English Undergraduate Prospectus 2020

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SWANSEA UNIVERSITY WHERE BRIGHT FUTURES BEGIN

UNDERGRADUATE 2020

A WELCOME TO STUDENT UK TOP TOP UK 5 SATISFACTION (National Student Survey 2018)

GRADUATE UK TOP TOP UK 0 PROSPECTS (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018)

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Swansea University is an ambitious university, renowned for its friendliness TOP UK OF THE YEAR and inclusivity. The University was founded in 1920 as a place of 0 (WhatUni Student Choice Awards 2018) academic excellence to complement the region’s rich industrial strengths. Our stunning waterfront campuses and friendly welcome make Swansea University a desirable VOTED THE UK’S destination for students all over the world, enabling those who join us to develop skills and knowledge that will set them on successful and enriching careers. Our figures speak for MOST WELCOMING, themselves with our graduate prospects ranked Top 10 in the UK*. Our student satisfaction FRIENDLY & TRUSTWORTHY CITY rates are reflected in the fact that we won the title of The Times and Sunday Times Welsh University of the Year 2019 and are ranked Top 5 in the UK for student satisfaction. (Provident UK 2018)

Should you choose Swansea, you will be joining the University in its 100th year and as such you will be part of our historic centenary celebrations. This is a very exciting time for the University and we welcome you to be a part of it. RESEARCH * Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018 UK TOP TOP UK 30 UNIVERSITY (Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014-2021))

OPEN DAYS 2019 GREENEST 6 APRIL • 15 JUNE • 19 OCTOBER • 16 NOVEMBER TOP UK 0 UNIVERSITY (Guardian People and Planet University league 2018) BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY: swansea.ac.uk/open-days SWANSEA LIFE NERVOUS? JARGON DON’T BE Check out our Freshers’ Top 10 EXPLAINED of things to do in Swansea Check out our Students’ Union Check out our jargon buster and Support and Welfare info

PAGES 24 + 34 PAGE 47 04 WHY RESEARCH MATTERS 06 SWANSEA AND THE REGION CAREER 08 FRESHERS’ TOP 10 LOOKING CHOICES 10 WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY Check out the Employability 12 SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MAP pages and the ‘future careers’ 14 BAY CAMPUS MAP TO TRAVEL list on each course page ABROAD 16 ACCOMMODATION PAGE 08 PAGE 20 20 CAREERS, SKILLS AND EMPLOYABILITY DURING 22 STUDY AND WORK ABROAD MAKING AN TEACHERS YOUR HEALTH AND 24 STUDENTS’ UNION WELLBEING 26 SPORT APPLICATION AND ADVISERS See our easy to use STUDIES? is important to us, check 29 FACILITIES checklist and advice from Full course details available in our out student services Courses section. ‘How to Apply’ Keep a look out for 33 SUSTAINABILITY our Admissions office on the aeroplane symbol making an application sections also provide detailed 34 STUDENT SUPPORT AND WELFARE information on our offer, including throughout the our ‘guaranteed offer’ of a place course pages 36 WELSH-MEDIUM OPPORTUNITIES PAGES 140-143 38 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT INFORMATION DON’T JUST TAKE WORRIED YOU MAY NOT GET 42 INTEGRATED FOUNDATION YEAR OUR WORD FOR IT… PAGE 34 THE GRADES? WE CAN HELP 48 A-Z COURSES Find out more from our current Explore your options; we have a variety of Integrated Foundation Year students about living and studying 128 COURSE REFERENCE GRID programmes with a range of acceptable qualifications. See the Foundation at Swansea Uni pages and look out for the foundation symbol on each course page GETTING HERE 137 INDEX AND AROUND PAGE 42 PAGE 10 138 FEES AND FUNDING We’re closer 140 HOW TO APPLY than you think! THINKING OF MANAGING Check out travel 144 YOUR NOTES STUDYING THROUGH YOUR MONEY times to Swansea 145 MAP THE MEDIUM OF WELSH? and how easy it is Find out typical living costs to get from campus Look out for the speech as a student in Swansea and to campus and bubble throughout the full details on fees, funding campus to city course pages and scholarships

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02 03 RESEARCH

UK TOP TOP UK UNIVERSITY (Research30 Excellence Framework (REF 2014-2021))

RESEARCH-LED UNIVERSITY

The modern day challenges which we face today do not respect the artificial boundaries FIND OUT MORE of subjects and disciplines. From; capturing Some of our recent research includes: carbon dioxide in order to create a greener • ‘Excessive posting of photos on plastic; to building houses which act like power social media is associated with stations; to understanding better the needs and an increase in narcissism’ aspirations of an ageing population, Swansea • ‘Find it hard to recognise faces? University is committed to undertaking research Swansea experts appeal to with real-world benefits. public to help research into little-known condition’ Our commitment to research has seen us achieve our ambition to be a Top 30 Research University, •‘Gambler’s ruin: study reveals how soaring up the league table to 26th in the UK, animal populations are shrinking in the latest Research Excellence Framework. due to their high-risk strategies (This is the national system for assessing the quality in finding food’ of research in UK higher education institutions). •‘Research shows how vultures eavesdrop to gather vital flight Our research-led teaching is something that information’ you as a student will directly benefit from. 90% of our research is rated as world-leading swansea.ac.uk/research or internationally excellent for the impact it makes in our society. You can be assured your degree is informed by forward-thinking research pioneered by internationally-leading research staff who thrive on exploration and discovery.

‘Swansea Science Festival is the largest festival of its kind in Wales and acts as a platform to showcase our inspiring research from across the University in the region’

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04 05 ARTS Swansea is a vibrant centre for art and The Glynn Vivian GET TO KNOW Art Gallery is widely recognised as the city’s premier venue for art exhibitions. All national museums and art galleries in Wales are free to enter, so you can soak up our history and join one of the many trips organised by Swansea University’s Students’ Union.

THE TALIESIN ARTS CENTRE The Taliesin Arts Centre sits at the heart of the Singleton Park Campus and hosts regular productions, mainstream and alternative cinema screenings, a restaurant, bar, and the award-winning Egypt Centre, home to a collection of over 5000 Egyptian Antiquities.

I do like a good market, and I am lucky that where I live in the Uplands, we have a monthly market where local growers, producers, farmers and caterers sell their wares. This is a cute little market, so if like me you love food and trinkets ON YOUR DOORSTEP give it a visit! On the Gower peninsula you can unwind in the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, relax on award-winning beaches and Joanna Wolton, PhD student blogger explore unspoilt countryside, with the Brecon Beacons’ National Park just a 30 minute drive away. The region has some of the UK’s studentblogs.swan.ac.uk best locations for coastal path walks, surfing, cycling, watersports, rock climbing and golf; for the adventure sport enthusiast to the lazy walk on the beach there’s something for everyone. HOME OF DYLAN THOMAS MUMBLES Swansea’s most famous son, Dylan Thomas Birthplace of Catherine Zeta Jones, the quaint village of Mumbles said: “Swansea is still the best” and the poet’s is host to a great variety of shops, cafes, wine bars, pubs and legacy is found throughout the city from restaurants. Take a stroll and enjoy an ice cream at one of the cafes to pubs to parks. many parlours dotted along the promenade or grab a bite to eat at one of the new Oyster Wharf seafront cafes/restaurants overlooking Swansea bay. MUSIC & FESTIVALS SHOPPING Wales is famed as the ‘land of song’ and as a student at Shop big high street names as well as independent boutiques, Swansea University you won’t be disappointed by the specialist shops and traditional arcades. You can visit designer range of music on offer across the city! Swansea boasts a boutiques in Mumbles, shop vintage outlets in Uplands or pick up huge variety of music venues and plays host to a number a bargain in Wales’ largest indoor market in the heart of the city. of music festivals and events throughout the year. Brecon Beacons, Wales

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TOP 10 Swansea University’s festival-style TRY JOE’S Summer Ball takes place on the ICE-CREAM meadow in front of the University’s Singleton Abbey and is a big night Whether it’s a sunny summer’s in the student calendar. The event day or the temperatures drop regularly attracts high profile acts below zero, you’ll always find – headliners have included ENJOY THE NIGHT LIFE a queue of people outside Pendulum, Rudimental, Pixie Lott, Wind Street is a cafe quarter by Swansea’s legendary ice Tim Minchin, Sub Focus and day and a party paradise by night cream parlour. Florence and the Machine. where twenty bars and restaurants line a 160m stretch of road. Revellers come from far and wide to experience it. Try the Uplands for an earthier vibe with live music events held in the region’s pubs and cafes.

GET ON YOUR BIKE Hire one of our Santander WATERFRONT bikes. With 100 docking stations based at five hubs WINTERLAND along the city’s main A highlight in Swansea’s winter cycle route, you can ride calendar. Fancy a cinnamon latte at your leisure. whilst ice-skating in the middle of CHAMPIONSHIP the city This is your place. FOOTBALL ? Open from around We’re proud to share our mid-November until city with Wales’ Championship the New Year, team, the mighty every year. Swans. See them in action at the impressive Liberty Stadium.

TAKE IN A SHOW HIT THE WELSH BEACH VARSITY The Grand Theatre is a great, intimate venue to see some top-class Get your green and white acts, while the city’s impressive Come rain or shine there are army gear on and give it JUMP AROUND Liberty Stadium has previously over 50 bays and beaches to up for Swansea at Welsh A trip to Limitless Inflata Park is hosted acts including Pink, choose from! Try a spot of surfing Varsity, the biggest arguably one of the most fun Take That and the Kings of Leon. or sea kayaking, or just a beach student event in Wales. ways to exercise. walk to get away from it all.

08 09 @superfastjelly #chill #swanseaunilife WHAT OUR STUDENT #SwanseaUni

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@emilysuggett Find out more from our current and recently graduated How to make friends at university #swanseauni students who share their own experiences and provide useful tips on living and studying at Swansea Uni.

Watch our student vlogs, listen to our podcasts and follow our social media channels for useful tips on everything from settling in to uni to what it’s like to live in Swansea.

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ARTS AND HUMANITIES 24HR BUS (term-time) Approximately 20 minutes to HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES Bay Campus, 10 minutes to city centre

LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY FULTON HOUSE Students’ Union bar/nightclub, supermarket, GREENEST MEDICINE Post Office, travel shop, Santander bank, food outlets (including Vegan) UK TOP UNIVERSITY SCIENCE (Guardian People0 & Planet University league 2018) SINGLETON PARK LIBRARY OTHER FACILITIES: • Dentist/Doctors STUDENT ACCOMMODATION • Launderette TALIESIN ARTS • Mosque & EGYPT CENTRE • Sports Village and National Pool • Student Residences MY UNIHUB • Students’ Union Your one-stop-shop offering information and guidance on any aspect of student life; from finances, to course-load, to housing

VIRTUAL TOUR swansea.ac.uk/virtual-tour

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BAY LIBRARY 24HR BUS (term-time) Approximately 20 minutes to COMPUTATIONAL FOUNDRY Bay Campus, 10 minutes to city centre

ENGINEERING MY UNIHUB Your one-stop-shop offering information and STUDENT ACCOMMODATION guidance on any aspect of student life; SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT from finances, to course-load, to housing

THE COLLEGE OTHER FACILITIES: • Coffeeopolis coffee shop THE CORE, FOOD COURT • Faith space • Gym and sports facilities THE GREAT HALL BEACHFRONT • Launderette • Students’ Union LOCATION

VIRTUAL TOUR swansea.ac.uk/virtual-tour

14 15 MAKE YOURSELF TYPICAL LIVING COSTS

£89 Starting university can be a bit of a LIVING IN THE AVERAGE whirlwind and, amidst it all, you need STUDENT VILLAGE* a place where you can chill out, Approximately two miles from campus is the WEEKLY RENT Hendrefoelan Student Village. The Village take stock, and feel right at home, 3rd Most Affordable UK University provides self-catering accommodation and Town (totallymoney.com 2018) right away. shared facilities in 7 bedroom flats. If you Whether you want to live in one of our choose to live in the Village, you will have your campus residences, in our leafy student own room at an affordable rate that compares village, or in one of the nearby private favourably with private sector accommodation. £22 properties managed by our Student Student life at the Village is sociable, supportive MEAL OUT Accommodation Services (SAS) letting and you will benefit from the: agency, our Residential Services team • On-site launderette FOR TWO are there to ensure that you choose the • Convenience shop (based on main meal & drink accommodation that is perfect for you. • Free First Group Unibus Bus pass at a local restaurant) for contracts over 13 weeks LIVING ON CAMPUS *accommodation at Hendrefoelan Student Village Living in Singleton Park or Bay Campus available for 2019/20 academic year residences puts you right at the centre of £30 PER MONTH university life. Self-catering accommodation FAMILY ACCOMMODATION STUDENT comprises fully-furnished, en suite and AT BECK HOUSE standard rooms with a shared kitchen BUS PASS We have a number of family flats at our and dining area – ideal for helping you designated quiet residence, Beck House, Student Pass with unlimited travel to settle into student life quickly and easily. approximately a mile from campus in the popular area of Uplands. Due to the 51-week tenancies, this accommodation is mostly suitable for postgraduate and £6 international students. CAMPUS TO CITY KEY POINTS Singleton Park Campus • Our rooms have free Wi-Fi to city centre taxi fare • You will be represented by ResNet, a network of live-in student volunteers, who ensure each student has the best experience possible • Rooms are single occupancy only (exception being Beck House family flats and a small number of twin rooms on the Bay Campus) GYM • 24/7 launderette facilities MEMBERSHIP • Adapted rooms are available for students with special requirements, £18.75 PER MONTH including wheelchair users. Contact the Disability Office for further information • En suites available University Sports Village Look inside swansea.ac.uk/accommodation

16 17 FINDING THE PERFECT BAY SINGLETON RESIDENCE TYPE OF ROOM WEEKLY RENT* PRIVATE SECTOR HOME CAMPUS PARK If you’d prefer to live off campus, you’ll be pleased Hendrefoelan Standard £91 to know that there’s a good supply of quality private Student Village sector student houses and flats in Swansea. Our letting En suite £126 – £152 agency, Student Accommodation Services (SAS) Singleton Park Bank Bank manages 130 properties in the nearby local communities Campus Standard £121 – £139** of Brynmill, Uplands and Sketty which are mostly within Standard £103 – £108 two miles of Singleton Park Campus. Their residences Beck House En suite £119 – £129 in St. Thomas and Port Tennant are close to our Cafe Bar Dentist & Doctor Bay Campus. These areas are also close to local Family flat £142 – £170 facilities such as shops, bars and takeaways. En suite £144 Our online, searchable database, Studentpad, is Premium en suite £149 invaluable. It allows you to locate other available housing Bay Campus Twin room £176 (£88 per person) in the area and takes the effort out of house-hunting. One-bed flat £195 Food Outlets Food Outlets Two-bed flat £248 (£124 per person) saslettings.co.uk

WHEN SHOULD I APPLY FOR ACCOMMODATION? Great Hall Health Centre The sooner the better! If you have a firm offer of a place, you can make an accommodation application in February – you will receive details about making an online application with your academic or university Launderette Launderette offer. We encourage you to apply early, particularly for the very popular en suite accommodation.

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We also have some areas that are quiet and alcohol free. Students’ Union Students’ Union

24hr Security Taliesin Preseli Hall at Singleton Park Campus Arts Centre and Emlyn Hall on the Bay Campus are designated halls of residence for * These fees are for the academic session 2018-19. Please note that rates for 2019 entry will be Welsh speakers and learners. Scan to watch: published on our website as soon as they are confirmed. ** W here applicable, prices for Campus Standard accommodation include the weekly catering fee. 24hr Security

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We aim to help our students achieve the careers they deserve. The University offers a variety of paid work experiences and careers advice through its dedicated employability and enterprise team, alongside regular careers fairs, entrepreneurial activities and student-led alumni networking events to help you find work or start your own business at the end of your studies.

CREATING EMPLOYABLE AND YEAR IN INDUSTRY ENTREPRENEURIAL GRADUATES Propel your career with a year in industry as part of Our long history of working closely with employers your degree. Many of our degree programmes include ensures the degree you study at Swansea University the option to work a year in industry as part of the provides you with the knowledge and skills for a course, providing valuable experience and the successful career in employment or self-employment. opportunity to put theory into practice whilst being paid. Employers are looking for much more than a degree This puts you ahead of the game when embarking when choosing graduates to employ. Gaining experience on your career and looks fantastic on your CV. For and developing skills whilst at university will give you full details of programmes offering a year in industry a competitive edge. Our award-winning team, the please see the individual course pages. Swansea Employability Academy can help you explore careers ideas, get a great CV, find part-time employment, PLACEMENTS AND INTERNSHIPS volunteer, get a placement, prepare you for interviews Through our Paid Internship Network we connect and your first job out of university. employers with students from all disciplines for four-week graduate level placements. All roles are advertised via We can help you develop your skills, gain valuable our Employment Zone and our dedicated team are here experience and test your business ideas, through to support you throughout the placement process. our range of support services, including: workshops, Placements can run throughout the year across a Joe Charman competitions, schemes and business mentoring alongside huge range of subject areas. We also run the Santander BA Business Management corporate partners with a wealth of industry experience. Universities Placement Programme providing students and recent graduates with paid work experience within Joe launched Pilot Plus, an aviation simulator business in 2015 and the local SMEs and third sector organisations. company has continued to grow during his time at Swansea University. As well as continuing his studies and running a successful business, Joe also jointly launched The Entrepreneurs’ Network student society. In 2018 Joe won £2,000 seed funding in Swansea University’s Big Pitch competition, which has FIND OUT MORE: allowed him to expand his business through investment in new technology. GRADUATE swansea.ac.uk/sea swansea.ac.uk/enterprise Entrepreneurship is a big point for me. I went to a number of

UK TOP PROSPECTS UK universities and asked them what they do for entrepreneurship. @SwanseaUniSea #SeaYourFuture (Destination of 0Leavers from Higher Education 2018) Swansea had the best answer out of all the universities.

20 21 STUDENT YEAR ABROAD If you enrol on a four year degree scheme, which includes a year abroad, you can study at a partner university in your third year. Depending on your course, you may be able to spend this year completing an international work placement or teaching assistantship. Hermione Sanderson

SEMESTER ABROAD Hermione is a Biosciences student Some degree schemes also offer the option to and completed work placements in spend a semester either studying or working Mexico and Australia. She is now abroad. Spending time overseas at one of our a Go Global Peer Advisor. partner universities allows you to study in a different academic environment, gain a new I was able to experience the most perspective and improve your cultural awareness. diverse and beautiful environments, An international work placement is a fantastic immersing myself in cultures and travelling addition to your CV and will offer you a unique to so many different places. It has given opportunity to develop new skills and improve your employability. me a new perspective on life!

Swansea University aims to offer all its undergraduate students SHORT AND SUMMER the opportunity to study or work overseas. We have partnerships PROGRAMMES Short and summer programmes are another with over 150 universities across the world and offer a wide way to gain valuable international experience range of year, semester and summer abroad options. in addition to your degree. You can choose James Turner By studying, working or volunteering overseas, you will ensure from internships, volunteering, cultural and you stand out from the crowd, develop new skills and an invaluable study programmes in countries such as James spent a semester in Spain and international network for your future beyond graduation. Employers China, Japan, USA, Zambia, Fiji and a semester in Germany as part of acknowledge that spending time abroad: countries throughout Europe. For the latest his BA Translation and Interpreting information, visit: degree, and is now a Swansea • Builds confidence, self-awareness and maturity University Go Global Peer Advisor. swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes • Develops a global perspective and intercultural awareness

• Facilitates adaptability to new environments and challenges Studying abroad gave me the opportunity • Improves communication and language skills FUNDING to experience university life in a completely new There are a range of funding opportunities • Develops transferable skills to help your future career and challenging environment. Without doubt, my available to support students who choose to go abroad, however as these may change please time overseas has played a pivotal role in my refer to our website for the latest information: personal and academic development, plus I’ve made life-long friends along the way. #SwanseaUniGlobal swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/funding

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22 23 SWANSEA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ UNION OFFERS: • Affordable food and drink in our on-campus bars – UNION JC’s, Tafarn Tawe and Rebound. Vegan food and supplies available at ‘Root’, our on-campus Vegan shop • Huge events like the Summer Ball, Varsity and Freshers’ week • An opportunity to join over 150 societies and over 50 sports clubs • A chance to work for the student newspaper, TV station and radio station • An Advice & Support Centre helping with everything from landlords to academic disputes • A voice for students at the University, ensuring student views are heard at every level

OVER 50 SPORTS CLUBS

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Gwyn Aled Rennolf Study Aid is here for you! Everyone knows exam time can SU President 2018 – 2019 be stressful and the Students’ Union offers a great range of FREE services to help you get through intense study periods: • Enjoy tea, coffee and biscuits in the Libraries Swansea University Students’ Union is run by Ensuring students have the best possible time at University • Yoga sessions to help you relax and regain focus is our priority. In fact, over the past 4 years we’ve got students, for students. We’re a registered charity • Chill out rooms if you need a quick break over £200,000 back to students from false charges who support and represent all students at Swansea and we spend more than £340,000 employing • Movie showings in the Students’ Union if you need University. Through us, students can join societies, students every year. to take a night off sports clubs or become a student media volunteer. Every year we elect 5 full-time officers who represent • Drop in sessions at the Advice and Support Centre We offer students free support in our Advice students with everything university related. Whenever • Cuddle a dog! De-stress by taking time out to play Centre, affordable childcare in our Nursery students have any issues or questions, we are here with a pup from Greyhound Rescue Wales! and cheap food and drinks in our bars. to help.

24 25 THINK SPORT... ACTIVE AND HEALTHY SPORTING SCHOLARSHIPS CAMPUS PROGRAMME We are proud to have fostered some of In the 2019-20 academic year we will be offering the highest level of sporting talent here at a new, great range of activities for students who Swansea University and are proud to be able would like to become more active and take part in to offer a range of sporting scholarships. some form of exercise. So if you are starting out, We look for students who have demonstrated Here at Swansea we pride ourselves on our dedication we have fun social activities and courses to suit you, such as our hugely popular social leagues. outstanding ability in their sport and have on and commitment to sport and active lifestyles. offer up to:

We have sporting opportunities to suit all of our FACILITIES students, from elite/international athletes to complete Swansea is home to two of the leading sports beginners, there is something for everyone. facility sites in Wales, including the International Sports Village and the Fairwood Training Ground, UP TO £3,000 swansea.ac.uk/sport providing the training base for Swansea City SPORTING SCHOLARSHIPS Football Club. Conditions apply Both campuses also house excellent health and fitness facilities, including top of the range swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ equipment and classes. The University also offers scholarships a high-end strength and conditioning facility (The Shed) available to elite athletes.

Our extensive range of sporting facilities for students includes: • Tennis courts • Playing fields • Athletics track and field Alun Wyn Jones • Sports pavilion British and Irish Lions, • AstroTurf pitches Wales and Ospreys player • A floodlit multi-use games area and Swansea Law graduate and half basketball court • Cycle hire and running routes While studying at Swansea The New Zealand All Blacks used our International University, the Sports Scholarship Sports Village as a training ground for the Rugby World Cup in 2015 and our 50m National pool has allowed me to pursue two career paths DUE TO OUR SUPERB been used as a training base for two international simultaneously. I fondly remember my COASTAL LOCATION, Paralympic teams. As a student, you will have time at Swansea and particularly a SWANSEA HAS ONE OF access to these first-class facilities. Varsity win. In the future, knowing a THE BEST WATER SPORTS OFFERINGS OF ANY career in sport doesn’t last forever, BRITISH UNIVERSITY I won’t rule out returning to further my qualifications.

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VARSITY Varsity is the biggest student event in Wales, and is the second largest of the British Varsity Games, behind Oxford / Cambridge.

Varsity sees Swansea University and Cardiff University compete in over 30 different sports, from basketball, rowing, golf, hockey, fencing, squash, and SWANSEA VS ultimate frisbee. CARDIFF VARSITY Watch last year’s Varsity highlights here:

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HIGH PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME COMPETITIVE SPORT Our High Performance Programme offers assistance We are the fastest improving University in the to elite athletes in a wide range of sports, with each British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) rankings, delivered in conjunction with a professional sport club currently 16th in the 2018-19 table as of (02/01/2019). or national governing body sport partner. In 2018-19 we expect to achieve our highest ever number SPORTS Our programme currently supports 7 sports and of BUCS points and build upon this further in 2019-20 is growing annually. Each sport receives high as our performances improve and number of teams grow. performance coaching, sports science services, With membership to over 50 different sports clubs athlete lifestyle management, physiotherapy and available, there is a vast array of opportunities for strength and conditioning support. These sports are you to competitively represent the University in BUCS currently: men’s and women’s rugby, men’s football, and key domestic competitions. swimming, men’s and ladies hockey, netball, table tennis Our clubs provide a range of coach-led training and badminton. sessions to give you the opportunity to achieve The University also offers Talented Athlete Scholarship your sporting goals. Schemes (TASS) to highly talented student athletes, with financial benefits up to £9,000 and a support package which may include; strength and conditioning training, physiotherapy, psychological aid and nutritional advice, all delivered by qualified practitioners. There are many scholarship packages available, to find out more:

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At Swansea University we are blessed with a wealth of habitats, from beaches to woodland to parks, and we are passionate about sustainable development to Plastics, including single-use benefit our local community, the UK and the wider world. plastic bottles, are now the most frequently-found type As a student, there are plenty of opportunities for you of litter on UK beaches. And to get involved with practical conservation. You can volunteer you don’t have to look far to to help keep these areas special by joining our regular beach find them littering our towns cleans, work parties and wildlife monitoring. As well as helping STUDENT the environment, you’ll learn new skills and meet new friends and green spaces too. along the way. Swansea University is a leading sustainable The average adult buys more than three plastic water bottles university and we are delighted to be every week – a startling 175 bottles every year per person*. able to support Refill with our partners In total, people across the UK buy some 7.7 billion plastic bottles in Plastic Free Swansea and the Students’ each year, resulting in substantial amounts of single-use plastic Union. Our Students’ Union officers have waste ending up in our oceans. been really busy supporting the launch of Refill, a new scheme being rolled out across Wales, through the campaign; we’ve now got at least 30 Swansea University and SU Union, aims to reduce this plastic Refill stations located across our Bay and pollution by encouraging people to ditch pointless plastic and Singleton Park campuses for the whole make carrying a reusable bottle the norm. The Refill Scheme community to use. provides convenient water refill stations in venues across the city, including the University’s Bay and Singleton Park campuses. Teifion Maddocks Sustainability and Wellbeing Officer, Swansea University GREENEST *Marine Conservation Society

UK TOP UNIVERSITY (Guardian People0 & Planet University league 2018) swansea.ac.uk/sustainability

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I remember the first few months at university were the hardest to adapt to. Not only was I ill and wanting the comfort of home but I was quite shy You can access a range of student support services throughout and felt as though I couldn’t connect to REGISTER WITH your time at university to make not just your first few weeks at my flatmates who all wanted to go out university an easier transition, but your whole time spent here partying most of the time. I am aware A GP OR WITH at Swansea University as stress free and easy as possible. that others feel or have felt similar emotions at university but it is THE UNIVERSITY MYUNIHUB important to know and understand HEALTH CENTRE HOW CAN WE HELP? that you are not alone and do not BASED ON MyUniHub is here to make student life at Swansea University as have to deal with things by yourself. easy as possible. We offer information and guidance on any Sometimes, university can feel like a CAMPUS. aspect of student life. So whether you would like help enrolling lonely place but having people accept as a student, want to pay your fees in person, want advice on It is important to register housing, student financial aid, or help with managing your and care about your well-being can with a doctor as soon as course-load, MyUniHub is the place to go! help to off-set these feelings of you arrive in Swansea in isolation. It is also important to note order to access NHS care. that if you are too ill, you do not have to soldier on and make yourself worse (and feel as though you are in a rut) there are options for medical leave or WELFARE@CAMPUSLIFE DISABILITY@CAMPUSLIFE extenuating circumstances. University dental care offers a full Ensuring the same student experience for all. The University offers many range of NHS and private treatments services to help students, who The Swansea University Transcription Centre to students. Dentist and Doctors’ may be struggling, from in-house (SUTC) for example, is a dedicated transcription surgeries located on campus. service which provides accessible learning counselling and well-being services, resources to print for disabled students. to pastoral support from staff. There is no shame in using these services in acknowledging and admitting that you may need some additional help and support WELLBEING@CAMPUSLIFE MONEY@CAMPUSLIFE (as hard as this may be). Range of free student services Are always on hand that cultivates and looks after to help you max your Joanna Wolton your wellbeing, including a cash and keep your PhD student mental health support service. finances in check.

