processes marine resource management, not accepted. • You will benefit from studying with • Coastal Water Processes science, and an appreciation of how International school leaving qualifications and Anglesey coastline and the conservation, environmental International school leaving qualifications and leading scientists in the fields of • Sediment Dynamics many disciplines are often needed college diplomas are accepted, subject to Snowdonia National Park. In Year 4 impact assessment, fisheries, college diplomas are accepted, subject to marine biology, fisheries, marine • Marine Geology and Applications to fully elucidate the workings of minimum English Language requirements: particular, the Anglesey coast Undertaking the 4 year extended coastal authorities, government minimum English Language requirements: chemistry, geosciences and • Coastal Processes Field Course a marine ecosystem or any other www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs offers excellent opportunities to undergraduate Master’s degree advisory bodies, the scientific www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs physical oceanography. • Marine Conservation and Exploitation scientific topic of interest. As such We also welcome applications from mature study resident seabird, seal and allows you to carry out a significant media, ecotourism and other leisure We also welcome applications from mature • Our unique location in an area of • Marine Ecosystems and Processes this degree is ideal preparation for applicants. dolphin populations. piece of scientific research as part of industries and pressure groups. We applicants. outstanding natural beauty is ideal • Marine Mammal Science many different careers. Graduates *For full details go to our website and for a *For full details go to our website and for a full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Our excellent facilities include a an active research group, supervised regard your future employment as full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to study marine habitats, with • Fish Biology and Ecology have found employment with a wide to www.ucas.com. research vessel, both tropical and by one of our expert marine a very high priority and to help you, to www.ucas.com. easy access to the sea shores and • Rivers, Coasts and Oceans range of organisations, covering **Similar subject areas are considered on a temperate marine aquaria, and a biologists or oceanographers. we include lectures on employability **Similar subject areas are considered on a local populations of dophins, seals scientific research, marine rescue case by case basis. Zoology Museum. Alongside your research project you during your second year and case by case basis. and sea birds. We are only a few Year 4 management and environmental • We share our site with Marine will take modules that equip you organise careers fairs annually. metres away from the Menai Strait The 4-year extended undergraduate impact assessment, water supply Centre Wales, providing direct with the skills to plan experiments, We also have guest lectures from and the Irish Sea, model systems Master’s degree allows you to carry and offshore industries, coastal links with industry, including undertake fieldwork, review prospective employers and alumni. studied by oceanography students out a significant piece of scientific authorities, government advisory INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE marine renewables and fisheries, literature, understand important EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE across the planet. research as part of an active bodies, the scientific media, Page 87 providing opportunities for you to ethical and safety regulations, and Page 87 • Our excellent facilities include research group, supervised by one ecotourism and other leisure undertake projects with industry. communicate scientific work in research vessels, tropical marine, of our expert marine biologists or industries and non-governmental WANT TO KNOW MORE? different formats (e.g. research WANT TO KNOW MORE? temperate marine and freshwater oceanographers. Alongside your associations. Admissions Administrator WHAT WILL I STUDY? papers and presentations). You Admissions Administrator aquaria and our own zoology research project you will take Ocean Sciences will also have the opportunity to Ocean Sciences museum. modules that equip you with the INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Year 1 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE attend seminars on a range on EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • We share our site with Marine skills to plan experiments, undertake Page 234 PTel:age 234 01248 382851 Page 234 PTel:age 234 01248 382851 E-mail: [email protected] Compulsory modules will include: interdisciplinary subjects given by E-mail: [email protected] Centre Wales, providing direct fieldwork, review literature, www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences • Ecology and Evolution globally recognised researchers. www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences links with industry, providing understand important ethical and • Organismal Diversity opportunities for you to undertake safety regulations, and communicate • Fundamentals of Oceanography projects with industry. scientific work in different formats. • Environmental Data and Analysis You will also attend seminars given • Marine Biology Practical 1 by globally recognised researchers. 100 101 OCEAN AND GEOPHYSICS GEOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • We have strong links globally. HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? maintain oceanographic moorings HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: This degree focuses on the role of These include the National The course involves up to 25-35 UCAS course code: This degree focuses on the role in the Irish Sea which provide a The course involves 25-35 hours F7F6 BSC/OGP the oceans in the Earth System and Oceanography Centre, the hours per week of lectures, F650 BSc/GeO of marine sediments and the range of data which you will use. per week of lectures, practicals Location: Most lectures are held in their influence on climate; past, Met Office, and the offshore, practicals (laboratory and fieldwork), Location: Most lectures are held in oceans within the Earth System • We share our site with Marine (laboratory and fieldwork), private Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and all practicals are held at the Menai present and future. The first two hydrocarbon and marine private study, tutorials and project all practicals are held at the Menai to understand and interpret past, Centre Wales, providing direct study, tutorials and project work. Bridge site. years aim at developing a general renewables industries. work. Throughout this degree we Bridge site present and future environments. links with industry, and in There is a strong emphasis on Length: 3 years understanding of the Earth system exploit our location, placing a strong Length: 3 years (BSc);4 years (MSci ) It is concerned with sedimentary particular those involved with fieldwork. A residential field course and the role of the oceans within that WHAT WILL I STUDY? emphasis on fieldwork including (see page 106 for course description) processes (the origin, transport and marine renewables, providing takes place in the final year as part ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: system. There is particular focus sea going experience. A final year deposition of particles in the marine opportunities for you to undertake of the Coastal Sediments Field GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double on the roles of the shallow seas, Year 1 residential field course is also ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: environment), and with marine projects with industry. Course module. During the first Award Science. Typical offer is based on a which surround the continents, and available for those students opting GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double sediments and rocks, in particular • We have strong links globally. two years, lectures and practicals minimum 112 tariff points from a Level 3 on interactions between ice and the Modules will include: for the Coastal Sediments Field Award Science Typical offer is based on a those formed in the past 2 million These include the National are supplemented by regular qualification* e.g.: minimum 112 tariff points from a Level 3 • A Levels (including BB grades in Maths oceans. In the third year students • Fundamentals of Oceanography Course module. During the first qualification* e.g.: years, but also further back in time. Oceanography Centre, the small group (about 8 students) or Physics and usually in 1 other science can then specialize with modules • Earth Systems and Processes two years lectures and practicals • A Levels (including grades BB in 2 science There is particular focus on the roles Met Office, and the offshore, tutorials during which we develop subject - Physics, Maths, Chemistry, including computer modeling of the • Earth, Climate and Evolution are supplemented by regular subjects - Physics, Maths, Chemistry, of the shallow seas, which surround hydrocarbon and marine your critical appraisal and science Geology, Environmental Science, Geography, oceans and a geophysical residential • Environmental Data and Analysis small group (about 8 students) Geology, Environmental Science, Geography, the continents, and the interactions renewables industries. communication skills. In the final Economics, Psychology; excluding General field work. The course therefore • Marine Biogeochemistry tutorials during which we develop Economics, Psychology; excluding General that occur where land and oceans year you will carry out an individually Studies.) places a particular emphasis • Anglesey Geology Field Course your critical appraisal and science Studies) meet. The course places a particular WHAT WILL I STUDY? supervised dissertation on a topic • International Baccalaureate Diploma on gaining skills and knowledge communication skills. In the final • International Baccalaureate Diploma emphasis on gaining skills and of your choice. Assessment is (including H6 in Maths or Physics and of direct relevance to industry, Year 2 year you will carry out an individually (including H6 in 2 science subjects) knowledge of direct relevance Year 1 through a combination of continuous another science subject) • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied particularly in relation to issues supervised dissertation on a topic Science**: DMM to industry, where Geological assessment and formal examination. such as future climate change, sea Modules will include: of your choice. Assessment is Oceanographers are required to Modules will include: Science**: DMM • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended • Anglesey Geology Field Course • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended level rise, marine pollution and • Ice and Oceans through a combination of continuous Diploma in Environmental Conservation or tackle issues such as climate and CAREER PROSPECTS Diploma in Environmental Conservation or exploitation of marine energy. • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes assessment and formal examination. Countryside & Environmental**: Merit sea-level change, coastal erosion, • Fundamentals of Oceanography This degree prepares you for Countryside & Environmental**: Merit • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy • Access to HE Science**: Pass marine pollution, waterway siltation • Earth Systems and Processes careers, in both industry and • Access to HE Science**: Pass WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Remote Sensing and Geophysics CAREER PROSPECTS • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted and offshore engineering related to • Earth, Climate and Evolution academia, associated with offshore • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • We have a track record of world • Ship-based Field Course This degree prepares you for • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is cable/pipeline routes, renewable • Environmental Data and Analysis survey, marine renewable energy, • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is leading research and excellence in careers, in both industry and not accepted. energy infrastructure and oil and gas • Marine Biogeochemistry climate change research, coastal not accepted. International school leaving qualifications and teaching spanning over 50 years. Year 3 academia, associated with marine exploration. zone management, environmental International school leaving qualifications and college diplomas are accepted, subject to Year 2 college diplomas are accepted, subject to Our expertise covers all aspects of renewables, climate change minimum English Language requirements: impact assessment and the scientific minimum English Language requirements: the marine science, with research Modules can include: research, offshore survey, coastal www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Modules will include: media. It will also provide you with www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs interests spanning tropical coral • Oceans, Atmosphere and Climate zone management and broadcast We also welcome applications from mature • We have a track record of world • Ice and Oceans strong numerical skills which are We also welcome applications from mature reefs to the polar oceans. • Applied Geophysics media. It will also provide you with applicants. leading research and excellence • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes in demand across a broad sector. applicants. • Our unique location provides easy • Coastal Processes Field Course strong numerical skills which are in *For full details go to our website and for a in teaching spanning over 50 The course has an extremely strong *For full details go to our website and for a full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy access to fieldwork in the UNESCO • Numerical Methods much demand across a broad sector years. Our expertise covers all • Remote Sensing and Geophysics record of employability, with many full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go designated GeoMôn geopark and • Ocean Modeling of the UK economy. to www.ucas.com. aspects of the marine sciences, graduates progressing directly into to www.ucas.com. **Similar subject areas are considered on a • Ship-based Field Course **Similar subject areas are considered on a the Snowdonia National Park. • Sediment Dynamics case by case basis. with particular strengths in careers in the offshore sector, many case by case basis. We are only a few metres away physical oceanography and Year 3 of whom return regularly to talk from the Menai Strait and the Irish the geosciences. Our research In addition to your individually about career prospects. Sea, model systems studied by interests span tropical coral reefs supervised dissertation you will oceanography students across the to the polar oceans, and delve undertake the following modules: FOUNDATION YEAR planet. 400 million years back into Earth Subject to validation, from • Our excellent facilities include history. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Rivers, Coasts and Oceans September 2020 a Foundation EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE a research vessel, access to EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • We are uniquely placed providing • Coastal Processes Field Course Page 87 Page 87 Year programme will be offered supercomputers and state-of-the- easy access to fieldwork in the • Marine Geology & Applications in Geological Oceanography. art survey equipment. We also UNESCO designated GeoMôn • Sediment Dynamics The Foundation Year degree is WANT TO KNOW MORE? maintain oceanographic moorings WANT TO KNOW MORE? geopark and the Snowdonia Admissions Administrator Admissions Administrator a 4-year course for applicants which provide a range of data National Park, and are a few Optional modules include: who do not quite meet the entry Ocean Sciences which you will use. Ocean Sciences metres away from the Menai Strait INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Coastal Water Processes requirements for the 3-year EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • We share our site with Marine EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE and the Irish Sea, model systems Page 234 PTel:age 234 01248 382851 Page 234 PTel:age 234 01248 382851 • Applied Geophysics degree or who would benefit from E-mail: [email protected] Centre Wales, providing direct E-mail: [email protected] studied by oceanography students a further year’s study. Following www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences links with industry, and in www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences across the planet. completion of the Foundation Year, particular those involved with • Our excellent facilities include students progress to Year 1 of the marine renewables, providing research vessels, access to associated degree programme. opportunities for you to undertake supercomputers and state-of-the- Please see the website for details. projects with industry. art survey equipment. We also 102 103 PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND OCEANOGRAPHY OCEAN SCIENCE BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • We have strong links globally. COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? UCAS course code: The land borders the ocean via the These include the National UCAS course code: This multidisciplinary degree F840 BSC/PGO coastal zone. Understanding how Oceanography Centre, the Met F700 BSc/OS encompasses the study of all Location: Most lectures are held in Location: Most lectures are held in Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and these environments are related to Office, and the international aspects of the marine environment, each other is important for many offshore, hydrocarbon, and marine Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and with a strong emphasis on all practicals are held at the Menai all practicals are held at the Menai Bridge site societal and economic reasons, and renewables industries. Bridge site field-based learning. A range Length: 3 years requires an integrated approach to Length: 3 years of scientific disciplines (biology, the subject, as most of the world’s WHAT WILL I STUDY? chemistry, geology, mathematics ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: population lives near, or exploits, ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: and physics) are taught across GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double the coastal zone. The Physical Year 1 GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double the three years to observe and to Award Science. Typical offer is based on a Geography and Oceanography Award Science. Typical offer is based on a understand the diverse and often minimum 104 tariff points from a Level 3 minimum 104 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: course ensures research-led Modules include: HOW WILL I LEARN? complex processes governing the • Environmental Data and Analysis qualification* e.g.: • A Levels (including grades BC in 2 teaching of both terrestrial (e.g. This degree has been designed • A Levels (including grades BB in 2 science Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere system. science subjects - Biology, Geography, rivers, glaciers) and marine (e.g. • Earth Systems and Processes This course provides a rigorous around practical skills, with subjects - Physics, Maths, Chemistry, WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? Environmental Studies, Chemistry, waves, tides, density currents, sea • Field Course: Making Snowdonia regular one-day and multi-day Biology, Geology, Environmental Science, multidisciplinary foundation from Economics, Maths, Statistics, Geology, level) processes. These processes • Fundamentals of Oceanography Geography, Economics, Psychology; which students can focus their The course involves up to 25-35 field excursions, ship-based Year 1 hours per week of lectures, Physics, Psychology, Computing; excluding control the movement of water, • Earth, Climate and Evolution work, and practical classes that excluding General Studies) area of interest in Marine Science General Studies). practicals (laboratory and fieldwork), sediment and biogeochemical • Anglesey Geology Field Course cover applied aspects of physical • International Baccalaureate Diploma and choose modules accordingly Modules will include: • International Baccalaureate Diploma components (such as carbon and (including H6 in 2 science subjects) with options in biology, chemistry, private study, tutorials and project (including H5 in 2 science subjects) geography and oceanography. The • Marine Biogeochemistry plastics) from the land into the sea. Year 2 • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied geology and physics. work. Throughout this degree • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied course involves up to 25-35 hours Science**: DMM • Fundamentals of Oceanography we exploit our location placing a Science**: DMM This course also integrates these per week of lectures, practicals • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended • Earth, Climate and Evolution processes to examine the impacts Modules include: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? strong emphasis on fieldwork. A • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended (laboratory and fieldwork), private Diploma in Environmental Conservation or • Environmental Data and Analysis final year residential field course Diploma in Environmental Conservation or of environmental change, climate, • Ship-Based Field Course study, tutorials, and project work. Countryside & Environmental**: Merit. • This course offers choice from all Countryside & Environmental**: Merit sea level and pollution on the health • Ice and Oceans • Access to HE Science**: Pass disciplines of marine science but Optional modules include: is also available for those students During the first two years, lectures taking the Coastal Processes Field • Access to HE Science**: Pass and sustainability of terrestrial and • Field Course in Geography and practicals are supplemented • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. still allows in-depth study of at • Earth Systems and Processes • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted Course module. During the first marine environments by regular small group (about 8 • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is least one subject area. • Essential Marine Chemistry • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is Optional modules include: not accepted. • We have a track record of world • Anglesey Geology Field Course two years lectures and practicals not accepted. students) tutorials during which WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Water, Air & Soil Pollution International school leaving qualifications and leading research and excellence in • Organismal Diversity are supplemented by regular International school leaving qualifications and we develop your critical appraisal college diplomas are accepted, subject to small group (about 8 students) college diplomas are accepted, subject to • This course was developed with • Climate Change and science communication skills. minimum English Language requirements: teaching spanning over 50 years. support from school teachers and • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes Our expertise covers all aspects of Year 2 tutorials during which we develop minimum English Language requirements: In the final year, you will carry www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs your critical appraisal and science www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs employers, and draws on award- • Catchment Processes out an individually supervised We also welcome applications from mature the marine science, with research We also welcome applications from mature winning expertise in terrestrial and • Remote Sensing and Geophysics applicants. interests spanning tropical coral Compulsory modules: communication skills. In the final dissertation on a topic of your • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes year you will carry out an individually applicants. marine sciences that span fluvial, • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy choice. Assessment is through *For full details go to our website and for a reefs to the polar oceans. *For full details go to our website and for a • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy supervised dissertation on a topic glacial, coastal and deep marine a combination of continuous full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Our unique location provides easy full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www.ucas.com. • Remote Sensing and Geophysics of your choice. Assessment is environments. Year 3 assessment and formal examination. access to fieldwork in the UNESCO to www.ucas.com • We are uniquely placed, providing You will study for an individually **Similar subject areas are considered on a designated GeoMôn geopark and • Ship-based Field Course through a combination of continuous **Similar subject areas are considered on a case by case basis. assessment and formal examination. case by case basis. easy access to fieldwork in the supervised dissertation and take a CAREER PROSPECTS the Snowdonia National Park. Optional modules include: UNESCO designated GeoMôn module covering: We are only a few metres away This course has been designed • Ice and Oceans CAREER PROSPECTS geopark and the Snowdonia • Rivers, Coasts and Oceans to equip graduates with strong from the Menai Strait and the Irish • Marine Ecology National Park, and are a few Sea, model systems studied by This degree prepares you for transferrable skills and a thorough careers, in both industry and metres away from the Menai Optional modules: understanding of the terrestrial and oceanography students across the Year 3 Strait and the Irish Sea; these are • Environmental Geochemistry planet. academia, associated with marine marine environment. Graduates are environmental impact assessment, excellent analogues for systems • Coastal Water Processes ideally placed to gain employment • Our excellent facilities include Module options include: INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL studied by physical geographers • Coastal Processes Field Course INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL a research vessel, access to climate change research, offshore EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE within the geosciences sector: EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Coastal Water Processes Page 87 across the planet. • Marine Geology & Applications Page 87 supercomputers and state-of-the- survey, coastal zone management, water/environmental consultancies, • Coastal Processes Field Study ecotourism and broadcast media. • Our excellent facilities include • Applied Geophysics geological/earth sciences art survey equipment. We also WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Marine Geology and Applications We place you future employment as research vessels, access to • Catchment Modelling & Analysis industry, coastal/marine sciences, WANT TO KNOW MORE? maintain oceanographic moorings • Shark Ecology Admissions Administrator supercomputers, and state-of-the- • Sediment Dynamics Admissions Administrator which provide a range of data a very high priority and to help you Ocean Sciences oceanography, and renewable Ocean Sciences • Marine Ecosystems and Processes we include lectures on employability art survey equipment. • Oceans, Atmosphere and Climate energy. which you will use. • Sediment Dynamics INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL lectures during your second year EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382851 • We share our site with Marine EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • We share our site with Marine • Rivers, Coasts and Oceans Page 234 Page 234 Tel: 01248 382851 and organise careers fairs annually. E-mail: [email protected] Centre Wales and have strong Page 234 PE-mail:age 234 [email protected] Centre Wales, providing direct www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences links with the Environment Centre www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences links with industry, and in Wales, thus providing opportunities particular those involved with for you to undertake geographical marine renewables, providing and oceanographic projects with opportunities for you to undertake industry. projects with industry. 104 105 MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY BSc [Hons] MSci

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • We share our site in Menai HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? marine renewables, providing HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: Marine Environmental Studies is Bridge with Marine Centre Wales, The course involves up to 25-35 UCAS course code: This degree focuses on the study opportunities for you to undertake The course involves up to 25-35 F710 BSc/MES a fully integrated marine science providing direct links with industry hours per week of lectures, F734 MSci/PO of the physics of the ocean and projects with industrial partners. hours per week of lectures, Location: Most lectures are held in Location: Most lectures are held in the processes which link it to the • We have strong links globally. practicals (laboratory and fieldwork), Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and degree course which incorporates and environmental agencies, and practicals (laboratory and Bangor. Some 3rd year lectures and all practicals are held at the Menai all physical, chemical, biological, in particular those involved with fieldwork), private study, tutorials all practicals are held at the Menai atmosphere and the cryosphere. The These include the National private study, tutorials and project Bridge site and geological aspects of the marine renewables. This provides and project work. Assessment Bridge site. The 4th year is almost first two years aim at developing Oceanography Centre, the work. Throughout this degree Length: 3 years marine system. It then combines opportunities for you to undertake is through a combination of entirely held in Menai Bridge. a general understanding of the Met Office, and the offshore, we exploit our location, placing this knowledge with the principles projects with a variety of sectors. continuous assessment and formal Length: 4 years. Earth system and the role of the hydrocarbon and marine a strong emphasis on fieldwork ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: of conservation, environmental examination. There is a strong oceans within that system. There renewables industries. including sea going experience. GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double policy and sustainable use of WHAT WILL I STUDY? emphasis on fieldwork every year. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: is particular focus on the roles of During the first two years lectures Award Science. Typical offer is based on a natural resources. The course In the final year a residential field GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double the shallow seas, which surround WHAT WILL I STUDY? and practicals are supplemented minimum 104 tariff points from a Level 3 Award Science. Typical offer is based on a focusses on those environments Year 1 course is available. During the the continents, and on interactions by regular small group (8 students) qualification* e.g.: minimum 128 tariff points from a Level 3 Year 1 • A Levels (including grades BC in 2 of socio-economic activity that are first two years, your lectures and qualification* e.g.: between ice and the oceans. The tutorials during which we develop science subjects - Biology, Geography, most susceptible to environmental Modules will include: practicals are supplemented by • A Levels (including grades AB in Maths third and fourth year then focus on a your critical appraisal and science Environmental Studies, Chemistry, change. It is designed to provide • Fundamentals of Oceanography regular tutorials in small groups or Physics and usually in 1 other science deeper process understanding and Modules will include: communication skills. In the third Economics, Maths, Statistics, Geology, a generation of environmental • Earth Systems and Processes (about 8 students) during which we subject -Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Biology, in developing the skills associated • Fundamentals of Oceanography year you will carry out an individually Physics, Psychology, Computing; excluding scientists with a holistic, yet • Earth, Climate and Evolution develop your critical appraisal and Geology, Environmental Science, Geography, with the development of numerical • Earth Systems and Processes supervised dissertation on a topic General Studies) specialist understanding of • Environmental Data and Analysis science communication skills. In Economics, Psychology; excluding General models which can be used to predict • Earth, Climate and Evolution of your choice, progressing to • International Baccalaureate Diploma marine science, conservation and • Essential Marine Chemistry the final year you will carry out an Studies) future change. The course therefore • Environmental Data and Analysis a research project supervised (including H5 in 2 science subjects) • International Baccalaureate Diploma environmental policies. These • Anglesey Geology Field Course individually supervised dissertation places a particular emphasis • Essential Marine Chemistry by one of our expert physical • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied (include H6 in Maths or Physics and another • Anglesey Geology Field Course Science**: DMM graduates will be perfectly placed to on a topic of your choice. science subject). on gaining skills and knowledge oceanographers. Assessment is • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended take on the challenges of a changing Year 2 • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied of direct relevance to industry, through a combination of continuous Diploma in Environmental Conservation or world, where our connection to CAREER PROSPECTS Science**: DDD particularly in relation to issues Year 2 assessment and formal examination. Countryside & Environmental**: Merit marine ecosystems has played a key Modules may include: This degree prepares you for • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended such as future climate change, sea • Access to HE Science**: Pass role in society’s prosperity, and will • Principles of Conservation a wide spectrum of careers Diploma in Environmental Conservation or level rise, marine pollution and Modules will include: CAREER PROSPECTS • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted play an even large role for our future • Ship-based Field Course in a variety of sectors where Countryside & Environmental**: Distinction. exploitation of marine energy. • Ice and Oceans This degree prepares you for • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is welfare. This course is suitable • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes environmental research underpins • Access to HE Science**: Pass • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes careers, in both industry and not accepted. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy academia, associated with marine International school leaving qualifications and for students both with and without • Sustainable Development a better understanding of nature • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? mainstream science backgrounds. • Climate Change conservation. We particularly • We have a track record of world • Remote Sensing and Geophysics renewables, climate change college diplomas are accepted, subject to not accepted. • Ship-based Field Course minimum English Language requirements: • Conservation Practice anticipate job opportunities with International school leaving qualifications and leading research and excellence research, offshore survey, coastal www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Catchment Processes national and international policy college diplomas are accepted, subject to in teaching spanning over 50 zone management and broadcast We also welcome applications from mature • We have a track record of world • Geohazards makers and advisers on UK and minimum English Language requirements: years. Our expertise in physical Year 3 media. It will also provide you with applicants. leading research and excellence in • Remote Sensing and Geophysics international nature conservation www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs oceanography covers polar In addition to your individually strong numerical skills which are in *For full details go to our website and for a teaching spanning over 50 years. (e.g. the Environment Agency, Joint We also welcome applications from mature oceanography, coastal processes, supervised dissertation you will much demand across a broad sector full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go Our expertise covers all aspects Year 3 Nature Conservation Committee applicants. marine renewable energy and undertake the following modules: of the UK economy. We regard your to www.ucas.com. *For full details go to our website and for a of the marine sciences, and our and Natural Resources Wales). global tidal simulations. • Numerical Methods future employment as a very high **Similar subject areas are considered on a full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Ocean Modelling case by case basis. research interests span tropical Modules may include: Additionally, there are many to www.ucas.com. • Our unique location provides easy priority and to help you we include coral reefs to the polar oceans, and • Marine Conservation and Exploitation conservation organisations that access to fieldwork in the UNESCO • Sediment Dynamics lectures on employability during **Similar subject areas are considered on a • Oceans, Atmosphere and Climate delve 400 million years back into • Environmental Policy require expert knowledge of case by case basis. designated GeoMôn geopark and your second year and organise Earth history. • Current Issues in Environmental and Related marine and coastal science and its the Snowdonia National Park. • Applied Geophysics careers fairs annually. We also have • We are uniquely placed to provide Science socio-economic implications with We are only a few metres away guest lectures from prospective easy access to fieldwork in the • Coastal Water Processes environmental policies from local to from the Menai Strait and the Irish Year 4 employers and our alumni. UNESCO designated GeoMôn • Coastal Processes Field Study international levels. Sea, model systems studied by In addition to your individually INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL supervised research project you will EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE geopark and the Snowdonia • Rivers, Coasts and Oceans EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE oceanography students across the Page 87 National Park, and we are a few • Marine Geology and Applications Page 87 planet. undertake the following modules: metres away from the Menai Strait • Our excellent facilities include • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics’ WANT TO KNOW MORE? and the Irish Sea for offshore field WANT TO KNOW MORE? a research vessel, access to • Field and Laboratory Oceanography Admissions Administrator courses. Admissions Administrator supercomputers and state-of-the- Ocean Sciences Ocean Sciences • Our excellent facilities include art survey equipment. We also You will also have the opportunity to INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL attend regular seminars by leading EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382851 research vessels, access to EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382851 maintain oceanographic moorings Page 234 Page 234 supercomputers and state-of-the- Page 234 Page 234 which provide a range of data ocean scientists, from across the E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] globe, at which you will hear about www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences art survey equipment. We also www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences which you will use. maintain oceanographic moorings • We share our site with Marine world leading developments across in the Irish Sea, providing you with Centre Wales, providing direct the whole spectrum of marine a range of environmental data to links with industry, and in sciences. study during your course. particular those involved with 106 107 GEOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY MSci COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course code: This degree focuses on the study F652 MSci/GO of marine sediments within an Year 1 Location: Most lectures are held Earth system science context. It in Bangor. Some 3rd and 4th year lectures and all practicals are held at is concerned with sedimentary Modules will include: the Menai Bridge site. The 4th year is processes (the origin, transport • Fundamentals of Oceanography almost entirely held in Menai Bridge and deposition of particles in the • Earth Systems and Processes Length: 4 years marine environment), and with • Earth, Climate and Evolution marine sediments and rocks, in • Environmental Data and Analysis ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: particular those formed in the past 2 • Essential Marine Chemistry Computer Science BSc, MComp GCSE: grade C/4 in English, Maths and Double million years, but also further back • Anglesey Geology Field Course Award Science. Typical offer is based on a in time. Geological Oceanographers Computer Science with Game Design BSc minimum 128 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: are required to tackle issues such Year 2 a strong emphasis on fieldwork Data Science and Machine Learning BSc • A Levels (including grades B in Biology and as climate and sea-level change, including sea going experience. Data Science and Visualisation BSc usually 1 other science subject - Physics, coastal erosion, marine pollution, Modules will include: During the first two years lectures Maths, Chemistry, Geography, Geology, waterway siltation and offshore • Ice and Oceans and practicals are supplemented Computer Information Systems BSc Environmental Science/Studies, Economics, engineering related to cable/ • Estuary and Shelf Sea Processes by regular small group (8 students) Computer Information Systems for Business BSc Psychology; excluding General Studies) pipeline routes, renewable energy • Tides, Waves and Marine Energy tutorials during which we develop • International Baccalaureate Diploma infrastructure and oil and gas • Remote Sensing and Geophysics your critical appraisal and science Computer Science BSc (including H6 in Biology and another science exploration. • Ship-based Field Course subject) communication skills. In the Computer Science for Business BSc • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Applied third year you will take part in Creative Technologies BSc Science**: DDM WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Year 3 a residential field course using • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended • We have a track record of world In addition to your individually state-of-the-art survey equipment Diploma in Environmental Conservation or leading research and excellence in supervised dissertation you will and will carry out an individually Countryside & Environmental**: Distinction teaching spanning over 50 years. undertake the following modules: supervised dissertation on a Degree Apprenticeships • Access to HE Science**: Pass The geologists on our staff have • Rivers, Coasts and Oceans topic of your choice, progressing • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted expertise in sedimentology, marine • Coastal Processes Field Course to a 4th year research project Applied Cyber Security BSc • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma is geophysics, palaeoceanography, • Marine Geology and Applications not accepted. supervised by one of our expert Applied Data Science BSc petroleum geology and mineralogy. • Sediment Dynamics International school leaving qualifications and team of geoscientists. Assessment is Applied Software Engineering BSc college diplomas are accepted, subject to • Our unique location provides easy through a combination of continuous minimum English Language requirements: access to fieldwork in the UNESCO Optional modules will include: assessment and formal examination. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs designated GeoMôn geopark and • Coastal Water Processes We also welcome applications from mature the Snowdonia National Park. • Applied Geophysics CAREER PROSPECTS Related Degrees applicants. Our excellent facilities include a The course is ideal preparation for *For full details go to our website and for a research vessel. Year 4 careers in research, oil and gas Computer Systems Engineering (p.119) full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • We share our site with Marine In addition to your individually to www.ucas.com. exploration and the offshore survey Control and Instrumentation Engineering (p.121) **Similar subject areas are considered on a Centre Wales, providing direct links supervised research project you will industry, environmental impact Electronic Engineering (p.118, p.122) case by case basis. with industry, and in particular undertake modules including: assessment, the water supply those involved with sea bed • Sediment Geotechnics industry, coastal zone management, Electronic Engineering and Music (p.69) mapping and marine renewables, • Field and Laboratory Oceanograph government advisory bodies and the Music and Electronic Engineering (p.70) providing opportunities for you to scientific media. This degree has a undertake projects with industry. You will also have the opportunity to long standing pedigree (35+ years) • We have strong links with the attend regular seminars by leading and an extremely strong record of INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE offshore and hydrocarbon industry ocean scientists, from across the employability, with many graduates Page 87 and are well regarded amongst globe, at which you will hear about progressing directly into careers in practicing professionals for world leading developments across the offshore sector. We regard your WANT TO KNOW MORE? providing high quality employees. the whole spectrum of marine future employment as a very high Admissions Administrator sciences. Ocean Sciences priority and to help you we include lectures on employability during INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE HOW WILL I LEARN? your second year and organise Page 234 PTel:age 234 01248 382851 E-mail: [email protected] The course involves up to 25-35 careers fairs annually. We also have www.bangor.ac.uk/oceansciences hours per week of lectures, guest lectures from prospective practicals (laboratory and fieldwork), employers and our alumni. private study, tutorials and project work. Throughout this degree we exploit our location, placing 108 109 COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH GAME DESIGN BSc [Hons] / MComp BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? UCAS course code: As well as learning the You will spend about 12 hours UCAS course code: This degree focuses on the aspects G400 BSc/CS fundamentals of computer science Year 1 in lectures and 8 in laboratories I113 that will be crucial for games H117 MComp/CS and advanced programming skills, each week. You will also have Length: 3 years development at every level. This Length: 3 years BSc, 4 years MComp • Computer Architecture and OS you will benefit from teaching that tutorials in some modules and ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: will allow graduates to join existing relates to the research interest • Mathematics for Computing have to work on software design studios, or strike out on their own ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: • Object Oriented Programming GCSE: grade C/4 in English. Typical offer is GCSE: grade C/4 in Maths. Typical offer is based of the academic staff. Particular and complete various problem- based on a minimum 96 tariff points from a as an independent publisher. As on a minimum 96 tariff points for BSc, 128 specialities include computer • Professional Perspectives solving assignments. There will be Level 3 qualification* e.g.: well as learning the fundamentals points for MComp from a Level 3 qualification* graphics, artificial intelligence and • Web Technologies an opportunity to undertake major • A Levels ((including 1 in a Science/Maths/ of computer science and advanced e.g.: agents and data communications. If • Imperative Programming Foundations software projects in both Year 2 and Computing/IT, excluding General Studies) programming skills, you will benefit • A Levels (including 1 in a Science/Maths/ these areas appeal to you then this is • Database Systems 3 which will allow you to develop • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and from specific skills in relation to Computing/IT, excluding General Studies) the field of Computer Science course your creative design and technical Cambridge Technical Extended Diplom ina game design. Our aim is simple – we • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Year 2 relevant subject (as above): MMM Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in for you. Our aim is simple – we want skills as well as apply the theoretical • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended want to help you become a game relevant subject (as above): MMM for BSc, to help you become a computer • Industrial Projects ICE-2101 principles you have learnt. Modules Diploma: will be considered case by case professional with the ability to keep • We have recently installed a large HOW WILL I LEARN? DDM for MComp professional with the ability to keep • Business & Enterprise Programming are assessed by examinations, • International Baccalaureate Diploma is yourself up-to-date with the rapid networking laboratory – designed You will spend about 12 hours in • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended yourself up-to-date with the rapid • User Experience (UX) & HCI continuous assessment or a accepted pace of developments in the field of to provide the opportunity to design lectures and 8 in laboratories each Diploma: will be considered case by case pace of developments in the field of • Data Structures & Algorithms combination of both. The continuous • Access to HE in a relevant subject (as computing and game design. • International Baccalaureate Diploma is above): Pass and administer networks and to week. You will also have tutorials computer science. After graduating • Computer Systems & Networks assessment can include some accepted • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted support the delivery of computer in some modules and have to with one of our computing degrees • Prototyping & Fabrication supervised practical element or For the game design element of the • Access to HE in a relevant subject as listed you should be able to obtain a good independent study, followed by • Key Skills are not accepted degree, practical work – with game architecture modules. complete various problem-solving above**: Pass • Data Systems, Management & Ethics International school leaving qualifications and job in the computing industry in report writing. Your module results engines or physical game materials assignments. Modules are assessed **Other subject areas may be considered on a • AI & Game Design college diplomas are accepted, subject to WHAT WILL I STUDY? case by case basis the UK or indeed with any of the and individual project marks minimum English Language requirements: – is integrated with opportunities by examinations, continuous assessment or a combination of • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted international computing firms, or Year 3 contribute to your degree final grade. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs to engage critically with theories • Key Skills are not accepted. take up study for a higher degree We also welcome applications from mature of gaming culture, mechanics, Year 1 both. The continuous assessment can include some supervised International school leaving qualifications and such as a Masters Degree or PhD. • Individual Project CAREER PROSPECTS applicants. narratives and aesthetics. These college diplomas are accepted, subject to *For full details go to our website and for a • Professional Perspectives practical element or independent • Research Methods The course will prepare you for a provide students with the insight minimum English Language requirements: full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Imperative Programming Foundations study, followed by report writing. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Software Engineering variety of careers in web application needed to produce games that www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs to www.ucas.com. • Mathematics for Computing Your module results and individual • We are a lively community with • Computer Vision development software engineering, are both immersive and engaging. We also welcome applications from mature • Game Studies project marks contribute to your applicants. well-equipped laboratories, • Using Data Structures in Applications programming, communications and During the course, you will have the networked computers using networking, computer applications, opportunity to create games in many • Object Oriented Programming degree final grade. *For full details go to our website and for a full • Embedded Systems • Web Technologies list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to industry-standard software and its • Computer & Network Security IT management, computer sales formats, including: 2D platforms • Game Design 1 CAREER PROSPECTS www.ucas.com. own library. • Machine Learning and marketing. The business and games, 3D games, board game and This degree is designed to provide If you do not have these qualifications see • Our research and other • Advanced Game Development management component of this collectable card games. ‘Play’ will be the programme on page 113 which may be of Year 2 students with the opportunity interactions with industry ensure • Creative Visualisation course will help you to become a used in teaching and development interest. to join a varying range of IT that our courses reflect recent • Internet of Things project manager. Some students aspects of the course. • Industrial Projects careers, industrial research and developments. Staff are practising • Advanced Data Management continue to postgraduate level and professionals, who work on joint often stay on at Bangor to complete WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Business & Enterprise Programming development, or further academic • Data Structures & Algorithms study. projects and are consultants to Module listings are for guide MSc, MRes or PhDs. • We are a lively community with industry. well-equipped laboratories, • Game Design Level & Mechanics purposes only and are subject to • AI & Game Design • Sponsorship and scholarship change annually. networked computers using opportunities are available. industry-standard software and its • Game Development FOUNDATION YEAR • Final-year projects are often own library. 4-year MComp degree Subject to validation, from carried out in collaboration with • Our research and other This is our flagship course for September 2020 a Foundation Year 3 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL a local company – providing you INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL interactions with industry ensure EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE exceptional individuals. You will Year programme will be offered EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 with advantages when seeking Page 87 that our courses reflect recent benefit from teaching that relates in Computer Science. The • Individual Project employment. developments. Staff are practising to the research interests of the Foundation Year degree is a • Research Methods WANT TO KNOW MORE? • The BSc degree is validated by the WANT TO KNOW MORE? professionals, who work on joint academic staff. The MComp develops 4-year course for applicants • Creative Visualisation Admissions Tutor British Computer Society which is Admissions Tutor projects and are consultants to Computer Science your skills to give you extended who do not quite meet the entry Computer Science • Advanced Data Management the Chartered Institute for IT. industry. • Machine Learning INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL opportunities in both research and requirements for the 3-year • We have recently installed a large • Sponsorship and scholarship EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382686 application of Computer Science degree or who would benefit fromINTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382686 • Advanced Game Development Page 234 Page 234 networking laboratory – designed EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE opportunities are available. E-mail: knowledge and skills. Particular a further year’s study. FollowingPage 234 E-mail:Page 234 • Game Design 3 to provide the opportunity to design • Final-year projects are often [email protected] specialities include computer completion of the Foundation Year, [email protected] • Game Production and administer networks and to www.bangor.ac.uk/computer- carried out in collaboration with www.bangor.ac.uk/computer- graphics, artificial intelligence and students progress to Year 1 of the science-and-electronic-engineering/ support the delivery of computer science-and-electronic-engineering/ a local company – providing you agents and data communications. associated degree programme. Module listings are for guide architecture modules. with advantages when seeking Please see the website for details. purposes only and are subject to employment. change annually. 110 111 DATA SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING DATA SCIENCE AND VISUALISATION BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSES ABOUT? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? UCAS course code: This degree provides a firm footing UCAS course code: This degree will give you a firm H113 in data handling, analysis and H114 footing in data handling, analysis Length: 3 years communication of findings and Length: 3 years and communication of findings using ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: modern research-driven machine ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: modern visualisation techniques. GCSE: grade C/4 in Maths. Typical offer is based learning techniques. GCSE: grade C/4 in English. Typical offer is on a minimum112 tariff points from a Level 3 based on a minimum 112 tariff points from a This degree offers a contemporary qualification* e.g.: The course provides an inventive Level 3 qualification* e.g.: mix of computer science • A Levels (including 1 in a Science/Maths/ combination of computer science • A Levels (including 1 in a Science/Maths/ fundamentals, programming, data Computing/IT, excluding General Studies) fundamentals, programming, data Computing/IT, excluding General Studies) management and analysis, and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and analysis, critical reasoning and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and critical reasoning. The programme Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in machine learning. The programme Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in produces graduates that are relevant subject (as above): MMM relevant subject (as above): DMM • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended produces graduates that are • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended proficient in using data to derive Diploma: will be considered case by case proficient in using data to derive Diploma: will be considered case by case insight and communicating that • International Baccalaureate Diploma is insight using up-to-the-minute • International Baccalaureate Diploma is insight to their colleagues and accepted methods and algorithms. accepted customers. This combination is • Access to HE in a relevant subject as listed • Access to HE in a relevant subject as listed necessary for the 21st century above**: Pass The course places a premium on above**: Pass data economy, idealling placing **Other subject areas may be considered on a the responsible use of data and an • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted graduates of this course to take up case by case basis appreciation of relevant ethical, WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? • Key Skills are not accepted roles in both industry and academia. WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted International school leaving qualifications and legal and social issues is embedded You will spend about 12 hours in You will spend about 12 hours in • Key Skills are not accepted. college diplomas are accepted, subject to Year 1 lectures and 8 in laboratories each International school leaving qualifications and throughout. Year 1 lectures and 8 in laboratories each minimum English Language requirements: The course places a premium on week. You will also have tutorials the responsible use of data and an week. You will also have tutorials college diplomas are accepted, subject to www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Professional Perspectives in some modules and have to minimum English Language requirements: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Professional Perspectives in some modules and have to We also welcome applications from mature appreciation of relevant ethical, www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • We are a lively community with • Imperative Programming Foundations complete various problem-solving applicants. legal and social issues is embedded • Imperative Programming Foundations complete various problem-solving We also welcome applications from mature well-equipped laboratories, • Mathematics for Computing assignments. Modules are assessed *For full details go to our website and for a throughout. • Mathematics for Computing assignments. Modules are assessed applicants. networked computers using • Computer Architecture and OS by examinations, continuous full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Computer Architecture and OS by examinations, continuous *For full details go to our website and for a full industry-standard software and its • Database Systems assessment or a combination of to www.ucas.com. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Database Systems assessment or a combination of list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to • Python Programming both. The continuous assessment • Python Programming both. The continuous assessment www.ucas.com. own library. • We are a lively community with • Our research and other • Web Technologies can include some supervised well-equipped laboratories, • Web Technologies can include some supervised If you do not have these qualifications see practical element or independent the programme on page 113 which may be of interactions with industry ensure practical element or independent networked computers using interest. that our courses reflect recent Year 2 study, followed by report writing. industry-standard software and its Year 2 study, followed by report writing. developments. Staff are practising Your module results and individual own library. Your module results and individual professionals, who work on joint • Industrial Projects project marks contribute to your • Our research and other • Industrial Projects project marks contribute to your projects and are consultants to • Business & Enterprise programming degree final grade. interactions with industry ensure • Business & Enterprise programming degree final grade. industry. • User Experience (UX) & HCI that our courses reflect recent • User Experience (UX) & HCI • Sponsorship and scholarship • Data Structures & Algorithms CAREER PROSPECTS developments. Staff are practising • Data Structures & Algorithms CAREER PROSPECTS opportunities are available. • Data Systems, Management & Ethics This degree will prepare you for a professionals, who work on joint • Data Systems, Management & Ethics Graduates from this course are • Final-year projects are often • Applied Data Science with Python career in the modern data-driven projects and are consultants to • Applied Data Science with Python anticipated to join industry in data carried out in collaboration with economy, or for further academic industry. analysis, financial analysis, data a local company – providing you Year 3 study. Graduates from this course • Sponsorship and scholarship Year 3 support or similar positions. Their with advantages when seeking are anticipated to join industry in opportunities are available. degree will have equipped them employment. • Individual Project data analysis, financial analysis, data • Final-year projects are often • Individual Project with not only practical skills, but an INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • The BSc degree is validated by the • Research Methods support or similar positions. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL carried out in collaboration with • Research Methods understanding of the underpinning EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Computer & Network Security theory. This allows them to both Page 87 British Computer Society which is • Computer & Network Security Page 87 a local company – providing you the Chartered Institute for IT. • Advanced Data Management with advantages when seeking • Advanced Data Management provide accurate and insightful WANT TO KNOW MORE? • We have recently installed a large • Machine Learning WANT TO KNOW MORE? employment. • Creative Visualisation analysis and to communicate that Admissions Tutor networking laboratory – designed • Advanced Machine Learning Admissions Tutor • The BSc degree is validated by the • Information Visualisation insight to colleagues. Computer Science to provide the opportunity to design Computer Science British Computer Society which is • Advanced Data Management and administer networks and to Module listings are for guide INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382686 Tel: 01248 382686 the Chartered Institute for IT. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE purposes only and are subject to EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Module listings are for guide E-mail: support the delivery of computer Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 • We have recently installed a large Page 234 Page 234 architecture modules. change annually. networking laboratory – designed purposes only and are subject to [email protected] [email protected] change annually. www.bangor.ac.uk/computer- www.bangor.ac.uk/computer- to provide the opportunity to design science-and-electronic-engineering/ science-and-electronic-engineering/ and administer networks and to support the delivery of computer architecture modules. 112 113 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS / COMPUTER INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR BUSINESS BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • This degree is validated by the HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: This exciting degree is aimed British Computer Society which is You will spend about 12 hours UCAS course codes: ABOUT? You will spend about 12 hours in GW49 BSc/CT at students who want to study the Chartered Institute for IT. in lectures and 8 in laboratories CIS: I110 BSc/CIS These degrees are intended for CIS – Year 1 lectures and 8 in laboratories each Length: 3 years CIS for Business: IN00 BSc/CIS students who are interested in week. You will also have tutorials computer science but also wish to each week. You will also have Length: 3 years • Professional Perspectives courses which emphasize the in some modules and have to work ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: explore the new digital technologies WHAT WILL I STUDY? tutorials in some modules and • Python Programming GCSE: grade C/4 in Maths. Typical offer is used by the creative industries, The course is designed so that you have to work on software design ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: application of software in business • Imperative Programming Foundations on software design and complete based on a minimum 96 tariff points from a including: television and radio, film study two-thirds core computer and complete various problem- GCSE: grade C/4 in English. Typical offer is and industry. The CIS course • Networking Theory and Practice various problem-solving assign- Level 3 qualification* e.g.: and video, architecture, software science modules, and one-third solving assignments. You will have based on a minimum 80 tariff points from a provides a grounding in computer • Web Technologies ments. You will have an opportunity Level 3 qualification* e.g.: • A Levels (including 1 in a Science/Maths/ and computer games, design, and creative industries modules. an opportunity to undertake major science, the construction and • UNIX to undertake individual and team Computing/IT, excluding General Studies) • A Levels (excluding General Studies) advertising. Computer science projects in both Year 2 and Year use of database systems, new • Database Systems projects, including the ‘Software • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and techniques are at the core of many Year 1 3 which will allow you to develop • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and media technologies, systems Hut’ software develop-ment team Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in of the application areas in these your creative design and technical adminishtration, artificial intelligence project in year 2. Project work will relevant subject (as above): MMM MMP Year 2 industries. This course will equip • Professional Perspectives skills as well as apply the theoretical and business information systems. allow you to develop your creative • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended • Essentials of Media Production • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended you with a solid grounding in the principles you have learned. You Diploma: will be considered case by case During your time at Bangor you • Industrial Projects design and technical skills as well as Diploma: will be considered case by case • HCI and Computer Graphics • International Baccalaureate Diploma is technical skills required to make are encouraged to use Internet and • International Baccalaureate Diploma is will develop an understanding of • System Administration & Maintenance apply theoretical principles. Modules accepted you a sought after professional in • Imperative Programming Foundations library-based learning resources to accepted the fundamentals underpinning • User Experience (UX) & HCI are assessed by examinations, • Access to HE in a relevant subject as listed this field. You will also benefit from • Introduction to Embedded Systems supplement your studies. • Access : Pass computer information systems and • Applied Data Science with Python continuous assessment or a above**: Pass teaching that relates to the research • Introduction to Media Studies • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted their application in industry. You will • AI & Game Design combination. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted interests of the academic staff, who • Computational Thinking Modules are assessed by • Key Skills are not accepted be able to describe the operation of • Application Development International school leaving qualifications and • Key Skills are not accepted have a worldwide reputation in • Object Oriented Programming in Java examinations, continuous these systems and apply a range CAREER PROSPECTS International school leaving qualifications and college diplomas are accepted, subject to computer graphics and visualisation • Programming Fundamentals assessment or a combination of of principles and concepts to the Year 3 Graduates will be equipped with the college diplomas are accepted, subject to • Computer Architecture minimum English Language requirements: research. both. The continuous assessment www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs production of properly engineered skills and knowledge for a career minimum English Language requirements: • Web Technologies • Individual Project www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs can include some supervised We also welcome applications from mature software. Crucially you will • Research Methods in designing and using ICT systems, We also welcome applications from mature WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Digital Communications practical element or independent applicants. understand the drivers for the future software design, communications • Animation Principles and Practice • Creative Visualisation applicants. • Bangor was the first UK university study, followed by report writing. *For full details go to our website and for a trends in this fast moving area. • Computer & Network Security and networking, computer • Game Studies full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go *For full details go to our website and for a to offer a Creative Technologies Your module results and individual New modules have recently been • Internet of Things applications, IT management, full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Issues in Media and Journalism to www.ucas.com. BSc. project marks contribute to your introduced that will enable you to • Advanced Data Management computer sales and marketing. to www.ucas.com. • Bangor has state-of-the-art display • Game Design degree final grade. design and build your own computer **Other subject areas may be considered on a • Advanced Game Development technologies, multi-camera TV network. This work is undertaken case by case basis Year 2 studio, professionally equipped CAREER PROSPECTS in a recently developed specialist CIS for Business – Year 1 Radio studio, digital Avid and • Advanced Java Programming The exciting combination of network laboratory. Matrox digital editing suites, digital • AI for Games computer technologies and media • Professional Perspectives cinema and virtual environments. • Computer Graphics 2 – Algorithms expertise will mean graduates will CIS for Business is a variant of • Python Programming • This course is strengthened by • Data Structures and Algorithms be strongly placed for careers in the the CIS degree and provides an • Imperative Programming Foundations "They are both excellent, Bangor’s close links with the • Game Design Level and Mechanics Creative Industries. opportunity to study a range of • Database Systems confident developers with great computer industry, including Parc • Java Technologies modules in Business at Bangor. • Web Technologies aptitude and wide-ranging Menai business park, where many • Software Hut This degree marries technological • Choices of Business Modules knowledge.” tech companies have offices. • Graphics and Web Design knowledge with practical application WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • These courses are strengthened • Staff are practising professionals, • Game Development exploration, equipping students for Year 2 ED HODSON, Business Systems who work on joint projects and act the future with a solid understanding by Bangor’s close links with the computer industry. • Industrial Projects Manager at KCA Deutag Drilling as consultants to industry. Year 3 of how computers can be • Sponsorship and scholarship harnessed to further the potential • Sponsorship and scholarship • System Administration & Maintenance Group Limited who employs two • Application Development Bangor University Computer opportunities are available on a • Computer Graphics 3 – Rendering of the creative sectors. Some of our opportunities are available on a INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL competitive basis. students continue their studies at INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL competitive basis. • Applied Data Science with Python Science graduates EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Individual Project – Computing EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Choices of Business Modules Page 87 • Final-year projects are often • New Technologies postgraduate level and often stay on Page 87 • Final-year projects are often carried out in collaboration with • Game Design at Bangor to complete MSc, MRes carried out in collaboration with a WANT TO KNOW MORE? a company and could include or PhDs. WANT TO KNOW MORE? company. Year 3 Admissions Tutor working in a team with students Module listings are for guide Admissions Tutor • We have recently installed a large Computer Science Computer Science from creative arts degree courses. purposes only and are subject to networking laboratory. This facility • Individual Project • We have recently installed a large change annually. is designed to provide students • Research Methods INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382686 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382686 • Computer & Network Security EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE networking laboratory. This facility EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE with the opportunity to design Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 Page 234 Page 234 • Advanced Data Management [email protected] is designed to provide students [email protected] and administer networks and to www.bangor.ac.uk/computer- with the opportunity to design www.bangor.ac.uk/computer- support the delivery of computer • Summer placement science-and-electronic-engineering/ and administer networks and to science-and-electronic-engineering/ architecture modules. • Choices of Business Modules www.bangor.ac.uk/music-and-media support the delivery of computer Module listings are for guidance only architecture modules. and are subject to change annually. 114 115 DEGREE APPRENTICESHIPS BSc [Hons] ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Students who undertake this On the Applied Cyber Security BSc UCAS course codes: We currently offer three BSc (Hons programme will benefit from (Hons) the topics covered over the 3 H300 Applied Software Engineering Degree Apprenticeships in the field being able to increase their skills years may include: H115 Applied Cyber Security of computer science: and progress in their career. This H116 Applied Data Science Length: 3 years with attendance • Applied Software Engineering course will ultimately enable you • Introduction to Programming typically for one day and one evening • Applied Cyber Security to help your employer’s business • Mathematics for Computing per week over the HE academic year. • Applied Data Science develop. • Digital Graphics (JS Canvas) (There may also be 4 sessions per • You will have access to all the • Web Technologies year to complete essential skills Degree apprenticeships provide resources available at college • Computer Systems Wales qualifications.) an alternative route to traditional and university, giving you the • Database Design and Management higher education – combining work flexibility of two dynamic learning • Data Ethics ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: with college and university study. environments. • Introduction to Data Analytics Computer Systems Engineering MEng/BEng • You’ll need to be in either full or part-time These degrees are designed to allow • Visual and Graphical Algorithms employment in a relevant field. Control and Instrumentation MEng those who are currently working WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Data Structures & Algorithms • All applicants will be considered on a case by Critical Safety Engineering MEng case basis and will be expected to attend an in the Software and ICT sectors to • WBP-Data Processing & AI informal interview. enhance their skills, knowledge and On the Applied Software • WBP-Design& Impl Visualisation Electronic Engineering MEng/BEng • We also welcome applications from mature competence and gain a degree, while Engineering BSc (Hons) the topics • Information Visualisation Electronic Engineering BSc applicants. remaining in full-time employment. covered over the 3 years may • Computer & Network Security These courses are run through a include: • Advanced Data Management Electronic Engineering and Music BSc combination of day-release study • I Machine Learning at Coleg Llandrillo and Bangor • Digital Graphics Fundamentals University and structured work- • Computer Systems HOW WILL I LEARN? based learning. You will develop • Designing Accessible Websites The course is delivered through Degree Apprenticeships • Creating and Managing Accessible Websites competencies to a sufficient level interactive lectures, tutorials and Applied Electrical/Electronic Engineering Systems BSc to register for the ICT Technician • Database Design and Management workshops. There will also be qualification from the IET (ICTTech). • Designing Mobile Technology presentations by guest speakers. Applied Mechanical Engineering Systems BSc • Designing and Creating OO Programs Learning is practical and informal. The course is fully funded by the • Ethical Computing You’ll be assessed through a variety Higher Education Funding Council • Emerging Computing Technologies of methods such as practical and for Wales. To apply you or your • Advanced Programming theoretical assignments, reports, oral Related Degrees employer must contact us directly: • Software Engineering presentations, project work, portfolios Computer Science (p.110) [email protected] • Computer and Network Security and team-based assignments. • Software Prototyping Study Creative Technologies (p.114) Computer Information Systems (p.115) WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Production Software Development - Research CAREER PROSPECTS • These courses are fully-funded by Project Completion of the programme Computer Information Systems for Business (p.115) the Higher Education Council for can lead to a range of options Product Design (p.246) Wales, this means you can gain a On the Applied Cyber Security BSc in employment and education. degree without any debt and your (Hons) the topics covered over the 3 The essence of the degree employer gains a member of staff years may include: apprenticeship is to allow with more skills that are directly • Web Technologies apprentices to develop the related to the business. • Introduction to Networks knowledge and skills that will • The contribution your employer • Routing and Switching Essentials allow them to progress in their must make is to release you from • Security and Data Ethics with Unix career. This could be from changing INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL work to attend college/university direction in the profession or being EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Introduction to Programming (Java) Page 87 one day per week. • Web Servers and Authentication able to identify new opportunities • You remain in employment while • Multi-user UNIX that advantage them or their WANT TO KNOW MORE? you study for your degree. • Scaling Networks employer. Admissions Tutor • Students will start at an entry point Computer Science • Connecting Networks that is most appropriate to them, • Mathematics for Security based on relevant experience or INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382686 • Cryptography EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE previous education. This means Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 • Software Design for Security [email protected] you will not be asked to repeat • Scripting Systems [email protected] previous achievement, rather • Penetration Testing Study www.bangor.ac.uk/computer-science- build upon existing knowledge and • PESTLE (inc GDPR) and-electronic-engineering/ extend your future potential. • Advanced Security Solution Project 116 117 ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING BEng [Hons] / MEng [Hons] BEng [Hons] / MEng [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • We offer you the opportunity to Year 3 COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Engineer. It is also recognised HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: Computer Systems Engineering spend a year working in industry UCAS course codes: These courses sit at the cutting-edge by the European Federation of You will spend about 12 hours in H610 BEng/Ele allows you to explore the exciting between the second and third • Business Process Re-engineering H612 BEng/CSE • Control Systems boundary between computers and National Engineering Associations. lectures and 8 in laboratories each H601 MEng/EE nexus where computing meets years. Individual projects are H617 MEng/CSE electronics. Many graduates from • There is high demand from week. You will have 4 tutorials per Length: 3 years (BEng) or 4 years • Electromagnetics Length: 3 years BEng; 4 years MEng electronics. Here you can develop often carried out in collaboration these courses go on to very highly international employers for module and write up experiments, (MEng) the expertise to work in new and with a company – providing you • Individual Project • Information and Coding for Communications ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: paid and rewarding employment graduates. work on software design and ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: exciting fields of the technology with advantages when seeking Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff designing and building the next • We have a 95% employability carry out various other problem- sector: you could invent the next employment. • Optical Communication Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff • Quality Value and TQM points for BEng and 120 for MEng from a Level generation of smart appliances, rating. solving assignments. You’ll have an points for BEng and120 tariff points for MEng revolution in Internet of Things (IoT), • We are a lively community with 3 qualification* e.g.: • Signal Processing Internet of Things devices and examination for each module at the from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: create new innovations that fill well-equipped laboratories, • A Levels (including a C grade in Maths and a embedded systems. The MEng WHAT WILL I STUDY? end of the semester. Some modules • A Levels (including a C grade in Maths and a technology gaps that until now have networked computers using • Networks and Distributed Systems grade C in Physics or Electronics) • Microwave Systems Design Techniques and involves study for an extra year and have coursework assessment. Your grade C in Physics or Electronics) not been possible or use these skill industry-standard software and its • International Baccalaureate Diploma provides a more in-depth study of Year 1 laboratory work books, technical • International Baccalaureate Diploma Applications (including H5 in Maths and Physics) in traditional areas of engineering own reference library. the subject. reports and individual project (including H5 in Maths and Physics) where there is a high demand for • This degree is accredited by • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Electrical • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Electrical Year 4 (MEng only) / Electronic Engineering: MMM for BEng, • Imperative Programming Foundation contribute to your marks. / Electronic Engineering: MMM for BEng, graduates. This is a course oozing the Institution of Engineering DMM for MEng. Similar subject areas may be WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Professional Perspectives DMM for MEng. Similar subject areas may be with potential for the next era of and Technology – you will gain • Advanced Sensor Systems considered on a case by case basis. • We have a long history of expertise • Engineering Mathematics CAREER PROSPECTS considered on a case by case basis. the Information Age. These courses exemption from the admission • MEng Team Project • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended in electronic engineering and now • Electrical and Electronic Principles These courses prepare you for a • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended will prepare you for a rewarding examinations enabling you to • RF and Optical MEMS Diploma in Engineering: Distinction offer a rich range of modules. • Computer Architecture and OS variety of careers in software and Diploma in Engineering: Distinction professional career specialising in apply for membership and, in • Nanoelectronics and High Speed Design • Access: Pass (considered case by case) • We have close links with the • Introduction to Embedded Systems hardware design, communications • Access: Pass (considered case by case) the design of electronic hardware due course, become a Chartered • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted computer industry and a strong and networking, computer applic- • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted or innovative new electronic Engineer. It is also recognised • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in Optional modules: Engineering: MMM for BEng, DMM for MEng. research base in real-time and Year 2 ations, engineering management, devices such as transistors made by the European Federation of • Programmable Logic Controllers embedded systems, parallel computer sales and marketing. Engineering: MMM for BEng, DMM for MEng. International school leaving qualifications and • Data Structures and Algorithms International school leaving qualifications and of polymers instead of silicon. National Engineering Associations. • Broadband Communication Systems college diplomas are accepted, subject to processing, software engineering, The problem-solving and analytical college diplomas are accepted, subject to You will gain plenty of hands-on • There is high demand from • Advanced Optical Communications minimum English Language requirements: image processing, databases, • Algorithm Design with MATLAB skills developed in the subject are minimum English Language requirements: experience in electronic systems and international employers for • Enterprise Design and Modelling www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs intelligent systems and object- • Digital Circuits 2 also highly valued by many other www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs device physics as well as a sound graduates of this course. • Advanced Control Systems We also welcome applications from mature oriented programming. • Electronics Laboratory 2 professions. Postgraduate study is We also welcome applications from mature theoretical understanding. The MEng • We have a 95% employability • Mobile Communication Systems applicants. • Electronic Engineering at Bangor is • Engineering Analysis Linear Systems also an option. applicants. involves study for an extra year and rating. *For full details go to our website and for a full ranked 4th in the UK for Research • Project Planning and Management *For full details go to our website and for a full provides a more in-depth study of list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to • VLSI Design Principles list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to Module listings are subject to change annually. www.ucas.com. Outputs. the subject. WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Students may be eligible for the • Engineering Team Project www.ucas.com. If you do not have these qualifications see • Mathematical Methods If you do not have these qualifications see Year 1 HOW WILL I LEARN? course on page 122. Electronic Engineering Scholarship course on page 122. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? You will spend about 12 hours in of up to £1,500. There are also • Introduction to Operating Systems • We have a long history of expertise lectures and 8 in laboratories each other scholarships and bursaries • Computer Networks in electronic engineering and offer • Computer Architecture and OS • Analogue Electronics • Circuit Design week. You will also have 4 tutorials available, including the Drapers’ a rich range of modules. in each module and have to write Bursary. Contact the admissions • We have a strong research base in • Electronics Laboratory Year 3 • Imperative Programming Foundation up experiments, work on software tutor for more details. optoelectronics, communications, design and complete numerical • We offer you the opportunity microelectronics, bioelectronics • Professional Perspectives • Business Process Re-engineering • Electrical and Electronic Principles problem-solving exercises. You to spend a year working in • Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks and materials science, and organic will have an examination for each industry between Year 2 and and plastic electronics. • Introduction to Embedded Systems • Control Systems • Foundations Engineering Maths module at the end of the semester. Year 3. Individual projects are • Networks and Distributed Systems • Electronic Engineering at Bangor is often carried out in collaboration th • Engineering Mathematics Some modules have coursework • Electromagnetics ranked 4 in the UK for Research assessment. Laboratory work books, with a company – providing you Outputs. • Individual Project (30 credits) Year 2 technical reports,, individual project with advantages when seeking • Information and Coding Communications INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • You will be taught by staff who are INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL employment. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE also contribute to your marks. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Signal Processing Page 87 experienced engineers and who • Algorithm Design with MATLAB Page 87 • We are a lively community with maintain links with industry to • Microwave Systems Design Techniques and • Communications Systems CAREER PROSPECTS well-equipped laboratories, Applications APPRENTICESHIP DEGREES WANT TO KNOW MORE? ensure that courses reflect recent • Digital Circuits Many graduates take up posts in WANT TO KNOW MORE? networked computers using The following BSc (Hons) degree Admissions Tutor developments. • Electronics Laboratory businesses, government or private Admissions Tutor industry-standard software and its Electronic Engineering Electronic Engineering Year 4 apprenticeships are also available • Students may be eligible for the • Engineering Analysis Linear Systems research and development facilities. own reference library. in the field of Engineering: INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Electronic Engineering Scholarship INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382686 • Introduction to Operating Systems The problem-solving and numerateEXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382686 • This degree is accredited by (MEng only) • Applied Electrical/Electronic Page 234 Page 234 of up to £1,500. There are also Page 234 Page 234 E-mail: [email protected] • Optoelectronics nature of our engineering degree E-mail: [email protected] the Institution of Engineering • MEng Team Project Engineering Systems BSc www.bangor.ac.uk/computer-science- other scholarships and bursaries • Project Planning and Management courses means that graduates www.bangor.ac.uk/computer-science- and Technology – you will gain • Applied Mechanical Engineering and-electronic-engineering/ available, including the Drapers’ • VLSI Design are highly valued in many other and-electronic-engineering/ exemption from the admission Systems BSc Bursary. Contact the admissions Module listings are for guide purposes only and • Engineering Team Project professions, ranging from general examinations enabling you to are subject to change annually. Please check the website for the tutor for more details. • Mathematical Methods management roles to working as apply for membership and, in most up-to-date information. • Analouge Electronics numerical analysts. due course, become a Chartered 118 119 CONTROL AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING MEng [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? you will gain exemption from the Year 4 UCAS course code: This course will prepare you for admission examinations enabling H661 MEng/CIE work as a professional electronic you to apply for membership and, • Advanced Sensor Systems Length: 4 years engineer specialising in Control after a period of post-graduation • Advanced Control Systems • Data Networks and Comms ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: and Instrumentation Engineering experience, become a Chartered which lies at the heart of many Engineer. It is also recognised • Programmable Logic Controllers Typical offer is based on a minimum 120 tariff • Team Project points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: modern industries, from nuclear by the European Federation of • A Levels (including a C grade in Maths and a and renewable power generation National Engineering Associations. Module listings are for guide purposes only and are grade C in Physics or Electronics) to all sorts of manufacturing • There is likely to be a high demand subject to change annually. • International Baccalaureate Diploma industries. You will gain extensive for graduates in the power (including H5 in Maths and Physics) practical experience to ensure that generation, power distribution and HOW WILL I LEARN? • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in you develop sound practical skills manufacturing sectors. Electrical / Electronic Engineering: DMM You will spend about 12 hours in **Similar subject areas may be considered as well as a thorough theoretical • We have a 95% employability lectures and 8 in laboratories each on a case by case basis. knowledge. You will study general rating. week. You will also have 4 tutorials • City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended aspects of electronic engineering in each module and have to write Diploma in Engineering: Distinction* and specialised modules. WHAT WILL I STUDY? up experiments, work on software • Access: Pass (case by case) design and complete numerical • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Year 1 • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in problem-solving exercises. You • We have a strong research base in will have an examination for each Engineering: DMM optoelectronics, communications, • Circuit Design International school leaving qualifications and • Computer Architecture and OS module at the end of the semester. college diplomas are accepted, subject to microelectronics, bioelectronics Some modules have coursework and materials science, and organic • Electronics Lab 1 (20 credits) minimum English Language requirements: • Imperative Programming Foundation assessment as well. Your laboratory www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs and plastic electronics. work books, technical reports and We also welcome applications from mature • Electronic Engineering at Bangor is • Professional Perspectives th • Engineering Mathematics the individual project also contribute applicants. ranked 4 in the UK for Research to your marks. *For full details go to our website and for a Outputs. • Electrical and Electronic Principles • Introduction to Embedded Systems 1 2 full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • You will be taught by staff who are “The Panel commended Electronic to www.ucas.com. CAREER PROSPECTS experienced engineers and who Graduates have excellent career Engineering on the excellent student If you do not have these qualifications see Year 2 course on page 122. maintain links with industry to prospects in the fast-growing feedback mechanism. The students 3 ensure that courses reflect recent • Algorithm Design with MATLAB power generation and power commented that they were very pleased developments. • Data Structures and Algorithms distribution sectors, including low- with the speed and level of response they • We have strong ties with the • Digital Circuits 2 carbon and renewable generation received.” electrical power generation • Electronics Lab 2 and the manufacturing industry.

