Undergraduate Prospectus 2020 Nottingham Trent University 2020
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UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2020 NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY 2020 NTU IS ONE OF THE UK’S TOP 20 UNIVERSITIES. WINNING THE GUARDIAN UNIVERSITY GUIDE, 2019 TITLES “ENJOYING A PERIOD OF WINNING UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS.” THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES RESPECT GOOD UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2019 WINNING “COMBINING BOLD AMBITION WITH THE HARD WORK.” HEARTS TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION PANEL JUDGES FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR NTU is one of the UK’s largest and most popular universities. Based on the 2018 UCAS undergraduate acceptance data, we’re in the top ten for the number of applications, and first in the UK for accepted offers. “A METEORIC RISE ucas.com/data-and-analysis UP THE TABLE OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS.” THE GUARDIAN UNIVERSITY GUIDE, 2019 NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY 2020 NTU IS RATED GOLD FOR OUTSTANDING TEACHING AND LEARNING. BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR YOU? To us, it’s about courses that offer the perfect combination of theory and practice. It’s about our teachers having the knowledge and experience to support your vision and enthusiasm. It’s about encouragement, in and outside of the classroom; the freedom for you to decide your own journey, and the expertise to help you reach your destination. It’s about opportunities and connections – whether that's a year-long placement with a major global fashion brand, a collaborative project with our own award-winning researchers, or the specialist business knowledge to bring your ideas to life. It’s about a shared sense of confidence, purpose and belief – and here’s a few examples of what that looks like... LAUREN MILBURN .LEFT/ DYLAN KNIGHT .RIGHT/ MILES WAGHORN LAUREN MILBURN DYLAN KNIGHT MILES WAGHORN Fashion student Lauren launched Nisey in In 2017, Product Design student Dylan got Business Management and 2018. Named after her grandmother – a washing machine companies in a spin. Entrepreneurship graduate Miles hooked up breast cancer survivor – it’s an innovative Working with NTU professor Amin with The Hive – NTU’s development centre swimwear range for women who’ve Al-Habaibeh, he developed a counterweight for new business and self-employment undergone mastectomies. Lauren had the that stops machines from vibrating – an initiatives – to develop SilverTech; an e- chance to refine her work with Nottingham- eco-minded alternative to the 25 kg commerce firm providing technology and based swimwear giants Speedo, and then concrete blocks manufacturers have used gadget advice for the elderly. With a showcased Nisey at our famous Art and previously. Dylan and Amin’s invention will product range including easy-to-use mobile Design Summer Show. cut CO2 emissions, as well as the cost of phones, GPS dementia trackers and alarms transporting new units. that encourage independent living, we supported Miles’ business idea with access to funding and key resources. 1 NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY 2020 IN CONVERSATION WITH VICEGCHANCELLOR DISCOVER THE OPPORTUNITIES EDWARD PECK, AND STUDENTS’ OF YOUR LIFE 6UNION PRESIDENT BRADLEY FOX I4 OUTSIDE LECTURES WELCOME TO THE 32 CITY CAMPUS FIVE FORMER PEVERELL HALL RESIDENTS SHARE THEIR 26 TIPS ON SETTLING INTO UNI LIFE 46 2 NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY 2020 CONTENTS OPEN DAYS 4 EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING 148 WELCOME 6 ENGINEERING 156 DISCOVER NOTTINGHAM 8 ENGLISH, LINGUISTICS AND CREATIVE WRITING 166 INTRODUCING NTU: IN THEIR OWN WORDS 12 CLIFTON CAMPUS FASHION AND TEXTILES 170 36 LIFE OUTSIDE LECTURES: OPPORTUNITIES 14 FINE ART AND DECORATIVE ARTS 180 LIFE OUTSIDE LECTURES: SUPPORT 22 FOOD SCIENCE AND PRODUCTION 184 REAL TALK 26 GAMES 188 ACCOMMODATION 30 GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 194 CITY 32 GRAPHIC ARTS / TECHNOLOGIES 200 CLIFTON 36 HISTORY 206 BRACKENHURST 40 JOINT HONOURS 210 HIGHER AND DEGREE APPRENTICESHIPS 44 LAW 222 MATHEMATICS 234 COURSES 46 MEDIA AND JOURNALISM 244 AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE 48 MODERN LANGUAGES 252 ANIMAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCES 54 MUSIC AND LIVE EVENTS 254 ARCHITECTURE 64 A GUIDE TO PHYSICS 262 40 BRACKENHURST BIOSCIENCES 70 POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 270 BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCT DESIGN 276 MARKETING 78 PSYCHOLOGY 282 CHEMISTRY 90 REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH STUDIES 96 MANAGEMENT 288 CINEMATICS AND PHOTOGRAPHY 102 SOCIAL WORK AND HEALTH CARE 294 COMPUTER SCIENCE 110 SOCIOLOGY 298 CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY 118 SPORT 300 CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AND QUANTITY SURVEYING 124 DIRECTORY 306 CRIMINOLOGY, POLICING AND HOW TO APPLY 308 FORENSIC SCIENCE 128 INTERNATIONAL APPLICATIONS 309 DESIGN FOR PERFORMANCE 