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Swansea University provides a number of WELSH-MEDIUM SCHOLARSHIPS opportunities for you to both study and socialise In addition to the Coleg Cymraeg scholarships available LOOK OUT FOR to Swansea University students who choose to study part through the medium of Welsh and you’re actively THIS SYMBOL of their degree through the medium of Welsh, Academi encouraged to do so. Since 2011, there has been Hywel Teifi also offers additional undergraduate ON INDIVIDUAL a 40% increase in the number of students studying scholarships and bursaries for students studying through COURSE PAGES through the medium of Welsh at Swansea the medium of Welsh. Engaging with Welsh-language University and our TEF data* over the last two provision within your degree could include taking lectures, tutorials, seminars and workplace-based contact hours in years shows that Welsh-medium students are high Welsh. Applications are received annually from students achievers in regards to employability. at all levels of study. For more information and guidelines £3,000 The Welsh-language provision is an integral part of the on how to apply, visit: MAIN SCHOLARSHIP gold standard on offer here and is available across a For students who study at least 66% swansea.ac.uk/scholarships broad range of subject areas. Your academic work can of their course (80 credits a year) be submitted and assessed through the medium of Welsh through the medium of Welsh ACCOMMODATION across all subject areas. You have the option to live with other Welsh speakers The University’s Academi Hywel Teifi is a centre of in designated halls of residence on Singleton and Bay excellence for studying the Welsh language, its literature, Campus. It is well worth you taking this opportunity in and culture. It gives Welsh-speaking students, or those your first year as it will assist you in making new friends keen to learn the language, the opportunity to study quickly and settle into university life. Make sure to note £1,500 courses through the medium of Welsh and significantly your preference on the application form. For detailed INCENTIVE increase graduate employment prospects in the process. information about the Welsh-medium provision on offer, SCHOLARSHIP

Swansea University also has a branch of the Coleg please pick up a Welsh prospectus or visit our wesbite. For students who study at least 33% Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, housed within the Academi, of their course (40 credits a year) which works with universities across Wales to develop THE WELSH SOCIETY (GYMGYM) through the medium of Welsh Welsh-medium study opportunities for students. For Whether you’re a fluent Welsh speaker or just looking to detailed information about the Welsh-medium provision on practice your Welsh, the GymGym will give you a range offer, please pick up a Welsh prospectus or visit our wesbite. of opportunities to socialise with other Welsh speakers in an informal environment. The GymGym hosts regular events including quiz nights, volunteering opportunities £5,000 and socials. However, the most memorable events include WILLIAM SALESBURY Arwain their annual weekend trip to watch a rugby match (in My main role as Welsh Language Officer is to represent all SCHOLARSHIP FIND OUT MORE recent years to Dublin or Edinburgh), the inter-college students of the Welsh community within the University. I can be For students who study 100% Arwain is a bilingual mobile app for dance and the inter-college Eisteddfod. These three events seen as their main contact with the Students Union, ensuring that of their course through the students and prospective students who bring together all Welsh Societies across Wales – giving their voice is heard within it. Welsh students can come to me medium of Welsh speak or are learning Welsh. Arwain you the opportunity to socialise with Welsh speakers from with any questions or suggestions that they would like to raise in brings together the essential information all over the country. The GymGym also supports the needed by students who want to study University’s Welsh-language rugby and netball club, terms of their university experience. In addition to this, I strive to and live through the medium of Welsh Rygbi a Phêl-rwyd Tawe. ensure that life as a Welsh Swansea University student is full of For a full list of eligible courses, at Swansea University. fun, opportunities and has the feeling of a close community! application forms and terms and conditions please visit: *Swansea University TEF return 2017 and 2018 Becca Martin, SU Welsh Language Officer colegcymraeg.ac.uk

36 37 ENTRY CRITERIA The College has minimum academic entry requirements, which vary depending on the education system of prior study and the subject to be studied at Swansea University.

There are also English Language Entry requirements for swansea.ac.uk/the-college our pathways. If you do not meet the English Language requirement for direct entry to your chosen pathway, The College, Swansea University offers Foundation English Language training is delivered by the University’s and supported First Year programmes for English Language Training Services (ELTS) with multiple international students who require extra support, entry points throughout each year. contact hours and tuition in the early stages of For a full list of countries and entry requirements visit: their Swansea University degree programmes. swansea.ac.uk/the-college/entry As a full time student of the University, students will be provided (where possible) with one visa to cover their entire degree studies. Students of The College will live in a new dedicated residence UNDERGRADUATE PATHWAYS close to the teaching building on the Bay Campus. ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS: FOUNDATION • Accounting and Finance The College will teach you the basics of studying your • Biochemistry, Genetics chosen degree in the UK to ensure that you are fully • Business Management prepared for your degree studies and living and studying • Computer Science and Software Engineering in the UK. Students can be admitted from the age of 16 • Criminology so you may find that you can save time by going through • Education the Foundation rather than taking A levels. • Engineering Foundation courses start in September, November, • Human and Health Sciences UNDERGRADUATE PATHWAYS January and May, depending on the subject. • Languages, TESOL and Translation • Law and Criminology INTEGRATED FIRST YEAR • Mathematics As an Integrated student, you will be taught alongside • Media and Communication Brand new facility for students our UK students but with additional tutorials and a • Medical Genetics, Medical Biochemistry at The College opened in 2018 learning skills module specifically for international • Osteopathy students. Your extra classes will concentrate on study • Philosophy, Politics and Economics skills specific to your chosen degree and are taught by the College’s highly experienced tutors. The • Psychology Integrated First Year starts in September. • Politics and International Relations • Public Relations INTERNATIONAL FIRST YEAR • Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, For students of Business, Economics, Accounting Geography, Marine Biology, Physics, Zoology) and Finance, we offer a First Year programme with • Social Policy, Social Sciences, Sociology additional resource and support, taught in small classes. • Sports and Exercise Science

The International First Year programmes in Business, Look out for this icon on the course pages Accounting and Finance start in September, November to see where a pathway is on offer and January while Economics has a September start only.

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We have a thriving international community with DEVELOPING YOUR students from all over the world. The vibrant mix LANGUAGE SKILLS of nationalities and cultures on campus greatly If you think you need to improve your English language skills before starting your studies, or if you need support enriches our learning and teaching environment. with English language while studying with us, our English We understand the type of support our international Language Training Services (ELTS) offers a range of British Council accredited programmes to help you achieve your students need to settle into student life in a new academic goals. country and strive to provide a high level of advice For further information, please contact the English and service to make sure that this happens. Language Training Services (ELTS):

INTERNATIONAL@CAMPUSLIFE swansea.ac.uk/elts International@CampusLife provides information and [email protected] advice on non-academic matters, including immigration advice and services, to all international (non-UK) students +44 (0)1792 295391 and their dependants. We support all non-UK students regardless of nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual SCHOLARSHIPS preference or health status. Advice is offered free of Swansea University offers a range of scholarships charge and without discrimination. for international students who can demonstrate For further information, please contact: academic and personal excellence. For details of all our international scholarship swansea.ac.uk/international-campuslife opportunities, please visit: [email protected] swansea.ac.uk/international-students/ +44 (0)1792 602000 my-finances

TUITION FEES WELCOMING YOU TO THE UK If you are an international student, the fee you will We run a Meet and Greet service from London’s be charged depends on your home country and Heathrow Airport, and provide all new international what you choose to study. You will find the tuition students with a full orientation programme to help fee clearly displayed on each undergraduate them get to know the University, Swansea and the course page on our website: region. For more information about our services for new students please visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses Swansea Uni swansea.ac.uk/international-students HOW TO APPLY SwanseaUniInternational Please see page 141.

40 41 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE / BUSINESS APPLIED MEDICAL International students please refer MANAGEMENT / ECONOMICS SCIENCES BIOSCIENCES FOUNDATION YEAR to the undergraduate international BAY CAMPUS SINGLETON CAMPUS SINGLETON CAMPUS student pathways – see page 38 TYPICAL OFFER: TYPICAL A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: FOUNDATION YEAR WHAT IS A FOUNDATION YEAR? Each applicant is considered on a BBB-CCC to include Biology and CCD to include Biology FOUNDATION YEAR case-by-case basis. If you don't think ideally one other STEM subject If you don’t have the necessary entry requirements subject. After successful completion, you will GCSE: English and Maths you meet our standard entry to enter on to the first year of a degree, you can then go straight on to the main degree course. GCSE: English and Maths minimum grade C requirements please contact us to apply for a place on a degree course with an When you graduate, it will be as though you’ve minimum grade C discuss entry on to the Foundation Year. integrated foundation year. This means that you graduated from the three-year degree course Other entry requirements: will be studying for four years instead of three. and your qualification will be a Bachelors GCSE: English and Maths BTEC Merit to Distinction, ideally degree, e.g. BSc (Hons) or BA (Hons). minimum grade C During your first year, you will be able to improve with a good Biology profile

your skills and increase your knowledge of the Other entry requirements: No A level in Business, Economics, Maths or Accounting/Finance required. We do not consider WILL STUDYING A FOUNDATION YEAR WHAT OTHER SKILLS CAN I LEARN General Studies MEAN I AM BEHIND OTHER STUDENTS? IN MY FOUNDATION YEAR? Not at all – many of our students who have studied Depending on your subject, you can brush up on The Integrated Foundation Year is Applied Medical Sciences with The Integrated Foundation a foundation year outperform students who start on other skills that you might need. For instance, if you an excellent pathway to gaining the Integrated Foundation Year will help Year gives you the chance to year 1 of the main degree. Many go on to get first want to study Physics, but your Maths at A level let required knowledge and skills before you to develop key skills and a solid develop scientific and numerical class honours, are brilliant ambassadors for the you down, Integrated Foundation Year gives you a joining Year 1 students at the School grounding in the fundamentals of understanding which is essential biological chemistry, metabolism University and are highly valued by their department. great opportunity to get your Maths up to scratch. You of Management. The course itself to the successful completion of a blends theory with practical and homeostasis, microbiology and Biology degree. This degree gives will also become more confident in your own abilities. Nathan Pine, a Physics alumnus, graduated in 2017 application, and the wide selection disease, molecular biology, data you the flexibility to explore natural with a first class honours degree and an amazing WHAT QUALIFICATIONS DO of optional modules to choose from handling and laboratory skills. It is life wherever your interests lie. final result of 92%. Nathan was also listed as a allows you to shape the degree ideal if you are interested in medical I NEED TO APPLY? TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: co-author on a research paper, alongside his tutor towards your career goals. sciences but don’t have the required Foundation Biology, Techniques in and a PhD student. Not bad for an undergraduate! We consider applicants on their own merits, so entry qualifications to join our † TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: Ecology: an Introduction, Research offers may vary, but we guarantee that we will BSc programmes or are a mature Business, Principles of ICT, Statistics, Skills for Biologists, Molecular NATHAN SAYS: make you an offer. student returning to education. Economics, Globalisation Biology and Biochemistry I didn’t reach my full potential at sixth form and This might be in the form of a typical grades offer. TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: The typical offer is listed on the subject pages in this PROGRESSION TO THE PROGRESSION TO THE so over my foundation and first year at Swansea FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE Biological Chemistry, Molecular FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE prospectus, but we are happy to accept a range of I realised my true priority was my studies, slowly HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: Biology, Microbiology & Disease, HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: other qualifications, so please check the individual Data Handling and Analysis, building my grades higher and higher. This gave • Accounting • Biology course pages on our website for more detailed Applied Medical Sciences me a strong work ethic going into second and third • Finance • Marine Biology and subject specific criteria at: Skills Development year allowing me to obtain very high percentage • Accounting and Finance • Zoology swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses PROGRESSION TO THE grades consistently across a variety of modules. • Business Management (with optional specialisation in: FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: Business Analytics/E-Business/ Entrepreneurship/Finance/ • Applied Medical Sciences** INTEGRATED FOUNDATION YEAR SUBJECT AREAS Human Resource Management/ • Medical Pharmacology • Applied Medical Sciences • Computer Science • Geography • Mathematics Management Consulting/ • Population Health and Medical Sciences • Accounting & Finance •Economics • Humanities • Science Marketing/Operations and Supply Management/Tourism) (**minimum 60% required to progress onto • Biosciences • Engineering • Law • Physics • Economics year 1 of BSc Applied Medical Sciences from Foundation Year) • Business Management • Economics and Business • Economics and Finance

† Guaranteed conditional offers do not apply to professional courses, and normal selection procedures apply. For full course details and individual UCAS course codes please search the A-Z course list via: Full details of our Guaranteed Offer Policy can be found at swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/how-to-apply/guaranteed-offers swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses and find the degree listed 'with a Foundation Year' *Completion of the foundation year provides progression onto the degree programmes listed 4242 43 COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING GEOGRAPHY HUMANITIES MATHEMATICS BAY CAMPUS BAY CAMPUS SINGLETON CAMPUS SINGLETON CAMPUS BAY CAMPUS TYPICAL OFFER: TYPICAL OFFER: TYPICAL A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: CCC-CCD to include Maths, BBB-BCC CCD to include Geography CDD/DDD (we make offers flexibly CDD to include Maths

FOUNDATION YEAR Computer Science or Physics or a related subject depending upon predicted grades) FOUNDATION YEAR GCSE: Maths and all Sciences GCSE: English and Maths GCSE: English minimum grade C, minimum grade B, including at GCSE: English and Maths GCSE: English and Maths minimum grade C Maths minimum grade B (5) least two other A grades minimum grade C minimum grade C Other entry requirements: BTEC DDD with D in all Maths modules

This Integrated Foundation Year Engineering offers an enormous This Integrated Foundation Year The Humanities Integrated Foundation This Integrated Foundation Year is suitable if you do not have the range of opportunities for graduates. is suitable if you do not have the Year offers an innovative and exciting is suitable if you do not have the relevant qualifications to directly You can choose to concentrate your necessary qualifications to directly introduction to higher education and necessary qualifications to directly start the three year BSc course. interest in a number of fields from start the three year course. You will is designed to provide wider access start the three year course. aerospace, civil and chemical It will put you on course for highly be given the chance to develop an to accredited honours degrees in Contemporary science and business engineering, to electrical, materials specialised and dynamic careers in understanding which is essential to the College of Arts and Humanities. are both underpinned by mathematics science, mechanical and medical. software engineering, big data and successfully completing the degree. We will support you in gaining and our degrees reflect a connection data science, security analysis or If you are not sure which discipline At Swansea, we place a strong the essential knowledge and key with industry. As you progress, your emerging technologies. of Engineering you want to study we emphasis on fieldwork. Our location skills, including the broad subject developing mathematical abilities will offer a BEng Engineering with a offers easy access to environments knowledge you will need to thrive combine with transferable skills that TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: Foundation Year. Upon completion as varied as the Gower Peninsula, and succeed in your degree. are vital to securing employment in Computational Problem Solving, of this year you can choose from the Brecon Beacons, rural west Wales the wider industry. Computers Unplugged, Introduction TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: degree programmes below. and the urban industrial landscapes to Programming, Fundamentals Introduction to Being Human, across south Wales. You will also TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: of Robotics TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: Being Human in a Globalised World, have the opportunity to undertake Fundamental Calculus and Algebra, Academic Writing & Study Skills, PROGRESSION TO THE Electricity and Magnetism, overseas field courses. Introductory Physical and Numerate Introduction to Research & Social Inquiry FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE Mechanics, Thermofluid Mechanics, Science, Computer Programming Development of Key Skills for TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: PROGRESSION TO THE PROGRESSION TO THE Engineers, Basic Engineering Analysis Geography Tutorial Module, • Computer Science FOLLOWING BA SINGLE FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE An Introduction to Data Visualisation, HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: • Software Engineering PROGRESSION TO THE HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: Foundation Human Geography, FOLLOWING BEng SINGLE • American Studies • Mathematics HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: Foundation Geography • Ancient History • Pure Mathematics • Aerospace Engineering PROGRESSION TO THE • Classical Civilisation • Applied Mathematics • Chemical Engineering FOLLOWING BA/BSc SINGLE • Classics HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: • Mathematics for Finance • Civil Engineering • Education (available route to • Geography • Electronic and Electrical Engineering Early Childhood Studies) • Human Geography • English Language • Materials Science and Engineering • Physical Geography • Egyptology • Mechanical Engineering • Physical Earth Science • English Literature • Medical Engineering • Geography and Geo-Informatics • History • Media and Communication • Medieval Studies • Politics (available route to Philosophy, Politics and Economics) • Public Relations and Media • International Relations • War and Society

For full course details and individual UCAS course codes please search the A-Z course list via: For full course details and individual UCAS course codes please search the A-Z course list via: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses and find the degree listed 'with a Foundation Year' swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses and find the degree listed 'with a Foundation Year' *Completion of the foundation year provides progression onto the degree programmes listed *Completion of the foundation year provides progression onto the degree programmes listed 4444 45 PHYSICS SINGLETON CAMPUS LOOK OUT FOR THE FOLLOWING SYMBOLS THROUGHOUT THE A Levels or equivalent: OFFER: TYPICAL COURSE PAGES: CCD to include Maths

FOUNDATION YEAR and Physics There are Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available GCSE: English and Maths for this course minimum grade C There is a Foundation Year SINGLE HONOURS JOINT HONOURS pathway available for this course

Where you have one main Where you study two There are Welsh scholarship

subject, but in years 1 subjects equally and don't opportunities available and 2 you can usually pick usually have the option to for this course subsiduary modules too. pick subsidiary modules. For international students only – there is a specific This Integrated Foundation Year International Foundation pathway is suitable if you do not have the available for this course necessary qualifications to directly start the three year course. It prepares Full details of these opportunities UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT POSTGRADUATE STUDENT for each course are listed in the you for the rigours of the BSc with course reference grid (page 128) a foundation year developed to Someone who is studying for, Someone who is undertaking expand your core competencies but hasn’t yet completed a further study or research, in Physics and Mathematics. This bachelor’s degree. usually a Master’s degree Integrated Foundation Year is taught having completed their by Physics staff in the Department 3 or 4 year bachelor’s degree. WHERE YOU'LL STUDY of Physics. Transition to the BSc BAY CAMPUS programme is seamless at the end of the year. SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SCHOLARSHIPS TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: FOUNDATION Foundation Mathematics for Money that is awarded to a Physicists, Electricity and Magnetism, student based on academic A route of entry also known Mechanics, Waves, Optics and achievement. Scholarships do as ‘year 0’ onto a degree Thermal Physics not need to be paid back but programme (see page 42). PROGRESSION TO THE you have to meet certain criteria. FOLLOWING BSC SINGLE HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: • Physics BURSARIES AND GRANTS STUDENT LOAN DEGREE TYPES • Theoretical Physics Awarded to a student to enable Money that is borrowed from BA – Bachelor of Arts • Physics with Particle Physics them to study at university. an external organisation such and Cosmology BSc – Bachelor of Science These are usually given to as the Student Loans Company BEng – Bachelor of Engineering students based on personal or Student Finance Wales. circumstances, such as income. You will have to repay any MEng – Master of Engineering This does not need to be paid loan you borrow plus interest MB BCh – Bachelor of Medicine back. The amount of money you but not until you have finished For full course details and individual get normally depends on your MMath – Master of Mathematics or left your course. How UCAS course codes please search the parents’ income and where much you repay each month MPhys – Master of Physics A-Z course list via: swansea.ac.uk/ you choose to live and study. undergraduate/courses and find the depends on your income not MSci – Master of Science degree listed 'with a Foundation Year' how much you borrowed.

* Completion of the foundation year provides progression onto the degree programmes listed

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ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE 5 4 ACTUARIAL SCIENCE GRADUATE GRADUATE Are you looking for an Accounting and Finance degree to give you a Our BSc Actuarial Science programme brings together mathematical, PROSPECTS PROSPECTS competitive edge? If you want a career at one of the ‘big four’ firms (The Guardian University statistical and financial techniques to study financial risk in areas such (The Complete University Guide 2019) Guide 2019) (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG or PwC), or you see yourself as an as insurance, finance, and government. accountant for a government body, not-for-profit organisation, or private The programme is designed to cover the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries business, this degree will equip you with everything you need. Foundation Year available Core Principles syllabuses so that graduates with good degrees can obtain TYPICAL OFFER: AAA (to include Maths) Study/Work Abroad Opportunities a number of exemptions from professional examinations. The School of Management offers a AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available Detailed entry requirements and course features available on the International Students flexible degree with a wide selection Year 1 – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Our Actuarial Science programme AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Course Reference Grid (page 128) of optional modules in later years, • Economics (Accounting foundation programme available was launched in 2018 and is the only Year 1 allowing you to shape the course and Finance) Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) Actuarial Science degree in Wales. • Accounting and finance towards your career goals. • Finance BSc Single Honours It is based in the Mathematics • Calculus and algebra – SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL • F oundations of financial accounting ▲ Actuarial Science You will develop transferable skills • Foundations of management Department and taught jointly with • Economics in areas such as communication, TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB accounting the School of Management. • Statistics ▲ 3 YEAR problem-solving and data analysis, Detailed entry requirements and • Managing people and course features available on the It provides students with a Year 2 For individual UCAS course codes and will be able to engage with organisations Course Reference Grid (page 128) thorough grounding in the areas of • Corporate finance please visit the course web page industry professionals at every Mathematics, Accounting, Finance • Investments: assets, equities stage of your studies. Year 2 and Economics relevant to careers in and bonds • Corporate finance BSc Single Honours FUTURE CAREERS: Pioneering research and industry ▲ Accounting the actuarial profession. Such careers • Probability and statistics • Equities and bonds • Actuary knowledge inform our teaching, are highly financially rewarding and • Real analysis and vector calculus • Financial accounting ♦ Accounting • Auditor while expert academics will help to • Financial markets and institutions (with Year in Industry/Abroad) very competitive. • Vector spaces • Financial analyst build the skills you will need for a ♦ Accounting (with Foundation Year) You will be taught in our new Year 3 • Insurance successful career in the accounting Year 3 ▲ Finance • Investment banking £32.5m Computational Foundry • Assurance and annuity and finance sector. • Auditing ♦ Finance (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • Management • Contemporary issues in finance ♦ Finance (with Foundation Year) Building which provides the latest • Complex analysis Available to all undergraduate • Financial services ▲ Accounting and Finance teaching facilities. These include a • Financial mathematics students within the School of • Forensic accounting ♦ Accounting and Finance dedicated Mathematics Reading • Ito calculus Management, a Year in Industry • International financial management (with Year in Industry/Abroad) Room, at the heart of the department, • Modelling and machine learning is an opportunity to gain real-world ♦ Accounting and Finance for students to study in. • Stochastic processes and industry experience, making you (with Foundation Year) survival models an attractive candidate for jobs after graduating. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page

FUTURE CAREERS: • Accountant or Actuary • Auditor • Banking Professional • Broker • Finance Analyst ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Wealth management or Investment Adviser

You will explore the continuities Year 2 – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Full details available on the American Studies covers the culture, AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: and change from the emergence of • Writing Ancient History Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) Course Reference Grid (page 128) history and politics of the most Year 1 Athenian democracy to the glories of • The History and Archaeology of influential country in the world, • American Politics and Society renaissance Italy, examining topics Roman Britain from colonization to the present day. • Introduction to American TYPICAL OFFER: BBB from the expansion of the Roman • Medieval Britain, 1250-1461 TYPICAL OFFER: BBB Literature and Culture Detailed entry requirements and Empire to the crusades of the Middle • The Roman Comic Novel: Excrement You can shape your degree to your Detailed entry requirements and • The American Experience course features available on the Ages, and the great epics of Homer and Sacrament course features available on the own interests, whether in American Course Reference Grid (page 128) to the sublime poetry of Dante. • Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age Course Reference Grid (page 128) HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE film, music, race, gender, migration Year 2 England and urbanization, social, economic • America in Crisis Drawing on our wide-ranging BA Single Honours • The Crusades and the Making of and military history, terrorism, or • American Word/American Image expertise in ancient and medieval BA Single Honours ▲5 American Studies Latin Christendom, 1050-1300 ▲ Ancient and Medieval History civil rights and political protest. • Ghettos, Streets and Suburbs: history, you will examine civilisations ♦5 American Studies • Gendering the Middle Ages: ♦ Ancient History Cultural Representations of the that may appear distant but remain You will develop a range of (with Year Abroad) Power and Exclusion (with Foundation Year) American City ♦5 American Studies influential in our own time. transferable skills, which are highly • Beyond Blood and Guts: Medicine • JFK and America (with Foundation Year) from Late Antiquity to the Early ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR valued by employers, and you have • New York City: History You will have regular trips to historic Modern period the chance to study for a year or a and Culture Since 1945 BA Joint Honours American Studies and sites, and you can tailor your degree For individual UCAS course codes ▲ ♦ English Literature please visit the course web page semester in the USA, with over 40 • R ethinking the South to your own interests with a variety Year 3 ▲ ♦ Geography US campus options. • Race and Ethnicity of topics to choose from. • Law and Justice in Medieval ▲ ♦ History • The Making of Transatlantic ▲ ♦ International Relations England America AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: FUTURE CAREERS: ▲ • Devotion Piety & Power: The First ♦ Politics • Business Year 1 Crusade & the Worlds of Latin Year 3 All 3 year Joint Honours can be • Business and management • African American Literature extended to 4 years to include a • Medieval Europe: An Introduction Christendom, Byzantium & the • Education and Culture year abroad in your third year. • M aking History (with seminar Islamic Near East • Heritage and museums options such as ‘Violence and Belief • The Crucible of Defeat: Wessex in • Law and public services • America and the Bomb LLB Joint Honours the Ninth and Tenth Centuries • Media and public relations • America and Terrorism American Studies and in the Medieval World, 1000-1300’) • Popular Music and the City ▲5 Law • Greek History and Society • The Masculine and the Monstrous in Contemporary American Fiction ♦5 Law (with Year Abroad) • Rome from Village to Empire: An the Middle Ages • The American Civil War in Introduction to Roman History • Mapping Medieval Landscapes History and Memory ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Of Gods and Heroes: Greek • Britain in Europe, 1000-1250: For individual UCAS course codes Mythology contacts, exchanges and identities please visit the course web page • Ovid’s Metamorphoses: The Transformations of Mythology