1 Raw materials for industry, who played an important • Engineering Analysis Linear Systems Many will take up posts in power polymer electronics part in the design of this course. • Introduction to Operating Systems stations, power distribution network INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING 2 The Keysight • Students may be eligible for & TECHNOLOGY ACCREDITATION PANEL Technologies teaching • Project Planning and Management operators, or government or laboratory the Electronic Engineering • VLSI Design Principles private research and development 3 Data visualization Scholarship of up to £1,500 or • Engineering Team Project facilities. Graduates will also be other scholarships and bursaries, • Mathematical Methods well-versed in the general principles i.e. Drapers’ Bursary. • Computer Networks of Electronic Engineering, with • There is the opportunity to • Analogue Electronics all the career opportunities those spend a year working in industry • Data Structures and Algorithms skills entail. The problem-solving between Year 2 and 3. Individual and numerate nature of all our “Students at Electronic Engineering are INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL projects are often carried out in EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Year 3 engineering degree courses means involved with a number of professional Page 87 collaboration with a company – that graduates will be highly valued bodies. Electronic Engineering is an State-of-the-art test and providing you with advantages • Control Systems in many other professions. Some of WANT TO KNOW MORE? academic partner of the UK IET and also measurement equipment when seeking employment. • Data Networks and Distributed Systems our students continue their studies Admissions Tutor • We have a lively community • Electrical Machines has student chapters of two international supplied by: Electronic Engineering at postgraduate level and often stay engineering societies – IEEE and SPIE.” with well-equipped laboratories, • Electromagnetics on at Bangor to complete MSc, MRes networked computers using • Embedded systems INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382686 or PhDs. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE industry-standard software and • Individual Project Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] DR IESTYN PIERCE www.bangor.ac.uk/computer-science- our own reference library. • Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks Head of Electronic Engineering and-electronic-engineering/ • We anticipate this new degree • Signal Processing scheme will be accredited by the • Quality, Value and TQM Institution of Engineering and • Business Process Re-engineering Technology in due course – if so, 120 121 ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING BSc [Hons] MEDICAL SCIENCES COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? UCAS course code: This course is a three-year honours H611 BSc/EE degree, preparing you for a Length: 3 years professional career in electronic Medical Sciences BMedSci ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: systems design. Biomedical Science BSc GCSE: grade C/4 in English/Cymraeg, Science Medical Biology BSc and B/5 Maths (Higher Tier). Typical offer is This degree has been designed based on a minimum 80 tariff points from a especially for candidates without the Medical Biochemistry BSc Level 3 qualification* e.g.: usual qualifications in Mathematics • A Levels and Physics to be able to pursue • International Baccalaureate Diploma their interest in electronics and Related Degrees • BTEC National/Extended Diploma : MMP electronic systems to degree level. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical / Extended Bachelor of Midwifery BM (p.132) During the course you will get a Diploma : case by case Bachelor of Nursing BN (p.130) • Access: Pass thorough grounding in all the latest • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted techniques in analogue and digital Diagnostic Radiography BSc (p.133) • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: electronics, together with training Health and Social Care (p.134) MMP in professional skills, project Sports Science (Intercalated) (p.154) International school leaving qualifications and management techniques and an college diplomas are accepted, subject to intensive preparation in maths and Clinical Sports Science (Intercalated) (p.154) minimum English Language requirements: science for electronics. You will www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Psychology with Clinical and Health Psychology (p.139) We also welcome applications from mature gain extensive practical experience Psychology with Neuropsychology (p.140) to ensure that you develop sound At work in the Poirot Keysight Laboratory applicants. Sport, Health and Exercise Science (p.147) *For full details go to our website and for a practical skills as well as a thorough Year 3 CAREER PROSPECTS Sport, Health and Physical Education (p.150) full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go theoretical knowledge. Graduates of this degree will have to www.ucas.com. • Business Process Re-engineering enviable career prospects: many Please also read WHY CHOOSE • Control Systems will take up electronic or computer BANGOR? on page 118. • Electromagnetics systems designer posts, or work • Individual Project (30 credits) for government or private research WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Information and Coding for Communications and development facilities. Some of • Optical Communication our students continue their studies Year 1 • Quality Value and TQM at postgraduate level and often stay • Signal Processing on at Bangor to complete MSc, MRes • Computer Architecture and OS • Networks and Distributed Systems or PhDs. • Circuit Design • Microwave Systems Design Techniques and • Electronics Laboratory Applications FOUNDATION YEAR • Imperative Programming Foundation Subject to validation, from • Professional Perspectives Module listings are for guide purposes only and are September 2020 a Foundation • Electrical and Electronic Principles subject to change annually. Year programme will be offered • Introduction to Embedded Systems in Electronic Engineering. The • Foundations Engineering Maths HOW WILL I LEARN? Foundation Year degree is a • Engineering Mathematics You will spend about 12 hours in 4-year course for applicants lectures and 8 in laboratories each who do not quite meet the entry Year 2 week. You will also have 4 tutorials requirements for the 3-year INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL in each module and have to write EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Algorithm Design with MATLAB degree or who would benefit from Page 87 up experiments, work on software • Communications Systems a further year’s study. Following design and complete numerical completion of the Foundation Year, WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Digital Circuits problem-solving exercises. Admissions Tutor • Electronics Laboratory students progress to Year 1 of the You will have an examination for associated degree programme. Electronic Engineering • Engineering Analysis Linear Systems each module. Some modules have • Introduction to Operating Systems Please see the website for details. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382686 coursework assessment as well. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Optoelectronics Your laboratory work books, Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] • Project Planning and Management www.bangor.ac.uk/computer-science- technical reports and the final-year JOINT HONOURS DEGREE and-electronic-engineering/ • VLSI Design project contribute to your marks. • Engineering Team Project Electronic Engineering is offered as • Mathematical Methods a Joint Honours Degree with Music • Analouge Electronics (see pages 69-70).

122 123129 MEDICAL SCIENCES BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE BMedSci [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? CAREER PROSPECTS COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Biomedical Scientist with the Health UCAS course code: This degree aims to provide a Graduates will have high UCAS course code: Biomedical Science is concerned and Care Professions Council, on B100 BMedSci/Md science programme related to Year 1 employability in science and B102 BSC/BSC with the integration of a wide Year 1 completion of the degree. Students Length: 3 years medicine with strong professional During the first year you will attend health-based areas. They will Length: 3 years range of subjects that underpin the During the first year you will attend who successfully complete this one- ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: research elements. The course lectures, tutorials and laboratory also be ideally placed for MSc ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: scientific investigation of human lectures, tutorials and laboratory year voluntary placement would GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language, Maths delivers a firm foundation of practical sessions to provide a broad and PhD programmes and for GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language, Maths health and disease. This course is practical sessions to provide a broad then graduate with the degree and Science. Typical offer is based on a scientific teaching, considering base of relevant knowledge and research positions within the NHS and Science. Typical offer is based on a designed to give students essential base of relevant knowledge and BSc Applied Biomedical Science, minimum of 112 tariff points from a Level 3 human health and disease at a proficiencies. (including the NHS Scientist Training minimum of 112 tariff points from a Level 3 knowledge and understanding of proficiencies. in recognition of the additional qualification* e.g.: micro and macro level and enables Programme). qualification* e.g.: the biology of disease, including professional skills gained. • A Levels (including Biology and at least one students to develop, integrate Compulsory modules • A Levels including Biology grade C or modern concepts and applications of Compulsory modules: other science from Chemistry (preferred), and apply their knowledge at the • Foundation in Molecules and Cells The strong knowledge focus on the above and at least one other science from biomedical science in the research, • Foundation in Molecules and Cells HOW WILL I LEARN? Medical Science, Physics or Maths) interface of scientific discovery and • Key Skills in Medical Science human body in health and disease Chemistry (preferred), Medical Science, diagnosis and treatment of clinical • Key Skills in Medical Science Teaching is through lectures, • WJEC Medical Science Applied Diploma and Physics or Maths. • Foundation in Chemistry Applied Certificate clinical practice. This programme • Foundation in Chemistry will aid graduates to gain places on • WJEC Medical Science Applied Diploma and disorders. Students are encouraged seminars and practicals. equips graduates with a broad skill • Good Laboratory Practice postgraduate programmes related to assimilate knowledge from core • Good Laboratory Practice Assessment is by a mixture of • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Applied Certificate • Biomedical Practicals Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: set that make it a 1st choice for • Biomedical Practicals to the allied health professions, • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and biological sciences to develop skills examinations, practical laboratory DMM (Biology and Chemistry modules those interested in a Health-based • Physiology and Anatomy with subsequent employment Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: in the more specialised biomedical • Physiology and Anatomy reports, coursework and required) career but who want to keep their • Introduction to Microbiology opportunities, such as audiology, DMM (Biology and Chemistry modules disciplines of clinical biochemistry, • Introduction to Microbiology presentations, including the • International Baccalaureate Diploma: options open. It is also an ideal 5th • Foundation in Therapeutics clinical informatics, physiological required) cellular pathology, haematology • Foundation in Therapeutics research project in the final year. Including Biology and Chemistry (Preferred) choice for those whose primary aim sciences, health promotion, • International Baccalaureate Diploma: and medical microbiology. There Welsh-medium modules are also at Higher Level is Medicine or Dentistry; for high- Since Year 1 is common for all occupational therapy, genomic Including Biology (H5) and Chemistry at is a need for graduates who are Since Year 1 is common for all available. • Access: Only Science or Bioscience diplomas Higher Level undergraduate degrees in the School provide the necessary pre-requisite achieving students this degree may undergraduate degrees in the School counselling, paramedic sciences, • Access: Only Science or Bioscience diplomas experienced in the advanced act as a potential stepping stone of Medical Sciences, students may physiotherapy, physician associate diagnostic and molecular techniques of Medical Sciences, students may CAREER PROSPECTS knowledge: Pass provide the necessary pre-requisite have an opportunity to change to an • Welsh Baccalaureate into Medical Schools as a graduate have an opportunity to change to an and speech and language therapy. knowledge: Pass that are revolutionising disease Biomedical scientists are in demand • Extended Project Qualification entrant. Students will benefit from alternative degree course before the • Welsh Baccalaureate diagnosis and treatment in the NHS, alternative degree course before the by a wide range of employers in • Key Skills and General Studies not accepted. teaching and research expertise start of Year 2 (subject to eligibility Top-performing students are • Extended Project Qualification Armed Forces, Industry, Academia start of Year 2 (subject to eligibility areas such as the health service, International school leaving qualifications and across a number of disciplines. criteria). eligible to apply for the four-year • Key Skills and General Studies not accepted. and Research. criteria). pharmaceutical industry, medical college diplomas are accepted, subject to Graduate Entry Medicine course International school leaving qualifications research, food science, public health, minimum English Language requirements: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Years 2 and 3 (MBBCh) at Cardiff University. Since and college diplomas are accepted, subject WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Years 2 and 3 armed forces, forensic science www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs to minimum English Language requirements: Modules on medical microbiology, We also welcome applications from mature • Medical Science students have a Modules focus on human physiology 2019, this course has also been www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • This degree is accredited by the and the degree is also accepted by focus on anatomical teaching in and anatomy in health and run in conjunction with the School Institute of Biomedical Science clinical biochemistry, cellular many universities for postgraduate applicants. We also welcome applications from mature pathology, immunology, *For full details go to our website and for a years 2 and 3, including access to disease, clinical diagnostics and of Medical Sciences at Bangor applicants. (IBMS). courses in Medicine, Dentistry and full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go a dissection room, which is rare therapeutics, infectious disease, University. Please note, to apply for *For full details go to our website and for a • Scientific and clinical staff from haematology and transfusion Veterinary Science. Graduates will to www.ucas.com outside of medical schools. and the contribution of genomics to this postgraduate programme you full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go hospitals in north Wales are science, drug development and also be ideally placed for MSc and • Our staff include academics, medical research. An over-arching will need to fulfil all their additional to www.ucas.com involved in all aspects of teaching. molecular and genetic studies. PhD programmes and for research clinicians and researchers with theme will be the development of criteria including entrance exams. • Cutting-edge science is integral to A significant amount of time will positions within the NHS and the considerable NHS and University transferable skills such as critical our research programmes, and be spent in our well-equipped NHS Scientist Training Programme. experience. analysis, data interpretation and feeds through into the teaching laboratories, honing your techniques • Our research was ranked 3rd out the ability to communicate medical environment. and applying what you have learned. An over-arching theme will be of 94 UK-wide submissions for science to a variety of audiences. FOUNDATION YEAR • Our research was ranked 3rd out FOUNDATION YEAR Research Output in REF 2014. In the third year, this culminates in of 94 UK-wide submissions for the development of transferable We offer a Foundation Year, We offer a Foundation Year, skills such as critical analysis, data • Bangor University is a vibrant a piece of self-directed research preceding year 1 designed Research Output in REF 2014. preceding year 1 designed and friendly environment, with using medically related scientific • Graduates can specialise in one interpretation and the ability to to prepare students for to prepare students for communicate biomedical science to an excellent reputation for literature. all undergraduate degree of several laboratory disciplines all undergraduate degree INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL a variety of audiences. In the third INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL student support and for student programmes in the School. This EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE within the NHS, including Medical programmes in the School. This EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 year, this culminates in self-directed Page 87 satisfaction. HOW WILL I LEARN? option provides the essential Microbiology, Clinical Biochemistry, option provides the essential • For students with the necessary Teaching is through lectures, Cellular Pathology, Immunology, laboratory research and medically understanding of biological and understanding of biological and related scientific literature research. WANT TO KNOW MORE? pre-requisite qualifications, seminars and laboratory practicals chemical principles that underpin WANT TO KNOW MORE? Haematology and Transfusion chemical principles that underpin Medical Sciences Medical Sciences BMedSci is a feeder stream for (including sessions in the dissection the field. This option would allow Science, or follow a career in a the field. This option would allow Graduate Entry Medicine at Cardiff room). Assessment is by a mixture of variety of medical diagnostic and There may be an opportunity for applicants without the necessary Tel: 01248 388620 applicants without the necessary Tel: 01248 388620 those interested in forging careers University. Subject to successful examinations, reports, coursework scientific background for the 3INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL research environments. scientific background for the 3 INTERNATIONAL E-mail:INTERNATIONAL [email protected] EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] in NHS Pathology laboratories to EXPERIENCE www.bangor.ac.uk/smsEXPERIENCE interview, qualifying students can and presentations, including the year programmes to embark Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/smsPage 234 year programmes to embark Page 234 Page 234 apply for voluntary work experience apply to study Medicine in Cardiff, research project in the final year. on a 4 year course leading to on a 4 year course leading to or remain in Bangor for their 4 Welsh medium modules are also during the course. It may be possible the same qualification, subject the same qualification, subject to follow a training programme year MBBCh degree available. to successfully passing the to successfully passing the designed to meet the requirements Foundation Year. Foundation Year. to apply for registration as a 124 125 MEDICAL BIOLOGY MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Since Year 1 is common for all CAREER PROSPECTS UCAS course codes: Medical Biology forms the bridge UCAS course code: This degree seeks to provide a broad undergraduate degrees in the School With integrated, scientific B103 BSC/MB10 between basic research and clinical B113 BSC/MBC life science programme with specific of Medical Sciences, students may knowledge and skills such as Length: 3 years medicine. It is the corner stone of Length: 3 years emphasis on biochemistry relevant have an opportunity to change to an critical appraisal, communication ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: modern health care and advanced ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: to medicine. The course will deliver alternative degree course before the and problem solving, graduates GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language, Maths drug development. You will learn GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language, Maths a firm foundation of the scientific start of Year 2 (subject to eligibility will have high employability in and Science. Typical offer is based on a about the cellular and genetic causes and Science. Typical offer is based on a basis for human health and disease criteria). science-based areas. They will minimum of 112 tariff points from a Level 3 of major medical disorders such minimum of 112 tariff points from a Level 3 with particular emphasis on the role also be ideally placed for MSc and qualification* e.g.: as cancer, autoimmune diseases, qualification* e.g.: of genetics and chemical pathways Years 2 and 3 PhD programmes and for research • A Levels (including Biology and at least one genetic disorders, as well as develop • A Levels in Chemistry and preferably Biology in contributing to disease. There Modules will expand upon the key positions within academia and the other science from Chemistry (preferred), your knowledge of stem cell biology. and one other STEM subject is strong emphasis throughout life science subjects covered in NHS (including the NHS Scientist Medical Science, Physics or Maths You will study how major human • WJEC Medical Science Applied Diploma and the degree on the teaching of key Year 1 whilst introducing you to Training Programme). • WJEC Medical Science Applied Diploma and Applied Certificate Applied Certificate diseases develop and explore the • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and transferable skills which will ensure fundamental concepts in medical • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and various ways in which medical Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: that graduates of this programme biochemistry. Students will Employment opportunities Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: disorders can be treated. The degree DMM (Chemistry and Biology modules will be highly employable in a explore subjects including cellular include, clinical bioinformatics, DMM (Biology and Chemistry modules will take advantage of the expertise required) number of fields. metabolism, medical genetics and clinical pharmaceutical science, required) and facilities associated with the • International Baccalaureate Diploma: genomics, and the importance of physiological sciences, clinical Since Year 1 is common for all • International Baccalaureate Diploma: North West Cancer Research CAREER PROSPECTS Including Chemistry and Biology(preferred) WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? inorganic and organic chemistry biochemistry, genomic counselling, Including Biology and Chemistry (Preferred) Institute. undergraduate degrees in the School Graduates are suitably placed at Higher Level • Successful Medical Biochemistry in health and disease. During the paramedic sciences, and physician at Higher Level of Medical Sciences, students may to meet the recruitment needs • Access: Only Science or Bioscience diplomas students will be ideally placed for third year you will also be expected associate. Please note many of these • Access: Only Science or Bioscience diplomas have the opportunity to change to an provide the necessary pre-requisite WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? of employers in the areas of MSc and PhD programmes and for to complete a piece of independent require further postgraduate study provide the necessary pre-requisite alternative degree course before the biotechnology, drug development, knowledge: Pass knowledge: Pass • Cutting-edge science is integral to • Welsh Baccalaureate research positions within the NHS. research in which you will examine and/or training. our research programmes, and start of Year 2 (subject to eligibility clinical research or public health • Students will be taught by a key question in the field of medical • Welsh Baccalaureate criteria). services. Medical biologists can • Extended Project Qualification • Extended Project Qualification feeds through into the teaching • Key Skills and General Studies not accepted. academics, clinicians and biochemistry. The findings of your Additionally, graduates from the • Key Skills and General Studies not accepted. environment. Our expertise in become involved in intellectual International school leaving qualifications researchers with considerable research will then be submitted as a Medical Biochemistry degree will International school leaving qualifications and medical biology encompasses Years 2 and 3 property management, business and college diplomas are accepted, subject NHS, academic and research written dissertation. Welsh medium be well positioned for employment college diplomas are accepted, subject to studies into cell cycle research, Modules build on first year content development, project management to minimum English Language requirements: experience. modules are also available. within the pharmaceutical industry. minimum English Language requirements: cancer biology, cell and genome and introduce more advanced or marketing, and are employed www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Students will have the opportunity www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs concepts and practical skills. These by cancer charities, government We also welcome applications from mature biology. to carry out laboratory work in our HOW WILL I LEARN? We also welcome applications from mature focus on obtaining knowledge agencies, the NHS and research applicants. applicants. • Our research was ranked 3rd out *For full details go to our website and for a excellent facilities. Teaching is through lectures, of 94 UK-wide submissions for and expertise that can be used for institutes. • Our research was ranked 3rd out seminars and practicals. *For full details go to our website and for a future studies (e.g. our MRes in full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go Research Output in REF 2014. to www.ucas.com of 94 UK-wide submissions for Assessment is by a mixture of to www.ucas.com • Our first-rate facilities include Molecular Medicine or PhD studies) Research Output in REF 2014. examinations , practical laboratory well equipped cell and molecular or employment in research-related reports, coursework and research laboratories and newly areas. WHAT WILL I STUDY? presentations, including the refurbished state-of-the-art research project in the final year. laboratories for practical teaching. HOW WILL I LEARN? Year 1 Welsh-medium modules are also You will have a range of lectures During the first year you will attend available. WHAT WILL I STUDY? and practicals each week, lectures, tutorials and laboratory supplemented with tutorials in years FOUNDATION YEAR FOUNDATION YEAR practical sessions to provide a broad We offer a Foundation Year, 1 and 2. The final year includes a We offer a Foundation Year, Year 1 base of relevant knowledge and preceding year 1 designed research project, supervised by preceding year 1 designed During the first year you will attend proficiencies. to prepare students for a staff member on a subject of to prepare students for lectures, tutorials and laboratory all undergraduate degree your interest. Assessment is by all undergraduate degree INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL practical sessions to provide a broad programmes in the School. This INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Compulsory modules: programmes in the School. This EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE formal examination and continuous EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Foundation in Molecules and Cells Page 87 base of relevant knowledge and option provides the essential Page 87 option provides the essential assessment in a variety of formats. • Key Skills in Medical Science proficiencies. understanding of biological and understanding of biological and Welsh-medium modules are also • Foundation in Chemistry WANT TO KNOW MORE? chemical principles that underpin WANT TO KNOW MORE? chemical principles that underpin Compulsory modules: available. • Good Laboratory Practice Medical Sciences the field. This option would allow Medical Sciences the field. This option would allow • Foundation in Molecules and Cells • Biomedical Practicals applicants without the necessary applicants without the necessary Tel: 01248 388620 • Key Skills in Medical Science Tel: 01248 388620 • Physiology and Anatomy scientific background for the 3 scientific background for the 3 INTERNATIONAL E-mail:INTERNATIONAL [email protected] • Foundation in Chemistry INTERNATIONAL E-mail:INTERNATIONAL [email protected] • Introduction to Microbiology EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE year programmes to embarkEXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE year programmes to embark Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/smsPage 234 • Good Laboratory Practice Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/smsPage 234 • Foundation in Therapeutics on a 4 year course leading to on a 4 year course leading to • Biomedical Practicals the same qualification, subject the same qualification, subject • Physiology and Anatomy to successfully passing the to successfully passing the • Introduction to Microbiology Foundation Year. Foundation Year. • Foundation in Therapeutics 126 127 MEDICINE: C21 NORTH WALES MBBCh HEALTH SCIENCES COURSE FACTS WHAT IS C21 NORTH WALES / The course is structured to allow HOW TO APPLY AND FURTHER UCAS course codes: GOGLEDD CYMRU? students to acquire the necessary INFORMATION A102 knowledge, clinical skills and Applicants wishing to study this Length: 4 years Bangor University is delivering professional attitudes required by Cardiff University course in north ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: the C21 curriculum – North the General Medical Council within Wales at Bangor University should A102 - Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM): Wales Graduate Entry to Medicine an integrated spiral curriculum. apply through Cardiff University. the route of admission at time of printing is 4-year programme (MBBCh) in only available via the course feeder streams. collaboration with Cardiff University A100 - five year Medicine You can find more course Our recognised feeder streams for the A102 School of Medicine. This course is A100 students wishing to undertake information, contact details and GEM entry are for students graduating with entirely based in north Wales with the C21 North Wales / Gogledd application information on Cardiff Bachelor of Midwifery BM* one of the following degrees: placements across the region. Cymru programme will be required University’s website: • BSc (Hons) Medical Pharmacology Degree to meet the same entry criteria Bachelor of Nursing BN* School of Medicine Cardiff University (B210) www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/ • BSc (Hons) Biomedical Sciences Degree We aim to train the very best doctors as other students on the standard undergraduate/courses/2020/ Diagnostic Radiography BSc* School of Biosciences Cardiff University for Wales and the UK by providing Cardiff University A100 course mbbch-north-wales Health and Social Care BA (BC97) high quality teaching and an and will commit to undertaking • BMedSci Degree from the School of Medical inspiring learning experience based Year 2 of the course onwards in VISIT BANGOR UNIVERSITY *These programmes lead to professional Sciences, Bangor University (B100) around high levels of clinical contact. North Wales, following successful If you are considering studying this registration with the appropriate body. • BSc (Hons) Medical Sciences Degree from progression from Year 1 of the course at Bangor University, please the University of South Wales (B901) The C21 North Wales / Gogledd course. Specific support for students visit one of the University Open Days, Cymru course is delivered in who choose to undertake this option held in the Summer and Autumn If you are on one of these feeder streams and interested in the course don’t hesitate to partnership between the School will be provided to ensure adequate (see introductory pages of this Related Degrees contact us. of Medical Sciences at Bangor preparation for the move. prospectus for details). Biomedical Science BSc (p.125) University and Cardiff University’s School of Medicine. It provides At the time of printing, expressions Medical Biochemistry BSc (p.127) graduate entry students with the of interest from Year 1 students Medical Biology BSc (p.126) opportunity to undertake all their will be accepted from the start of Medical Sciences BMedSci (p.124) medical degree in North Wales. the course but it is anticipated that Sports Science (Intercalated) (p.154) a separate course code will be On this Medicine programme you will generated to allow applicants to Clinical Sports Science (Intercalated) (p.154) broadly follow the same curriculum Cardiff Medical School to choose the Neuropsychology (Intercalated) (p.140) as those based in Cardiff but with Bangor route at application rather Psychology with Clinical and Health Psychology (p.139) a greater focus on community than at the start of their course in Psychology with Neuropsychology (p.140) medicine through a range of clinical Cardiff. placements in varied environments, Sport, Health and Exercise Science (p.147) including a full year at a GP surgery, Please contact Cardiff Medical Sport, Health and Physical Education (p.150) time in large teaching hospitals, School or Bangor University for mountain medicine and rural further information on this option. environments.

You will also experience small group Gogledd North teaching at Bangor University (TEF C21 Cymru Wales Gold-rated) and award-winning clinical teaching at the University Health Board.

The C21 North Wales / Gogledd WANT TO KNOW MORE? Cymru course accepts high Medical Sciences performing students from recognised feeder stream courses Tel: 01248 388620 E-mail: [email protected] linked to Cardiff University School www.bangor.ac.uk/medical-sciences/ of Medicine’s Graduate Entry medicine-north-wales Programme and also students already accepted onto their A100 programme who wish to transfer to Bangor, after successful completion of the first year. 128 129 BACHELOR OF NURSING BACHELOR OF NURSING BN [Hons] BN [Hons]

COURSE FACTS HEALTH SCIENCES nurses/standards-for-pre-registration-nursing- WHAT ARE THESE COURSES This course is focused on Bangor’s clients of all ages to live their lives as UCAS course codes: We provide a stimulating and programmes/ ABOUT? Archimedes Centre campus in fully and independently as possible, B741 (Adult Nursing); B763 (Learning supportive environment for our The Bachelor of Nursing Degree is Wrexham. whilst respecting their rights and Disability Nursing); B762 (Mental students to gain undergraduate NMC entry requirements include demonstrating appropriate for careers working with dignity. Health Nursing); B732 (Children’s people of all ages facing physical Nursing) and postgraduate qualifications in good health and good character. The School The content of the programme Length: 3 years healthcare. These courses provide requires all candidates to undertake an and mental health challenges or includes theoretical modules in Some of the course time will be successful students with the enhanced criminal record check and other living with learning disabilities who generic nursing and child field spent on placement, in a range of Wrexham campus eligibility to apply for registration requirements for demonstrating good character; need professional nursing care. specific subjects; placements are different settings. Placements are Adult – September & Spring cohorts in their field of practice with the the local Health Board will be responsible for Nursing offers a range of interesting carried out across the three years designed to give you the experience Mental Health – Spring cohort Nursing and Midwifery Council or setting the requirement for good health. and rewarding careers in healthcare. in a range of clinical areas such as of working with clients and service Child – September cohort. the Health and Care Professions Advice on entry requirements and hospitals, special care baby units, users under the supervision of Bangor campus Council. Our partnerships – working You can also contact the School through careers can be found at: hospice, mental health services, registered nurses and others. Adult – September & Spring cohorts www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore- Mental Health – September cohort with NHS organisations, vibrant [email protected] for further community children’s nursing teams There is a field specific focus to the Learning Disability – September research programmes, together advice and information. by-career/nursing/ and specialised paediatric intensive programme from year 1, along with cohort. with opportunities for inter- care units in England. certain common modules. For locations of the Fields of Practice, professional learning will ensure Candidates with entry qualifications older than Adult Nursing BN see the website or contact us. our graduates are well equipped to 5 years must demonstrate evidence of recent The one key word that could be Mental Health Nursing BN WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? pursue successful and rewarding study at an appropriate level. used to describe the role of adult Mental health nursing is a rewarding • Highly ranked for graduate ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: careers in healthcare, including the field registered nurses is diversity though demanding career. Mental prospects with many students Full details of entry requirements, nursing, midwifery and radiography Academic requirements – registered nurses who hold adult health nurses work with people securing job offers before screening and the interview process professions. GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language/Welsh field registration (and additional experiencing a range of mental graduating. are available on our website. professional learning. Within the CAREER PROSPECTS Language and Maths or the equivalent in registerable qualifications, for health issues in a variety of settings • Excellent links with Betsi Information on the Nursing and individual degree programmes Qualifying as a Registered Nurse Our academic staff and clinical Numeracy and Communication Essential Skills, example prescribing or teaching) addressing not only their mental Cadwaladr University Health Board Midwifery Council requirements there are shared learning in Wales provides eligibility for partners are committed to providing level 2. care for the needs of people across health but also their physical, social offering placements across north for digital literacy, numeracy and opportunities for all fields to learn registration with the Nursing and communication and language skills is you with learning opportunities that A minimum of O4 from Irish Leaving Certificate. the lifespan, including safeguarding and spiritual needs. This course Wales in a variety of settings. together about common or generic Midwifery Council. Careers may available at www.nmc-uk.org. advance your understanding of, Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 the health of mother and baby. offers the opportunity to gain a • Our staff have a wide range of elements such as anatomy and be with large employers e.g. NHS The Nursing and Midwifery Council and confidence in, clinical practice. UCAS tariff points for the Bachelor of Nursing You will be able to experience that degree and registration with the clinical experience at the forefront physiology, psychology, sociology, Health Boards or independent also have requirements in relation to Through our research, we are programmes. diversity during placements in Nursing and Midwifery Council. of their professional fields. good health and good character may communication, reflection, law and sector organisations and can committed to the development • A Levels and Tech-Level clinical areas where adult nurses Each year of the programme has • Campuses in Bangor and Wrexham be found at the NMC’s website: www. ethics. lead to opportunities in clinical of professional practice and the • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and practice which might include: both generic and mental health field allowing students on most courses nmc-uk.org. specialisms, management, research, improvement of healthcare. We Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: DMM • Acute sector general and specialist specific modules equating to 120 some flexibility in which campus HOW WILL I LEARN? or education. also have expertise in the delivery • International Baccalaureate Diploma medical and surgical nursing credits per year. We have a range of they attend for at least some parts The Bachelor of Nursing programmes You will have compulsory theoretical have been developed to meet the of clinical and social care in the • Extended Project Qualification • Critical care nursing (intensive and placements available for students of their course. study and clinical placements Nursing and Midwifery Council bilingual context of Wales and • Access including Distinction / Merit profile high dependency care, emergency which include child and adolescent • Top 10 for Nursing and Midwifery in hospitals, community and/ Standards for Pre-registration support students in using their (maximum 9 Passes) department, theatres and recovery) services, inpatient units, community related research (The Complete or residential settings in north Education 2018. language of choice for study. • Welsh Baccalaureate Skills Challenge • Community nursing in the home mental health teams, older person’s University Guide 2020). Wales. Support is available from a • Irish Leaving Certificate: 112 points from a environment and primary care. services, medium secure units and personal tutor who is a registered Some courses are only delivered minimum of 4 Higher Subjects substance misuse services. WHAT WILL I STUDY? nurse and an academic member at our campus in Wrexham whilst • FETAC QQI Level 5 Certificate in Nursing Children’s Nursing BN You can study one of our four fields of staff and supervision from a others can be delivered at both Studies: distinction profile A children’s nurse cares for children Learning Disability Nursing BN of practice; Adult Nursing, Mental practicing registered nurse or a Bangor and Wrexham giving • We welcome applications from mature and young people of all ages, from a This course offers the opportunity Health Nursing, Learning Disability registered healthcare professional additional flexibility to our students. students who are completing an Access HE new born baby to an adolescent, and to achieve a qualification that will Nursing or Children’s nursing The on placement. Theoretical and Diploma or who have evidence of recent study with a range of physical, emotional enable you to enter a fulfilling career course is based equally on theory INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL practical work is assessed through EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: at Level 3 or above in the past five years and mental health needs. The role working with children or adults who and practice – 50% is on theoretical Page 87 assignments, examinations, Entry Process for Professional which meets our entry requirements; please is highly rewarding and can be are living with learning disabilities study and 50% is spent in clinical presentations and the All-Wales Courses note that we do not accept NVQ Level 3/QCF challenging in today’s fast changing and who need the support of a practice developing competence Assessment of Clinical Practice WANT TO KNOW MORE? 5 GCSEs at grade C/4 or above which must Level 3 as a means of meeting our entry health care environment. Working learning disability nurse. Learning needed for entry to the NMC’s portfolio and On-going Record of Health Sciences include English and Mathematics, a science qualifications. as a member of a team with other disability nurses can be seen register. You will develop skills and Achievement. subject is essential for radiography and healthcare professionals, children’s working in different settings as professional behaviours, values Tel: 01248 383189 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL desirable for the Bachelor of Nursing *For full details go to our website and for a full list of nurse’s work in a variety of settings well as for a range of different and attitudes expected of a nurse to EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/health-sciencesPage 234 programmes. The exception to meeting the accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www.ucas.com including hospitals, community employers which include the NHS ensure the safety and protection of GCSE requirements in full applies to some clinics, specialised units or patients and independent sector. Learning people of all ages and their carers’ Access HE Diploma applicants. All applicants homes. Children’s nurses work disability nurses often contribute to and families. There are opportunities must satisfy a range of entry criteria, please closely with family members and multi-professional working and are to study alongside other student see the Nursing and Midwifery Council website: carers to reduce the impact of being concerned with their clients’ health healthcare professionals and www.nmc.org.uk/standards/standards-for- ill or in hospital. in the widest context. They help we have a strategy for inter- 130 131 BACHELOR OF MIDWIFERY DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY BM [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS HEALTH SCIENCES • NCFE CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma: COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? be in a clinical environment – all UCAS course code: See page 132 for information. Grade B UCAS course code: Radiography is one of the placements are in modern well B720 BM/MW • Welsh Baccalaureate B821 BSc/DR professions allied to medicine. equipped settings. No other WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Irish Leaving Certificate: 120 points from a Location: Wrexham Archimedes Successful completion of the course Diagnostic radiography is an university offers more clinical • Our staff have a wide range of minimum of 4 Higher Subjects Centre campus. This course is not offers the opportunity to register taught in Bangor. invaluable aid in the diagnosis of weeks throughout the course. • to practise as a midwife and obtain clinical experience at the forefront • FETAC QQI Level 5 Certificate in Nursing Length: 3 years disease. Diagnostic radiographers We provide a high level of support an Honours Degree in Midwifery. of their professional fields. They Studies: Distinction Profile are responsible for the production and guidance and use small group Elements of the course will be work in partnership with local • General Studies is not accepted ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: of images involving the use of teaching whenever possible. available through the medium of health providers, including Betsi • We welcome applications from mature (Also see next column) X-rays and other methods including • 5th overall in the UK for Welsh. For information on our Cadwaladr University Health students who are completing an Access HE GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language/Welsh ultrasound, computed tomography Radiography and 4th for related bilingual provision go to: www. Board, to ensure our students’ Diploma or who have evidence of recent study Language and Maths or the equivalent in (CT), radionuclide imaging (RNI) and research quality (The Times Good bangor.ac.uk/healthcaresciences/ learning is of the highest quality. at Level 3 or above in the past five years Numeracy and Communication Essential magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). University Guide 2020). bilingual_provision • Midwifery at Bangor is accredited which meets our entry requirements; please Skills, level 2. A minimum of O4 from Irish WHAT WILL I STUDY? Leaving Certificate. Typical offer is based on Radiographers comment on image HOW WILL I LEARN? Location: This course is held jointly by UNICEF UK Baby Friendly note that we do not accept NVQ Level 3/ QCF The current course is based a minimum 120 tariff points from a Level 3 appearances for referrers after an WHAT WILL I STUDY? You will typically spend 35 hours a at both our Bangor and Wrexham Initiative. Level 3 as a means of meeting our entry on the Nursing and Midwifery qualification* e.g.: examination is completed; they can The taught content is delivered at week on the course when on clinical campus. • Top 10 for Nursing and Midwifery qualifications. Council’s guiding principles which • A Levels: BBB including Biology or Physics. also issue full reports after specialist the Archimedes Centre, Wrexham. placement (including a half-day Length: 3 years full-time. The course related research (The Complete *For full details go to our website and for a full list of establish the philosophy and values • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and postgraduate training. starts in September Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: of study) and 25 hours when in University Guide 2020). accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www.ucas.com underpinning the requirements for Year 1 academic study. You will be expected DDM in a Health or Science Subject Entry Process for Professional This year involves 17 academic ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: entry on to the midwifery part of the • Access: 30 Distinction and 15 Merit grades to complete assignments/projects ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? professional register: Courses (also see previous column) weeks and 21 clinical weeks. Clinical and some practical work in your The entry requirements on the right You will have the opportunity to in a Science based pathway outline the minimum educational Entry Process for Professional • Irish Leaving Certificate: Minimum of 5 5 GCSEs at grade C/4 or above which must include experience begins in week 9 so you own time and prepare for clinical Courses gain clinical experience in maternity • Provision of woman centred care English and Mathematics, science subjects are will quickly become familiar with requirements. If selected, applicants • Ethical and legal obligations Higher Subjects at grade H3 (including assessments. Practical work is will be expected to attend an 5 GCSEs at grade C/4 or above which must units offering care to women and Biology or Physics) desirable. The exception to meeting the GCSE professional aspects of the course. • Respect for individuals and communities extremely important and evaluative interview and undergo further include English and Mathematics, science their families during and following • International Baccalaureate Diploma: requirements in full applies to some Access HE skills are developed in practical screening for entry into the Midwifery subjects are desirable. The exception to pregnancy. This includes working • Quality and excellence in midwifery care i n c l u d i n g H 6 i n B i o l o g y o r P h y s i c s Diploma applicants. Applicants will be expected to Year 2 course. • Lifelong learning • Extended Project Qualification clinical sessions. Assessment meeting the GCSE requirements in full applies with midwifery teams in the attend for an interview if shortlisted, and undergo Emphasis is placed on the includes written assignments, to some Access HE Diploma applicants. community to provide continuity • The changing nature and context of • Welsh Baccalaureate further screening for entry into radiography. application of knowledge to the At the time of printing, this course midwifery practice • We welcome applications from mature poster presentations, practical All applicants must satisfy a range of entry of care. You will also have the The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) clinical field. In addition to 16 experiments, clinical assessments, is validated against the Nursing criteria – consult the NMC’s Standards for opportunity to experience multi- • Evidence-based practice and learning students who are completing an Access HE and Midwifery Standards for Diploma or who have evidence of recent identify general entry requirements for admission academic weeks you will spend oral presentations, problem-based Preregistration Nursing Education or contact disciplinary team working thus and state that all applicants must demonstrate 25 weeks on clinical placement, Preregistration Education, 2010. Please note that a new curriculum study at Level 3 or above in the past five learning and a research project. Courses will be validated to the [email protected] for further providing a holistic service to women years which meets our entry requirements; that they have good health and good character. including elective placements. advice/information. NMC entry requirements and their families. will be developed and followed new Standards of Proficiency for please note that we do not accept NVQ Level The School will require candidates to meet with You will also begin to prepare for the CAREER PROSPECTS Registered Midwives in 2021 and from September 2020 to meet the include demonstrating good health and good 3/ QCF Level 3 as a means of meeting our DBS approval (criminal record check) and other Research Project in Year 3. Career prospects in Diagnostic modified as appropriate. See the character. The School requires all candidates WHY CHOOSE THIS COURSE? new NMC programme standards entry qualifications. requirements for demonstrating good character; website for the latest details. and proficiencies for midwifery *For full details go to our website and for a Radiography continue to be good. to undertake a criminal record check and other • We have a long-established history there are also requirements for good health, Year 3 For the last 11 years our graduates requirements for demonstrating good character; of training midwives to a high education which are expected to be full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go assessed via occupational health screening. The There are 10 academic weeks and published in November 2019. to www.ucas.com have found 100% employment, the local Health Board will be responsible standard. course admissions team are able to provide further 22 clinical weeks. You will apply mainly within the NHS. Career for setting the requirement for good health. • The clinical midwifery providers information on request (please e-mail rdse01@ your learning to a research project development is linked to continuous Candidates with entry qualifications older than offer you varied and exciting HOW WILL I LEARN? bangor.ac.uk with any questions you may have). and develop skills in advanced The theory part of the course will be professional development with the 5 years must demonstrate evidence of recent opportunities to work with mentors Candidates with entry qualifications older than 5 applications and techniques. opportunity to achieve postgraduate study at an appropriate level. in community and hospital settings. provided mainly in our study centre years must demonstrate evidence of recent study at Throughout your course you’ll cover in Bangor but also in Wrexham along qualifications. Once qualified it is • Course fees paid by the NHS along an appropriate level. a number of areas of study such possible to specialise in a particular Academic Requirements: with access to a the NHS Wales with study in other areas across as: The Science of the Human Body, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL imaging modality or further develop EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language/ bursary scheme – go to: www. north and mid Wales and private EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Theory and Practice of Radiography, Page 87 your career within Radiography Welsh Language and Maths or the wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/955/ study. Practice placements will be Page 87 • We are ranked top in the UK Interpretation of Images, Healthcare with Betsi Cadwaladr University as an advanced or consultant equivalent in Numeracy and Communication page/72050 for Radiography with a 100% Practice and Evaluation and practitioner. WANT TO KNOW MORE? Essential Skills, level 2. A minimum Health Board. WANT TO KNOW MORE? employment rate (The Times Good Preparation for Practice. Health Sciences o f O 4 f r o m I r i s h L e a v i n g C e r t i f i c a t e . Health Sciences University Guide 2020). Typical offer is based on a minimum 120 tariff Assessment is continuous • This programme will allow you to Tel: 01248 383189 Tel: 01248 383189 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: throughout, and consists of bothINTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL gain an honours degree and be EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] theory and clinical assessmentEXPERIENCE along E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/health-sciencesPage 234 • A Levels Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/health-sciencesPage 234 eligible to apply for registration • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and with course and group work. with the Health and Care Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: DDM Professions Council. • I n t e r n a t i o n a l B a c c a l a u r e a t e D i p l o m a • Many of our students secure job • Extended Project Qualification offers before they graduate. • Access: 30 Distinction, 15 Merit grades • Over half of your learning will 132 133 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE BA [Hons] / MSocSci PSYCHOLOGY COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Year 4 (MSocSci) UCAS course codes: This degree provides a Students may wish to extend their L510 BA/HSC; multidisciplinary, social science Year 1 undergraduate studies beyond L514 MSOCSCI/HSC based route to qualification in Introduces the key concepts, Year 3 (BA) to Year 4 (MSocSci). Psychology BSc/MSci for joint honours codes see pages the health and social care fields. historical background and The programme aims to provide Psychology with Clinical and Health Psychology BSc/MSci 69-70 contemporary issues relating to Length: 3 years (BA); 4 years An alternative to clinical training, opportunities to expand knowledge Psychology with Neuropsychology BSc (MSocSci) the emphasis is on the social health and social care as well as of the discipline by engaging with experiences of health and care, training in research skills. Modules contemporary research, as well Psychology with Forensic Psychology BSc ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: including the policy issues, the will cover topics including: as by experiencing a group-based Psychology with Business Management BSc For joint degrees you should also look at the delivery and management of • Health and Welfare Issues project. Modules cover topics entry requirements for your other chosen services, and the evaluation of • Social Research including: Neuropsychology BSc (Intercalated) subject. evidence. Some modules, as well • Criminology and Criminal Justice • Research Processes and Strategy as certain subjects in joint honours • Social Science • Social Policy Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff • Understanding Society points for BA, 112 points for MSocSci from a combinations, are also available • Health Policies Related Degrees Level 3 qualification* e.g.: through the medium of Welsh. For • Social Work French with Psychology (p.228) Year 2 • A Levels details, see the Welsh prospectus. • Social Science German with Psychology (p.230) • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Modules cover topics that Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? provide a thorough grounding HOW WILL I LEARN? Sport and Exercise Psychology (p.148) (DMM required for MSocSci) • Top 20 in the UK for Student in key theoretical perspectives, You will undertake reading, Marketing with Psychology (p.170) • International Baccalaureate Diploma Satisfaction (Complete University comparative studies in health research, library searches, • Access: Pass Access to Higher Education Childhood & Youth Studies and Psychology (p.69) Guide 2020). and welfare policy, and research project work, and preparation for Diploma methodologies. Topics covered Criminology & Criminal Justice and Psychology (p.69) • Irish Leaving Certificate: 96 points from a • We aim to provide a friendly and presentations. Some modules m i n i m u m o f 4 H i g h e r S u b j e c t s informal learning environment. include: involve project and/or small group Linguistics and Psychology (p.70) • NCFE CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma • The degree structure is flexible and • Personal Social Services work. Your dissertation involves Sociology and Psychology (p.70) • Methods of Social Research (Grade B required for MSocSci) offers a range of specialisms and a research in the area of your choice. Social Policy and Psychology (p.70) • Welsh Baccalaureate. breadth of choice. • Sociology of Health We have good links with universities International school leaving qualifications and • The degree is taught by experts • Social Psychology in Denmark, Spain, Poland, Germany college diplomas are accepted, subject to in the subject who aim to be • Crime and Justice and Finland, and you may spend up minimum English Language requirements: innovative and to meet real needs. • Social Work to one semester abroad. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Quality and Compliance We also welcome applications from mature • The introductory year’s work is applicants. designed to build your confidence, • Ageing and Well-being We use a variety of assessment *For full details go to our website and for a whatever your background. • Public Health methods, including coursework, full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • We use a variety of learning examinations and the dissertation. to www.ucas.com approaches. As well as the Year 3 Some modules are wholly assessed development of personal skills, As well as a research project by coursework. we emphasise the development focused on an area of interest you’ll of practical skills in observation, complete your degree with a more CAREER PROSPECTS interpretation, information detailed study which could include Through studying this subject you processing and presentation, all of topics including: will gain a good background for which will be valued by employers. • Global Health & Social Care careers in areas such as health • You will have the opportunity to • Mental Health & Society services management, research, spend a semester abroad as part • Policing and Society health promotion and social and of the degree. • Crime community work. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Addiction EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 • Health Leadership • Epidemiology WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Health Economics Health Sciences • Health Policy JOINT HONOURS DEGREES • Housing You can study Health and Social Tel: 01248 383189 Care as a Joint Honours Degree INTERNATIONAL E-mail:INTERNATIONAL [email protected] EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE with one of the following subjects: Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/health-sciencesPage 234 Criminology and Criminal Justice, Social Policy, Sociology and Cymdeithaseg or Polisi Cymdeithasol (both Welsh medium courses).