136 FEES AND FUNDING 310 ECONOMICS AND FINANCE 142 ACCOMMODATION 312 OUR FULL DEGREE LISTINGS, COURSE INDEX 314 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THEM G FROM ENTRY CRITERIA TO COURSE CONTENT 3 NOTHING BEATS SEEING US FOR YOURSELF. We run open events throughout the year. These are the days when people really fall for us; the moments that minds are made up. So many lives have been changed forever by that first trip to NTU. Tour our campuses and accommodation; meet our staff and students; ask anything and everything you want to know. Give us a day, and we’ll give you a future. OPEN DAYS SATURDAY 8 JUNE 2019 WEDNESDAY 10 JULY 2019 SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2019 SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2019 SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2019 ntu.ac.uk/opendays UGP 2020 front.qxp_Layout 1 06/02/2019 15:08 Page 5 “ “I FELL IN LOVE WITH NTU ON THE OPEN DAY. EVERYONE WAS SO NICE, AND IT WAS THE FIRST UNI I COULD ACTUALLY PICTURE MYSELF LIVING AND STUDYING AT. IT TICKED EVERY BOX.” NEHA SOLANKI | BSc PHARMACOLOGY 2018 OPEN DAY | NEWTON AND ARKWRIGHT ATRIUM, CITY CAMPUS NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY 2020 “WE TRY TO INNOVATE. WE’RE A BIT MAVERICK. STUDENTS HAVE A VERY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE HERE.” EDWARD PECK | VICE-CHANCELLOR “AS A STUDENT, YOU CAN SEE EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF STAFF REALLY CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU DO, AND HOW YOU ACHIEVE.” BRADLEY FOX | NTSU PRESIDENT STUDENTS’ UNION | CLIFTON CAMPUS 6 NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY 2020 BF | As a student, you can really tell that. EP | Batman’s house? You can see every single staff member really JOINING BF | Yes. Wayne Manor. They used it for cares about what you do, and how you achieve. And that's really nice. filming. FORCES WHAT’S YOUR PROUDEST EP | I never knew that! To me, Wollaton ACHIEVEMENT AT NTU? Park means the Splendour festival every EP | Definitely, that four out of five of our July, where lots of the sound and lighting is students have graduate-level jobs within six done by some of our performance and months of leaving NTU. music technology students. We have a very strong connection with the place, and WE ASKED BF | I think for me, it was creating a brand Splendour in particular. VICEGCHANCELLOR new network of friends. When you come to ON THE SUBJECT OF MUSIC, WHAT EDWARD PECK AND uni, you’re maybe a bit nervous. I’m from a WAS THE LAST BAND YOU SAW? STUDENTS’ UNION small town just outside Kettering, so this PRESIDENT BRADLEY FOX was a change. EP | A Japanese psychedelia band called ABOUT LIFE AT NTU, Acid Mothers Temple, at Metronome – TALKING OF NOTTINGHAM, WHAT NTU’s own live music venue. THEIR PROUDEST WOULD YOU SAY IS THE CITY’S BEST ACHIEVEMENTS, KEPT SECRET? BF | Were they good? NOTTINGHAM’S HIDDEN EP | The caves. Nottingham sits on a GEMS... AND JAPANESE EP | If you like Japanese psychedelia, they network of caves, and there are a number of were brilliant. What about you? PSYCHEDELIA. places you can get into them – like The Hand and Heart, the castle, and Ye Olde Trip BF | Bastille, at the Motorpoint Arena. Very to Jerusalem, which is allegedly Britain’s impressive. oldest pub. They’re really worth a look. IF YOU WERE JOINING A SOCIETY, WHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES NTU BF | WHICH ONE WOULD IT BE? UNIQUE? I think it’s walking through all the side streets of the city centre – you’ll find all EP | Because I’m getting older and can EP | We try to innovate. We’re a bit these independent restaurants, vintage feel its weight on my shoulders, I’d join the maverick. Students have a very personal stores, record shops. I’ve been here five History Society. experience here. My daughter certainly years and I still haven’t experienced all the thought so: she studied at NTU and had a BF | different things on offer. I’d join the Knitting Society, I think. fantastic time. I remember her texting me I can’t knit, which might be an issue, but one day to say that she’d worked out what EP | It’s true. If you poke around, you’ll then one of the things about societies is makes NTU different – that here, we really find all sorts of really interesting stuff here. developing new skills. think through what our students might WHERE’S THE BEST PLACE IN need to know and do next. So I think that AND FINALLY, WHAT ADVICE WOULD NOTTINGHAM TO TAKE A SELFIE? structure – that sense of thinking about it YOU GIVE TO YOUR 18GYEARGOLD SELF? from the student’s point of view – is really EP | I’m going to cheat here and say it’s EP | I wish I’d done more, actually, so I’d unusual for a UK university. out at our Brackenhurst Campus. It’s by the tell me at 18 to get more involved with a summer house, next to the lake. It’s just a much broader range of things, and just see BF | I think what makes NTU unique is the fantastic and very original setting. what really inspires me. So put yourself out family you become. There’s a bit of a buzz there, and do things that are different. around campus, and everyone’s kind of your BF | I’ve taken one there myself.