FUTURE CAREERS: • Civil service • Education • Law • Management and business • Politics and government • Public relations and media For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 50 51 ANCIENT HISTORY UK TOP APPLIED MEDICAL SCIENCES SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK TOP

ANCIENT HISTORY 5 3 SCIENCES APPLIED MEDICAL GRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL Ancient History explores Greek and Roman civilisations to give you new Applied Medical Sciences explores the science that underpins medicine, (Times and Sunday Times Good EMPLOYMENT University Guide 2019; insights into the cultures that have shaped our modern world. (Times and Sunday Times Good giving you an in-depth understanding of how the human body works, The Guardian University University Guide 2019) Guide 2019) what happens when it goes wrong, how we treat disorders, and the You will have the chance to study Greek and Roman history and society, potential for novel therapeutics. architecture and archaeology, warfare and empire, gender, religion, politics Foundation Year Foundation Year and economics, and you can learn Ancient Greek or Latin language. available This course is ideal for future scientists, biotechnology entrepreneurs and available Study/Work Abroad Opportunities if you want to go on to study medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities

available available – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE You will gain an overview of ancient Year 2 Full details available on the Greek and Roman historical events • Writing Ancient History You will have access to Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Course Reference Grid (page 128) available and people, before learning how to • Armies and Enemies of state-of-the-art research and LINKS TO GRADUATE Imperial Rome Full details available on the dissect different sources and treat teaching facilities at the Medical ENTRY MEDICINE: Course Reference Grid (page 128)

them using the appropriate • The Heirs of Rome: The Making of TYPICAL OFFER: BBB School, including whole-body SCHOOL – MEDICAL This course is part of our Pathways methodologies. Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam Detailed entry requirements and human dissection. to Medicine programme. If you • Ancient and Historic Places course features available on the TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-ABB (to include You will study in a research-intensive Our approach to learning encourages (Study Trip) Course Reference Grid (page 128) choose the Medical Science in Biology and one other STEM subject) department with experts on Roman excellent research and communication Practice Pathway, perform well and Detailed entry requirements and Syria, Pompeii, ancient geography, Year 2/3 skills, incorporating lectures, seminars, meet the minimum entry requirements, course features available on the early Cyprus, and the saints and • A lexander and the Hellenistic World BA Single Honours practical laboratory sessions and you will be guaranteed an interview Course Reference Grid (page 128) ▲ Ancient History rulers of late antiquity. • A ncient Cyprus independent learning. for our flagship MBBCh Medicine • B eing Greek: Identity in the Ancient ♦ Ancient History (Graduate Entry) course. You will develop transferable (with Foundation Year) During your studies, you will focus BSc Single Honours Greek World skills, which are highly valued by on one of three employability ▲ Applied Medical Sciences • B eyond Mainland Greece: Asia in employers, and you can sign BA Joint Honours strands: Medical Science in Year 2 ♦ Applied Medical Sciences the Classical and Hellenistic Periods Ancient History and (with Foundation Year) up for various employability Research, Medical Science in • Entrepreneurship • G ender in the Roman World ▲ English Literature and engagement placements. Practice (subject to eligibility), • Genetic toxicology • G reek City States ♦ French (with Year Abroad) ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Human immunology You can also take the Study Trip • S et in Stone? Inscribing and ♦ German (with Year Abroad) or Enterprise and Innovation. • Medical science in practice For individual UCAS course codes module which will bolster your Writing in Antiquity ▲ Greek AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: • Research themes and techniques please visit the course web page in-depth study of an overseas ancient • Schools work placement: ▲ History Year 1 land by seeing it in real life. Teaching ancient history and ♦ History (with Year Abroad) Year 3 ▲ Politics • Chemical processes and ancient languages • Cancer genetics FUTURE CAREERS: AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) biological systems • Independent research project • Clinical research and development Year 1 Year 3 • Human anatomy under the guidance of a • Drug development • Classics, Ancient History, ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Human physiology • Greek History and Society professional research scientist • Health professions (after further • Rome from Village to Empire: An Egyptology Dissertation For individual UCAS course codes • Molecular genetics • Nanotoxicology study) e.g. doctor, physician’s Introduction to Roman History • Italy before the Romans please visit the course web page • Microbiology • Reproductive biology associate, dentist or veterinarian • Introduction to Greek and Roman • Late Antiquity: the Transformation • Research ethics • Laboratory research Art and Architecture of the Roman World AD 250-600 • R egulation e.g. medicines and health • Introduction to Ancient Philosophy • P ompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius FUTURE CAREERS: care products regulatory agency • Science education, consultancy and Rhetoric • R oman Britain • Business and Management • Heritage and Tourism and journalism • Media and Public Relations • Politics and Civil Service • Teaching

AUDIOLOGY 00 00 BIOCHEMISTRY GRADUATE GRADUATE Our Audiology degree will give you an expert understanding of the science EMPLOYABILITY* Biochemistry is crucial to the study and treatment of diseases, the development EMPLOYABILITY* of hearing, balance, and the conditions that affect them. It combines academic (DLHE 2018) of pharmaceuticals, and the complex relationships with our environment. (DLHE 2018) work with the practical clinical experience you need to become an You will learn about the chemical processes within living organisms and audiologist. You will use the latest diagnostic equipment and software in how cells work at the sub-cellular and molecular levels, gaining an in-depth NO TUITION FEES: Study/Work Abroad Opportunities – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE our state-of-the-art facilities and build your skills in work placements at UK and EU students** understanding of the biochemical function of living organisms, from bacteria available

hospitals across Wales. – Apply for an enhanced support package to plants, animals, and humans. International Students through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. foundation programme available SCHOOL MEDICAL The course is accredited by the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: (**conditions apply) Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries You will benefit from access to the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: National School of Healthcare Year 1 swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ available fees-and-funding/student-loans- state-of-the-art research facilities at the Year 1 Science and many of our academic • Anatomy and physiology for Full details available on the and-grants/nhs-funding/ Medical School, including bioanalytical • Biochemistry skills staff are practising clinicians, healthcare science Course Reference Grid (page 128) equipment such as high-performance • Energy and metabolism providing invaluable professional • Basics of mathematics and physics liquid chromatography, gas • Microbiology insight and expertise. for healthcare science TYPICAL OFFER: BBB (to include chromatography, mass spectrometry, • Organic chemistry TYPICAL OFFER: • Neurosensory anatomy, Biology, Chemistry or Maths) Our excellent facilities provide physiology and pathophysiology Detailed entry requirements and DNA and protein analytical equipment, Year 2 BSc: AAB-BBB (to include realistic workplace simulations and Chemistry and ideally Biology) • Neurosensory science course features available on the computer-based image analysers for • Amino acids, lipids and steroids Course Reference Grid (page 128) you will benefit from experience in molecular or cellular studies. • Biostatistics MSci: AAB (to include Chemistry • Neurosensory clinical and ideally Biology) our award-winning, on-site Health • Metabolic regulation measurement and treatment You will develop excellent project Detailed entry requirements and and Wellbeing Academy, which • Techniques in molecular biology • Pathophysiology for healthcare BSc Single Honours management skills and learn how course features available on the provides health and wellbeing ▲ Healthcare Science (Audiology) Course Reference Grid (page 128) science to design experiments and plan Year 3 services for the local community, work programmes. • Biotechnology and protein including an audiology clinic in Year 2 ▲ 3 YEAR • Audiological science engineering BSc Single Honours collaboration with the NHS. For individual UCAS course codes A range of optional modules gives • Instrumentation signal processing • Bioinformatics ▲ Biochemistry please visit the course web page you the flexibility to tailor your degree As an audiology student, you will • Independent research project ▲ Biochemistry and Genetics and imaging to your particular interests, career spend around half of your course on • Research methods and statistics under the guidance of a ambitions, or plans for further study. professional research scientist clinical work placements throughout • The developing person MSci Single Honours FUTURE CAREERS: A joint honours programme is • Membranes and energy ♦ Biochemistry Wales, which will give you the • Vestibular assessment and Currently the NHS starting salary also available with Genetics, transduction ♦ Biochemistry and Genetics practical skills you need to begin management for healthcare scientists is £23,023 combining two complementary your career. Year 4 (MSci only): (Band 5). Typical career earnings go and overlapping disciplines. Medical Biochemistry – see page 95 Year 3 up to £43,041 however the maximum • Advanced independent research • Healthcare science research project earning potential for a consultant in the MSci PROGRAMME: project under the guidance of a ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Introduction to tinnitus NHS is £102,506. Salaries can vary professional research scientist This integrated undergraduate For individual UCAS course codes • Professional practice significantly in the private sector. • Communicating ideas in science master’s degree adds specialist please visit the course web page • Sensory aids • Entrepreneurship training in laboratory techniques and * 100% of graduates are employed in a professional or managerial job 6 months after the course a further research-focused year to the (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) 3-year BSc Biochemistry course. This FUTURE CAREERS: course gives you a master’s level • Agriculture • Biofuels qualification while paying • Forensic Sciences undergraduate fees and is ideal if • Industrial Chemistry ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: you plan on a career in research. • Pharmaceuticals • Veterinary science

* 100% of graduates in employment or further study 6 months after graduation (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 54 55 BIOLOGY AND UK TOP BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BUSINESS MANAGEMENT BAY CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 90% BIOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 0 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STUDENT OVERALL STUDENT A deep academic understanding of life on Earth is now more important than Do you see yourself playing a key role within a successful brand? SATISFACTION SATISFACTION ever. Studying living organisms in all their epic variety helps us to identify (National Student This degree will make you stand out from the crowd with the skills Survey 2018) (National Student critical threats and major opportunities, from the smallest scale to the biggest. to manage a global, national or local business. Survey 2018)

You will have flexibility to explore natural life wherever your interests lie. Known for producing highly skilled and commercial-thinking business Foundation Year Foundation Year available managers, and with links to industry experts, we will provide an enriched available Local, residential and international AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Study/Work Abroad Opportunities environment for learning, opening up your career opportunities. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available available field courses allow you to work in Year 1 International Students International Students varied habitats. You can explore • Animal diversity foundation programme available This is a flexible degree with a AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available the spectacular marine coastal • Cellular and microbial biology

Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries wide selection of optional modules Year 1 Full details available on the ecology and animal behaviour MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL ecosystems, freshwater/wetland available allowing you to shape the degree • Accounting for business Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Form and function environments and terrestrial Full details available on the towards your specific career goals. • Finance for business • Molecular and evolutionary biology habitats of the Gower Peninsula Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Managing people • Plants and algae – diversity, Degree pathways include Business TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB on our doorstep. • Marketing form and function Analytics, e-Business, Entrepreneurship, Detailed entry requirements and You will benefit from excellent teaching • Operations management course features available on the

TYPICAL OFFER: Finance, Human Resource – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE facilities for ecological, physiological Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 128) BSc: ABB-BBB (to include Management, Management Year 2 • Animal physiology and molecular studies. These include Biology or Human Biology) Consulting, Marketing, Operations and • Corporate finance • Cell and immunobiology the Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Detailed entry requirements and Supply Management, and Tourism. • Corporate Governance and ethics BSc Single Honours • Coastal marine ecology Research, a zoology museum, a course features available on the • Economics ▲ ♦ Business Management • Ecological microbiology and Course Reference Grid (page 128) We can help you start your own custom-designed 18-metre catamaran- • Strategic analysis class survey vessel, and a unique the cycles of life business, thanks to our range of BSc Business Management • Ichthyology support services including business Year 3 visualisation suite that displays BSc Single Honours degree pathways mentoring alongside corporate • Data mining multi-dimensional information from Year 3 ▲ Biology ▲ ♦ Business Analytics partners with a wealth of industry • Investment banking ▲ animal tracking data. • Biodiversity ♦ Biology ♦ E-Business experience. • Innovation management ▲ • Biological control of invertebrate (with Year in Industry/Abroad) ♦ Entrepreneurship In your final year you will complete • Leadership ▲ ♦ Finance pests ♦ Biology (with Foundation Year) Available to all undergraduate a research project which may be ▲ Biological Sciences • Lean operations ▲ ♦ Human Resource Management • Epidemiology of infectious diseases students within the School of field-based, laboratory-based or (deferred choice of specialisation) ▲ ♦ Management Consulting • Physics for biologists Management, a Year in Industry purely analytical. ♦ Biological Sciences ▲ ♦ Marketing • Plant conservation and ecology (with Year Abroad and deferred is an opportunity to gain real-world ▲ ♦ Operations and Supply Management choice of specialisation) industry experience, making you ▲ ♦ Tourism an attractive candidate for jobs Marine Biology – see page 89 after graduating. ♦ All our 3 year courses can be Zoology – see page 125 Our graduates have gone on to extended to 4 years to include: (Foundation Year) or (Year in work for the world’s biggest brands ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Industry/Abroad) including Marks & Spencer, For individual UCAS course codes Bloomberg and Tata. ▲ please visit the course web page 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page FUTURE CAREERS: ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Biotechnologist ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Conservationist FUTURE CAREERS: • Environmental Management • Analyst or researcher • Postgraduate research • Business development manager • Teaching • Entrepreneur • Financial advisor For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: • HR business partner swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses • Management consultant 56 57 CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY CHEMISTRY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MATERIAL % TAUGHT

CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY 00 CHEMISTRY GRADUATE using modern pedagogy Our Cardiac Physiology degree can turn your interests in human biology EMPLOYABILITY* Swansea’s Chemistry curriculum is informed by the needs of modern industry and techniques and health and wellbeing into a rewarding career. (DLHE 2018) and is constantly updated, ensuring you will always be taught materials applicable in the wider world. Studying the anatomy and physiology of the heart, together with the latest

diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, you will gain the scientific, clinical, You will gain the breadth of knowledge you need to practise chemistry NO TUITION FEES: Study/Work Abroad Opportunities – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE and technical knowledge needed to provide specialised care to people UK and EU students** professionally and the depth to enable you to specialise through our available

living with or suspected of having cardiac disease. Apply for an enhanced support package research expertise in natural products, materials engineering, and medicine. Full details available on the through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. Course Reference Grid (page 128) (**conditions apply) Many of our academic staff are AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Our core subjects cover not only AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE practising healthcare scientists, Year 1 fees-and-funding/student-loans- organic, inorganic and physical Year 1 providing an unrivalled combination • Anatomy and physiology for and-grants/nhs-funding/ chemistry, but also instrumental • Chemical practice TYPICAL OFFER: of scientific rigour and professional healthcare science and analytical chemistry. • Chemical reactions BSc: AAB-BBB MChem: AAA-AAB expertise. Our excellent facilities • Basics of mathematics and physics • Chemical thinking You will get the opportunity to (to include Chemistry and one other provide realistic workplace for healthcare science TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Structure and bonding (to include Biology) engage in cutting-edge research, science or maths subject) simulations and you will benefit from • Introduction to cardiovascular Detailed entry requirements and contributing to a research project Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and experience within our award winning science course features available on the course features available on the or pursuing your own ideas. • Biological and medicinal chemistry Health and Wellbeing Academy. • Professional practice Course Reference Grid (page 128) Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Pathophysiology for healthcare We offer you the possibility of getting • Computational and theoretical As a Cardiac Physiology student, chemistry science research skills early on, encouraging you will spend around half of your BSc Single Honours • Further inorganic chemistry • Respiratory and sleep physiology and facilitating ways for you to BSc Single Honours course on clinical work placements ▲ Healthcare Science • Further organic chemistry ▲ develop research plans and ideas, Chemistry throughout Wales, which will give Year 2 (Cardiac Physiology) • Further physical chemistry ♦ Chemistry write proposals, conduct chemistry you the practical skills you need • Instrumentation signal processing (with Year in Industry/Abroad) and imaging ▲ 3 YEAR research interacting with other Year 3 to begin your career. disciplines, analyse research data • Chemistry project • Measurement of cardiovascular For individual UCAS course codes MChem Single Honours • Materials chemistry project function please visit the course web page and present your research results ♦ Chemistry • Pathophysiology of common in oral and written work. • Inorganic chemistry ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR cardiovascular and respiratory • Organic chemistry conditions FUTURE CAREERS: • Physical instrumental and For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page • Research methods and statistics Currently the NHS starting salary analytical chemistry for healthcare scientists is £23,023 Year 4 (MChem) Year 3 (Band 5). Typical career earnings go • Advanced inorganic materials FUTURE CAREERS: • Arrhythmia diagnosis and up to £43,041 however the maximum • Analytical and forensic science management earning potential for a consultant • Advanced organic, medicinal • Discovery of new medicines • Cardiac catheterisation in the NHS is £102,506. and natural product chemistry • Environmental sciences • Evidence-based practice in • Advanced physical, theoretical and instrumental chemistry • Management cardiology * 100% of graduates are employed in a professional • Renewable energy or managerial job 6 months after the course • Research project • Healthcare science research project (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) • Research and development in academia or industry

ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE:

CLASSICAL CIVILISATIONCLASSICAL AND CLASSICS 8 COMPUTER SCIENCE 0 GRADUATE CLASSICAL The civilisations of Ancient Greece and Rome are arguably the foundation of Computer Science impacts almost every aspect of modern life and we are PROSPECTS CIVILISATION (The Complete University western society, and these two degrees each give you new insights into the (The Guardian University at the heart of technological innovation that is redefining the way we live, Guide 2019) cultures which have shaped our modern world. Guide 2019) learn and work.

Classical Civilisation covers the literature and culture of the Greek and Roman Our degrees will educate you ready for entry into a wide range of highly Foundation Year Foundation Year worlds. Classics focuses on ancient Greek and Latin languages and literature. available specialised careers involving software engineering, big data/data science, available Study/Work Abroad Opportunities security analysis, mobile and emerging technologies. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available available

In Classical Civilisation, you will explore In Classics, you will learn to read

Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries International Students – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE the mythology of Greece and Rome to ancient texts in their original A Computer Science degree from available TYPICAL OFFER: foundation programme available obtain a good grounding in the stories languages, even if you don’t know Swansea University can help you Full details available on the BSc: AAB-BBB MEng/MSci: AAA-AAB Full details available on the ancient people told each other, before the languages to begin with. find your place in an ever-shifting Course Reference Grid (page 128) We will consider most subject Course Reference Grid (page 128) learning how to read texts in translation technological landscape. You can introduce local school pupils combinations, but applicants must with an eye for detail. demonstrate an aptitude for maths. to ancient languages and culture, and Over the course of the degree you If studying; Maths OR Computer BSc Single Honours TYPICAL OFFER: BBB will learn to identify the correct You will explore familiar texts, such gain valuable teaching experience, Science OR Physics, two of your other ▲ A pplied Software Engineering Detailed entry requirements and solutions to problems and measure as epics and tragedies, as well as in the Schools Placement module. A levels can be in any subject. (degree apprenticeship) course features available on the If not, two of your A levels must be often overlooked literatures from the Course Reference Grid (page 128) their efficiency. You will be taught in – visit our website for details

You could also study either Greek or in: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE ancient world, including the novel our new £32.5 million world-class ▲ Computer Science Latin in a joint honours degree with Electronics or Psychology. Computational Foundry, which and satiric invective. Detailed entry requirements and ♦ Computer Science Ancient History or Egyptology. BA Single Honours provides state-of-the-art teaching course features available on the (with Year in Industry/Abroad) TYPICAL CLASSICAL CIVILISATION ▲ TYPICAL CLASSICS MODULES INCLUDE: Classical Civilisation facilities and specialist laboratories Course Reference Grid (page 128) ♦ Computer Science MODULES INCLUDE: ♦ Classical Civilisation Year 1-3 including a vision and biometric lab, (with Foundation Year) Year 1 (with Foundation Year) Latin and Greek modules at the ▲ Software Engineering ▲ maker lab, techhealth lab, theory AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: • Gods and Heroes: Greek Mythology Classics ♦ Software Engineering appropriate level out of Beginner’s, lab, cyber security lab and Year 1 • Ovid's Metamorphoses: The ♦ Classics (with Foundation Year) (with Year in Industry/Abroad) Transformations of Mythology Intermediate, Further, and Advanced, visualisation suite. • Computers and society depending on prior experience. Further • Introduction to Ancient Philosophy BA Joint Honours It will also feature world-leading • Concepts of computer science BSc Joint Honours Computing and and Advanced levels read increasing Classical Civilisation and ▲ Education and Rhetoric experimental set-ups, equipment, • Modelling computer systems amounts of prose and verse literature in ▲ English Literature Year 2 devices and prototypes to accelerate • Programming MEng Single Honours the original languages. ♦ French (with Year Abroad) • Reading Classical Civilisation innovation, which you can learn • Software development ♦ Computing Year 1 ♦ German (with Year Abroad) Year 2/3 about and work with. Year 2 H Computing ▲ Greek • Roman Love Poetry • 2 modules’ worth of Latin and • Concurrency (with Year in Industry/Abroad) ▲ Latin Many of our students who take • The Greek Romance: Sea, Sun, and Sex Greek each • Database systems ▲ Medieval Studies MSci Single Honours • Homer and Heroism: A Reading of • If you’ve done neither before, you’ll the Year in Industry option gain • Declarative programming ♦ Computer Science the Iliad have to take 2 modules of either at invaluable work experience and ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Human-computer interaction H Computer Science • Plato’s Republic Beginner’s level, and start the other develop both their computational • Software engineering (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • The Roman Comic Novel: Excrement in your second year For individual UCAS course codes skills and commerical awareness and Sacrament please visit the course web page Years 3 and 4: Year 2 in a work environment. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR • R oman Satire: Ranting and Bantering • Advanced computer graphics • Decision and Responsibility: • S chools work placement: Teaching • Entrepreneurship in practice For individual UCAS course codes ancient history and ancient languages please visit the course web page The Tragic Predicament FUTURE CAREERS: • Project specification and • Schools work placement: Year 3 • Archives development Teaching ancient history and • Classics, Ancient History, Classical • Business • Project dissertation ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: FUTURE CAREERS: ancient languages Civilisation Dissertation • Education • Writing mobile apps • Cyber security analyst • Marketing Year 3 • Cryptography and IT Security • Data scientist • Media and public relations • Classics, Ancient History, • Big Data and Machine Learning • Mobile application developer • Museum and heritage Egyptology Dissertation • Software Testing • Machine learning engineer • Software designer/engineer/tester For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 60 61 CRIMINOLOGY EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS* SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS RD

CRIMINOLOGY 3UK EARLY STUDIES CHILDHOOD Criminology is one of the most diverse, stimulating and challenging subjects CRIMINOLOGY This exciting degree offers opportunities to learn about infants, toddlers and Foundation Year (The Guardian University available we offer at Swansea University. It draws on disciplines such as psychology, Guide 2019) young children through providing theoretical and philosophical knowledge, sociology, social policy, law and even biology to investigate pressing social research opportunities and practical experiences in early childhood centres, Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) problems: What causes crime? What should we do about it? How best can such as; Flying Start and Foundation Phase classrooms. we support victims? International Students foundation programme available The course’s approach is based around children’s rights and holistic learning,

– HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SCHOOL OF LAW OF SCHOOL CLINTON RODHAM – HILLARY TYPICAL OFFER: BBB and our teaching is underpinned by our rigorous research. Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Detailed entry requirements and As a criminology student at Swansea AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available course features available on the University, you will belong to a Year 1 Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) Early Childhood Studies has an AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: thriving community that prioritises • An introduction to the criminal Course Reference Grid (page 128) increasingly high profile in Wales, your academic interests. justice system Year 1 at UK government level and in • Children’s early social worlds BA Single Honours • Foundations in research ▲ Teaching is conducted in a relaxed, international organisations. • The social construction of childhood Early Childhood Studies HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE • Law, criminal justice and human rights We are planning to ▲ supportive environment, with an • Exploring creativity and critical E arly Childhood Studies with * move to sector-leading, This new degree has a socio-cultural emphasis on the skills needed to Year 2 thinking Early Years Practitioner Status purpose-built facilities approach that is based on children’s ♦ Education (with Foundation Year) succeed in the world of work. We • Crime, drugs and alcohol on the Bay Campus • Early childhood rights, policies rights and holistic learning in a social offer career-focused placements • Media, crime and criminal justice in 2020/21 and services and cultural context, all underpinned ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR with agencies including the courts, • Research methods • Infants, toddlers, young children by our rigorous research. police, and youth justice teams. • Penology and punishment and technology For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page • The criminal state TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB The course has its roots in Wales, and To gain new skills, you may be able Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and you will cover issues central to Welsh to apply for a research internship with Year 3 course features available on the • Child development children and families in every module. a key partner agency and undertake • Criminalisation of sex Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Children’s culture and language FUTURE CAREERS: research on a topic of your choice. • Dissertation You will also gain international insight • Play throughout the early years Students who complete the degree • ICT in early years practice can go on to further study to qualify Recent participants have shared their • Serious crime and social harm BSc Single Honours into early childhood practices as an: work with policy makers, allowing • Young offenders and youth justice ▲ Criminology and Criminal Justice worldwide and you will examine • Working effectively with children them to make a real difference to • Diversity, crime and criminal justice social and political issues, as well and families (Research methods for • Early Years teacher the ways agencies operate. BSc Joint Honours as theory and philosophy. Childhood Studies undergraduates) • Primary school teacher Criminology and • Special needs teacher Year 3 ▲ Psychology • Social worker • Dissertation (across A and B ▲ Social Policy • Play therapist semesters) • Welsh Government work LLB Joint Honours • Educational practice in a Criminology and digital age ▲ Law • Professional reflective practice • Transitions in the early years ▲ 3 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page

FUTURE CAREERS: • Criminal justice • Government • Police force • Probation service • Social work • Third sector

ECONOMICS 0 PROFILESTUDENT CAREER An Economics degree can help to unlock your pathway to a variety of careers, PROSPECTS from investment banking and management consultancy to politics and (The Guardian University management roles in global organisations. Guide 2018)

Our Economics degree has an excellent reputation for producing high

Foundation Year – SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL performing graduates. A number of our graduates have progressed to available work for the world’s biggest brands such as Barclays, HSBC and PwC. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities

available MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL International Students Our flagship degree gives you a AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available robust understanding of modern Year 1 Full details available on the economic principles and • Finance for economics Course Reference Grid (page 128) contemporary issues. • Maths for economics* • Macro-economics Constantly updated to maintain a TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB • Micro-economics modern, real-world relevance, these Detailed entry requirements and programmes are suitable if you are Year 2 course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) targeting a career as an economist • Econometrics or you are open to employment • Economic policy When I was at school nobody across different economic and • Macro-economics BSc Single Honours encouraged me to go to university, financial fields. • Micro-economics ▲ Economics but I’m so glad I did because Swansea ♦ Economics (with Year In your first year, you will cover a Year 3 in Industry/Abroad) has changed my life – I now run two comprehensive base of knowledge • Advanced economic analysis ♦ Economics (with Foundation Year) companies, sit on the boards of two encompassing micro- and macro- • Corporate finance ▲ Economics and Business others and have travelled the world, economics, finance and methodology. • Financial economics ♦ Economics and Business meeting royalty and a UK Prime Minister. • Public choice (with Year in Industry/Abroad) In later years your module choice ♦ Economics and Business covers specialist areas of economic * Students are not required to have Studying Economics opened my mind (with Foundation Year) policy, economic development and studied maths at A Level ▲ Economics and Finance to the infinite potential we all possess. health economics. ♦ Economics and Finance I am dyslexic, but was only diagnosed Available to all undergraduate (with Year in Industry/Abroad) at university. Swansea gave me the ♦ Economics and Finance (with students within the School of Foundation Year) confidence, skills and environment Management, a Year in Industry to achieve my dreams. Today my is an opportunity to gain real-world ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR companies, and my charitable industry experience, making For individual UCAS course codes foundation give people the confidence you an attractive candidate for please visit the course web page jobs after graduating. to improve their lives too.