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COURSE FACTS WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGY ABOUT? EMPLOYABILITY You’ll be assessed by a mixture of State-of-the Art Laboratories AREAS OF EXPERTISE monolingual and bilingual infants, STUDY PSYCHOLOGY WITH UCAS course codes: You will be introduced to the Employability is a key theme of coursework and end of semester and Facilities We have academic teams of world children, and adults. ANOTHER SUBJECT C800 BSc/PS Psychology scientific underpinnings of the Psychology programme you examinations and in the third year There are a range of laboratory renown working in the following If you are particularly interested C80P BSc/PSP Psychology with human behaviour and you’ll study will follow in Bangor and we have you’ll carry out your own major facilities for practicals and projects. broad research specialisms: Current research topics include in Sports Psychology, then Sports, Placement Year that behaviour. Amongst many embedded a large number of research project in an area that Laboratories include those for the phonological and lexical Health and Exercise Sciences at C807 MSci/PS Psychology study of visual perception and motor Perception, Action and Memory development, word recognition, Bangor offer BSc Sport and Exercise C880 BSc/PHS Psychology with other fascinating topics, you will opportunities within our degree to interests you. Clinical and Health Psychology investigate individual differences, give graduates as strong a CV as control, language acquisition, infant This group addresses how semantic processing, literacy, Psychology – which is accredited by C808 MSci/PHS Psychology with cognition, the influence of the possible and to equip them with a We have academics with a wide attention, and cognitive-emotional we extract information from treatment programmes for aphasia the BPS (see page 148). Clinical & Health Psychology brain on behaviour, the history of host of transferable skills that are range of research specialisms, disorders. These laboratories the environment and use this in bilinguals, cognitive advantages C88P BSc/PHSP Psychology with psychology, the impact of life in a relevant to both psychology and non- many of whom have international contain sophisticated equipment, information to guide our actions, to bilingualism, cross-language We also offer Joint Honours Clinical & Health Psychology with social world, and you’ll gather and psychology related careers. reputations, and our graduates e.g. electrophysiological apparatus and how such interactions result priming and interference in degrees (these will not qualify Placement Year analyse data as a scientist. regard their projects as one of the designed for the recording of brain in learning and memory. Studies bilinguals. you for the Graduate Basis for C801 BSc/PsyN Psychology with Students enrolled on any most challenging but rewarding activity, infra-red motion tracking investigate the flow of information Chartered Membership of the Neuropsychology systems designed for the recording from perception (e.g. vision, hearing, Social Neuroscience British Psychological Society). See C813 BSc/PsyFP Psychology with The skills and insights you will gain undergraduate degree programme parts of the course. This ensures Forensic Psychology will be useful in many careers, and in the School may opt to change their that our graduates have highly of eye and limb movements and a touch), to how attention and eye- Broadly, the research questions in pages 69-70 for UCAS codes for C8N2 BSc/PBM Psychology with will prepare you for further training degree to a ‘with Placement Year’ developed skills. 3Tesla MRI scanner. movements guide the selection this area are about how the brain Psychology with: Childhood Studies, Business Management as a professional psychologist, degree (see introductory pages for of actions, how responses can be makes sense of the social world. Criminology and Criminal Justice, scientific researcher, or as a details). LEARNING SUPPORT Students working with children have switched between different tasks, Particular foci are on the perception English Language, Linguistics Length: 3 years (BSc); 4 years (MSci) graduate employee in a diverse We invest heavily in ensuring access to our Day Care Nursery; this how actions are directed through of other people – their faces, bodies, and Sociology-related Degrees. range of other sectors. The simple fact that you will students have access to high quality has fully-equipped research areas, 3D space and how memory systems voices; understanding the meaning You may also study Psychology Neuropsychology (Intercalated) B140 housing a range of computing and interact. of others’ actions; on social learning; as a component of other degree BSc/CN (Length 1 year) graduate from an internationally technology facilities designed for WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? renowned, research-intensive effective and enjoyable learning. Our observational facilities. We also on disorders of social cognition; and schemes: French with Psychology For joint honours codes see p. 69-70 The combination of high rankings in Psychology department adds main student Psychology building is have specialist facilities for work Clinical, Health and Behavioural on emotion and memory. (page 228), German with Psychology the three key aspects of course additional value to your degree and equipped with over 100 computers in speech perception and child Psychology (page 230). satisfaction, research quality and improves your employability. allowing easy access to all the development. The heart of the Clinical, Health and SINGLE HONOURS COURSES ENTRY REQUIREMENTS graduate prospects with unusual software you’ll need and several Behavioural Psychology (CHBP) We offer a choice of single honours See individual course pages for entry and innovative learning activities HOW WILL I LEARN? University computer facilites are In addition, the main student research grouping is the application BSc courses and two extended requirements. make studying Psychology at Bangor You’ll learn about the topics you’d open 24/7. Psychology building has general of psychological knowledge to undergraduate MSci courses. All a unique experience. expect to on a BPS accredited experimental rooms available understand and to address human these programmes are accredited • 5th (of 118) in the UK for student undergraduate degree. The for student use; again, these behaviour and broader psychological by the British Psychological Society satisfaction (NSS 2019). difference is that at Bangor you’ll are equipped with a range of well-being. A range of applied as conferring eligibility for Graduate • 3rd for Student Experience (Times learn some of these things through 5th in UK and 1st in experimental apparatus. The questions drives the research in Basis for Chartered Membership, Good University Guide 2020). experiences and learning techniques Wheldon Building combines services this group, with many addressing provided the minimum standard • 93% in work or further study after that are not available elsewhere. Wales for Student for teaching, research and study behaviour change but also typical of qualification of second class 6 months (Psychology, Unistats in one building and enables us to developmental processes across honours is achieved. This is the first 2019). We offer unique learning Satisfaction. develop a range of exciting teaching the lifespan. Using a variety of step towards becoming a Chartered “The thing I enjoyed the most th • 17 for Research Quality experiences, including: a brain (NSS 2019) strategies and to explore innovative psychological approaches, this Psychologist and is vital should about my course is definitely the (Complete University Guide 2020). anatomy practical in the first year ways of delivering the psychology group seeks to make real changes you wish to continue with further • 89% of Psychology research curriculum. to behaviour of benefit to individuals professional training in psychology. variety. From being given the where you get to see, touch and opportunity to hold a real brain rated as either ‘world-leading’ or hold real human brains; a gamified and to other psychological and Due to the dynamic nature of our ‘internationally excellent’ (REF module in the second year involving quality of life outcomes. Health degree programmes, specific topics to focusing my studies towards 2014). actors, costumes, mini missions psychology is also an important of study are occasionally subject my interests – there have been • We are one of the largest and even zombies; an applied third “Bangor Psychology is focus for research. This vibrant to change so please check the many things I have enjoyed.” Psychology departments in the year module on motivational and producing some of the best group we established Britain’s first website for the most up to date list of UK and have some of the largest doctoral degree programme in available modules. positive psychology that could at psychology graduates in the ALLAN BRAMWELL numbers of overseas students, clinical psychology. the end of it have you saying “I am a UK.” BSc Psychology with WANT TO KNOW MORE? giving us a vibrant, diverse and marathoner”. POSTGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES International Experience Psychology cosmopolitan feel. Language, Bilingualism, and Many of our students enjoy being at • Specialist tutors including Careers, There are, of course, the normal EXTERNAL EXAMINERS’ Cognitive Development Bangor so much that they choose Tel: 01248 388453 Disability and International Tutors range of lectures, seminars, tutorials REPORT A variety of behavioural, neuro- to stay here and undertake post- E-mail: [email protected] to help you achieve your potential psychological, and cognitive graduate study. We have a vibrant www.bangor.ac.uk/psychology and practicals and we make @PsychBangor • A large number of specialist extensive use of technology in order neuroscience methods are used to community of over 200 postgraduate research labs including a 3Tesla to enhance your learning experience study the interaction of language students who enjoy the academic MRI scanner, TMS, ERP, EEG, a including blogs, podcasts, online and cognition. In this research group, challenges and research excellence Nursery and a Brain Anatomy materials etc. projects include both basic level associated with Psychology at laboratory. and transactional research with Bangor. 136 137 PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY WITH CLINICAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY BSc [Hons] / MSci BSc [Hons] / MSci

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Year 1 Year 4 – MSci only COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Year 4 – MSci only UCAS course codes: This ‘pure psychology’ course As well as modules covering As well as extending your project UCAS course codes: On this course, as well as studying In Years 1 and 2 you will take all As well as extending your project C800 (BSc); C80P (BSc with will allow you to gain a scientific research methods and scientific and further developing your C880 (BSc); C88P (BSc with general psychology modules, you modules that are compulsory for and further developing your Placement Year); C807 (MSci) understanding of the basic writing and communication skills research skills you’ll choose Placement Year); C808 (MSc) will specialise in understanding single honours Psychology students. research skills you’ll undertake Length: 3 years (BSc); 4 years (with Length: 3 years (BSc); 4 years (with Placement Year and MSci) processes by which we learn, you’ll study a broad range of topics modules covering areas such as: Placement Year and MSci) the psychological factors involved You will then take core clinical and a compulsory module in Clinical think, feel and adapt to our social in areas, such as: • Clinical Neuropsychology in mental and physical health. health psychology modules in Year Psychology and choose others ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: conditions. The course covers • Psychology as a Science • Behaviour Change ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: In clinical psychology, you will 3. Each year you study a total of 120 from the wide range outlined under GCSE: C/4 in English Language, Maths and the investigation of behaviour • Stress and Distress • Neuroimaging GCSE: C/4 in English Language, Maths and Science. study behavioural problems in credits and the modules build over Year 4 in the BSc/MSCi Psychology Science. Typical offer is based on a minimum from infancy to old age, and deals • Happiness • Neurodevelopmental Disorders Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 tariff children, mental illness in adults, the years to provide both breadth description on the previous page. of 112 tariff points for BSc and 136 points for with the biological, social and • Faith and Culture • Bilingualism points for BSc and 136 points for MSci from a and psychological problems in old and depth of understanding focused MSci from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: individual factors that affect human • Applied Psychology • Cognition and Brain Research Level 3 qualification* e.g.: age. This will include important on Clinical and Health issues. YOUR RESEARCH • A Levels (applicants are strongly preferred psychology. This course offers • Brain and Mind • Practical Programming • A Levels (applicants are strongly preferred to contemporary issues such as eating Your BSc (and MSci) project will be to have at least one relevant science - have at least one relevant science - Maths, Maths, Biology, Human Biology, Physics, you the widest possible choice of • Clinical Psychology Biology, Human Biology, Physics, Chemistry, disorders and drug misuse. You will Year 1 on a clinical or health psychology Chemistry, Statistics, Psychology and modules, which enables you to tailor Year 2 • Childhood Statistics, Psychology and Science) analyse not only what causes these As well as modules covering topic. Recent student projects Science) your study as your interests develop. You’ll continue with research • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Cambridge problems but also how they can be research methods and scientific have addressed topics such as • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and methods modules, building your skill Modules are under constant review Technical Extended Diploma: Minimum of DMM treated, or, even better, prevented. In writing and communication skills personality, motivation and goals Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: The first year of the course is set and you’ll also cover core topics to keep them highly topical, so check for BSc; DDD for MSci health psychology, you will examine you’ll study a broad range of topics relating to smoking, drinking, Minimum of DMM for BSc; DDD for MSci designed to provide a broad intro- including: the website for the latest full list of • International Baccalaureate Diploma the psychological factors that lead in areas such as: physical activity and adherence, • International Baccalaureate Diploma duction to the study of psychology. • Social Psychology modules available on this course. • Access: 21 Distinction, 18 Merit and 6 Pass some individuals to behave in health- • Psychology as a Science and coping with stress, mental and • Access: 21 Distinction, 18 Merit and 6 Pass It is designed to provide a thorough • Cognitive Psychology grades for BSc; 30 Distinction and 15 Merit damaging ways, such as eating • Stress and Distress physical illness. grades for BSc; 30 Distinction and 15 Merit grades for MSci grades for MSci grounding in the subject for those • Biological Psychology YOUR RESEARCH • Welsh Baccalaureate unhealthy diets, not taking enough • Happiness • Welsh Baccalaureate with no psychology background • Behavioural Psychology We put great emphasis on • Extended Project Qualification is accepted in a exercise, or engaging in unsafe • Faith and Culture CAREER PROSPECTS • Extended Project Qualification is accepted in while allowing those who have • Developmental Psychology developing your research skills. relevant subject sexual behaviour. You will study • Applied Psychology BSc and MSci Psychology with a relevant subject already studied Psychology to • Personality and Individual Differences As part of the Research Methods • General Studies and Key Skills are not accepted. what happens when individuals do • Brain and Mind Clinical and Health Psychology • General Studies and Key Skills are not increase the breadth and depth of • Clinical Psychology modules, you’ll take part in International school leaving qualifications and become ill or disabled, with diseases focuses in that area but is still accepted. their understanding. The second • Concepts in Psychology practical sessions, in which you will college diplomas are accepted, subject to such as heart disease, cancer, and Year 2 suitable for students who want to International school leaving qualifications and year continues on the same basis, participate in a variety of research minimum English Language requirements: HIV/AIDS. As well as understanding You’ll continue with research follow any of the main psychological college diplomas are accepted, subject to enabling graduates to cover all Year 3 projects. You will then analyse www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs how things can go wrong, you will methods modules, building your professions (clinical psychology, minimum English Language requirements: We also welcome applications from mature www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs the core topics required for the As well as doing your project in an data and report the findings in applicants. analyse how the situation can be skill set and you’ll also cover topics educational psychology, counselling We also welcome applications from mature BPS Graduate Basis for Chartered area allied to your main interests a psychological research report *For full details go to our website and for a full improved through psychological including: psychology, health psychology etc). applicants. Membership. Year three completes you’ll really benefit he expertise format. You’ll gradually acquire list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www. interventions. • Social Psychology In addition, there are careers open to *For full details go to our website and for a your BSc with a major research of our academic staff as we offer the skills you need to design and ucas.com • Cognitive Psychology graduates and postgraduates from full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go project and an in-depth study of modules that cover a large and conduct your own research project • Biological Psychology any discipline. These include, for to www.ucas.com at least four topics selected from varied range of areas including: in Year 3. There will be opportunities • Behavioural Psychology example, careers in management the full range of modules that • Applied Behaviour Analysis to conduct research in industry, • Developmental Psychology training, accountancy, teaching, are currently available. Year four • Psychology of Addictive Behaviours hospitals, schools, nurseries and • Personality and Individual Differences nursing, social work, the police

completes the MSci degree with • Evolution and Human Social Behaviour other institutions with which we • Clinical Psychology and the armed forces. Employers an advanced research project and • Cognitive Neuroscience have strong research links. We • Concepts in Psychology are usually looking for general or a postgraduate-level research • Consumer Psychology also have a wide range of specialist transferable skills, and a psychology methods module, along with the • Perception research laboratories including MRI, Year 3 degree arguably provides a unique study of three postgraduate level • Health Psychology ERP, TMS, Eye tracking, etc. You’re guaranteed a Clinical and combination of these as it is both a topics selected from a range of • Social Cognition Health related project under the literate and numerate discipline. modules. • Memory CAREER PROSPECTS supervision of an expert in that INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Control of Mental Processes This is the broadest degree option INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL field. You’ll be required to select EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Behavioural Methods in Education we offer so is suitable for students Page 87 some modules from those related All modules in the 1st and 2nd years • Mindfulness who want to follow any of the main to Clinical and Health Psychology WANT TO KNOW MORE? are compulsory, with students free • Brain and Language psychological professions (clinical WANT TO KNOW MORE? and you’ll also get the opportunity to Psychology to choose from a large number of • Children, Families and Society psychology, educational psychology, Psychology choose others from the wide range modules in the 3rd year and the 4th • Bilingualism counselling psychology, health outlined under Year 3 in the BSc/ Tel: 01248 388453 Tel: 01248 388453 year if undertaking the MSci degree. • Disorders of Literacy psychology, etc). There are also MSci Psychology description on the INTERNATIONAL E-mail:INTERNATIONAL [email protected] INTERNATIONAL E-mail:INTERNATIONAL [email protected] EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Each year, you study a total of 120 • Brain Development and Degeneration careers open to graduates fromEXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE previous page. Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/psychologyPage 234 Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/psychologyPage 234 @PsychBangor credits and the modules build over • Forensic Psychology any discipline. These include, e.g. @PsychBangor the years to provide both breadth • Stress, Anxiety and Health careers in management training, and depth of understanding. • Counselling Skills accountancy, teaching, nursing, • Positive Psychology & Goal Setting social work, the police and the armed forces amongst many others. 138 139 PSYCHOLOGY WITH NEUROPSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY WITH WITH FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Year 2 COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Year 1 CAREER PROSPECTS UCAS course code: In this course, as well as studying You’ll continue with research UCAS course codes: On this course, as well as studying As well as modules covering BSc Forensic Psychology focuses Psychology with Neuropsychology general psychology modules, you methods modules, building your skill Psychology with CForensic general psychology modules, you research methods and scientific in the forensics area but is still C801 BSc/PsyN will specialise in understanding set and you’ll also cover core topics Psychology C813 BSc/PsyFP will specialise in understanding writing and communication skills, suitable for students who want to Length: 3 years Length: 3 years the structure of the human brain, including: the psychological factors behind you’ll study a broad range of topics follow any of the main psychological ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: and how it functions to enable • Social Psychology ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: why people may commit criminal in areas such as: professions (clinical psychology, GCSE: C/4 in English Language, Maths perception, thought, emotion, • Cognitive Psychology GCSE: C/4 in English Language, Maths and Science. or deviant behaviour. You will • Language and its Disorders educational psychology, counselling and Science. Typical offer is based on a language and behaviour. You will • Biological Psychology Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 tariff use critical skills and evidence, • Stress and Distress psychology, health psychology etc). minimum of 112 tariff points from a Level 3 analyse what happens when the • Behavioural Psychology points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: based on research, to explore • Learning to be Happy In addition, there are careers open to qualification* e.g.: brain is damaged or impaired, as • Developmental Psychology • A Levels (applicants are strongly preferred to how forensic psychologists may • Faith and Culture graduates and postgraduates from • A Levels (applicants are strongly preferred for example in head injury, stroke, • Personality and Individual Differences have at least one relevant science - Maths, contribute to debates on policing, • Applied Psychology any discipline. These include, for to have at least one relevant science - Parkinson’s disease or Alzheimer’s • Clinical Psychology Biology, Human Biology, Physics, Chemistry, crime, the criminal justice system • Brain and Mind example, careers in management Maths, Biology, Human Biology, Physics, Statistics, Psychology and Science) Chemistry, Statistics, Psychology and disease. You will study not only the • Concepts in Psychology • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Cambridge and rehabilitation. Some examples training, accountancy, teaching, Science) effects of these conditions, but also Technical Extended Diploma: Minimum of DMM of the factors that you may explore Year 2 nursing, social work, the police • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and how such patients can be helped Year 3 • International Baccalaureate Diploma include; substance abuse issues and You’ll continue with research and the armed forces. Further, Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: through rehabilitation. During the You’re guaranteed a • Access: 21 Distinction, 18 Merit and 6 Pass mental health disorders, as well as methods modules, building your skill employers are usually looking Minimum of DMM course, you will become acquainted Neuropsychology-related project grades exploring the incidence of offending set and you’ll also cover core topics for general or transferable skills, • International Baccalaureate Diploma with advanced techniques such under the supervision of an expert in • Welsh Baccalaureate behaviours in different populations, including: and a psychology degree arguably • Access: 21 Distinction, 18 Merit and 6 Pass Experiment in the Transcranial Magnetic • Extended Project Qualification is accepted in a as functional magnetic resonance that field. You’ll be required to select Stimulation (TMS) laboratory e.g., children and youth. As well as • Social Psychology provides a unique combination of grades imaging (fMRI) and event-related some modules from those related relevant subject understanding some of the reasons • Cognitive Psychology these as it is both a literate and • Welsh Baccalaureate • General Studies and Key Skills are not accepted. potentials (ERPs) for observing brain to Clinical and Health Psychology CAREER PROSPECTS why people may commit offending • Biological Psychology numerate discipline. • Extended Project Qualification is accepted in This course focuses on psychology International school leaving qualifications and a relevant subject activity and diagnosing problems. and you’ll also get the opportunity to college diplomas are accepted, subject to behaviours, you will also explore the • Behavioural Psychology • General Studies and Key Skills are not choose others from the wide range with neuropsychology but is still minimum English Language requirements: ways in which forensic psychologists • Developmental Psychology accepted. WHAT WILL I STUDY? outlined under Year 3 in the BSc/ suitable for students who want to www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs can work to treat and rehabilitate • Personality and Individual Differences International school leaving qualifications and In Years 1 and 2 you will take MSci Psychology description on page follow any of the main psychological We also welcome applications from mature offenders. • Clinical Psychology college diplomas are accepted, subject to compulsory modules as for single 138. professions (clinical psychology, applicants. • Concepts in Psychology minimum English Language requirements: honours Psychology. In addition, you educational psychology, counselling *For full details go to our website and for a full WHAT WILL I STUDY? www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs will take Neuropsychology modules YOUR RESEARCH psychology, health psychology, etc). list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www. In year 1 and year 2, you will take Year 3 We also welcome applications from mature ucas.com in your third year. Each year you Your BSc (and MSci) project will be In addition, there are careers open all modules that are compulsory for You’ll work on a forensic psychology- applicants. to graduates and postgraduates *For full details go to our website and for a study a total of 120 credits and on a neuropsychology topic. Recent single honours Psychology students. related project under the supervision full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go the modules build over the years projects have include studies of from any discipline. These include, In addition, you will take core of an expert in that field. You’ll be to www.ucas.com to provide both breadth and depth how the brain attends to stimuli and e.g. careers in management forensic psychology modules. Some required to select some modules of understanding with a focus on perceives objects, whether the eyes training, accountancy, teaching, of these modules may be taken in from those related to forensic Neuropsychology. are the only facial feature that direct nursing, social work, the police other schools e.g., Social Sciences psychology, including modules from attention, and rapid or slow visual and the armed forces. Employers and the School of Education. Each other Schools, and you’ll also get Year 1 processing. We have a wide range of are usually looking for general or year you study a total of 120 credits the opportunity to choose others As well as modules covering specialist research laboratories you transferable skills, and a psychology and the modules build over the years from the wide range outlined under research methods and scientific may be able to use including MRI, degree arguably provides a unique to provide both breadth and depth of Year 3 in the BSc/MSci Psychology writing and communication skills ERP, TMS, Eye tracking, depending combination of these as it is both a understanding focused on Forensic description on page XXX. you’ll study a broad range of topics on which area you specialise in. literate and numerate discipline. Psychology issues. in areas such as: YOUR RESEARCH • Psychology as a Science Your BSc project will be on a forensic • Stress and Distress psychology topic. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Happiness INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 • Faith and Culture Page 87 • Applied Psychology WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Brain and Mind WANT TO KNOW MORE? Psychology We also offer a 1 year BSc Psychology Neuropsychology Intercalated* Tel: 01248 388453 degree, aimed at medical students Tel: 01248 388453 INTERNATIONAL E-mail:INTERNATIONAL [email protected] who wish to study the biologicalINTERNATIONAL E-mail:INTERNATIONAL [email protected] EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/psychologyPage 234 basis of the human mind in healthPage 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/psychologyPage 234 @PsychBangor and disease. See the website for @PsychBangor details. * This will not qualify you for the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of the BPS. 140 141 PSYCHOLOGY WITH BUSINESS MANAGEMENT BSc [Hons] SPORT, HEALTH AND COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Year 1 UCAS course code: The programme will provide you As well as modules covering Psychology with Business with an undergraduate-level research methods and scientific Management C8N2 BSc/PBM education in the fields of psychology writing and communication skills EXERCISE SCIENCES Length: 3 years and business, along with key skills you’ll study a broad range of topics ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: in scientific and market research, in areas such as: GCSE: C/4 in English Language, Maths writing, and presentation skills. The • Business and Management and Science Typical offer is based on a programme will present multiple • Marketing minimum of 112 tariff points from a Level 3 perspectives in a way that fosters • Economics qualification* e.g.: your critical evaluation skills, • Language • A Levels (applicants are strongly preferred including a mix of neurological, • Applied Psychology to have at least one relevant science - cognitive, developmental, language, Maths, Biology, Human Biology, Physics, CAREER PROSPECTS Chemistry, Statistics, Psychology and learning, social, and personal Year 2 BSc Psychology with Business and Sport Science BSc/MSci Science). perspectives. It will provide you You’ll continue with research Management is a broad degree with Sport, Health and Exercise Science BSc/MSci • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and with an understanding of how to methods modules, building your BPS accreditation so is suitable for Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: apply theory to experience and skill set and you’ll also cover topics students who want to follow any of Sport and Exercise Psychology BSc (BPS Accredited) Minimum of DMM behaviour, in particular in the including: the main psychological professions Sport, Health and Physical Education BSc • International Baccalaureate Diploma business environment (e.g. aspects • Social Psychology (clinical psychology, educational Adventure Sport Science BSc/MSci • Access: 21 Distinction, 18 Merit and 6 Pass of organizational behaviour, • Cognitive Psychology psychology, organisational grades management and marketing). The • Personality • Welsh Baccalaureate psychology, consumer psychology). Sport Science BSc (Intercalated) • Extended Project Qualification is accepted in programme comprises 80 credits • Personality and Individual Differences In addition, the links with Clinical Sports Science BSc (Intercalated) a relevant subject from Psychology and 40 credits from • Leadership and Human Resource Management business provide an avenue for • General Studies and Key Skills are not Business in year 1, 100 credits from • Developmental Psychology undergraduates who wish to pursue Sport Science (Outdoor Recreation) (Top-up Degree) accepted. Psychology and 20 from Business • Biological Psychology careers in more applied areas, and International school leaving qualifications in year 2, and 60 credits from develop psychology students’ ability and college diplomas are accepted, subject Psychology and 60 from Business Year 3 to have a strategic overview of Related Degrees to minimum English Language requirements: in year 3. Year 1 and 2 modules As well as doing your project in an business and organisational issues. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs are all compulsory and the course area allied to your main interests Biomedical Science (p.125) We also welcome applications from mature applicants. is structured to ensure that you and a compulsory module in The programme will also equip Medical Sciences (p.124) *For full details go to our website and for a will study the British Psychological Consumer Psychology you’ll also students to pursue further Psychology (p.138) full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go Society core topics required for choose optional modules from a qualifications (e.g. MSc) and/or to to www.ucas.com the Graduate Basis for Chartered varied range of areas including: pursue a broad range of career Membership. Year three completes • Marketing Strategy paths including opportunities in your degree with a major research • Entrepreneurship areas such as marketing, market project in Psychology and an in- • Strategic Management research, brand management, brand depth study of at least four topics • International Business Competency development, product development, including Consumer Psychology. • e-Marketing and online retailing. WHAT WILL I STUDY? YOUR RESEARCH On this course you’ll be taught by We put great emphasis on staff from both Psychology and developing your research skills. Business backgrounds. Modules Right from the start of your course in Years 1 and 2 are compulsory you will begin to build up an INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL and contain a mix of both business understanding of how to undertake EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 and psychology subjects. In Year 3 research and you will also act as a students have the added flexibility of participant in an ongoing research WANT TO KNOW MORE? some optional modules. Each year programme. In this way, you’ll Psychology you study a total of 120 credits and gradually acquire the skills you need the modules build to provide both to design and conduct your own Tel: 01248 388453 RELATED COURSE research project in Year 3. There INTERNATIONAL E-mail:INTERNATIONAL [email protected] breadth and depth of understanding A BSc Marketing with Psychology EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE of both topics and your qualification will be opportunities to conduct Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/psychologyPage 234 is also offered. This degree is @PsychBangor carries BPS accreditation research in liaison with external delivered by the Business School business partners and we also have and you would take 80 credits a wide range of specialist research in Business and 40 credits in laboratories. Psychology. Please see page 170.

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COURSE FACTS DESCRIPTION That is, we develop your skills in WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? These research activities feed analysis. These include: a new gain knowledge of graduate UCAS course codes: The School of Sport, Health and both understanding and applying Outstanding Research and directly into our teaching and £1M teaching lab; an altitude employment schemes. “I am impressed by the work I Please see individual course pages. Exercise Sciences (SHES), has knowledge obtained in the specific Teaching many students choosing to study (hypoxia) chamber; multiple 3D see – both in terms of student been providing high-calibre fields of Elite Sports Performance, Apart from our small, friendly with us will have the opportunity motion analysis labs; a dual- Our International Experience Year achievement and in terms of For Sport Science joint honours the content and aims of the degree codes see page 70 undergraduate and postgraduate Physical Activity, Health and environment, ability to offer high to get involved with these exciting energy X-ray absorptiometry degrees give you the opportunity degrees since 1978 making it one Wellbeing, Adventure Sport student-staff contact time, and and world-leading research (DXA) whole body scanner; to study abroad as part of your modules to be grounded in Course Length: 3 years for BSc; 4 of the oldest departments in the Science, Physical Education, or drive to support the development processes ; as well as what you exercise testing and rehabilitation degree. In the past few years contemporary research. It years for BSc ‘with Placement Year’, UK. Over this period Bangor has Sport and Exercise Psychology. To of the skills you will require in know when you graduate, it is also labs; an environmental chamber; students have been to colleges is a clear strength of the 4 years for BSc Joint Degree with attracted some of the world’s best successfully achieve this, in each the work place, you’ll be studying important to consider who you will psychology, psychomotor and and universities in Iowa, Maine and department and the teaching languages, 4 years for MSci teaching and research staff who module you will typically have a at one of the best Sport Science know! Remember, we are Top 10 psychophysiology testing suites; West Florida, USA and universities staff. have contributed to the development 2hr lecture followed by laboratory departments in the UK. in the UK (WhatUni? Awards 2019) biochemistry and cell biology labs. in Melbourne, Australia and ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: of these extensive degree time, seminars and/or tutorials. • 91% student satisfaction for for Job Prospects. Windsor, Canada. Please see course pages for specific The quality of research projects entry requirements for individual programmes. Our Mission is to We tie all this direct staff-student Sport Science (NSS 2019) Boost your employability th / dissertations was very strong, courses. guide the future of Sport, Health and contact time to a student-centred • We are 5 in UK for Research Excellent Student Support and Whilst all our degree programmes The Bangor Employability Award Exercise, and Human Performance learning approach to better develop Quality (Complete University Experience enable students to undertake recognises all your extra and perhaps not surprisingly Intercalated Degrees (BSc) Science. Whilst doing this we will your critical employability and Guide 2020) Everyone at Sport, Health and practical not just theoretical curricular activities, improving given the research-informed These degrees are aimed at medical provide an outstanding teaching transferrable reading and writing • We are 7th for the latest Exercise Sciences knows each work via hands-on laboratory your CV and making sure you get teaching.” students who have successfully and learning experience, generate skills together with skills associated independent Government led other and we pride ourselves on practicals, a research project/ the best value from your time completed the requisite number of world-leading scientific research, with generating and presenting Research Excellence Framework the warm welcome we give to dissertation and through here. PROFESSOR MARC JONES years in Medical School and wish and have a meaningful impact upon reports, gathering information and (REF, 2014) with 100% of staff new students and the friendly demonstrations, tutorials and to gain a BSc to specialise or gain External Examiner, BSc Hons experience in the following fields: individuals and organisations. Our data, working on group projects, research being Internationally atmosphere here. research, you can also gain real CAREER PROSPECTS degrees foster transformational, and preparing you for the world of recognisied or World-Leading. life experience working abroad Bangor is Top 10 for Job Prospects • Sport Science adventurous, supportive and work. These skills often form the Sport and Outdoor Activities and gain additional professional (WhatUni? Awards 2019) and our • Clinical Sports Science inclusive environments that allow basis of your assessment and we are Since we’ve been teaching high- Most of our students like to do qualifications in a range of areas. courses will prepare you for a students to discover and maximise only able to achieve this unique skill calibre undergraduate degrees sport as well as learn about it. You Through our extensive links career in your chosen discipline Course Length: 1 year their potential and make a positive development, high level of contact for over 40 years, we’ve attracted will be studying in one of the best with sporting organisations, the i.e. as a sport scientist, an exercise contribution to Sport, Human time, and one-to-one student-staff world-leading academic staff who university locations in the UK. This NHS, and the National Exercise scientist a physical activity Performance and Health within opportunities because our student have ongoing links in the highest fantastic location gives you an Referral Scheme, we are able teacher, a sports psychologist, a Wales, the UK and the World beyond cohorts are small at circa 130 per echelons of sport and performance excellent opportunity to become to offer shorter mentored work coach educator, or an adventure/ “The expansion of employability year. (e.g. UK Sport, English Institute actively involved in life outside the placement opportunities alongside outdoor sport scientist. opportunities and placements HOW AND WHAT WILL I STUDY? of Sport, Sport Wales, Ministry of lecture hall. your degree programmes in The School was ranked 7th in the on offer to the students is Defence, England Rugby, England the areas of sports coaching, Postgraduate study and a career excellent.” last independent Government led and Wales Cricket Board) and We are the Top institution in the performance analysis, strength in teaching (after completing Research Excellence Framework health (e.g. NHS, MENCAP). UK (WhatUni? Awards 2019) for and conditioning, exercise and a postgraduate certificate of (REF 2014) and staff have well- Clubs and Societies and Bangor health, cardiac rehabilitation and education), research and lecturing DR RICHARD WINSLEY established International or World- All our staff are research-active offers free membership to all respiratory physiology. These is another vocational route. There External Examiner leading reputations in sport and and work with the highest levels clubs and societies. Students are opportunities allow you to work are also some specific career exercise psychology, motor control “Staff were once again of sports performers and medical also offered discounted rates with experts in a field that’s opportunities for different degrees and learning, and clinical exercise commended by their students experts in the UK and worldwide from local water-based outdoor relevant to your degree and future listed with the course details. physiology. This leads to a unique for their approachability and e.g. on a research expedition to activities provider, Snowdonia career. Recently, we have also research-lead curriculum that general supportiveness - this the Nepal Himalayas the Extremes Watersports. Read more about made the move to support your Some Sport, Health and Exercise (depending on the degree path helps create the community Research group studied how the Students’ Union’s clubs future career aspirations even Science graduates use their chosen) covers aspects of Sport people react and adapt their and societies, and the sports further by offering the majority of academic qualification and the culture... that is a hallmark of Performance, Exercise, and Health performance in extreme facilities at Canolfan Brailsford our degrees with a year-long work transferable skills that they have related sport science in the first the Bangor degree.” environments; staff in the Institute in the introductory pages of this placement. developed to work in management, year before specialising in a chosen for the Psychology of Elite prospectus. the emergency services or to set WANT TO KNOW MORE? area in the following 2 or 3 years DR RICHARD WINSLEY Performance have been leading In addition to the above, we up their own business. Admissions of your degree programme. The External Examiner, BSc Hons research within the England Excellent Facilities and Location run employability workshops Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences approach to teaching and learning and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) We are based in a beautiful Grade throughout the academic year and also means we provide students and UK Sport to inform their II listed building on the banks organise an Employability Week Tel: 01248 388256 with many ‘hands on’ experiences E-mail: [email protected] respective Talent Identification and of the Menai Strait. We have an and Careers Fair each semester. www.bangor.ac.uk/sport in the field they chose to study. We Development programmes; other extensive range of laboratories These additional opportunities design these practical experiences to staff research varied aspects of containing state-of-the-art allow students to gain insight and develop essential skills required for sports science within the highest equipment for sport and exercise advice on careers from some of a successful career. levels of elite sport, performance physiology, psychology, motor our alumni, speak to potential and health organisations. control and learning, and motion employers in the sector, and 144 145 SPORT SCIENCE SPORT, HEALTH AND EXERCISE SCIENCE* BSc [Hons] / MSci BSc [Hons] / MSci

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? UCAS course codes: Following a research based UCAS course codes: Key to this degree is its C600 BSc/SpS approach to study; the key aspects of CB69 BSc/SHES concentration on the overall aspects C607 MSCI/SS this degree include the study of how C608 MSCI/SHS of sport and exercise and how they Length: 3 years for the BSc or 4 years physical and mental performance Length: 3 years for the BSc or 4 years for the MSci for the MSci are important in promoting healthy can be improved to help individuals lifestyles. The course also explores For Sport Science joint honours to achieve their personal potential. degree codes see page 70 *This course is due to be renamed how exercise can be beneficial for Not only will this prepare you for a Sport, Physical Activity, Health and clinical rehabilitation and healthy ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: career as a sports scientist working Wellbeing for 2021 entry to better aging. GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language, Maths with squads of elite performers to reflect its content, research base and Science. Typical offer is based on a fine-tune their training but it will give and the Welsh national secondary WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? minimum of 112 tariff points for BSc and 136 you the background needed for a curriculum giving you the ideal • 5th for course satisfaction for MSci from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: career in sports science research. qualification for a career as a Physical • A Levels Activity Teacher. (Guardian Good University Guide • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and 2020). WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • We are internationally renowned Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: th ENTRY REQUIREMENTS DMM for BSc; DDD for MSci • 5 for course satisfaction GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language, Maths for our work in sport science and • International Baccalaureate Diploma (Guardian Good University Guide Measuring oxygen consumption during exercise using a Douglas bag and Science. Typical offer is based on a ranked 5th in the UK for research • Access: Pass Access to Higher Education 2020). minimum of 112 tariff points for BSc and 136 quality (Complete University Diploma • We are internationally renowned Year 2 for MSci from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: Guide 2020). • Sports Leaders UK: Higher Sports Leadership CAREER PROSPECTS • A Levels for our work in sport science and You’ll continue with research and This course is ideal preparation for • 2nd in the UK for Value Added qualifications ranked 5th in the UK for research applied practical modules, building • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and • Welsh Baccalaureate careers in sport science, research, Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: (GGUG 2020) demonstrating our quality (Complete University your skill set, and you’ll also cover fitness/leisure management, ability to help each student achieve • Extended Project Qualification Guide 2020). DMM for BSc; DDD for MSci • General Studies not accepted. topics including: sports administration, coaching and • International Baccalaureate Diploma their best possible outcome. • 2nd in the UK for Value Added • Motor Control and Learning International school leaving qualifications and instruction, sports development, • Access: Pass Access to Higher Education • This degree draws on expertise Recording EMG traces and peak force during isometric and isokinetic muscle contractions college diplomas are accepted, subject to (GGUG 2020) demonstrating our • Sport & Exercise Physiology sports therapy/physiotherapy, Diploma from staff who are leading ability to help each student achieve minimum English Language requirements: • Sport Nutrition teaching, the armed or emergency • Sports Leaders UK: Higher Sports Leadership researchers and clinicians in their • Sports Science Anatomy Year 4 www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs their best possible outcome. • Psychology of Sports Performance services, sports journalism, youth qualifications fields and we have a number of • Physical Activity and Health As well as extending your project We also welcome applications from mature • We have close links with UK Sport, • Welsh Baccalaureate • Applied Sport Science of Elite Performance work and management consultancy. Honorary Research Fellows who • Stress and Distress and further developing your applicants. the England and Wales Cricket • Physiological Assessment Skills • Extended Project Qualification *For full details go to our website and for a • General Studies not accepted. are senior consultants with the research skills you’ll choose Board, England Rugby and the • Disability Sport and Rehabilitation local NHS Trust. Year 2 modules covering areas such as: full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go Ministry of Defense. International school leaving qualifications and to www.ucas.com college diplomas are accepted, subject to • Laboratory practicals give students You’ll continue with research and • Nutrition for Exercise Rehab • 95% of graduates are either Year 3 minimum English Language requirements: hands-on experience to enable applied practical modules, building • Exercise Psychology . working or continuing to study six As well as doing your project in an www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs them to put theory into practice. your skill set, and you’ll also cover • Exercise is Medicine months after completing a Sport area allied to your main interests We also welcome applications from mature • 90% of graduates are either topics including: • Sports Injury Rehabilitation FOUNDATION YEAR Science degree (UniStats 2019). you’ll follow a mix of core and applicants. working or continuing to study • Motor Control • Psychology of Injury & Rehabilitation optional modules in a varied range of Subject to validation, from *For full details go to our website and for a six months after completing a full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Lifestyle and Disease WHAT WILL I STUDY? areas including: September 2020 a Foundation Sport, Health and Exercise Science • Sport & Exercise Physiology Year programme will be offered to www.ucas.com CAREER PROSPECTS You study a total of 120 credits in • Stress & Performance degree (UniStats 2019). • Nutrition This course is ideal preparation for in Sport Science. The Foundation each year. The modular programme • Strength and Conditioning • Exercise Psychology careers in public health e.g. sports Year degree is a 4-year course we offer provides continuity across • Research Project WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Physiological Assessment Skills therapy or physiotherapy, health/ for applicants who do not quite the years as well as depth. Optional • Personality and Individual Differences You study a total of 120 credits in • Disability Sport and Rehab fitness or leisure management, meet the entry requirements for modules allow you to study new • Advanced Research Statistics each year. The modular programme coaching and instruction, teaching, the 3-year degree or who would areas or develop specialisms of • Environmental Physiology we offer provides continuity across Year 3 the armed or emergency services, benefit from a further year’s INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL particular interest. • Exercise Biochemistry INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL the years as well as depth. Optional As well as doing your project in an youth work, research and EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Skill Acquisition study. Following completion of EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 Page 87 modules allow you to study new area allied to your main interests management consultancy. Year 1 the Foundation Year, students As well as studying academic, areas or develop specialisms that you’ll follow a mix of core and WANT TO KNOW MORE? Year 4 progress to Year 1 of the WANT TO KNOW MORE? research and vocational skills are of particular interest. optional modules in a varied range of Admissions As well as extending your project associated degree programme. Admissions areas including: Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences modules you’ll follow modules that and further developing your Please see the website for details. Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences Year 1 cover topics including: • Rehabilitation research skills you’ll choose As well as studying academic, • Exercise Prescription for Health and Disease INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 388256 • Human Physiology INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 388256 research and vocational skills EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE modules covering areas such as: EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Stress & Performance Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] • Psychomotor Behaviour Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] • Performance Psychology JOINT HONOURS DEGREES modules you’ll follow modules that • Elite Performance www.bangor.ac.uk/sport • Employability in Sport, Health and Wellbeing You can also study Sport Science as www.bangor.ac.uk/sport • Exercise Psychology cover topics including: • Environmental Physiology • Biomechanics a Joint Honours Degree with one of • Performance Physiology • Human Physiology • Personality and Individual Differences • Anatomy for Sport Science the following subjects (see pages • Sports Injury Rehabilitation • Learning to be Happy • Biochemistry of Exercise 69-70). • Psychology of Effective Coaching • Academic Research Skills • Skill Acquisition 146 147 SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY BSc [Hons]*

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? be designed, written or adapted Year 3 UCAS course code: This degree is for those interested by our experienced computer As well as doing your project in an C680 BSc/SExP in the mental aspects of sport and programmer. area allied to your main interests Length: 3 years for the BSc exercise and sporting performance, • 89% of graduates are either you’ll follow a mix of core and *This degree is British Psychological It will provide a scientific working or continuing to study six optional modules in a varied range of Society accredited. understanding of the human mind, months after completing a Sport areas including: brain, behaviour, and experience, and Exercise Psychology degree • Stress and Performance ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: and of the complex interactions (UniStats 2019). • Personality and Individual Differences GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language, Maths between these, as applied to • Research in Psychological Skills and Science. Typical offer is based on a competitive and recreational sport WHAT WILL I STUDY? minimum of 128 tariff points from a Level 3 and exercise. The degree provides You study a total of 120 credits in Optional modules cover topics including: qualification* e.g.: an understanding of the physiology each year. The modular programme • Born to Run: Achieve Your Goal • A Levels • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and of exercise and an appreciation of we offer in conjunction with • Exercise Prescription for Health and Disease Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: how the mind and the body interact Psychology provides continuity • Stress, Anxiety and Health DDM to influence human performance. across the years as well as depth. • Skill Acquisition • International Baccalaureate Diploma Optional modules allow you to study • Consumer and Applied Psychology • Access: Pass Access to Higher Education Our degrees are accredited by the new areas or develop specialisms • Skill Acquisition Diploma British Psychological Society and that are of particular interest. • Evolution and Human Social Behaviours • Sports Leaders UK: Higher Sports Leadership staff have been at the forefront of the • Brain Development and Degeneration qualifications discipline since the early days of its Over the three years as well as • Topics of Illness and Disability • Welsh Baccalaureate • Extended Project Qualification development in the UK. We currently research skills project and a final • Exercise Prescription for Health and Disease • General Studies not accepted. have the largest concentration of year project in an area of interest, International school leaving qualifications and leading Sports Psychologists in students will study modules CAREER PROSPECTS college diplomas are accepted, subject to Britain. covering a wide range sport science The BSc degree course is accredited minimum English Language requirements: and psychology topics. Areas by the British Psychological Society www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? covered include: (BPS) to provide students with We also welcome applications from mature • 5th for course satisfaction Graduate Basis for Chartered applicants. (Guardian Good University Guide Year 1 membership of the Society, the *For full details go to our website and for a full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go 2020). As well as studying academic, necessary first step in a career to www.ucas.com • Our Institute for the Psychology research and vocational skills as a psychologist in the UK. It also st th of Elite Performance (IPEP) is modules you’ll follow modules that provides excellent preparation for We are regularly rated one of the 1 in Wales and 7 in the UK for internationally renowned for its cover topics including: careers in sport science and the work. • Stress and Distress sport, fitness and health industries. top 10 UK universities for student Research in Sport Science with • Ranked 5th in the UK for research • Psychomotor Behaviour 89% of graduates are either working satisfaction in Sport, Health and 100% of research either world- quality (Complete University • Brain and Mind or in further study six months after Guide 2020). • Learning to be Happy graduating (UniStats 2019). Exercise Sciences in the annual leading or at an international level. • 2nd in the UK for Value Added • Applied Psychology (GGUG 2020) demonstrating our • Physical activity and Health National Student Survey. (Research Excellence Framework, 2014) ability to help each student achieve their best possible outcome. Year 2 • Staff regularly provide sport You’ll continue with research and psychology and leadership applied practical modules, building expertise to national teams such as your skill set, and you’ll also cover INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL British Gymnastics, GB Telemark topics including: EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 Ski Team, the England and Wales • Psychology of Sport Performance Cricket Board; National Governing • Motor Control and Learning WANT TO KNOW MORE? Bodies such as UK Sport and the • Applied Sport Science of Elite Performance Admissions Sports Council for Wales (Sport • Exercise Psychology Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences Wales); and organisations such • Developmental Psychology as the Ministry of Defence, Lloyds • Biological Psychology INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 388256 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE TSB, Ericsson. • Social Psychology Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/sport • Students have access facilities to • Disability, Sport and Rehabilitation enable computer based testing of psychological processes, and bespoke systems and experiments for Final Year student projects can 148 149 SPORT, HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION* ADVENTURE SPORT SCIENCE BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons] / MSci

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • The vocational elements of this • Adventure Sport Therapy UCAS course code: This is our classic degree allowing UCAS course codes: You may have dreamt of climbing degree are further strengthened • Stress and Performance C651 BSc/ShPE you to study the three areas of C611 BSc/ASS Everest, wondered what ‘it takes’ by input and delivery from highly • Skill Acquisition Length: 3 years for the BSc sports science, health and physical C612 MSCI/ASS to Big Wall climb in Yosemite or qualified and experienced outdoor • Personality and Individual Differences Length: 3 years for the BSc or 4 years *This course is due to be renamed education. It is good preparation for the MSci perform successful Glacial travel in practitioners at our external • Advanced Research Statistics Physical Education for Sport, for careers in teaching physical Antarctica. Maybe you’re interested partners, Snowdonia Watersports • Environmental Physiology Health and Wellbeing for 2021 education (after following a ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: in undertaking an expedition in and the Conway Centre. • Research in Psychological Skills entry to better reflect its content, Postgraduate Certificate in GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language, Maths adventurous terrain or simply • Students undertake an Expedition research base and the Welsh national Education), the fitness industry, or and Science. Typical offer is based on a excited about adventure sport? module (run by the Conway All practical outdoor activities modules are secondary curriculum giving you the for a career in research in a variety minimum of 112 tariff points for BSc and 136 This course is uniquely designed Centre) integrating their scientific compulsory. ideal qualification for a career as a of sport and health-related areas. for MSci from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: to help you realise these dreams. knowledge, outdoor activity Physical Activity Teacher. • A Levels By providing you with ‘hands on’ skills and life skills, to complete Year 4 (MSci) • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: experience and understanding of a mountain- and/or water- This is an extended undergraduate GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Language, Maths • 5th for course satisfaction DMM for BSc; DDD for MSci the core sport science studies of based journey in a wilderness programme which allows students and Science. Typical offer is based on a (Guardian Good University Guide • International Baccalaureate Diploma human responses to adventure environment. to graduate with either a BSc minimum of 112 tariff points from a Level 3 2020). • Access: Pass Access to Higher Education environments and performance • Students apply their sport science (Hons) at the end of Year 3 or with a qualification* e.g.: • Ranked 5th in the UK for research Diploma in adventure sports, you will gain knowledge to vocations in outdoor Master’s degree at the end of Year 4. • A Levels quality (Complete University • Sports Leaders UK: Higher Sports Leadership the skills required for a career in activities whilst progressing Students take additional advanced • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Guide 2020). qualifications the expanding adventure market. towards (or attaining) National research and supervised experience Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: • 2nd in the UK for Value Added Teaching Gym and Athletics modules develop skills, knowledge and understanding of the requirements of • Welsh Baccalaureate This essential core sport science Governing Body awards. modules, together with additional DMM Athletics and Gymnastics. • Extended Project Qualification • International Baccalaureate Diploma (GGUG 2020) demonstrating our • General Studies not accepted knowledge is uniquely combined Psychology, Physiology, Coaching ability to help each student achieve with the continuous opportunity to WHAT WILL I STUDY? and Rehabilitation modules. • Access: Pass Access to Higher Education WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Applicants should demonstrate a You study a total of 120 credits in Diploma their best possible outcome. Year 3 commitment. to the outdoors (e.g. practical develop your own adventure and • Sports Leaders UK: Higher Sports Leadership • This degree offers a broad range You study a total of 120 credits in As well as doing your project in an experience, work experience, Duke of outdoor skills. Specifically, as well each year. HOW WILL I LEARN? each year. The modular programme area allied to your main interests qualifications of subjects, giving you flexibility Edinburgh Award). as learning core performance and Year 1 We aim to equip you over the • Welsh Baccalaureate and an ideal opportunity to we offer provides continuity across you’ll follow a mix of core and International school leaving qualifications and exercise science, you will complete programme to become adventure • Extended Project Qualification the years as well as depth. Optional optional modules in a varied range of college diplomas are accepted, subject to As well as studying academic, specialise later in your course. ‘doing’ modules with emphasis research and vocational skills ‘experts’ in terms of applying • General Studies not accepted. In Year 3 you will complete your modules allow you to study new areas including: minimum English Language requirements: on adventuring out and learning core sport science to the world International school leaving qualifications and areas or develop specialisms that • Stress and Performance www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs modules you’ll follow modules that college diplomas are accepted, subject to research project or dissertation; an We also welcome applications from mature practically. If you want to get out cover topics including: of adventure, whilst giving you individual project directly related to are of particular interest. • Personality and Individual Differences in the mountains, beaches, camp, the practical skills to undertake minimum English Language requirements: • Research in Psychological Skills applicants. • Human Physiology www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs your area of specialism. *For full details go to our website and for a hike, scramble, winter walk, climb, • Academic and Research Skills independent mountain and water We also welcome applications from mature • Practical optional modules are Over the three years you study • Exercise Prescription for Health and Disease full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go explore the sea cliffs on foot and based adventures yourself. There modules that cover topics including: • Biochemistry of Exercise • Practical Water Based Skills applicants. delivered by lecturers who are also to www.ucas.com from a kayak, and want to do it • Practical Land Based Skills is a real focus on you developing *For full details go to our website and for a • Physical Literacy experienced Physical Education practically, then this course for you. • Biomechanics your personal and group skills in full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go teachers and instructors, and have Year 1 • Skill Acquisition judgment and awareness as well to www.ucas.com • Anatomy for Sport Science coaching qualifications across WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Physical Activity and Health as the practical skills of a variety of a wide number of sports such • Human Physiology CAREER PROSPECTS • 5th for course satisfaction (2020 adventure activities. These skills will • Academic and Research Skills This course is ideal preparation as rugby, athletics, badminton, Guardian Good University Guide. Year 2 stay with you for life and help you football, hockey, tennis, cricket and • Physical Activity and Health for careers in fitness/leisure • 5th in the UK for research quality realise your goals. • Psychomotor Behaviour management, sports administration, You’ll continue with research and swimming. (Complete University Guide 2020). applied practical modules. You’ll also • Teaching Gym and Athletics coaching and instruction, sports nd • 89% of graduates are either • 2 in the UK for Value Added cover topics including: CAREER PROSPECTS working or continuing to study six • Pedagogy for Physical Education development, research, sports (GGUG 2020) demonstrating our This course is ideal preparation therapy/physiotherapy, teaching, • Practical Water Based Leading and Coaching months after completing a Sport, ability to help each student achieve • Advanced Rope Skills and Leadership for a career in the outdoors as INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Health and PE degree (UniStats Year 2 the armed or emergency services, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL their best possible outcome. an instructor, an exploration or EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE You’ll continue with research and EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Research Expedition Page 87 2019). sports journalism, youth work and Page 87 • Bangor’s location makes it an ideal expedition leader, in outdoor applied practical modules, building management consultancy. • Motor Control and Learning place to study outdoor activities • Physiological Assessment Skills development training, and also in WANT TO KNOW MORE? your skill set, and you’ll also cover WANT TO KNOW MORE? • We were one of the first to offer education and recreation generally. Admissions topics including: Admissions • Disability Sport and Rehabilitation an academically focussed degree • Psychology of Sport Performance See also career prospects on p.145. Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences • Sport Nutrition Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences that included studying adventure • Physiological Assessment Skills sports. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 388256 • Psychology of Sport Performance INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 388256 Year 3 NEW DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] • This degree draws on expertise As well as doing your project in an Subject to validation Adventure Page 234 Page 234 • Disability, Sport and Rehabilitation Page 234 Page 234 from staff who are leading www.bangor.ac.uk/sport • Preparing to Teach www.bangor.ac.uk/sport area allied to your main interests Sport Science with Business BSc researchers in their fields but you’ll follow a mix of core and will be available for 2021. Please • Pedagogy for PE also actively participate in outdoor • Physiological Assessment Skills optional modules in a varied range of check the website for the most up- and high risk activities such as areas including: to-date information. • Nutrition for Health and Wellbeing climbing, canoeing, skiing, etc. 150 151 JOINT HONOURS DEGREES BA / BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES The language element of the Modern CAREER PROSPECTS UCAS Course Codes: ABOUT? Languages Joint degrees will give The Sport Science element of joint BSc Sport Science and Business The Sport Science element of you advanced skills in your chosen programmes will equip graduates Management: C6N1 these degrees provides students language, and a broad range of with the opportunity to pursue an BSc Sport Science and Marketing: C6N5 with the intellectual and practical specialised and detailed insights academic or professional career BA French and Sport Science (laboratory/testing) skills that into the culture, society and history in Sport and Exercise Science. The (4 years): CR61 will enable them to ask relevant that go with it. The courses have specific skills and knowledge gained BA German and Sport Science questions in sport science and apply language at the heart of them, with and transferable skills will enhance (4 years): CR62 appropriate research skills. This will core modules developing the key employment opportunities in sectors BA Italian and Sport Science further enable them to recognise oral, aural and written skills every such as the fitness and health (4 years): CR6H how they might apply their academic year. These modules also foster industries, the military and business. BA Spanish and Sport Science and practical skills to work within cultural awareness, which you will (4 years): CR6K BA Cymraeg/Welsh and Sport the wider community, developing need for your year abroad, and later Both the Business Management and Science: CQ65 their capabilities through new on, for the world of work. The fourth Marketing joint degrees allow you to experiences. year of language joints is spent in develop a range of specific business You may combine the study of any country depending on the language knowledge and skills, together of the following subjects with Sport The Business Management Joint being studied. with improved self-awareness and Science: degree includes the study of personal development appropriate • French (4 years) organisations, their management WHAT WILL I STUDY? to graduates with the potential • German (4 years) and the changing external You study 120 credits in each year to progress into professional • Italian (4 years) • Spanish (4 years) environment in which they operate. of your degree with half the credits careers in business, management • Cymraeg/Welsh You will also study a range of completed within Sport, Health and or marketing. This includes the • Business Management* specialist functional areas such as Exercise Sciences and half in the encouragement of positive and • Marketing* business and managerial decision joints honours subject. The fourth critical attitudes towards change and making, including marketing, year of modern language joints is in enterprise. *subject to validation business planning, operations country depending on the language management, corporate strategy, being studied. Studying Modern Languages Length: 3 years for a Joint degree; human resource management, opens the door to a wide variety 4 years for a Joint degree with a modern language organisational structure and design, Sport Science modules include core/ of careers. Many Bangor Modern and financial and risk management. compulsory modules in Research Languages graduates have, of ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Skills, Research Methods and course, gone into teaching and Bangor University were one of Please see individual course pages. The main aims of the Marketing Project/Dissertation undertaken by translating, but just as many have the first to offer an academically Joint degree are the development students on all programmes, plus a embarked upon successful careers of specialised knowledge and choice of optional modules covering: in the civil service, business and focussed degree that included skills across a broad range of Project Proposal, Motor Control and commerce, industry and the media. marketing applications, including Learning, Applied Sport Psychology, The skills you learn whilst studying studying adventure sports. brand management and loyalty, Perception and Action, Stress and languages – cultural awareness, customer service, public relations, Performance, Applied Sport Science communication, accuracy, planning market research, consumer of Elite Performance, Environmental and logical analysis – are valued behaviour, marketing psychology Physiology, Biochemistry of Exercise, highly by employers from all sectors and advertising strategy. You will Exercise for Clinical Populations. of the economy. also study organisations, their management and the changing INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL external environment in which EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 they operate, together with other specialist functional business WANT TO KNOW MORE? management areas. Admissions Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences

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152 153 SPORT SCIENCE [OUTDOOR RECREATION] TOP-UP DEGREE / INTERCALATED DEGREES ACCOUNTING, BANKING, COURSE FACTS TOP-UP DEGREE INTERCALATED DEGREES Exercise Physiology SPORT SCIENCE (OUTDOOR • Exercise Psychology (10 credits) RECREATION) TOP-UP DEGREE WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT ARE THESE COURSES • Applied Sport Science of Elite Performance UCAS course code: If you meet the entry criteria (see ABOUT? (10 credits) BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, C605 BSc/SSOR: Length: 1 year (on top of a suitable entry requirements on the left), you These degrees are aimed at medical • Environmental Physiology (10 credits) Foundation Degree) can take a Top-up Degree to enable students who have successfully • Disability, Sport and Rehabilitation you to graduate after three years completed the requisite number of (10 credits) FINANCE, MARKETING AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: with a BSc Hons Degree in Sport years in Medical School and wish • Exercise for Clinical Populations (10 credits) • Successful completion of a related Science (Outdoor Recreation). to gain a BSc to specialise or gain • Biochemistry of Exercise (10 credits) Foundation Degree where at least 70% has experience in the following fields: • Sports Injury Rehabilitation (10 credits) MANAGEMENT been awarded to 30% of the modules or WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Psychology of Injury and Rehabilitation more, with at least 50% of the modules to On the one year Top-up Degree • Sport Science (10 credits) be passed with at least 60%. GCSE Maths • Clinical Sports Science and English at C grade (or equivalent) you will study a total of 120 credits Accounting and Banking BSc are required and Physical Education and including a research project and WHAT WILL I STUDY? Exercise, Behaviour Change and Accounting and Economics BSc modules that cover topics including: Disease Prevention Sciences GCSE would be advantageous. You will study 120 credits in the Accounting and Finance BSc year. All students study Research • Stress and Performance Skills for Medics (20 credits) and • Biological Psychology (10 credits) Banking and Finance BSc • Group Dynamics undertake a Research Project (40 • Exercise Psychology (10 credits) Financial Economics BSc • Applied Sport Science of Elite Performance credits). • Research in Psychological Skills (10 credits) • Environmental Physiology – Extremes • Personality & Individual Differences Marketing BSc INTERCALATED DEGREES (BSc) • Research in Psychological Skills Depending on the course chosen, (10 credits) Business BA • Personality and Individual Differences • Environmental Physiology (10 credits) UCAS course codes: you will also take 60 optional credits Business Management BSc C603 BSc/SPSc: Sport Science • Motor Behaviour selected from a range of modules, • Disability, Sport and Rehabilitation C883 BSc/CLSPS: Clinical Sports • Healthy Aging examples are given below. Other (10 credits) Business Management and Finance BSc Science • Disability, Sport and Rehabilitation modules offered by Psychology and • Exercise for Clinical Populations (10 credits) Business and Law BA Length: 1 year • Environmental Physiology – High Altitude • Exercise is Medicine (30 credits) Medical Sciences may be available Business Management and Marketing BSc • Skill Acquisition if they can be accommodated within • Sports Injury Rehabilitation (10 credits) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: • Exercise for Clinical Populations • Psychology of Injury and Rehabilitation • Specific entry criteria set between you the timetable: Business Economics BSc (10 credits) Medical School and Bangor University. Management with Accounting BSc Please refer to your Medical School for CAREER PROSPECTS Sport Science further details. You can use your Top-up degree • Perception and Action (10 credits) CAREER PROSPECTS Business Subjects plus Another Subject as preparation for a career in • Stress and Performance (10 credits) These intercalated degrees enable Banking with Financial Technology BSc outdoor activities/fitness/leisure medical students to gain a scientific • Research in Psychological Skills (10 credits) Business Analytics with Financial Technology BSc management, sports administration, • Personality and Individual Differences perspective of sport and exercise; for coaching and instruction, sports (10 credits) example as a form of treatment for a Marketing with Psychology BSc development, research, sports • Environmental Physiology (10 credits) variety of conditions as well as how therapy/physiotherapy, teaching, • Applied Sport Science of Elite Performance to implement behaviour change in Related Degrees exploration and expedition, and (10 credits) order to achieve positive outcomes Business Related Subjects Plus a Modern Language (p.238) outdoor development training, • Disability, Sport and Rehabilitation regarding the rehabilitation education, recreation, sports and prevention of diseases (e.g. French/German with Business Management/Marketing (p.228, 230) (10 credits) Computer Information Systems for Business (p.115) development and therapy. • Skill Acquisition (10 credits) diabetes). • Biochemistry of Exercise (10 credits) Italian and Business Related Subjects (p.232) • Sports Injury Rehabilitation (10 credits) In addition to the enhanced career Law with Accounting and Finance (p.176) INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL opportunities typically available to EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Psychology of Injury and Rehabilitation Law with Business Studies (p.176) Page 87 (10 credits) medical students who intercalate, this additional training may also Spanish with Business Management/Marketing (p.226 ) WANT TO KNOW MORE? provide a strong foundation for Sport Science and Business (p.70) Admissions postgraduate study (MSc, MPhil or Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences PhD) and clinical research positions Spanish with Business Management/Marketing (p.226) within the NHS. 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154 155 ACCOUNTING AND BANKING ACCOUNTING AND ECONOMICS BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Banking; Corporate Finance and COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Accounting and Applied Economics. UCAS course codes: Accounting has been defined as the • We employ specialists across a Bank Management. However, you UCAS course code: Accounting has been defined as the • We employ specialists across a However, you will retain the NN43 BSc/AccB measurement and disclosure of broad range of business subjects, will retain the opportunity to select NL41 BSc/AccEc measurement and disclosure of broad range of business subjects, opportunity to select optional for Accounting joint honours codes financial information that is used by including accounting, banking, optional modules either within your for Accounting joint honours codes financial information that is used by including accounting, banking, modules either within your main see pages 69-70 see pages 69-70 Length: 3 years managers, investors and others to finance, economics, management, main discipline or in alternative Length: 3 years managers, investors and others to finance, economics, management, discipline or in alternative subject make decisions about the allocation marketing and entrepreneurship. subject areas. Many of our subjects make decisions about the allocation marketing and entrepreneurship. areas. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: of resources within organisations. • Our students take part in national can also be studied in combination ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: of resources within organisations. • Our students take part in national GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer Our Accounting and Banking degree competitions such as the IBM with a subject from another GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer Our Accounting and Economics competitions such as the IBM Many of our subjects can also be is based on a minimum 120 tariff points from provides you with all the skills you Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, academic school to form a Joint is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from degree provides you with all the Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, studied in combination with a subject a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: need to ensure a sound foundation a UK-wide business plan and Honours degree course. See the a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: skills you need to ensure a sound a UK-wide business plan and from another academic school to • A Levels for your professional career in a marketing challenge. website for the latest modules. • A Levels foundation for your professional marketing challenge. form a Joint Honours degree course. • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and wide range of fields. • A Careers and Employability Fair • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and career in a wide range of fields. • A Careers and Employability Fair Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: DMM is held every year and provides an HOW WILL I LEARN? DMM is held every year and provides an Please refer to our website for up-to- • International Baccalaureate Diploma A degree in Banking offers you the opportunity for students to meet You will spend up to 15 hours • International Baccalaureate Diploma Economics has been defined as opportunity for students to meet date module information. • Access: Pass opportunity to study the theory and recruiters and learn more about per week in lectures, seminars • Access: Pass the study of human choice, and the recruiters and learn more about • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended practice of financial services and post-graduation employment and tutorials. There is a mixture • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended impact of choice on the production, post-graduation employment HOW WILL I LEARN? Diploma: considered on a case by case basis financial markets, and to analyse options. of continuous assessment and Diploma: considered on a case by case basis distribution and consumption of options. You will spend up to 15 hours • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. the broader role of the financial • Our staff are active researchers in written examinations. You will • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. scarce resources. Microeconomics • Our staff are active researchers in International school leaving qualifications International school leaving qualifications per week in lectures, seminars sector in the national and global their subject areas and we enjoy an complete assignments e.g. collecting deals with choice at the individual their subject areas and we enjoy an and tutorials. There is a mixture and college diplomas are accepted, subject economies. Banking and financial international reputation. and analysing information from and college diplomas are accepted, subject level, and macroeconomics analyses international reputation. to minimum English Language requirements): to minimum English Language requirements): of continuous assessment and www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs services is a highly competitive • We have excellent computing commercial databases/internet, www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs the economy as a whole. • We have excellent computing written examinations. You will We also welcome applications from mature and rapidly changing sector in facilities including a trading room preparing business case studies, We also welcome applications from mature facilities and you will have the complete assignments e.g. collecting applicants. every modern economy. In recent and you will have the chance to writing essays and completing applicants. This programme includes a chance to develop your skills in and analysing information from *For full details go to our website and for a years, forces such as globalisation, develop your skills in data analysis problem-solving exercises. *For full details go to our website and for a core microeconomics and data analysis and report commercial databases/internet, full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go technological change, deregulation and report preparation. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go macroeconomics component, and a preparation. preparing business case studies, to www.ucas.com to www.ucas.com and international integration have • Bangor offers an attractive range CAREER PROSPECTS specialism focusing on the economic • Bangor offers an attractive range writing essays and completing transformed the banking and of postgraduate degrees (MA, Many graduates have gone on to find context of business decision making. of postgraduate degrees (MA, problem-solving exercises. financial services sector. MSc and MBA) in business and employment within the accountancy You will develop an awareness of MSc and MBA) in business and finance subjects. field, including graduate schemes applications of economics in areas finance subjects. CAREER PROSPECTS This programme is a professionally • Depending on the modules you with HMRC, and Big Four accounting including business management, • Depending on the modules you Many of our Accounting graduates oriented qualification and accredited study, you will be able to gain firms. Graduates have also finance and public policy. study, you will be able to gain have gone on to find employment by all the major accountancy bodies exemptions from parts of the been employed in the banking, exemptions from parts of the within the accountancy field, including the Association of Certified professional examinations of some investment, insurance and risk This programme is a professionally professional examinations of the including graduate schemes with Chartered Accountants (ACCA), of the major accounting bodies. management sectors. oriented qualification and accredited major accounting bodies. HMRC, and Big Four accounting Chartered Institute of Management by all the major accountancy bodies firms. Graduates have also been Accountants (CIMA), the Institute of WHAT WILL I STUDY? FOUNDATION YEAR including the Association of Certified WHAT WILL I STUDY? employed in the banking, investment, Chartered Accountants in England All our Single Honours degree From September 2021 we will Chartered Accountants (ACCA), All our Single Honours degree insurance and risk management and Wales (ICAEW) and Certified courses provide a broad base across be offering this course with Chartered Institute of Management courses provide a broad base across sectors. Practising Accountant (CPA) all of the disciplines studied in a Foundation Year, subject to Accountants (CIMA), the Institute of all of the disciplines studied in Australia. It will provide graduates the School – Accounting, Banking, validation. This 4-year option Chartered Accountants in England the School – Accounting, Banking, with substantial exemptions Economics, Finance, Management leads to the same qualification as and Wales (ICAEW) and Certified Economics, Finance, Management from many of these bodies’ core and Marketing – together with the 3-year degree and includes a Practising Accountant (CPA) and Marketing – together with examinations. This is a huge a more in-depth study of the foundation year designed for those Australia. It will provide graduates a more in-depth study of the FOUNDATION YEAR INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL who wish to undertake degree- INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE advantage, as you will take fewer programme’s core topics. They EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE with substantial exemptions programme’s core topics. They From September 2021 we will Page 87 exams allowing you to focus on also provide a comprehensive level study, but may not have the Page 87 from many of these bodies’ core also provide a comprehensive be offering this course with developing your career. introduction to the analytical skills required entry requirements to examinations. This is a huge introduction to the analytical skills a Foundation Year, subject to WANT TO KNOW MORE? WANT TO KNOW MORE? that are required in each of the do so. See website for further advantage, as you will take fewer that are required in each of the validation. This 4-year option Admissions Administrator School’s subject areas. information. Admissions Administrator exams allowing you to focus on School’s subject areas. Business Ranked amongst Business leads to the same qualification as developing your career. the 3-year degree and includes a INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 the world’s top In Years 2 and 3, you will INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 In Years 2 and 3, you will foundation year designed for those EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE progressively specialise in your EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] JOINT HONOURS DEGREES Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] progressively specialise in your who wish to undertake degree- www.bangor.ac.uk/business 50 institutions for course’s core field of study. www.bangor.ac.uk/business course’s core field of study. level study, but may not have the You will study modules such as You can study Accounting as a Joint Banking research Honours Degree with: French (4 You will study modules such as required entry requirements to Management Accounting; Financial Microeconomics; Macroeconomics, do so. See website for further (RePEc) Accounting; Personal Finance and years), German (4 years), Italian (4 years), Spanish (4 years). Financial Accounting, Management information. 156 157 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE BANKING AND FINANCE BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Bangor offers an attractive range HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Bangor offers an attractive range HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: Accounting has been defined as the of postgraduate degrees in You will spend up to 15 hours UCAS course code: Banking and financial services of postgraduate degrees in You will spend up to 15 hours NN4H BSc/AccFin measurement and disclosure of business and finance subjects. per week in lectures, seminars N391 BSc/BFin is a highly competitive and business and finance subjects. per week in lectures, seminars for Accounting joint honours codes financial information that is used by • Depending on the modules you and tutorials. There is a mixture for Banking joint honours codes see rapidly changing sector in every and tutorials. There is a mixture see pages 69-70 pages 69-70 Length: 3 years managers, investors and others to study, you will be able to gain of continuous assessment and Length: 3 years modern economy. In recent years, WHAT WILL I STUDY? of continuous assessment and make decisions about the allocation exemptions from parts of the written examinations. You will forces such as globalisation, All our Single Honours degree written examinations. You will ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: of resources within organisations. professional examinations of some complete assignments such as ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: technological change, deregulation courses provide a broad base across complete assignments such as GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer Accounting is more than the of the major accounting bodies. collecting and analysing information GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer and international integration have all of the disciplines studied in collecting and analysing information is based on a minimum 120 tariff points from mechanical manipulation of from commercial databases or is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from fundamentally transformed the the School – Accounting, Banking, from commercial databases or a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: financial data to produce company WHAT WILL I STUDY? the internet, preparing business a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: banking and financial services Economics, Finance, Management the internet, preparing business • A Levels accounts. The methods for preparing All our Single Honours degree case studies, writing essays and • A Levels sector. Banks have responded to and Marketing – together with case studies, writing essays and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and accounting information must be courses provide a broad base across completing problem-solving • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and growing competitive pressure by a more in-depth study of the completing problem-solving Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: DMM applied with judgement, and with an all of the disciplines studied in exercises. DMM diversifying into new activities. programme’s core topics. They exercises. • International Baccalaureate Diploma understanding of the purposes for the School – Accounting, Banking, • International Baccalaureate Diploma Insurance companies and also provide a comprehensive • Access: Pass which the information will be used. Economics, Finance, Management CAREER PROSPECTS • Access: Pass pension funds have also grown introduction to the analytical skills CAREER PROSPECTS • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended and Marketing – together with All single honours students taking • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended rapidly and non-bank institutions that are required in each of the Banking graduates will be qualified Diploma: considered on a case by case basis By studying for this degree, you will a more in-depth study of the degrees within the Business School Diploma: considered on a case by case basis such as supermarkets and School’s subject areas. to pursue careers in areas such as • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. acquire skills that are central to programme’s core topics. They have complete flexibility to switch • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. telecommunications firms now accountancy, banking, investment, International school leaving qualifications the management of organisations, also provide a comprehensive between any of our Business International school leaving qualifications compete directly in financial services In Years 2 and 3, you will insurance and risk management. and college diplomas are accepted, subject for measuring performance and introduction to the analytical skills degrees at any time up to the end and college diplomas are accepted, subject markets. progressively specialise in your Examples of firms with which our to minimum English Language requirements): to minimum English Language requirements): www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs maintaining the cash flows that are that are required in each of the of the first semester and switching www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs course’s core field of study. Bank graduates have found employment We also welcome applications from mature essential for the prosperity of any School’s subject areas. is also possible, subject to a limited We also welcome applications from mature A degree in Banking and Finance Management; Personal Finance include HSBC, Bank of America applicants. private company or public sector amount of catch-up work, up to the applicants. offers you the opportunity to study and Banking; Market Risk Analytics; Merrill Lynch and the National Bank *For full details go to our website and for a organisation. In Years 2 and 3, you will beginning of the second year. *For full details go to our website and for a the theory and practice of financial Portfolio Management; Corporate of Bahrain. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go progressively specialise in your full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go services and financial markets, and Finance; Investment Banking and to www.ucas.com This programme is accredited by course’s core field of study. to www.ucas.com to analyse the broader role of the International Banking. However, you ACCA (the Association of Chartered You will study modules such as financial sector in the national and will retain the opportunity to select Certified Accountants), the global Financial Accounting; Corporate global economies. optional modules either within your body for professional accountants. Finance; Management Accounting; main discipline or in alternative Accreditation gives you automatic Investment; Taxation and Auditing. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? areas. exemption from the examinations However, you will retain the • We have world-renowned experts in some Part One ACCA subjects. opportunity to select optional in Banking teaching on this Many of our subjects can also be Graduates of this degree enjoy modules either within your main course. studied in combination with a subject exemptions from five subjects. discipline or in alternative subject • Our staff are active researchers in from another academic school to FOUNDATION YEAR areas. their subject areas and we enjoy an form a Joint Honours degree course. From September 2021 we will WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? international reputation. be offering this course with • We employ specialists across a Many of our subjects can also be • We employ specialists across Please refer to our website for up-to- a Foundation Year, subject to broad range of business subjects. studied in combination with a subject a broad range of business subjects, date module information. validation. This 4-year option • Our students take part in national from another academic school to including Accounting, Banking, leads to the same qualification as competitions such as the IBM form a Joint Honours degree course. Finance, Economics, Management, the 3-year degree and includes a Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, Marketing and Entrepreneurship. foundation year designed for those a UK-wide business plan and Please refer to our website for up- • Our students take part in national who wish to undertake degree- marketing challenge. to-date module information. FOUNDATION YEAR competitions such as the IBM level study, but may not have the INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • A Careers and Employability Fair INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE From September 2021 we will EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE required entry requirements to Page 87 is held every year and provides an be offering this course with Page 87 a UK-wide business plan and do so. See website for further opportunity for students to meet a Foundation Year, subject to marketing challenge. information. WANT TO KNOW MORE? recruiters and learn more about validation. This 4-year option WANT TO KNOW MORE? • A Careers and Employability Fair Admissions Administrator post-graduation employment leads to the same qualification as Admissions Administrator is held every year and provides an Business Business Ranked amongst options. the 3-year degree and includes a opportunity for students to meet • Our staff are active researchers in recruiters and learn more about JOINT HONOURS DEGREES INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 foundation year designed forINTERNATIONAL those Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 the world’s top EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE their subject areas and we enjoy an EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE post-graduation employment You can study Banking as a Joint Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] who wish to undertake degree-Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/business international reputation. level study, but may not have the www.bangor.ac.uk/business options. 50 institutions for Honours Degree with one of the • We have excellent computing required entry requirements to • We have excellent computing Banking research following subjects: French (4 years), facilities and you will be able to do so. See website for further facilities and you will be able to German (4 years), Italian (4 years), develop your skills in data information. develop your skills in data (RePEc) Spanish (4 years). analysis and report preparation. analysis and report preparation. 158 159 FINANCIAL ECONOMICS MARKETING BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Bangor offers an attractive range HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Bangor offers an attractive range HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: This degree offers you the of postgraduate degrees in You will spend up to 15 hours UCAS course code: On this course you will develop of postgraduate degrees (MA, You will spend up to 15 hours L111 BSc/FinEc opportunity to study economics business and finance subjects, if per week in lectures, seminars N501 BSc/MKt skills and knowledge of the key MSc and MBA) in business and per week in lectures, seminars for Economics joint honours codes within a real-world context, you wish to study for an extra year and tutorials. There is a mixture for Marketing joint honours codes see strategic and operational aspects finance subjects. and tutorials. There is a mixture see pages 69-70 pages 69-70 Length: 3 years developing strong analytical skills after completion of your BSc of continuous assessment and Length: 3 years of marketing, and you will gain an of continuous assessment and and a career-relevant qualification degree. written examinations. You will awareness of the external marketing WHAT WILL I STUDY? written examinations. You will ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: in economics and its application complete assignments such as ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: environment. All our Single Honours degree complete assignments such as GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer to global finance. The programme WHAT WILL I STUDY? collecting and analysing information GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer courses provide a broad base collecting and analysing information is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from includes core components in All our Single Honours degree from commercial databases or is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from Strategic and operational aspects of across all of the disciplines studied from commercial databases or a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: economics and finance. courses provide a broad base across the internet, preparing business a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: marketing include the formulation in the School - Accounting, Banking, the internet, preparing business • A Levels all of the disciplines studied in case studies, writing essays and • A Levels of marketing strategies; managing Economics, Finance, Management case studies, writing essays and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and By studying microeconomics and the School – Accounting, Banking, completing problem-solving • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and the marketing function and its and Marketing - together with completing problem-solving Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: DMM macroeconomics, you will develop Economics, Finance, Management exercises. DMM positioning relative to other key a more in-depth study of the exercises. • International Baccalaureate Diploma a firm understanding of economics and Marketing – together with • International Baccalaureate Diploma business functions; advertising programme’s core topics. They • Access: Pass both at the individual level and at a more in-depth study of the CAREER PROSPECTS • Access: Pass and branding ; customer relations also provide a comprehensive CAREER PROSPECTS • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended the level of the economy as a whole. programme’s core topics. They Financial Economics focuses • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended management; applications of introduction to the analytical skills Typical career paths for our Diploma: considered on a case by case basis The finance component provides also provide a comprehensive on the application of economics Diploma: considered on a case by case basis information technology; and that are required in each of the Marketing graduates include • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. in-depth coverage of topics such introduction to the analytical skills to understanding the business • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. e-marketing. The external School’s subject areas. Marketing Officer and Marketing International school leaving qualifications as the financial system, financial that are required in each of the environment. You will foster skills International school leaving qualifications marketing environment Manager roles, graduate and college diplomas are accepted, subject markets and products, the financing School’s subject areas. that will be valuable in a future and college diplomas are accepted, subject encompasses consumer behaviour In Years 2 and 3, you will management training schemes and to minimum English Language requirements): to minimum English Language requirements): www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs of companies and the role of career in business and other www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs and consumer psychology, progressively specialise in Business Administrative positions. We also welcome applications from mature investment. In Years 2 and 3, you will organisations. We also welcome applications from mature marketing communication, public your course’s core field of Opportunities are growing in the applicants. progressively specialise in your applicants. relations and market research. study. You will study modules demand for Marketing graduates in *For full details go to our website and for a The wide range of optional modules course’s core field of study. *For full details go to our website and for a such as Consumer Behavior; the public and non-profit sectors too. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go enable you to tailor your programme You will study modules such as full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go This programme also provides Marketing Research; Marketing to www.ucas.com of study to your own interests and Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; to www.ucas.com coverage across the broader range Communication; e-Marketing; Brand career aspirations. You will develop Statistical Methods; Applied of business and management Management; Marketing Strategy a portfolio of analytical skills that Economics; Behavioural Finance; subjects, developing knowledge and Management and International will be attractive to a wide range of Investment; Corporate Finance; and understanding of organisations, Marketing. However, you will retain employers in the financial sector and Portfolio Management and Financial their management and the changing the opportunity to select optional beyond. Economics. However, you will retain FOUNDATION YEAR external environment in which they modules either within your main the opportunity to select optional From September 2021 we will operate. discipline or in alternative subject WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? modules either within your main be offering this course with areas. • We employ specialists across discipline or in alternative subject WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? a Foundation Year, subject to FOUNDATION YEAR a broad range of business subjects, areas. validation. This 4-year option • We employ specialists across a Many of our subjects can also be including Accounting, Banking, broad range of business subjects. studied in combination with a subject From September 2021 we will leads to the same qualification as be offering this course with Finance, Economics, Management, Many of our subjects can also be the 3-year degree and includes a • Our students take part in national from another academic school to Marketing and Entrepreneurship. studied in combination with a subject competitions such as the IBM form a Joint Honours degree course. a Foundation Year, subject to foundation year designed for those validation. This 4-year option • Our students take part in national from another academic school to who wish to undertake degree- Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, competitions such as the IBM form a Joint Honours degree course. a UK-wide business plan and Please refer to our website for up- leads to the same qualification as level study, but may not have the the 3-year degree and includes a Business Challenge. required entry requirements to marketing challenge. to-date module information. • A Careers and Employability Fair Please refer to our website for up-to- • A Careers and Employability Fair foundation year designed for those do so. See website for further who wish to undertake degree- is held every year and provides an date module information. information. is held every year and provides an INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL opportunity for students to meet INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL opportunity for students to meet level study, but may not have the EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 recruiters and learn more about Page 87 recruiters and learn more about required entry requirements to post-graduation employment post-graduation employment do so. See website for further WANT TO KNOW MORE? options. NEW DEVELOPMENTS WANT TO KNOW MORE? options. information. Admissions Administrator • Our students take part in national A new bilingual programme is Admissions Administrator • Our staff are active researchers in Business competitions such as the IBM currently under development called Business their subject areas and we enjoy an Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, BSc in Astudiaethau Economi a international reputation. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 JOINT HONOURS DEGREES EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE a UK-wide business plan and Chyllid Cymru (Studies in EconomyEXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • We have excellent computing Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] You can study Marketing as a Joint www.bangor.ac.uk/business marketing challenge. and Finance of Wales) and will www.bangor.ac.uk/business facilities and you will have the Honours Degree with one of the • We have excellent computing be offered in 2021, subject to chance to develop your skills in following subjects: French (4 years), facilities and you will be able to validation. Please see the website data analysis and report German (4 years), Italian (4 years), develop your skills in data for further information. preparation. Spanish (4 years). analysis and report preparation. 160 161 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • We have excellent computing HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: You will develop a broad facilities and you will have the You will spend up to 15 hours N200 BSc/BM understanding of business chance to develop your skills in per week in lectures, seminars for Business Management joint organisations. You will learn how data analysis and report and tutorials. There is a mixture honours codes see pages 69-70 Length: 3 years businesses develop strategies, make preparation. of continuous assessment and decisions, organise their internal • Bangor offers an attractive range written examinations. You will ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: resources, and manage risk and of postgraduate degrees in complete assignments such as GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer uncertainty. business and finance subjects. collecting and analysing information is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from from commercial databases or a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: Business and marketing case WHAT WILL I STUDY? the internet, preparing business • A Levels studies form an integral part of All our Single Honours degree case studies, writing essays and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and many of the modules, especially courses provide a broad base across completing problem-solving Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: DMM during the later stages of your all of the disciplines studied in exercises. • International Baccalaureate Diploma programme. In a case study, the School – Accounting, Banking, • Access: Pass information is presented about a Economics, Finance, Management CAREER PROSPECTS • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended firm’s products, markets, financial and Marketing – together with Our Business Studies programmes Diploma: considered on a case by case basis structure, human resources and a more in-depth study of the are carefully crafted to provide • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. other factors that may influence programme’s core topics. They a holistic range of both soft and International school leaving qualifications its success. You will discuss and also provide a comprehensive hard employability skills that and college diplomas are accepted, subject analyse strategies and actions that introduction to the analytical skills should enhance our graduates to minimum English Language requirements): www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs the firm should take in the future. that are required in each of the career prospects. Business Studies We also welcome applications from mature School’s subject areas. students can enter a wide range applicants. Your degree will provide insights of different types of jobs, roles and *For full details go to our website and for a and expertise in specific business In Years 2 and 3, you will industries. Our graduates have full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go functions such as marketing, progressively specialise in your gone on to set-up successful start- to www.ucas.com human resource management, course’s core field of study. You will ups, work in key roles in industry accounting and finance. You will study modules such as Business and even become internationally CAREERS FAIR GIVES STUDENTS A HEAD-START IN THE WORLD OF EMPLOYMENT study specialised topics such as Information Systems; Leadership published scholars. entrepreneurship and strategic & Human Resource Management management. You will also develop (HRM); Operations Strategy; Attending university is now about more than lectures “Careers Fairs provide invaluable awareness of the wider environment Entrepreneurship, Capital and the and essays: it’s also about preparing for the world of in which businesses operate, Firm and International Business opportunities for students – to employment. by studying subjects such as Competency. However, you will connect with employers and business economics and corporate retain the opportunity to select We hold an annual Careers and Employability Fair to recruiters and get the inside governance. optional modules either within your FOUNDATION YEAR From September 2021 we will offer Business students a vital opportunity to network scoop on industry requirements main discipline or in alternative and recruitment techniques. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? subject areas. be offering this course with with employers, to discuss their career options with a Foundation Year, subject to professionals and get a head-start in their search for a Having all that expertise under • We employ specialists across a broad range of business subjects. Many of our subjects can also be validation. This 4-year option job after graduating. one roof is not only inspiring, • Our students take part in national studied in combination with a subject leads to the same qualification as but can really boost students’ the 3-year degree and includes a confidence when it comes to job competitions such as the IBM from another academic school to Regional and national recruiters – many of whom have Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, form a Joint Honours degree course. foundation year designed for those applications and stepping into the graduate schemes, internships and job vacancies to a UK-wide business plan and who wish to undertake degree- promote – attend the Careers and Employability Fair professional world.” INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL marketing challenge. Please refer to our website for up- level study, but may not have the EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE required entry requirements to and students on all courses Business courses at Bangor Page 87 • A Careers and Employability Fair to-date module information. do so. See website for further are encouraged to attend. CLARE BRASS is held every year and provides an Employability Co-ordinator, WANT TO KNOW MORE? opportunity for students to meet information. Admissions Administrator Students attending the Fair can also take part in a CV Bangor University recruiters and learn more about Business post-graduation employment clinic, specialist breakout sessions and a Q&A panel options. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 JOINT HONOURS DEGREES with former students, giving them a valuable insight EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Our staff are active researchers in Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] You can study Business into graduates’ journeys from the classroom to the www.bangor.ac.uk/business their subject areas and we enjoy an boardroom. Management as a 4-year Joint international reputation. Honours Degree with one of the following subjects: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish. 162 163 BUSINESS BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE BA [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? WHAT WILL I STUDY? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: BA Business is Bangor Business • You will study within a During your first year of studies, UCAS course code: Finance addresses the ways in All our Single Honours degree You will spend up to 15 hours N107 School’s generalist degree. multidisciplinary School that you will follow introductory courses NN23 BSc/BMF which individuals, businesses and courses provide a broad base per week in lectures, seminars Length: 3 years employs specialists across a that will expose you to the full range Length: 3 years organisations raise, allocate and across all of the disciplines studied and tutorials. There is a mixture ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: By following this degree broad range of business subjects, of subject areas in the School – ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: use monetary resources, taking into in the School - Accounting, Banking, of continuous assessment and GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer programme, you will develop a including accounting, banking, Management, Marketing, Economics, GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer account the risks associated with Economics, Finance, Management written examinations. You will is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from broad understanding of business finance, economics, management, Accounting, Finance and Banking. is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from their activities. and Marketing - together with complete assignments such as a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: organisations, their internal marketing and entrepreneurship. a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: a more in-depth study of the collecting and analysing information • A Levels functions and the environments in • Our students take part in national In your second and third years, • A Levels The goals of each type of user programme’s core topics. They from commercial databases or • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and which they operate. competitions such as the IBM you will then be able to choose • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and are realised through the use of also provide a comprehensive the internet, preparing business Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, freely from across the full range Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: appropriate financial instruments, introduction to the analytical skills case studies, writing essays and DMM Many students will choose this a UK-wide business plan and of Business School modules*, DMM such as personal loans and savings that are required in each of the completing problem-solving • International Baccalaureate Diploma • International Baccalaureate Diploma • Access: Pass degree programme if they are keen marketing challenge. designing your own individual • Access: Pass accounts, government bonds and School’s subject areas. exercises. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended to gain a Business related degree • Our staff are active researchers in programme that meets your own • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended company shares, and derivative Diploma: considered on a case by case basis but are unsure of which particular their subject areas and we enjoy an needs and interests. Diploma: considered on a case by case basis instruments such as futures, options In Years 2 and 3, you will CAREER PROSPECTS • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. Business disciplines they would like international reputation. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. and swaps. progressively specialise in your Our Business Studies programmes International school leaving qualifications to pursue. • We have excellent computing Please refer to our website for upto- International school leaving qualifications course’s core field of study. You will are carefully crafted to provide and college diplomas are accepted, subject facilities and you will have the date module information. and college diplomas are accepted, subject Financial markets are becoming study modules such as Investment; a holistic range of both soft and to minimum English Language requirements): Students on this degree scheme chance to develop your skills to minimum English Language requirements): increasingly complex and Business Information Systems; hard employability skills that www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs will be able to transfer to any of in data analysis and report *Subject to pre-requisites and timetabling www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs sophisticated, with managers, Corporate Finance; Leadership and should enhance our graduates We also welcome applications from mature We also welcome applications from mature applicants. our specialist degree schemes at preparation. restrictions. Some modules (particularly in the applicants. traders and analysts continually Human Recourse Management career prospects. Business Studies *For full details go to our website and for a any point during their first year of • Bangor offers an attractive range third year) will require that you have studied *For full details go to our website and for a evolving new methods of packaging (HRM); International Business students can enter a wide range full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go studies if they so wish. Alternatively, of postgraduate degrees (MA certain other modules before. Your personal tutor, full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go and selling assets and securities, Competence; Strategic Management of different types of jobs, roles and to www.ucas.com many students will stick with the BA and MSc) in business and finance and other School staff, will help you plan your to www.ucas.com offering new combinations of risk and Portfolio Management. However, industries. Our graduates have Business programme in their second subjects. programme to meet these requirements, and to and return. you will retain the opportunity to gone on to set-up successful start- and third years, in order to follow • Bangor Business School students avoid timetable clashes. select optional modules either within ups, work in key roles in industry a broader, more general, syllabus run a CIM (Chartered Institute Your degree will combine a your main discipline or in alternative and even become internationally that they can tailor to their particular of Marketing) student chapter HOW WILL I LEARN? specialised stream of modules subject areas. published scholars. preferences. association which organises a During the course you will spend up in finance with a more general range of marketing events and to 15 hours per week in lectures, Business Studies programme, which Many of our subjects can also be activities, enabling students to seminars and tutorials. There is a covers a broad range of business studied in combination with a subject put into practice what is learnt in mixture of continuous assessment and management disciplines. from another academic school to lectures. and written examinations. You will form a Joint Honours degree course. complete assignments such as WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? collecting and analysing information • We employ specialists across a Please refer to our website for up- from commercial databases or broad range of business subjects. to-date module information. the internet, preparing business • Our annual Careers and case studies, writing essays and Employability Fair provides an completing problem-solving opportunity for students to meet exercises. recruiters and learn more about their employment options. CAREER PROSPECTS • Our staff are active researchers in Many graduates from Bangor their subject areas and we enjoy an FOUNDATION YEAR INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Business School pursue careers INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL international reputation. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE From September 2021 we will Page 87 in areas such as accountancy, Page 87 • We have excellent computing be offering this course with banking, investment, insurance, risk facilities and you will be able to a Foundation Year, subject to WANT TO KNOW MORE? WANT TO KNOW MORE? management, marketing, human develop your skills in data validation. This 4-year option Admissions Administrator resource management and retail Admissions Administrator analysis and report preparation. Business Business leads to the same qualification as management. • Bangor offers an attractive range the 3-year degree and includes a of postgraduate degrees in INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 foundation year designed for those EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE business and finance subjects. Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] who wish to undertake degree- www.bangor.ac.uk/business www.bangor.ac.uk/business • Our students take part in national level study, but may not have the competitions such as the IBM required entry requirements to Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, do so. See website for further a UK-wide business plan and information. marketing challenge. 164 165 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND LAW BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING BA [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Law Modules: COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? CAREER PROSPECTS UCAS course code: Law affects all of our lives and a • We employ specialists across a Choose 3 from a list of available UCAS course code: Marketing has been defined as an All our Single Honours degree Our Business Management N2M1 BA/BML knowledge of law increases our broad range of Business and Law modules (recent examples include): N2N5 BSc/BMM organisational function and a set courses provide a broad base across programmes are carefully crafted Length: 3 years understanding of business, politics, subjects. Tort, Roman Law and Legal History, Evidence, Length: 3 years of processes for creating, all of the disciplines studied in to provide a holistic range of both society and the world in which • The degree addresses the British, Employment Law, Media Law, Intellectual ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: communicating and delivering the School – Accounting, Banking, soft and hard employability skills GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer we live. A degree combining Law European and global dimensions Property Law*, Equity and Trusts. GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer value to customers, and managing Economics, Finance, Management that should enhance our graduates is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from with Business offers a valuable of the legal world. is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from customer relationships in ways and Marketing – together with career prospects. Business a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: opportunity to understand the legal • We have a dedicated and well Year 3 a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: that benefit the organisation and its a more in-depth study of the Management students can enter • A Levels structure governing all aspects of resourced Law Library. Business Modules: • A Levels stakeholders. programme’s core topics. They a wide range of different types • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and our lives today, whilst gaining key • Our students take part in national • Entrepreneurship, Capital and the Firm* • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and also provide a comprehensive of jobs, roles and industries. Our Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: business knowledge and skills that competitions such as the IBM • Strategic Management Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: For too long, marketing was introduction to the analytical skills graduates have gone on to set-up DMM provide a valuable foundation for Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, DMM interpreted simply as a means to sell that are required in each of the successful start-ups, work in key • International Baccalaureate Diploma • International Baccalaureate Diploma • Access: Pass future careers. a UK-wide business plan and Plus a further 30 credits from a • Access: Pass whatever an organisation produced. School’s subject areas. roles in industry and even become • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended marketing challenge. list of available modules (recent • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended As competition has increased, internationally published scholars. Diploma: considered on a case by case basis This programme combines the • We have a very active mooting examples include): International Business Diploma: considered on a case by case basis companies have begun to recognise In Years 2 and 3, you will • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. study of Business and Law, and (mock trial) scene and have a Competency, Business Management Project*, • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. the importance of marketing as progressively specialise in your International school leaving qualifications includes topics such as Business, dedicated replica court room on Globalisation and Multinational Companies, International school leaving qualifications part of a fully integrated strategy course’s core field of study. You will and college diplomas are accepted, subject Management and Marketing campus. Enterprise by Design, Corporate Social and college diplomas are accepted, subject that aims to identify, anticipate take modules such as Operation to minimum English Language requirements): alongside a range of Law topics • The award-wining Students’ Law Responsibility, Corporate Risk Management, to minimum English Language requirements): and satisfy customer needs. This Strategy; Consumer Behavior; www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs such as Contract, International and Society arranges a range of both Executive Compensation, Marketing Strategy www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs degree will focus on this shift in Marketing of Services; Strategic We also welcome applications from mature We also welcome applications from mature applicants. Commercial Law. A background in social and academic related and Management. applicants. attitudes and the implications it has Management; e-marketing and *For full details go to our website and for a these areas could open doors to activities and events. *For full details go to our website and for a on the application of management Customer Insight Project. However, Marketing at Bangor full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go a varied and interesting range of Law Modules: full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go principles and practices in various you will retain the opportunity to to www.ucas.com careers. WHAT WILL I STUDY? Choose 3 from a list of available to www.ucas.com types of organisations. select optional modules either within University is ranked In each year half your modules modules (recent examples include): your main discipline or in alternative This degree is suitable for individuals will be in Law and the other half in Land Law, Company Law, Commercial Law, Your studies will combine modules subject areas. in the Top 10 for aiming for a career in business and Business Management. European Union Law in marketing with a more general Research Intensity. management, but who also wish to programme of study across a range Many of our subjects can also be have a thorough understanding of Year 1 A Welsh medium version of this of business and management studied in combination with a subject (Complete University the legal regulations within which Business Modules: module is also available. disciplines. from another academic school to businesses and industry must • Principles of Business & Management* Please refer to our website for upto- form a Joint Honours degree course. Guide 2020) operate. It may also be suitable for • Business Analytics* date module information. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? individuals aiming for careers in • Tutorials in Management • We employ specialists across a Please refer to our website for up- management within the legal sector, HOW WILL I LEARN? broad range of business subjects. to-date module information. where a thorough background in Law Modules: You will spend up to 15 hours per • Our students take part in national both law and business is highly • Legal Skills week in lectures, seminars and competitions such as the IBM HOW WILL I LEARN? valued. • Contract Law tutorials. In each Law module you Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, You will spend up to 15 hours • Public Law will have 2 hours of lectures and a UK-wide business plan and per week in lectures, seminars This is not a qualifying law degree a one hour tutorial every fortnight. marketing challenge. and tutorials. There is a mixture (QLD). Individuals wishing to become Year 2 In Business modules you will • A Careers and Employability Fair of continuous assessment and solicitors or barristers should Business Modules: attend weekly lectures. There is a is held every year and provides an written examinations. You will apply instead for one of Bangor’s • Operations Strategy mixture of continuous assessment opportunity for students to meet complete assignments such as professionally-recognised LLB • Leadership & HRM and written examinations. You will recruiters and learn more about collecting and analysing information FOUNDATION YEAR INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL degrees, all of which enjoy QLD • Business Information Systems* complete assignments such as INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL post-graduation employment from commercial databases or EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE From September 2021 we will Page 87 status – see page 174. preparing business case studies, Page 87 options. the internet, preparing business be offering this course with Plus a further 20 credits from a writing essays and completing • Our staff are active researchers in case studies, writing essays and a Foundation Year, subject to WANT TO KNOW MORE? WANT TO KNOW MORE? list of available modules (recent problem-solving exercises. their subject areas and we enjoy an completing problem-solving validation. This 4-year option Admissions Administrator examples include): Law for Business, Admissions Administrator international reputation. exercises. Business Business leads to the same qualification as Law at Bangor is rated Statistical Methods*, Evolution of Management CAREER PROSPECTS • We have excellent computing the 3-year degree and includes a Thought, Marketing Research, Corporate Many graduates pursue careers facilities and you will have the INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 foundation year designed for those EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Top in Wales Governance and Regulation. in the areas of management, EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE chance to develop your skills in Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] who wish to undertake degree- www.bangor.ac.uk/business (Guardian University marketing, human resource www.bangor.ac.uk/business data analysis and report level study, but may not have the management, retail management, preparation. required entry requirements to Guide, 2020) business management, trade and • Bangor offers an attractive range do so. See website for further export. of postgraduate degrees in information. business and finance subjects. 166 167 BUSINESS ECONOMICS BSc [Hons] BUSINESS MANAGEMENT WITH ACCOUNTING BSc [Hons]

• We have excellent computing COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Many of our subjects can also be UCAS course code: This course combines a core facilities and you will have the You will spend up to 15 hours UCAS course codes: This degree allows you to develop • We employ specialists across a studied in combination with a subject L190 BSc/BEc programme of study in economics chance to develop your skills in per week in lectures, seminars N2ND BSc/BMA For Management the vital skills needed to manage broad range of business subjects. from another academic school to Length: 3 years with a wide selection of optional data analysis and report and tutorials. There is a mixture joint honours codes see pages 69-70 finance, people and information, • Our students take part in national form a Joint Honours degree course. Length: 3 years modules in business, finance and preparation. of continuous assessment and while gaining specialised knowledge competitions such as the IBM Please refer to our website for up- ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: management. • Bangor offers an attractive range written examinations. You will GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: in accounting. Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, to-date module information. of postgraduate degrees in complete assignments such as a UK-wide business plan and is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from Economics has been defined as business and finance subjects. collecting and analysing information For joint honours degrees, you should also a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: look at the entry requirements for your other Management involves the process of marketing challenge. HOW WILL I LEARN? • A Levels the study of human choice, and the from commercial databases or chosen subject. leading or directing an organisation, • Our staff are active researchers in You will spend up to 15 hours per • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and impact of choice on the production, WHAT WILL I STUDY? the internet, preparing business GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer and making decisions concerning the their subject areas and we enjoy an week in lectures, seminars and Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: distribution and consumption of All our Single Honours degree case studies, writing essays and is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from deployment of resources. You will international reputation. tutorials. There is a mixture of DMM scarce resources. Microeconomics courses provide a broad base completing problem-solving a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: study the principles of management, • We have excellent computing continuous assessment and written • International Baccalaureate Diploma • A Levels deals with choice at the individual across all of the disciplines studied exercises. and develop commercial awareness, facilities and you will have the examinations. You will complete • Access: Pass level, and macroeconomics analyses in the School - Accounting, Banking, • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: leadership, communication and chance to develop your skills in assignments such as: collecting the economy as a whole. Economics, Finance, Management CAREER PROSPECTS presentation skills. data analysis and report and analysing information from Diploma: considered on a case by case basis and Marketing - together with Business Economics focuses DMM • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • International Baccalaureate Diploma preparation. commercial databases or the International school leaving qualifications This course has microeconomics a more in-depth study of the on the application of economics • Access: Pass Accounting has been defined as the • Bangor offers an attractive range internet, preparing business case and college diplomas are accepted, subject and macroeconomics as core programme’s core topics. They to understanding the business • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended measurement and disclosure of of postgraduate degrees in studies, writing essays, completing to minimum English Language requirements): components, and a specialism also provide a comprehensive environment. You will foster skills Diploma: considered on a case by case basis financial information that is used by business and finance subjects. problem-solving exercises. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs focusing on the economic context introduction to the analytical skills that will be valuable in a future • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. managers, investors and others to • Depending on the modules you We also welcome applications from mature of business decision making. You that are required in each of the career in business and other International school leaving qualifications make decisions about the allocation study, you will be able to gain CAREER PROSPECTS applicants. will develop an awareness of School’s subject areas. organisations. and college diplomas are accepted, subject *For full details go to our website and for a to minimum English Language requirements): of resources within organisations. exemptions from parts of the Management graduates will applications of economics in areas The methods for preparing professional examinations of some be equipped to pursue careers full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go including business management, In Years 2 and 3, you will www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs to www.ucas.com We also welcome applications from mature accounting information must be of the major accounting bodies. in accountancy, banking, finance and public policy. progressively specialise in your applicants. applied with judgement, and with an investment, insurance, risk course’s core field of study. *For full details go to our website and for a understanding of the purposes for WHAT WILL I STUDY? management, marketing, human This degree will appeal to those You will take modules such as full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go which the information will be used. All our Single Honours degree resource management and retail who wish to study economic issues Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; to www.ucas.com This degree will enable you to courses provide a broad base management. at local, national and international Current Issues in Economics; understand the key principles across all of the disciplines studied levels, while developing practical Industrial Organisation; Financial which underpin a cost or profit in the School - Accounting, Banking, skills in business, finance and Economics and Applied Economics. figure produced by an accountant, Economics, Finance, Management management which will be attractive However, you will retain the and to appreciate the implications and Marketing - together with to employers in both the private and opportunity to select optional of accounting data for managerial a more in-depth study of the public sectors. modules either within your main decision making. programme’s core topics. They discipline or in alternative subject also provide a comprehensive WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? areas. This programme is a professionally introduction to the analytical skills • We employ specialists across a oriented qualification and accredited that are required in each of the broad range of business subjects, Many of our subjects can also be by all the major accountancy bodies School’s subject areas. including accounting, banking, studied in combination with a subject including the Association of Certified finance, economics, management, from another academic school to Chartered Accountants (ACCA), In Years 2 and 3, you will marketing and entrepreneurship. form a Joint Honours degree course. Chartered Institute of Management progressively specialise in your • Our students take part in national Accountants (CIMA), the Institute of course’s core field of study. competitions such as the IBM Please refer to our website for up-to- Chartered Accountants in England You will take modules such as FOUNDATION YEAR INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Business Challenge. date module information. FOUNDATION YEAR EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE From September 2021 we will INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL and Wales (ICAEW) and Certified Principles of Organisation and From September 2021 we will Page 87 • A Careers and Employability Fair EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE be offering this course with Page 87 Practising Accountant (CPA) Management; Financial Accounting; be offering this course with is held every year and provides an a Foundation Year, subject to Australia. It will provide graduates Human Resource Management; a Foundation Year, subject to WANT TO KNOW MORE? opportunity for students to meet validation. This 4-year option WANT TO KNOW MORE? with substantial exemptions Operations Management; Business validation. This 4-year option Admissions Administrator recruiters and learn more about leads to the same qualification as Admissions Administrator from many of these bodies’ core Information Systems and Business leads to the same qualification as Business post-graduation employment the 3-year degree and includes a Business examinations. This is a huge Planning. However, you will retain the 3-year degree and includes a options. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 foundation year designed for those advantage, as you will take fewer the opportunity to select optional foundation year designed for those EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Our students take part in national INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] who wish to undertake degree-EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE exams allowing you to focus on modules either within your main who wish to undertake degree- competitions such as the IBM Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/business level study, but may not have the developing your career. discipline or in alternative subject level study, but may not have the Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, www.bangor.ac.uk/business required entry requirements to areas. required entry requirements to a UK-wide business plan and do so. See website for further do so. See website for further marketing challenge. information. information. 168 169 MARKETING WITH PSYCHOLOGY BANKING WITH FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY*/ BUSINESS ANALYTICS WITH FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY* BSc [Hons] BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? CAREER PROSPECTS COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES ABOUT? Banking with Financial WHAT WILL I STUDY? Our Marketing with Psychology Typical career paths for our UCAS course code: UCAS course codes: Financial technology (or FinTech) Technology BSc All our Single Honours degree N5C8 BSc/MP course has been designed to develop Year 1 Marketing graduates have N109 BSc/BAFT (Business Analytics is a significant new development Banking is one of the most courses provide a broad base Length: 3 years students’ knowledge and skills In the first year you will choose included Marketing Officer and with Financial Technology) that promises to revolutionise important sectors of an economy. across all of the disciplines studied N312 BSc/BKFT (Banking with with across a broad range of marketing from a selection of modules that are Marketing Manager roles, graduate the delivery and use of financial As a primary source of funds for in the School - Accounting, Banking, ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: and psychology functions, including intended to provide a solid grounding management training schemes and Financial Technology) GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer Length: 3 years services. Given the importance of the both corporations and households, Economics, Finance, Management the strategic and operational aspects in the subject area. In addition to Business Administrative positions. financial sector to the UK economy, banks also play a major role in and Marketing - together with is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from of marketing, and the study of the modules focussing on the Principles Opportunities are growing in the a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: *subject to validation the UK government has stated its securities issuance, underwriting a more in-depth study of the • A Levels external marketing environment. of Business Management and demand for Marketing graduates in ambition to make the UK a global and arranging, and other advisory programme’s core topics. They • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and You will explore and develop an Marketing you will also choose two the public and non-profit sectors too. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: capital for FinTech. based business including mergers also provide a comprehensive Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: understanding of key psychological Psychology modules from a list of For joint honours degrees, you should also and acquisitions. Developments, introduction to the analytical skills DMM aspects - underpinning consumer available options. look at the entry requirements for your other Our exciting new programmes aim such as, globalisation, technological that are required in each of the • International Baccalaureate Diploma chosen subject. and organizational behaviour - to service the demand for suitably innovation, deregulation and School’s subject areas. • Access: Pass applied in the business environment. Years 2 and 3 GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from skilled graduates from the rapidly increasing international integration You will also develop a broad You will progressively specialise in developing FinTech sector. have transformed the ways banks In Years 2 and 3, you will Diploma: considered on a case by case basis knowledge of business and your course’s core fields of study. a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • A Levels carry out their business as well as progressively specialise in your management subjects. You will study modules such as International school leaving qualifications • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Business Analytics with Financial helping to make the sector more course’s core field of study. Statistical Methods, Marketing and college diplomas are accepted, subject Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Technology BSc competitive. You will take modules such as to minimum English Language requirements): WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Communications, Consumer DMM Modern businesses collect and Principles of Organisation and www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Our Marketing courses offer Behaviour, Marketing Strategy, • International Baccalaureate Diploma interpret vast amounts of data and In addition to gaining skills and Management; Financial Accounting; We also welcome applications from mature • Access: Pass students the opportunity to e-Marketing, Brand Management information about their customers knowledge of banking, students Human Resource Management; applicants. study marketing within a real- and Marketing Research. In addition, • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended *For full details go to our website and for a Diploma: considered on a case by case basis and activities. Business Analysts on this course will equip you with Operations Management; Business world context, developing strong you will select further modules from use specialist skills to investigate specialist skills from computer Information Systems and Business full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go analytical and practical skills, and a list of available marketing and • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. to www.ucas.com International school leaving qualifications and examine this information, to science, including programming Planning. However, you will retain a career-relevant qualification psychology options. and college diplomas are accepted, subject interpret it and identify patterns using Python, big data and cyber the opportunity to select optional majoring in marketing. to minimum English Language requirements): meaning that businesses can make security, which you will need for modules either within your main • We employ specialists across a Please refer to our website for up-to- www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs evidence-based decisions. a successful career in this rapidly discipline or in alternative subject broad range of business subjects. date module information. We also welcome applications from mature evolving sector. areas. • Our students take part in national applicants. *For full details go to our website and for a Our course will equip you with core competitions such as the IBM HOW WILL I LEARN? skills in business analytics. You Please refer to our website for up- Many of our subjects can also be Business Challenge and ‘The Pitch’, You will spend up to 15 hours full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www.ucas.com will develop both quantitative and to-date module information. studied in combination with a subject a UK-wide business plan and per week in lectures, seminars computing skills within a business from another academic school to marketing challenge. and tutorials. There is a mixture context, which will provide you with WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? form a Joint Honours degree course. • A Careers and Employability Fair of continuous assessment and deep understanding of management • We have world-renowned experts Please refer to our website for up- is held every year and provides an written examinations. You will theory and practice. The programme in Banking teaching on this course. to-date module information. opportunity for students to meet complete assignments such as will interest economists, marketeers • We employ specialists across a recruiters and learn more about collecting and analysing information and management students. In broad range of business subjects. HOW WILL I LEARN? post-graduation employment from commercial databases or addition to gaining specialist • Our staff are active researchers in You will spend up to 15 hours options. the internet, preparing business analytical skills, the programme their subject areas and we enjoy an per week in lectures, seminars • Our staff are active researchers in case studies, writing essays and will equip you with specialist international reputation. and tutorials. There is a mixture their subject areas and we enjoy an completing problem-solving computer sciences skills including • A Careers and Employability Fair of continuous assessment and international reputation. exercises. programming using Python, big data is held every year and provides an written examinations. You will • We have excellent computing and cyber security. opportunity for students to meet complete assignments such as INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL facilities and you will have the EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL recruiters and learn more about collecting and analysing information Page 87 chance to develop your skills EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 By combining theoretical concepts employment options. from commercial databases or in data analysis and report WANT TO KNOW MORE? with practical applications, this • Our staff are active researchers in the internet, preparing business preparation. WANT TO KNOW MORE? course will provide you with a their subject areas and we enjoy an case studies, writing essays and Admissions Administrator • Bangor offers an attractive range Business Admissions Administrator skill set that you will need for a international reputation. completing problem-solving of postgraduate degrees (MA, MSc Business successful career in these rapidly • You will have the chance to develop exercises. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 and MBA) in business and finance evolving sectors. your skills in data analysis and EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] subjects. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 Page 234 Page 234 EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] report preparation. www.bangor.ac.uk/business Page 234 Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/business • Bangor offers an attractive range of postgraduate degrees (MA, MSc and MBA) in business and finance subjects. 170 171 BUSINESS SUBJECT PLUS ANOTHER SUBJECT LAW COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES French, German or Spanish WITH HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: ABOUT? Business Studies or Marketing (67% You will spend up to 15 hours see adjacent text It is possible to study two subjects language, 33% business subject) per week in lectures, seminars Length: 4 years for degrees with a in equal proportions within one Degrees that involve two-thirds and tutorials. For Business Law LLB language as an equal or major part; degree course. These are called language study are 4-year subjects there is a mixture of Law with Accounting and Finance LLB 3 years for those with language as a joint honours degrees. You may programmes, with year 3 spent continuous assessment and written minor part study a Business subject as a Joint abroad. See the Modern Languages examinations. You will complete Law with Business Studies LLB Honours degree with a subject from section starting on page 225 for assignments such as collecting Law with Criminology LLB ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Below is the entry requirements for the a different subject area. It is also UCAS codes. and analysing information from Law with Social Policy LLB Business aspect of the course. You should possible to study for a degree in commercial databases or the also look at the entry requirements for your which two-thirds of the study will A BUSINESS SUBJECT AND/WITH internet, preparing business Law with Welsh (Y Gyfraith gyda’r Gymraeg) LLB other chosen subject. be in a Business subject and the ANOTHER SUBJECT case studies, writing essays and Law with Chinese (International Experience) LLB GCSE: Maths grade C/4 required. Typical offer remaining one-third in a subject completing problem-solving Law with French (European Experience) LLB is based on a minimum 112 tariff points from from another subject area, or vice Economics or Astudiaethau Busnes exercises. For languages, you will a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: versa. Please see below for all of the (Business Studies) AND another do role-plays, video and textual Law with German (European Experience) LLB • A Levels • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and combinations available. subject (50% business subject, 50% analysis, aural transcriptions, oral Law with Italian (European Experience) LLB other subject) presentations and precis and report Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Law with Spanish (European Experience) LLB DMM A BUSINESS SUBJECT AND/WITH A History and Economics LV11 writing. • International Baccalaureate Diploma MODERN LANGUAGES SUBJECT Social Policy and Economics LL14 English Law and French Law LLB • Access: Pass These integrated courses allow Economics and Sociology LL14 CAREER PROSPECTS Law with Creative Media Writing LLB • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended you to combine study in Business Cymraeg a Rheolaeth Busnes (Welsh and Many of our graduates pursue Diploma: considered on a case by case basis and Finance related subjects with a Business Management) careers in areas such as Law with History LLB • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. language specialism. accountancy, banking, investment, Law with Media Studies LLB International school leaving qualifications insurance, risk management, and college diplomas are accepted, subject Another subject WITH Accounting Law with Philosophy and Religion LLB to minimum English Language requirements): Accounting, Banking, Business and Finance or Business Studies marketing, human resource www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Studies, Economics, Management (67% other subject, 33% business management and retail Business and Law BA We also welcome applications from mature or Marketing AND Chinese*, French, subject) management. Many Modern applicants. German, Italian or Spanish (50% Law with Accounting and Finance M1N4 Language graduates have gone into *For full details go to our website and for a business subject, 50% language) Law with Business Studies M1N1 teaching or translating, but just as full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go These programmes are 4 years in many have embarked on successful to www.ucas.com duration as the third year is spent WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? careers in the civil service, business abroad. For further information • We employ specialists across a and commerce, industry and the about the language element of the broad range of business subjects. media. degrees, see the Modern Languages • We have strong links with industry section starting on page 225. through partnerships with *Business Management & Economics professional bodies such as the only. ACCA and CIM, and we operate programmes that are designed to Business or Marketing WITH French, share knowledge between the German, Italian or Spanish (67% university sector and outside business subject, 33% language) businesses and organisations. Degrees that involve one-third • The teaching facilities at Modern language study and two-thirds Languages include five satellite INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Business subject, These are 3-year TV systems and a high-class EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 courses based entirely in Bangor. multimedia language centre. Business Management with French N1R1 • Our staff are active researchers in WANT TO KNOW MORE? Business Management with German N1R2 their subject areas and we enjoy an Admissions Administrator international reputation. Business Business Management with Italian N1R3 Business Management with Spanish N1R4 • We have excellent computing facilities. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 Marketing with French N5R1 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Bangor offers an attractive range Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Marketing with German N5R2 www.bangor.ac.uk/business Marketing with Italian N5R3 of postgraduate degrees (MA, MSc Marketing with Spanish N5R4 and MBA) in business and finance subjects and in European Studies.

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COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: ABOUT? You will study the seven Foundation Modules are taught by way of 3-year programme M100 LLB/L Law affects all of our lives. A subjects to obtain a Qualifying lectures and and workshops in 2-year programme M101 LLB/Law2 knowledge of law increases our Law Degree plus additional legal compulsory modules and through Length: 3 years M100 (2 years M101 understanding of society and the and/or non-legal subjects which seminars in optional modules. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: world. Bangor’s, Law programmes allow for specialisation. You will be Reading and library-based research For the 3-year programme: provide a quality education in encouraged to study in areas which are required before workshops Typical offer is based on a minimum 120 tariff either solely Law / or in Law with complement your chosen degree and seminars. Written essays points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: another discipline, to promote such scheme. and/or class tests are also set. • A Levels an awareness, allowing those who Final assessment is by means of • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Cambridge so wish, progress to careers in The Foundations of Legal coursework (usually essays) and Technical Extended Diploma: DMM the legal professions. Due to the Knowledge are: examinations. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended Diploma: considered on a case by case basis keen analytical skills that a Law • Public Law • International Baccalaureate Diploma degree confers on the holder, Law • Law of the European Union 2-YEAR LLB DEGREE SCHEME • Access: Pass graduates are also highly sought • Criminal Law The 2-year undergraduate • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. after by a wide range of non-legal • Obligations (including Contract, Restitution programme is designed both International school leaving qualifications careers. and Tort) for those who have previously and college diplomas are accepted, subject to • Property Law completed higher education and minimum English Language requirements: www. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Equity and the Law of Trusts wish to study for a Bachelor’s bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • All our LLB degrees have • Legal Research degree in Law and/or for mature We also welcome applications from mature applicants. Qualifying Law Degree (QLD) applications who possess significant *For full details go to our website. For a list of status, denoting that Bangor LLB Year 1 LLB Law (3 Year) prior career experience. This accepted Level 3 qualifications: www.ucas.com graduates have completed the might include graduates who have academic stage of training for the Core modules: successfully completed an honours For the 2-year programme: legal professions in England and • Introduction to Law degree in another subject at Bangor • A Bachelor degree in another subject at Bangor Wales. • Contract Law University or other accredited University or another accredited University • QLD status allows our graduates • Public Law institution, or individuals with (2.ii Hons) enter directly onto Legal Practice • Legal Skills suitable professional experience. MOOTING INTERNSHIP AND • Mature students with relevant experience may be considered. Courses (LPC) to become solicitors, In recent years, our students have WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMME or the Bar Practice Training plus optional modules in Law or This is a Qualifying Law Degree. experienced overwhelming success in Through our Employability Committee, we Prospective students should be aware that if Courses (BPTC) to become another subject. In each academic year, you will mooting, an activity in which law students are able to offer our students extensive they wish to practice as a solicitor or barrister barristers. completed 120 credits of modules argue a fictitious legal case within simulated following their university studies, they would • Bangor LLB graduates are eligible Year 2 which address different areas opportunities to gain work experience need to meet the requirements of the Solicitors to take the Law Society of Ireland of Public Law, Private Law and court proceedings. Recognising the value with a number of leading law firms and Regulation Authority or the Bar Standards Board entrance exams: “FE-Is”. Core modules: Property Law. You will complete that mooting brings both to a Law degree and related organisations. We have an unique to become qualified. This would include meeting • Our degrees address the British, • Criminal Law a combination of compulsory and to students’ employability, we have invested partnership with Linenhall Chambers, a requirements in relation to criminal offences and European / Global dimensions of • Tort optional modules. The second year heavily in this area, opening a £25,000 mock respected Barristers’ Chambers, through behaviour. Prospective students with a criminal • European Union Law conviction are advised to contact the relevant contemporary legal development. will consist of three compulsory courtroom on campus whose opening was which students are invited to apply for professional body for advice. • We have our own state-of-the art • Equity and Trusts modules and three optional modules attended by Lord John Thomas Chief Justice a number of four-week mini-pupillages. mock courtroom, in which you can chosen from an approved list of of England and Wales. We run several plus optional modules in Law. We have significant links with the legal gain essential practical experience modules according to your individual internal moots in either English or in Welsh profession, and these help our students gain by taking part in mock legal trials. interests. and regularly participate in a number of • We have a dedicated and well Year 3 real-life insight and experience. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL resourced Law library. CAREER PROSPECTS national and international competitions. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Core modules: Page 87 • Bangor is a Gold-rated University All of our LLB degrees are Qualifying in the UK Teaching Excellence • Company Law Law Degrees, allowing graduates WANT TO KNOW MORE? Framework. • Land Law to proceed directly to the vocational Admissions Team • The degree is taught by bilingual stage of professional training to Law staff for those interested in the plus optional modules in Law. become barristers or solicitors. A INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382085 unique career paths open to degree in law is also a highly-valued Page 234 PE-mail:age 234 [email protected] holders of the LLB Law with Welsh. qualification for entry into other Bangor University is ranked No.1 in www.bangor.ac.uk/law careers, including government, industry and commerce. Lawyers Wales for Law with additional language skills are (Guardian University Guide 2018, 2019 and 2020) greatly in demand.

