2021 Undergraduate Prospectus This Is Hull Find Your Extraordinary
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2021 2021 Undergraduate Prospectus This is Hull Find your extraordinary uniofhull uniofhull universityofhull universityofhull To find out more, visit www.hull.ac.uk We can’t wait to meet you Many of our students fall in love with Hull the moment they arrive here. Now it’s your turn. Visit us at an Open Day and see for yourself. Open Days: Friday 10 July 2020 What to expect Saturday 11 July 2020 Get guided campus and city tours (Open Weekend) M eet and talk to staff and students Saturday 12 September 2020 L earn more about what you’ll be studying Sunday 11 October 2020 S ee where you’ll be living Saturday 7 November 2020 for the next few years Saturday 28 November 2020 Book now Wednesday 6 January 2021 hull.ac.uk/opendays (Mini Open Day) “The highlight of my day was the subject talk! It gave me a really good understanding of the course and what’s involved!” Open Day Visitor “The Open Day was “One of the highlights #ChooseHull fantastic and made of my day was me excited for the how welcoming uniofhull the University was. future.” Everyone was just so uniofhull nice and really helpful.” universityofhull Open Day Visitor Open Day Visitor universityofhull 3 | www.hull.ac.uk University of Hull Undergraduate Prospectus | 4 To find out more, visit www.hull.ac.uk Humberside Airport – 30 mins How to get to Hull Leeds – 1 hour 10 mins Lincoln – 1 hour 10 mins York – 1 hour We’re roughly halfway between Edinburgh and London, Sheffield – 1 hour 15 mins with direct trains from the capital, Leeds, Manchester Nottingham – 1 hour 45 mins and more. And thanks to a brand-new fleet of hi-tech Liverpool – 2 hours 30 mins Hull Trains, it’s now even faster – and more comfortable Leeds – 55 mins – to get here by train. Plus, Rotterdam and the rest of Manchester – 2 hours Europe is only a ferry ride away. Birmingham – 2 hours 30 mins Glasgow London – 2 hours 30 mins Newcastle – 2 hours 30 mins M8 Edinburgh Edinburgh – 3 hours 45 mins A1 Amsterdam – 1 hour 10 mins Newcastle DENMARK Belfast Rotterdam – 12 hours overnight Zeebrugge – 12 hours overnight A1 * Travel times based on Google Maps York Dublin Leeds Liverpool Hull M62 A15 Manchester Sheield M1 Lincoln Nottingham A1 A42 Birmingham M1 Cardi It’s so easy to get home o Amsterdam because there’s a train London Rotterdam straight from Hull to London. Hull is also well connected to local cities like Leeds, if you Zeebrugge GERMANY POLAND wanted to go for a day trip.” Abigail Psychology ClinPsyD 5 | www.hull.ac.uk University of Hull Undergraduate Prospectus | 6 CZECH REPUBLIC To find out more, visit www.hull.ac.uk The Vice-Chancellor Susan Lea We’re ambitious about the future – both yours and ours I’m delighted that you’re Right across our University community, our people are doing extraordinary things. They’re considering studying at the transforming lives, giving others a voice and University of Hull. tackling some of society’s most urgent challenges We’re incredibly proud to welcome students from to make a real difference. more than 100 countries to our University – this We’ve been awarded Silver in the Teaching diversity, and making people feel included, is part Excellence Framework, which was introduced of who we are. Students love our campus and all by the Government to recognise excellence that it offers them. The sense of community and in learning and teaching in UK universities pride here is palpable. and colleges. We’re particularly proud to have We’re ambitious about the future: ours, yours received strong praise for the support we provide and the world around us. In fact, our colleagues, to our students and the outcomes they achieve. students and partners have developed a renewed Our students go on to change lives and positively and ambitious vision – to shape a fairer, brighter, impact society – whether that’s in the arts, carbon-neutral future for all. business, politics, law, teaching, healthcare Our values – inclusive, empowering and or science and engineering. It’s testament to progressive – mean it’s not just what we do, but their hard work and dedication, and that of my how we do it that makes a difference. They reflect colleagues who support our students on that who we are and how we work as we continue to journey, that 95.9% of our graduates progress into work or further study within six months of evolve, ensuring we adapt quickly to meet the † needs of our students, collaborators and partners completing their studies here. – regionally, nationally and globally – both now I look forward to welcoming you to one of our and in the future. Open Days, when you can discover the University Most recently, we’ve committed to be carbon of Hull first-hand. neutral by 2027 – the year the University turns 100 years’ old. It’s a major step towards making a positive impact on the next hundred years and beyond. In 2019, we became the Official University Partner Professor Susan Lea of Team GB. The foundation of the partnership Vice-Chancellor is our joint belief that anyone can achieve their personal best when they’re challenged and supported to achieve their goals and ambitions. † Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education for the 7 | www.hull.ac.uk academic year 2016/17, published by HESA June 2018. University of Hull Undergraduate Prospectus | 8 To find out more, visit www.hull.ac.uk Our home. Our responsibility. What we’re already doing: Climate change is a man-made disaster on a global scale. If we all keep living the way we do Feather-Alt Our Biology students are doing 2,000 hours now, it will lead to devastation for our families, a year of voluntary conservation work for Carbon neutral our homes, our businesses. For our entire way local environmental organisations as part of of life. their degree. by 2027 BOLT Our Business Studies students are on work It sounds dramatic. Because it is. placements with energy companies like Sea levels are rising. Icebergs are melting. Siemens Gamesa, Eon, Drax and Phillips 66. Standing still is not an option anymore. We’ve got to act now before Species are facing extinction. Closer to home, it’s too late. So when 2027 arrives – the year we turn 100 years’ old – the growing threat of flooding has put Hull on trophy Our Engineering students have been the steps we’ve taken will start to have a positive impact on the next the world’s official high risk list. Will our region involved in helping develop alternatives to hundred years and beyond. survive if we keep doing nothing? Not likely. oil-based plastics with the aim of reducing That’s why our staff and students are uniting to plastic waste consumption and protecting help solve some of these problems. Not just for our planet. The future depends on us. Let’s get on with it. us, but for the world beyond our shores. Wind-Turbine NEW MSc Masters Degree Apprenticeship Want to protect the planet? in Offshore Wind Energy Engineering with Let’s do it together. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. We’re developing our courses and offering User-Graduate NEW 70+ fully funded PhD students at opportunities you can’t get anywhere else. All the Aura Centre for Doctorial Training to help you get ready for work and take on the will be developing cutting-edge research, climate crisis when you graduate. seeking solutions to the environmental and engineering challenges facing the offshore wind industry. Find out what else we’re doing and how you can get involved. Visit hull.ac.uk/cabonneutral Innovation Centre 9 | www.hull.ac.uk University of Hull Undergraduate Prospectus | 10 To find out more, visit www.hull.ac.uk Accounting and Finance�������������������������������������������������������������� 21 Contents Courses American Studies ���������������������������������������������������������������������������23 Biochemistry������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 27 This Is Hull .................................................................................................. 1 Biology ................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Open Days ...................................................................................................3 Biomedical Science and Forensic Science ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 31 How to get to Hull ....................................................................................5 Business and Management �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������33 Chemical Engineering������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 37 P13 A welcome from the Vice-Chancellor..........................................7 Team GB Partnership Chemistry ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 39 Carbon Neutral by 2027 ..................................................................... 9 Computer Science �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 41 Team GB Partnership ..........................................................................13 Criminology �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 45 Choose