FUTURE CAREERS: I love surfing on Gower, and now I am ECONOMICS GRADUATE • Analyst, researcher or a director of a surf school for disabled government adviser ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR, people. Great waves, great people and • Derivatives trader (subject to module selection): CEO REWISE FOUNDATION • Econometrician the beauty of Gower – Swansea • Financial analyst University has it all. • Manager or Management consultant To learn more about our student stories, visit: • Professional economist swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 64 65 EDUCATION EGYPTOLOGY UK TOP SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 20 EDUCATION STUDENT EGYPTOLOGY Education is a forward-looking, research-led discipline concerned with policy Foundation Year Egyptology covers the study of Ancient Egyptian language, Egyptian literature, EXPERIENCE available and practice from a global perspective. It is a rapidly growing area of study history and culture. (Times and Sunday Times Good Study/Work Abroad Opportunities University Guide 2018) that draws on the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, history and the social available You may explore Egyptian art and architecture, Ancient Egyptian history and sciences to focus on understanding how people learn and how structures of Full details available on the civilisation, archaeology, religion, gender, and the Ancient Egyptian language.

– COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Course Reference Grid (page 128) Foundation Year

education operate to foster life-long learning and personal development.

available HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Study/Work Abroad Opportunities AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available The course covers education in TYPICAL OFFER: BBB We are one of the few UK universities different settings, including schools, Year 1 Detailed entry requirements and where you can study the history, Year 1 Full details available on the further and higher education, social • Child Development course features available on the language, literature, and culture of • Beginning Middle Egyptian Course Reference Grid (page 128) services and local and national • Exploring Creativity and Course Reference Grid (page 128) Ancient Egypt at undergraduate level. • Ancient Egyptian Language for government. Critical thinking Our researchers are engaged in Archaeology TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Grammar and Meaning BA Single Honours projects related to varied aspects of • Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Employability is a key theme and you Detailed entry requirements and • Introduction to Teaching & Learning ▲ the archaeology, history, and religion History and Civilisation 1 and 2 will have the chance to put your study Education course features available on the • Literacy, Numeracy and the ♦ Education (with Foundation Year) of ancient Egypt. into practice through a range of Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 128) Digital Framework optional work placements that include You may interact directly with • Ancient Egyptian Literature BA Joint Honours local schools. You will study the Year 2 Education and artefacts from the Egypt Centre, • Ancient Egyptian Religious Beliefs BA Single Honours theory linked to learning, teaching • Additional Learning Needs ♦ Modern Languages (with Year which is our world-class museum and Practices ▲ Egyptology and assessment and will gain an • Curriculum and Assessment Abroad) on campus, boasting extensive • Intermediate Middle Egyptian ♦ Egyptology (with Foundation Year) understanding of curriculum design. • Protecting and Promoting ▲ Welsh holdings of antiquities from the • Introduction to Egyptian Wellbeing in Education Wellcome Collection. Archaeology BA Joint Honours Egyptology and You will also have the option of • Research Methods in Education BSc Joint Honours • Egyptian Art and Architecture ▲ Ancient History studying the concepts of teaching Education and A work placement module and ▲ • Teaching English as a Foreign Classical Civilisation English as a foreign language which ▲ Computing* volunteering opportunities are Year 3 Language: Theory and Practice focuses on skills that can lead to ▲ Maths* available to you. • Ancient Egyptian Collection ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR ▲ Psychology opportunities to work anywhere Year 3 Practicum (Placement) For individual UCAS course codes in the world. • Curriculum Studies • Egyptian Language: Reading please visit the course web page • D ifference and Diversity in Education ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Advanced Texts • E mployability Decision Making and For individual UCAS course codes • Private Life in Ancient Egypt Work Experience please visit the course web page • Six Feet Under: Funerary FUTURE CAREERS: • E ducational Practice in a Digital Age Culture of Ancient Egypt • Archives • Leading and Managing in Education • Classics, Ancient History, • Business * Teaching is split Egyptology Dissertation • Education between Singleton • Marketing Campus and • Media and public relations Bay Campus • Museum and heritage

FUTURE CAREERS: • Community development • Early years teaching • Education administration • Education publishing • Primary school teaching • Secondary school teaching (for joint honours programmes linked to core subjects)

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ENGINEERING: AEROSPACEENGINEERING: 5 0 ENGINEERING: CHEMICAL GRADUATE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Our Aerospace Engineering degree gives you expert training in the theory PROSPECTS Our Chemical Engineering degree provides expert training in modern process DEPARTMENT and operation of aeronautical vehicles, from jet-powered and propeller-driven (Times and Sunday Times Good engineering, developing analytical and problem-solving skills critical to the (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019) University Guide 2019) planes to gliders and helicopters. application of engineering to industry.

You will learn about the full engineering journey, from concept on the ground Chemical engineers work closely with processes that turn raw materials into Foundation Year Foundation Year to handling in the sky. Whether your main interest concerns design, analysis, available valuable products for human use. Their skills ensure that natural resources available testing or flight, at Swansea we have it covered. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities are used sustainably, and the disposal of by-products is conducted safely Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available and responsibly. available International Students International Students This professionally accredited degree AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available foundation programme available and multi-disciplinary course provides Year 1 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries This professionally accredited degree AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries

a real- world insight into our planet’s • Design and Laboratory Classes available available – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING provides knowledge and skills across Year 1 – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING atmosphere and the cosmos beyond, • Engineering Design Full details available on the the full spectrum of chemical • Chemical and Environmental Full details available on the as well as the technologies needed to • Fluid Mechanics Course Reference Grid (page 128) engineering topics, allowing you Engineering Laboratory Course Reference Grid (page 128) explore them. • Introduction to Aerospace to keep your career options open. • Chemical Engineering Skills Engineering As you progress, your developing • Chemical Process Principles TYPICAL OFFER: • Thermodynamics TYPICAL OFFER: As you progress, your growing analytical abilities will combine with • Fluid Mechanics BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) analytical abilities will combine with BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) • Heat Transfer hands-on experience of state-of-the-art Year 2 MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) hands-on experience, establishing MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) equipment, establishing skills which • Computer Aided Engineering Detailed entry requirements and skills which are vital to securing Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and course features available on the are vital to securing employment in • Structural Mechanics for course features available on the employment in the chemical • Reactor Design Course Reference Grid (page 128) Course Reference Grid (page 128) the wider aerospace industry. Aerospace Engineers engineering industry. • Biochemical Engineering • Aerospace Systems In your first year you can take a flying • Fluid Flow • Aerospace Control Our advanced chemical engineering BEng Single Honours BEng Single Honours • Separation Processes lesson, and throughout your course facilities include the modern Pilot ▲ Chemical Engineering • Aerodynamics • Process and Pilot Plant Operations you will work with facilities like the ▲ Aerospace Engineering Chemical Laboratory containing ♦ Chemical Engineering ♦ Aerospace Engineering Merlin MPX521 Engineering Flight Year 3 15 pilot-scale rigs which cover a Year 3 (with Year in Industry/Abroad) (with Year in Industry/Abroad) Simulator, the JetCat P120 Engine and • Gas Dynamics wide range of unit operations. • Process Equipment Design, ♦ Chemical Engineering ♦ Aerospace Engineering multiple wind tunnels ensuring you are • Propulsion Selection & Control (with Foundation Year) (with Foundation Year) You may work with other always fully up to speed. • Satellite Systems • Energy and Low Carbon • Space Propulsion and Power state-of-the-art facilities including MEng Single Honours MEng Single Honours Technologies Systems atomic force microscopy, fermentation ♦ Chemical Engineering ♦ Aerospace Engineering • Chemical Engineering Design rigs, surface plasmon resonance and H Chemical Engineering • High Performance Materials H Aerospace Engineering Project hydrodynamic shear adhesion assays. (with Year in Industry/Abroad) and Selection (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • Particulate Systems • Safety and Loss Prevention ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page please visit the course web page

FUTURE CAREERS: FUTURE CAREERS: • Applications engineer • Aircraft design engineer • Chemical engineer • Aircraft systems engineer • Energy engineer ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Defence engineer • Petroleum engineer • Flight test engineer • Product/process development scientist • Rocket scientist • Technical plant manager • Satellite design engineer

STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT 3 CIVIL ENGINEERING: CIVIL This degree gives you a strong grounding in the design and analysis of civil ENGINEERING engineering structures. You will develop complex problem-solving skills, (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019) gain the ability to sketch and model engineering solutions and prepare technical reports. Foundation Year You will develop analytical abilities combined with hands-on experience available of state-of-the-art equipment, to establish skills which are vital to securing Study/Work Abroad Opportunities

– COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING employment in civil engineering. available

International Students foundation programme available – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Studying a modern degree with close AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries connections to the rapidly evolving Year 1 available civil engineering industry, you will • Civil Laboratory Full details available on the learn about current design practices • Engineering Sustainability Course Reference Grid (page 128) and the latest engineering standards. • Engineering Mechanics • Highway Design and Surveying We will nurture your computer TYPICAL OFFER: modelling skills by encouraging • Conceptual Design BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) you to develop your own software Year 2 MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) I'm so happy I decided to study at to analyse real-world civil • Engineering Mechanics Detailed entry requirements and Swansea Uni. I’ve met some incredible engineering problems. course features available on the • Basic Soil Mechanics Course Reference Grid (page 128) people and made awesome friends You will benefit from working with • Engineering Management from all around the world. The people advanced facilities including high • Fluid Mechanics grade laboratories for structures • Reinforced Concrete Design BEng Single Honours here are so welcoming, you feel like ▲ Civil Engineering teaching and materials testing. you’re at home. Year 3 ♦ Civil Engineering Our fluids laboratory has a • Geomechanics (with Year in Industry/Abroad) The support has been amazing, five-metre experimental flume and • Finite Element Method ♦ Civil Engineering whether it’s from my academic mentor, a geomechanics laboratory. You • Superstructure Design (with Foundation Year) can also use our sophisticated • Research Project lecturers or student support services. If MEng Single Honours high-speed cameras for strain • Coastal Processes and Engineering you find something difficult to grasp in ♦ Civil Engineering analysis and 3D imaging. class, the lecturers will talk it through H Civil Engineering (with Year in Industry/Abroad) during office hours and make sure you

have a better understanding. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR I’ve made so many memories here: from For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page all-nighters in the library to celebrating with a big night out; chilling on the beach FUTURE CAREERS: between lectures or going for an evening • Building control surveyor walk and seeing my first shooting star! • Consulting civil engineer • Geotechnical engineer Chemical Engineering is a very ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Quantity surveyor demanding course, but the University • Site engineer • Structural engineer CHEMICAL ENGINEERING provides all the resources and support you need to follow your chosen To learn more about our student stories, visit: career path. For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit:

swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 70 71 ENGINEERING: ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING: MATERIALS AND ELECTRICAL IN THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IN THE TH BAY CAMPUS TH UK BAY CAMPUS 8UK

ENGINEERING: ELECTRONICENGINEERING: AND ELECTRICAL 3 ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE ENGINEERING: ELECTRONIC MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ELECTRICAL From the World Wide Web and global mobile phone networks, Materials Science and Engineering explores how the properties of matter AND ENGINEERING ENGINEERING (Times and Sunday Times Good to digital music players and renewable energy sources, Electronic and (Times and Sunday Times Good can be controlled. It includes elements of physics and chemistry, connecting University Guide 2019) University Guide 2019) Electrical Engineering shapes the everyday world around us. closely with most other areas of engineering.

Highly skilled graduates in this subject are in high demand and have This degree will prepare you for a rewarding career across engineering Foundation Year Foundation Year opportunities to work all over the world. available sectors including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, sports, and available Study/Work Abroad Opportunities energy generation. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available available This degree will train and prepare you AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: International Students International Students for a career in electrical, electronic Year 1 foundation programme available As you progress, your developing AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available and nanoengineering positions across • Digital Design Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries analytical abilities will combine with Year 1 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries a wide range of sectors. • Introduction to Electromagnetics available hands-on experience of advanced • Instrumental and Analytical Chemistry available • Instrumentation and Control Full details available on the equipment, establishing skills which • Introduction to Materials Engineering Full details available on the As you progress, your developing • Microcontrollers Course Reference Grid (page 128) are vital to securing employment • Manufacturing Technology Course Reference Grid (page 128) analytical abilities will combine with • Signals and Systems in the wider industry. • Materials Resources hands-on experience of advanced • Mechanical Properties of Materials Our state-of-the-art facilities include specialist equipment, establishing Year 2 TYPICAL OFFER: TYPICAL OFFER: world-leading equipment for the Year 2 skills which are vital to securing • Control Systems BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) BEng: ABB-BBB employment in the wider industry. • Electronic Circuits MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) characterisation of mechanical • Computational Materials MEng: AAB-ABB • Electromagnetics Detailed entry requirements and properties of metallic, ceramic, • Functional and Smart Materials Detailed entry requirements and You will become familiar with a course features available on the – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING course features available on the polymeric and composite materials. • Mechanical Deformation • Practical Circuits Course Reference Grid (page 128) number of laboratories, from our own Course Reference Grid (page 128) in Structural Materials • Software Engineering We also have an extensive range electronics laboratory and the pcb • Microstructure Evolution and fabrication facility, to Wolfson Power Year 3 of laboratories housing scanning BEng Single Honours Control in Metallic Materials BEng Single Honours Electronics and Power Systems electron microscopes with full ▲ • Design Electronics ▲ Electronic and Electrical Engineering • Polymers: Structures and Processing Materials Science and Engineering microanalysis and electron laboratory (peps), and the Smart • Communications ♦ Electronic and Electrical Engineering ♦ Materials Science and Engineering – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING backscatter diffraction capabilities. Year 3 City and Antenna lab. • Engineering Management (with Year in Industry/Abroad) (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • Engineering Management • Microwave Circuits and Antennas ♦ Electronic and Electrical Engineering Visits to Tata Steel, Timet, Ensinger ♦ Materials Science and Engineering • Microstructure and Characterisation (with Foundation Year) • Kinematics and Programming (with Foundation Year) and Airbus will give you valuable • Physical Metallurgy of Steels for Robots insights into the industrial world. MEng Single Honours • Fracture and Fatigue MEng Single Honours ♦ Electronic and Electrical Engineering • Ceramics ♦ Materials Science and Engineering H H Electronic and Electrical Engineering Materials Science and Engineering (with Year in Industry/Abroad) (with Year in Industry/Abroad)

▲ 3 YEAR 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR ♦ For individual UCAS course codes For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page please visit the course web page

FUTURE CAREERS: FUTURE CAREERS: • Broadcast engineer • Biomedical engineer • Control and instrumentation engineer • Manufacturing systems engineer ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Electrical engineer ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Materials engineer • IT consultant • Metallurgist • Network engineer • Product development scientist • Systems analyst • Research scientist

ENGINEERING: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: 00 4 MEDICAL ENGINEERING: GRADUATE GENERAL Mechanical engineers transform pioneering ideas into ground-breaking EMPLOYABILITY* Medical Engineering applies engineering principles to the human body, ENGINEERING inventions. The discipline helps to invent, design and manufacture many (DLHE 2016/2017) in pursuit of an advanced and personalised style of future healthcare. (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019) of the machines we use on a daily basis. Combining engineering with the instrumentation used in modern medicine This degree will prepare you for a rewarding career across a range of promises to generate important new technologies which touch and extend Foundation Year Foundation Year engineering sectors. available all our lifetimes. You can be at the heart of it. available Study/Work Abroad Opportunities Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available available As a student on our Mechanical AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: This degree prepares you for a AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: International Students International Students Engineering degree, you will gain the Year 1 foundation programme available rewarding career across a range Year 1 foundation programme available

skills you need for a rewarding career • Design and Laboratory Classes Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries of sectors. You will gain core • Chemical Engineering Science Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING in a range of engineering sectors, • Engineering Sustainability available engineering skills while learning • Human Neuromusculoskeletal available

including automotive, mechanical • Fluid Mechanics Full details available on the about anatomy, physiology and Systems Full details available on the – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING and design engineering. • Engineering Design Course Reference Grid (page 128) communication with clinicians. • Human Physiology Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Thermodynamics • Introduction to Material Engineering As you progress, your developing As you progress, your developing • Numerical Methods for Biomedical analytical abilities will combine with analytical and problem-solving Year 2 TYPICAL OFFER: Engineers TYPICAL OFFER: hands-on experience of advanced • Dynamic Systems BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) abilities will combine with hands-on BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) equipment, establishing skills which • Computer Aided Engineering MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) experience of industrial medical Year 2 MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) are vital to securing employment in • Design of Machine Elements Detailed entry requirements and devices and instruments, establishing • Cell Biology and Cell Mechanics Detailed entry requirements and this fast-moving industry. • Stress Analysis course features available on the skills that are vital to employment for Engineers course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Manufacturing Technology in the wider industry. • Design of Medical Engineering You will benefit from our state-of-the- • Fluid Flow art facilities throughout your time in Year 3 Our Medical Engineering degrees • Process Modelling Swansea. These include a dynamics • Mechanical Engineering Design BEng Single Honours have three main themes: BEng Single Honours ▲ • Statistical Methods in Engineering ▲ mechanics laboratory, a fluids • Manufacturing Optimisation Mechanical Engineering Medical Engineering ♦ Mechanical Engineering Biomechanics and materials – ♦ Medical Engineering laboratory and our JetCat P120 • Fluid Mechanics Year 3 (with Year in Industry/Abroad) development and analysis of materials (with Year in Industry/Abroad) engine test room. We also have • Engineering Management • Computer Aided Product Design ♦ Mechanical Engineering for strength and biocompatibility; ♦ Medical Engineering • Kinematics and Programming • Engineering Management cutting edge units for digital (with Foundation Year) (with Foundation Year) manufacturing and robotics. for Robot Instrumentation – quantification • Implant and Prosthetic Technology MEng Single Honours of advanced diagnostic and • Medical Engineering Group MEng Single Honours ♦ Mechanical Engineering therapeutic techniques; Design Project ♦ Medical Engineering H • Tissue Engineering H Mechanical Engineering Bioprocesses – detailing important Medical Engineering (with Year in Industry/Abroad) (with Year in Industry/Abroad) physical, chemical and biological processes in the human body. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page please visit the course web page

FUTURE CAREERS: FUTURE CAREERS: • Automotive engineer • Biomaterials engineer • Maintenance engineer • Biomedical engineer ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Mechanical engineer ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Clinical engineer/scientist • Mining engineer • Medical research scientist • Workshop technician • Prosthetic design engineer • Rehabilitation engineer *100% of Mechanical Engineering graduates are employed or in further study within 6 months of graduating (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2016/2017) For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 74 75 ENGLISH – CHINESE TRANSLATION ENGLISH LANGUAGE, APPLIED UK TOP AND INTERPRETATION LINGUISTICS AND TESOL SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS

ENGLISH – CHINESE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION 5 ENGLISH LANGUAGE, APPLIED LINGUISTICS TESOL AND GRADUATE Mandarin Chinese has over 950 million native speakers worldwide and is International Students On these degrees, you will explore the knowledge and use of language foundation programme available PROSPECTS often the most common language required for professional translation services. across contexts and time. (Times and Sunday Times Good Full details available on the University Guide) This degree is unique in the UK and is for students with a native or near-native Course Reference Grid (page 128) You will study real-world challenges including: the language used to persuade command of Mandarin and a high level of competence in English. and mislead (particularly in social media); the effect of dialect and accent on Foundation Year identity; the challenge of learning or teaching new languages; and the impact available TYPICAL OFFER: BBB of acquired and developmental language disorders. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities On this unique degree, you will AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Detailed entry requirements and available develop translation and interpreting Year 1 course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) International Students skills in advanced English, and study • Advanced English for Academic Whether you choose to focus on FUTURE CAREERS: foundation programme available specialist English-Chinese translation Purposes 1 English Language, Applied • Broadcast media Full details available on the workshops for: media, journalism and • Advanced English 1 – Media BA Single Honours Linguistics, TESOL (teaching English • Civil Service Course Reference Grid (page 128) ▲ PR; business, administration and law; and Public Relations English-Chinese Translation to speakers of other languages), or a • Education and teaching economics and finance; and • Concepts in Translation and Interpreting combination of these, you will delve • Marketing engineering, science and medicine. and Interpreting into some of the biggest real-world • Speech and Language Therapy TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Grammar and Meaning ▲ 3 YEAR • Project Administration and Leadership Detailed entry requirements and You will have practical training challenges related to language. • The Sounds of English For individual UCAS course codes • Publishing and EFL Materials and course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) modules in our computer labs, please visit the course web page Depending on your chosen scheme, Design with leading software tools and Year 2 you can explore topics such as child • Advanced English 2 – Business experience an external virtual language and literacy, language BA Single Honours and Finance AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: learning environment through FUTURE CAREERS: sounds and structure, language ▲ English Language • Computer-Assisted Translation Year 1 mobile apps and online videos. • Business management policy and planning, history of the ♦ English Language (with Year Abroad) • Introduction to the Theory • The Sounds of English • International sales English language, software tools ♦ English Language of Translation • Language teaching methods • Marketing in multinational for applied linguistics and the (with Foundation Year) • Translation Project organisations • Grammar and meaning ▲ English Language and TESOL opportunity to do a research project. • Vocabulary Studies • Public relations • Language, identity and diversity ♦ English Language and TESOL –

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE • Translation and interpreting You also have the opportunity to gain • Genres of writing and speaking Year 3 (with Year Abroad) the prestigious CELTA qualification as • Language in the mind • Advanced English Language a teacher of English to speakers of BSc Single Honours and Culture Year 2 The programme is only available other languages. ▲ Applied Linguistics and • Advanced English 3 – Science to native or near-native speakers of • Sociolinguistics English Language • Chinese-English Translation Chinese Mandarin. Our preferred offer • Working with practitioners (health, Theory and Practice is BBB at A level or HKDSE levels 443 education, law, technology) BA Joint Honours English Language and • English-Chinese Translation including a minimum of 3 in English • Child language and literacy ▲ English Literature Workshop 3 (Science and Health) and Chinese. Applicants from China • Studying dialects ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) • Interpreting – Business Option should have at least one year suitable • Discourse analysis ♦ French (with Year Abroad) study after their High School Certificate • Vocabulary studies ♦ German (with Year Abroad) e.g. foundation or degree, plus IELTS ▲ Media 6.0 (5.5. in each component). Year 3 ♦ Media (with Year Abroad) • Issues in current English language ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) teaching • Forensic linguistics BA Joint Honours TESOL and ▲ • Computer-assisted language English Literature ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) • Prehistory, history and language ♦ French (with Year Abroad) • Language in the media ♦ German (with Year Abroad) • Atypical speech and language ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad)

▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR

For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For individual UCAS course codes swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses please visit the course web page 76 77 ENGLISH LITERATURE UK TOP UK TOP WITH CREATIVE WRITING ENGLISH LITERATURE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS

ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH CREATIVE WITH WRITING LITERATURE ENGLISH 5 5 ENGLISH LITERATURE GRADUATE GRADUATE Our degree in English Literature with Creative Writing offers an intense PROSPECTS Studying English Literature will give you the skills to read and to write critically PROSPECTS adventure in reading which fosters creativity and critical awareness. (Times and Sunday Times Good and creatively, engaging with powerful and universal topics and ideas. (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018) University Guide 2018) Taught by experienced and widely published writers with established You can explore over 1,000 years of literature, from Old English texts to reputations, you will gain practical experience in many forms of writing for the current works shortlisted for the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize. You can Foundation Year Foundation Year public, including fiction, drama, screenwriting, poetry, and creative non-fiction. available study national and global literature including the medieval and Renaissance available Study/Work Abroad Opportunities periods, Gothic fiction, 19th century literature and modern, contemporary Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available available You will learn a range of writing skills AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: and digital texts. Full details available on the Full details available on the to equip you for a career as a writer, Year 1 HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Course Reference Grid (page 128) Course Reference Grid (page 128) including novels, plays, poetry, film • Creative Writing: Fiction Genres This dynamic course allows you FUTURE CAREERS: scripts, and non-fiction. • Creative Writing: Styles of Fiction to shape your degree to your own • Broadcasting and journalism • English Essentials You will also study the history, TYPICAL OFFER: BBB interests, whether in Gothic and • Communications and media TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Monsters, Theories, Transformations traditions and theory of over 1,000 Detailed entry requirements and genre fiction, gender and culture, • Publishing, advertising, public relations Detailed entry requirements and • The Stage Play World course features available on the Renaissance literature, national and • Stage and creative industries course features available on the years of English literature from Old Course Reference Grid (page 128) Course Reference Grid (page 128) global literatures, modernity and management English texts to current works. You Year 2 • Teaching and education can study national and global • Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction contemporary writing, 19th century BA Single Honours literature, or creative and BA Single Honours literature including the medieval and • Introduction to Writing Poetry AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: ▲ English Literature with ▲ Renaissance periods, Gothic fiction, • Introduction to Writing Fiction professional writing. English Literature Creative Writing Year 1 ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) 19th century literature and modern, • Introduction to Writing Drama You will learn from established • Approaches to Gender in