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COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES ABOUT? for employment in these lucrative Law with Social Policy Law with Chinese (International complementary skillset through UCAS course codes for Law with: You can combine the study of areas of law. In addition it offers Required UCAS points: 120 Experience) the study of topics such as screen Accounting & Finance M1N4 LLB/LAF Law with a range of subjects. In excellent preparation for future Combining Law with Social Policy Required UCAS points: 112 writing, digital communication, Business Studies M1N1 LLB/LBS these Degrees, approximately two- professional exams for legal and Criminology M1M9 LLB/LWCR leading to a 3 year Qualifying Law A relevant language preferred but publishing and the craft of Social Policy M1L4 LLB/LSP thirds of the curriculum will focus allied professions, and in some Degree gives you an opportunity to not required. storytelling. Welsh M1Q5 LLB/LW on Law and one-third on the other cases can lead to professional study in greater depth areas relating IBD: should include a language Chinese (International Experience) MT12 LLB/LC subject. All of our LLB degrees have exemptions. A range of Accounting to social policy. Studies will relate Applicants should have a clear Law with History Creative Media Writing M1W1 LLB/LCMW been accredited by the Law Society and Finance modules is undertaken to theories, policies, practice and interest in Chinese. Required UCAS points: 128 History M1V1 LLB/LH and the Bar Council as Qualifying in conjunction with the compulsory important issues that are affecting As lawyers with cultural sensitivity Law with History is a 3 year Media Studies M1P1 LLB/LMS Law Degrees (QLD). This status modules in Law listed on page 174. the law, which will be of value to are in high demand, the Law with Qualifying Law Degree that explores Philosophy & Religion M1V5 LLB/LPR denotes that Bangor LLB graduates graduates who will later qualify as Chinese degree combines study the links between Law and History. Business and Law NM11 BA/BusALaw have completed the academic stage Law with Business Studies English Law and French Law M1M0 LLB/ELFL practising solicitors or barristers. of Law alongside study of the You can choose from a wide range Law with European Experience: French M116 / of training for the legal professions Required UCAS points: 112 Chinese language. During this 4 year of History modules and periods, German M117 / Italian M118 / Spanish M119 in England and Wales, and may enter (GCSE maths grade C/4 or Examples of Social Policy areas that Qualifying Law Degree, students will such as the Norman, the Tudor and directly onto Legal Practice Courses equivalent also required.) relate to Law include housing and be educated in the fundamentals of modern periods, in order to better ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: (LPC) to become solicitors or the Bar Combining Law with Business in a welfare matters, and issues relating law and in the basic legal skills appreciate how these historical “Following graduating from Offer is based on minimum tariff points (see Professional Training Course (BPTC) 3 year Qualifying Law Degree is a to immigration and ethnic minority needed within contemporary Wales, periods had an influence on the Bangor, I enrolled on the Legal individual descriptions for exact tariff points and to become barristers. natural marriage. Practising lawyers groups. the United Kingdom, Europe and development of legal principles. Practice Course (LPC) at the specific subject requirements) from a Level 3 are business people in their own Our annual Law Fair provides the wider international community. Those who have studied History in qualification* e.g.: All LLBs are 3 years except for the 2 right, spending much of their students with an invaluable A range of Social Policy modules is Students will gain inside knowledge school will have the opportunity to University of Law, Chester, • A Levels and subsequently became a • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Cambridge year LLB, or the LLB English Law & working lives advising individual opportunity to meet prospective undertaken in conjunction with the of the legal system, learn to deal continue their studies at university, Technical Extended Diploma: DMM for all Law French Law which is 4 years (2 years and corporate business clients. employers from a variety of compulsory modules in Law listed competently with legal issues, and broaden the appeal of their Paralegal. I obtained a Training ‘with’ courses listed on pages 174-176 (except at Université Toulouse Capitole and The globalisation of business and organisations, and to discuss their on page 174. interpret legal rules and employ degree by combining it with the Contract with a law firm in north for Law with Creative Media/History/Philosophy 2 years at Bangor); LLB degrees with the increased regulation which career options with experienced techniques of legal reasoning, whilst major discipline of Law, with which Wales, enrolling as a Solicitor in - DDM is required) a European language are 4 years has followed has led to increased Law with Welsh simultaneously gaining proficiency there is a natural interface. 2016. In June of the same year I • City& Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended professionals. (academic year of study spent at a opportunities for lawyers with Required UCAS points: 120, grade B in the Chinese language and joined Aaron & Partners. Diploma: considered on a case by case basis partner institution abroad); LLB Law knowledge of the rules that apply to A Level Welsh also required exposure to Chinese culture gained Law with Media Studies • International Baccalaureate Diploma (specific with Chinese is also a 4 year degree. corporate governance, company law, Law with Welsh is a 3 year Qualifying on a compulsory academic year Required UCAS points: 112 language requirements for Law with a language “The Law School’s hard work Studying at Bangor truly and human resource management. Law Degree for students who intend spent in China. This set of knowledge Law with Media Studies is a 3 so check individual descriptions) in organising an interesting gave me the opportunity to • Access: Pass Law with Accounting and Finance A range of Business modules is to follow a career in Wales, and who and skills will substantially increase year Qualifying Law Degree which programme of talks plus enhance myself, and the • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. Required UCAS points: 120 undertaken in conjunction with the bringing together an impressive wish to ensure they will be able to students’ future work prospects. enables you to study the interface International school leaving qualifications (GCSE maths grade C/4 or compulsory modules in Law (p.174). use their legal skills after graduating between Law and the media and how skills I developed gave me the group of exhibitors makes an and college diplomas are accepted, subject to equivalent also required.) with the same ability and confidence Law with Creative Media Writing the media operates in the modern confidence to pursue a career minimum English Language requirements: www. Combining Law with Accounting and Law with Criminology enjoyable and useful day for all in Welsh and English, in order to fulfil Required UCAS points: 120 era. The Law element ensures in law. By taking part in extra- bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Finance in a 3 year Qualifying Law Required UCAS points: 112 concerned. the needs of a bilingual society in Combining Law with Creative Media that you study all the QLD subjects curricular events such as the Mature applicants welcomed.*For full details Degree enables you to develop a Combining the study of Law with go to our website. For a list of accepted Level 3 In a challenging job market it modern Wales. Writing in a 3 year Qualifying Law so that the degree is recognised McLaren Criminal Law Moot range of expertise and skills relevant Criminology leading to a 3 year qualifications: www.ucas.com. See end of column is important for students to Degree enables you to develop a as a Law degree for professional and the Innocence Project, I to today’s commercial world. It Qualifying Law Degree gives you an Each piece of legislation range of expertise and skills relevant purposes. The Media element allows 1, p.174 for requirements relating to criminal be able to find out about the developed competencies such offences if wishing to practice as a solicitor or offers key business skills for those opportunity to study in greater depth produced by the Welsh Government to today’s digital publishing world. you to study the development of barrister following your studies. who choose to enter legal practice areas relating to Criminology and the options potentially available to is published bilingually. There It encourages the development of modern forms of media, from radio as teamwork, communication, and who need to manage their own Criminal Justice system. Studies them; we had many interesting is therefore a great demand in key creative media skills that will be to television; and the digital age, leadership and public speaking businesses and respond effectively will relate to theories, policies, conversations with students Wales, not only for lawyers who useful for careers in the legal sector with close examination of how skills. to the business problems of their practice and important issues that throughout the day and feel we are able to read and understand and the media industry. Students the issues of privacy and modern INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE clients. Additionally, this degree are affecting the Law – studies that were able to give them some both versions of the text, but who who wish to obtain a Creative Media communication methods are I’m thankful to the staff at Page 87 is a response to recent corporate will be of value to graduates and to insight into a career at the Bar. can also contribute to drafting court Writing Skills degree will have the reconciled in the contemporary era. Bangor for continuously scandals, which have generated an individuals who will later qualify as We believe that it’s important papers bilingually. This demand will advantage of an interdisciplinary encouraging me. They were WANT TO KNOW MORE? increasing demand for lawyers with practising solicitors or barristers. that we engage with our future certainly increase as the Assembly’s degree thanks to the Law element. always available to give advice.” Admissions Team accounting and auditing skills that Examples of the areas of legislative process develops. Law lawyers.” can engage in corporate scrutiny and Criminology and Criminal Justice The Law side of the degree will JOSHUA SIMPSON INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382085 corporate reconstruction. that relate to Law include policing, Welsh modules at Bangor focus on the Foundations of Legal LLB Law with Business Studies Page 234 Page 234 MARTIN GRIFFITHS E-mail: [email protected] the sentencing framework and the are taken in parallel with the Law Knowledge subjects, so that the Real Estate Solicitor, The accounting element of the function of the courts in England and Chambers Director, modules listed on page 174. degree will be recognised as a www.bangor.ac.uk/law Aaron & Partners, Chester degree introduces you to both Wales. A range of Criminology Linenhall Chambers Qualifying Law Degree by the internal and external auditing, and modules is undertaken in professional bodies. The Creative lawyers with these additional skills conjunction with the compulsory Media Writing side of the degree will be very suitable candidates modules in Law (p.174). will help you to develop an entirely 176 177 LAW WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT LLB [continued] SOCIAL SCIENCES Law with Philosophy and Religion Law with French, German, Italian or English Law and French Law Business and Law* (BA) Required UCAS points: 120 Spanish (European Experience) Entry requirements: applicants Required UCAS points: 112 This 3 year Qualifying Law Degree Required UCAS points: 112 to this course are to be made (GCSE maths grade C/4 or aims to provide a scheme which will A Levels: grade C in a relevant directly to Université Toulouse equivalent required.) educate you in the fundamentals language. (No language required for Capitole (UTC). Years 3 and 4 of this Law affects all of our lives and the of law and in the basic legal skills language-beginners’ pathway) course will be at Bangor, following knowledge of law increases our needed within contemporary Wales, IBD: including H5 in relevant successful completion of years 1 understanding of business, politics, the United Kingdom, Europe and the language. and 2 at UTC. Please see: www. society and the world in which wider international community. Lawyers with linguistic skills bangor.ac.uk/law/undergraduate- we live. A degree combining Law Criminology and Criminal Justice BA* The Philosophy and Religion element are in high demand. Recognising courses with Business offers a valuable Sociology BA* of this course will allow you to this, we have developed a suite of opportunity to understand the legal Social Policy BA* develop your appreciation of the programmes combining Law with We have partnered with Université structure governing all aspects of ethical controversies underpinning a European language enabling you Toulouse Capitole to deliver a unique our lives today, whilst gaining key legal responses to issues such to undertake a 4-year programme LLB English Law and French Law business knowledge and skills that *These subjects can also be studied alongside others as part of a joint honours as: human rights (e.g, the right to combining the study of a European programme to students registering provide a valuable foundation for degree. See www.bangor.ac.uk/so/undergraduate-courses for the full list of freedom of thought, conscience and language with a Qualifying Law through the French university. future careers. combinations. religion); the use of armed force and Degree. These European languages This 4-year programme provides a terrorism; globalisation; care of the may be studied at beginner or fantastic opportunity to study for the This programme combines the environment; abortion; euthanasia; intermediate level when combined first two years in France, followed by study of Business and Law, to governance and the rule of law; and, with Law. two years at Bangor University. include topics such as Business, Related Degrees the sanctity of promises. You will Management, Marketing and a range acquire advanced skills in critical Studying Law with a European 1. An LLB Qualifying Law Degree of Law topics such as Contract, Health and Social Care (p.134) thinking and logical reasoning, language enables you to develop (recognised by both the Standards International and Commercial Law with Criminology (p.176) making you a highly competitive linguistic skills and knowledge of Board and Law Society of England Law. A background in these areas Law with Social Policy (p.177) candidate for a career as a barrister continental legal systems to meet and Wales). could open doors to a varied and or in any other form of legal the needs of legal practice within the 2. A Masters 1 Droit international, interesting range of careers. advocacy. European Union. These schemes last européen et compare (European and Welsh-medium Degree for four years, including an academic Comparative Law) It is suitable for individuals aiming Cymdeithaseg gyda Pholisi Cymdeithasol BA* year abroad in the third year for a career in business and studying the fundamentals of law Students will be educated in the management, but who also wish to underpinning the other country’s fundamentals of law and in the have a thorough understanding of legal system, and developing major Law subjects in the United the legal regulations within which proficiency in the corresponding Kingdom, France, Europe, and the businesses and industry must European language. This involves wider international community. operate. It may also be suitable for gaining inside knowledge of the You will acquire an in-depth, individuals aiming for careers in other legal system, learning to deal contextualised understanding of the management within the legal sector, with legal issues, interpreting legal major substantive areas of law, and where a thorough background in rules and employing techniques will develop the ability to compare both law and business is highly of legal reasoning – and undertaken and contrast aspects of English, valued. competently in the chosen language. Welsh and French law with those of This set of knowledge and skills other countries. * This is not a Qualifying Law Degree. substantially increases your future Individuals wishing to become solicitors or work prospects Upon completion, students will have barristers should apply instead for one of acquired sufficient expertise in the Bangor’s professionally-recognised LLB laws of England, Wales and France degrees, all of which have QLD status. For to progress to further studies in full details please see page 174. their chosen discipline and/or a professional training qualification stage in England and Wales, or the “Masters 2” stage in France.

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COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Years 2 and 3 HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: Criminology examines theories and The core criminology and You will have, on average, 6 hours UCAS course codes: Sociology investigates social life You will have, on average, 6 hours M930 BA/Crim; evidence relating to crime, offending criminal justice modules provide of lectures each week and up to 6 L300 BA/S; and the way it shapes people’s Year 1 of lectures each week and up to 6 for Criminology joint honours codes behaviour and victimisation, while a thorough grounding in key hours of small group seminars. You for joint honours codes see pages behaviour, beliefs and identity. Its You will be introduced to the main hours of group seminars. You will see pages 69-70 69-70 Length: 3 years Criminal Justice studies explore theoretical perspectives, research will also undertake reading, library Length: 3 years subject matter ranges from an concepts, themes and perspectives also undertake library research, the various responses to crime methodologies and criminal research, bibliographic searches, examination of the face-to-face of Sociology, including key bibliographic searches, project work, ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: and victimisation, from informal justice issues. You may choose structured topic-related research, ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: interactions of daily life, to large- theoretical approaches and methods and preparation for presentations. Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 to formal legislative measures of other modules offered within project work and preparation for For joint degrees you should also look at the scale social institutions, social of research. You will be encouraged Some modules involve project tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: social control and crime prevention; Social Sciences. In Year 3 you will presentations. Some modules entry requirements for your other chosen movements and global processes. to choose other modules from areas and/or small group work. Your • A Levels and examine the way in which the also work independently (with involve project and/or small group subject. By understanding the social world, which complement your degree dissertation involves research in • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and criminal justice system works – from supervision) on an extended piece of work. Your dissertation involves Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff we gain a better understanding scheme, such as Social Policy or an area of your choice. Visiting Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: policing through to imprisonment. work as a dissertation. research in an area of your choice. points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: of ourselves and our own social Criminology. speakers provide alternative MMM • A Levels • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and situations. perspectives on the subject. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Year 2 We use a variety of assessment Compulsory modules: Diploma: considered on a case by case basis Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: • Understanding Society* • International Baccalaureate Diploma • You will be taught by staff who You will continue the study of core methods, including written MMM Sociology may also be studied We use a variety of assessment • Access: Pass combine research careers with a subjects related to your discipline, assignments, essays, examinations, • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended through the medium of Welsh in • Essential Skills for Academic Success * methods including coursework, • NCFE CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma: real dedication for teaching which begin your dissertation study and course diaries, project work and the Diploma: considered on a case by case basis the course BA Cymdeithaseg gyda • From Cradle to Grave * examinations and the dissertation. Grade C takes place in a friendly and select a number of options from dissertation. • International Baccalaureate Diploma Pholisi Cymdeithasol. Full details of • Power, Freedom and the State Some modules are wholly assessed • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • Access: Pass informal environment. those on offer. that course are in the Welsh medium plus 40 credits (2 modules) from a by coursework. International school leaving qualifications • We teach and research CAREER PROSPECTS • NCFE CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma: prospectus. To order your copy go and college diplomas are accepted subject Grade C list of available options. to minimum English Language requirements: Criminology from an UK and Compulsory modules: Career prospects for graduates • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. to www.bangor.ac.uk or telephone CAREER PROSPECTS www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs international perspective to the These will include topics covering include policing, the prison service, International school leaving qualifications 01248 383561. Year 2 This course provides a sound We also welcome applications from mature learning experience. Criminological Theory, Crime and criminal intelligence, community and college diplomas are accepted subject You will take core modules dealing foundation for a wide range of applicants. • We have good links with criminal Justice in Modern Britain and Social support, probation and law. to minimum English Language requirements: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? with theoretical perspectives in careers in the media, administration, *For full details go to our website and for a justice agencies (locally, nationally and Political Research. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Our teaching and research reflects sociology, research methods, and personnel, teaching, community full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go and internationally) and our We also welcome applications from mature Sociology as an international work. Recent graduates have also to www.ucas.com applicants. issues in social identity and diversity. courses are innovative and reflect You will also choose three modules discipline. You can also choose optional gone on to further academic study *For full details go to our website and for a • We aim to provide a friendly and such as the PGCE and postgraduate the topicality of the subject area. from a list of available options. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go modules, and you will begin to work • A range of visiting speakers adds These may include: to www.ucas.com informal learning environment. towards your dissertation. qualifications leading to teaching and to the learning experience. • Crime and the Media • The degree structure is flexible working in the field of social work. • The structure of the degree allows • World Poverty and Inequality and offers a range of specialisms Compulsory modules: you to specialise as well as to • Lying, Cheating & Stealing and a breadth of choice. • Identity and Diversity cover a broad range of options • Serial Killers • The degree is taught by experts in • Sociological Theory and to rise to the intellectual • Issues in Equality the subject who aim to be • Methods of Social Research* “After completing my BA degree, challenges of the subject area. • Criminal Law innovative and to meet real needs. • Contemporary Social Debates I went on to study a Masters in • Work Placement. • The introductory year’s work is Comparative Criminology and WHAT WILL I STUDY? designed to build your confidence, plus 20 credits of modules Criminal Justice. I undertook in Social Science. Year 3 whatever your background. voluntary work with the Year 1 You will continue to follow modules • We use a variety of learning Year 3 Probation Service alongside Modules provide a solid foundation in special areas of Criminology and approaches, and as well as the my studies. By the end, I had development of personal skills, we In your third year, as well as in the subject area. You will follow Criminal Justice such as: an undergraduate degree in modules that cover a range of areas • Perspectives of Youth Crime emphasise the development of studying advanced theory and and issues in Criminology and • Crime and Power practical skills in observation, methods and completing your Sociology, an MA and over 3 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Criminal Justice. • Policing and Society INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL interpretation, information dissertation, you can choose from a years’ experience volunteering EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE range of optional modules. Page 87 • Crime and Punishment JOINT HONOURS DEGREES Page 87 processing and presentation, all of with the British Red Cross; plus Modules may include: You can study Criminology and which will be valued by 12 months’ experience with the WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Essential Skills for Academic Success * You will be guided in choice of WANT TO KNOW MORE? employers. Compulsory modules: Probation Service.” Criminal Justice as a Joint Honours * Admissions Administrator • Introduction to Criminology & Criminal Justice * modules by staff, and some choices Degree with one of the following Admissions Administrator • There is the opportunity to spend • Dissertation Social Sciences Social Sciences • Sociological Theory Today • Understanding Society * will be informed by your Year 2 subjects: English Literature, a year abroad as part of the PETER SALAMI degree. • Globalisation and Social Change INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 • From Cradle to the Grave * studies. During this year you will French (4 years), German (4 years),INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 Probation Service EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Power, Freedom & the Stake also complete a Dissertation. Health and Social Care, History,EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] plus 60 credits of modules Officer, Wales Community www.bangor.ac.uk/history- Italian (4 years), Psychology, www.bangor.ac.uk/history- * JOINT HONOURS DEGREES in Social Science. Rehabilitation Company philosophy-and-social-sciences Welsh-medium version of this Social Policy, Sociology, Spanish (4 philosophy-and-social-sciences You can study Sociology as a Joint module is available. years), and Cymdeithaseg or Polisi Honours Degree. For a full list of *Welsh-medium version of this Cymdeithasol (both Welsh medium). subjects please see pages 69-70. module available. 180 181 SOCIAL POLICY BA (Hons) POLITICS COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? UCAS course code: You will study Social Policy both at L402 BA/SocPol; the UK and international level. Social Course Length: 3 years Policy entails the study of the social Politics BA relations and systems that maintain ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff and promote human wellbeing. It points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: addresses the provision of shelter, • A Levels the promotion of health and the • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and avoidance of discrimination. Social Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Policy requires an understanding MMM of the processes through which • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended social policies are articulated within Diploma: considered on a case by case basis • International Baccalaureate Diploma society, and the theoretical and • Access: Pass ideological environment within • NCFE CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma: which these policies are formulated. Grade C • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. Among the many questions of International school leaving qualifications interest to Social Policy students are; and college diplomas are accepted subject • Why provide welfare? to minimum English Language requirements: • How should health services be www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs We also welcome applications from mature paid for? applicants. • What should the balance be Year 2 CAREER PROSPECTS *For full details go to our website and for a between rights and obligations? You will continue the study of core Social Policy graduates enter a wide full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Are welfare systems becoming subjects related to your discipline, range of occupations within the to www.ucas.com similar in Europe? begin your dissertation study and policy field including public housing, • What is to become of social select a limited number of options. health service, local government housing? administration and the voluntary • Has world poverty decreased in the • Personal Social Services* sector. last forty years? • World Poverty and Inequality • Methods of Social Research* WHAT WILL I STUDY? The remaining credits to be taken Year 1 elsewhere from Social Sciences. In your first year you will study a Social Policy: variety of modules designed to give Year 3 you a basic grounding in different You will complete your degree Ranked top 10 for aspects of your chosen course of with a more detailed study of core Student Satisfaction, study. areas, select optional modules and complete your dissertation. Research Quality • Doing Social Research* • Health & Welfare Issues* • Dissertation* and Entry Standards. • Understanding Society* • Global Health and Social Care (Complete University Guide • Introduction to Criminology & INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Criminal Justice* EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE The remaining credits to be taken 2019 and 2020) Page 87 • Social Science Perspectives from other Social Sciences modules.

WANT TO KNOW MORE? plus 20 credits from either Social *Welsh-medium version of this Admissions Administrator Sciences or another subject. module available. Social Sciences

INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] NEW DEVELOPMENT www.bangor.ac.uk/history- Subject to validation, BA Political philosophy-and-social-sciences Studies and BA Liberal Arts will be available. Please check the website for the most up-to-date information.

182 183 129 POLITICS BA (Hons) HISTORY AND COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: Do you want to learn more about This course will be taught through L200 BA/POL government and society and the Year 1 a combination of lectures, ARCHAEOLOGY Course Length: 3 years workings of political systems? Are You will choose from a selection of seminar, tutorials and workshops. you interested in the way people, modules that are intended to provide Assessment will involve a mixture ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Typical offer is based on a minimum of institutions and ideas interact? a solid grounding in the subject area. of examinations, essays, written 112 tariff points for BA and a minimum of In addition to modules focussing on work, presentations and portfolios. 120 tariff points for MArts from a Level 3 In this degree you will consider the Principles of Politics, Modern You will have around 12 hours of qualification* e.g.: important issues surrounding the Politics in Action, Introduction to lectures, seminars and tutorials • A Levels (no specific subjects required but influence of power, governance, Modern History and Doing Social each week. You will spend about History BA/MArts History preferred) sovereignty, conflict, order, and Political Research you will also twice this amount of time reading • International Baccalaureate Diploma mediation, obligation, justice, choose two further modules from and completing coursework. History with Archaeology BA • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: accountability, legitimacy, security, a list of available options, that may History with Film Studies BA DMM and decision-making. Students include: CAREER PROSPECTS History with Journalism BA • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended who follow this programme will • Understanding Society This course will prepare students Diploma: considered on a case by case basis be introduced to interdisciplinary • Birth of Modern Europe for a range of employment options Heritage, Archaeology and History BA • Access: Pass approaches to the discussions • Existentialism – especially in fields which require Medieval and Early Modern History BA • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. of theoretical, philosophical, • From Cradle to Grave skills of communication, analyzing International school leaving qualifications institutional and issue-based large quantities of information, and Modern and Contemporary History BA and college diplomas are accepted subject concerns revolving around Years 2 and 3 understanding issues of governance Welsh History and History BA to minimum English Language requirements: www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs governance. You will take more specialist and society. Those choosing to take Welsh History and Archaeology BA We also welcome applications from mature modules and investigating themes advantage of the work placement applicants. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? and topics in greater depth. In opportunities (e.g. work placement *For full details go to our website and for a • Students from countries worldwide addition to further developing your module, or a placement year) will full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go at Bangor - for undergraduate, skills, you will also be introduced gain hands on experience and an Related Degrees to www.ucas.com masters and research training, to more specialist approaches, insight into work opportunities creating a dynamic learning theories and concepts. You will take within the broader field. Possible Law with History (p. 177) environment. compulsory modules in Modern future career options may include • Our staff undertake research Ideas and Movements and Methods local and/or national government, of national and international of Social and Political Research. teaching, management and reputation and have written major administration. This course will also text books and articles published in In addition, you will select further be an excellent foundation prior to top academic journals. modules from a extensive list of further postgraduate study. • We pay attention to issues such available options which may include: as the influence and management • Race, Democracy and Political Ideology of the media, gender, the • Issues in Equality manipulative skills of politicians • Classical Social Theory and the ideals and aims which • Contemporary Social and Political Debates have guided their political actions. • Sex and Society • We aim to provide a friendly, • World Poverty and Inequality supportive and stimulating • Identity and Diversity learning environment. • Crime and Justice in Modern Britain • Crime and the Media INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Political Philosophy EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 • Issues in Housing • Theorizing Society and Politics Today WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Globalisation and Social Change Admissions Administrator • Policing and Society Social Sciences RELATED DEGREES • Crime and Power We also offer the following degrees: • Nationalism in UK 1916-1997 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 Law with Politics LLB (UCAS code: EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Politics and Culture in the 1960s Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] M1L2) and Politics and Economics www.bangor.ac.uk/history- • Work placement module BA (UCAS code: L202). philosophy-and-social-sciences In Year 3 you will also complete a For further details please visit the dissertation – a research project on website or contact us. a topic of particular interest to you. 184 185 HISTORY HERITAGE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY BA [Hons] / MArts BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Further optional modules from a HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Year 2 This degree is also available in Welsh. History is an inspiring, dynamic list that may include: You will have around 12 hours of Some modules are available in Welsh. This degree will be attractive if you UCAS course codes: and relevant subject. It is always • Monarchs, Monks and Miracles: Europe in the lectures, seminars and tutorials each You may write essays and examin- are interested in learning more Compulsory modules: V100 BA/H; V101 MARTS/HIST expanding and adapting to absorb High Middle Ages; The Birth of Modern Europe week. You will spend about twice ations in Welsh if you wish. for joint honours codes see pages about the past and the way in which • Debating History new ideas and ask new questions of 1470-1600; Introduction to Modern History this amount of time reading and 69-70 UCAS course code: it is used by the heritage industry. • Heritage and Identities Length: 3 years (BA); 4 Years (MArts) the past. Studying history will also 1815-1914; Introduction to History and completing coursework. In addition VV41 BA/HAH You will explore both historical and help you develop practical skills Heritage; Wales – Princes to Tudors; Modern to this will be field trips and practical Length: 3 years archaeological evidence as well as Optional modules: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: valued by employers, such as the Politics in Action; Hope or Heartbreak – Wales sessions linked to archaeology and interpretations of it. The past can be Choose from a range of modules in Typical offer is based on a minimum of ability to collect and analyse data since 1789; Introduction to British Prehistory; heritage modules. Some history ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: exploited; it can be corrupted; it can History, Heritage and Archaeology. 112 tariff points for BA and a minimum of and to construct a clear argument. Introduction to Historic Archaeology. modules, especially special subject Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 be used to create myths, legends Options may include: Experimental 120 tariff points for MArts from a Level 3 courses, will also involve field trips. tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: and to forge identities. This course Archaeology; Norman Sicily; Britannia Rules the qualification* e.g.: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Year 2 You may take a work placement • A Levels (no specific subjects required but • A Levels (no specific subjects required but will enable you to understand and Waves; The Age of the Castle; workplace module. • We embrace the diversity of the You may choose to examine a module or participate in an exchange History or Archaeology preferred) History preferred) • International Baccalaureate Diploma critique these processes. • International Baccalaureate Diploma subject with a broad-ranging period in depth through your scheme in the second year. If you • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Year 3 • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and degree offering a variety of options. optional modules, while taking more take History as a joint degree with Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? You specialise in a period of the Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: • You can study a range of periods specialist and thematic modules and a language you will spend the DMM • This degree has been designed past and write a Dissertation which DMM and countries, concentrate on investigating original sources. third year abroad before returning • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended to give you an academic integrates at least two areas of • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended particular periods or study largely to Bangor for your final year. Diploma: considered on a case by case basis understanding of the past which study: Archaeology/Heritage or CAREER PROSPECTS Diploma: considered on a case by case basis British or largely European history. Compulsory module: Assessment involves a mixture of • Access: Pass you can then apply to careers in History/Heritage. The complementary nature of • Access: Pass • We have expertise in modern • Debating History examinations; essays, written work, • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. these disciplines will enable you • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. the heritage industry. This is a and contemporary history and in presentations and portfolios. International school leaving qualifications Compulsory module: to pursue a career in the heritage International school leaving qualifications and college diplomas are accepted subject different emphasis from many medieval, early modern and Welsh Optional modules may include: heritage management courses You will also complete a Special industry by means of the practical and college diplomas are accepted subject Victorian Britain; Europe in the High Middle to minimum English Language requirements: to minimum English Language requirements: history, archaeology, heritage. CAREER PROSPECTS which mix studies in leisure, Subject module – developed to allow and theoretical skills acquired Ages; Holy Wars 1095-1197; Roman Britain; www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • The local area is steeped in history, You will gain both sound We also welcome applications from mature tourism and business. you to tackle a topic in great depth. in heritage, coupled with a clear We also welcome applications from mature and with internationally important Royal Propaganda; USA 1945-2001; Europe historical knowledge and a range applicants. • There are opportunities to take a Recent examples include: Gender and academic understanding of the applicants. sites on the doorstep, provides a 1945-1992; Thatcher’s Britain; The Tudors; of transferable analytical and *For full details go to our website and for a work placement in a museum or Society, 1400-1800; Politics and Culture in the archaeological and historical *For full details go to our website and for a valuable resource for teaching. Britain in the Jazz Age; workplace module. presentational skills. With these full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go at a heritage site which will give 1960s; Home Front during WWI. contexts. This degree will also full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • We have an excellent teaching You may also take Archaeology or Heritage you will be able to tackle a variety to www.ucas.com provide you with a range of to www.ucas.com you experience of the industry. You also choose further options reputation and combine the use of modules. of career options including those • Our location gives access to a rich analytical and presentational skills from a range of modules in History, enabling you to tackle a variety of new technologies with small group centring on administration and resource of local heritage sites, Archaeology and Heritage. teaching and personal attention. Year 3 public leadership, for example, monuments and museums and careers in the humanities, tourism • We recognise the importance of In addition to completing a in personnel departments in the and the media. we also arrange trips to a range of HOW WILL I LEARN? transferable skills such as IT, Dissertation (an individual research private sector, the civil service other heritage sites. There is also project on a topic of your choice, you You will spend about 12 hours per presentation and writing skills. and local government as well as the opportunity to gain practical week in lectures, seminars and will also select a Special Subject in a range of directly transferable archaeological experience as part - developed to allow you to study tutorials. You will spend about twice WHAT WILL I STUDY? vocations. Bangor History graduates of this degree. this amount of time reading and a topic in great depth and with the have in recent years gained careers benefit of staff specialisms. Recent completing coursework. Field trips Year 1 in the heritage industry, commerce, WHAT WILL I STUDY? are a key element of the course. You will spend a minimum of one- Special Subjects include: The Norman law, teaching and the armed forces. Conquest; Power, Society and the State; Home We arrange visits to local sites third of your time studying History. Year 1 – archaeological, historical and You may choose to take further Front During WWI; Britain in the 1960s; British Country House from 1750. heritage – as well as to museums, history and history-related modules, Compulsory modules: heritage sites and country houses improve your IT or language skills, • History and Heritage: an Introduction You will also select 1-2 modules elsewhere. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL or follow other complementary INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Essential Skills for Academic Success EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE from a list of available options. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 subjects of interest (see list of joint Page 87 and at least one from: Assessment involves a mixture of honours subjects on the right). • Introduction to British Prehistory written work, essays, examinations, WANT TO KNOW MORE? Year 4 JOINT HONOURS DEGREES WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Introduction to Historic Archaeology Admissions Team If you follow the MArts degree, the You can study History as a Joint Admissions Team projects, presentations and the Compulsory module: • Archaeological; Principles and Techniques dissertation (in the final year). History and Archaeology • Essential Skills for Academic Success first three years are the same as Honours Degree with one of the History and Archaeology the BA degree. The aim of the fourth following subjects: Criminology Further modules from a list that INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 year is to enhance your skills as INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 NEW DEVELOPMENTS EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] and Criminal Justice, Economics,EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE may include: Page 234 Page 234 an historian, with the support of Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Subject to validation, Heritage www.bangor.ac.uk/history- English Literature, Film Studies, • Introduction to Modern History 1815-1914 experienced staff members. You www.bangor.ac.uk/history- and Climate Change (BA Hons) philosophy-and-social-sciences French (4 years), German (4 years), philosophy-and-social-sciences • Birth of Modern Europe will follow focused modules and Italian (4 years), Philosophy and will be available. Please check the • Monarchs, Monks and Miracles: Europe in the website for the most up-to-date complete your own research. Religion, Social Policy, Sociology, High Middle Ages Spanish (4 years), Welsh. information. 186 187 HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY / HISTORY WITH ARCHAEOLOGY HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY / HISTORY WITH ARCHAEOLOGY BA [Joint Hons] / BA [Hons] BA [Joint Hons] / BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES Year 2 Some modules are available in ABOUT? You choose from a variety of Welsh. You may write essays and The past has many dimensions examinations in Welsh if you wish. options in History and Archaeology. and there are many ways to You may specialise in prehistory UCAS course codes: study it. History and Archaeology and/or, historic archaeology. ‘and Archaeology’: V103 BA/HA are complementary subjects – Choices include modules on Bronze ‘with Archaeology’: V1V4 BA/HAr which together provide a richer Age Europe, Viking archaeology, Length: 3 years understanding of past peoples landscape archaeology and and societies. While History is heritage. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: traditionally derived from the study Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 of written sources; Archaeology Compulsory Modules tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: examines the material evidence • A Levels (no specific subjects required but • Debating History History or Archaeology preferred) including artefacts, monuments and • International Baccalaureate Diploma buildings. At least two from: • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and • Archaeology Workplace Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: These courses have been designed • Field Archaeology in Britain DMM to provide students with the • Rethinking Archaeology • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended opportunity to study the past through • Archaeology Field School Diploma: considered on a case by case basis both documentary records and • Access: Pass material remains. You will have • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. Choose remaining modules from International school leaving qualifications the opportunity to study a range of a list of available History, Heritage and college diplomas are accepted subject periods and themes spanning pre- • You will gain practical hands-on Year 1 and Archaeology modules (at to minimum English Language requirements: history through to the 21st century. experience by participating in You will study modules that least two of which must be in www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs field-work and post-excavation are intended to provide a solid History). See History BA for recent We also welcome applications from mature WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? projects. You will be given foundation in historical and examples. applicants. • Our degrees emphasise two training in excavation and archaeological methods, theory *For full details go to our website and for a complementary sources of recording skills, surveying, finds and concepts. You will also be able Year 3 full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go evidence, giving you experience in to www.ucas.com processing, soil processing, to choose modules from a list of In your final year you will have the working with both historical and illustration, photography, analysing spanning a range of periods. opportunity to tackle a subjects in archaeological sources. documentary sources and archival great depth by following a Special • You will develop skills, including work. For ‘with’ students, at least 2 from: Subject module and completing a IT, that will be advantageous in a • We place a strong emphasis on • Archaeological Principles and Techniques Dissertation – a research project The available options may include: There will be opportunities to join CAREER PROSPECTS number of careers. Our students helping you plan for your future. • Introduction to Historic Archaeology: on a topic of your choosing and of Experimental Archaeology; Roman Frontier an excavation, gain work experience The complementary nature of these have gone on to work towards Students can gain valuable Roman and Medieval Britain particular interest to you. Society; Field Archaeology in Britain; with an excavation unit or museum two disciplines will enable you to field and museum qualifications experience through work • Introduction to British Prehistory Supervising Archaeology Fieldwork; Britain and carry out other practical work. pursue a career in Archaeology and many have professional placements (e.g. in the local ‘With’ students will take Special 1945-1990; Europe in the Early Middle Ages; In the first year you will have up to by means of the practical and archaeological careers. archaeological field unit, archives For ‘and’ students, at least three Subject in History. ‘And’ students Heritage and Identity; Gender and Society in the 5 trips to visit local monuments. In theoretical skills acquired, coupled • We have experts in all fields of or museum) and we recognize the from: may choose to complete either a 12th century; The Age of the Castle. the second and third years field trips with a clear understanding of History from the Middle Ages to importance of identifying and fine- • Archaeological Principles and Techniques History or Archaeology Dissertation. vary in length and nature and include historical contexts. More generally, the twentieth century, who work tuning skills that will be of value to • Introduction to History and Heritage HOW WILL I LEARN? local sites, as well as trips to other this degree will provide you with principally on Britain, Europe and you in your future employment. • Introduction to Historic Archaeology: Roman If you choose the Archaeology By bringing these two disciplines parts of Britain and Ireland. analytical and practical skills the United States of America. and Medieval Britain dissertation, then you must take a together in this course, you will enabling you to tackle a variety of Archaeology expertise covers WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Introduction to British Prehistory History Special Subject topic. approach the study of past societies Assessment is through a careers in the humanities. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL prehistoric, Roman, and medieval EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE As an ‘and’ Archaeology student, and events using a range of combination of written work, essays, Page 87 archaeology as well as landscape you will take half your modules Choose remaining modules from a Recent Special Subjects include: analytical skills. exams, portfolios and presentations. archaeology and heritage. in Archaeology each year. ‘With’ list that may include: Native Wales & the Normans; British Country The dissertation and the special WANT TO KNOW MORE? With world heritage • We have some of the best- Archaeology students will take one • Monarchs, Monks and Miracles: Europe in the House from1750; The Norman Conquest; Gender You spend around 12 hours per subject each form one-third of the Admissions Team preserved archaeological week in lectures, seminars and assessment in the final year. History and Archaeology third of their modules in Archaeology High Middle Ages Sex and Society 1400-1800. sites on the doorstep monuments and landscapes in each year. In both cases the • The Birth of Modern Europe 1470-1600 practicals. In addition you will Britain on our doorstep. From INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 remainder will be in History. • Introduction to Modern History 1815-1914 In addition, ‘And’ students will complete essays, analysis exercises, - where better to EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] prehistorical burial mounds to • Modern Politics in Action preparation for seminars and Page 234 Page 234 choose 1 module in Archaeology study the past? www.bangor.ac.uk/history- stately homes, this tremendous • Essential Skills for Academic Success and 1 module in History. ‘With’ reading. Field trips to archaeological philosophy-and-social-sciences resource is an integral part of the Students will choose 2 modules in sites and museums are an important course and used in our teaching Archaeology. part of the teaching experience. through fieldtrips, practical workshops and excavations. 188 189 HISTORY WITH JOURNALISM HISTORY WITH FILM STUDIES BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Journalism compulsory modules: COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? You will also choose modules from Some modules are available in Welsh. The media – newspapers, radio, During years 2 and 3 you will take Some modules are available in Film has been one of the most Two-thirds of your modules each the BA History degree including You may write essays and examin- Year 1 television, the Internet – play an the following modules: Welsh. You may write essays and important influences on modern year will be in History. You also take a Special Subject and complete a ations in Welsh if you wish. increasingly important part in our You will study at least 2 History • Journalism and Risk examinations in Welsh if you wish. modules and at least 2 modules in society. Since it was invented, 2 modules in Film Studies each year. Dissertation which may deal with UCAS course code: lives. The changing role of the media • Global News Agenda cinema has entertained mass history, an aspect of film studies in the past as well as the present is a Journalism. You may also choose • Digital Journalism UCAS course code: V1P5 BA/HJ modules in complementary subjects, V1W6 BA/HFS audiences all over the world. It has Year 1 or the interaction between film and Length: 3 years fascinating topic for study. At Bangor • Practical Digital Journalism e.g. in Heritage, Archaeology, Length: 3 years provided the dominant images of history. you will gain an intellectual and modern culture, created new art History options may include: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: wide-ranging academic foundation Sociology, Criminology, or a Modern HOW WILL I LEARN? Language. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: forms, and has been a crucial tool of • Monarchs, Monks and Miracles: Europe in the HOW WILL I LEARN? Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 in history and journalism, develop You will spend about 12 hours a Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 education and propaganda. High Middle Ages You will spend about 12 hours in tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: a critical understanding of the past week in lectures, seminars, tutorials tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: History with Film Studies allows you • Birth of Modern Europe lectures and seminars per week. • A Levels (no specific subjects required but History options may include: and contemporary issues and learn and practical work. Outside this • A Levels (no specific subjects required but to examine the medium of film, and • Introduction to Modern History: 1815-1914 In addition to this will be cinema History preferred) • Introduction to Modern History 1815-1914 History preferred) • International Baccalaureate Diploma the skills and knowledge to help time you read and research, write to practise film production, while • Wales: Princes to Tudors visits and screenings (we have a you pursue a successful career in • Monarchs, Monks, Miracles; EU in the High Middle essays, prepare seminar papers and • International Baccalaureate Diploma • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Ages • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and setting this work in a solid historical • Wales since 1789 large-screen facility in our Main Arts Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: journalism. work on other assignments. You will • Birth of Modern Europe Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: context. You will be able to examine lecture theatre). We place emphasis DMM have the opportunity for hands-on DMM such issues as how cinema has You will be required to take History on small-group teaching. There is • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? experience in our Media Centre, and • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended You will be required to take History affected the development of modern modules covering at least two of the some practical work in film-making Diploma: considered on a case by case basis • We offer an extensive range of also the chance to complete a Work Diploma: considered on a case by case basis societies, and how film should be three major periods (Medieval 500- and in one module you will develop • Access: Pass modules covering British, Welsh, modules covering at least two of the Placement. • Access: Pass • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. three major periods (Medieval 500- used as historical evidence. You 1500, Early Modern 1500-1750 and an original project as a script. You European and American History. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. will also have the opportunity to the Modern 1750 onwards). will also spend time viewing films, International school leaving qualifications 1500, Early Modern 1500-1750 and International school leaving qualifications and college diplomas are accepted subject • You will be taught by staff who are Assessment is through a mixture of chance take ‘mainstream’ history completing creative exercises active researchers. We are Modern 1750 onwards) examinations and assessed essays and college diplomas are accepted subject to minimum English Language requirements: to minimum English Language requirements: modules covering a range of periods Recent Film modules: and compiling examples of film www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs committed to small-group and other projects. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs and the chance to study topics such • Film Language technique using the editing facilities. We also welcome applications from mature teaching. Journalism compulsory modules: • Introduction to Practical Journalism We also welcome applications from mature as film theory, film production, and • Film History applicants. • Journalism staff have active CAREER PROSPECTS applicants. • Issues in Media and Journalism creative writing for film. We arrange a number of guest film *For full details go to our website and for a experience of broadcast or This is a sound preparatory course *For full details go to our website and for a In addition, you will also choose speakers and film-makers to visit full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go publication journalism and offering a practical and theoretical full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www.ucas.com You may also choose modules from WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? additional modules in History (see each year, and screen films students maintain contact with the industry. understanding of the journalist’s to www.ucas.com • We offer modules which pay BA History) which include modules have made. We also hold regular • You will have the opportunity to the BA History degree and others profession coupled with a close from a range available, e.g.: Modern particular attention to issues which can be of great interest to film screenings. gain first-hand experience through contextual understanding of current surrounding the influence and students of film. a workplace module, e.g. with a Politics in Action; Wales in the Modern World; Intro. affairs and past events. The range of to Modern History; Birth of Modern Europe. management of the media – both We use a variety of assessment local newspaper or in an archives analytical and presentational skills in the contemporary world and in Years 2 and 3 methods including ‘take home’ office. acquired will enable you to perform earlier periods. Years 2 and 3 exams and the team production of • Our media centre has the latest tasks in the media to a high standard • History modules bring teaching Compulsory History module: films. computerised digital and techno - of accuracy and clarity. to life with field trips, guest • Debating History logical studios and equipment. History compulsory module: • Debating History speakers, and use of film footage CAREER PROSPECTS • We also have a multi-camera TV and taped interviews. Compulsory Film module: This course sets the basis for studio with production gallery, • Our media centre has the latest • Film Theory (film criticism using a range of films further, postgraduate work in a sound radio studio with self- In Year 2 you will also choose other History modules, from a list of computerised digital and technol- and sequences) film archiving and film analysis operating facilities, video editing ogical studios and equipment. We leading to careers in the film and suites, digital sound editing suites options which may include: Victorian Britain; USA 1945-2001; Europe 1945- also have a multi-camera TV studio Optional Film modules (choose 2) communications industry. The range and a number of portable video with production gallery, a sound from a list that may include: of analytical and presentational and sound units for location 1992; Thatcher’s Britain; Britain in the Jazz Age; work placement. radio studio with self-operating • Alfred Hitcock skills acquired will enable you to INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL filming and recording. We have INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL facilities, video editing suites and • Understanding Documentary tackle a variety of other careers in EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 created a dedicated Newsroom for In Year 3 you will choose a History Page 87 digital sound editing suites. • American Film industry as personal assistants and prospective journalists which has • Authorship and Holywood Special Subject (see BA History), researchers. WANT TO KNOW MORE? multimedia computers and ISDN WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Race and Gender Admissions Team recording-quality telephone lines. giving you first-hand experience of Admissions Team History and Archaeology documents, as well as undertaking • Stanley Kubrick: Auteur History and Archaeology • Film Distribution and Marketing a Dissertation – a piece of research INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 on a historical topic relating to INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 234 Page 234 journalism. Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/history- www.bangor.ac.uk/history- philosophy-and-social-sciences philosophy-and-social-sciences