– ♦ English Literature with Creative ♦ English Literature

contemporary and digital texts. writers whose work has been widely English Literature COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE Year 3 Writing (with Foundation Year) (with Foundation Year) published, broadcast and performed. We organise visits to national • Creative Writing Personal Project • Creative Writing: Fiction Genres ▲ English Literature with Gender ▲ theatres, archives and museums and • Further Creative Non-Fiction 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR We have close links with the • English Essentials ♦ English Literature with Gender • Monsters, Theories, Transformations (with Year Abroad) you will have opportunities to be put • Further Fiction Writing For individual UCAS course codes creative industries, and you can get in contact with agents, publishers, • Further Poetry Writing please visit the course web page • The Stage Play World involved in projects with the Dylan BA Joint Honours English Literature and • Writing for Radio and Screen editors and writers. Thomas Centre and the National Year 2 ▲ American Studies Theatre Wales. • Conflict and Gothic in the Long ♦ American Studies FUTURE CAREERS: Nineteenth-Century (with Year Abroad) • Education You can also join visits to national • Contentious Shakespeare ▲ Ancient History • Journalism theatres, archives and museums to • Exploring the Bloody Chamber: ▲ Classical Civilisation • Media and public relations familiarise yourself with a variety Medieval to Postmodern ▲ English Language • Screenwriting and Creative Industries of professional environments. • Writing and Publishing • Fragments of Union: The Cultural ♦ English Language (with Year Abroad) Making and Breaking of Britain ♦ French (with Year Abroad) • No-Man's Land: Literature of ♦ German (with Year Abroad) the Great War ▲ History ♦ History (with Year Abroad) Year 3 ▲ Media • Creative Writing Personal Project ▲ Medieval Studies • Dissertation - English Literature ▲ Politics • Madness, Malady and ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) Melancholia: Literature and ▲ ♦ TESOL Medicine from Genesis ▲ Welsh (First Language) to Genomes ▲ Welsh (Second Language) • Poetry in the Twentieth Century • Stuff: Victorian Literature and ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Material Culture For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 78 79 TOP IN GENETICS GEOGRAPHY TH IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS WALES SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK

GENETICS 7 GEOGRAPHY BIOLOGICAL HUMAN Genetics is an exciting and fast-moving field with an enormous impact in a SCIENCES Geography is vital in our globally interconnected world. It helps us GEOGRAPHY range of scientific areas, including the understanding and treatment of diseases, (The Complete University understand human-environment relationships, and how they vary across (National Student Guide 2018 & 2019) Survey 2018) pharmaceutical development, evolution, and the conservation of biodiversity. time and space. Geography allows us to discover, record and shape the

– places we inhabit today and in the future. You will learn techniques for analysing gene expression, protein interactions,

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Foundation Year DNA structure and damage, image analysis of biomolecules and cells, and available Our location offers unparalleled access to rural, coastal and urban available – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE advanced computer analytical methods. International Students environments: Gower Peninsula, Brecon Beacons, industrial and Study/Work Abroad Opportunities foundation programme available post-industrial landscapes of South Wales. available Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries International Students You will benefit from access to the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available foundation programme available state-of-the-art research facilities at Year 1 Full details available on the Alongside cutting-edge knowledge FUTURE CAREERS: Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries the Medical School including DNA • Energy and metabolism Course Reference Grid (page 128) and mastery of key concepts, we • Environmental management available and protein analytical equipment, • Eukaryotic cell biology place a strong emphasis on active and conservation Full details available on the computer-based image analysers for • Evolutionary and molecular genetics learning through fieldwork. • Journalism and the media Course Reference Grid (page 128) TYPICAL OFFER: • Public sector, creative industries molecular or cellular studies, and • Genetic analysis You can customise your degree with BSc: AAB-BBB (to include Biology and charity work a powerful supercomputer facility. Year 2 and ideally Chemistry) a mixture of human and physical • Regional and resource planning TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB You will develop excellent project • Biostatistics MSci: AAB (to include Biology geography to cater to your interests. • Teaching and education (to include Geography or a related subject) management skills and learn how • Human and medical genetics and ideally Chemistry) Each module provides training in • Urban planning and surveying Detailed entry requirements and to design experiments and plan • Molecular biology techniques Detailed entry requirements and either the theory or practice of a course features available on the course features available on the different aspect of the subject (social, Course Reference Grid (page 128) work programmes. • Molecular evolution Course Reference Grid (page 128) AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: environmental, cultural, historical, Year 1 A range of optional modules gives Year 3 political geography). • Fire and ice BA Single Honours you the flexibility to tailor your degree • Animal development BSc Single Honours ▲ Geography We will equip you with the • Key concepts in geography: to your particular interests, career • Bioinformatics ▲ ♦ Geography Genetics space, place, scale ambitions, or plans for further study. • Biotechnology and protein ▲ Biochemistry and Genetics professional tools and graduate (with Year Industry/Abroad) • Mobility and migration A joint honours programme is also engineering mindset you will need to help solve ▲ Human Geography • Our changing planet Earth available with Biochemistry, • Independent research project MSci Single Honours some of today’s ‘grand challenges’. ♦ Human Geography • Sustainability in a fragile world combining two complementary under the guidance of a ♦ Genetics Assessments are diverse and (with Year in Industry) ♦ Biochemistry and Genetics and overlapping disciplines. professional research scientist integrative, allowing you to confidently Year 2 BSc Single Honours master critical thinking, problem • Boundaries and connections in Year 4 (MSci only): ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR ▲ Geography solving, leadership, entrepreneurship social geography • Advanced independent research ♦ Geography (with Year For individual UCAS course codes and team-working skills. • Dangerous earth: understanding project under the guidance of a in Industry/Abroad) please visit the course web page and living with natural hazards professional research scientist Our four-year schemes combine ♦ Geography (with Foundation Year) • Geographic Information Systems • Communicating ideas in science study at Swansea University with a ▲ Physical Geography • Political geography • Entrepreneurship FUTURE CAREERS: year's work placement with a relevant ♦ Physical Geography • Regional economic development • Biomedical Research Scientist employer or organisation, or a (with Year in Industry) • Conservation Biology and policy year spent studying Geography • Forensic Scientist BA Joint Honours Geography and at an overseas institution. Year 3 • Genetic Toxicology ▲ American Studies • Climate of the last 1,000 years • Trainee Healthcare Scientist (NHS) ♦ American Studies (with Year Abroad) • Post-doctoral Research Assistant • Geographies of national identity and creative geographies Geography and Geo-Informatics ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Geography for teachers – see page 82 • Glaciology Physical Earth Science • Migration, security and – see page 110 humanitarianism ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: please visit the course web page swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 80 81 GEOGRAPHY AND GEO-INFORMATICS HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 00% 99% GEOGRAPHY AND GEO-INFORMATICS AND GEOGRAPHY STUDENT GRADUATE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Applying new technologies to important geographical problems, SATISFACTION Our flexible degree in Health and Social Care is the ideal starting point for a EMPLOYABILITY* Geography and Geo-Informatics helps us understand human-environment GEOLOGY range of rewarding careers. You will explore health and social care in national (DLHE 2018) (National Student relationships, and how they vary across time and space. Survey 2018) and international contexts, covering themes including social policy, public health, psychology, human biology and physiology, law and ethics, equality, Land surveying and map-making have been revolutionised by advanced Foundation Year and social justice while developing excellent communication, research and Study/Work Abroad Opportunities digital systems which can intelligently acquire, analyse and present available available analytical skills. geospatial information. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities International Students available foundation programme available If you have a passion for computing, geography or mathematics, and International Students You will be immersed in a dynamic AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the spatial data, this is your course. foundation programme available research and learning environment Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 128) Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries with opportunities to build links with • Academic and professional

available This degree will equip you with the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: students from related disciplines. development HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE Full details available on the TYPICAL OFFER: BBB-BBC expertise to become a geographical • Equality, discrimination and Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 128) Alongside your academic work, you oppression in society Detailed entry requirements and information scientist with a solid • Earth’s changing face will take modules in professional course features available on the • Human anatomy, physiology grasp of key practical, numerical • Global environmental change: development and have the option to Course Reference Grid (page 128) and computational capabilities. the human impact TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB and pathophysiology complete a work placement as part – • Global shifts (to include Geography or a related subject) • Psychology and sociology COLLEGE OF SCIENCE We place a strong emphasis on of your degree. BSc Single Honours • Introducing planet Earth Detailed entry requirements and in healthcare active learning through ‘hands-on’ course features available on the ▲ This is part of our collaborative • The sociology of social policy Health and Social Care • Sustainability in a fragile world Course Reference Grid (page 128) practice. We offer vibrant teaching approach to health and social care, Year 2 ▲ 3 YEAR opportunities by world–leading Year 2 aimed at improving integration • Health law and practice academics in an engaging and • Dangerous earth: understanding BSc Single Honours between the sectors and preparing For individual UCAS course codes and living with natural hazards • Professional development inspiring learning community. ▲ Geography with Geo-Informatics you for a career working across please visit the course web page • Geographic Information Systems ♦ Geography (with Foundation Year) and critical thinking We will equip you with the traditional organisational and (GIS) leading to BSc Geography and • Research and critical appraisal professional tools and graduate professional boundaries. • Glacial environments and processes Geo-Informatics in health and social care FUTURE CAREERS: mindset you will need to help solve • Regional economic development • Safeguarding in health and • Health care management some of today’s ‘grand challenges’. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR and policy We also offer a two-year foundation social care • Health promotion and public health • Private health and social care Course assessments are diverse • The Earth from space For individual UCAS course codes degree in Health and Social Care, Year 3 organisations and integrative, allowing you please visit the course web page taught at Pembrokeshire College. to confidently master critical Year 3 • Applied psychology, health, • Social work The course combines taught modules • The Civil Service thinking, problem solving, • Climate of the last 1,000 years illness and medicine with work-based learning, following the • The NHS • GIS and remote sensing for • Ethics in health and social care leadership, entrepreneurship FUTURE CAREERS: same modules as years one and two professionals • Management and leadership and team-working skills. • Conservation of the BSc Health and Social Care at *99% of graduates are employed in a professional • Glaciology • Environmental management Swansea. On completion you have in health and social care or managerial job 6 months after the course • Global vegetation patterns (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) • Geo-informatic the option to progress to the final • Public health and epidemiology and dynamics • Land surveying year of the Swansea based • Social policy in an ageing world • Meteorology and atmospheric • Mapping and cartography degree programme. science • Remote sensing

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HISTORY 5 HUMANITIES (PART-TIME) GRADUATE HOW TO APPLY: On our wide-ranging History degree, you will explore almost 2,000 years This dynamic and flexible part-time programme will give you a broad PROSPECTS Please contact: of past societies and cultures in Wales, Britain, Europe, the United States knowledge and understanding of humanities subjects. (The Complete University Tel: 01792 602211 and beyond. Guide 2019) Email: [email protected] Taught on a part-time basis during the day, evening and weekend on campus –

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE You can study medieval, early modern, and modern history up to the and at other locations across Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, the degree Foundation Year present day, developing valuable skills while analysing historical change available will prepare you for challenging and rewarding roles in a wide variety of TYPICAL OFFER: over the centuries. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities sectors or for postgraduate study. You do not need formal qualifications available as all applications are considered on Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries their own merit. Applicants must attend interview and submit a personal You can choose from a wide range of FUTURE CAREERS: available You will study a combination of TYPICAL STUDY VENUES: statement of up to 500 words. modules, so you can specialise in an Full details available on the • Civil service compulsory and optional modules, • Swansea University, Singleton HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE area that already interests you or Course Reference Grid (page 128) Detailed entry requirements and • Education taught by expert academics in their Park Campus, Swansea course features available on the discover new ones. • Historical archives field through lectures, tutorials and • Swansea University, Bay Campus, Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Media Themes include political development, seminars, and assessed using a wide Neath Port Talbot/Swansea • Museums and libraries TYPICAL OFFER: BBB range of methods. • Swansea University, South cultural change, gender, medical • Politics and law Detailed entry requirements and Wales Miners’ Library, Swansea BA Single Honours history, heritage, and war and peace. course features available on the You will study broad humanities H Q • The Phoenix Centre, Townhill, / Humanities You can also choose from modules Course Reference Grid (page 128) AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: modules offering innovative learning Swansea dealing with British, European, H 5 YEAR Q 6 YEAR Year 1 experiences as well as being able to American, world and Welsh history. • Early Modern World, 1500-1800 BA Single Honours choose modules in specific areas such ▲ History You will be taught by leading experts • Europe of Extremes, 1789-1989 as: English Literature; Creative FUTURE CAREERS: ♦ History (with Year Abroad) in their fields, meaning that teaching • Making History Writing; Criminology; History; Ancient • Community worker ♦ History (with Foundation Year) is dynamic and at the cutting edge of • Medieval Europe: an Introduction History; Psychology; Sociology; • National or regional government • Modern British History Professional Development. • Policy advisor in non-governmental current historical scholarship. BA Joint Honours organisations for example Unicef, We also offer a wide range of joint Year 2 History and You will gain a range of transferable Red Cross honours programmes, allowing you • Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age ▲ ♦ American Studies skills which can open doors to future • Regional institutions to pair your study of history with England ▲ ♦ Ancient History employment and postgraduate study, ▲ another field. • Deformity, Deviance and Difference: ♦ English Literature and you will be supported by our Exploring Disability History ♦ French (with Year Abroad) expert staff, with embedded Eligible students can apply for • Revolutionary and Napoleonic ♦ German (with Year Abroad) academic writing development a Tuition Fee loan and course ▲ M odern History and grants to help with costs which can Europe, 1789-1815 and optional employability International Relations pay 100% of the total tuition fees. • The Cold War focused modules. ▲ ♦ Medieval Studies • The Welsh Century Fee bursaries of up to 50% of the ▲ ♦ Politics total tuition fees are available to those ▲ Social Policy Year 3 Whilst working in an administration role at Barnardo’s, students who are self-funded and are • History Dissertation ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) not eligible for a Tuition Fee loan or ▲ • Mapping Medieval Landscapes Welsh (first language) I successfully gained a Policy and Research Assistant post. part-time grant.* • New Deal America, 1933-1939 ▲ Welsh (second language) During my role, I co-authored a key research report which For further information visit: • Science, Magic and Medicine in ♦ All our 3 year courses can be was published externally. I can’t put into words how my studies studentfinancewales.co.uk Early Modern Europe extended to 4 years to include • The Long 1968: Protest in a a Year Abroad have changed my life, they have opened so many doors for Global Perspective *please note that funding is subject to change LLB Joint Honours me and I am very proud of my achievements, learning is a History and great way to change your life! ▲ Law ♦ Law (with Foundation Year) Elaine Speyer, First Class Honours Part-time Humanities Degree graduate ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For individual UCAS course codes For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses please visit the course web page swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 84 85 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UK TOP LAW IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS* ND

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 20 22UK LAW CAREER As technology, transport, and a complex international economy make our From parliamentary powers to the running of businesses and the rights of LAW

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world smaller, the value of peaceful and cooperative relationships between children and young people, the law informs and influences every aspect of LAW OF SCHOOL CLINTON RODHAM – HILLARY (The Guardian University Good University Guide 2019) nations is increasingly important. Guide 2018) society. Studying law is both demanding and rewarding. Our undergraduate law programmes provide opportunities to develop a range of practical and On this degree you will look behind the headlines to the key players in Foundation Year intellectual skills, equipping you for a wide variety of careers. Foundation Year world politics, exploring important ideas and how we can solve conflict available available or achieve cooperation. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available As a law student at Swansea, you available International Students will study in a supportive environment, We are planning International Students * to move to sector-leading, AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available taught by dedicated academics with foundation programme available On our International Relations purpose-built facilities Full details available on the Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries programme, you will explore Year 1 a range of expertise. on the Bay Campus in Course Reference Grid (page 128) available 2020/21 globalisation and global institutions, • War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

– You can put your learning into development and human rights, • Introduction to International Full details available on the COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE practice by enrolling on a range Course Reference Grid (page 128) international and regional politics, Relations TYPICAL OFFER: BBB of experiential learning modules FUTURE CAREERS: peace and conflict, political economy, • Introduction to Political Detailed entry requirements and including the Law Clinic, Miscarriage security and strategic studies, and Methodology course features available on the • Barrister TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB Course Reference Grid (page 128) of Justice Project, Negotiation and • Civil service you will learn how power, institutions • Early Modern World, 1500-1800 Detailed entry requirements and Street Law. • Law enforcement and laws affect our day-to-day lives. • The Fundamental Questions of course features available on the • Local government Course Reference Grid (page 128) Philosophy You will gain a solid foundation in You will gain an understanding of BA Single Honours • Policing ▲ legal reasoning, learn to apply legal the patterns of behaviour between Year 2 International Relations • Solicitor ♦ International Relations with concepts, and develop transferable LLB Single Honours nations, their leaders and • Anarchy and Order: Theories in French (with Year Abroad) skills including problem-solving, ▲ Law corporations, focusing on the International Relations AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: ♦ International Relations with German research and analysis. ▲ Law (Crime and Criminal Justice) interactions and inter-relationships • Globalisation (with Year Abroad) Year 1 ▲ Business Law We offer local, national and between philosophical, political • Global Ethics ♦ International Relations with • Contract law international placements, and the and economic thought. • International Security Spanish (with Year Abroad) • EU law LLB Joint Honours • Strategic Studies ♦ International Relations support to help you achieve your • Law of tort Law and You have the opportunity for a • Business & Entrepreneurship (with Foundation Year) career ambitions. • Public law ▲ American Studies placement with the National • Fundamental Issues in Moral ▲ Criminology Assembly for Wales as part of the Year 2 and Political Philosophy BA Joint Honours ♦ French (with Year Abroad) module, The National Assembly • Criminal law • Social Media Cultures International Relations and ♦ German (with Year Abroad) for Wales. ▲ Modern History • Equity and trusts ▲ History Year 3 ♦ American Studies (with Year Abroad) • Land law ♦ Italian (with Year Abroad) • Shadow Wars: US Presidents and Optional modules, including: ▲ Politics ▲ covert action from the Cold War 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Environmental law ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) ▲ Welsh (first/second language pathway) to Trump For individual UCAS course codes • Human rights law • The National Assembly for Wales please visit the course web page • Contemporary Wars and Conflicts Year 3 LLB (with Foundation Year) • Global Political Economy Optional modules, including: ♦ Law and American Studies ♦ Law and History • International Politics of Space FUTURE CAREERS: • Criminal evidence law ♦ Law and Politics • Dissertation • Business • Cybercrime • Education • Sports law • Government and politics • The legal response to terrorism ♦ All our 3 year courses can be • Humanitarian organisations extended to 4 years to include a • Law and public services Year in Industry/Abroad • Media and public relations ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: please visit the course web page swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 86 87 MARINE BIOLOGY TH IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK

STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT 7 BIOLOGYMARINE RESEARCH Marine Biology at Swansea is a highly practical course. We are ideally EXCELLENCE located for marine biology field and boat work – the nearby Gower Peninsula (Research Excellence Framework 2014-2021) provides a variety of study habitats, from exposed rock shores and steep cliffs enclosing small sheltered bays to sand dunes, salt marsh, open pelagic, deep water and estuarine mudflats. Foundation Year available Study/Work Abroad Opportunities

– HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SCHOOL OF LAW OF SCHOOL CLINTON RODHAM – HILLARY available You will receive training in a range of AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE survey and sampling techniques, and Year 1 International Students foundation programme available will gain experience in identifying • Animal diversity a wide variety of seabed-dwelling • Cellular and microbial biology Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries available invertebrates and fish. • Ecology and animal behaviour • Form and function Full details available on the Local and international field courses Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Molecular and evolutionary biology allow you to work in varied habitats. Recent projects have involved sea Year 2 turtle migration, whale behaviour • Ichthyology TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB and oil pollution. You may have • Marine biology field course (to include Biology or Human Biology) the opportunity to join an (Pembrokeshire) Detailed entry requirements and • Marine ecosystems course features available on the international field course in Course Reference Grid (page 128) Puerto Rico or Malaysia. • Marine invertebrates The best thing about studying at the • M arine plankton and oceanography Our excellent teaching facilities BSc Single Honours School is how inclusive it feels. You’re include the Centre for Sustainable Year 3 ▲ Marine Biology encouraged to get involved and there's Aquatic Research, zoology museum, • Diseases of aquatic animals ♦ Marine Biology (with Year something to suit everyone. custom-designed 18-metre • Ecology of marine animals in Industry/Abroad) catamaran-class survey vessel, • Fisheries and aquaculture ♦ Biology (with Foundation Year) I’ve mooted for the university as part and a unique visualisation suite that • Oceans and climate leading to BSc Marine Biology of the Bar Society, which as well as displays multi-dimensional animal • Polar biology Biology – see page 56 tracking data. being great fun, has given me unique Zoology – see page 125 advocacy experience that is invaluable ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR for your CV. I've also been involved with the Law Society, which offers For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page great networking opportunities.

Swansea offers so many opportunities FUTURE CAREERS: both whilst studying and to help you once • Conservationist you've graduated. For prospective • Environmental consultant • Marine researcher students, I feel this is an important thing to • Postgraduate research consider, because ultimately you need to • Teaching be as prepared as possible for the world ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: after university. Swansea goes above and LAW AND SPANISH beyond to get you off to the best start!

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swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 88 89 MARKETING UK TOP MATERNITY CARE BAY CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS* RECOGNISED BY UNICEF UK MARKETING 20 CARE MATERNITY Awarded Level 1 Can you picture yourself working for a multinational marketing agency MARKETING If you want to move into a career in maternity care, work as a doula or Baby Friendly or for a household name? (The Complete University consolidate existing skills in this sector, this flexible course, is ideal. Guide 2018) Initiative Status This degree will distinguish you from the pack with the dynamic, creative It focuses on empowering women and families throughout pregnancy, skills required to manage marketing on a global, national or local level. birth and early parenting, and will enhance your professional skills,

– SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available paving the way to further career development or study opportunities. TYPICAL OFFER VARIES:

In year one you will develop a core AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the

There is no typical offer or – Course Reference Grid (page 128)

foundation in business management Year 1 With a strong focus on self- AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: specific entry requirements for this HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE and marketing. In the following years, • Essential analytic skills for business development, self-awareness and • Academic writing for health course. For full details please see Course Reference Grid (page 128) you will specialise in marketing- • Finance for business holistic skills, you will gain a detailed and social care TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB specific modules and have the chance • Managing people knowledge and understanding of key Detailed entry requirements and • Biological dimensions of to explore elective modules from • Marketing course features available on the aspects of physiology, family, society, pregnancy and parenting HE Cert other business disciplines. • The global context of organisation Course Reference Grid (page 128) communication, culture, health, and • Competencies for maternity care Maternity Care maternity care services in the UK. • Optimising health and wellbeing You will learn to think critically Year 2 1 YEAR FULL-TIME 2 YEARS PART-TIME and make well-informed strategic • Consumer behaviour BSc Single Honours Our Midwifery and Reproductive in pregnancy, birth and parenting Apply directly to the College marketing decisions with impact • Digital marketing ▲ Marketing • Psychosocial dimensions of Health Team are active in maternity of Human and Health Sciences: ♦ Marketing pregnancy and parenting in the real world. • International marketing research and are driven to try to [email protected] • Social marketing (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • Working as a doula We have developed the course improve knowledge and • Strategic marketing planning understanding of women’s bodies, • Working in the maternity care team structure and content in line with the ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR experiences, and needs during FUTURE CAREERS: Chartered Institute of Marketing and, Year 3 There is also an option to study the transition to motherhood. • Doula through lectures, tutorials and • Marketing ethics marketing under the Business As a result of this course, • Introduction to further studies one-to-one meetings you will absorb • Marketing communications Management pathway. Please Our blended learning approach, in health care such as Midwifery see page 57 for further details I'm able to offer a higher the expertise of the academic staff. • Marketing research which combines taught sessions • Maternity care support worker You will also have access to our video • Services marketing For individual UCAS course codes with self-directed learning, will level of counselling and • Nursery nurse and digital content creation suite. please visit the course web page give you the flexibility to fit your breastfeeding support studies around your other work *and St David’s Park Campus, Carmarthen Available to all undergraduate for first-time mothers. students within the School of or family commitments. FUTURE CAREERS: Management, a Year in Industry • Brand manager Zanet, Maternity Care graduate is an opportunity to gain real-world • Management consultant industry experience, making • Marketing manager you an attractive candidate for • Media buyer jobs after graduating. • PR account executive

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MATHEMATICS 4 MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION GRADUATE GRADUATE Mathematics is one of the most timeless and international disciplines, PROSPECTS The media increasingly defines the way we interact with society. It shapes the PROSPECTS forming the foundations upon which the modern world is built. (The Complete University way we see ourselves and others and can be a powerful tool for social change. (Times and Sunday Times Good Guide 2019) University Guide 2019) Contemporary science and business are underpinned by mathematics, Study Media and Communication with us and you will learn theory and and our degrees reflect this connection with industry. practical skills to equip you for an exciting career in the media, marketing Foundation Year Foundation Year or related fields. available available

– COLLEGE OF SCIENCE As you progress, your developing mathematical abilities will combine with transferable skills which are vital to securing employment in a range of industries. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available available You will have the chance to explore AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: International Students International Students foundation programme available radio and video production, digital Year 1 foundation programme available Our Mathematics degrees cover a FUTURE CAREERS: and social media, journalism, • Introduction to Media broad base of classical and modern Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries • Actuary available public relations, media theory, • Introduction to Film Studies available mathematics. We offer a range of • Accountant media law, and film, learning from • Introduction to Media History modules covering pure and applied Full details available on the Full details available on the

• Data scientist

Course Reference Grid (page 128) experienced industry professionals • Public Relations: Strategic Course Reference Grid (page 128) HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE mathematics and all single honours • Management consultant and leading academics. Communications students complete a dissertation in an • Software engineer • Introduction to Hollywood Cinema • Statistical analyst The flexibility of the degree means area of their choice in their final year. TYPICAL OFFER: TYPICAL OFFER: BBB you can shape the course to match In all our schemes you will learn BSc: AAB – ABB (to include an A in Maths) Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: MMath: AAA your career goals as well as course features available on the to use logical reasoning, construct (to include Maths) • Business and Entrepreneurship Year 1 Detailed entry requirements and developing your own interests. Course Reference Grid (page 128) rigorous arguments and develop • Creative Media Practice • Abstract and linear algebra course features available on the communication skills. A work placement will give you • Theorising the Media • Calculus and introductory analysis Course Reference Grid (page 128) first-hand experience of media and • Digital PR Practice BA Single Honours You will be taught in our new • Mechanics/Statistics communication, and our on-campus • Social Media Cultures ▲ Media and Communication £32.5 million Computational Foundry Year 2 BSc Single Honours facilities include Mac computer labs, ♦ Media and Communication Building which provides the most ▲ Year 3 • Real analysis and vector calculus Mathematics video equipment, a video editing (with Year in Industry) up-to-date and high-quality teaching ♦ Mathematics • Dissertation ♦ Media and Communication • Vector spaces and group theory studio, and a TV station studio. facilities. These include a dedicated (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • Media and Communication (with Foundation Year) • Probability Mathematics Reading Room, at the ♦ Mathematics (with Foundation Year) You can also choose a year in industry. Internship heart of the department, for students Year 3/MMath: ▲ Pure Mathematics • Mediating the 21st Century BA Joint Honours Media and ▲ Applied Mathematics • Strategy, Marketing and Branding ▲ Cymraeg a’r Cyfryngau to study in. • Algebraic coding theory ▲ ▲ English Language • Biomathematics Mathematics for Finance • Digital Futures ♦ Mathematics for Finance ▲ English Literature • Complex analysis (with Year in Industry) ♦ French (with Year Abroad) • Dynamical systems ♦ German (with Year Abroad) • Financial mathematics BSc Joint Honours Mathematics and ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) • Functional analysis ▲ Education ▲ Welsh (Second Language) • Numerical methods ▲ Sport and Exercise Science • Quantum mechanics ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Stochastic processes ♦ MMath Mathematics For individual UCAS course codes H MMath Mathematics please visit the course web page (with Year Abroad)

▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR FUTURE CAREERS: For individual UCAS course codes ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Advertising please visit the course web page • Business • Digital marketing • Journalism • PR and marketing • Publishing For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: • TV and radio swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 92 93 MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK TOP 3 STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT MEDICAL SCHOOL BIOCHEMISTRY MEDICAL Medical Biochemistry is at the heart of modern medicine. It is crucial to the (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019; way we understand the causes and effects of disease and how we develop The Guardian University novel treatments. Guide 2019)

You will learn how cells work at the sub-cellular and molecular levels, gaining Study/Work Abroad Opportunities an in-depth understanding of the biochemical function of living organisms, available from bacteria to animals and humans. International Students

– COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE foundation programme available Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries You will benefit from access to the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available

state-of-the-art research facilities Year 1 Full details available on the –

at the Medical School, including • Biochemistry skills Course Reference Grid (page 128) SCHOOL MEDICAL bioanalytical equipment such as high • Energy and metabolism performance liquid chromatography, • Human physiology gas chromatography, mass • Microbiology TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB (to include Chemistry and ideally Biology) spectrometry, DNA and protein Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and analytical equipment, computer-based • Clinical biochemistry and physiology course features available on the image analysers for molecular or Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Human immunology cellular studies. • Medical science in practice You will develop excellent project • Techniques in molecular biology BSc Single Honours management skills and learn how ▲ Medical Biochemistry The biggest challenge I faced when Year 3 to design experiments and plan joining Swansea University was living • Genetic toxicology MSci Single Honours work programmes. on an entirely different continent and • Human immunopathology ♦ Medical Biochemistry moving away from my family. MSci PROGRAMME • Independent research project under the guidance of a Biochemistry – see page 55 However, since moving here, I have This integrated undergraduate professional research scientist felt very comfortable and happy. master’s degree adds specialist • Membranes and energy transduction ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR training in laboratory techniques For individual UCAS course codes Year 4 (MSci only): The city is close-knit and the and a further research-focused please visit the course web page community has welcomed me, making year to the 3-year BSc Medical • Advanced independent research Biochemistry course. This course project under the guidance of a me feel as settled as possible. Being professional research scientist gives you a master’s level qualification FUTURE CAREERS: part of such a great and supportive • Communicating ideas in science while paying undergraduate fees • Cancer research university environment has only added • Entrepreneurship • Health professions (after further and is ideal if you plan on a career to the experience and made my study) e.g. doctor, physician’s in research. associate, dentist or veterinarian overall transition that much smoother. • Medical laboratories I now feel as though I have fully • Pharmaceuticals immersed myself in the course, university and city. I'm completely LINKS TO GRADUATE happy and satisfied, and I think ENTRY MEDICINE: choosing Swansea University has This course is part of our Pathways MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION provided me with one of the best to Medicine programme. If you opportunities of my life. choose the Medical Science in Practice Pathway, perform well and To learn more about our student stories, visit: meet the minimum entry requirements, you will be guaranteed an interview For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories for our flagship MBBCh Medicine swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses (Graduate Entry) course. 94 95 MEDICAL GENETICS MEDICAL PHARMACOLOGY ST IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK TOP 3 UK MEDICAL GENETICS MEDICAL SCHOOL RESEARCH MEDICAL PHARMACOLOGY Medical Genetics is an exciting and fast-moving field with an enormous (Times and Sunday Times Medical Pharmacology focuses on the science behind drugs and medicines, ENVIRONMENT Good University Guide 2019; (Research Excellence impact on medicine, helping us to understand, diagnose, and treat many The Guardian University their effects on living systems, and their role in treating disease. Framework 2014-2021) human diseases. Guide 2019) You will learn about toxicology, immunology, pharmacogenomics, You will learn techniques for analysing gene expression, protein interactions, neuroscience and drug development. Our range of optional modules also Study/Work Abroad Opportunities Study/Work Abroad Opportunities DNA structure and damage, image analysis of biomolecules and cells, available gives you scope to tailor your studies to your particular interests, career available

and advanced computer analytical methods and gain an in-depth International Students goals, or plans for postgraduate study. Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries foundation programme available available

understanding of the building blocks of life. – Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Full details available on the MEDICAL SCHOOL MEDICAL Medical Pharmacology has been AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available Course Reference Grid (page 128) AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: identified as a critical undergraduate You will benefit from access to the Full details available on the Year 1

state-of-the-art research facilities at Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 128) degree, required to fill the current • Human physiology –

the Medical School, including DNA • Eukaryotic cell biology work force and skills gaps in medicine • Microbiology TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB (to include SCHOOL MEDICAL and protein analytical equipment, • Evolutionary and molecular genetics and pharmaceutical development. • Organic chemistry Chemistry and one other STEM subject) and computer-based image analysers • Genetic analysis TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB This course curriculum has been • Skills for medical sciences Detailed entry requirements and (to include Biology and ideally Chemistry) for molecular and cellular studies. • Microbiology developed to fill this skills gap, • Toxicology and dose response course features available on the Detailed entry requirements and Course Reference Grid (page 128) under the guidance of the British You will develop excellent analytical Year 2 course features available on the Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 128) Pharmacological Society. and project management skills and • Biostatistics • Antimicrobial therapy and resistance BSc Single Honours learn how to design experiments • Human and medical genetics You will benefit from access to the • Human immunology ▲ Medical Pharmacology and plan work programmes. • Human immunology BSc Single Honours state-of-the-art research facilities • Medical science in practice ▲ Medical Genetics • Neuroscience • Medical science in practice at the Medical School, including ▲ 3 YEAR MSci PROGRAMME our research laboratories. You will • Pharmacogenomics Year 3 MSci Single Honours For individual UCAS course codes This integrated undergraduate develop excellent analytical and • Biotechnology and protein ♦ Medical Genetics Year 3 please visit the course web page master’s degree adds specialist project management skills and learn engineering • Clinical trials training in laboratory techniques and how to design experiments and • Genetic toxicology Genetics – see page 80 • Diabetes and related disorders a further research-focused year to the plan work programmes. • Genetics of cancer • Drug development and regulation FUTURE CAREERS: 3-year BSc Medical Genetics course. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Independent research project • Independent research project • Health professions (after further This course gives you a master’s under the guidance of a For individual UCAS course codes under the guidance of a study) e.g. doctor, physician’s level qualification while paying professional research scientist please visit the course web page professional research scientist associate, dentist or veterinarian • Industrial Research undergraduate fees and is ideal • Nanotoxicology if you plan on a career in research. Year 4 (MSci only): • Patent law • Advanced independent research FUTURE CAREERS: • Pharmaceuticals project under the guidance of a • Genetic toxicology • Regulation • Health professions (after further professional research scientist study) e.g. doctor, physician’s • Communicating ideas in science associate, dentist or veterinarian LINKS TO GRADUATE • Entrepreneurship • Forensic science ENTRY MEDICINE: • Pharmaceuticals This course is part of our Pathways to Medicine programme. If you LINKS TO GRADUATE choose the Medical Science in ENTRY MEDICINE: Practice Pathway, perform well and meet the minimum entry requirements, This course is part of our Pathways you will be guaranteed an interview to Medicine programme. If you for our flagship MBBCh Medicine choose the Medical Science in (Graduate Entry) course. Practice Pathway, perform well and meet the minimum entry requirements, you will be guaranteed an interview For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: for our flagship MBBCh Medicine For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses (Graduate Entry) course. swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 96 97 MEDICINE: GRADUATE ENTRY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK TOP

MEDICINE: GRADUATEMEDICINE: ENTRY 3 PROFILESTUDENT MEDICAL SCHOOL Our Medicine (MBBCh) course is an innovative four-year medical degree (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019; open to graduates of any discipline. With an emphasis on clinical and The Guardian University communication skills, our integrated curriculum is structured to reflect the Guide 2019) way in which patients present to doctors and how doctors approach patients and their symptoms. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available

Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries

WHAT WE LOOK FOR DOCTORS FOR WALES available – MEDICAL SCHOOL MEDICAL Our selection process looks for the The Medical School has a broad Full details available on the personal and academic qualities ongoing package of measures Course Reference Grid (page 128) needed as a doctor. In summary in place to address significant these are: challenges to the medical workforce

– TYPICAL OFFER: 2:1 • Communication skills in Wales, including the recruitment MEDICAL SCHOOL MEDICAL (bachelor’s degree in any subject area) • Coping with pressure and retention of doctors. These measures are designed to increase Detailed entry requirements and • Insight and integrity course features available on the • Passion for medicine and the numbers of Welsh-domiciled Course Reference Grid (page 128) resilience to succeed applicants who interview for medicine • Problem solving skills and the number of qualified doctors DEGREE PROGRAMMES AVAILABLE: who choose to practise in Wales. Alongside University-based learning ♦ MBBCh Medicine Find out more at: and practical sessions, you will enjoy swansea.ac.uk/medicine/ Doctors need fighting spirit – to fight a high level of clinical contact with ♦ 4 YEAR doctorsforwales for their patients, and for a system self-selected Learning Opportunities in For individual UCAS course codes the Clinical Setting (LOCS), specialty ACCREDITED BY THE GENERAL please visit the course web page that’s supported us for decades. attachments, assistantships and MEDICAL COUNCIL (GMC) This is the type of doctor Swansea community-based learning. In order to obtain registration with University is turning me into. You can also tailor your studies a licence to practise in the UK from LINKS TO GRADUATE The training is of course intensive, so I’m to focus on rural medicine in a 2022 onwards, all medical students ENTRY MEDICINE: community context, with clinical must pass a Medical Licensing grateful that my tutors recognise this, placements in Primary Care in Assessment (MLA) with the General As part of our commitment to widening and encourage me to de-stress through mid and west Wales. Medical Council (GMC) in addition access to medicine, you could gain a my love of boxing. It’s not a sport the to passing your medical degree and guaranteed interview for this Medicine medical profession completely approves demonstrating your fitness to practise. course by studying one of our Pathway to Medicine degrees. Find out more at: of, but I’ve found it a great way to blow swansea.ac.uk/medicine/pathways off steam. I couldn’t have found such a strong work-life balance if it weren’t FUTURE CAREERS: for my tutors’ encouragement. Clinical placements I believe we need medics involved in incorporated as part of this programme the sport, to ensure it’s being practised safely. My passion for boxing helps me ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: GRADUATE ENTRY MEDICINE achieve this balance, and will help me be the best doctor, and person, I can be. To learn more about our student stories, visit:

swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 98 99 MEDIEVAL STUDIES UK TOP MIDWIFERY IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS

MEDIEVAL STUDIES 5 2UK MIDWIFERY GRADUATE Medieval Studies explores almost 1,000 years of history through the lenses Our Midwifery degree will help you to develop the clinical and interpersonal MIDWIFERY PROSPECTS of literature, philosophy, law, religion, politics, and conflict. expertise to ensure a woman’s physical and emotional wellbeing during (The Guardian University (The Times Good University Guide 2019) Guide 2018) pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood. This interdisciplinary approach allows you to immerse yourself in the study of

this dynamic period, as you develop research and analytical skills and learn It combines academic work with practical placements across south west Foundation Year NO TUITION FEES: –

to present your ideas effectively both in writing and verbally. available Wales, working with midwives in community-based teams, midwifery-led UK and EU students** HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE Study/Work Abroad Opportunities birth centres and hospital maternity units. Apply for an enhanced support package available through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme.

– Our Medieval Studies courses allow AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: (**conditions apply) Full details available on the COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: you to study the Middle Ages in a way Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 128) Many of our academic staff are swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ that blends different methodological • Literature and Society in registered midwives and active Year 1 fees-and-funding/student-loans- and critical approaches. Medieval Europe in practice and research, • Bioscience for midwifery and-grants/nhs-funding/ • Medieval Europe: An Introduction TYPICAL OFFER: BBB Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries You can pursue themes and topics providing professional insight • Building the foundations for • Making History Detailed entry requirements and midwifery practice available including: the transition of Late and practical expertise. • The Crusades and the Making of course features available on the • Introduction to the profession Full details available on the Antique history to the Early Middle Course Reference Grid (page 128) Our excellent facilities include a Latin Christendom, 1050-1300 of midwifery Course Reference Grid (page 128) Ages, the crusades, the literature of realistic clinical suite, so you can • Gendering the Middle Ages: • Midwifery and public health Anglo-Saxon England, Medieval put your theoretical knowledge Power and Exclusion BA Single Honours landscapes, Chaucer, and the Year 2 TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Beyond Blood and Guts: Medicine ▲ Medieval Studies into practice. monstrous in medieval literature. • Developing my midwifery practice Detailed entry requirements and from Late Antiquity to the Early ♦ Medieval Studies You can also gain experience in course features available on the You can also study; History, Ancient • Complex and urgent maternity care Modern period (with Foundation Year) antenatal education, postnatal and Course Reference Grid (page 128) History, Classical Civilisation and • Complex needs in pregnancy Year 2 breastfeeding support by taking part English Literature modules. BA Joint Honours • Psychosocial and cultural context in activities offered through our on-site • The Practice of History Medieval Studies and of childbearing BMid Single Honours • A History of the French Language Health and Wellbeing Academy. As ▲ Midwifery ▲ Classical Civilisation • Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age a midwifery student, around half of Year 3 ▲ English Literature your course will be spent on clinical • Becoming a midwife – the final push ▲ 3 YEAR England ▲ History • Consolidating my midwifery practice • The Heirs of Rome: The Making of work placements, which will give you For individual UCAS course codes • Preparing for professional practice Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR the practical skills you need to begin please visit the course web page in the Early Middle Ages 400-800 your career as a midwife. • Using research to inform practice For individual UCAS course codes • Medieval Encounters please visit the course web page When applying for this course, you FUTURE CAREERS: Year 3 should show that you understand the Currently the NHS starting salary for role of the midwife and demonstrate • Law and Justice in Medieval FUTURE CAREERS: midwives is £23,023 (Band 5). Typical your knowledge of some of the issues England • Civil service career earnings go up to £43,041. • Armies of Heaven: The First • Heritage and tourism in current midwifery practice. Your Crusade and its Historians • Historical archivists application should explain why you • The Crucible of Defeat: Wessex • Law think you'd be a good midwife and NMC REGISTERED ADULT NURSES in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries • Teaching show your commitment to midwifery • The Masculine and the Monstrous as your future career. May be eligible to apply for our in the Middle Ages short pre-registration Midwifery • Mapping Medieval Landscapes course (20 months). Please contact • The First Crusade and its Historians us for further information: ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: [email protected]

For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 100 101 MODERN LANGUAGES, MODERN LANGUAGES TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING (FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, MANDARIN, SPANISH) SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MODERN LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING LANGUAGES MODERN

The demand for translation and interpreting is growing rapidly as more Study/Work Abroad Opportunities On our new Modern Languages programme, you can study up to three Study/Work Abroad Opportunities companies, institutions and people do business globally but expect to use available languages, helping you to become part of a global community and opening available services in their own language. Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries doors to a wide range of careers. Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries available available As well as developing your language skills, you will gain knowledge and Full details available on the As well as developing your language skills in French, German, Italian, Mandarin Full details available on the practical skills to prepare you for a career in translation or interpreting. Course Reference Grid (page 128) or Spanish, you will also select modules from specialist pathways with a focus Course Reference Grid (page 128) on cultural studies, language pedagogy, and translation and interpreting.

You can choose one or two • Translation Project TYPICAL OFFER: BBB TYPICAL OFFER: BBB

languages from French, German, • Vocabulary Studies You will have intensive language Detailed entry requirements and

Detailed entry requirements and FUTURE CAREERS: HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Italian, Mandarin-Chinese or Spanish • You will study language modules course features available on the course features available on the tuition and study optional modules • Global business at the appropriate level Course Reference Grid (page 128) Course Reference Grid (page 128) in addition to your native language. relating to various aspects of society, • International sales You will explore concepts of Year 3 culture, education and translation • Marketing in multinational organisations BA Single Honours translation and interpreting, During your third year, we encourage BA Single Honours and interpreting. There are also • Teaching ♦ Modern Languages (French/ translation theory, computer-assisted you to spend time in two countries ♦ Modern Languages, Translation options to learn basic Arabic and • Translation German/Italian/Mandarin/Spanish) and to take advantage of the and Interpreting (with Year Abroad) students of Spanish can also translation, translation project, ♦ Modern Languages with Education terminology management and agreements we have in place with study Catalan. ♦ 4 YEAR Year 2 interpreting for business, health some of Europe’s most renowned Weekly ‘language cafés’ take place • Intermediate and/or Advanced BA Joint Honours or law. translation schools in Barcelona, For individual UCAS course codes outside formal class time and bring ♦ Ancient History (French/ please visit the course web page Language Bologna, Brussels, Cologne, Forli, German/Spanish) You will also study abroad for a year you together with exchange students • Translation Theory and Granada, Geneva, Maastricht, Mainz, ♦ Classical Civilisation (French/German) to further develop your language who are native speakers ready to Computer-Assisted Translation Paris, Poznan, Valladolid and Zurich. ♦ English Language and translation techniques and boost FUTURE CAREERS: talk to you in the languages you • War and Conflict in European Film are studying. (French/German/Spanish) your career prospects. For those undertaking Mandarin • Business and legal organisations • Teaching Modern Foreign ♦ English Literature Chinese, we also have an exchange • Government and politics Languages to Young Learners This degree can open doors to All five languages are available from (French/German/Spanish) programme with the Beijing Foreign • Interpreting – beginners. French, German and ♦ History (French/German/Spanish) exciting careers in the UK or • Translation Year 3 COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE Studies University, the premier ♦ Media (French/German/Spanish) around the world, as a home-based Spanish can also be taken post-A You will spend the third year abroad, university for language learning ♦ Politics (French/German/Spanish) freelancer, in-house translator with level (or equivalent). You can also working as a paid British Council and the teaching of translation ♦ TESOL (French/German/Spanish) learn basic Arabic and for Spanish language assistant or studying at an agency, or in the translation ♦ Welsh (First Language) and interpreting in China. students, Catalan. department of a large company a partner university. Some students (French/German/Spanish) or organisation. We have a dedicated year abroad also take paid work placements or AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: ♦ Welsh (Second Language) tutor to help you every step of the work as volunteers on approved ( Dependent on your chosen language(s), (French/German/Spanish) AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: programmes. There are way in the organisation of this areas studied typically include): Year 1 important year. opportunities in Latin America LLB Joint Honours Year 1 • Concepts in Translation for students of Spanish. Law and • Beginner and/or Advanced and Interpreting Year 4: ♦ French (with Year Abroad) • Interpreting - Health Option or Language Year 4: • Grammar and Meaning ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) Business Option or Law Option • Concepts in Translation and • Language Teaching Methodology • Language for Professional Purposes • Option of a pair of language Interpreting • Translation Workshops and Public • Studying the English Language ♦ 4 YEAR modules or general module • Introduction to Culture (French, Service Interpreting • The appropriate general For individual UCAS course codes • Translation Work Experience German, Italian, Spanish) • From Page to Screen: Adapting language modules please visit the course web page for BA Students • Modern European Fiction and Film the European Classics Year 2 • Translation Workshop and • Modern Languages: Introduction • Modern Languages Classroom • Computer-Assisted Translation Professional Purposes modules to Language Teaching Practice • Introduction to the Theory • Terminology Management • Modern Languages Dissertation of Translation

For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 102 103 NUCLEAR MEDICINE, RADIOTHERAPY NEUROPHYSIOLOGY PHYSICS, RADIATION PHYSICS NUCLEAR MEDICINE, PHYSICS, RADIOTHERAPY RADIATION PHYSICS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS % SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS % GRADUATE GRADUATE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY EMPLOYABILITY* EMPLOYABILITY* Our Neurophysiology degree will give you the expert training you need These degrees will give you the expert training you need to begin a HEALTHCARE SCIENCES HEALTHCARE SCIENCES to diagnose and treat people with neurological disorders such as stroke, rewarding, responsible and highly skilled career working as a medical physics (DLHE 2018) (DLHE 2018) epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and dementia. It combines academic work with technologist, a dosimetrist in radiotherapy physics or a radiation physicist. clinical experience. You will use the latest diagnostic equipment and software Each of these courses combine in-depth academic work with practical, clinical applications in our state-of-the-art facilities and build your skills on work NO TUITION FEES: NO TUITION FEES: UK and EU students** and technological skills in a range of specialised healthcare settings. UK and EU students** placements at hospitals across Wales. Apply for an enhanced support package Apply for an enhanced support package through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. On our Nuclear Medicine course, Our excellent on-campus facilities (**conditions apply) (**conditions apply)

– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE The course is accredited by the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: you will learn about using isotopes provide realistic workplace National School of Healthcare Year 1 swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ fees-and-funding/student-loans- and radiation to diagnose and treat simulations, and you will spend fees-and-funding/student-loans- Science and many of our academic • Anatomy and physiology for and-grants/nhs-funding/ diseases. As a medical physics around half of your course on clinical and-grants/nhs-funding/ staff are practising clinicians, healthcare science technologist, you will be operating, work placements throughout Wales, providing invaluable professional • Basics of mathematics and maintaining, and monitoring which will give you the practical skills insight and expertise. physics for healthcare science TYPICAL OFFER: BBB (to include TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Neurosensory anatomy, physiology Biology, Chemistry, Maths or Physics) equipment used in the diagnosis you need to begin your career. (to include Maths or Physics) Our excellent facilities include a Detailed entry requirements and Detailed entry requirements and and pathophysiology and treatment of patients. AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: realistic clinical suite so you can course features available on the course features available on the • Neurosensory clinical measurement Course Reference Grid (page 128) Radiotherapy Physics teaches you Course Reference Grid (page 128) put your theoretical knowledge Year 1 and treatment how to use radiotherapy to treat into practice in an environment • Neurosensory science • Anatomy and physiology for various cancers. As a radiotherapy healthcare science that reflects the conditions that • Pathophysiology for healthcare BSc Single Honours BSc Single Honours ▲ physicist, you will work as part of a you will experience when you science Healthcare Science • Basics of mathematics and physics ▲ Healthcare Science (Neurophysiology) team to develop treatment plans and for healthcare science go on placement. • Professional practice (Nuclear Medicine) be responsible for the use of • Pathophysiology for healthcare ▲ Healthcare Science As a neurophysiology student, around Year 2 ▲ 3 YEAR sophisticated radiotherapy equipment. science (Radiotherapy Physics) half of your course will be spent on • Applied neurophysiology • Scientific basis of medical physics ▲ For individual UCAS course codes On our Radiation Physics course, Healthcare Science clinical work placements throughout and instrumentation please visit the course web page (Radiation Physics) you will learn about the clinical Year 2† Wales, which will give you the • Clinical neurophysiology

uses of x-rays, radioactive materials, • Instrumentation signal processing – practical skills you need to begin • Evoked potentials ▲ 3 YEAR lasers, and ultraviolet radiation in and imaging HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE your career. • Instrumentation signal processing FUTURE CAREERS: imaging patients and diagnosing • Medical equipment lifecycle For individual UCAS course codes and imaging Currently the NHS starting salary please visit the course web page • Medical imaging • Neuroanatomy and physiology for Healthcare Scientists is £23,023 and treating disease. As a radiation (Band 5). Typical career earnings go physicist, you will use sophisticated • Non-ionising radiation and Year 3 up to £43,041, however the maximum equipment to measure and calculate physiological measurements FUTURE CAREERS: • Abnormal EEG and interpretation earning potential for a consultant in the the doses of radiation received by • Practice of radiation protection Currently the NHS starting salary • Healthcare science research project NHS is £102,506. Salaries can vary for Healthcare Scientists is £23,023 patients during treatment. Year 3† • Neuropathology significantly in the private sector. (Band 5). Typical career earnings go Many of our academic staff are • Clinical indication, pathology up to £43,041 however the maximum * 100% of Healthcare Science graduates are employed in a practising clinicians, providing and patient care earning potential for a consultant in the professional or managerial job 6 months after the course • Healthcare science research project NHS is £102,506. Salaries can vary (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) invaluable professional insight and expertise. • Physics and instrumentation significantly in the private sector. • Practice of radiotherapy physics ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Radiobiology and clinical * 100% of Healthcare Science graduates are employed in a professional or managerial job 6 months after the course radiotherapy physics (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: † Modules in years 2 and 3 are subject specific and vary by degree programme

For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 104 105 NURSING OSTEOPATHY ST IN THE IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK ND COMPLEMENTARY NURSING 2UK OSTEOPATHY MEDICINE Our internationally recognised Nursing degrees will give you the skills NURSING This Osteopathy degree will give you the knowledge and skills to become a OSTEOPATHY (The Guardian University and experience to launch a rewarding career. Guide 2019) registered osteopath, qualified to diagnose and treat a wide range of health (The Complete University issues through manual and physical therapy, tailored exercises, rehabilitation Guide 2019) On our adult nursing course you will learn about the holistic needs of people

– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE and advice. You will gain an understanding of anatomy, physiology and from early adulthood until old age, while our child nursing course teaches NO TUITION FEES: Study/Work Abroad Opportunities pathology together with clinical examination techniques, combining in-depth you about the holistic health and wellbeing needs of children, young people, UK and EU students** available –

academic work with extensive practical clinical skills. HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE and their families. Our mental health nursing course will give you skills you Apply for an enhanced support package Full details available on the need to provide high quality, compassionate nursing care to people dealing through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. Course Reference Grid (page 128) (**conditions apply) The course is approved by the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: with mental ill-health as well as support to their families. swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ fees-and-funding/student-loans- General Osteopathic Council, Year 1 and-grants/nhs-funding/ enabling you to register to apply • Anatomy and physiology TYPICAL OFFER: BBB AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: (to include a Biological Science) Half of your teaching takes place in Study/Work Abroad Opportunities for practice on graduation. • Osteopathic skills the University and half in healthcare Year 1 available • Personal and professional Detailed entry requirements and Our state-of-the-art facilities include course features available on the settings across south west Wales, • Developing nursing knowledge development Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries a fully functioning osteopathic clinic Course Reference Grid (page 128) including placements in the NHS • Introduction to professional practice available at the award-winning Health and Year 2 and independent sector in hospitals • Introduction to the fundamentals Full details available on the Wellbeing Academy, which is staffed • Applied psychology and sociology DEGREE PROGRAMMES AVAILABLE: and community settings. of nursing practice Course Reference Grid (page 128) for health care Advanced Initial Degree in Osteopathy • Learning to learn in higher by associate staff members who are You will develop the professional • Developing evidence based practice (M.Ost) education and clinical practice practising osteopaths. skills to provide high quality, • Osteopathic skills ♦ Osteopathy • What is nursing? TYPICAL OFFER: BBB This gives you a safe environment evidence-based nursing care, often • Pathophysiology and therapeutics Detailed entry requirements and to build your skills and confidence ♦ 4 YEAR working as part of a multi-disciplinary Year 2 course features available on the as you put your theoretical knowledge Year 3 team across the health and social • Acute care Course Reference Grid (page 128) For individual UCAS course codes into practice. We also have a unique • Developing business management care sectors. • Developing the practice of nursing please visit the course web page skills • Health promotion and public health agreement with the local health board Our academic staff are qualified BSc Single Honours • Osteopathic skills • Long-term conditions and that gives you the opportunity to work ▲ Nursing (Adult) (Swansea Singleton • Violence and aggression passport FUTURE CAREERS: nurses, doctors, and allied health palliative care in an integrated NHS setting in your Campus or Carmarthen) professionals, many of whom are final year. Most registered osteopaths work in ▲ Year 4: also practising clinicians, providing Year 3 Nursing (Child) the private sector. Qualified Osteopaths ▲ Nursing (Mental Health) • Autonomous osteopathic practice an exceptional combination of • Advancing professional nursing can expect an average starting salary • Chronic pain management of £25,000. theoretical rigour, professional insight, practice ▲ 3 YEAR • Health psychology of long term and practical expertise, and our • Consolidating the practice of nursing and chronic conditions excellent facilities include a realistic For individual UCAS course codes • Leadership and management please visit the course web page • Manual handling clinical suite so you can put your • Managing complex care in theoretical knowledge into practice. rapidly changing situations FUTURE CAREERS: Job prospects are excellent, with 100% of our nursing graduates employed in a professional or managerial job within six months (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018). Currently the NHS starting salary for Nurses is £23,023 ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: (Band 5). Typical career earnings go up to £43,041.