190 191 MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN HISTORY BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Recent Special Subjects include: Some modules are available in Welsh. This degree gives you the • The Norman Conquest You may write essays and examin- opportunity to study the pre-modern Year 1 • Henry II ations in Welsh if you wish. world (especially in Europe, Britain You will be introduced to key • Gender and Society: 1400-1800 UCAS course code: and Wales) in detail. You will develop themes in medieval and early V130 BA/MEMH valuable transferable skills such modern history and choose from HOW WILL I LEARN? Length: 3 years as efficient information gathering, a range of options to broaden your You will have about 12 hours of critical analysis of evidence, understanding. lectures, seminars and tutorials ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: judgement between competing per week. There is a high degree of Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 interpretations, oral and written Compulsory modules: individual tuition, particularly during tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: presentation, clarity of expression • Essential Skills for Academic Success the dissertations in the third year. • A Levels (no specific subjects required but and familiarity with information Outside formal teaching you will History preferred) At least one each from: • International Baccalaureate Diploma technology. • a list of available Medieval (c.500-1500) need to read around the subject and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and modules prepare for seminars (sometimes Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • a list of available Early Modern (c.1500-1750) involving presentations) and DMM • This degree offers you the chance modules complete coursework and assessed • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended to focus on the medieval and early essays. Diploma: considered on a case by case basis modern periods. By specialising • Access: Pass Optional modules from a range in this way, you will be able in disciplines such as: Some modules include field trips to • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. to develop a greater depth of relevant sites with recent example International school leaving qualifications • History and college diplomas are accepted subject understanding of the issues that • Archaeology including: Hampton Court and to minimum English Language requirements: drove events and the sources • Heritage museums in the Isle of Man and www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs that record them than would be • Literatures and Languages Ireland. We also welcome applications from mature the case with a general History applicants. Degree. Year 2 You may spend one module gaining *For full details go to our website and for a • We cover a wide variety of types of You concentrate on two modules valuable work experience. This could full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go history – cultural, local, intellectual, be working in a local museum, local to www.ucas.com covering periods of European, military and art-history as well as British or Welsh history before archives, Gwynedd Archaeological “History at Bangor is not just past politics but social and political history. 1750. These provide a background Trust, the National Trust. a ranging cultural experience. Had I been a • You may choose modules in for more specialist study later. The sixth-former looking for a challenging and Archaeology or Heritage studies. compulsory Debating History module Assessment is a mixture of essays, satisfying experience I would have been very • Our location provides access to will stimulate your thoughts about projects and examinations. a rich resource of historic sites, tempted by the Bangor offering.” the ways in which modern people use including the Castles of Edward images and interpretations from the CAREER PROSPECTS I and Plas Mawr Elizabethan pre-modern world. You also choose This course provides specialist EXTERNAL EXAMINER’S REPORT manor as well as medieval houses from a variety of topic modules knowledge and a range of analytical and churches. These provide a associated with aspects of History and presentational skills which will valuable teaching resource and (you may include Archaeology or enable you to tackle a variety of opportunities for field trips and Heritage studies). Example modules career options centring on admin- work placements. include: Acts of Union – England and Wales; The istrative and leadership needs, for • Our team of staff are active Reign of King Stephen, Gender and Society in the example, in company personnel researchers in the period, 12th Century; The Lion of Justice – Henry I; Norman departments, the civil service and providing specialist materials to Kingdom of Sicily; Holy Wars 1095-1197; The Age local government as well as in INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL draw on in their teaching. a range of directly transferable EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE of the Castle; Owain Glyndŵr; Under the Hammer – Page 87 Edward I; The Tudors; workplace module. vocations. Graduates have in recent years gained careers in museum WANT TO KNOW MORE? Year 3 work, law, teaching and the cultural Admissions Team industries. History and Archaeology You choose a Special Subject covering the period before c1750 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 that you will study in depth, working EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] closely with original documents. You www.bangor.ac.uk/history- will study further topic modules and philosophy-and-social-sciences will also complete a Dissertation (an individual research project carried out under the guidance of your tutor). 192 193 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY WELSH HISTORY AND HISTORY BA [Hons] BA [Joint Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Further optional modules from a COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? At least one from a range that may HOW WILL I LEARN Some modules are available in Welsh. This degree investigates the range including: Many modules are available in Welsh. This degree offers the opportunity to include: You will have about 12 hours of You may write essays and examin- evolution of modern western • History or Welsh History topics For all modules, you may write study a wide range of periods with • Monarchs, Monks and Miracles lectures, seminars and tutorials ations in Welsh if you wish. society, politics and culture from • Social Policy, Economics, Languages or essays and exams in Welsh if you a specialism in Welsh History. This • Birth of Modern Europe# each week. You will also spend a wish. the 18th century to the present day. Literatures course enables you to understand • Introduction to Modern History# considerable amount of time in UCAS course code: # V140 BA/MCH In addition to internal events, it UCAS course code: the evolution of Wales, its politics, • War, Society and the Media guided study – reading, researching, Length: 3 years considers less tangible influences Year 2 VV12 BA/WHH society, industry and religion writing essays and preparing tutorial on western attitudes from the You will study a combination of for joint honours codes see pages through the centuries, and to place You will choose your remaining presentations. Some modules ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Americanisation of popular culture broad-themed modules with more 69-70 this in the context of developments credits from the variety of modules make particular use of documents, Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 to the break up of Empires and the detailed optional modules. The Length: 3 years in British, European and American offered in History, Archaeology or films and documentaries, as well tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: globalisation. choice includes modules that either History from the Middle Ages to the Heritage, with the opportunity to take as oral history. Others include trips • A Levels (no specific subjects required but address contemporary issues, or ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: present day. modules worth 20 credits from other to see relevant sites in Wales and History preferred) Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 subjects e.g. Welsh. • International Baccalaureate Diploma WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? show how recent events and actions tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: elsewhere. You will also have the • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and • This is a well-established specialist are structured or influenced. • A Levels (no specific subjects required but WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? opportunity to take a workplace course in modern and contemp- • Bangor is the leading centre for Year 2 module in a local archives or Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: History preferred) You will study periods and themes DMM orary history. Compulsory module: • International Baccalaureate Diploma the study of the history of Wales. museum and carry out a project. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended • It concentrates on explaining how • Debating History • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and We have a long-standing excellent in greater depth with a variety of Diploma: considered on a case by case basis matters of current importance Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: reputation for research in this field thematic modules to choose from. Assessment involves a mixture of • Access: Pass Optional modules may include: DMM Many modules make use of original have evolved and altered our time, • USA 1945-2001 and our teaching staff are all active examinations and essays or projects • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. examining what is happening now • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended researchers. sources and a workplace module is as well as the final-year dissertation. International school leaving qualifications • America: Revolution to Civil War Diploma: considered on a case by case basis in the light of what has happened • We have expertise in modern and also available. You will also have the and college diplomas are accepted subject • Britain in the Jazz Age HOW WILL I LEARN? • Access: Pass opportunity to further develop your in the past. contemporary history, medieval, CAREER PROSPECTS to minimum English Language requirements: • Thatcher’s Britain You will have about 12 hours of • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. research, and presentation skills. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • We have an excellent teaching • Europe: the Age of the Cold War lectures, seminars and tutorials each International school leaving qualifications early modern and Welsh history as This degree combines sound We also welcome applications from mature reputation and our staff are well- • Victorian Britain week. We make extensive use of film and college diplomas are accepted subject well as archaeology and heritage. Compulsory module: historical knowledge with a range applicants. published in their specialist areas. • Britannia Rule the Waves and TV footage, online resources and to minimum English Language requirements: • We have an excellent teaching • Debating History# of transferrable analytical and *For full details go to our website and for a • There is an emphasis on the oral interviews to bring the subject www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs reputation and remains committed presentation skills. This course also full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go We also welcome applications from mature events of the recent past. Year 3 to life. You will also take part in field to small-group teaching and a Optional History modules (choose 2): provides specialist knowledge of to www.ucas.com • We pay attention to issues such as applicants. student-centred approach. Wales within a European context. You have the chance to focus your trips. Recent examples include a *For full details go to our website and for a There are a wide range of options the influence and management of study by following a Special Subject. visit to the Imperial War Museum in full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • The course is taught using a great available. Examples include: Europe With these you will be able to tackle a the media, gender, the manipulative You will become a real authority on Manchester. to www.ucas.com variety of resources which include in the High Middle Ages; 1000-1200, Holy Wars, variety of career options centring on skills of politicians and the ideals a period or theme, drawing on skills our extensive library holdings, own 1095-1197; USA 1945-2001; Europe 1945-1992; administration and public leadership and aims which have guided their already developed and the current Assessment includes a mixture of University archives, local record Thatcher’s Britain; The Tudors; Britain 1780-1832; especially, but not exclusively, political actions. research interests of academic exams, essays, portfolios, podcasts, offices and museums. Royal Propaganda; Britain in the Jazz Age. in Wales. In, for example, the • We bring the teaching to life with staff. In the Dissertation you will blog entries and the final year • The local area is steeped in history, personnel departments of private field trips, guest speakers and the dissertation which you complete with internationally important sites Optional Welsh History modules companies, the Civil Service and undertake your own research # interegation of film footage and reflecting your interests and use under the guidance of your tutor. on the doorstep – spanning pre- include (choose 2): Reigniting the Dragon ; local government, as well as a range oral history in the class room. history to the Industrial Revolution. Workplace module#; Wales 1600-1789#; Wales & of directly transferrable vocations. original sources. # CAREER PROSPECTS Europe in the Renaissance ; Owain Glyndŵr and his Graduates have in recent years, # WHAT WILL I STUDY? Compulsory modules: This course provides specialist WHAT WILL I STUDY? Movement . gained careers in political research, • Special Subject examples include: Britain knowledge and a range of analytical archives, the welfare services, Year 1 in the 1960s; Nationalism in the UK; Celtic and presentational skills which will Year 1 Year 3 teaching and the heritage industry. Each of the first-year modules Revival 1800-1920; Anarchism in Europe and enable you to tackle a variety of You will choose at least two modules You will select a Special Subject introduces a fresh theme and the USA career options centring on public in Welsh History and further module in History or Welsh History #Modules also available in Welsh. Many other INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL new ways of looking at the past. • Dissertation INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL modules that cover at least two of – which uses original sources and is modules may also offer seminars/tutorials in Welsh. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE administration, for example, in EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 Contemporary issues are studied in company personnel departments, Page 87 the three major periods of history: based on the research of the tutor. Optional modules: a historical context and discussed in the civil service and local govern- medieval (c500-1500); early modern You’ll also write a Dissertation which • Choose from a range of available options WANT TO KNOW MORE? relation to past experiences. ment as well as in a range of directly WANT TO KNOW MORE? (1500-1750); modern (1750 to gives you the opportunity to carry out JOINT HONOURS DEGREES (see Year 2 options above) Admissions Team transferable vocations. Graduates Admissions Team present). your own research. In addition you You can also study Welsh History History and Archaeology Compulsory module: History and Archaeology have in recent years gained careers will complete 2 further modules (see as a Joint Honours Degree with • Essential Skills for Academic Success in political work, law, accountancy Compulsory modules: list under Year 2 above for options). Philosophy and Religion, Sociology INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 # EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE and the cultural industries. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Wales since 1789 and Welsh. You can also study Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] At least two Modern and Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] # www.bangor.ac.uk/history- Contemporary History modules www.bangor.ac.uk/history- • Wales: Princes to Tudors Special Subject options may include: History and Welsh History as a Joint philosophy-and-social-sciences from a list that may include: philosophy-and-social-sciences The Norman Conquest; Going to the Devil – Henry Honours degree with Music. Please • Introduction to Modern History II; Land and Power in England & Wales 1780- see pages 69–70 for a full list of the • Modern Politics in Action 1888; Britain in the 1960s; Ruled by an Orange; Joint Honours Degrees available. • Wales since 1789 Nationalism in the UK; Celtic Revival 1800–1920. 194 195 WELSH HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY BA [Hons] LITERATURE, LANGUAGE, COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Remaining modules from a list of HOW WILL I LEARN? Archaeology modules are largely Through studying the history and options that may include: You will have about 12 hours of taught in English, but Welsh History archaeology of Wales (and the • Birth of Modern Europe 1470-1600 lectures, seminars and tutorials LINGUISTICS, FILM, modules may also be taken in archaeology of Britain and Ireland) • Introduction to Modern History 1815-1914 each week. Teaching on the Welsh Welsh. You may write essays and examinations in Welsh if you wish. you will gain an understanding of • History and Heritage: an Introduction History modules tends to be in small the development of Wales over the • War, Society and the Media groups. A very close atmosphere JOURNALISM AND MEDIA UCAS course code: centuries, of the changing nature of • Monarchs, Monks and Miracles: Europe in the develops, as most students follow V104 BA/WHAR society and settlement, and of the High Middle Ages a similar pattern of optional Length: 3 years historical context of contemporary modules, and are taught largely Wales. Year 2 by the same staff. We organise a ENGLISH LITERATURE BA DEGREES LINGUISTICS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: You have a choice of Welsh History/ range of field trips which may be English Literature BA DEGREES Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Archaeology modules ranging from afternoons, whole days or an entire tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: English Literature with English Language • Bangor is the leading centre for prehistory to medieval Welsh and weekend. You will also have the English Language • A Levels (no specific subjects required but English Literature with/and Creative Writing History or Archaeology preferred) the study of the history of Wales Irish archaeology and all periods of opportunity to go on archaeological English Language with Creative Writing • International Baccalaureate Diploma and our staff have made notable Welsh history. excavations and do other practical English Literature with Journalism English Language with Film Studies • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and contributions to research in Welsh work. Outside formal teaching you English Literature with Theatre & Performance Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: History and Archaeology. Modules available may include: will read, complete essays and English Language with Media Studies DMM • Our range of modules will be • The Archaeology of Early Medieval Wales prepare presentations. An optional • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended particularly attractive if you are • Wales 1660-1789 workplace module provides valuable Linguistics Diploma: considered on a case by case basis interested in ancient and pre- • The Acts of Union: Wales and England experience working in a museum, Linguistics and the English Language • Access: Pass • Reigniting the Dragon FILM, JOURNALISM AND MEDIA BA DEGREES • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. modern society. archive or archaeological unit. English Language with English Literature • Our local area is exceptionally rich • Owain Glyndŵr and his Movement Creative and Professional Writing International school leaving qualifications • Workplace Module Linguistics with English Literature and college diplomas are accepted subject in monuments of all periods. Field Assessment is a combination of Film Studies to minimum English Language requirements: trips take advantage of this. written work, essays, examinations English Language for TEFL Year 3 Film Studies with Theatre and Performance www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Our local museum enables you and portfolios. The final year International English Language for TEFL We also welcome applications from mature to gain first-hand experience in You choose a Special Subject dissertation is a major project Journalism and Media Studies applicants. module and investigate a topic handling artefacts – an opportunity involving research carried out under Media Studies with Theatre and Performance *For full details go to our website and for a not widely offered elsewhere. of interest in depth. You will also the close supervision of your tutor. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • The second year offers the chance complete a Dissertation. If the Media Studies to www.ucas.com dissertation is in Welsh History, Related Degrees to develop skills in practical CAREER PROSPECTS Media Studies with a Modern Language archaeology, such as surveying students can choose any Special This course provides specialist Creative Technologies (p.114) and computing, and go on a work Subject. If the dissertation topic is in knowledge and a range of analytical Professional Writing and Film French or German with placement. Archaeology, students must choose and presentational skills which Professional Writing and Media a Special Subject in Welsh History. Media Studies/Journalism (p.228, p.230) will enable you to tackle a variety History with Film Studies (p.191) WHAT WILL I STUDY? of career options centring on Recent Special Subject options History with Journalism (p.190) include: culture and heritage especially, Year 1 • Land and Power in England and Wales 1780- but not exclusively, in Wales e.g. WELSH AND CELTIC STUDIES BA DEGREES Law with Creative Media Writing (p.177) 1888 in archaeology units, museums Cymraeg/Welsh (first- and second-language) Law with Media Studies (p.177) Compulsory modules: • Nationalism in the UK and heritage centres, including the • Wales: Princes to Tudors# National Trust, as well as a range Cymraeg/Welsh (for beginners) Spanish with Media Studies/Journalism (p.226) # • Celtic Revival 1800-1920 • Wales since 1789 • Native Wales and the Normans of directly transferable vocations. Cymraeg Proffesiynol (Professional Welsh) Graduates have in recent years Cymraeg Proffesiynol (Professional Welsh for Choose at least 3 Archaeology You will also complete two further gained careers in local government, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL modules from a list this may conservation and teaching, and EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE optional modules (see Year 2 above Beginners) Page 87 include: for details). some have taken further training to • Introduction to British Prehistory become professional archaeologists. WANT TO KNOW MORE? • Introduction to Historic Archaeology Admissions Team #Modules also available in Welsh. Many other • Archaeological Techniques and Principles modules may also offer seminars/tutorials in History and Archaeology • Introduction to History and Heritage Welsh. WELSH HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 You can also study Welsh History EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] as a Joint Honours Degree www.bangor.ac.uk/history- with Archaeology (V104) where philosophy-and-social-sciences half of your modules will be in Archaeology. Please see website for details. 196 197 ENGLISH LITERATURE ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH ENGLISH LANGUAGE BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Options may include: COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Year 3 UCAS course codes: This course offers you the • Detective Fiction UCAS course code: This degree programme offers you You will write a dissertation on a 8H25 BA/ENGL opportunity to study a broad range Year 1 • Experimental Writing Q310 BA/ELEL the opportunity to study a range of Year 1 topic devised by you in consultation for joint codes see pages 69-70 of English Literature in small groups, Many modules are genre based, • Welsh Writing in English Length: 3 years modules in English Literature and As an English Literature ‘with’ with your tutor. You also take Length: 3 years led by the research experts in the each covering a wide range of • Modern Four-Nations Literature ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: to study the history and structure of student, you will take two-thirds of 2 specialist modules in English ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: field, in an atmosphere of creative, historical periods. You can take • The Realms of Magic Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff the English Language with specialist your credits in English Literature and Literature and a further 2 from the For joint degrees you should also look at the scholarly enterprise in order to further modules from the list below • Shakespeare’s Afterlives points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: tutors in Linguistics. You will be one-third of your credits in English available English Language options. entry requirements for your other chosen develop skills of critical analysis that and, if you wish, from other subjects. • Going Global • A Levels (English Literature / English taught in an atmosphere of creative, Language each year. subject. Typical offer is based on a minimum are highly valued by employers. • 1820s: Print Explosion Language / English preferred but not scholarly enterprise and imaginative Compulsory Module: 112 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* Compulsory module: • Arthurian Literature required) problem solving develop skills of Compulsory modules: • The English Dissertation e.g.: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Reading, Thinking, Writing: This module will • Literature and the Community • International Baccalaureate Diploma critical analysis that are highly • Reading, Thinking, Writing: This module will • A Levels (English Literature / English • We are committed to teaching in advance your skills in close reading and • Medieval Women’s Writing (including H6 in English Literature or valued by employers. advance your skills in close reading and essay Choose 2 modules from English Language / English preferred but not Language) small groups as well as lectures, essay writing. • Sex, Sects and Scandal writing – essential skills for the degree. Literature options which may required) • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and • Introduction to Language • International Baccalaureate Diploma one-to-one supervision and Options may include: Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? include: (including H6 in English Literature or providing individualised feedback. • The Literature of Laughter HOW WILL I LEARN? DMM** • We are committed to teaching in Optional modules may include: • Detective Fiction Language) • We offer a broad and flexible • Heroes and Villains: Introduction to Medieval You will have around 10 hours • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended small groups as well as lectures, One 20-credit module from: • Experimental Writing • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and range of modules giving you the Literature contact time per week. Some Diploma: considered on a case by case one-to-one supervision and • Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology • Welsh Writing in English Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: basis** freedom to develop and explore • Exploring America: An Introduction to US modules are taught by weekly providing individualised feedback. • Introduction to English Grammar • Modern Four-Nations Literature DMM** your own interests. Modules Literature seminars and lectures. Many • Access course with English Literature • We offer a broad and flexible • The Realms of Magic • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended combine the innovative – e.g. The modules are taught solely through element: Pass range of module choices, • Shakespeare’s Afterlives Diploma: considered on a case by case • The Gothic in Literature and Film • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. A further three modules (60 credits) from a list that basis** Literature of Laughter, Children’s • Landmarks in Literature weekly seminars or tutorials, with International school leaving qualifications combining English Literature – may include: • Going Global • Access course with English Literature Fiction, Transformative Writing • Creative Writing – Prose the emphasis on small-group and college diplomas are accepted, subject e.g. The Literature of Laughter, • The Literature of Laughter • Sex, Sects and Scandal element: Pass and The Gothic in Literature and • Creative Writing – Poetry teaching. The dissertation is taught to minimum English Language requirements: Detective Fiction, Contemporary • Exploring America: an Introduction to US • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. Film – with the more traditional • Children’s Fiction through one-to-one supervisions and www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Literature and The Gothic in Literature HOW WILL I LEARN? International school leaving qualifications – e.g. Beowulf to Malory, Victorian lectures. Several modules include We also welcome applications from mature Literature and Film – and English • The Gothic in Literature and Film You will have around 10 hours and college diplomas are accepted, subject Literature and Contemporary Year 2 theatre trips, film showings, gallery applicants. Language – e.g. in Bilingualism, contact time per week. Some to minimum English Language requirements: *For full details go to our website and for a • Landmarks in Literature Literature. Many modules are period based, visits and the chance to hear visiting Historical Linguistics, Language • Heroes and Villains: an Introduction to Medieval modules are taught by weekly www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Our research informs our writers. Assessment is increasingly full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go and Communication, and seminars and lectures. Many We also welcome applications from mature designed to enable students to www.ucas.com Literature applicants. teaching. The world-class quality to develop a more in-depth by coursework. **Can be considered in conjunction with Psycholinguistics. • Children’s Fiction modules are taught solely through *For full details go to our website and for a of our research and writing was understanding of literature. For another qualification in English Literature or • Research informs our teaching. weekly seminars or tutorials, with full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go recognised in the most recent single honours you choose 6 CAREER PROSPECTS Language, e.g. A levels and IB Higher. The world-class quality of Year 2 the emphasis on small-group to www.ucas.com Research Excellence Framework modules from a range of literary A degree in English Literature from our research and writing was This year allows you to develop teaching. The dissertation is taught **Can be considered in conjunction with (REF 2014), placing us in the UK periods and topics. For joint degrees Bangor University provides our recognised in the most recent your interests in English Literature through one-to-one supervisions and another qualification in English Literature or Top 10 for research intensity. you may choose 3 modules and for students with excellent transferrable Research Excellence Framework lectures. Several modules include Language, e.g. A levels and IB Higher. with English Language. Two-thirds • Our close links with Pontio, the ‘with’ degrees you choose 4. skills valued by employers in a (REF 2014), placing us in the UK of your credits will be in English theatre trips, film showings, gallery University’s Arts Centre, local range of sectors. Our graduates Top 10 for research intensity. visits and the chance to hear visiting Literature and one-third of your theatres, poetry groups and vibrant Options may include: have gone on to work in: teaching, • There is a vibrant Arts and Culture credits in English Language. writers. Assessment is increasingly student societies – including our • Contemporary Literatures publishing, advertising, journalism scene. Our close links with Pontio, by coursework. Bangor English Drama Society • Literature and Modernity and the media, the law, social work, the University’s Arts Centre, local English Literature modules may (BEDS) and Seren (the student • Victorian Literature business, politics, accountancy, theatres, poetry groups and vibrant include: CAREER PROSPECTS newspaper) – there are lots of • The Romantic Period the performing arts, civil service, student societies - including our • Contemporary Literature Our degrees provide our students chances for you to get involved. • Jonson to Johnson the police, human resources, and Bangor English Drama Society • Literature and Modernity with excellent employment • Bangor is an inspiring location for • Renaissance and Reformation academia. (BEDS) – there are lots of chances • Victorian Literature prospects, in a wide range of career INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE creative writing or literary study. • Beowulf to Malory EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE for you to get involved. • The Romantic Period options. In the past our graduates Page 87 • Hitchcock in Film Our degree will teach you the skills Page 87 • Bangor is an inspiring location for • Jonson to Johnson have gone into teaching, publishing, • Young Adult Fiction of critical analysis, imaginative creative writing or literary study. • Renaissance and Reformation advertising, journalism, the law, WANT TO KNOW MORE? WANT TO KNOW MORE? problem solving, and presentation. • Beowulf to Malory social work, business, politics, Admissions Team Year 3 Another option is postgraduate Admissions Team accountancy, the police, human English Literature & Creative Writing English Literature & Creative Writing • Hitchcock in Film For single honours you work on a study, which offers the opportunity • Young Adult Fiction resources, and academia. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 dissertation on a literary topic of to further deepen your knowledgeINTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE and expertise. There are greatEXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE English Language modules may Our degree will teach you the skills Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] your choice, individually supervised Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- by a member of staff. You also take opportunities for this at Bangor. www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- include: of critical analysis, imaginative literatures-and-linguistics 4 specialist modules. Joint honours literatures-and-linguistics • Variation in English problem solving, and presentation. students take 2 specialist modules • The History of English The skills they possess are highly and write a dissertation which links • English Sentence Structure valued by employers. Another option their 2 degree subjects. is postgraduate study. 198 199 ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH CREATIVE WRITING / ENGLISH LITERATURE & CREATIVE WRITING ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH JOURNALISM BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Exploring America: an Introduction to US HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? UCAS course code: These exciting courses develop Literature You will have around 10 hours UCAS course code: This degree allows you to study 2D13 BA/ENGLC connections between the critical • The Gothic in Literature and Film contact time a week. The emphasis O65C BA/ELJ English Literature with Journalism. 2P17 BA/ENCW study of English Literature and • Landmarks in Literature is on small-group teaching through Length: 3 years As well as the wide selection of Length: 3 years the creative practice of writing in • Heroes and Villains: an Introduction to Medieval workshops. Outside this time, you ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: literature modules available, you ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: a variety of forms. You will learn Literature will work on your own writing within Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff will be able to study topics such as Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff to approach texts as both a reader Bangor’s supportive community of points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: broadcast journalism, media ethics points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: and a writer, discovering links Year 2 creative writers. You will read widely • A Levels (English Literature / English and photojournalism. • A Levels (English Literature / English and synergies between these The second year allows you to to support both your own writing Language / English preferred but not Language / English preferred but not different perspectives. Through develop your interests in the novel, and your literary study. There are no required) WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? required) critical knowledge and practical short fiction, creative non-fiction and exams for Creative Writing modules • International Baccalaureate Diploma • You will be taught by staff who are • International Baccalaureate Diploma experience, you will study a broad poetry. and there is plenty of help on offer (including H6 in English Literature or active researchers and are (including H6 in English Literature or Language) Language) range of English Literature and as you develop portfolios for each • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and publishing books and articles in Creative Writing in small groups or Available modules may include: assessment. Attending talks and the areas you are studying. We • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and • The Novel Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: workshops, led by research experts performances by writers, publishers DMM** have a proven record of research DMM** in the field or by published writers, in • Transformative Writing and editors help you to see your • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended achievement and our members of • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended an atmosphere of creative, scholarly • Short Fiction and Poetry writing in the context of the wider Diploma: considered on a case by case staff have international Diploma: considered on a case by case enterprise in order to develop skills • Writing Selves literary culture in Wales and beyond. basis** reputations in their field. basis** of critical analysis and imaginative • Contemporary Literature There is also a lively ‘open mic’ • Access course with English Literature • Journalism staff have active • Access course with English Literature problem solving that are highly • Young Adult Fiction scene, as well as a slate of visiting element: Pass experience of broadcast and element: Pass • Creative Non-fiction • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. valued by employers. writers each semester. International school leaving qualifications publication journalism and maintain contact with the industry. Two-thirds of your modules will be You will have three to four hours’ International school leaving qualifications and college diplomas are accepted, subject in English Literature*. You will take contact time per module per week. Please read WHY CHOOSE Year 3 CAREER PROSPECTS • We offer an exceptionally wide and college diplomas are accepted, subject to minimum English Language requirements: 40 credits worth of Journalism in You also have the opportunity for to minimum English Language requirements: BANGOR? on page 198. The third year gives you you the These courses provide students with www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs choice of English Literature www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs chance to explore one area more excellent employment prospects, in We also welcome applications from mature modules in a variety of periods each year. hands-on experience in the media centre. A range of assessment We also welcome applications from mature WHAT WILL I STUDY? fully in the dissertation. You will be a wide range of career options. In applicants. from 700AD to the present. *Please see BA English Literature entry for modules. applicants. As an ‘and’ Creative Writing student, supervised on a one-to-one basis by the past our graduates have gone *For full details go to our website and for a • We are commited to small-group methods are used, varied to suit *For full details go to our website and for a you will take half of your modules a practising writer as you complete a into PR work, teaching, publishing, full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go teaching – the majority of our the type of topic being studied full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www.ucas.com in Creative Writing each year. ‘With’ novel, a collection of short stories or advertising, journalism, the law, modules are delivered through Year 1 (e.g. essays, open and closed to www.ucas.com poetry to the very highest standard. **Can be considered in conjunction with In addition to a compulsory English book examinations, pre-released **Can be considered in conjunction with Creative Writing students will take community work and academia. another qualification in English Literature or weekly seminars or workshops. one third of their modules in Creative Learning to reflect critically on • Our Media Centre has the latest Literature skills modules (e.g. examinations, portfolios, projects). another qualification in English Literature or Language, e.g. A levels and IB Higher. Reading, Thinking, Writing), you will Language, e.g. A levels and IB Higher. Writing each year. In both cases, the your own practice will prepare you The skills of critical analysis, computerised digital and remainder of your modules will be equally for the independence of imaginative problem solving, and technological studios and choose a further three modules CAREER PROSPECTS in English Literature (see BA English a career in writing or for further, presentation are all highly valued equipment. We also have a multi- (60 credits) from a list of available With a degree in English Literature Literature entry). postgraduate, study. after by employers in a wide range camera TV studio with production options. your career prospects include many of sectors. Our graduates are gallery, a sound radio studio with possible options, ranging from teaching to media, creative and Year 1 Compulsory Module: typically independent-minded, yet self-operating facilities, video Journalism modules may include: • Introduction to Practical Journalism Many modules are genre based, • The Creative Writing Dissertation able to work as part of an effective editing suites, digital sound editing performance arts, finance or law. • Issues in Media and Journalism each covering a wide range of team. Another option is postgraduate suites and a number of portable As the journalism elements of this historical periods, of focusing on Modules include: study, which offers graduates an video and sound units for location course have a strong vocational writing in a particular genre. You • Experimental Writing opportunity to further deepen their filming and recording. Years 2 and 3 focus, the career prospects of our will be introduced to a range of • Cross-Cultural Writing knowledge and expertise, and • Bangor combines practical In addition to taking further modules graduates have proved favourable in techniques in Creative Writing. • The Open Road to distinguish themselves from instruction with a strong in English Literature, available both academic and practical fields: journalism modules may include: the teaching of journalism-related INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL These modules aim to develop in • Working-class Writing other students. There are great INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL humanities education and is EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Detective Fiction EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Journalism and Risk courses, and the practice of working Page 87 students the skills required for an opportunities for this at Bangor. Page 87 recognised for producing • Global News Agenda undergraduate degree in English • Realms of Magic The ability to use words effectively graduates who are able to cope in the newspaper industry and in • Practical Journalism WANT TO KNOW MORE? Literature and / with Creative is, in fact, a major advantage in WANT TO KNOW MORE? with the many skills now media journalism on both television • Digital Journalism Admissions Team Writing. *Compulsory for both English Literature and/with almost any career. Admissions Team demanded of journalists in the UK, and radio. For more information English Literature & Creative Writing Creative Writing English Literature & Creative Writing Europe and further afield. • Practical Digital Journalism about our graduates and their Available modules may include: prospects, see our website. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 • Creative Writing - Poetry* **Compulsory for English Literature and Creative INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] • Creative Writing - Prose* Writing Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- literatures-and-linguistics • Introduction to Screenwriting literatures-and-linguistics • Reading, Thinking, Writing* • Children’s Fiction ** • The Literature of Laughter 200 201 ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE ENGLISH LITERATURE PLUS ANOTHER SUBJECT BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES ENGLISH LITERATURE AND HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: This degree allows you to study UCAS course code: ABOUT? ANOTHER SUBJECT You will have around 10 hours 32M8 BA/ELTP theatre and to develop performance See adjacent text It is possible to study two subjects in These 3-year programmes offer the contact time per week. Some Length: 3 years projects in a way that complements Length: 3 years; 4 years for joint equal proportions within one degree opportunity to study 50% English modules are taught by weekly honours degrees with a Modern ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: the core of modules in English Languages and Cultures subject course. We offer a range of English Literature, 50% another subject. seminars and lectures; many Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff Literature. The course examines all Literature Joint Honours degrees. Information on English Literature modules are taught solely through points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: aspects of practical theatre and you These courses offer students the modules are on page 194. You weekly seminars or tutorials. • A Levels (English Literature / English will be expected to develop expertise ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: opportunity to combine varied but should also check the course A range of assessment methods are Language / English preferred but not in at least one of the following areas: You should also check the entry requirements complimentary subjects. Please see content and entry requirements for used, varied to suit the type of topic required) performing, directing, designing, for your other chosen subject. below for the options available. your other chosen subject in this being studied. • International Baccalaureate Diploma lighting, and stage management. Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 prospectus or on the website. (including H6 in English Literature or tariff points (minimum 104 points for English WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? CAREER PROSPECTS Language) Literature and a Modern Language and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Chinese) from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: • We offer a wide choice of modules English Language & Literature QQC3 BA/ELLIT Many graduates go on to make Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: In addition to the benefits listed on • A Levels (English Literature / English in a variety of literary periods from English Literature & Music 32N6 BA/ELM exceptional contributions in their DMM** the page for BA English Literature: Language / English preferred but not c.700AD to the present, giving you English Literature & chosen field. Oscar-winning • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended required) the freedom to develop and explore Criminology/Criminal Justice M3Q9 BA/ENC Danny Boyle, director of Slumdog Diploma: considered on a case by case • We have very good links with the • International Baccalaureate Diploma your own interests. Film Studies & English Literature 3P3Q BA/FSEL Millionaire, is one of our former basis** professional theatre, particularly (including H6 in English Literature or • Our range of modules allows you History & English Literature 3QV1 BA/ELH students. Typically, our graduates • Access course with English Literature in Wales, and modules such as Language; H5 for English Literature and to concentrate your interests on a Linguistics & English Literature 1Q3Q BA/ELL emerge from their degree prepared element: Pass Theatre in Society include a large Modern Language and Chinese) particular theme or author. Media Studies & English Literature 3HPQ BA/MEN for the world of work, either here in • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and International school leaving qualifications scale collaboration with the Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: • We are committed to small-group Philosophy and Religion & the UK or overseas. Many achieve and college diplomas are accepted, subject National Museum of Wales in the DMM (MMM for English Literature and teaching. English Literature 3VQV BA/PREN success in careers which include to minimum English Language requirements: Slate Museum in Llanberis. Modern Language and Chinese ** • You will be taught by award- Sociology & English Literature 3L3Q BA/SEL business, the creative industries, www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • For rehearsal and performance • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended winning staff who are active journalism, teaching and the Civil We also welcome applications from mature work we have the exclusive use of Diploma: considered on a case by case researchers and publish books ENGLISH LITERATURE AND A Service. applicants. the John Phillips Hall, a state-of- WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? basis** and articles in the areas you are MODERN LANGUAGE *For full details go to our website and for a the-art performance space with Two-thirds of your modules will be The Theatre modules are highly • Access course with English Literature studying. These integrated courses allow full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go computer lighting system and in English Literature (see BA English practical and in most you will be element: Pass • Members of staff are globally you to combine study in English to www.ucas.com • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. **Can be considered in conjunction with digital sound. Literature degree for modules). working on practical presentations. International school leaving qualifications renowned for their research. Literature with a language another qualification in English Literature or • We are committed to teaching in You will take 2 modules in Theatre Typically, 60% of the module mark and college diplomas are accepted, subject specialism. Language, e.g. A levels and IB Higher. small groups – the majority of our Studies each year, forming one-third is for the individual contribution to a to minimum English Language requirements: modules are delivered entirely of your course. performance, 20% for an analytical www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs These programmes are 4 years in through weekly seminars and essay on the creative process, and We also welcome applications from mature duration as the third year is spent workshops. Theatre modules include: 20% for reviews of professional applicants. abroad. For further information • Most of the assessment for theatre. *For full details go to our website and for a about the language element of the Theatre modules is based on Year 1 full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go degrees, see the Modern Languages to www.ucas.com practical coursework. • Theatre Making CAREER PROSPECTS **Can be considered in conjunction with section starting on page 225. • The emphasis is on Theatre as a • Performing for Stage and Screen With a degree in English Literature another qualification in English Literature or collaborative and community with Theatre and Performance Language, e.g. A levels and IB Higher. English Literature & Chinese T124 BA/LITCH activity as much as on the Years 2 and 3 your career prospects include English Literature & Italian 09V3 BA/ELI performance of plays. Devising for • Contemporary Theatre Practice many possible options, ranging English Literature & Spanish 3YT5 BA/ELIS specific sites and audiences is a • Site Specific Performance from teaching to media, journalism, French & English Literature 06CDBA/FEL crucial element. • Theatre & Performance: The Self performance arts, finance or law. German & English Literature 3N7S BA/GEL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Classic texts, when studied in As the Theatre elements of this INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Professional Practice EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 Theatre and Performance, are course have a strong vocational Page 87 analysed primarily from a modern You develop skills in chosen aspects focus, the career prospects of our WANT TO KNOW MORE? perspective. This complements of theatrical production as the main graduates have proved favourable in WANT TO KNOW MORE? Admissions Team the text-based and historical constituent part of your assessment. both academic and practical fields: Admissions Team English Literature & Creative Writing emphases of the English the teaching of theatre and drama, English Literature & Creative Writing Literature modules. You will also choose modules from and the practice of working in theINTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCETel: 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Theatre reviews and theatre visits the BA English Literature degree theatre both on and behind the Pstage.age 234 Page 234 Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- form part of the assessment (see page 198). www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- literatures-and-linguistics in each Theatre and Performance literatures-and-linguistics module.

202 203 ENGLISH LANGUAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WITH CREATIVE WRITING BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? Examples of recent dissertation UCAS course code: English is an important language You will spend about 10 hours in UCAS course code: During this course you will spend topics include: Q301 BA/EL socially, politically and economically. Year 1 lectures, seminars and tutorials Q3WL BA/ELCW two-thirds of your time studying Year 1 Language change and the internet; language Length: 3 years It is a World language, with an In the first year you will choose from each week. You will also spend time Length: 3 years English Language (see page 204) You will take four modules in English policy in cases of genocide; bilinguals’ estimated 1,500 million speakers a selection of modules. You will take reading, collecting and analysing and one-third studying Creative Language and two in Creative word-processing; gender-neutral pronouns ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: worldwide. English is also the best- between four and six modules in natural language data and working Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 Writing (see page 213). Writing. in English; stress patterns in child speech; Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 described language in the world. The English Language. These include on practical tasks in the laboratory. influence of the media on Welsh-English code- tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: Compulsory English Language • A Levels (no specific subjects required) introductory modules for this degree Compulsory Modules intended to Your dissertation will allow you • A Levels (no specific subjects required) WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? switching patterns. look at issues such as how our provide a solid grounding in the to investigate a topic of interest • International Baccalaureate Diploma • Our staff are active researchers in modules: • International Baccalaureate Diploma • Introduction to Language: how to be a • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and language changes according to the subject: Introduction to Language, in depth and you will work with • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and a range of theoretical and applied HOW WILL I LEARN? Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: context in which it is being used, how Introduction to Phonetics, Phonology, supervision from a member of staff. Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: areas - many have international linguist; the different subfields of You will spend about 10 hours in DMM men’s and women’s language use Introduction to English Grammar and DMM reputations in the field. linguistics; introduce basic linguistic lectures, seminars and tutorials • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended terminology; academic skills. each week. You will also spend time differs, how we acquire language Introduction to Meaning. Assessment includes essay writing, Diploma: considered on a case by case basis • Our modules will give you a Diploma: considered on a case by case basis and how and why it breaks down. practical assignments, empirical scientific insight into the structure • Introduction to English Grammar: how to reading, collecting and analysing • Access: Pass • Access: Pass You may select the remainder of research studies, oral presentations and use of language, psycho- describe the grammatical structure of natural language data and working • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. the English Language on the word level WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? your modules from a list of available and examinations. International school leaving qualifications linguistics (the relationship on practical tasks in the laboratory. International school leaving qualifications (morphology). and college diplomas are accepted, subject • You will be taught by staff who optional English Language modules, and college diplomas are accepted, subject between mind and language) and Your dissertation will allow you to minimum English Language requirements: are active researchers in a range or from those offered in other CAREER PROSPECTS to minimum English Language requirements: sociolinguistics (the relationship to investigate a topic of interest www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs of theoretical and applied areas subjects. A degree in English Language www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs between society and language). Plus a further 2 modules from a list in depth and you will work with We also welcome applications from mature relating to the courses – many will increase your knowledge of We also welcome applications from mature • Our modules cover a broad range that may include: supervision from a member of staff. applicants. applicants. have international reputations in You will also have the option of language structure and use for of subject matters, and after the • Language and Society *For full details go to our website and for a taking Welsh-medium modules on *For full details go to our website and for a • Introduction to Meaning the field. communicative purposes, the history full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go first year you will be able to focus Assessment involves a variety full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Our modules will give you a core aspects of linguistics. • Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology of approaches – essay writing, to www.ucas.com of the English language and the to www.ucas.com your attention on the particular scientific insight into the structure role of English in the world. Recent questions that interest you most. practical assignments, empirical and use of language, as well as Years 2 and 3 graduates have gone on to do further • Our wide range of learning You will also have the option of research studies, oral presentations into the history of English and In each of these years you take six academic study such as the PGCE facilities includes an extensive taking Welsh-medium modules on and examinations. sociolinguistics (the relationship 20-credit modules. In Year 2 some and postgraduate qualifications collection of books on Linguistics core aspects of linguistics. between language and society). modules will be compulsory, and will leading to speech and language and English Language, a speech CAREER PROSPECTS • Our modules cover a wide range include in-depth modules (e.g. on therapy, overseas teaching, and laboratory, a recording studio and Compulsory Creative Writing A degree in English Language with of subject matters, and after the phonology, syntax, semantics, and other training in order to pursue audio/video/television equipment. modules: Creative Writing will increase your first year you will be able to focus the history of English). In Year 3 you careers in social work, police work, • Creative Writing: Prose knowledge of language structure your attention on particular will have a freer choice of modules, immigration work, local government, • Creative Writing: Poetry and use for communicative questions that interest you most. and will be required to complete banking and accountancy, purposes, the history of the English • Our wide range of learning a dissertation study on a linguistic librarianship, media and journalism, Years 2 and 3 language, the role of English in facilities includes an extensive topic of your choice as one of your creative writing and publishing. Over the two years you will take the world and your competence modules. Year 3 modules may the equivalent of eight 20-credit collection of books on Linguistics “When I came up for the in the grammatical structure and English Language, a speech include topics such as: modules in English Language and and use of the English language. Open Day I just got a really four 20-credit modules in Creative laboratory, a recording studio • Bilingualism good feeling. I felt that here Recent graduates have gone on to • Language Acquisition Writing. do further academic study such and audio, video and television was somewhere I would be equipment. • Psycholinguistics Compulsory modules for as the PGCE and postgraduate • Phonetics and Phonology known as a person and not qualifications leading to speech just another student making English Language: • Syntax Compulsory 2nd year modules will and language therapy, overseas up the numbers. Throughout • Metaphor and Meaning include such topics as phonetics teaching, and other training in order INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL • Discourse Analysis INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL my degree all the staff have to pursue careers in social work, EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE and phonology, syntax, semantics, Page 87 • Welsh Linguistics (English-medium) Page 87 been incredibly supportive and and the history of English. In Year police work, immigration work, • Teaching English as a Foreign Language JOINT HONOURS DEGREES accommodating.” 3 you will get a choice from a wide local government, banking and WANT TO KNOW MORE? (practice and theory) You can study English Language as WANT TO KNOW MORE? range of English Language and accountancy, librarianship, media Admissions Team a Joint Honours Degree with one Admissions Team TAMSIN McKELVEY and journalism, creative writing and Linguistics and English Language Welsh-medium modules also Linguistics and English Language Creative Writing modules. For more of the following subjects: Chinese Linguistics and English details see the listing for English publishing. available as options in years 2 and 3. (4 years), Creative Studies, English INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 Language Language (page 201), including EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Literature, Film Studies, FrenchEXPERIENCE (4 EXPERIENCE Page 234 Email:Page 234 [email protected] Page 234 Email:Page 234 [email protected] the requirement for a dissertation. www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- years), German (4 years), Italian www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- Please see the entry for Creative literatures-and-linguistics (4 years), Journalism, Linguistics, literatures-and-linguistics Writing (page 196) for your other Psychology, Sociology and Spanish module selections. (4 years).

204 205 ENGLISH LANGUAGE WITH FILM STUDIES ENGLISH LANGUAGE WITH MEDIA STUDIES BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? through weekly workshops or HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: You will spend two-thirds of your UCAS course code: This exciting degree course is seminars. In Media Studies you will be taught Q3WP BA/ELFS time studying English Language (see Q3P3 BA/ELMS aimed at students who want to • Staff are practising professionals, through a wide range of methods, Length: 3 years p. 204) and one-third studying Film Length: 3 years study English Language with Media who work on joint projects and act from workshops and practical Studies (p. 215). Studies (which includes television/ as consultants to industry. exercises, to seminars, discussions ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 radio/film/video, game design, • Sponsorship and scholarship and lectures. Some modules are WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: professional writing, journalism and opportunities are available on a assessed entirely on coursework • A Levels (no specific subjects required) • At Bangor you will be taught by • A Levels (no specific subjects required) digital media). Skills and techniques competitive basis. (stories, poems, films, journalistic • International Baccalaureate Diploma staff who are active researchers • International Baccalaureate Diploma learnt during the study and writing assignments, dramatic pieces etc). • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and in a range of theoretical and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and of texts lie at the core of many of WHAT WILL I STUDY? Others are assessed by essay or Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: applied areas relating to the Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: the key areas in these industries. In your first year you will take four examination. The combination of DMM courses – many have international DMM This course will equip you with a 20-credit modules from English assessment methods is designed • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended reputations. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended solid grounding in the technical and Language, and two modules from to enhance the learning process, Diploma: considered on a case by case basis • Our modules will give you a Diploma: considered on a case by case basis practical skills required to make you Media Studies (page 218). allowing you to develop a range of • Access: Pass scientific insight into the structure • Access: Pass • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. Compulsory Film modules: HOW WILL I LEARN? • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. a sought after professional. responses to your subjects. International school leaving qualifications and use of language, psycho- • Film History You will spend about 10 hours in International school leaving qualifications Year 1 linguistics (the relationship and college diplomas are accepted, subject • Film Language # lectures, seminars and tutorials and college diplomas are accepted, subject WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Compulsory 20-credit modules for For English Language you will learn to minimum English Language requirements: between mind and language) and each week. You will also spend time to minimum English Language requirements: • Bangor has a range of learning through a combination of lectures, www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs sociolinguistics (the relationship English Language: # these modules are available in reading, collecting and analysing www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs facilities including: a Phonetics • Introduction to Language: how to be a seminars and tutorials. Modules We also welcome applications from mature between society and language). We also welcome applications from mature Welsh natural language data and working Laboratory, a recording studio linguist; the different subfields of are assessed by examinations, applicants. • Our modules cover a broad range applicants. on practical tasks in the laboratory. and audio, video and television linguistics; introduce basic linguistic continuous assessment or a *For full details go to our website and for a of subject matters, and after the *For full details go to our website and for a Years 2 and 3 Your dissertation will allow you equipment. terminology; academic skills. combination of both. The continuous full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go first year you will be able to focus full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go to www.ucas.com Over the two years you will take to investigate a topic of interest to www.ucas.com • Bangor specialises in three • Introduction to English Grammar: how to assessment can include some your attention on the particular eight 20-credit modules in English in depth and you will work with key areas: Creative Writing, describe the grammatical structure of supervised practical element or questions that interest you most. Language and four in Film Studies, supervision from a member of staff. Professional Writing, Journalism; the English Language on the word level independent study, followed by • Our range of learning facilities and any listed under English Media, Film and Cinema Studies, (morphology). report writing. Your module results/ includes an extensive collection Language (page 201) including the Assessment involves a variety New Media; and The Entertainment • You will take a further two modules in English individual project marks contribute of books, a speech laboratory, a requirements for the dissertation. of approaches – essay writing, Industries and Performance Arts. Language from a list of available options, to your degree final grade. recording studio and audio, video practical assignments, empirical We have research interests in all and two options in Media from a list that and television equipment. Compulsory modules for research studies, oral presentations areas of the Creative Industries, CAREER PROSPECTS English Language: may include modules in film, media practice, and examinations. with research programmes screenwriting and journalism. Please see A degree in English Language WHAT WILL I STUDY? Compulsory Year 2 modules will running in key areas. will increase your knowledge of include such topics as phonology, Media Studies p. 217 for more information on CAREER PROSPECTS • Staff in Linguistics and English media modules. language structure and use for Year 1 syntax, semantics, and the history A degree in English Language with Language have wide-ranging communicative purposes, the history You will take four 20-credit modules of English. In Year 3 you will choose Film Studies will increase your teaching and research interests so You will also have the option of of the English language and the role in English Language and two in Film from a wide range of English knowledge of language structure we offer a more varied programme taking Welsh-medium modules on of the English language in the world. Studies. Language and Film Studies modules. and use for communicative of modules than most universities. core aspects of linguistics. Recent graduates have gone on to See entry for Film Studies (page 215) purposes, the history of the English • The University has a dedicated do further academic study such Compulsory 20-credit modules for for your other module selections. language, the role of English in the Creative Studies and Media as the PGCE and postgraduate English Language: Years 2 and 3 Examples of recent dissertation world and your competence in the building housing its own digital Compulsory Year 2 modules will qualifications leading to speech • Introduction to Language: how to be a grammatical structure and use cinema, performance space, and language therapy, overseas linguist; the different subfields of topics include: include such topics as phonology, The acquisition of consonant clusters by a of the English language. Recent teaching rooms and meeting area. syntax, semantics, and the history teaching, and other training in order linguistics; introduce basic linguistic graduates have gone on to do further It is also the home of a number to pursue careers in social work, terminology; academic skills. Down’s syndrome child; A syntactic analysis of of English. In Year 3 you will get a INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL academic study such as the PGCE INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL of national and international police work, immigration work, EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Introduction to English Grammar: how to verb-second in Swedish; Pronunciation change EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE choice from a wide range of English Page 87 in popular music; Attitudes towards north and postgraduate qualifications Page 87 research, development and Language and Media Studies local government, banking and describe the grammatical structure of leading to speech and language outreach programmes in the accountancy, librarianship, media the English Language on the word level Wales accents of English; Metaphors for war modules. There are also Welsh- WANT TO KNOW MORE? during the first Gulf War; Children’s attitudes therapy, overseas teaching, and WANT TO KNOW MORE? creative arts and creative medium modules available as and journalism, creative writing and Admissions Team (morphology) other training in order to pursue Admissions Team industries. publishing. Linguistics and English Language to accents; An analysis of doctor-patient Linguistics and English Language options in years 2 and 3. For more interactions. careers in social work, police work, • The University has a fully details see the listing for English A further 2 modules from a list that immigration work, local government, equipped Media Centre, with INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 may include: INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 Language (page 201), including the EXPERIENCE Email:EXPERIENCE [email protected] banking and accountancy, EXPERIENCE Email:EXPERIENCE [email protected] editing suites, production studios requirement for a dissertation. Page 234 Page 234 • Language & Society # librarianship, media and journalism,Page 234 Page 234 and media equipment available to www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- • Introduction to Meaning www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- literatures-and-linguistics creative writing and publishing. literatures-and-linguistics students. • Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology • We are committed to teaching in small groups and the majority of our modules are delivered 206 207 LINGUISTICS LINGUISTICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BA [Hons] / MArts BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Introduction to English Grammar: how to HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course codes: We tend to take our ability to describe the grammatical structure of You will spend about 10 hours in UCAS course code: These two subjects are Q100 BA/Ling; Q101 MArts/Ling produce and understand speech for the English Language on the word level lectures, seminars and tutorials Q140 BA/LELa complementary, allowing you to gain Year 1 for joint honours codes see pages granted until we try to learn another (morphology) each week. You will also spend time Length: 3 years a full under-standing of the way in You will take 6 modules (totalling 69-70 language, watch how a child learns a • Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology: the reading, collecting and analysing which language abilities develop as 120 credits) in Linguistics and the Length: 3 years (BA); 4 years (MArts) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: well as developing your knowledge English Language: first language, or witness the effects study of sounds and sound systems natural language data and working For joint degrees you should also look at the ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: of language handicap. Linguistics • Introduction to meaning on practical tasks in the laboratory. entry requirements for your other chosen and capabilities in the use of English is the study of language abilities, Your dissertation will allow you language. Linguistics is described Compulsory modules: For joint degrees you should also look at the subject. • Introduction to Language: how to be a entry requirements for your other chosen how they are acquired, how they are You will choose two further modules to investigate a topic of interest Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 more fully on the previous page. subject. used, and how they may be impaired. from a list of available options. in depth and you will work with tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: In the introductory modules you linguist; the different subfields of Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 Because speech is so central to our supervision from a member of staff. • A Levels (no specific subjects required) will look at issues such as how our linguistics; introduce basic linguistic tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: very existence it is a fascinating and Years 2 and 3 Assessment involves a variety • International Baccalaureate Diploma language changes according to the terminology; academic skills. • A Levels (no specific subjects required) rewarding subject to study. It is an In each of these years you take six of approaches – essay writing, • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and context in which it is being used and • Introduction to English Grammar: how to describe • International Baccalaureate Diploma ideal background for many careers, 20-credit modules. In Year 2 some practical assignments, empirical Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: how men’s and women’s language the grammatical structure of the English • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and DMM Language on the word level (morphology). Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: especially those in the teaching and modules will be compulsory, and research studies, oral presentations • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended use differs. caring professions, but also in more will include in-depth modules (e.g. and examinations. • Language, Literature and Culture: an overview HOW WILL I LEARN? DMM Diploma: considered on a case by case basis of the key concepts in the study of the • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended ‘high-tech’ fields like computing and on phonology, syntax, semantics, • Access: Pass WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Diploma: considered on a case by case basis telecommunications. and bilingualism). In Year 3 you will CAREER PROSPECTS • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • Ours is one of the oldest linguistics relationships between language, literature You will spend about 10 hours in • Access: Pass have a freer choice of modules, This degree will increase your International school leaving qualifications departments in the UK. You and culture. lectures, seminars and tutorials • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? and will be required to complete knowledge of language structure and college diplomas are accepted, subject will be taught by staff who are • Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology: the each week. You will also spend time International school leaving qualifications • Ours is one of the oldest Linguistics a Dissertation on a linguistic topic and use for communicative to minimum English Language requirements: active researchers in arange of study of sounds and sounds systems. reading, collecting and analysing and college diplomas are accepted, subject departments in the UK, with staff of your choice. Year 3 can include purposes, the history of the English www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs theoretical and applied areas • Introduction to Meaning. natural language data and working to minimum English Language requirements: We also welcome applications from mature • Language and Society: how language varies on practical tasks in the laboratory. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs who are active researchers in a modules such as: language, competence in the applicants. relating to the courses – many range of theoretical and applied • Bilingualism grammatical structure and use have international reputations in according to dialect and social aspects; Your dissertation will allow you We also welcome applications from mature *For full details go to our website and for a the relationship between language and to investigate a topic of interest applicants. areas – many have international • Language Acquisition of the English language. Recent full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go the field. *For full details go to our website and for a reputations in the field. • Psycholinguistics graduates have gone on to do further to www.ucas.com • Our modules will give you a cultural aspects such as language policy and in depth and you will work with full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Our modules will give you a • Phonetics and Phonology academic study such as the PGCE scientific insight into the structure bilingualism. supervision from a member of staff. to www.ucas.com scientific insight into the structure • Syntax and postgraduate qualifications and use of language, as well as and use of language, psycho- • Metaphor and Meaning leading to speech and language into psycholinguistics (the Years 2 and 3 Assessment involves a variety linguistics (the relationship • Discourse Analysis therapy, overseas teaching, and relationship between mind and In each of these years you take six of approaches – essay writing, between mind and language) and • Welsh Linguistics (English-medium) other training in order to pursue language) and sociolinguistics (the 20-credit modules. In Year 2 some practical assignments, empirical sociolinguistics (the relationship • Teaching English as a Foreign Language careers in social work, police work, relationship between society and modules will be compulsory, and research studies, oral presentations between society and language). (practice and theory) immigration work, local government, language). will include in-depth modules e.g. and examinations. • We cover a wide range of subject • Cognitive Linguistics banking and accountancy, • We cover a wide range of subject on phonology, syntax, semantics, matters, and after the first year librarianship, media and journalism, matters and after the first year you bilingualism and the history of CAREER PROSPECTS you will be able to focus your Welsh-medium modules also creative writing and publishing. will be able to focus your attention English. In Year 3 you will have a A degree in Linguistics and the attention on particular questions available as options in Years 2 and 3. on particular questions that freer choice of modules, and you English Language will increase that interest you most. interest you most. will be required to complete a your knowledge of language • Our wide range of learning If you take Linguistics as a joint • Our wide range of learning dissertation study on a linguistic structure and use for communicative facilities includes an extensive degree, you will take half your facilities includes an extensive topic of your choice as one of your purposes, the history of the English collection of books on Linguistics modules from Linguistics and the collection of books on Linguistics modules. Year 3 modules can language, the role of the English and English Language, a speech other half in the other subject. and English Language, a speech include topics such as: language in the world and your laboratory, a recording studio and laboratory, a recording studio • Bilingualism competence in the grammatical structure and use of the English INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL audio, video and TV equipment. Year 4 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL and audio, video and television • Language Acquisition EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE If you follow the MArts degree, the EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE language. Recent graduates have Page 87 Page 87 equipment. You will be able to • Psycholinguistics WHAT WILL I STUDY? first three years of your course develop your word-processing • Phonetics and Phonology gone on to do further academic study WANT TO KNOW MORE? are the same as for the BA. In your JOINT HONOURS DEGREES WANT TO KNOW MORE? skills. • Syntax such as the PGCE and postgraduate Admissions Team Year 1 final year you will focus on either You can study Linguistics as a Admissions Team • Metaphor and Meaning qualifications leading to speech Linguistics and English Language You will take six modules totalling Linguistics or Bilingualism. You Joint Honours Degree with one of Linguistics and English Language • Discourse Analysis and language therapy, overseas 120 credits in your first year. will take three postgraduate-level the following subjects: Chinese (4 • Welsh Linguistics (English-medium) teaching, and other training in order INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 modules and complete a dissertation years), English Language, EnglishINTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 to pursue careers in social work, EXPERIENCE Email:EXPERIENCE [email protected] EXPERIENCE Email:EXPERIENCE [email protected] • Teaching English as a Foreign Language Page 234 Page 234 Compulsory 20-credit modules: on a research topic closely linked Literature, French (4 years), Page 234 Page 234 (practice and theory) police work, immigration work, www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- local government, banking and literatures-and-linguistics • Introduction to Language: how to be to your chosen field. The aim of this German (4 years), Italian (4 years), literatures-and-linguistics • Cognitive Linguistics a linguist; the different sub-fields of is to develop your academic and Psychology, Sociology, Spanish (4 accountancy, librarianship, media linguistics; introduction to basic linguistic transferrable skills and increase years), Welsh. There are also Welsh-medium and journalism, creative writing and terminology your employability. modules available as options. publishing. 208 209 ENGLISH LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH LITERATURE / LINGUISTICS WITH ENGLISH LITERATURE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR TEFL BA [Hons] BA [Hons] / MArts

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? You will also have the option of HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: ABOUT? You will spend about 10 hours in UCAS course codes: English is an important language taking Welsh-medium modules on You will spend about 10 hours in English Language with English You will spend two-thirds of your Year 1 lectures, seminars and tutorials Q315 BA/ELT socially, politically and economically. core aspects of linguistics. lectures, seminars and tutorials Literature: Q3Q2 BA/EngEL time studying Linguistics (as You will take four modules in each week. You will also spend time Length: 3 years It is a World language, with an each week. You will also spend time Linguistics with English Literature: Q316 MArts/ELT Q1Q3 BA/LEL described on page 208) or the Linguistics or the English Language reading, collecting and analysing Length: 4 years estimated 1,500 million speakers Years 2 and 3 reading, collecting and analysing Length: 3 years English Language (as described on and two in English Literature. natural language data and working worldwide, which in turn leads In each of these years you take natural language data and working page 204) and one-third studying on practical tasks in the laboratory. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: to an increased need for people compulsory modules that will on practical tasks in the laboratory. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: English Literature (as described on Compulsory modules Your dissertation will allow you Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 who are qualified to teach English carry your English skills further, Your dissertation will allow you Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff page 198). Linguistics and English Language: to investigate a topic of interest tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: internationally. This course will plus modules providing substantial to investigate a topic of interest points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: • Reading, Thinking, Writing in depth and you will work with • A Levels (no specific subjects required) teach you about linguistics, with linguistic background concerning in depth and you will work with • A Levels (English Literature / English WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Introduction to Language supervision from a member of staff. • International Baccalaureate Diploma a particular focus on English, and grammar, bilingualism and the supervision from a member of Language / English preferred but not • Ours is one of the oldest linguistics • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and in your third year you will focus history of English. In year 3 you staff. Assessment includes essay required) You will take a further two modules Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: • International Baccalaureate Diploma departments in the UK, with staff Assessment involves a variety DMM specifically on modules relating will focus on modules related to writing, practical assignments, oral who are active researchers in a in Linguistics and two modules in of approaches – essay writing, to teaching English as a foreign teaching, e.g. EFL Theory, Teaching presentations and examinations. (including H6 in English Literature or English Literature from a list of • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended Language) range of theoretical and applied practical assignments, empirical Diploma: considered on a case by case basis language (TEFL), which will begin English as a Foreign Language, and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and areas – many have international available options. research studies, oral presentations • Access: Pass you on the path to become qualified Second Language Acquisition for CAREER PROSPECTS Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: reputations in the field. and examinations. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. as an instructor of English. Language Teaching. You will also This degree prepares students DMM** • Our modules will give you a Compulsory Modules International school leaving qualifications be asked to produce a dissertation for the twenty-first century where • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended scientific insight into the structure English Language with English CAREER PROSPECTS and college diplomas are accepted, subject WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? on a research topic in a field related English is the global language. Diploma: case by case ** and use of language, as well as into Literature: A degree in Linguistics/the English to minimum English Language requirements: • This course provides training in to TEFL, for which you will be Primarily this course prepares • Access course with English Literature • Reading, Thinking, Writing www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs element: Pass psycholinguistics (the relationship Language will increase your We also welcome applications from mature a wide range of aspects of the closely supervised by a member of students to become teachers, between mind and language) and • Introduction to Language knowledge of language structure English language and English research staff and given guidance giving them the appropriate • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • Introduction to English Grammar applicants. International school leaving qualifications sociolinguistics (the relationship and use for communicative *For full details go to our website and for a linguistics, with a particular focus and workshops on how to conduct academic background for them to and college diplomas are accepted, subject between society and language). purposes, the history of the English full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go on teaching English as a foreign academic linguistic research. proceed towards other relevant to minimum English Language requirements: • Modules cover a broad range You will take a further two modules language, the role of the English to www.ucas.com language. qualifications. Graduates will have www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs of subject matters, and after the in English Literature and a further language in the world, and your • You will enjoy some fantastic Year 4 near-native levels of proficiency in We also welcome applications from mature first year you will be able to focus module in English Language from a competence in the grammatical learning facilities including an If you choose to follow the four year all aspects of spoken and written applicants. your attention on the particular list of available options. structure and use of the English extensive collection of books on *For full details go to our website and for a Master in Arts (MArts) degree, the English. They will also be skilled full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go questions that interest you most. language. Recent graduates have Linguistics and English Language; first three years of your course are in the nature and use of English • Our wide range of learning Years 2 and 3 gone on to do further academic study a recording studio and audio, the same as for the BA. However, in a range of contexts and in to www.ucas.com Compulsory Year 2 modules will **Can be considered in conjunction with facilities includes an extensive such as the PGCE and postgraduate video and television equipment; a in your fourth year you will be able using English through a variety of another qualification in English Literature or collection of books on Linguistics include such topics as phonology, qualifications leading to speech hireshop for students who need to to broaden your knowledge and media. This will facilitate careers Language, e.g. A levels and IB Higher in the and English Language, a speech syntax, semantics, and bilingualism. and language therapy, overseas borrow microphones and recording undertake other linguistic modules in international settings where a relevant subject. laboratory, a recording studio and In Year 3 you will get a choice from teaching, and other training in order equipment. from the range of postgraduate high level of expertise in English is audio, video and television a wide range of Linguistics and to pursue careers in social work, modules available, and also paramount. In addition to careers equipment. English Literature modules. There police work, immigration work, WHAT WILL I STUDY? complete a further dissertation in teaching, this course makes are also Welsh-medium modules local government, banking and on a topic linked to language students suitable for potential available as options in Years 2 and accountancy, librarianship, media Year 1 teaching. The aim of the fourth year careers in areas such as: 3. For more details see the listing for and journalism, creative writing and In your first year you will take is to develop your academic and • international relations, politics Linguistics (page 208)/the English publishing. modules intended to provide a solid transferrable skills and to increase and speechwriting Language (page 204), including the grounding in the subject area. : your employability. • marketing and advertising requirement for a dissertation, and • Introduction to Language: how to be a linguist; • commerce and banking the entry for English Literature (page the different subfields of linguistics; introduce • international corporate INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL 198) for module selections from that INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL basic linguistic terminology; academic skills. management and journalism EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE subject area. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 Page 87 • Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology Examples of recent dissertation • Language and Society: how language varies WANT TO KNOW MORE? WANT TO KNOW MORE? topics include: according to dialect and social aspects; Admissions Team Admissions Team the relationship between language and Linguistics and English Language Language change and the internet; language Linguistics and English Language policy in cases of genocide; bilinguals’ cultural aspects such as language policy and INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 word-processing; gender-neutral pronouns INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 bilingualism. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • Introduction to Meaning Page 234 Email:Page 234 [email protected] in English; stress patterns in child speech; Page 234 Email:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- influence of the media on Welsh-English code- www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- • Introduction to English Grammar literatures-and-linguistics switching patterns. literatures-and-linguistics • Language, Literature and Culture

210 211 INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR TEFL CREATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL WRITING BA [Hons] BA [Joint Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: English is an important language You will spend about 10 hours in UCAS course code: This innovative degree course The study of writing at Bangor Q314 BA/IELT socially, politically and economically. Year 1 lectures, seminars and tutorials W890 BA/CPW is aimed at students who want Modules you might take include: offers a balance of practical and Length: 2, 3 or 4 years depending on It is a World language, with an This degree combines carefully each week. You will also spend time Length: 3 years to study writing, and uniquely analytical tasks. Modules are taught entry level estimated 1,500 million speakers selected modules to deal with reading, collecting and analysing allows you to approach this study Year 1 primarily through seminars and ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: through a variety of disciplinary workshops with presentations by ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: worldwide. English is also the best- the importance of English as an natural language data and working Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff • Creative Writing: Prose Typical offer is based on a minimum of 112 described language in the world. international language with classes on practical tasks in the laboratory. points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g: pathways: instruction in using the • Creative Writing: Poetry visiting writers, and are assessed tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: This course is specifically designed that support your proficiency Your dissertation will allow you to • A Levels (no specific subjects required) techniques and forms of creative • Creating Narratives both on practical output and on the • A Levels (no specific subjects required) for non-native speakers of English. It in English towards near-native investigate a topic of interest in • International Baccalaureate Diploma writing; study of the short story, the • Introduction to Practical Journalism individual’s ability to reflect critically • International Baccalaureate Diploma provides training aimed at bringing competency as much as possible. depth and you will work with • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and novel and poetry as literary forms; • Introduction to Screenwriting on their practice. As you progress • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and students up to a near-native level supervision from a member of staff. Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: vocationally-oriented modules • Reading, Thinking, Writing through the degree, much of your Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: of English upon completion, as English Language modules: Assessment includes essay writing, MMM in journalism, screenwriting, study will be done in small teaching DMM • Introduction to Language: how to be a • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended scriptwriting, storytelling, genre Years 2 and 3 groups with an emphasis on learning • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended well as training in a wide range of practical assignments, oral Diploma: considered on a case by case basis aspects of the English language and linguist; the different subfields of presentations and examinations. writing, writing for performance and • Creative Writing: The Novel both group work skills and the ability Diploma: considered on a case by case basis linguistics; introduce basic linguistic • Access: Pass • Access: Pass English linguistics, with a particular • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. publication, and writing for online • Creative Writing: Poetry and Short Fiction to carry a piece of work through • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. focus on teaching English as foreign terminology; academic skills. CAREER PROSPECTS International school leaving qualifications and other digital media. This course • Practical Digital Journalism from initial concept to professional International school leaving qualifications language. • Introduction to English Grammar This degree prepares students and college diplomas are accepted subject will equip you with a solid grounding • Writing for Film and Television output. and college diplomas are accepted, subject • Language, Literature and Culture for the twenty-first century where to minimum English Language requirements: in the critical and practical skills you • Literature and Modernity to minimum English Language requirements: WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology English is the global language. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs will need to pursue a writing career. • Alfred Hitchcock CAREER PROSPECTS www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Linguistics and English Language • English Classes: Improving your English Primarily this course prepares We also welcome applications from mature • Digital Journalism This degree equips graduates to We also welcome applications from mature Language skills on many levels – Speaking applicants. During the three years of this • Practical Journalism: ELD work as writers in film, digital media, applicants. is one of the oldest linguistics students to become teachers, *For full details go to our website and for a departments in the UK. You and Listening; Grammar and Writing; and giving them the appropriate degree, you will have the opportunity • Adapting for Film & Media television, radio and the press, *For full details go to our website and for a Vocabulary. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go will be taught by staff who are academic background for them to to www.ucas.com to work with staff who have a wide • Final Year Group Project as well as to pursue professional to www.ucas.com active researchers in a range proceed towards other relevant range of interests and expertise • Dickens and Print Culture careers in creative writing. Several Please also see the website for the various of theoretical and applied areas Years 2 and 3 qualifications. Graduates will have including poetry, the novel, the • Developing Scripted Media graduates each year go on to entry options: www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/ relating to the courses. In each of these years you take near-native levels of proficiency in short story, documentary and film- • Genre Fiction: Theory and Craft develop their work further through a undergraduate-courses/Q314-International- • Training includes sociolinguistic compulsory modules that will all aspects of spoken and written making, digital communication, • Experimental Writing period of postgraduate study. English-Language-for-TEFL#requirements aspects of English, the grammar, further improve your English as well English. They will also be skilled E-publishing, computer games, • Welsh Writing in English sound system and semantics of as modules providing a substantial in the nature and use of English script and screenwriting, and print • Transformative Writing English, the history of English, linguistic background concerning in a range of contexts and in and broadcast journalism. • Creative Non-Fiction as well as issues pertaining grammar, bilingualism and the using English through a variety of • Working-class Fiction to English and globalisation, history of English. media. This will facilitate careers WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Reading Myth language planning and policy, and in international settings where a • We are commited to close • Sex, Sects and Scandal educational language. In Year 3 you will focus on modules high level of expertise in English is integration of academic • Transmedia Storytelling • The course generally trains related to teaching, e.g. EFL Theory, paramount. In addition to careers approaches and hands-on creative • Creative Writing Dissertation international students in their Teaching English as a Foreign in teaching, this course makes practice. awareness of linguistic aspects Language, and Second Language students suitable for potential • Students have the opportunity at all relevant to teaching English. Acquisition for Language Teaching. careers in areas such as: levels to combine a study of their • You will enjoy some fantastic You will also complete a Dissertation • international relations, politics chosen field with practice-based learning facilities including an on a research topic in a field related and speech- writing outcomes such as writing and extensive collection of books on to TEFL, for which you will be closely • marketing and advertising media/digital media production. Linguistics and English Language; supervised by a member of research • commerce and banking • We actively teach and research a recording studio and audio, video staff – with guidance and workshops • international corporate writing across all the major literary INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL and television equipment; a hire- conducting academic linguistic management and journalism INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL periods from Old English through EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE research. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 shop for students who need to Page 87 to the twenty-first century. borrow microphones and The BA also prepares students • Teaching staff include several WANT TO KNOW MORE? recording equipment. for vocational and non-vocational WANT TO KNOW MORE? award-winning creative writers, Admissions Team MA-level study, either on the MA Admissions Team who publish in a variety of literary Linguistics and English Language in Translation Studies at Bangor Linguistics and English Language forms. We also have considerable

University, or at other universities in experience in editing and INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE the UK or abroad. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE publishing. RELATED DEGREE Page 234 Email:Page 234 [email protected] Page 234 Email:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- You can also study a Law with literatures-and-linguistics literatures-and-linguistics Creative Media Writing LLB which is a Qualifying Law Degree (see page 177 for details).