For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 106 107 PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS UK TOP PARAMEDIC SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 95 % SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS PARAMEDIC SCIENCE PARAMEDIC 0 PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS STUDENT TEACHING Our Diploma will give you the essential skills to begin an exciting and SATISFACTION We are the only university in Wales, and one of the few in the UK, to offer EXPERIENCE rewarding career as a paramedic, combining academic work with practical (National Student Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) - long regarded as the ideal (Times and Sunday Times Good Survey 2018) clinical experience. You will learn about anatomy and physiology, the major preparation for a wide range of careers in public life. University Guide 2018) body systems and the conditions that affect them, how to assess patients and You will learn about the complex interactions between philosophical, political identify life-threatening conditions and how to administer life support. NO TUITION FEES: Foundation Year UK and EU students** and economic thought and how they influence our society. available Apply for an enhanced support package Study/Work Abroad Opportunities The course is approved by the Health AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. available Our PPE programme highlights the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: (**conditions apply) International Students and Care Professions Council, Year 1 – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE ways political and economic thought Year 1 enabling you to apply for registered • Developing professional practice, swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ foundation programme available fees-and-funding/student-loans- emerged out of philosophical thought, • Ethics, Justice, and Society status on completion of the course. principles and judgment for Full details available on the and-grants/nhs-funding/ pre-hospital care and the continuing interactions • Macro-economics 1 Course Reference Grid (page 128) Many of our teaching staff are also • Developing the emergency care role between disciplines. • Micro-economics 1 registered paramedics who still work • Politics and the People • Pre-hospital care skills TYPICAL OFFER: BB OR CCC You will study moral and political in practice, providing invaluable • Knowledge and Reality TYPICAL OFFER: BBB Detailed entry requirements and philosophy, ethics, justice and society, professional insight and expertise. Year 2 • Mathematics 1 for Economics Detailed entry requirements and course features available on the history of political thought, history • Clinical decision making within course features available on the Our state-of-the-art facilities include Course Reference Grid (page 128) the healthcare team of economic thought, European Course Reference Grid (page 128)

a realistic clinical suite which allows integration, British politics and Year 2 • Independent professional HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE you to build your skills before using Diploma in Higher Education (DIPHE) public policy, political economy, • Fundamental Issues in Moral and practice delivery BA Single Honours them in real-life situations, on Paramedic Science globalisation, micro- and Social Philosophy • Planning and evaluating ▲ Philosophy, Politics and Economics placement with the NHS and Welsh • History of Political Thought paramedic care macro-economics, econometrics, ♦ Politics (with Foundation Year) Ambulance Service. 2 YEAR SCHEME and environmental and • Global Political Economy: From Mercantilism to Neoliberalism Half of your course will be spent on Apply directly to the College of resource economics. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR The course is challenging, Human and Health Sciences: • Macro-economics 2 placements throughout Wales, which [email protected] You have the opportunity for • Micro-economics 2 For individual UCAS course codes will give you the practical skills you as it should be, as the the a placement with the National please visit the course web page need to begin your career. responsibilities of a Assembly for Wales as part of Year 3 FUTURE CAREERS: the module, The National • Contemporary Political Economy paramedic are great. FUTURE CAREERS: Currently the NHS starting salary for Assembly for Wales. • Econometrics I enjoyed the fact that the Paramedics is £23,023 (Band 5). For • Feminist Philosophy • Business team leaders or senior paramedics • The National Assembly for Wales • Government and politics course pushed me, developed who have undertaken extended • Dissertation • Humanitarian organisations skills training, salaries can go up • Law me and provided the course • Twentieth-Century Philosophy to £36,644. • Media and public relations skills needed for the job. • Public services

Anthony, Paramedic Science graduate

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PHYSICAL EARTH SCIENCE STUDENT SATISFACTION WITH PHYSICS SATISFACTION TEACHING AND Physical Earth Science combines the study of landscape and natural From quantum information to grand unified theory; dark matter to quantum STUDENT EXPERIENCE GEOLOGY environments in physical geography with aspects of geology to investigate the gravity; antimatter to high energy particle physics; quantum biology to (National Student Survey (National Student 2018, Physics and

physical processes that shape our planet and the changes that have affected Survey 2018) next generation materials; extra dimensions to black holes; medical imaging Astronomy) – environments over hundreds of millions of years. to string theory. COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Foundation Year Foundation Year Our location offers unparalleled access to varied geological environments: available Studying Physics at Swansea you’ll discover the exciting breadth of the available Gower Peninsula, Brecon Beacons and the industrial landscapes of South Wales. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities subject and change your future*. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available available International Students International Students AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: We combine physical geography with foundation programme available The Physics Department was one of FUTURE CAREERS*: foundation programme available aspects of geology, allowing you to Year 1 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries the four founding departments of the • Aerospace and defence Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries

– COLLEGE OF SCIENCE investigate processes that have • Earth in action; earth science available University and on our centenary year • Financial modeller available shaped the earth for millions of years. in the field Full details available on the warmly welcomes you to study your • Medical physics Full details available on the • Earth’s changing face Course Reference Grid (page 128) physics degree with us. • Meteorologist Course Reference Grid (page 128) Alongside cutting-edge knowledge • Global environmental change: • Nuclear scientist and mastery of key concepts, we You will learn and understand how the human impact • Research scientist place strong emphasis on active fundamental physics underpins the • Introducing planet earth: TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB Our graduate physicists are sought-after TYPICAL OFFER: learning through fieldwork. You can (to include Geography or a related subject) latest advances of the discipline an overview of geology in a range of diverse industries due to BSc: AAB-BBB (to include Maths Detailed entry requirements and customise your degree, including a • Sustainability in a fragile world and how applying physics leads to their outstanding analytical, mathematical and Physics) course features available on the and critical thinking abilities* wide range of geology and human Course Reference Grid (page 128) innovations in engineering, medicine MPhys: AAA-AAB (to include Maths or physical geography modules to Year 2 and mathematics. and Physics) cater to your interests. • Dangerous earth – understanding AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Detailed entry requirements and and living with natural hazards; BSc Single Honours Our teaching is informed by the latest course features available on the Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 128) We will equip you with the • Geological record of ▲ Physical Earth Science research, e.g. the anti-matter ALPHA • Astronomy and cosmology professional tools and graduate environmental change ♦ Physical Earth Science Collaboration at CERN. Such links (with Year in Industry) • Dynamics, oscillations and waves mindset needed to help solve some • Glacial environments and can provide an opportunity to BSc Single Honours ♦ Geography (with Foundation Year) • Mathematics for physicists of today’s ‘big issues’. Assessments processes, past and present undertake a final year Master’s ▲ Physics leading to BSc Physical Earth Science are diverse and integrative, • Monitoring global project at CERN, Geneva. Year 2 ♦ Physics (with Year in allowing you to confidently master environmental change • Group projects Industry/Abroad) ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Through our state-of-the-art facilities critical thinking, problem solving, • Reconstructing quaternary • Laboratory physics II ♦ Physics (with Foundation Year) you will be introduced to research. ▲ leadership, entrepreneurship environmental change For individual UCAS course codes • Nanotechnology Physics with Particle Physics please visit the course web page Whether it is designing the and team-working skills. • Particle physics and Cosmology Year 3 next-generation photovoltaics, ▲ Theoretical Physics • Quantum mechanics • Climate of the last 1,000 years observing ultra-fast processes ♦ Theoretical Physics • Glaciology FUTURE CAREERS: using lasers or using high-performance Year 3 (with Year in Industry) • Human tropical environments • Conservation work (local computing to model dense • Frontiers of nuclear physics and landscape authorities and NGOs) quark matter. • Teaching physics via a school MPhys Single Honours • Meteorology and atmospheric • Energy generation industries placement ♦ Physics Physics at Swansea offers many H Physics (with Year in Industry/Abroad) science and consultancy • Theoretical, experimental and • Environmental and resource possibilities alongside a top-rated ♦ Theoretical Physics • Plate tectonics and global computational projects geophysics management student experience. H Theoretical Physics • Geological engineering Year 4 (MPhys): (with Year in Industry) • Insurance risk assessment • Advanced research project • Teaching ▲ • Magnetic resonance physics 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • NMR spectroscopy and MRI For individual UCAS course codes • Quantum field theory please visit the course web page • Quantum information processing * 7th in UK for career after 6 months (The Guardian University Guide 2019) For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 110 111 UK TOP POPULATION HEALTH POLITICS AND MEDICAL SCIENCES SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS THE NEXT

POLITICS 0 BIG THING POPULATION HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES TEACHING IN HEALTHCARE Our Politics degree explores how power, institutions and laws affect our EXPERIENCE Population health covers the wide range of factors that can determine the day-to-day lives. You will examine and discuss different visions for a more (Times and Sunday Times Good health and the health outcomes of individuals, groups and populations. (Monster Jobs 2018) University Guide 2018) just society, while asking where problems for society come from and whether This course brings together a diverse range of subjects to give you a holistic – we can prevent them.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE understanding of the social, economic, medical and demographic factors that Foundation Year Foundation Year You will have the opportunity to engage in complex research that explores available shape population health; from prevention and promotion, to health protection, available where power lies and how it is used. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities diagnosis, treatment and care. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available available International Students Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: You will explore British and European FUTURE CAREERS: foundation programme available Medical advances are improving available politics, public policy, political theory • Business health for more people, but Year 1 Full details available on the Full details available on the • Education and philosophy, electoral issues, Course Reference Grid (page 128) inequalities in the healthcare they • Community medicine Course Reference Grid (page 128) democracy and international • Government and politics receive based on where they are • Health information technology • Humanitarian organisations peace and conflict. At the same • Law born, live and work are prevalent. • Medical psychology time, you will develop a range of TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Population Health systems TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB • Media and public relations Population health addresses these transferable skills, which are highly Detailed entry requirements and and organisation (to include Biology) course features available on the inequalities, by working to better Detailed entry requirements and valued by employers and open up AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: • Skills for medical sciences Course Reference Grid (page 128) understand healthcare needs, course features available on the exciting career possibilities. Year 1 improving healthcare models and Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Introduction to Politics You have the opportunity for a BSc Single Honours providing innovative solutions. • Biostatistics • Introduction to Political • Health informatics placement with the National ▲ Politics BSc Single Honours You will have access to the state-of- – Assembly for Wales as part of the Methodology • Health service research ▲ Population Health and ♦ Politics (with Foundation Year) the-art research and data science SCHOOL MEDICAL module; The National Assembly • Politics and the People • Human immunology Medical Sciences facilities at the Medical School. You for Wales. • Political Philosophy BA Joint Honours Politics and • Medical science in practice will develop the knowledge needed to ▲ 3 YEAR • Ethics, Justice, and Society ▲ American Studies Year 3 • American Politics and Society ♦ American Studies (with Year Abroad) determine systematic variations in the For individual UCAS course codes ▲ Ancient History health of individuals and populations, • Autism please visit the course web page Year 2 ▲ English Literature and the skills and experience to apply • Global population health • Approaches to Politics ♦ French (with Year Abroad) this knowledge to practical solutions • Neurodiversity • British Politics and Public Policy ♦ German (with Year Abroad) to improve health, wellbeing, and the • Independent research project FUTURE CAREERS: • The State and Political Institutions ▲ History delivery of health services. under the guidance of a • Health informatics • America in Crisis: Political Culture ♦ History (with Year Abroad) professional research scientist • Health, medical and life science and Society from the Tet Offensive ▲ Social Policy • Population data analysis research to Trump ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) • Health professions (after further • Business & Entrepreneurship ▲ Welsh (First Language) study) e.g. doctor, physician’s ▲ Welsh (Second Language) associate, dentist) Year 3 • P opulation health analysis • Researching Politics 1 LLB Joint Honours • Patient advocacy • Researching Politics 2 Politics and • Telehealth and telemedicine • The National Assembly for Wales ▲ Law • Elections, Campaigns, and Voting ♦ Law (with Foundation Year) • Philosophy and the Social Sciences LINKS TO GRADUATE ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Dissertation ENTRY MEDICINE: For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page This course is part of our Pathways to Medicine programme. If you choose the Medical Science in Practice Pathway, perform well and meet the minimum entry requirements, you will be guaranteed an interview For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: for our flagship MBBCh Medicine swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses (Graduate Entry) course. 112 113 PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS ND UK

PSYCHOLOGY 2 PROFILESTUDENT GRADUATE This British Psychological Society (BPS) validated degree will give you expert PROSPECTS scientific training in the relationship between the mind, brain, and behaviour. (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide) You will study the psychological and neuro-scientific processes that underpin activities such as thinking, reasoning, memory and language, learn about the effects of brain injury, and explore ways to improve health-related behaviour. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE International Students

Our approach to teaching, which AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE includes lectures, personal tutorials, Year 1 Full details available on the academic seminars, workshops, and • Biological psychology Course Reference Grid (page 128) practical research classes, encourages • Cognition effective team-working and high- • Individual and abnormal psychology TYPICAL OFFER: quality oral communication skills. • Social and developmental Single Honours: AAB-ABB psychology During your degree, you will Joint Honours: ABB-BBB develop excellent research, written, Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and and critical analysis skills, as well • Brain and behaviour course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) as a high degree of numeracy • Development across the lifespan and ICT ability. • From individuals to society • Research and experimental methods The degree is flexible, with an BSc Single Honours ▲ Psychology extensive range of final year optional Year 3 modules, giving you the scope to • Final year independent BSc Joint Honours Psychology and research project tailor your studies to your particular ▲ Criminology interests, career goals, or ambitions • Forensic psychology ▲ Education for postgraduate study. • Nutrition and behaviour I’ve always had an insatiable curiosity – • Psychopathology: anxiety disorders ▲ 3 YEAR whether it’s about our world or the human • Sleep and dreaming For individual UCAS course codes mind. And thanks to Swansea University, • Face perception and social please visit the course web page cognitive neuroscience I’ve had the opportunity to pursue both • Psychology of sport and exercise these passions by studying a subject as FUTURE CAREERS: diverse as psychology. Many of our graduates have gone Of all the great opportunities presented to on to further study or work in specialist psychology fields. The me, one stood out – a five-week mental typical starting salary for an NHS health placement in Sri Lanka. From trainee clinical psychologist is £25,783. As your career progresses volunteering in hospitals to teaching in you could earn between £47,088 primary schools, temples and orphanages and £81,000 or higher. – this was an adventure like no other. Other career pathways include: • Human resources Back in Swansea, I volunteer twice a week • Management with the University’s student volunteering ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Marketing PSYCHOLOGY service, Discovery, and I’ve become social • Public services • Research secretary for the kickboxing society. • The Civil Service To learn more about our student stories, visit: I really appreciate how much Swansea offers its students. swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 114 115 PUBLIC RELATIONS RESPIRATORY AND IN THE AND MEDIA ST SLEEP PHYSIOLOGY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 00% UK GRADUATE PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MEDIA AND RELATIONS PUBLIC GRADUATE RESPIRATORY AND SLEEP PHYSIOLOGY EMPLOYABILITY* Studying a Public Relations and Media degree with us will give you the skills PROSPECTS This degree will give you the expert training you need to begin a HEALTHCARE SCIENCES to equip you for a successful career in this exciting field. (Times and Sunday Times Good rewarding career diagnosing and treating people with respiratory disease University Guide 2019) (DLHE 2018) and sleep-related breathing disorders. Our degree is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and is taught by experienced industry professionals and leading academics. Studying the structure and functions of the respiratory system, together Foundation Year NO TUITION FEES: available with the latest diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, you will combine UK and EU students** Study/Work Abroad Opportunities in-depth academic work with practical clinical skills in a range of specialised You will develop creative skills to AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Apply for an enhanced support package available healthcare settings. through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. manage digital media campaigns Year 1 International Students (**conditions apply) and direct strategic, international • Introduction to Ancient foundation programme available swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ communications. You can also study Philosophy and Rhetoric Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries The course is accredited by the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: fees-and-funding/student-loans- and-grants/nhs-funding/ distinct pathways in digital and • Introduction to Film Studies available National School of Healthcare and Year 1 practical media, film and journalism. • Introduction to Media Full details available on the Science, the Registration Council • Anatomy and physiology

Communication Course Reference Grid (page 128) – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE You can discover how public relations for Clinical Physiology, and the for healthcare science TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Language of Everyday Life • Basics of mathematics and (to include Biology, Physics or Maths) is important for the success of all Association for Respiratory • Public Relations: Strategic physics for healthcare science Detailed entry requirements and companies, and learn about the Technology and Physiology. Communications TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Introduction to cardiovascular science course features available on the

benefits of developing lasting Many of our academic staff are Course Reference Grid (page 128) HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE Detailed entry requirements and • Pathophysiology for healthcare relationships with other companies Year 2 course features available on the practising healthcare scientists, science and professionals, including news • Digital Public Relations Practice Course Reference Grid (page 128) providing an unrivalled combination • Professional practice BSc Single Honours • Introduction to Journalism reporters, advertisers and marketers, of scientific rigour and professional • Respiratory and sleep physiology ▲ Healthcare Science • Introduction to Video Production media practitioners and politicians. BA Single Honours expertise. Our excellent facilities (Respiratory and Sleep Physiology) • Public Relations Theory Year 2 A work placement will give you ▲ Public Relations and Media provide realistic workplace • Theorising the Media • Diagnostic interventions ▲ first-hand experience of PR and ♦ Public Relations and Media simulations and you will gain 3 YEAR (with Year in Industry) • Instrumentation signal processing media, and you can also spend Year 3 experience within our award-winning For individual UCAS course codes ♦ Public Relations and Media and imaging a year in industry. • Dissertation Health and Wellbeing Academy please visit the course web page (with Foundation Year) • Pathophysiology of common • Media & Communication Internship as well as on work placements at cardiovascular and respiratory • Online Journalism hospitals across Wales. ▲ conditions 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR FUTURE CAREERS: • Strategy, Marketing and Branding Around half of your course will be • Respiratory and sleep physiology For individual UCAS course codes Currently the NHS starting salary for • Writing for Radio and Screen – physiology please visit the course web page spent on clinical work placements Healthcare Scientists is £23,023 throughout Wales, which will give Year 3 (Band 5). Typical career earnings go you the practical skills to begin • Blood gases and respiratory failure up to £43,041 however the maximum FUTURE CAREERS: your career. earning potential for a consultant in • Challenge and exercise testing • Advertising the NHS is £102,506. • Business • Healthcare science research project • Sleep diagnostics and therapy • Digital marketing * 100% of Healthcare Science graduates are employed in a • Journalism professional or managerial job 6 months after the course • PR and marketing (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) • Publishing • TV and radio

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and the family. underpinning contemporary social science. – International Students International Students

COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE foundation programme available foundation programme available – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE As a Social Policy student, you will be AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the As a Social Sciences student, you AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) Course Reference Grid (page 128) immersed in a dynamic research and Year 1 will be immersed in a dynamic Year 1 learning environment. • Environments of social policy research and learning environment. • Equality, discrimination • The economics of social policy and oppression in society There will be opportunities to build TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB There will be opportunities to build TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-ABB • The history of social policy • Poverty and plenty links with students from related Detailed entry requirements and links with students from related Detailed entry requirements and • The philosophy of social policy: • Power and politics disciplines throughout the course, course features available on the disciplines and throughout the course, course features available on the an introduction to concepts, Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Social inquiry in practice Course Reference Grid (page 128) and you will develop excellent you will develop the exceptional ideas and ideologies research and analytical skills, learning research and analytical skills needed Year 2 • The politics of social policy to communicate your ideas effectively BSc Single Honours to understand and address societal • Family policy BSc Single Honours • The sociology of social policy in a range of formats. ▲ Social Policy issues in a rapidly changing social • From individuals to society ▲ Social Sciences Year 2 and political environment. • Safeguarding children and Optional modules give you the scope BA Joint Honours Social Policy and ▲ • Education, policy and society young people 3 YEAR to tailor your studies to your particular ▲ Politics You can study a language module • Disability policy • Research and critical appraisal For individual UCAS course codes interests or career goals and in your second year, with a choice • Health policy in health and social care please visit the course web page alongside your academic work, you BSc Joint Honours Social Policy and of Welsh, French, Italian, Spanish, • Social security, poverty and ▲ Criminology • Social security, poverty and have the option to complete a work social exclusion and Arabic, and alongside your social exclusion placement as part of your degree. academic work, you have the option FUTURE CAREERS: • Using evidence for research, ▲ 3 YEAR • Sociology of health and illness Recent placements have included policy and practice to complete a work placement as • Professional education and training voluntary organisations, social For individual UCAS course codes part of your degree. Year 3 such as law, journalism or teaching please visit the course web page • Public services housing providers, and charities. Year 3 • Advocacy, rights and representation • Advocacy, rights and representation • Doing social science • Social Science research in public or • Management and leadership • Global perspectives and working private bodies • The Civil Service in health and social care FUTURE CAREERS: in a globalised world • The criminal justice system • Social policy in an ageing world • Professional education and training • Principles of social policy such as law, social work or teaching • Voluntary/third sector organisations • The family and children: ethics • Social policy in an ageing world • Private sector employment in retail, – leadership and management and policy marketing and personnel management • Public services • The Civil Service • The NHS • Voluntary/third sector organisations

SOCIAL WORK 0 SOCIOLOGY GRADUATE PROSPECTS PLACEMENT If you want a career where you can make a positive difference to the lives AND RESEARCH Studying a Sociology degree will equip you with the theoretical foundation THAT'S PART OF QUALITY of vulnerable people and communities, this degree is the ideal springboard. to understand people's behaviour as social beings, as well as the social, (The Complete University YOUR COURSE Guide 2019) cultural, political and economic factors influencing society. You will learn You will spend half of your time on placement, learning through observation how to use social research tools, develop the ability to analyse and critically and practice, and the other half being taught on campus, developing research Study/Work Abroad Opportunities Study/Work Abroad Opportunities evaluate evidence and construct arguments around the complex societal HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE and analytical skills and learning to communicate your ideas effectively. available available

– issues that affect us all. International Students COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries foundation programme available Our course is accredited by Social AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available You will be taught by an academic AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the Care Cymru and recognised by the Year 1 Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) team who are research active and Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 128) regulatory bodies in the other UK • Introduction to social work widely published, and the degree’s • Individuals and society nations, so on completion, you can • Introduction to social work law flexible structure gives you the scope • Social inquiry in practice register as a qualified social worker. • Social work in practice TYPICAL OFFER: BCC TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-ABB to tailor your studies to your particular • Sociology: contemporary • Social work practice learning Detailed entry requirements and Detailed entry requirements and We have very good links with social interests and career ambitions. controversies • Social work services in a diverse course features available on the course features available on the services agencies in south and west Course Reference Grid (page 128) • Sociology: the classics Course Reference Grid (page 128) society: ethics, values and You will also have the opportunity Wales, and in local authority and • The economics of social policy anti-discriminatory practice to take part in work placements to voluntary sectors, offering placements BSc Single Honours build on your skills, experience, and Year 2 BSc Single Honours in a range of settings. Year 2 ▲ Social Work • Education, policy and society ▲ Sociology • Legal issues in social work enhance your career prospects. When applying for the course you and social care These placements could include local • Interrogating quantitative and ▲ 3 YEAR qualitative social science methods ▲ 3 YEAR should tell us about your motivation, • Social work in practice authorities, businesses, healthcare • Investigating gender experience and commitment to • Social work practice learning For individual UCAS course codes settings, education settings and For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page • Social problems please visit the course web page pursuing a career in social work and • Theories and perspectives in charities, depending on your interests do some background reading about social work and career goals. • Social problems: Media, social work in Wales, should you be myths and moral panics Year 3 FUTURE CAREERS: FUTURE CAREERS: invited to interview. Year 3 • Applying knowledge to • Approved mental health practitioner • Postgraduate study enhance practice • Consultant social worker • Disability policy • Professional education and training • Critical practice in child care • Independent reviewing officer • Humans and other animals such as law, journalism or teaching • Registered social worker • Public services • Critical practice in adult • Sociology of childhood • Research in public or private bodies community care • Youth and community worker and parenting • The sociology of sex • The Civil Service • Social work practice learning As a newly qualified social worker, • V oluntary/third sector organisations you can expect a starting salary of • The state, politics and power around £28,000. Salaries for senior practitioners and team managers range from £33,000 to £45,000.

For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 120 121 SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE ST IN THE WAR AND SOCIETY BAY CAMPUS UK SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE GRADUATE WAR AND SOCIETY Sport and Exercise Science explores how the human body performs under PROSPECTS War has always been a violent catalyst for change, inflicting terrible suffering Foundation Year available different levels of pressure, and also covers the broader issues at play, (The Complete University yet also inspiring courage and providing opportunities for innovation. It can Guide 2019) Study/Work Abroad Opportunities from wider participation in sports and exercise, to ethics, sports change the way we think about others, shape prejudices or right injustices. available psychology and nutrition. You will explore how wars start, how they are fought, how they have Full details available on the Study/Work Abroad Opportunities Course Reference Grid (page 128) This degree provides a solid core of modern and relevant learning, preparing available changed, how they end, and how they shape society. you for a fulfilling career in the field, whatever speciality you choose. International Students foundation programme available

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The degree takes war as a social – Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Our Sport and Exercise Science AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: activity as its starting point and Year 1 Detailed entry requirements and HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE available course features available on the degree has a strong reputation and explores the connections between • Medieval Europe: An Introduction Year 1 Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 128) attracts students from far and wide. • Biomechanics & Technology A Course Reference Grid (page 128) war, history, politics, international • Rome from Village to Empire: • Foundations of Sport Psychology relations, morality and ethics, and An Introduction to Roman History As you progress, your developing

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– COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING • Human Anatomy cultural representation. • Theories of War interests and abilities will combine ▲ War and Society • Human Physiology TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB • War and Society in the Modern Age with hands-on experience of You will develop your understanding ♦ War and Society • Research Methods & Ethics Detailed entry requirements and • War and Peace in the Nuclear Age advanced equipment, establishing course features available on the of war and its connection to society (with Foundation Year) skills which will be vital in your career. Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 128) by considering how the experience Year 2 of war has shaped cultures. • Ancient and Historic Places ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Located on the new Bay Campus, • Biomechanics & Technology B • Developing Research Methods (Study-Trip/Field project: History) For individual UCAS course codes our high-grade facilities are based BSc Single Honours This is an inter-disciplinary for Sports Science • Contemporary Wars and Conflicts please visit the course web page within the Engineering Quarter, which ▲ Sport and Exercise Science programme giving you access to a • Exercise Physiology • Conflict & Memory: Europe in the overlooks coastline on the edge of ♦ Sport and Exercise Science wide range of modules offered across • Contemporary Themes in Twentieth Century the Gower Peninsula. (with Year Abroad) the College of Arts and Humanities, Sport Psychology • The Crusades and the Making of FUTURE CAREERS: so you have the scope and flexibility • Armed forces You will make extensive use of our • Strength & Conditioning ▲ Latin Christendom, 1050-1300 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR to shape your own degree. dedicated Biomechanics Laboratory, • The First World War: Politics, • Civil and intelligence services Year 3 For individual UCAS course codes • Journalism and public relations which is home to a state-of-the-art Society, and Culture in Europe • Exercise, Growth and Development please visit the course web page • Local and national government motion analysis system. 1870 -1933 • Sport, Diet and Disease • Management and finance Throughout your time at Swansea • Health Related Exercise Year 3 • Teaching and education FUTURE CAREERS: you will also work closely in the • Application of Sport Psychology • Aftermaths of War • Cardiac physiologist Exercise Physiology Laboratory. • Sport Integrity, Ethics and Policy • Overlord: war, societies and the • Health promotion officer Battle for Normandy 1944 This contains a range of exercise • Performance analyst • Research Portfolio; Dissertation ergometers, lung function assessment, • Public health scientist blood analysis and muscle function • Sports and performance scientist • Russian Civil War testing equipment. • Strength and conditioning practitioner • Spanish Civil War

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WELSH 2 5 ZOOLOGY RESEARCH STUDENT The Welsh language is used widely in trade, industry, education, the media EXCELLENCE Zoology is dedicated to academic understanding of animal evolution, SATISFACTION and by local authorities. (Research Excellence physiology and behaviour and effective methods of enhancing animal welfare (National Student

Framework 2014–2021) Survey 2018) – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE and conservation. This spans everything from animal anatomy to ecology. These degree courses will ensure you have the understanding, knowledge

and skills that are relevant in today’s Wales, and you will be studying in a Zoologists have a major role to play in conservation but are also likely to – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Study/Work Abroad Opportunities Foundation Year department that is acknowledged nationally and internationally for its available influence developments in other sectors, such as agriculture, marine biology, available research and teaching quality. Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries medicine, public health and veterinary science. Study/Work Abroad Opportunities available available Full details available on the International Students You will gain a solid foundation You will have an unrivalled AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: FUTURE CAREERS: Course Reference Grid (page 128) foundation programme available in language and literature with an • Civil Service opportunity to study animal Year 1 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries opportunity to specialize in areas such • Education behaviour, ecology and conservation • Animal diversity, form and function available as translation, creative writing, policy • Media and PR TYPICAL OFFER: BBB in a range of natural environments • Cellular and microbial biology Full details available on the and language laws, psycholinguistics, • Publishing Detailed entry requirements and including the Gower Peninsula which • Ecology and animal behaviour Course Reference Grid (page 128) and Welsh literature. • Translation course features available on the is rich in coastal, freshwater and • Molecular and evolutionary biology Course Reference Grid (page 128) terrestrial habitats. • Plant and algae – diversity, form You will also have the opportunity to AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: and function TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB go on various work placements as a You will be able to gain a detailed (to include Biology or Human Biology) Year 1 (First Language) BA Single Honours part of your course. and unique understanding of major Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and ▲ Welsh (first language pathway) • Creative Welsh zoological themes and will also • Animal behaviour in conservation course features available on the As a graduate of Welsh at ▲ Welsh (second language pathway) • Professional Welsh undertake a residential field course and welfare Course Reference Grid (page 128) Swansea, you will have a thorough • The Status of the Welsh language ♦ Welsh (first/second language and either a professional skills in • Animal physiology understanding of the Welsh language, • The Welsh language today pathway) (with Year in Industry) ▲ ecology module or an international • Cell and immunobiology BSc Single Honours its culture, literature and its legal and yesterday Welsh: Language, Law and Policy field course. • Entomology ▲ Zoology context. You will be able to think Year 1 (Second Language) BA Joint Honours Welsh • Ichthyology ♦ Zoology (with Year in Industry/Abroad) critically and creatively – invaluable Our excellent teaching facilities • Presenting and Communicating Skills (First/Second Language Pathway) ♦ Biology (with Foundation Year) skills when venturing into the include the Centre for Sustainable Year 3 ▲ English Literature leading to BSc Zoology • Today’s Poetry • Animal personality: physiology, competitive world of work. ♦ French (with Year Abroad) Aquatic Research, zoology museum, • Today’s Prose behaviour and evolution ♦ German (with Year Abroad) a custom-designed 18-metre Biology – see page 56 Year 2 ▲ History catamaran-class survey vessel, and a • Biodiversity Marine Biology – see page 89 • Analysing the Welsh language ▲ Media unique visualisation suite that displays • Biological control of • From Dafydd ap to Mererid ▲ Politics multi-dimensional information from invertebrate pests ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Collective animal behaviour Hopwood ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) animal tracking data. For individual UCAS course codes • Introduction to Creative Writing ▲ Education and Welsh • Ecology of marine animals please visit the course web page • Language Rights in the (first language pathway) International Context LLB Law • Multiculturalism and Welsh FUTURE CAREERS: ♦ Welsh and Law • Biotechnologist Year 3 (first/second language pathway) • Environmental consultancy • A Taste of Research • Local, national and international • Translation ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR statutory nature conservation • Welsh Drama: Saunders Lewis and For individual UCAS course codes organisations Gwenlyn Parry please visit the course web page • Public and animal health expert • Veterinary care • Welsh, Decentralisation and The Law ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Wildlife conservationist

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My passion is bees. A lot of zoologists come into the subject wanting to study BSc (Hons) SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY large, “exciting” animals but once I started watching bees I never looked back – they BSc (Hons) SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL POLICY are an umbrella species, and by protecting them we protect entire ecosystems, from wildflowers and other insects to birds and mammals.

My undergraduate research at Swansea University helped change a council’s policy, so it now mows verges less often and sows more wildflowers. I also helped develop the International Bee Research Association’s free teaching pack for primary schools, and championed its cause in the science tent at the National Eisteddfod.

I hope my enthusiasm and passion gained on my course will help inspire a ZOOLOGIST, ECOLOGIST new generation to preserve habitats and value plants and animals that otherwise To learn more about our student stories, visit: may be considered insignificant. Find out more: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/coming-soon swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories

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BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Minimum 3-year degree: page 45 American grade C Semester Abroad option BBB 32 Typical Access to Minimum five Studies to include Biology Science offer: grade A*- C / Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah (page 50) Distinction and Merit 9-4 GCSEs for further information Disclosure and Barring Service profile against the including rules of combination. English, Maths Cardiac (DBS) check and an BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see occupational health We do not accept and Science Ancient and Physiology Access to Healthcare Minimum Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah page 45 (page 58) check required Medieval grade C or Access to History for further information Healthcare (page 51) and Nursing BTEC: DDD BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Yes see Minimum Year Abroad option page 45 Ancient BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 English 4-year degree: grade C 3-year degree: History MChem: AAA-AAB MChem: Minimum Year Abroad option Semester Abroad option (page 52) to include Chemistry 34-36 grade C A variety of global summer Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah Chemistry and one other to include 6 Maths programmes available for further information (page 59) Science or HL Chemistry Minimum Maths subject Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos AAB-ABB 33 BTEC: D* D* D English and Global summer programmes Yes see Yes see grade B (6) for further information Applied to include Biology to include with a strong Maths available e.g. internship at page 43 page 36 Medical plus at least one HL 6 in Biology Biology profile Minimum Baylor College of Medicine Science other STEM subject † and one other grade C in Houston, Texas BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Yes see (page 53) STEM subject † Minimum Year Abroad option page 45 Classics and grade C 3-year degree: BBB 32 Typical Access to Minimum five Classical Semester Abroad option to include one Science offer: grade A*- C / Civilisation A Level in Maths, Distinction and Merit 9-4 GCSEs (page 60) Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah Biology or Chemistry profile against the including for further information rules of combination. English, Maths Audiology Disclosure and We do not accept and Science BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 BTEC in either English 5-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see (page 54) Barring Service Access to Healthcare MEng/MSci: MEng/MSci: Computing or Minimum page 44 page 39 (DBS) check and an or Access to 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Computer AAA-AAB 34-36 Information grade C occupational health Healthcare A variety of global summer Science for subject to include at Technology: DDD Maths check required and Nursing requirements, least 5 HL or programmes available (page 61) See course web Minimum BTEC: DDD see course page 6 SL Maths page for more grade B (6) Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos details for destinations and options BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 BSc: BTEC Distinction English A variety of global summer Yes see Yes see MSci: AAB MSci: 34 to Double Distinction and Maths programmes available page 39 page 36 Single and Joint 32 BTEC: DDM in a Yes see Yes see to include Chemistry to include plus A level grade B Minimum Biochemistry Visit: swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/ Honours: ABB-BBB related subject page 39 page 36 and ideally Biology HL 6 in Chemistry grade C summerprogrammes for further (page 55) Criminology LLB Law and Chemistry information and ideally (page 62) Criminology: Biology AAB-BBB

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2:1 (Bachelor’s Merit or distinction English Limited placement opportunities Yes see degree in any (equivalent to 2:1 or and Maths available through the programme page 36 BBB 32 Typical Access to Minimum five subject area) first) in an integrated Minimum curriculum including the to include Maths Science offer: grade A*- C / undergraduate grade C Swansea-Gambia link or Physics Distinction and Merit 9-4 GCSEs GAMSAT: All Nuclear profile against the including Medicine – Master’s degree Disclosure and candidates must IELTS 7.0 with Medicine, rules of combination. English, Maths Graduate Barring Service sit the GAMSAT Lower second (2:2) no less than 7.0 Radiotherapy We do not accept and Science Entry Medicine (DBS) check and an before applying. PLUS a Postgraduate in speaking and Physics, Access to Healthcare MB BCh occupational health (GAMSAT and Master’s or PhD 6.5 in listening, Radiation or Access to (page 98) reading and Physics check required MCAT considered See course web Healthcare for international) writing (before (page 105) and Nursing page for full details applying) See course web BTEC: DDD page for full details

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BBB 32 Typical Access to Minimum five BBB 32-33 English 3-year degree: Yes see Yes see to include Biology, Science offer: grade A*- C / Philosophy, Minimum Semester Abroad option page 45 page 39 Physics or Maths Distinction and Merit 9-4 GCSEs Politics and profile offer the including grade C Disclosure and Economics (PPE) Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah rules of combination. English, Maths Barring Service (page 109) for further information Respiratory We do not accept and Science (DBS) check and an and Sleep Access to Healthcare occupational health Physiology or Access to AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 BTEC: DDD-DDM English Field courses to the Austrian Alps, Yes see Yes see Yes see (page 117) check required Geography or to include plus A level grade B and Maths Vancouver, Mallorca, Malaysian page 44 page 39 page 36 Healthcare a related subject is 5 HL in Geography or a Minimum Borneo and the Indian Himalaya and Nursing highly desirable e.g. Geography related subject grade C available** BTEC: DDD Physical Sociology or World Earth Science Development; (page 110) Geology or Environmental ABB-BBB 32-33 Typical Access offer: Minimum five Option: two-week study and culture Yes see Science; or 27 Distinctions, grade A*- C / tour to China, with Chongqing page 39 an additional 15 Merits, 3 Passes 9-4 GCSEs Medical University (CQMU) including science subject Social Policy BTEC: DDM See course web page for full details (page 118) English BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 English BSc 4-year degree: Year in Yes see Yes see Yes see and Maths MPhys: AAA-AAB to include at and Maths Industry or Year Abroad option page 46 page 39 page 36 to include Maths least 6 in Minimum MPhys: Option to spend a and Physics HL Maths and grade C semester at University of Houston 5 in HL AAB-ABB 33-34 Typical Access offer: Minimum five Option: two-week study and culture Yes see A variety of global summer grade A*- C / tour to China, with Chongqing page 39 Physics Physics If you studied A level 33 Distinctions, programmes available 9 Merits, 5 Passes 9-4 GCSEs Medical University (CQMU) (page 111) MPhys: 34-36 Sociology, Politics, including to include at Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos Social Sciences Psychology, typical BTEC: DDM See course web page for full details English for further information (page 119) offer: ABB least 6 in HL and Maths Maths and 6 in HL Physics

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Study / Work A level Abroad Opportunities** (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or INDEX typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent COURSE REFERENCE GRID BCC 30-32 Access Diploma: Minimum Option: two-week study and Yes see For Distinction grade A*- C / culture tour to China, with page 36 and Merit profile 9-4 GCSEs Chongqing Medical University contact study@ including (CQMU) swansea.ac.uk English and See course web page for full details Maths or the BTEC: DDM Social Work equivalent ACCOMMODATION 16 ON-CAMPUS FACILITIES 19, 29-32 (page 120) Minimum 210 hours Key Skills 2 direct social care qualifications work or voluntary A-Z COURSES 48-136 OPEN DAYS 144 experience required at the point of BIKE HIRE SCHEME RESEARCH application 09 04

AAB-ABB 33-34 Typical Access offer: Minimum five Option: two-week study and culture Yes see CAMPUS MAPS 12,14 SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES 138 33 Distinctions, grade A*- C / tour to China, with Chongqing page 39 and 9 Merits and 9-4 GCSEs Medical University (CQMU) Sociology CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY 20 SPORT 26 5 Passes from level 3 including (page 121) See course web page for full details subjects English and Maths COST OF LIVING STUDENT SUPPORT AND WELFARE BTEC: DDM 17, 138 34

AAB-BBB 32 Recommended 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see FEES AND FUNDING 138 STUDENTS’ UNION 24 Sport and to include 5 at HL subjects: page 39 page 36 Exercise Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coe or 6 at SL Maths and 4 at HL Sciences, for further information HEALTH SERVICES 35 STUDY AND WORK ABROAD 22, 128-136 Science or 5 at SL English language Maths, PE (page 122) and Psychology HOW TO APPLY 140-143 SUSTAINABILITY 33 BBB 32-33 English 3-year degree: Yes see War and Minimum Semester Abroad option page 45 HOW WE SELECT STUDENTS 140 SWANSEA AND THE REGION 06 Society grade C (page 123) Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah for further information INDUSTRY, PLACEMENTS TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT 12, 14, 145 BBB 32-33 English/Welsh 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see AND INTERNSHIPS 20 Welsh Minimum 3-year degree: Semester Abroad option page 36 VOLUNTEERING 33 (page 124) grade C Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah for further information INTEGRATED FOUNDATION WELSH-MEDIUM OPPORTUNITIES 36 ABB-BBB 32-33 If you do not qualify, English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see Yes see YEAR PROGRAMMES 42-46 to include Biology to include please consider the and Maths Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos page 43 page 39 page 36 WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY 10 or Human Biology 5 HL Biology Integrated Minimum for further information INTERNATIONAL STUDENT INFORMATION 38- 41 or Human Foundation Year grade C Biology scheme, see Field courses in Sikkim, Indian page 43 Himalayas, Spain and Borneo NEW COURSES COMING SOON 127 are also available Zoology BTEC: DDD plus at (page 125) least one GCSE grade B in Science. Only science-based BTECs will be considered (excluding The following message contains some very important information. This prospectus was printed in the spring of 2019. It contains Animal Management information on the undergraduate programmes that Swansea University intends to run for students who are planning to start and Health Science) university in the Autumn of 2020. We have made every reasonable effort to ensure that the information provided is both helpful and accurate as at the date of publication. However, some changes, for example to programmes, study location, international opportunities and destinations, facilities or fees may become necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and PLEASE NOTE academic reasons. We will endeavour at all times to keep any changes to a minimum and to keep prospective students informed GCSE Welsh first language is accepted as an equivalent to For applicants whose first language is not English, please check the appropriately. Any changes to the information contained in this prospectus will be updated on our website swansea.ac.uk English GCSE for all programmes. English language requirement. International students, please visit: This prospectus is printed on paper made from pulp produced from sustainable sources using vegetable-based inks. swansea.ac.uk/international-students/ Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma accepted. Requirements are Produced by the Marketing, Recruitment and International department, Swansea University international-student-courses/how-to-apply/ as for A levels where you can substitute the same non-subject specific Design: Icon Creative Design, IconCreativeDesign.com grade for the Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Level Core grade. Please check the individual course pages on our website for more up to date, Swansea University is a registered charity. No.1138342 ** Study and Work Abroad options available to you may depend on detailed and subject-specific criteria, including recommended subjects: © Swansea University 2019 the details of the Brexit settlement negotiated by the UK government. swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses

136 137 TUITION FEES FOR 2019 ENTRY REPAYMENT Undergraduate tuition fees are charged annually to all Loans are only payable when you have finished your students. The amount you will be expected to pay depends studies and are earning over £25,000 per year. Payments on where you live, what you are studying, and at what level. stop if your salary falls below this threshold. Repayments are 9% of the income above £25,000. For example, YOUR DEGREE STUDENTS FROM WALES someone earning £27,000 a year would repay 9% of Swansea University will charge tuition fees of £9,000* £2,000 (approximately £15 per month). Any outstanding per year. However, if you are domiciled in Wales, and balance is written off after 30 years. All grant awards are are studying for your first degree, you will not have to pay non-repayable (subject to terms and conditions). the tuition fees upfront. You will be eligible for a repayable The table below illustrates example repayment amounts. £3,000 tuition fee loan of £9,000* per year. To help with living costs you could receive a combination of EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS INCOME APPROXIMATE MONTHLY grants and loans of up to £9,225 a year if living away from EACH YEAR MONTHLY for AAA at A Level* SALARY home outside London. The amount of grant you’ll be eligible for BEFORE TAX REPAYMENT will depend on household income. For further information, visit: £25,000 £2,083 £0 £2,000 studentfinancewales.co.uk £27,000 £2,250 £15 MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS STUDENTS FROM ENGLAND for AAB at A Level* Swansea University will charge tuition fees of £9,000* £30,000 £2,500 £37 per year. However, if you live in England, and are UP TO studying for your first degree you will not have to £33,000 £2,750 £60 FOR TYPICAL LIVING AND ACCOMMODATION pay the tuition fees upfront. COSTS SEE PAGES 17-19 £35,000 £2,916 £75 £3,000 You will be eligible for: • A repayable tuition fee loan of £9,000* COLEG CYMRAEG To help with your living costs you will be eligible for: *All figures shown are the 2018/19 rates and are intended as a guide only. Tuition fees are subject to annual increases in line with inflation and CENEDLAETHOL the new rates will be published on our website as soon as they become available: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-funding • A maintenance loan up to a maximum of £8,944* For students who study at least 66% of their course (80 credits a year) The amount of maintenance loan you receive will depend through the medium of Welsh* upon your household income. For further information visit:

thestudentroom.co.uk/student-finance FIND OUT MORE RD MOST Funding your degree and financial support available to you: AFFORDABLE £3,000 STUDENTS FROM THE EU swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ SPORTING EXCELLENCE At the time of going to print Swansea University is not fees-and-funding UK TOWN able to confirm the tuition fee level for students from scholarships* 3(totallymoney.com) the EU. We will publish details on our website as soon General funding queries: as they become available. Please check our Fees and Student Finance Wales 0300 200 4050 Funding web page before making an application to £1,000 study at Swansea University: Student Finance England 0300 100 0607 MUSICAL EXCELLENCE swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ fees-and-funding/tuition-fees Specific financial information, advice or guidance: scholarships* [email protected] INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS *Terms and conditions apply, please visit: See page 41. 01792 606699 swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/scholarships

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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? NOTES FOR INTERNATIONAL When we receive your application Admissions staff will STUDENTS check that you meet our entry requirements; and assess We welcome applications by prospective students from your personal statement and reference to ensure that you around the world. If you are an international student, have the experience and skills necessary to study the you can apply to study at Swansea via UCAS, through subject. We will look for evidence of your commitment one of our overseas agents or by using our online and motivation, and pay attention to your achievements. application form. Full details of how to apply can The easiest way to apply is online at: ucas.com be found at: The Swansea University code is S93. Please check our course listings for up-to-date availability We’re interested in people who will seize the opportunity swansea.ac.uk/international-students and UCAS course codes: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses to gain new skills and knowledge, and who will benefit most from the Swansea experience. We’re We are happy to advise you on whether your also interested in people who will add value to the qualifications are suitable for entry to the course sporting, cultural, and social life of our community. WHAT DO YOU NEED? ADVANCED WELSH BACCALAUREATE you would like to study. Please email us at: Applicants are considered on their own merits and We welcome the graded Advanced Welsh UCAS will let you know if we make you an offer and [email protected] for further details. offers may vary, however we guarantee that you will Baccalaureate qualification and applicants will if there are any specific conditions. Occasionally, a If English is not your first language you will be asked to be made a conditional offer for a course at Swansea be able to meet our requirements from three A levels member of staff from the Academic College or School pass an approved English Language qualification. We University.* The typical offer is listed on the subject or two A levels and the Skills Challenge Certificate. you are interested in may suggest that you will receive consider the Swansea University English Test, the IELTS pages in this prospectus as three A levels, but we are A selection of Individual Project Proposals relating to an offer, but this is not a binding commitment test (with a minimum score of at least 6.0 overall with happy to accept a range of other qualifications so a variety of Swansea University subject areas can also – please wait for a formal offer from UCAS. at least 5.5 in each component – see individual course please check the individual course pages on our website be found on the WJEC website. After reviewing your application, we may invite you webpages for information), plus a wide range of for more detailed and subject specific criteria at: EPQ* to visit to get to know you better. Meeting prospective other qualifications. A full list of acceptable English swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses We recognise the Extended Project Qualification as an students at interviews and Applicant Visit Days often Language tests can be found at: excellent indicator of success on our schemes of study. allows us some flexibility to tailor our offers to each Applicants should normally hold GCSE English or swansea.ac.uk/admissions/ Applicants predicted grade B or above in EPQ will receive individual’s strengths. Welsh at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent). english-language-requirements an offer with a one grade reduction. eg, a offer of AAB If our offer is conditional upon how you get on in your The University also has its own English Language We also welcome a wide range of other qualifications, would become ABB plus EPQ B. We encourage applicants examinations, we won’t give you a final acceptance of Training Service – visit: plus we are constantly reviewing the acceptability of to describe EPQ research within the UCAS personal your application until the results are published. If you new qualifications, so if you are taking exams not listed statement, particularly when relevant to their intended swansea.ac.uk/elts firmly accept our conditional offer but do not get the please contact the Admissions Office. course and/or career. exam results you need, considering your overall Students who are able to extend their three A levels Changes to qualifications in schools and colleges in performance may give us the flexibility to confirm by undertaking additional study, such as any additional England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland: your offer. A level(s), or AS levels, are encouraged to do so, as we We recognise the changes to GCSEs, AS and A levels For further information about our admissions believe that additional study, in a variety of forms, can in England, alongside different qualifications frameworks policies and procedures please visit: Have your application help you prepare for the demands of university, but in Wales and Northern Ireland. Please see our full swansea.ac.uk/admissions questions answered by a because different schools and colleges offer a different statement regarding Qualification Reform at: member of our admissions range and number of subjects those not able to do so team using our live chat: will not be disadvantaged. swansea.ac.uk/admissions/ qualificationreform swansea.ac.uk/admissions/ask-us-live

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02 START PLANNING JANUARY – JUNE GET READY What subjects do you enjoy and what Now is the time courses interest you? Start thinking about to apply for your the degree schemes you’d like to apply accommodation TO UNIVERSITY for and what the entry requirements are. and student finance. 07 Your university accommodation is guaranteed if 01 you accept your 06 UCAS offer. ALL YEAR ROUND 03 BEFORE 1ST MAY OPEN DAYS ACCEPT OFFER MARCH – JUNE Visiting Swansea University’s campuses is You can accept your offer ATTEND YOUR NEAREST the best way to experience student life! by logging in to UCAS Track. This is your opportunity to learn more about UCAS EXHIBITION your course, how you’ll be taught and what Meet Swansea University staff; 09 opportunities are available to you. Swansea a great opportunity to ask any SEPTEMBER University offers great study and work abroad questions you have about the courses ENROL programmes, where will your degree take you? on offer or life as a Swansea student. You’ll receive your enrolment pack and start your life as a Swansea student! Freshers’ week is a great way to make new friends and join the clubs, societies and sports teams that interest you!

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