212 213 PROFESSIONAL WRITING AND MEDIA / PROFESSIONAL WRITING AND FILM FILM STUDIES BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES ABOUT? • We have excellent links with HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Many members of staff are HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: These exciting degrees are aimed theatre companies, newspapers Both degrees offers a balance of UCAS course code: Modules in this area combine critical practising professionals and Film Studies at Bangor offers a P3W9 ‘and Media’ at students who want to combine and the television industry. practical and analytical tasks. You W620 BA/FLM and creative work and practice, consultants. balance of practical and analytical W6W8 ‘and Film’ a mastery of a range of ‘non- • Many members of staff in are will explore a variety of forms, then Length: 3 years depending on your interests and • We have a fully-equipped tasks. Media Practice modules Length: 3 years traditional’ modes of writing (such practising professionals and specialise in the form you find most ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: career plans. At Bangor, we are media centre with editing suites, concentrate on three key areas: as digital fiction and screenwriting) consultants. interesting and rewarding (e.g. Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff committed to teaching in small production studios, media and studio production, single camera ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: with the study of others forms of • We have a fully-equipped media screenwriting, new media writing, points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g: groups and to the majority of our digital media equipment. filming and editing, and radio Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff media (for example television and centre with editing suites, writing for a particular genre). modules being delivered through • Bangor is the site for a range of production. Practical modules points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g: • A Levels (no specific subjects required) • A Levels (no specific subjects required) radio, film and video, software production studios, media and Modules are taught primarily through • International Baccalaureate Diploma weekly workshops and seminars. Creative Industries conferences, will be assessed both on practical • International Baccalaureate Diploma and computer games, design, digital media equipment. seminars and workshops with • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and video conferences and events. output and on the individual’s • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and professional writing and journalism). • Bangor is the site for a range of presentations by visiting writers and Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Film lecturers have a range of ability to reflect critically on their Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: Creative Industries conferences, lecturers, and students are assessed MMM interests including including WHAT WILL I STUDY? practice. Modules on film theory, The BA Professional Writing and • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended MMM video conferences and events. both on practical output and on the Diploma: considered on a case by case basis American Cinema, British and film and culture, analysing film and • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended Film combines the study of writing • Sponsorship and scholarship individual’s ability to reflect critically European film, and other world Modules you might take include: documentary are assessed by exam with a critical investigation of topics • Access: Pass Diploma: considered on a case by case basis opportunities are available on a on their practice. As you progress • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. cinemas, gender, film analysis, and assignment and frequently • Access: Pass such as the nature of the moving competitive basis. through the degree, much of your Stanley Kubrick, film and history, Year 1 also offer the opportunity to submit • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. International school leaving qualifications image, topics in film theory and the • Final-year projects are often study will be done in small teaching and college diplomas are accepted subject film and politics, digital technology • Creating Narratives practical work as an element of International school leaving qualifications analysis of visual culture, as well as and college diplomas are accepted subject carried out in collaboration with groups. to minimum English Language requirements: and film, scriptwriting and • Film Language assessment. As you progress allowing you to take specialist film a company and could include www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs screenwriting, film-making, media • Digital Communication through the degree, much of your to minimum English Language requirements: modules in areas such as America www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs working in a team with students CAREER PROSPECTS We also welcome applications from mature and film in Wales, acting and • Introduction to Media Practice study will be done in small teaching on Film, Film Theory, and Film applicants. We also welcome applications from mature from creative arts degree courses. These degrees will prepare students *For full details go to our website and for a performing, language and film, • Film History groups with an emphasis on learning applicants. Distribution. The BA Professional to meet the need, increasingly being blogging and podcasting, computer • Film Criticism both group work skills and the ability Writing and Media adds a variety of full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go *For full details go to our website and for a WHAT WILL I STUDY? identified within the industry, for to www.ucas.com games and film, film stars and film • American TV Drama to carry a piece of work through full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go disciplinary pathways into the mix, self-reflective practitioners with on television. Film lecturers have yourself from initial concept to to www.ucas.com including digital media and games, Modules you might take in both experience at project development recently written books and articles Years 2 and 3 completion. media culture, television drama and degrees include: in the creative sector. The practical on topics such as Stanley Kubrick, • America on Film media practice, as well as equipping Year 1 element within both degrees will American Culture and Film, The US • Writing for Film & Television CAREER PROSPECTS you with a critical understanding of • Digital Communication allow them to build a portfolio of Presidency on Film and TV, Jewish • Research and Methods Our graduates work in the film, the way the media works and the • Introduction to Practical Journalism work that will impress prospective Film, and the new technologies of • Media Practice: Factual media and creative industries, in relationship between media culture • Introduction to Screenwriting employers, while the analytical film viewing. • Understanding Documentary teaching, in arts development, in and society. These programmes • Film History element will give them a broad • Dissertation film programming, filmmaking aim to encourage exploration of • Film Criticism understanding of how the industry WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Short film Production and scheduling, and in other fields professional writing with special • Film Language operates. • Media at Bangor is unique in • Animation & Motion Graphics where their developed visual sense emphasis on innovation and inquiry. • American TV Drama our close integration of critical • Film Theory and ability to engage critically and They will also enable students to and theoretical approaches with • Alfred Hitchcock creatively with film is seen to be of develop critical and self-reflective Years 2 and 3 hands-on creative practice. • Film Industry Development considerable importance. Several perspectives on their professional • Writing for Film & TV Students have the opportunity at • Political Cinema and Television graduates each year go on to writing in the context of historical • Genre Fiction: Theory & Craft all levels to combine a study of • Advanced Screenwriting develop their work further with us and contemporary practice. • Digital Journalism* their chosen field with practice- • Race and Gender through a period of postgraduate • Storytelling: Theory & Craft* based outcomes such as writing, • Stanley Kubrick study, where once again we offer a WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Animation & Motion Graphics* performance, and media/digital • Contemporary Spanish Cinema combination of critical and creative • We are unique in our close • Practical Digital Journalism* media production. • The German Film approaches to the study of film and integration of academic and • Understanding Documentary+ • We specialise in a number of key film practice. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL theoretical approaches with • Advanced Screenwriting INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL areas: Professional Writing and EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 hands-on creative practice. • Race and Gender+ Page 87 Journalism; Media and Digital Students have the opportunity to • Stanley Kubrick: Auteur+ Communication; Film Studies; WANT TO KNOW MORE? combine a study of their chosen • Film Theory WANT TO KNOW MORE? Performance Studies; Creative Admissions Team field with practice-based outcomes • Film Distribution Admissions Team and Media Practice. We have JOINT HONOURS DEGREES Media such as writing, performance, and • Transmedia Storytelling Media research interests in all areas You can study Film Studies as a media/digital media production. of Film Studies, with research Joint Honours Degree with one of INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 • We specialise in a number of key INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE * Modules available on Professional Writing and EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] programmes running in several the following subjects: Creative Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] areas: Professional Writing and Page 234 Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/music-and-media Media Studies www.bangor.ac.uk/music-and-media key areas. Writing, English Language, English Journalism; Media and Digital + Modules available on Professional Writing and • We have excellent links with Literature, French (4 years), Communication; Film Studies; Film Studies theatre companies, newspapers German (4 years), History, Italian, Performance Studies; Creative and and the television industry. (4 years), Music, Spanish (4 years). Media Practice. 214 215 MEDIA STUDIES WITH THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE / FILM STUDIES WITH THEATRE AND JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDIES PERFORMANCE BA [Hons] BA [Joint Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? WHAT WILL I STUDY? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Many members of staff are HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: ABOUT? • We are unique in our close Have a look at the descriptions of UCAS course code: It is aimed at students who want practising professionals and The course is a balance of practical P3WL BA/MSTP Media Studies with In common with the other degrees integration of academic and the Media Studies (p.218) and Film PP53 BA/JMS to study Journalism and Media, consultants. and analytical tasks. Practical Theatre and Performance offered by Creative Studies and theoretical approaches with Studies (p.215) degrees to view the Length: 3 years P3W5 BA/FSTP Film Studies with including: television and radio • We have a fully-equipped Journalism modules concentrate Media, these degrees are structured hands-on creative practice. modules you might study for these Theatre and Performance ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: journalism; print journalism; media centre with editing suites, on developing the student’s ability around a balance between theory Students have the opportunity at elements of your degree. Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff digital journalism; media practice; production studios, media and to produce journalistic pieces for ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: and practice. In the Theatre parts all levels to combine a study of points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g: public relations; and the history, digital media equipment. print, television, radio and the web. Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff of your degree you will have the their chosen field with practice- Theatre and Performance related • A Levels (no specific subjects required) development and ethics of • Bangor is the site for a range of Practical modules will be assessed points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g: opportunity to study subjects such as based outcomes such as writing, modules you might take include: • International Baccalaureate Diploma journalism. The emphasis of the Creative Industries conferences, both on practical output and on the • A Levels (no specific subjects required) the history of performance, national performance, and media/digital • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and course is on balancing practical and and events. It is regular site for individual’s ability to reflect critically • International Baccalaureate Diploma and international dramatic traditions, media production. Year 1 Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: academic aspects. This course will visiting creative writers, film- on their practice. Other modules are • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and theatre and society, performance • We specialise in a number of key • Theatre-Making* MMM Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: equip you with a solid grounding in makers, journalists, designers, assessed by exam and assignment and identity, live performance, acting areas: Professional Writing and • Performing for Stage and Screen* • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended MMM Diploma: considered on a case by case basis the principles of journalism, as well dramatists, new media makers and and frequently also offer the • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended and performance skills, scriptwriting Journalism; Media and Digital • Access: Pass as the technical and practical skills more, and encourages students to opportunity to submit practical work Diploma: considered on a case by case basis for theatre and television and Communication; Film Studies; Years 2 and 3 • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. required to make you a sought-after engage widely with their creative as an element of assessment. As you • Access: Pass screenwriting. Performance Studies; Creative and • Site Specific Performance* International school leaving qualifications professional in this field. interests beyond the realms of the progress through the degree, much • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. Media Practice. Research interests • Contemporary Theatre Practice* and college diplomas are accepted subject formalcoursework. of your study will be done in small International school leaving qualifications In each case the study of different includes all areas of Film Studies, • Research/ Creative Practice / Enterprise to minimum English Language requirements: Journalism and Media staff have • Final-year projects are often teaching groups with an emphasis and college diplomas are accepted subject theoretical aspects of the discipline with research programmes Dissertation www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs a range of research interests carried out in collaboration with a on learning both group work skills to minimum English Language requirements: will be brought together with running in several key areas. We also welcome applications from mature www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs including advertising, media law company and could include and the ability to carry a piece of opportunities to create original • We have excellent links with * Welsh medium version of this applicants. We also welcome applications from mature *For full details go to our website and for a and regulation, privacy, digital working in a team with students work through yourself from initial applicants. performance pieces both as an theatre companies, newspapers module is also available. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go journalism, broadcast journalism, from creative arts degree courses. concept to completion. *For full details go to our website and for a individual and as a member of an and the television industry. to www.ucas.com professional writing, comics, visual full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go ensemble. • Many members of staff are Please refer to our website for up- culture, live television and media WHAT WILL I STUDY? CAREER PROSPECTS to www.ucas.com practising professionals, who to-date module information. events, gaming and virtual worlds, The practical elements of this degree The BA in Film Studies with Theatre work on joint projects and act as and hypertexts, and have recently Modules you might take include: equip the students with a thorough and Performance combines the consultants to industry. HOW WILL I LEARN? written on topics such as film and understanding of the principles Cyfeiriwch at y prospectws Cymraeg study of these subjects with a critical • We have a fully-equipped media Practical modules will be assessed am fanylion cyrsiau Astudiaethau video, multimedia, global media Year 1 which inform journalistic practice. Theatr cyfrwng Cymraeg investigation of topics such as the centre with editing suites, both on practical output and on the systems, virtual landscapes, social • Introduction to Practical Journalism A number of our graduates have For Welsh medium courses in nature of the moving image, topics production studios, media and individual’s ability to reflect critically networks, interactive television, • Digital Communication gone on to work in the newspaper Theatre Studies, please refer to the in film theory and the analysis of digital media equipment. on their practice. Other modules are media and representation, cult • Issues in Media and Journalism industry, and on television and Welsh prospectus visual culture, as well as allowing • Bangor has been the location of a assessed by exam and assignment TV, computer games and the • Introduction to Media Practice radio, both in front of the camera you to take specialist film modules in number of festivals, and is the site and practical work is frequently documentary. and as part of the production team. areas such as America on Film, Film of a range of Creative Industries an element of assessment. As you Years 2 and 3 Several graduates each year go on Authorship, Film Genre and French conferences, video conferences progress through the degree, much WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Media Practice: Factual to develop their work further with Cinema. The and events. It is a regular site for of your study will be done in small BA in Media Studies • We are unique in its close • Research and Methods us through a period of postgraduate adds visiting creative writers, film- teaching groups with an emphasis with Theatre and Performance integration of academic and • The Global News Agenda study, where once again we offer a a variety of disciplinary pathways makers, journalists, designers, on learning both group work skills theoretical approaches with • Writing for Film and Television combination of critical and creative into the mix, including digital media dramatists, new media makers and the ability to carry a piece of hands-on creative practice. • Understanding Documentary approaches to the study of media and games, media culture, television and more, and encourages work through yourself from initial Students have the • Practical Digital Journalism and media practice. and media drama and media practice, as well students to engage widely with concept to completion. opportunity at all levels to combine • Digital Journalism practice. as equipping you with a critical their creative interests beyond the a study of their chosen field with • Final Year Group Project understanding of the way the media realms of the formal coursework. CAREER PROSPECTS practice-based outcomes such as • Journalism and Risk INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL works and the relationship between Graduates work in fields such INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE writing, performance, and media/ • Practical Journalism: Ethics, Law and Page 87 media, culture and society. With both as creative writing, professional Page 87 digital media production. Democracy degrees, you will have the option writing and publishing; print and/ • We specialise in a number of key • Dissertation WANT TO KNOW MORE? in your final year to produce either or broadcast journalism; television WANT TO KNOW MORE? areas: Professional Writing and Admissions Team an individual dissertation or a piece programme production; advertising Admissions Team Journalism; Media and Digital Media Media of groupwork, both of which have and the marketing industries; Communication; Film Studies; performance-based options. radio, as presenters, as well as in INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 Performance Studies; Creative and EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE programme production; podcasting,EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Media Practice. Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] NEW DEVELOPMENTS www.bangor.ac.uk/music-and-media web and new media production and www.bangor.ac.uk/music-and-media • We have excellent links with Subject to validation, BA Journalism multimedia industries. There are theatre companies, newspapers will be offered in 2021. Please also postgraduate opportunities. and the television industry. check the website for the most up- to-date information.

216 217 MEDIA STUDIES MEDIA STUDIES WITH A MODERN LANGUAGE BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • Bangor is the site for a range of HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • We have a fully-equipped media HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: This exciting degree is aimed at Creative Industries conferences, You will be attending lectures, UCAS course codes: These courses allow you to study centre with editing suites, You will attend lectures, seminars, P306 BA/MS students who want to study Media video conferences and events. seminars, tutorials, workshops and Media Studies with: media studies (two-thirds) with production studios, media and tutorials, workshops and viewing Length: 3 years French P3R1 BA/MSFr a modern language (one third). digital media equipment. sessions, and undertaking both Studies, including: television • Final-year projects are often viewing sessions, and undertaking German P3R2 BA/MSG These courses will equip you with • Bangor is the site for a range of practical and theoretical tasks. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: and radio; film and video; digital carried out in collaboration with a both practical and theoretical Italian P3R3 BA/MSIt Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff media and computer games; company and could include tasks. Media Practice modules Spanish P3R4 BA/MSSp a solid grounding in the principles Creative Industries conferences, Media Practice modules focus points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g: professional writing; journalism; working in a team with students focus on three main areas: film and Length: 3 years of media theory and practice, as video conferences and events. on three main areas: film and TV • A Levels (no specific subjects required) public relations; media practice. from creative arts degree courses. TV production, radio production well as providing the technical and • Final-year projects are often production, radio production and • International Baccalaureate Diploma Skills and techniques learnt during and digital media more generally. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: practical skills required to make you carried out in collaboration with a game design. Practical modules will • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and the study and production of audio- WHAT WILL I STUDY? Practical modules will be assessed Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff a sought-after media professional. In company and could include be assessed both on the practical Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: visual material lie at the core both on the practical output and points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: addition, the course will allow you to working in a team with students output and on the individual’s ability MMM • A Levels, including C grade in relevant expand your knowledge of a modern from creative arts degree courses. to reflect critically on their practice. of many of the key areas in the Modules you might take include: on the individual’s ability to reflect language. (No language required for • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended language. Modules on the history and influence Diploma: considered on a case by case basis creative industries. This course will critically on their practice. Modules beginners’ pathway) equip you with a solid grounding Year 1 on the history and influence of • International Baccalaureate Diploma WHAT WILL I STUDY? of the media, and media culture, • Access: Pass Teaching staff have a range of • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. in the technical and practical skills • Issues in Media and Journalism the media, and media culture, are including H5 in French, German, Italian The courses are designed so that are assessed by examinations International school leaving qualifications required to make you a sought-after • Film Language assessed by examinations and or Spanish. (No language required for research interests including you study two-thirds Media Studies and assignments, but assessment and college diplomas are accepted subject professional in these fields. • Introduction to Practical Journalism assignments, but assessment beginners’ pathway) advertising, comics, gaming and modules, and one third French/ methods will vary according to the to minimum English Language requirements: • Digital Communication methods will vary according to the • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and virtual worlds, visual culture, live German/Spanish/Italian modules. modules that have been chosen. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Staff have a range of research • Introduction to Screenwriting modules that have been chosen. Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: television, hypertexts, the gaming We also welcome applications from mature interests including advertising, • Introduction to Media Practice MMM** industry, and media events, and have Modules you might take include: CAREER PROSPECTS applicants. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended comics, gaming and virtual worlds, CAREER PROSPECTS recently written on topics such as As well as developing an *For full details go to our website and for a Diploma: considered on a case by case film and video, politics and media, visual culture, live television, Years 2 and 3 As well as developing an basis** Year 1 understanding of media production full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go multimedia, global media systems, to www.ucas.com hypertexts and have recently written • Media Practice: Factual understanding of media production • Access: Pass** • Issues in Media and Journalism and the context behind this, students on topics such as film and video, • Writing for Film and Television and the context behind this, students • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. virtual landscapes, social networks, • Creating Narratives will be practising a number of highly politics and media, multimedia, • Practical Digital Journalism will be practising a number of International school leaving qualifications interactive television, privacy, • Digital Communication desirable transferable skills. Our Cyfeiriwch at y prospectws Cymraeg global media systems, virtual • Research and Methods highly desirable transferable skills. and college diplomas are accepted subject media and representation, cult TV, • Introduction to Media Practice students have therefore progressed am fanylion cyrsiau Cyfathrebu a’r landscapes, social networks, • Developing Scripted Media Our students have progressed to to minimum English Language requirements: computer games and documentary. • French/German/Spanish/Italian Language to careers in areas such as the www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Cyfryngau cyfrwng Cymraeg. interactive television, privacy, media • Animation and Motion Graphics careers in areas such as the creative Skills creative industries, and the creative For Welsh medium courses in Media We also welcome applications from mature and representation, cult TV and • Short Film Production industries, and the creative media in WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • French/German/Spanish/Italian media in particular, education and Studies, please refer to the Welsh applicants. • We are unique in our close prospectus. computer games. • Adapting for Film and Media particular, education and the public *For full details go to our website and for a Communication Skills the public sector, and marketing and • E-publishing sector, and marketing and public full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go integration of academic and • Film History public relations. Several graduates WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Dissertation / Dissertation - Action Research relations. Several graduates go on to to www.ucas.com theoretical approaches with go on to develop their work • You will have the opportunity at all postgraduate study. **Can be considered in conjunction with hands-on creative practice. Years 2 and 3 further with us through a period of levels to combine a study of their another qualification in the relevant language, Students have the opportunity to • Media Practice: Factual postgraduate study, where once chosen field with practice-based e.g. A levels, IB Higher in a language. No combine a study of their chosen again Bangor offers a combination language required for beginners’ pathway. • Writing for Film and Television outcomes such as writing, field with practice-based • Research and Methods of critical and creative approaches performance, and media/digital outcomes such as writing, • Short Film Production to the study of media and media media production. performance, and media/digital • Dissertation practice. • We specialise in a number of key media production. • Dissertation - Action Research areas: Professional Writing and • We specialise in a number of key Journalism; Media and Digital areas: Professional Writing and You will also take modules from the Communication; Film Studies; Journalism; Media and Digital BA French/German/Spanish degree, Performance Studies; Creative and Communication; Film Studies; or from a range of modules in Italian. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Media Practice. RELATED & JOINT HONOURS INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Performance Studies; Creative EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE and Media Practice. We have Page 87 • We have excellent links with DEGREES Page 87 theatre companies, newspapers You can also study Law with Media research interests in all areas WANT TO KNOW MORE? and the television industry. Studies LLB and Law with Creative WANT TO KNOW MORE? of Film Studies, with research Admissions Team • Many members of staff are Media Writing LLB which are both Admissions Team programmes running in several Media Media practising professionals and Qualifying Law Degrees (see page key areas. consultants. 175 for details). You can study • We have excellent links with INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 newspapers and the television EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] • We have a fully-equipped media Media Studies as a Joint HonoursEXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] Page 234 Page 234 Page 234 Page 234 industry. www.bangor.ac.uk/music-and-media centre with editing suites, Degree with one of the following www.bangor.ac.uk/music-and-media production studios, media and subjects: Creative Writing, English digital media equipment. Language, English Literature, Journalism, Music, Sociology.

218 219 CYMRAEG / WELSH [FOR FIRST- AND SECOND-LANGUAGE STUDENTS] CYMRAEG PROFFESIYNOL / PROFESSIONAL WELSH BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • You will be taught by academic HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHAT WILL I STUDY? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: As Wales develops as a vibrant staff who are leading international You will spend around 10 hours UCAS course code: This new course responds to the You will be taught through a Q562 BA/Cym bilingual country, there has never experts in their respective fields of per week in lectures, seminars Q563 BA/CYMPRO increased demand from employers Year 1 combination of lectures, seminars For joint degrees, see pages 69-70 been a more exciting time to study study. Their publications and small tutorial groups. This Length: 3 years for students who have high quality You will be able to go on a work and workshops. Work placements Length: 3 years Welsh at university level. In fields encompass both the medieval will be supplemented by private ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: skills in Welsh which can be placement and will follow four core are a prominent feature of this We also offer the following: as varied as education, media and period and the literature of Wales study. You will be assessed through Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff transferred easily to the workplace. modules and an additional module course. Assessment will be a Welsh with Creative Writing Q5WK journalism, the civil service, the in more recent times. examinations, essays, continuous points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: You will study a variety of topics taught by Social Sciences. You will combination of essays, oral and Welsh with Journalism Q5PS heritage industry, public relations coursework and oral presentations. • A Levels (including grade B in Welsh) related to the Welsh language and also be able to choose optional written coursework and exams. Welsh with Theatre & Media QWM4 and marketing there is a great WHAT WILL I STUDY? • International Baccalaureate Diploma literature with a strong emphasis on modules either from Welsh or Creative Welsh with Popular Music demand for graduates who have CAREER PROSPECTS (including grade H6 in Welsh) practical and occupational aspects. another subject area. CAREER PROSPECTS QW5H competence in Welsh and the ability Year 1 Our graduates go on to careers • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and You will gain work experience Our high profile and the respect that to work in a bilingual environment. You will follow a variety of modules in education, media/journalism, Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: with professional employers and Core Modules: employers have for our standards Further details are in the Welsh- DMM** language prospectus (01248 383561). We have responded energetically to catering for the needs of both first- creative writing, the civil service, PR, • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended companies. • Defnyddio’r Gymraeg means that there is a high demand this demand by designing courses and second-language students. marketing, the translation industry, Diploma: considered on a case by case • O’r Senedd i’r Swyddfa from employers for our students. A ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: which are both academically Second-language students will language planning, the heritage basis** WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • Llên Gyfoes degree in Cymraeg Proffesiynol can For joint degrees please also look at the entry rigorous and relevant to the needs follow a combination of modules industry and IT. Furthermore, this • This degree has been developed in • Llên y Cyfnod Modern Cynnar lead to various job prospects. The requirements for the other chosen subject. • Access course with Welsh element: Pass Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff of modern Wales. At Bangor you will with a particular emphasis on course will provide you with a • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. conjunction with Canolfan Bedwyr, • Cyflwyniad i Bolisi a Chynllunio Ieithyddol skills you will learn by studying more points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: have the opportunity to study rich developing writing and aural skills. range of rigorous analytical and International school leaving qualifications the leading international centre practical modules are a great way to • A Levels (including grade B in Welsh) and diverse literary texts extending In order to ensure an integrated presentational skills which will be and college diplomas are accepted subject in developing Welsh language Year 2 prepare you for work and a career. from the tales of the Mabinogion to learning experience you will also vitally important in numerous other to minimum English Language requirements: resources, who are also part of the In your Second Year you will follow Our graduates go on to careers in • International Baccalaureate Diploma www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs (including grade H6 in Welsh) the dynamic literature, theatre and follow a selection of modules with careers. Bangor also offers excellent We also welcome applications from mature teaching team. two core modules: Iaith Gwaith and education, the translation industry, • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and film of contemporary Wales. You first-language students. First- opportunities at postgraduate level. applicants. • This is degree combines new and Ymarfer Ysgrifennu. You will gain media/journalism, PR, marketing, Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: will also follow practical language language students will study a *For full details go to our website and for a traditional modules taught by additional practical experience language planning, the heritage DMM** modules which will greatly enhance broad selection of texts – extending specialists in their fields. through a work placement and industry and the civil service. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go Diploma: considered on a case by case your career prospects. from the poetry and prose of the to www.ucas.com • You will be taught in smaller choose the remainder of your basis** Middle Ages to modern Welsh **Can be considered in conjunction with classes which will enable you to modules from the optional list • Access course with Welsh element: Pass WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? classics and media literature. You another qualification in Welsh, e.g. A level and get to know the staff and your offered by us or other subject areas. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • Bangor University is located in the will also be given a range of insights IB Higher. fellow students better. International school leaving qualifications county of Gwynedd, where the into the culture and history of Wales. • This courses offers the opportunity Year 3 and college diplomas are accepted subject majority of the population speaks There will also be an emphasis on to go on work placements where You will study two core modules: to minimum English Language requirements: Welsh. No other university offers advanced skills in oral and written your academic transferable skills Medrau Cyfieithu which builds on the www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs such a remarkable linguistic Welsh. will be put to practical effect. language skills in years 1 and 2; and ‘FOR BEGINNERS’ We also welcome applications from mature This course is also available applicants. environment to study a living • You will be taught by academic Portffolio Proffesiynol. The Portfolio Celtic language. Year 2 and Year 3 staff who are leading international is a piece of independent study as Cymraeg Proffesiynol (i *For full details go to our website and for a Ddechreuwyr) / Professional Welsh full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • We offer a wide choice of modules Both first- and second-language experts in their respective fields of which allows students to draw on to www.ucas.com You will be able to study aspects of students will follow the same Welsh study and frequently research, and their work experience, concentrate (for Beginners), UCAS code: Q564. **Can be considered in conjunction with Wales’s great medieval literature degree scheme during their final two publish books and articles. on an individual case study, or This 4-year version of the course another qualification in Welsh, e.g. A level and under expert supervision. You will years. Additional tutorial support • This degree is supported by public to present a portfolio of relevant concentrates in the first year on IB Higher. also learn how Welsh literature is provided for second-language sector companies including material. The remainder of your acquiring spoken modern Welsh. and the Welsh language have students to ease the full transition to Natural Resources Wales, modules will be choosen from the From Year 2 onwards, students will adapted and responded to the first-language provision. You will be Snowdonia National Park and optional modules offered (with the increasingly be taught with second- challenges of the modern world. able to choose your modules from a Authority, Menter Iaith Môn and exception of Traethawd Estynedig). and first-language students. • In Year 1 we have modules which thematically broad and wide-ranging North Wales Fire and Rescue For details of Year 1 of this course, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL please see Cymraeg i Ddechreuwyr EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE have been specifically designed list of subjects ranging from Early EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Service. Page 87 for our second-language students. Welsh Saga Poetry to Language Page 87 • Bangor allows you to live a full (Welsh for Beginners), page 222. • You will be offered work Policy and Planning, from Tales of student life through the medium WANT TO KNOW MORE? placements where your academic the Mabinogion to Scriptwriting, WANT TO KNOW MORE? of Welsh in a friendly and natural Admissions Team transferable skills will be put to and from Dafydd ap Gwilym to Admissions Team environment. Welsh Welsh RELATED DEGREES practical effect. Translation Skills. We also offer the following single INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE Tel:EXPERIENCE 01248 382085 • We have a firm commitment to JOINT HONOURS DEGREES INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 honours major-minor degrees: Page 234 Page 234 teaching small groups of students. You can also study Welsh as EXPERIENCEa Joint EXPERIENCE Welsh with Creative Writing; Email: Page 234 Email:Page 234 [email protected] • We are ranked highly for overall Honours Degree with subjects such [email protected] Welsh with Journalism; Welsh with www.bangor.ac.uk/ysgolygymraeg student satisfaction. Our Cymraeg as English Literature, Philosophy www.bangor.ac.uk/ysgolygymraeg Theatre and Media. Further details and Religion, History and Sociology. can be found in the Welsh-language (Welsh) BA received 100% in the prospectus (01248 383561) or on our 2019 NSS. For a full list of subjects, please see pages 69-70. website.

220 221 CYMRAEG I DDECHREUWYR / WELSH FOR BEGINNERS BA [Hons] PHILOSOPHY AND COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • You will be taught by academic staff Year 2 UCAS course code: From Welsh American literature to who are leading international experts Compulsory Module: Q565 BA/CYM4 medieval legends and the modern in their respective fields of study. • Ymarfer Ysgrifennu (Writing Practice) Length: 4 years novel; from creative writing to RELIGION ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: work experience and professional WHAT WILL I STUDY? Year 3 Typical offer is based on a minimum 112 tariff development: this degree gives you a The four-year programme includes a Compulsory Module: points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: unique perspective on our country’s Foundation Year, which leads to the • Dissertation • A Levels (including grade B in an Arts or culture and the wider world. regular three-year BA degree (see Humanities subject, e.g. English, French, also Cymraeg BA, page 220). Optional modules in Years 2 and 3 Philosiphy and Religion BA German, History, Geography, Religious Welsh is a subject for students from may include: Studies). A level Welsh is not required. every background. This course Foundation Year • Llên a Chymdeithas 1500–1800 (Literature and • International Baccalaureate Diploma has been designed for those who This year focuses mainly on Society 1500-1740) (including grade H6 in an Arts or Humanities Related Degree subject) do not yet speak a word of Welsh. developing speaking skills. Students • Beirdd yr Uchelwyr (Poets of the Nobility) • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and Concentrating in the first year on will also develop writing skills and • Gweithdy Barddoniaeth (Poetry Workshop) Law with Philosophy and Religion (p.178) Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: acquiring spoken modern Welsh, have the opportunity to learn about • Y Theatr Gymraeg Fodern (Modern Welsh Theatre) DMM** from the second year onwards the history, literature and culture of • Y Sgrin Fach Gymraeg (The Welsh Small Screen) • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended greater focus will be placed on Wales. During this year, you will also • O’r Llyfr i’r Llwyfan (From the Book to the Stage) Diploma: considered on a case by case writing skills and students will be learning under the guidance of • Dafydd ap Gwilym basis** increasingly be taught with first- specialists at the north west Wales • Gweithdy Cynganeddu (Welsh Strict Meter • Access course in the area of Arts or language students. During Years 3 Welsh for Adults Centre. Workshop) Humanities: Pass • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. and 4 students will follow the main • Gweithdy Rhyddiaith (Prose Workshop) International school leaving qualifications Welsh BA degree scheme with all Compulsory Modules: • Chwedlau’r Oesau Canol (Medieval Legends) and college diplomas are accepted subject modules taught through the medium • Cymraeg Llafar Dwys 1 (Intensive Spoken Welsh 1) • Barddoniaeth Fodern (Modern Poetry) to minimum English Language requirements: of Welsh. • Cymraeg Llafar Dwys 2 (Intensive Spoken Welsh 2) • Canu Llys (Court Poetry) www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • Cyflwyno Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg (Introduction to • Rhyddid y Nofel (The Freedom of the Novel) We also welcome applications from mature The Foundation Year is for beginners Welsh Literature) • Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg America (Welsh American applicants. and unconfident speakers and Literature) *For full details go to our website and for a focuses on practical skills. There will Year 1 • Sgriptio (Script writing) full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go st to www.ucas.com be a gradual increase in the amount You will join 1 year students on the • Datblygiad yr Iaith (Development of the Welsh **Can be considered in conjunction with of Welsh-medium teaching, with Welsh BA (second-language route). Language) another qualification in an accepted Arts or modules specifically designed to • Athroniaeth a Llenyddiaeth (Philosophy and Humanities subject, e.g. A level and IB Higher. facilitate the cross-over from being Compulsory Modules: Literature) a learner to becoming a confident • Ysgrifennu Cymraeg (Writing Welsh) speaker. • Cymraeg Llafar (Spoken Welsh) HOW WILL I LEARN? • Beirniadaeth Lenyddol Ymarferol (Practical Apart from the intense language WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Literary Criticism) tuition involved in the first year, • You will get to fully develop your • Golwg ar Lenyddiaeth (Looking at Literature) you will spend around 10 hours skills by learning in small groups • Llenyddiaeth yr Oesoedd Canol (Mediaeval per week in lectures, seminars and by following special modules. Literature) and small tutorial groups. This • We are located in the county of • Llên y Cyfnod Modern Cynnar (Literature of the will be supplemented by private Gwynedd, where the majority Early Modern Period) study. You will be assessed through of the population speaks Welsh. • Llenyddiaeth Gyfoes (Contemporary Literature) examinations, essays, continuous No other university offers such a • Llên a Llun (Literature and Visual Culture) coursework and oral presentations. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL remarkable linguistic environment. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 • You can experience all aspects of Optional Modules: CAREER PROSPECTS student life through the medium You may choose up to 20 further There is a great demand for Welsh WANT TO KNOW MORE? of Welsh, in a natural and friendly credits from a list that may include: BA graduates and the skills that you Admissions Team environment. • Golwg ar Lenyddiaeth II (Looking at Literature II) learn by taking our more practical Welsh • Our lecturers have won important • Defnyddio’r Gymraeg (Using Welsh) modules are a great preparation national prizes: we have two • Sgriptio Teledu (Scriptwriting for Television) for a career. Recent graduates INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE crowned poets and two prose • Gweithdy Creadigol (Creative Workshop) have gone on to work in a variety of Page 234 Email:Page 234 [email protected] medal winners at the National • Theatr Fodern Ewrop (Modern European Theatre) areas, such as teaching, translation, www.bangor.ac.uk/ysgolygymraeg Eisteddfod, and our lecturers have • Gwyddeleg Modern (Modern Irish) journalism, the media, marketing, won the Book of the Year prize • O’r Senedd i’r Swyddfa (From the Senedd to the language planning, the civil service. several times. Office) Also see the Career Prospects section on pages 220 and 221. 222 223 129 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION BA [Hons] MODERN LANGUAGES COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? The dissertation module is the only HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course code: Studying Philosophy and Religion compulsory module in this degree Teaching is mainly by lectures, VV56 BA/PhRe offers you the opportunity to study programme. seminars, and individual tutorials. Length: 3 years some of the most important and Many modules also make use of AND CULTURES ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: challenging ideas that have shaped Year 1 Blackboard, the University’s online Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff Eastern and Western cultures. learning environment. During each points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: Our choice of modules offers Options may include: semester you will study modules • A Levels (no specific subjects required) a unique variety of religious • Introduction to Philosophy of Religion equivalent to 60 credits, making a • International Baccalaureate Diploma and philosophical traditions, • Introduction to Islam total of 120 credits per year. • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and encompassing both analytical and • Introduction to Judaism and Christianity# Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: continental philosophy, and religions • Themes in Eastern Philosophy and Religion We use a wide range of different MMM of Eastern and Western tradition. For • Ethics: Religious Perspectives# methods for assessment, including: • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended Diploma: considered on a case by case basis those with an enquiring mind and • Existentialism essays, book reviews, case studies, Spanish BA seeking to cultivate new skills, this • Death of God reports, presentations, and written • Access: Pass Spanish with Another Subject BA • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. may be just the course for you! • Introduction to Logic examinations. In the second year International school leaving qualifications • Independent Study# you have the option of taking an French BA and college diplomas are accepted, subject WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Independent Study module, where French with Another Subject BA to minimum English Language requirements: • You will benefit from our staff’s Year 2 and 3 modules you can choose a topic in which www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs expertise and commitment to Optional modules may include: you have a special interest and German BA We also welcome applications from mature teaching, student care and welfare. undertake independent study under applicants. • Ancient Philosophy German with Another Subject BA *For full details go to our website and for a • Students rate our teaching highly the guidance of a supervisor. and Philosophy at Bangor is the top • Early Modern Philosophy Italian and Another Subject BA full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go • Applied Ethics# to www.ucas.com in Wales for student satisfaction CAREER PROSPECTS Chinese with Another Subject BA • Metaphysics (National Student Survey 2018). A degree in Philosophy and Religion Three Language Honours BA • Our staff are research active and • Philosophy in the 20th Century will open up opportunities in a broad incorporate current research into • Problem of Evil range of areas, including teaching, Joint Language Honours BA their teaching. • Political Philosophy communication, publishing, social Another Subject plus a Modern Language • We offer the opportunity for • Faith and Reason work, librarianship, the media etc. students to study Philosophy • Kant Many students will go on to pursue and Religion as a Single Honours • Comparative Philosophy: East and West postgraduate degrees leading to an degree, or in combination with a • Sociology of Religion MA, MRes or PhD. range of complementary subjects • Psychology of Religion: The Mad, Holy, and Related Degrees as part of a Joint Honours degree. Demonic • Fundamentalism Business Related Subject plus a Modern Language (p.170) • Paradoxes of Self: Nietzsche and Jung Law with European Experience (French, German, Italian, Spanish (p.178) WHAT WILL I STUDY? # The first year is intended to give • Environmentalism and Religion in the West Media Studies with a Modern Language (p.219) you a basic grounding in topics in • Hinduism in the Modern World Philosophy and Religion so that you • Sex and Society become familiar with these subjects • God and Government even if you have not studied them • Nature and Western Religion before. Our first year modules • Comparative Philosophy: East and West provide you with a solid grounding • Buddhism in the Modern World in the various skills required for • The Holocaust INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL subsequent study in Years 2 and 3. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE #These modules are also available Page 87 Years 2 and 3 will provide you with a in Welsh. range of religious and philosophical WANT TO KNOW MORE? modules, many of which are relevant In Year 3 you will undertake a Admissions Team to issues of contemporary concern. Philosophy Dissertation – a research project In Year 3 available modules include a devised under the supervision of JOINT HONOURS DEGREES dissertation module, which involves INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 teaching staff. You can study Philosophy and EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE independent study with supervised Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Religion as a Joint Honours Degree www.bangor.ac.uk/history- support on a topic of your choice with one of the following subjects: philosophy-and-social-sciences from any of the Philosophy and English Literature, French, German, Religion modules studied. History, Italian, Music, Spanish, Welsh, Welsh History.

224 225 SPANISH / SPANISH WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT SPANISH / SPANISH WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? WHAT WILL I STUDY? SPANISH WITH UCAS course codes: ABOUT? • Modern Languages and Cultures ANOTHER SUBJECT see adjacent text at Bangor consistently ranks SPANISH 40 of your 120 credits each year will Length: 4 years SPANISH amongst the highest rated in In addition to language, the Spanish be in the minor subject. Your study of the Spanish language is the same ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: The BA (Hons) in Spanish will give its subject area in the National syllabus includes a broad range Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff you advanced skills in the Spanish Student Survey. of stimulating options; by doing in scope and number of credits as points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: language, and a broad range of • Our size means that we offer single honours you will have for single honours Spanish; you take • A Levels (including grade C or above in specialised and detailed insights learning on a human scale, in the opportunity to cover more fewer Spanish options in the second Spanish) into the culture, society and history small classes, where you get to or less the full range. First-year and final years, as your 40 credits in • International Baccalaureate Diploma of the Hispanic world. The degree know the staff and your fellow modules comprise introductions the other subject take their place. (including grade H5 in Spanish) has language at its heart, with core students. to the history, culture, cinema, and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and modules developing the key oral, • At the same time, our large and literatures of Europe. Second- and Residence Abroad: Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: MMM** aural and written skills every year. varied range of modules enables final-year options offer increasing If your other subject is not a • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended These modules also foster cultural you to tailor your degree to your levels of specialisation as you language, you will go to a Spanish- Diploma: considered on a case by case awareness, which you will need for personal needs. progress. They cover a wide variety speaking country for the entire third basis** your year abroad, and later on, for • Some options are taught through of cultural and literary material year and the same options apply as • Access: Pass** the world of work. A single honours the medium of Spanish, others including Spanish contemporary for single honours Spanish. If your • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. degree enables you to follow a full through through English and cinema, the history of the city of other subject is a language, you can International school leaving qualifications range of options, which will equip Welsh. Barcelona, Spanish travel writing do the same, or you can split the and college diplomas are accepted, subject you with extensive knowledge of • Bangor’s Modern Languages and contemporary Galician culture year between two countries in the to minimum English Language requirements: www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs the heritage and life of the modern and Cultures graduates have a and language. same way as joint honours students We also welcome applications from mature Hispanic countries at a level very good track record in gaining taking two languages (see page applicants. which will allow you to consider employment. Residence Abroad: 236). In this case you are likely to *For full details go to our website and for a postgraduate study. You will have • Degree structures are flexible, The third year is spent in a Spanish- study at a university in each country. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go the added bonus of studying Galician allowing you to change your speaking country. Your main options to www.ucas.com in your second year. degree at the end of Year 1 if you are: HOW WILL I LEARN? **Can be considered in conjunction with grade wish (subject to fulfilling any entry You will have 3-4 hours of language C in A level Spanish or IB Higher in Spanish. UCAS course code: R400 BA/Sp4 • A paid work placement as an English requirements). assistant in schools. Our students have an classes each week plus classes in your other chosen modules. Tuition SPANISH WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT excellent track record in getting their first choice of placement, whether in Spain or is mainly in small groups and there These single honours courses are few formal lectures. are based on the same principles other Spanish-speaking countries such as “My languages degree helped me to get where I am today, and the as single honours Spanish, but JOINT HONOURS DEGREES Argentina or Chile. You can study Spanish as a Joint • Study at one of our exchange universities in Assessment involves coursework year abroad gave me the confidence to live in foreign countries. The allow you to include a substantial and written and oral examinations. proportion of study in another Honours Degree with one of the Europe. extra curricular opportunities that I had in Bangor, such as my role following subjects: Accounting, • An approved work placement. You will also complete a dissertation subject. Spanish is the major subject as part of your degree. as a Course Rep, Head Peer Guide, Langsoc committee member, and which counts for two-thirds of your Banking, Business Management, Student Language Ambassador all gave me the leadership skills degree, and the other subject is the Chinese, Criminology and Criminal In each case you also begin that I need today. The best thing about my time in Bangor was the Justice, Economics, English researching your dissertation topic CAREER PROSPECTS minor subject which counts for the Studying Modern Languages and lovely atmosphere in Modern Languages and Cultures and the way in remaining third. Language, English Literature, whilst abroad, which counts towards Film Studies, French, German, your Bangor degree. Cultures opens the door to a wide which the staff and my fellow students encouraged me to believe that History, Italian, Linguistics, Music, variety of careers. Many Bangor anything is possible.” For a list of equally-weighted joint Modern Languages and Cultures honours courses, see the next Philosophy and Religion, Sport Science, Welsh. Please see pages graduates have, of course, gone ELISE DAVIES INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL column. into teaching and translating, but EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE 236, 237 and 238 for further French and Spanish BA Joint Honours graduate Page 87 UCAS course codes: information. just as many have embarked upon successful careers in the civil WANT TO KNOW MORE? Spanish w. Business Management R4N2BA/SBM service, business and commerce, Admissions Team Spanish w. Creative Writing R4W8 BA/SPCW industry and the media. The Modern Languages and Cultures Spanish w. Chinese T110 BA/SPCH For information on Spanish as part skills you learn whilst studying Spanish w. French R4R1 BA/SpFr languages – cultural awareness, INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 of a 3 Language Honours degree, EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Spanish w. German R4R2 BA/SPG please see page 234. communication, accuracy, planning Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Spanish w. Italian R4R3 BA/SPI www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- and logical analysis – are valued literatures-and-linguistics Spanish w. Journalism R4P5 BA/SpJO highly by employers from all sectors Spanish w. Marketing R4N5 BA/SpMkt of the economy. Spanish w. Media Studies R4P3 BA/SpMS

226 227 FRENCH / FRENCH WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT FRENCH / FRENCH WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? WHAT WILL I STUDY? FRENCH WITH UCAS course codes: ABOUT? • Modern Languages and Cultures ANOTHER SUBJECT see adjacent text at Bangor consistently ranks FRENCH 40 of your 120 credits each year will Length: 4 years FRENCH amongst the highest rated schools In addition to language the French be in the minor subject. Your study ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: The BA (Hons) in French will give in its subject area in the National syllabus includes a broad range of the French language is the same Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff you advanced skills in the French Student Survey. of stimulating options; by doing in scope and number of credits as points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: language, and a broad range of • Our size means that we offer single honours you will have for single honours French; you take • A Levels (including grade C or above in specialised and detailed insights learning on a human scale, in the opportunity to cover more fewer French options in the second French) into the culture, society and history small classes, where you get to or less the full range. First-year and final years, as your 40 credits in • International Baccalaureate Diploma of modern France. The degree has know the staff and your fellow modules comprise introductions the other subject take their place. (including grade H5 in French) language at its heart, with core students. to the history, culture, cinema and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and modules developing the key oral, • At the same time, our large and literatures of Europe. Second- and Residence Abroad: Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: MMM** aural and written skills every year. varied range of modules enables final-year options offer increasing If your other subject is not a • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended These modules also foster cultural you to tailor your degree to your levels of specialisation as you language, you go to a French- Diploma: considered on a case by case awareness, which you will need for personal needs. progress. They cover a wide variety speaking country for the entire third basis** your year abroad, and later on, for • Some options are taught through of cultural and literary material, with year and the same options apply as • Access: Pass** the world of work. A single honours the medium of French, others are a particular emphasis on the modern for single honours French. If your • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. degree enables you to follow a full taught through English or Welsh. period, with emphasis on the other subject is a language you can International school leaving qualifications range of options, which will equip • Bangor’s Modern Language and modern period, aspects of French do the same, or you can split the and college diplomas are accepted, subject you with extensive knowledge of Cultures graduates have a very history, French literature, French year between two countries in the to minimum English Language requirements: www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs the heritage and life of the modern good track record in gaining cinema, and the media. same way as joint honours students We also welcome applications from mature French nation, and awareness of employment. taking two languages (see page 234). applicants. the wider Francophone world, at a • Degree structures are flexible, Residence Abroad: In this case you are likely to study at *For full details go to our website and for a level which will allow you to consider allowing you to change your The third year is spent in a French- a university in each country. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go postgraduate study. degree at the end of Year 1 if you speaking country. Your main options to www.ucas.com wish (subject to fulfilling any entry are: HOW WILL I LEARN? **Can be considered in conjunction with grade UCAS course code: R101 BA/F4 requirements). You will have 3-4 hours of language C in A level French or IB Higher in French. • A paid work placement as an English assistant in schools. Our students have an classes each week plus classes in FRENCH WITH your other chosen modules. Tuition ANOTHER SUBJECT excellent track record in getting their first choice of placement, whether in France or is mainly in small groups and there These single honours courses are are few formal lectures. based on the same principles as another country such as Belgium or Canada. • Study at one of our exchange universities in “Studying languages at Bangor has completely changed my single honours French, but allow you JOINT HONOURS DEGREES Assessment involves coursework to include a substantial proportion of You can study French as a Joint Europe. perspective of the world and how I see it. I have built connections and • An approved work placement. and written and oral examinations. friendships all over the world and have gained an insight into what study in another subject. French is Honours Degree with one of the You will also complete a dissertation life is like in other countries. I enjoyed my time so much at Bangor the major subject which counts for following subjects: Accounting, as part of your degree. two-thirds of your degree, and the Banking, Business Management, In each case you also begin as an undergraduate that it really was the only choice for me as a Chinese, Criminology and Criminal researching your dissertation topic other subject is the minor subject CAREER PROSPECTS postgraduate student.” which counts for the remaining Justice, Economics, English whilst abroad, which counts towards your Bangor degree. Studying Modern Languages and third. For a list of equally-weighted Literature, English Language, Film Cultures opens the door to a wide GARETH WHITE Studies, German, History, Italian, joint honours courses, see the next variety of careers. Many Bangor Graduate in French and Italian BA and European Languages and column. Linguistics, Marketing, Music, Modern Languages and Cultures Philosophy and Religion, Spanish, Cultures MA UCAS course codes: graduates have, of course, gone INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Sport Science, Welsh. Please see into teaching and translating, but EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE pages 236, 237 and 238 for further Page 87 French w. Business Management R1N2 BA/FBM just as many have embarked upon French w. Creative Writing R1W8 BA/FrCW information. successful careers in the civil WANT TO KNOW MORE? French w. Italian R1R3 BA/Fi4 service, business and commerce, Admissions Team French w. Journalism R1P5 BA/FrJO industry and the media. The skills Modern Languages and Cultures French w. Marketing R1N1 BA/FrMkt For information on French as part you learn whilst studying languages French w. Media Studies R1P3 BA/FrMS INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 of a 3 Language Honours degree, – cultural awareness, commun- EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE French w. Psychology R1C8 BA/FPsy please see page 234. ication, accuracy, planning and Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] French w. Spanish R1R4 BA/Fs4 www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- logical analysis – are valued highly literatures-and-linguistics French w. German R1R2 BA/FRWGER by employers from all sectors of the French w. Chinese T108 BA/FrCH economy.

228 229 GERMAN / GERMAN WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT GERMAN / GERMAN WITH ANOTHER SUBJECT BA [Hons] BA [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? WHAT WILL I STUDY? GERMAN WITH UCAS course codes: ABOUT? • Modern Languages and Cultures ANOTHER SUBJECT see adjacent text at Bangor consistently receives GERMAN 40 of your 120 credits each year will Length: 4 years GERMAN excellent results in its subject As well as the core language be in the minor subject. Your study ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: The BA (Hons) in German will areas in the National Student modules, the German syllabus of the German language is the same Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff equip you with advanced skills in Survey. includes a wide range of stimulating in scope and number of credits as points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: the German language, as well as • Our size means that we offer options; students of single honours for single honours German; you take • A Levels (including grade C or above in offering a broad range of specialised learning on a human scale, in are able to study a full range of fewer German options in the second German) and detailed insights into the culture, small classes, where you get to these. First-year modules include and final years, as your 40 credits in • International Baccalaureate Diploma society and history of German- know the staff and your fellow an introduction to the history, the other subject take their place. (including grade H5 in German) speaking countries. students. culture, cinema, and literatures • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and • At the same time, our large and of Europe. Second- and final-year Residence Abroad: Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: MMM** The degree has language at its heart, varied range of modules enables options offer increasing levels of If your other subject is not a • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended with core modules developing the you to tailor your degree to your specialisation as you progress. The language, you go to a German- Diploma: considered on a case by case key oral, aural and written skills personal needs. topics cover a range of cultural and speaking country for the entire third basis** every year. These modules also • Some options are taught through literary material and reflect staff year and the same options apply as • Access: Pass** foster cultural awareness, which you the medium of German, others research specialisms. The current for single honours German. If your • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. will need for your year abroad, and through English. syllabus includes modules devoted other subject is a language you can International school leaving qualifications later on for the world of work. This • Bangor’s Modern Language and to German film, German national do the same, or you can split the and college diplomas are accepted, subject single honours course will furnish Cultures graduates have a very identity, the history of East Germany, year between two countries in the to minimum English Language requirements: www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs you with extensive knowledge of good track record in gaining and German literature. same way as joint honours students We also welcome applications from mature the heritage and culture of modern employment. taking two languages (see page 234). applicants. Germany. You will also have the • Degree structures are flexible, Residence Abroad: In this case, you are likely to study at *For full details go to our website and for a added bonus of studying Dutch in allowing you to change your The third year is spent in a German- a university in each country. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go your second year which opens up degree at the end of Year 1 if you speaking country. Your options are: to www.ucas.com further horizons within Europe. wish (subject to fulfilling any entry HOW WILL I LEARN? **Can be considered in conjunction with grade requirements). • A paid work placement as an English You will have 3-4 hours of language C in A level German or IB Higher in German. UCAS course code: R200 BA/Ger assistant in schools. Our students have an classes each week plus classes in excellent track record in getting their first your other chosen modules. Tuition GERMAN WITH choice of placement, whether in Germany or is mainly in small groups and there ANOTHER SUBJECT Austria. JOINT HONOURS DEGREES are few formal lectures. These single honours courses • Study at one of our exchange universities in CAREER PROSPECTS are based on the same principles You can study German as a Joint Europe. “The solicitous care taken by the staff of students’ welfare as well as Honours Degree with one of the Assessment involves coursework Studying Modern Languages and as single honours German, but • An approved work placement. and written and oral examinations. Culures opens the door to a wide their academic work has resulted in a group of finalists who were allow you to include a substantial following subjects: Accounting, very happy and satisfied with the quality of their four years studying Banking, Business Management, You will also complete a dissertation variety of careers. Many Bangor proportion of study in another In each case you also begin German at Bangor.” Chinese, Criminology and Criminal as part of your degree. Modern Languages and Cultures subject. German is the major subject researching your dissertation topic graduates have, of course, gone which counts for two-thirds of your Justice, Economics, English whilst abroad, which counts towards Language, English Literature, Film into teaching and translating, but EXTERNAL EXAMINER’S REPORT degree, and the other subject is the your Bangor degree. just as many have embarked upon minor subject which counts for the Studies, French, History, Italian, Linguistics, Marketing, Music, successful careers in the civil remaining third. For a list of equally- service, business and commerce, weighted joint honours courses, see Philosophy and Religion, Spanish, Sport Science, Welsh. Please see industry and the media. The skills the next column. you learn whilst studying languages INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL pages 236, 237 and 238 for further EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE UCAS course codes: information. – cultural awareness, commun- Page 87 ication, accuracy, planning and German w. Business Management R2N2 BA/GBM logical analysis – are valued highly WANT TO KNOW MORE? German w. Creative Writing R2W8 BA/GerCW by employers from all sectors of the Admissions Team German w. Italian R2R3 BA/Gi4 For information on German as part economy. Modern Languages and Cultures German w. Journalism R2P5 BA/GJO of a 3 Language Honours degree, German w. Marketing R2N1 BA/GerMkt INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL please see page 234. EXPERIENCE Tel:EXPERIENCE 01248 382085 German w. Media Studies R2P4 BA/GMST Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] German w. Psychology R2C8 BA/GPsy www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- literatures-and-linguistics German w. Spanish R2R4 BA/Gs4 German w. French R2R1 BA/GerWFr German w. Chinese T109 BA/Gch

230 231 ITALIAN AND ANOTHER SUBJECT CHINESE AND ANOTHER SUBJECT BA [Joint Hons] BA [Joint Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Residence Abroad: COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: ABOUT? • Modern Languages and Cultures The third year is spent either entirely UCAS course codes: ABOUT? • Modern Languages and Cultures You will have at least 3-4 hours of see adjacent text Italian can be studied at joint at Bangor consistently receives in Italy or, if you are studying two see adjacent text Chinese can be studied at joint at Bangor consistently receives language classes each week in each Length: 4 years honours level in combination with excellent results in its subject languages, in Italy and in the country Length: 4 years honours level in combination with excellent results in its subject of your chosen languages. Tuition is ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: another language or a variety of areas in the National Student of the other language. Your main ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: another language or a variety of areas in the National Student mainly in small groups and there are Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff other subjects, with both subjects Survey. options are: You should also look at the entry other subjects, with both subjects Survey. few formal lectures. points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: studied in equal proportions (see • Our size means that we offer • A paid work placement as an English requirements for your other chosen subject. studied in equal proportions (see • Our size means that we offer • A Levels (including grade C or above in a below for a list of the combinations learning on a human scale, in assistant in schools. Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff below for a list of the combinations learning on a human scale, in small Assessment involves coursework relevant language. No language required for available and their UCAS codes). small classes, where you get to • Study at one of our exchange universities in points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: available and their UCAS codes). classes, where you get to know the and written and oral examinations. language-beginners’ pathway) These courses will provide you know the staff and your fellow • A Levels. For Chinese and another language These courses will provide you with staff and your fellow students. You will also complete a dissertation • International Baccalaureate Diploma Europe. - including grade C or above in French, with advanced skills in the Italian students. • An approved work placement. advanced skills in the Mandarin • At the same time, our large and as part of your degree. (including grade H5 in a relevant language. language and a broad range of • At the same time, our large and Spanish, German or relevant language language and a broad range of varied range of modules enables No language required for language- (grade B Welsh for Chinese and Welsh). For beginners’ pathway) specialised and detailed insights varied range of modules enables In each case you also begin Chinese and another non-language subject - specialised and detailed insights into you to tailor your degree to your CAREER PROSPECTS • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and into the culture, society and history you to tailor your degree to your researching your dissertation topic a language preferred but not required. Chinese culture, society and history. personal needs. Studying Modern Languages and Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: of modern, contemporary Italy. The personal needs. whilst abroad, which counts towards • International Baccalaureate Diploma (for The degree has language at its heart, • We work closely with Bangor Cultures opens the door to a wide MMM** degree has language at its heart, • Some options are taught through your Bangor degree. Chinese and another language - including with core modules developing the University’s Confucius Institute in variety of careers. Many Bangor • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended with core modules developing the the medium of Italian, others grade H5 in French, Spanish, German key oral, aural and written skills order to run exciting events about Modern Languages graduates have, Diploma: considered on a case by case key oral, aural and written skills through another modern language or relevant language; for Chinese and every year. These modules also Chinese language and culture. of course, gone into teaching and basis** HOW WILL I LEARN? another non-language subject - a language every year. These modules also depending on your choice of You will have 3-4 hours of language foster cultural awareness, which you • Bangor’s Modern Language translating, but just as many have • Access: Pass ** foster cultural awareness, which you subject combination, others preferred but not required) will need for your year abroad, and graduates have a very good track embarked upon successful careers • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. classes each week plus classes in • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and International school leaving qualifications will need for your year abroad, and through English. your other chosen modules. Tuition Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: later on, for the world of work. record in gaining employment. in the civil service, business and later on, for the world of work. • Bangor’s Modern Languages • Degree structures are flexible, commerce, industry and the media. and college diplomas are accepted, subject is mainly in small groups and there MMM** UCAS course codes: to minimum English Language requirements: and Cultures graduates have a are few formal lectures. • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended allowing you to change your The skills you learn whilst studying www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs UCAS course codes: very good track record in gaining Diploma: considered on a case by case Chinese and: degree at the end of Year 1 if you languages – cultural awareness, Italian and: We also welcome applications from mature employment. Assessment involves coursework basis** Linguistics T101 wish (subject to fulfilling any entry communication, accuracy, planning applicants. Accounting NR43 BA/AIt • Degree structures are flexible, • Access: Pass** Cymraeg T102 requirements). and logical analysis – are valued *For full details go to our website and for a and written and oral examinations. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted Banking NR33 BA/BIt allowing you to change your You will also complete a dissertation Creative Studies T103 highly by employers from all sectors full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go Business Management N2RJ BA/BMI degree at the end of Year 1 if you • For Chinese and another non-language English Language T123 WHAT WILL I STUDY? of the economy. to www.ucas.com as part of your degree. subject and Chinese and Welsh - applicants **Can be considered in conjunction with Criminology and MR94 BA/CrIt wish (subject to fulfilling any entry should have a clear interest in Chinese. English Literature T124 In addition to the language the grade C in A level or IB Higher in a relevant Criminal Justice requirements). CAREER PROSPECTS International school leaving qualifications Film Studies T125 syllabus includes a broad range language. No Language required for language- Economics LR13 BA/EcIt Studying Modern Languages and and college diplomas are accepted, subject French T104 of stimulating options. First-year beginners’ pathway. English Language QR3H BA/ELIt WHAT WILL I STUDY? Cultures opens the door to a wide to minimum English Language requirements: German T105 modules include an introduction to English Literature 09V3 BA/ELI In addition to the language the variety of careers. Many Bangor www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Italian T106 Chinese Studies. Second- and final- Film Studies POR3 BA/FSI syllabus includes a broad range We also welcome applications from mature Spanish T107 year options offer increasing levels Modern Languages graduates have, applicants. French RR13 BA/FI of stimulating options. First-year of course, gone into teaching and of specialisation as you progress. German RR23 BA/GI modules include an introduction *For full details go to our website and for a For information on Chinese and They cover a wide variety of cultural, translating, but just as many have full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go History RV31 BA/HIt to the history, culture, cinema and embarked upon successful careers to www.ucas.com. Business-related degrees, please historical and literary material from Linguistics QR13 BA/ItL literatures of Europe. Second- and in the civil service, business and **Can be considered in conjunction with grade see page 238. various centuries that will enable Marketing NR53 BA/MktItal final-year options offer increasing commerce, industry and the media. C in A level French or IB Higher in French, you to understand both modern Music WR33 BA/MuIt levels of specialisation as you The skills you learn whilst studying Spanish, German or relevant language. Chinese can also be studies with China and how China has become Philosophy and Religion VVR3 BA/PRI progress. The current syllabus languages – cultural awareness, Another Subject, where the other the country it is today. Spanish RR43 BA/SI includes modules on modern communication, accuracy, planning subject is the major subject (two- Sport Science CR6H BA/ItSSc Italian history and culture, and logical analysis – are valued thirds of your degree), and Chinese Residence Abroad: INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Welsh (Cymraeg) QR53 BA/ItCy contemporary Italian cinema and the INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL is the minor subject (the remaining The third year is spent either EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE highly by employers from all sectors EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 representation and reality of Italian of the economy. Page 87 third). entirely in China, or, if you are For information on Italian as part mafias. studying two languages, in China WANT TO KNOW MORE? of a 3 Language Honours degree, WANT TO KNOW MORE? French with Chinese T108 (page 228) and in the country of the other Admissions Team please see page 234. Admissions Team German with Chinese T109 (page 228) language. Your time in China will Modern Languages and Cultures Modern Languages and Cultures Spanish with Chinese T110 (page 230) involve a placement at a top-ranked INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Tel: 01248 382085 university, and options include EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 234 Page 234 For information on Chinese as part institutions in Beijing and Shanghai. Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- of a 3 Language Honours degree, literatures-and-linguistics literatures-and-linguistics please see page 234.

232 233 3 LANGUAGE HONOURS 3 LANGUAGE HONOURS FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH AND CHINESE FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, SPANISH AND CHINESE

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES 2 MAJOR AND 1 MINOR: • Students studying three languages 3 LANGUAGES TO SAME 2 MAJOR AND UCAS course codes: ABOUT? to the same major level will MAJOR LEVEL: 1 MINOR: see adjacent text. French+German w. Italian R901 BA/FGi4 These courses are designed for French+German w. Spanish R913 BA/FGs4 spend semesters abroad in three Length: 4 years students who want to acquire a high different countries Year 2 Year 2 Please note that you must not French+Italian w. German R918 BA/FIg4 be a native speaker of any of the level of expertise in three languages French+Italian w. Spanish R919 BA/FIs4 • Bangor’s Modern Languages languages you choose. other than their own. They cater for French+Spanish w. German R914 BA/FSg4 and Cultures graduates have a Semester Two Semester Two those who prefer to concentrate French+Spanish w. Italian R915 BA/FSi4 very good track record in gaining (at university in country No 1) (in Bangor) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: exclusively on language learning. German+Italian w. French R921 BA/GIf4 employment. • Project in language of country No 1 • 20 credits in written, aural and oral skills Typical offer is based on a minimum 104 tariff They are intended to appeal to German+Italian w. Spanish R924 BA/GIs4 • Degree structures are flexible, • Classes/exercises in all 3 languages in all 3 languages points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: people from different countries of allowing you to change your • A Levels (including grade B or above in a German+Spanish w. French R922 BA/GSf4 the world, coming to work together German+Spanish w. Italian R923 BA/GSi4 degree at the end of year 1 if you relevant language) in a multilingual learning society. wish (subject to fulfilling any entry Year 3 Year 3 • International Baccalaureate Diploma Italian+Spanish w. French R926 BA/ISf4 (including grade H6 in a relevant language) With quadrilingual language skills, Italian+Spanish w. German R927 BA/ISg4 requirements). • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and graduates of these courses will be Chinese+French w. German T111 BA/ChFG Semester One Semester One Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: equipped to succeed in their chosen Chinese+French w. Italian T112 BA/CHFI WHAT WILL I STUDY? (at university in country No 2) (at university in country of major MMM** professions in every continent. You Chinese+French w. Spanish T113 BA/CHFS All courses have the same structure • Project in language of country No 2 language No 1) • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended choose any three from French, Chinese+German w. French T114 BA/CHGF in the first year. • Classes/exercises in all 3 languages • Project in major language No 1 Diploma: considered on a case by case German, Italian, Spanish or Chinese • Classes/exercises in all 3 languages basis** Chinese+German w. Italian T115 BA/CHGI with the proviso that you may not Chinese+German w. Spanish T116 BA/CHGS Year 1 (in Bangor) • Access: Pass** study your native/first language. • 40 credits in written, aural and oral skills in Semester Two Semester Two • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. Chinese+Italian w. French T117 BA/CHIF International school leaving qualifications Chinese+Italian w. German T118 BA/CHIG each of your three languages, starting at (at university in country No 3) (at university in country of major and college diplomas are accepted, subject You may choose to study your three Chinese+Italian w. Spanish T119 BA/CHIS levels appropriate to your knowledge in • Project in language of country No 3 language No 2) to minimum English Language requirements: languages in two formats: Chinese+Spanish w. French T120 BA/CHSF each • Classes/exercises in all 3 languages • Project in major language No 2 www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs • all three to the same major level, Chinese+Spanish w. German T121 BA/CHSG • Accelerated courses in language(s) of which • Classes/exercises in all 3 languages “My degree in French and Spanish with Italian from Bangor provided We also welcome applications from mature or Chinese+Spanish w. Italian T122 BA/CHSI you have little or no knowledge me with a working, professional knowledge of three languages and applicants. • two to a major level and one to a • Consolidation and extension courses *For full details go to our website and for a enabled me to go into a job with confidence. Bangor also allowed me to minor level. Course format: for languages in which you have A-level or Year 4 (in Bangor) Year 4 (in Bangor) gain knowledge of different cultures and the world beyond education. full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go equivalent to www.ucas.com • All three languages studied for all four years Within these two formats, the • 40 credits in written, oral and aural skills • 40 credits in written, oral and aural skills There are so many opportunities to expand your knowledge outside the **Can be considered in conjunction with of the course focus exclusively on practical degree programme; I think this sets you up to be one step ahead of the grade B in A level or IB Higher in a relevant following text shows how the Year 2 for each of your 3 languages, with classes/ for each major language, with classes in language game when you graduate.” language. structure differs depending on the • Two semesters spent at universities outside All courses follow the same exercises in extended writing; textual, video extended writing; textual, video and aural format. the UK, each in a country where one of the structure for Semester One of the and aural analysis; translation; formal and analysis; translation; formal and informal languages studied is spoken second year. informal oral expression oral expression JOSH MAUNDER UCAS CODES • Separate class streams for entrants with • 20 credits in written/oral skills for the French & Spanish with Italian BA Graduate AND COURSE FORMATS advanced knowledge and beginners/near Semester One (in Bangor) minor language beginners in Year 1 • 20 credits in written, aural and oral skills in 3 LANGUAGES • End of Year 4: full honours standard in all each of your three languages TO SAME MAJOR LEVEL: skills areas for the major languages; in HOW WILL I LEARN? CAREER PROSPECTS French+German+Spanish R912 BA/FGS4 written skills for the minor language From this point the courses follow You will have 3-4 hours of language Studying Modern Languages and French+German+Italian R916 BA/FGI4 different formats. classes each week in each of your Cultures opens the door to a wide French+Italian+Spanish R917 BA/FIS4 WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? chosen languages. Tuition is mainly variety of careers. Many Bangor German+Italian+Spanish R925 BA/GIS4 • Bangor consistently receives in small groups and there are few Modern Languages graduates excellent results for student formal lectures. have, and Cultures of course, gone INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL into teaching and translating, but EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Course format: satisfaction. Page 87 • All three languages studied for all four years • Our size means that we offer Assessment involves coursework just as many have embarked upon of the course focus exclusively on practical learning on a human scale, in and written and oral examinations. successful careers in the civil WANT TO KNOW MORE? language small classes, where you get to You will also complete an extended service, business and commerce, Admissions Team project as part of your degree. industry and the media. The skills Modern Languages and Cultures • Three semesters spent at universities know the staff and your fellow outside the UK, each in a country where one students. you learn whilst studying languages – cultural awareness, commun- INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 of the languages studied is spoken • Bangor pioneered the Three EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE ication, accuracy, planning and Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] • Separate class streams for entrants with Language Degree programme. www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- advanced knowledge and beginners/near • Some options are taught through logical analysis – are valued highly literatures-and-linguistics beginners in Year 1 the medium of French/German/ by employers from all sectors of the • All three languages brought to full Chinese/Spanish/Italian, others economy. honours level by end of Year 4 through English. 234 235 JOINT LANGUAGE HONOURS ANOTHER SUBJECT PLUS A MODERN LANGUAGE [ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SUBJECTS]

COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES • Some options are taught through HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Residence Abroad: UCAS course codes: ABOUT? the medium of French/German/ You will have 3-4 hours of language UCAS course code: ABOUT? • Bangor consistently receives The third year is spent abroad. see adjacent text These joint honours courses will Spanish/Italian/Chinese, others classes each week in each of your see adjacent text These courses allow you to study a excellent results for student Your main options are: Length: 4 years allow you to study two languages through English or Welsh. chosen languages plus classes in Length: 4 years (3 years if language is modern language as part of a joint satisfaction. • Study at one of our exchange universities. a minor component) ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: in equal proportions. They will • Bangor’s Modern Languages your other chosen modules. Tuition is honours degree (50% language, 50% • Our size means that we offer • A paid work placement as an English Typical offer is based on a minimum 96 tariff give you advanced skills in both and Cultures graduates have a mainly in small groups and there are ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: other subject) or in a major/minor learning on a human scale, in assistant in schools. points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: languages and a broad range of very good track record in gaining few formal lectures. Below are the language-specific elements. combination (67% other subject, small classes, where you get to • An approved work placement. • A Levels (including grade C or above in a specialised and detailed insights employment. You should also look at the entry 33% language). Please see below know the staff and your fellow relevant language) into the culture, society and history • Degree structures are flexible. You Assessment involves coursework and requirements for your other chosen subject. for details of the combinations students. HOW WILL I LEARN? • International Baccalaureate Diploma of the countries in which these can change your degree at the end written and oral examinations. You • A Levels (including grade C in a language. available. If you wish to study • At the same time, our large and You will have 3-4 hours of language (including grade H5 in a relevant language) languages are spoken. Our degree of year 1 if you wish (subject to will also complete a dissertation as No language required for language- language as a major component of varied range of modules enables classes each week plus classes in • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and has language at its heart with core fulfilling any entry requirements). part of your degree. beginners’ pathway). your degree scheme, please refer to you to tailor your your other chosen modules. Tuition Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: • International Baccalaureate Diploma MMM** modules developing the key oral, (including grade H5 in a relevant language. the language-specific pages earlier degree to your personal needs. is mainly in small groups and there • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended aural and written skills every year. WHAT WILL I STUDY? CAREER PROSPECTS No language required for language- in this section. • Some options are taught through are few formal lectures. Diploma: considered on a case by case These modules also foster cultural In addition to the two languages the Studying Modern Languages and beginners’ pathway) the medium of French/German/ basis** awareness, which you will need for syllabus includes a broad range Cultures opens the door to a wide • BTEC/City & Guilds/Access: Will be French, German, Italian or Spanish Italian/Spanish/Chinese others Assessment involves coursework • Access: Pass** your year abroad, and later on, for of stimulating options for each of variety of careers. Many Bangor considered in conjunction with grade C in A AND another subject through English. and written and oral examinations. • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. the world of work. You are able to your subjects. First-year modules Modern Languages and Cultures level or IB Higher in a relevant language. No (50% language, 50% other subject) • Bangor’s Modern Languages You will also complete a dissertation International school leaving qualifications study one of the languages from include an introduction to the history, graduates have, of course, gone language required for language-beginners’ It is possible to combine any of the and Cultures graduates have a as part of your degree. and college diplomas are accepted, subject beginner level. The following is a list culture, cinema and literatures of into teaching and translating, but pathway. above languages with one of the very good track record in gaining to minimum English Language requirements: International school leaving qualifications www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs of the combinations available. Europe and/or China. Second- and just as many have embarked upon and college diplomas are accepted, subject following subjects: Criminology employment. CAREER PROSPECTS final-year options offer increasing successful careers in the civil service, and Criminal Justice, English • Degree structures are flexible, Studying Modern Languages and We also welcome applications from mature UCAS course codes: to minimum English Language requirements: applicants. levels of specialisation as you business and commerce, industry www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Literature, English Language, Film allowing you to change your Cultures opens the door to a wide *For full details go to our website and for a German and French RR12 BA/G4F proceed towards your degree. They and the media. The skills you learn We also welcome applications from mature Studies, History, Linguistics, Music, degree at the end of year 1 if you variety of careers. Many of our full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go French and Italian RR13 BA/FI cover a wide variety of cultural whilst studying languages - cultural applicants. Philosophy and Religion, Sport wish (subject to fulfilling any entry graduates have, of course, gone into to www.ucas.com French and Spanish RR14 BA/FS and literary material from various awareness, communication, *For full details go to our website and for a Science or Welsh. Please see pages requirements). teaching and translating; others have **Can be considered in conjunction with German and Italian RR23 BA/GI centuries but with emphasis on the accuracy, planning and logical full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go 69-70 for UCAS codes. embarked upon successful careers grade C in A level or IB Higher in a relevant German and Spanish RR24 BA/GS modern period. All the languages analysis – are valued highly by to www.ucas.com WHAT WILL I STUDY? in the civil service, business and language. Spanish and Italian RR43 BA/SI offer modules on the history, cinema employers from all sectors of the Chinese AND another subject commerce, industry and the media. Chinese and French T104 BA/CHFr and media of their linguistic area. economy. (50% Chinese, 50% another subject) Language: The skills you learn whilst studying Chinese and German T105 BA/CHG It is possible to combine Chinese In addition to the language the languages – cultural awareness, Chinese and Italian T106 BA/CHIt Residence Abroad: with one of the following subjects: syllabus includes a broad range communication, accuracy, planning Chinese and Spanish T107 BA/CHSp The third year is spent abroad. Your “One aspect that makes my English Language, English of stimulating options. First-year and logical analysis – are valued main options are: department and Bangor itself an Literature, Film Studies, Linguistics, courses include an introduction to highly by employers from all sectors Please refer to the language-specific • Study at one of our partner universities in each of amazing place to be a student is Cymraeg (Welsh). the history, culture, cinema and of the economy. pages earlier in this section for the countries of the languages that you are studying that everyone knows everyone, literatures of Europe and/or China. further details. (see language-specific pages for lists of partner and everybody is so friendly… Another subject WITH Second- and final-year options offer institutions in the various countries). The support from the University French, German, Italian, Spanish increasing levels of specialisation as you proceed towards your degree. WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? • A paid work placement as an English is outstanding, and they will or Chinese (67% other subject, 33% • Bangor consistently receives assistant in schools in one of the countries of the language) They cover a wide variety of cultural excellent results for student help you in whatever way they It is possible to combine Law with and literary material from various languages that you are studying and at least a can, from counselling to housing satisfaction. summer course in the country of any of the above languages. Please centuries but with emphasis on the to financial advice to options for • Our size means that we offer the other language. see page 174 for Law and page 218 modern period. All the languages INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL learning on a human scale, in small postgraduate study – they are INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL for Media Studies UCAS codes. offer modules on the history, cinema EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • An approved work placement. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 classes, where you get to know the always around to lend a hand. Page 87 and media of their linguistic area. staff and your fellow students. My personal tutor has always WANT TO KNOW MORE? • At the same time, our very large WANT TO KNOW MORE? If you are studying language as a Admissions Team been my first port of call if I’ve Admissions Team and varied range of modules had any issues and they have minor component you will take core Modern Languages and Cultures enables you to tailor your degree to Modern Languages and Cultures language modules only. been fantastic with their support your personal needs. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 and advice. INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Other subject: Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- See subject-specific pages. literatures-and-linguistics AMY LEWIS literatures-and-linguistics BA German and French

236 237 ANOTHER SUBJECT PLUS A MODERN LANGUAGE [BUSINESS-RELATED SUBJECT] MUSIC, THEATRE COURSE FACTS WHAT ARE THESE COURSES WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Residence Abroad: UCAS course codes: ABOUT? • Bangor consistently receives The third year is spent abroad. see adjacent text These courses allow you to study a excellent results for student Your main options are: Length: 4 years (3 years if language is AND PERFORMANCE modern language as part of a joint satisfaction. a minor component) • Study at one of our partner universities. honours degree (50% language, 50% • Our size means that we offer • A paid work placement as an English ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: other subject) or in a major/minor learning on a human scale, in assistant in schools. You should also look at the entry combination (67% other subject, small classes, where you get to • An approved work placement. requirements for your other chosen subject. 33% language). Please see below know the staff and your fellow GCSE: grade C/4 in Maths. Typical offer is for details of the combinations students. HOW WILL I LEARN? based on a minimum 96 tariff points from a available. If you wish to study • At the same time, our large and Level 3 qualification* e.g.: Tuition is mainly in small groups and Music BA language as a major component of varied range of modules enables there are few formal lectures. • A Levels (including grade C in a relevant your degree scheme, please refer to you to tailor your Music BMus language. No language required for language-beginners’ pathway) the language-specific pages earlier degree to your personal needs. Assessment involves coursework Music with Theartre and Performance BA • International Baccalaureate Diploma in this section. • Some options are taught through and written and oral examinations. (including grade H5 in a relevant language. the medium of French/German/ You will also complete a dissertation No langauge required for language- French, German, Italian or Spanish Italian/Spanish/Chinese, others as part of your degree. beginners’ pathway) AND another subject through English. • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and (50% language, 50% other subject) • Bangor’s Modern Languages Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: CAREER PROSPECTS It is possible to combine any of the and Cultures graduates have a Studying Modern Languages and MMM** above languages with one of the very good track record in gaining • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended Cultures opens the door to a wide Diploma: considered on a case by case following subjects: Accounting, employment. variety of careers. Many Bangor basis** Banking, Business Management, • Degree structures are flexible, Modern Languages and Cultures • Access: Pass** Economics or Marketing. Please see allowing you to change your graduates have, of course, gone • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. pages 69-70 for UCAS codes. degree at the end of year 1 if you into teaching and translating, but International school leaving qualifications wish. just as many have embarked upon and college diplomas are accepted, subject Chinese AND another subject (50% to minimum English Language requirements: successful careers in the civil langauge, 50% other subject): WHAT WILL I STUDY? service, business and commerce, www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs Business Studies, Economics. Please We also welcome applications from mature industry and the media. The applicants. see pages 69-70 for UCAS codes. Language: skills you learn whilst studying *For full details go to our website and for a In addition to language, the languages – cultural awareness, full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go Another subject WITH syllabus includes a broad range communication, accuracy, planning to www.ucas.com French, German, Italian or Spanish of stimulating options. First-year and logical analysis – are valued **Can be considered in conjunction with (67% other subject, 33% language) modules include an introduction highly by employers from all sectors grade C in A level or IB Higher in a relevant It is possible to combine Business to the history, culture, cinema and of the economy. language. No language required for language- Management or Marketing with any literatures of Europe and/or China. beginners’ pathway. of the above languages. Please see Second- and final-year options offer page 172 for UCAS codes. increasing levels of specialisation as you proceed towards your degree. They cover a wide variety of cultural and literary material from various centuries but with emphasis on the modern period. All the languages offer modules on the history, cinema INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL and media of their linguistic area. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 If you are studying language as a WANT TO KNOW MORE? minor component you will take core Admissions Team language modules only. Modern Languages and Cultures

INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382085 Other subject: EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Please see subject-specific pages. Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] www.bangor.ac.uk/languages- literatures-and-linguistics

238 239 MUSIC MUSIC BA/BMus BA/BMus

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? Year 2 HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: Studying, creating and performing You will have around 12 hours of W300 BA/Mus music of all eras in a lively Compulsory modules: lectures, seminars and tutorials each W302 BMus/Mus atmosphere of creative activity and • At least two of the following: Musicology, week. Solo Performance is taught Joint honours codes on pages 69-70 Composition and/or Acousmatic Composition, It is possible to study Music through scholarly endeavour. through an innovative combination Solo Performance, Notation and Editing. of individual tuition, coaching, the medium of Welsh • At least one Genre or Composer Study. These Length: 3 years full-time (part-time We offer the opportunity to study a workshops and masterclasses. study also available) wide variety of music from a host of change each year, but recent examples include: In addition, you will spend time different perspectives. Genre Studies: on background reading, listening ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: to music, completing essays and For joint degrees, look at the entry for your Minimalism, 20th-Century Women Composers, WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? Beethoven and the String Quartet, The coursework and preparing for other chosen subject. For all Music courses • We offer a wide range of options, seminars as well as rehearsing and the ability to read staff notation is required. Twentieth-Century Symphony, The Violin in Typical offer is based on a minimum 120 tariff allowing you to shape your course World Cultures. performing in ensembles, choirs and points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: to reflect your interests and orchestras. Several modules include • A Levels (including grade B in Music or in strengths. Composer Studies: field trips, for example to concerts, conjunction with alternative qualifications • We offer a wide range of options, Wagner, The Beatles, Ligeti, Handel, Debussy record companies and music listed below **) allowing you to shape your course and Ravel, Kate Bush and Björk. publishers. Others involve short • International Baccalaureate Diploma to reflect your interests and placements outside the University (including grade H6 in Music) Optional modules (we offer a strengths. The University Music Society also (which houses a significant (e.g. Arts in the Community). You • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Music: • Our enthusiastic staff comprises wide choice with recent examples may expect to spend between one DDM runs an orchestra and choir; other collection of recordings), and the including): • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: active composers, musicologists Students’ Union societies include Crossley-Holland Collection (which quarter to two thirds of the final and performers, whose expertise Advanced Harmony and Counterpoint, Welsh year working on independent music DDM** a brass band, a jazz band, and a includes over 600 unique world Music Studies, Music Teaching in Context, • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended covers all angles of musical study. musicals society. instruments). projects. Students taking their Diploma: considered case by case** • Much teaching is in small groups, Songwriting, Orchestration, Ensemble degree with International Experience • We have a fully equipped theatre, 2 • Music Performance Scholarships Performance, Music in Health and Wellbeing, • Access: Pass** providing a stimulating and fine concert halls, and 2 buildings are offered to the most promising study for an extra year abroad; • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. supportive learning environment. Applied Composition, Arts in the Community, music students have studied in the • Points from grade examinations are taken of our own – with state-of-the- instrumentalists and/or vocalists. Ensembles and Groups, Interactive Sound and • Our staff work at the cutting edge art teaching rooms, rehearsal USA, Canada, Finland and the Czech into consideration where appropriate, of research in music and all have Music, Conducting. Republic. You can also undertake a although not normally included in the offer. space, study areas, social WHAT WILL I STUDY? International school leaving qualifications and international reputations in their learning spaces, and a number of If you are taking music as a joint period of Work Experience. fields. Year 3 college diplomas are accepted, subject to soundproofed individual practice degree subject you take half of All your modules will be in Music, minimum English Language requirements: • Concerts at Bangor feature rooms, which are open 24 hours your modules in Music in each CAREER PROSPECTS www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs chamber music (including whether you are taking the BA Our graduates pursue careers a day, 7 days a week. There is year, including one-third of the core or the BMus. You must complete We also welcome applications from mature residences by Ensemble Cymru a full complement of grand and modules. in the area of music. Bangor’s applicants. and the Allegri Quartet, who project work in at least one of the music degrees are also excellent *For full details go to our website and for a upright pianos, harpsichords, following four areas: Dissertation, also give masterclasses), organs, harps, percussion and Year 1 preparation for employment full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go recitals by leading singers and Edition, Composition (including in a wide range of contexts to www.ucas.com world instruments. Our 5 studios For BA Music you take between Acoustic Composition, Acousmatic **Can be considered in conjunction with grade instrumentalists, acousmatic are equipped to international 80 and 120 credits in Music. BMus including administration, music from Electroacoustic Wales, Composition, Popular Composition), commerce, management and B in A level Music; or merit in the ABRSM/ standards for recording, research students take all their 120 credits Solo Performance. Trinity/LCM/Rockschool Grade 5 Theory/Grade and regular visits by both the BBC and composition. The Library in Music. other professions. Graduates have 7 Practical; or IB Higher in Music. National Orchestra of Wales and become professional performers, contains over 3,000 CDs and over Other modules may be selected the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic 30,000 scores. Compulsory modules: composers, teachers, arts Orchestra. In addition, there • Music since 1850 or from the Genre Studies, Composer administrators, music therapists, • We subscribe to an extensive range Studies and others offered in Year 2. is an annual Music Festival of online resources, including • Music 1550-1850 music publishers, librarians, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL concentrating on contemporary • Harmony and Counterpoint concert managers, community arts EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Naxos Music Library and Grove Page 87 music (tickets are available to officers, stage managers, recording Music Online. There are also fully- Other modules offered in Year 1: students at greatly reduced prices). equipped open-access computers, and broadcasting producers and WANT TO KNOW MORE? Solo Performance; Composition; Sonic Art. • University ensembles include a with Sibelius and other music sound engineers. Another option Admissions Team symphony orchestra and a large for graduates is further musical Music software installed. RELATED DEGREES choir (Bangor University Symphony • Bangor University is proud to be training as performers, scholars INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL Orchestra and Chorus), a chamber Music with Theatre and Performance BA, Music with Journalism BA. EXPERIENCE Tel:EXPERIENCE 01248 382085 the world’s leading centre for or composers, and Bangor offers Page 234 Page 234 choir, and an opera group. Student outstanding opportunities in these E-mail: [email protected] the study of Welsh music. We are JOINT HONOURS DEGREES www.bangor.ac.uk/music-and-media performers have the opportunity to home to the Archive of Traditional areas. play concertos with the University You can study Music with one of the following subjects: Creative Studies, Welsh Music (with many original Creative Writing, Electronic Engineering, English Literature, Film Studies, Symphony Orchestra, and visiting sources and recordings for the professionals frequently perform French (4 years), German (4 years), History and Welsh History, Italian (4 study of music in Wales), the years), Media Studies, Philosophy and Religion, Spanish (4 years), Welsh. pieces composed by our students. Welsh Popular Music Archive 240 241 MUSIC WITH THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE BA [Hons] EDUCATION, CHILDHOOD COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? WHAT WILL I STUDY? UCAS course codes: Studying Theatre alongside • We have excellent links with Theatre and Performance modules W3W4 BA/MUSTP Music expands your experience theatre companies, film-makers, include: Length: 3 years full-time and understanding of the art of and the television industry. We & YOUTH STUDIES AND ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: performance. It is particularly develop your entrepreneurial Year 1 For all Music courses the ability to read staff appropriate for singers, and for skills alongside your creative • Theatre-Making notation is required. Typical offer is based on those with interests in opera, music imagination. • Performing for Stage and Screen PRODUCT DESIGN a minimum 120 tariff points from a Level 3 theatre, and composing for stage • Our Theatre and Performance staff qualification* e.g.: and screen. are all practising professionals, Years 2 and 3 • A Levels (including grade B in Music or in with expertise in acting, directing, • Theatre and Performance: The Self conjunction with alternative qualifications On this programme, one third of your choreography, scriptwriting, • Professional Practice listed below **) modules will be in Theatre Studies, dramaturgy, physical theatre, • Site-Specific Performance • International Baccalaureate Diploma (including grade H6 in Music) with the other two thirds in Music. community theatre, and much • Contemporary Theatre Practice • BTEC National/Extended Diploma in Music: Subject to validation, Theatre and more. • Scriptwriting DDM Performance will also be available • We have excellent performance • From Book to Stage • Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: as a full single-honours or joint- facilities, including our own Primary Education BA DDM** honours course from September practice theatre (John Phillips There are other relevant modules • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/ Extended 2021. Auditorium) and two fully equipped in the Music element of the Childhood and Youth Studies BA Diploma: considered case by case** professional theatres (Theatr programme, including Solo Product Design BSc • Access: Pass** The Theatre and Performance Bryn Terfel and the Pontio Studio Performance and Arts in the • Welsh Baccalaureate is accepted. • Points from grade examinations are taken programme at Bangor University Theatre). You can also benefit from Community. into consideration where appropriate, is structured around a balance our exceptional facilities for media although not normally included in the offer. between practical exploration and production, including video editing You can choose to undertake a International school leaving qualifications and critical analysis. You will have the suites, a wide range of digital dissertation or practice-based college diplomas are accepted, subject to opportunity to study subjects such as equipment, and a professional- project in Theatre and Performance minimum English Language requirements: the history of performance, national grade cinema. in your final year. www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs and international dramatic traditions, • Bangor is a stunning location for We also welcome applications from mature theatre and society, performance site-specific work. The sea is 5 HOW WILL I LEARN? applicants. *For full details go to our website and for a and identity, live performance, acting minutes’ walk from our practice Practical modules are assessed full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go and performance skills, scriptwriting theatre, and the region has a both on practical output and on your to www.ucas.com for theatre, and screenwriting. In all unique range of outside venues, ability to reflect critically on your **Can be considered in conjunction with grade of these areas, you will undertake including castles, quarries, forests, practice. Most other modules are B in A level Music; or merit in the ABRSM/ practical work that secures your and mountains. assessed by coursework. As you Trinity/LCM/Rockschool Grade 5 Theory/Grade grasp of the subject, and you will • Theatre visits are included in most progress through the degree, much 7 Practical; or IB Higher in Music. have many opportunities to create of our modules, both in Bangor and of your study will be done in small original performance pieces both as further afield. teaching groups with an emphasis Cyfeiriwch at y prospectws Cymraeg am fanylion cyrsiau Astudiaethau Theatr cyfrwng an individual and as a member of an • Alongside many opportunities on learning both group work skills Cymraeg // For Welsh medium courses in ensemble. to perform within the taught and the ability to carry a piece of Theatre Studies, please refer to the Welsh programme, there are a work through yourself from initial prospectus. By studying with experienced number of excellent drama and concept to completion. theatre practitioners in a traditional musical theatre societies that university setting, you benefit you can join and help to run, CAREER PROSPECTS from a uniquely close integration developing experience as actors, Our graduates work in a wide range INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE of theoretical approaches with singers, musicians, directors, of fields, including acting and other Page 87 hands-on creative practice. You have choreographers, and technical kinds of performance (theatre, the opportunity to work individually crew. television, film, and concert hall), WANT TO KNOW MORE? and in teams, bringing your own film-making, scriptwriting, directing, Admissions Team skills and expertise to collaborations community theatre, education, Music, Drama and Performance with others, resulting in exceptional fundraising and marketing within the INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Tel: 01248 382085 original work that is greater than the arts, and the media industry more Page 234 P E-mail:age 234 [email protected] sum of its parts. widely. www.bangor.ac.uk/music

242 243 PRIMARY EDUCATION CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH STUDIES BA [Hons] LEADING TO QUALIFIED TEACHER STATUS BA [Single or Joint Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? HOW WILL I LEARN? COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? HOW WILL I LEARN? UCAS course codes: This exciting 3-year degree with • You will be based at the You will spend an average of 20 This course is also available through This course provides a firm, • There is demand for well-qualified Each module will include weekly X131 English Medium QTS will qualify you to teach in University’s Normal site campus hours per week in lectures / the medium of Welsh. academic foundation for those specialists able to work with sessions which may take the form of X130 Welsh Medium UCAS course code: who are or will be working with children, young people and their small interactive lectures, tutorials, Length: 3 years a primary school in Wales and which has its own library and seminars both in University and in X313 (for English-medium) beyond. It is designed to respond resource centre housing an schools. You will also need to read, children and young people or who families in a range of contexts, in seminars, group work, workshops X314 (for Welsh-medium) have an interest in studying the the community and in institutions. and presentations. You are also ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: to the government’s criteria for extensive range of bilingual prepare for seminars, complete for joint honours codes see pages • Typically 120 tariff points from GCE A Levels or initial teacher training. You will gain primary and early years resources. coursework and prepare teaching 69-70 issues that affect them. It adopts • The programme combines sound expected to pursue your studies equivalent.* a broad grounding in the whole • We provide a stimulating learning resources. Length: 3 years a multidisciplinary approach to academic grounding with a through independent study, including • Students will need English Language and primary curriculum, choosing to environment and you will meet studying childhood, children and practical and active dimension that reading and research, preparation Mathematics/Numeracy at grade B (grade 5 specialise in the foundation phase staff and trainees working on a The University-based elements are ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: young people via educational, will produce professionals well for seminars, workshops, and for applicants holding the reformed GCSE in Typical offer is based on a minimum of 96 sociological and psychological able to address the challenges of a presentations, work on assignments, England) and Science (or a standard equivalent) (3- 7), or key stage 2 (7-11) in Year 3. variety of curriculum development assessed through coursework. Your projects. Understanding and school placements will be monitored tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: perspectives. The course explores contemporary, active society. and online discussions. Our at grade C/4. Students studying through the • A Levels ideas, theories and policies relating medium of Welsh will also need a GCSE grade Students on the English medium learning to conduct educational by school mentors and link tutors. • During the degree, there will assessment methods vary and • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and to children’s lives from conception be opportunities to undertake include group presentations, essays, C or above in Welsh (First Language). Grade B course will be placed in English research will be a key focus. Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: in Welsh (First Language) will be accepted in medium schools only and you do • The University’s partnership MMM to the transition to adulthood. The work placements to develop film documentary, blogs, short combination with a grade C in English Language not need to speak Welsh, or live schools have co-constructed the • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended programme aims: your understanding of aspects of exams and reflective portfolios. for entry to the Welsh medium programme. in Wales, to apply for the course. course and provide a varied and Diploma: Merit • To create an environment children’s needs and development GCSE grade B equivalency tests are available As part of our commitment to supportive learning environment. “There was a variety of • International Baccalaureate Diploma appropriate to undergraduate and to carry out research into CAREER PROSPECTS for English Language and Mathematics for • Access: Pass Access to Higher Education study and research, by providing current issues and practice. The multi-disciplinary approach of candidates who already hold a grade C. There bilingualism we will support you in • This is an exciting time to train opportunities to do practical your understanding of Welsh culture to be a teacher at Bangor as the Diploma a course of study that is the degree prepares students for are many qualifications accepted as equivalent work, and to share ideas and • NCFE CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma: academically challenging and WHAT WILL I STUDY? a broad range of career choices in to grade B in Mathematics and English and your Welsh language learning, curriculum has been updated to fit knowledge in the lectures. Grade C whether you are a complete the modern teaching environment vocationally relevant to a range of The first year provides a foundation education and allied professions Language – please contact us for information. There were also many opportun- • Irish Leaving Certificate: 96 points from a • A willingness and positive attitude towards beginner or a fluent user of the minimum of 4 Higher Subjects professional contexts working with in key areas such as academic and in the public and private sector, seeking to improve personal use of the Welsh language, giving you important WHAT WILL I STUDY? ities for me to go out on school • Welsh Baccalaureate children and young people. professional skills, socio-cultural, including health, social care, language. skills to enable you to thrive in any You will study all aspects of the experience to schools across All students are subject to checks from the • To develop and enhance historical and psychological youth and community work. Some • Applicants are required to undergo a DBS multilingual environment. primary curriculum. and our north Wales, and the experience Disclosure and Barring Service and this must knowledge and conceptual perspectives on childhood, and students continue their studies at check and to confirm they are not disqualified experienced tutors and researchers was excellent in each school. be judged to be satisfactory before the start of understanding of issues related to explores topics such as play, rights postgraduate level or apply for a by association (Disqualification under the work placements. This course is currently delivered in university and school based By the time I graduated, I had children and young people. and diversity. place on a PGCE Primary course. Childcare Act 2006 (updated 2015). International school leaving qualifications and • To facilitate the development of Applicants should reflect carefully on their via the CaBan partnership, a mentors will provide excellent a permanent post in a primary You will be offered an interview college diplomas are accepted, subject to critical enquiry, reflective thinking The second year provides further for these courses at Bangor if you ability to meet the rigours and demands of collaborative centre established support and stimulating sessions minimum English Language requirements: school where I teach children and anti-discriminatory values, grounding in research methodology, meet the entry requirements. Our the profession. Refer to the Considerations to provide initial teacher training throughout your degree. Please in years 3 and 4. I believe the www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs for Applicants to Initial Teacher Education in north Wales between Bangor see our website for detailed course We also welcome applications from mature beliefs and attitudes in the context theoretical perspectives across students have also enhanced their course has benefited me, and Programmes. University, the University of Chester, information. applicants. of the study of childhood and youth. areas such as mental health, employability by studying abroad at We also welcome applications from mature schools and GwE and is accredited my friends, who have also found *For full details go to our website and for a • To develop individuals who are literacy, and inclusion. one of our partner universities, for applicants, individuals with European by the Education Workforce Council. School Experience employment straight from full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go able to make a positive contribution example in Finland. qualifications and international applicants to www.ucas.com to the lives of children and young In your final year you are supported (subject to minimum English language You will work alongside, and with university.” requirements). *Level 3 qualifications include A support from, experienced teachers people in the wider community to consolidate and refine your levels, BTEC, Access, Irish Highers, International to develop as a class teacher. This GETHIN PHILLIPS through services and provision. knowledge via a research Baccalaureate, Welsh Baccalaureate, Scottish will help you to become familiar with BA Primary Education graduate • To develop academic and dissertation, alongside specialist Advanced Highers and others – for a full list, please the new developing curriculum for employability skills that have modules spanning topics such as refer to the new UCAS tariff at www.ucas.com. Wales. You will learn how to plan the potential to be applied and children and crime, gender and appropriate schemes of work and transferred to a variety of contexts. race, families and substance abuse, consider assessment and reporting children and communication issues, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL The degree addresses the current and multilingualism. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE strategies. There are at least eight EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Page 87 weeks of school placement each Page 87 debate in society regarding the year in a wide variety of settings. need for a range of experts in the Please see the course webpage for WANT TO KNOW MORE? WANT TO KNOW MORE? multi-disciplinary field of childhood. full details of modules studied from Education RELATED COURSES Education As a key partner in the Wales year to year. These are regularly re- We also offer PGCE Primary and Observatory on the Human Rights evaluated to maintain contemporary Tel: 01248 382629 INTERNATIONAL Tel:INTERNATIONAL 01248 382629 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL of Children and Young People, our and varied course content. EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE Secondary Education courses forEXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE E-mail: [email protected] Page 234 E-mail:Page 234 [email protected] Page 234 Pwww.bangor.ac.uk/educationage 234 those wishing to qualify as teachers www.bangor.ac.uk/education programme implicitly advocates for following the completion of their participatory spaces that enable the degree. Please see the website for voices of children and young people details of our wide range of Primary to be heard about issues that affect and Secindary PGCE courses. their lives and well-being.

244 245 PRODUCT DESIGN BSc [Hons]

COURSE FACTS WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT? • All projects undertaken can be Your challenge will be to be creative UCAS course code: All graduates of the Product Design live briefs with industry partners, and ensure innovation within the W240 (English-medium) BSc course are highly employable. giving you relevant experience given brief. These include: W241 (Welsh-medium) Their design-thinking skills are for a career in the design and • Principles of Design Thinking Length: 3 years now employed to make the world manufacturing industry. • Creativity ENTRY REQUIREMENTS: a better place, they solve problems • Annual Design Conference brings • Design Communication and Modelling G C S E : E n g l i s h L a n g u a g e g r a d e C / 4 . for customers, users, clients and together students and leading • Computer Aided Design (CAD) Typical offer is based on a minimum of 80 companies all over the world. designers. • Computer Aided Manufacture (CAM) tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* e.g.: • Study at Bangor University’s • Manufacturing Skills • A Levels (including a grade C in Design and During this 3 year course tyou Product Design Centre, which is • Prototyping Technology or an Art/Engineering subject) will develop skills to enable you a highly equipped, professional • Sustainable Development and the Circular • BTEC National/Extended Diploma and to bring new innovative products working environment. Economy Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma: MMP to market making life better, • Excellent student staff ratios. • Presentation Skills • City & Guilds Advanced Technical/Extended easier and more productive for • Personal Tutor support on both an Diploma: Merit customers who value a new way educational and pastoral level. Workplace Experience consists of • International Baccalaureate Diploma of doing things. Graduates manage • There are no extra costs for 24 weeks over three years: • Irish Leaving Certificate: 80 points from a commercial projects effectively materials, usage of workshop or • 8 week block during each year minimum of 4 Higher subjects allowing companies to be effective, studio spaces. • Supported by experienced mentors • Access: Pass Access to Higher Education competitive and relevant in the • Students agree that this course • Visits by college link tutors Diploma world today. prepares them for industry and • Excellent portfolio generation • Welsh Baccalaureate. International school leaving qualifications and employment. • Collaboration experience college diplomas are accepted, subject to Having these skills allows our • High levels of professional • Involvement in real projects minimum English Language requirements: graduates to see clearly into the development through oral • Personal and Professional Development www.bangor.ac.uk/intreqs future and help put into action what’s presentational skills and analytical • Career driven experiences We also welcome applications from mature best for the planet. Our graduates work placement report writing applicants. have a firm belief that their energy skills. A final-year degree project *For full details go to our website and for a and contribution allow them to containing practical and theoretical full list of accepted Level 3 qualifications, go perform the role that is highly valued WHAT WILL I STUDY? elements will bring together all the to www.ucas.com by industry. This course is designed to give you a above elements. broad foundation in product design WHY CHOOSE BANGOR? through live projects and industrial HOW WILL I LEARN? • 1st for student satisfaction experience which consists of four • A minimum of 19 hours contact ANNUAL PRODUCT DESIGN (Complete University Guide 2020). 30-credit modules in each year: time per week in lectures / CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION • Top 10 for teaching quality (Times • Professional Practice seminars. In June each year, Bangor University’s annual Design Good University Guide 2020). • Subject Study (two modules) • Reading, preparing for seminars, • Each year many of our students • Workplace Experience completing coursework. Conference brings together Product Design students graduate straight into jobs with • Assessment of professional and influential designers and practitioners from the many of them securing a post In Professional Practice you will studies elements through design and manufacturing sector. at their second or third year become competent in the issues that coursework and one The conference has hosted speakers from Unilever, placement companies. affect product designers in industry examination. ISC, Karcher (UK), FROG Design, Seymor Powell • Top 15 for design employability including: • Continuous assessment of design consultancy and employees from Lego and (Times Good University Guide • Design Innovation for Industry subject study modules (there 2020). • Production Management will be no formal written Dyson. INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE • We produce high calibre students • Organisations and Management examination). Following the Conference, students graduating with a Page 87 with a wide range of real world • Marketing • Workplace experience monitored BSc Product Design degree at Bangor University have applicable skills and a very • Presentation Skills through visits by tutors and the opportunity to showcase their design work at the WANT TO KNOW MORE? high percentage of our students presentations. annual Product Design Exhibition (shown above and Education graduate with higher class In the modules you • Experiences enhanced through Subject Study on the right). degrees. will study human-centred design live projects with industry. Tel: 01248 382629 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL One of the Exhibition organisers and Product Design EXPERIENCE E-mail:EXPERIENCE [email protected] • Three placements across the and design thinking methodologies. • Regular personal tutorials. Page 234 www.bangor.ac.uk/educationPage 234 degree rather than one year A range of briefs will challenge Lecturer, Peredur WIlliams said: “Bangor Design long placement at the end of the and develop you both creatively Conference has established itself as the place to be in course, this gives you the chance and professionally. Projects with order to be inspired and educated about design and to improve and develop as an industrial partners will ensure manufacturing.” individual. a grounding and context of how industry works. 246 247 SUBJECT INDEX

ACCOUNTING (see also Banking) CHILDHOOD & YOUTH STUDIES CRIMINOLOGY & CRIMINAL ENGLISH (see also Linguistics) FRENCH (see also Modern Languages) HEALTH (see also Nursing, Midwifery) as a joint degree subject 69, 156 as a joint degree subject 69, 245 JUSTICE as a joint degree subject 69 as a joint degree subject 70, 226, 228, 230, 232, Clinical Sport Science (Intercalated) 154 Accounting & Banking 156 Childhood and Youth Studies 245 as a joint degree subject 69, 180 English Language 204 236, 237, 238 Health & Social Care 134 Accounting & Economics 157 Criminology & Criminal Justice 180 English Language for TEFL 211 French 228 Neuropsychology (Intercalated) 140 Accounting & Finance 158 Law with Criminology 176 English Language with Creative Writing 205 French with Business Management 228 Psychology with Clinical & Health Psych. 139 Banking & Finance 159 English Language with English Lit. 210 French with Chinese 228 Psychology with Neuropsychology 140 Business Management & Finance 165 CHINESE English Language with Film Studies 206 French with Creative Writing 228 Sport Science (Intercalated) 154 Law with Accounting & Finance 176 as a joint degree subject 69, 226, 228, English Language with Media Studies 207 French with Italian 228 Sport, Health & Exercise Science 147 Business Management with Accounting 169 230, 233, 236 DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY English Literature 198 French with Journalism 228 Sport, Health & Physical Education 150 as a three language Honours 234 Product Design 246 English Lit. with/and Creative Writing 200 French with Marketing 228 Law with Chinese 177 English Lit. with English Language 199 French with Media Studies 228 English Literature with Journalism 201 French with Psychology 228 ARCHAEOLOGY English Lit. with Theatre and Performance 202 French with Spanish 228 HERITAGE Heritage, Archaeology & History 187 ECOLOGY International English Language for TEFL 212 French with German 228 Heritage, Archaeology & History 187 History with/and Archaeology 188 COMPUTING (see also Biology, Environment, Ocean Science) Linguistics and the English Language 209 French with two other languages 234 Welsh History and Archaeology 196 AppliedCyber Security 116Applied Terrestrial & Marine Ecology 72 Linguistics with English Literature 210 Law with European Experience: French 178 Applied Data Science 116 Media Studies with French 219 Applied Software Engineering 116 HISTORY Computer Science 110 as a joint degree subject 69, 186 Heritage, Archaeology & History 187 BANKING (see also Accounting) Computer Systems Engineering 119 ECONOMICS (see also Accounting) ENVIRONMENT as a joint degree subject 69, 156Creative Technologies 114 as a joint degree subject 69 Environmental Conservation 74 GEOGRAPHY History 186 Banking & Finance 159 Computer Information Systems 115 Accounting and Eonomics 157 Environmental Science 76 Geography 78History with/and Archaeology 188 Banking with Financial Technology 171 Computer Info. Systems for Business 115 Business Economics 168 Geography with Environmental Forestry 80 Geography with Environmental Forestry 80 History with Film Studies 191 Marine Environmental Studies 106 Physical Geography and Oceanography 104 History with Journalism 190 Financial Economics 160 Law with History 177 Medieval & Early Modern History 193 BIOLOGY (see also Zoology) CONSERVATION Modern & Contemporary History 194 Applied Marine Biology 96 Conservation with Forestry 73 EDUCATION FILM STUDIES GEOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY Welsh History and History 195 Biology 84 Environmental Conservation 74 Childhood and Youth Studies 245 as a joint degree subject 69 Geological Oceanography 103, 108 Welsh History and Archaeology 196 Biology with Biotechnology 85 Zoology with Conservation 91 Primary Education 244 English Language with Film Studies 206 Biomedical Science 125 Wildlife Conservation 82 Product Design 246 Film Studies 215 Marine Biology 97 Film Studies with Theatre & Performance 216 History with Film Studies 191 GERMAN (see also Modern Languages) ITALIAN (see also Modern Languages) Marine Biology & Oceanography 101 as a joint degree subject 70, 226, 228, 230, Marine Biology & Zoology 99 Professional Writing and Film 214 as a joint degree subject 70, 226, 228, 230, ENGINEERING 232, 236, 237, 238 232, 236, 237, 238 Medical Biochemistry 127 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES 114 Italian with two other languages 234 Medical Biology 126 Applied Software Engineering 116 German 230 Computer Systems Engineering 119 German with Business Management 230 Law with European Experience: Italian 178 Control & Instumentation Engineering 121 FINANCE (see Accounting and Banking) German with Chinese 230 Media Studies with Italian 219 Electronic Engineering 118, 122 German with Creative Writing 230 BUSINESS CREATIVE WRITING German with French 230 (see also Accounting, Management, Marketing) (see also Professional Writing) FORESTRY German with Italian 230 JOURNALISM Business 164 as a joint degree subject 69 German with Journalism 230 Conservation with Forestry 73 German with Marketing 230 English Literature with Journalism 201 Business Analytics w. Financial Technology 171 Creative & Professional Writing 213 Forestry 81 French with Journalism 228 Business Management & Law 166 English Language with Creative Writing 205 German with Media Studies 230 Geography with Environmental Forestry 80 German with Psychology 230 German with Journalism 230 Business Economics 168English Lit. with/and Creative Writing 200 History with Journalism 190 Business Management 163 French with Creative Writing 228 German with Spanish 230 German with two other languages 234 Journalism & Media Studies 217 Business Management & Finance 165 German with Creative Writing 230 Spanish with Journalism 226 Business Management & Marketing 167 Law with Creative Media Writing 177 Law with European Experience: German 178 Business Management w. a Modern Lang. 172 Spanish with Creative Writing 226 Media Studies with German 219 French with Business Management 228 German with Business Management 230 Computer Info. Systems for Business 115 Law with Business Studies 176 Psychology with Business Management 142 Spanish with Business Management 226 248 249 SUBJECT INDEX

LANGUAGES (see French, German, Italian, MARINE BIOLOGY MIDWIFERY 132 PHYSICAL EDUCATION SPANISH (see also Modern Languages) WELSH HISTORY Spanish, Modern Languages) as a joint degree subject 70 as a joint degree subject 70as a joint degree subject 70, 226, 228, as a joint degree subject 70 Applied Marine Biology 96 Adventure Sport Science 151 230, 232, 236, 237, 238 Welsh History and History 195 Marine Biology 97 Sport, Health & Exercise Science 147 Law with European Experience: Spanish 178 Welsh History and Archaeology 196 Marine Biology & Oceanography 101 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY Sport, Health & Physical Education 150 Media Studies with Spanish 219 LAW Marine Biology & Zoology 99 HISTORY 194 Sport Science 146 Spanish 226 Business Management & Law 166 Marine Vertebrate Zoology 100 Sport Sci. (Outdoor Recreation) (Top-up) 154 Spanish with Business Management 226 English Law and French Law 178 Zoology with Marine Zoology 94 Sport and Exercise Psychology 148 Spanish with Chinese 226 ZOOLOGY Law 174 Spanish with Creative Writing 226 Marine Biology & Zoology 99 Law with Accounting & Finance 176 MODERN LANGUAGES Spanish with French 226 Marine Vertebrate Zoology 100 Law with Business 176 (see also French, German, Italian, Spanish) Spanish with German 226 Zoology 86 Law with Chinese 177 MARINE SCIENCES (see Ocean Sciences) as a joint degree subject 69, 70, 226-238 PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY 107 Spanish with Italian 226 Zoology with Animal Behaviour 90 Law with Creative Media Writing 177 Business Management w. a Modern Lang. 172 Spanish with Journalism 226 Zoology with Climate Change Studies 87 Law with Criminology 176 Marketing with a Modern Language 172 Spanish with Marketing 226 Zoology with Conservation 91 Law with European Experience: French, Media Studies with a Modern Language 219 Spanish with Media Studies 226 Zoology with Herpetology 93 German, Italian or Spanish 178 MARKETING Three Language Honours degrees 234 POLITICS 184 Spanish with two other languages 234 Zoology with Ornithology 89 Law with History 177 as a joint degree subject 70 Zoology with Marine Zoology 94 Law with Media Studies 177 Business Management & Marketing 167 Zoology with Primatology 88 Law with Philosophy and Religion 178 French with Marketing 228 Law with Social Policy 177 German with Marketing 230 PROFESSIONAL WRITING SPORT SCIENCE Law with Welsh 177 Marketing 161 MUSIC Creative and Professional Writing 213 (see also Physical Education) Marketing with a Modern Language 172 as a joint degree subject 70, 240 Professional Writing and Media 214 as a joint degree subject 70 Marketing with Psychology 170 Music 240 Professional Writing and Film 214 Adventure Sport Science 151 Spanish with Marketing 226 Music with Theatre & Performance 242 Clinical Sport Science (Intercalated) 154 LINGUISTICS Sport, Health and Exercise Science 147 as a joint degree subject 70, 208 PRODUCT DESIGN 246 Sport Science 146 Linguistics 208 Sport Science (Intercalated) 154 Linguistics and the English Language 209 MEDIA STUDIES NURSING Sport Sci. (Outdoor Recreation) (Top-up) 154 Linguistics with English Literature 210 as a joint degree subject 70 Diagnostic Radiography 133 Sport and Exercise Psychology 148 English Language with Media Studies 207 Health and Social Care 134 PSYCHOLOGY French with Media Studies 228 Midwifery 132 as a joint degree subject 70 German with Media Studies 230 Nursing 130 French with Psychology 228 LITERATURE Journalism & Media Studies 217 German with Psychology 230 TEACHING (see Education) (see English, Linguistics, Welsh) Law with Creative Media Writing 177 Marketing with Psychology 170 Law with Media Studies 177 Neuropsychology (Intercalated) 140 Media Studies 218 OCEAN SCIENCES Applied Terrestrial & Marine Ecology 72 Psychology 138 Media Studies with a Modern Language 219 Psychology with Business Management 142 THEATRE STUDIES MANAGEMENT Media St. with Theatre & Performance 216 Applied Marine Biology 96 English Lit. with Theatre & Performance 202 as a joint degree subject 70 Geological Oceanography 103, 108 Psychology with Clinical & Health Psych. 139 Professional Writing and Media 214 Psychology with Forensic Psychology 141 Film St. with Theatre & Performance 216 Business Management 163 Spanish with Media Studies 226 Marine Biology 97 Media St. with Theatre & Performance 216 Business Management & Finance 165 Marine Biology & Oceanography 101 Psychology with Neuropsychology 140 Business Management & Marketing 167 Marine Biology & Zoology 99 Sport and Exercise Psychology 148 Business Management w. a Modern Lang. 172 Marine Environmental Studies 106 French with Business Management 228 MEDICAL SCIENCES Marine Vertebrate Zoology 100 WELSH (Cymraeg) German with Business Management 230 Biomedical Science 125 Ocean and Geophysics 102 as a joint degree subject 70 Business Management with Accounting 169 RADIOGRAPHY Medical Biochemistry 127 Ocean Science 105 Diagnostic Radiography 133Law with Welsh 177 Spanish with Business Management 226 Medical Biology 126 Physical Geography and Oceanography 104 Professional Welsh 221 Medical Sciences 124 Physical Oceanography 107 Welsh (first- and second-language) 220 Welsh for Beginners 222 SOCIAL POLICY, SOCIOLOGY as joint degree subjects 70 MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Law with Social Policy 177 Law with Philosophy and Religion 178 HISTORY 193 Social Policy 182 Philosophy and Religion 70, 224 Sociology 181

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