For further information contact: University of East London International Office Tel: +44 (0)20 8223 3333 Email: [email protected] Visit: uel.ac.uk/international Docklands Campus University Way London E16 2RD uel.ac.uk/international Study Abroad uel.ac.uk/international Contents Page 1 Contents Page 2 – 3 Welcome Page 4 – 5 Life in London Page 6 – 9 Docklands Campus Page 10 – 11 Docklands Page 12 – 15 Stratford Campus Page 16 – 17 Stratford Page 18 – 19 London Map Page 20 – 21 Life at UEL Page 23 Study Abroad Options Page 25 – 27 Academic School Profiles Page 28 – 29 Practicalities Page 30 – 31 Accommodation Page 32 Module Choices ©2011 University of East London Welcome This is an exciting time for UEL, and especially for our students. With 2012 on the horizon there is an unprecedented buzz about East London. Alongside a major regeneration programme for the region, UEL has also been transformed. Our £170 million campus development programme has brought a range of new facilities, from 24/7 multimedia libraries and state-of-the-art clinics,to purpose-built student accommodation and, for 2011, a major new sports complex. That is why I am passionate about our potential to deliver outstanding opportunities to all of our students. Opportunities for learning, for achieving, and for building the basis for your future career success. With our unique location, our record of excellence in teaching and research, the dynamism and diversity provided by our multinational student community and our outstanding graduate employment record, UEL is a university with energy and vision. I hope you’ll like what you see in this guide and that you will want to become part of our thriving community. Professor Patrick McGhee Vice-Chancellor, University of East London Life in London As a student in London you’ll never be short of things to see and do. With the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games around the corner, East London is an exciting place in which to live, work and study. Lively and affordable Culture and entertainment Sport Whatever you want from life, you’ll Where to start? Concerts in the Come and watch Arsenal or find it in London. The UK is full of Albert Hall, history in the British England in their shiny new fantastic cities, but it’s London that Museum, opera at Covent Garden; stadiums; cheer on the local sets the pace, breaks the news it’s not just for tourists, it’s a stars at West Ham’s Upton and starts the trends. regular A–Z of British culture that Park; see top-level rugby at navigates the National Gallery, Twickenham, tennis at Wimbledon London’s liveliest and most takes in the Tate, winds through and cricket at Lord’s or The Oval. affordable area, East London truly the West End and zig-zags its way Sign up to one of our football, offers something for everyone. to the Zoo. As for entertainment – rugby, basketball, netball or Nights in Shoreditch, curries in you just don’t get better! hockey teams, which all play Brick Lane, art in Whitechapel, The biggest bands, the hottest regular inter-university matches. football at West Ham – studying DJs, the funniest comedians, the Or join one of the countless other at UEL, right at the heart of the most spectacular shows; there’s sporting clubs – from scuba-diving region, promises so much more only one place they all want to to mountain-biking, caving to than a good education. With the come and play – London, the capoeira – both at UEL and 2012 Olympic and Paralympic UK’s undisputed capital of culture within the wider local community. Games around the corner, it is and entertainment. an exciting place in which to live, work and study. Shopping Eating out London has over 40,000 shops and some of the most famous London doesn’t just sound stores and streets in the world: good – it tastes good too! Harrods, Selfridges, Knightsbridge, With over 6,500 licensed Oxford Street, Regent Street, restaurants – almost a quarter Carnaby Street, Covent Garden of the British total – London’s – the list goes on and on. Not to food is as gloriously varied as mention colourful street markets its population. The famous like Camden Lock and giant retail Brick Lane curry experience is parks such as Gallion’s Reach, within easy reach of both our only a few minutes walk from our campuses. And if eating is your Docklands Campus. thing, local shops and markets sell every kind of fresh food you could possibly imagine from all corners of the world. Picture: visitlondonimages/britainonview 4 5 Docklands Campus 6 7 Docklands Campus Situated in a stunning waterfront setting, our Docklands Campus provides a modern, well-equipped Our student learning environment, with purpose-built lecture theatres village enjoys and seminar rooms, a 24/7 library and learning centre, and a multimedia production centre with a stunning audio and visual labs and studios. waterfront location Our Student Village is located on campus providing purpose-built accommodation and facilities for over 1,200 students. Schools • School of Architecture and the Visual Arts • Royal Docks Business School • School of Combined Honours • School of Computing, Information Technology and Engineering • School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Key facts • Great transport links including the Docklands Light Railway and London City Airport • 25 minutes from London’s West End • 24/7 Library and Learning Centre • Children’s Garden early years centre • Student Village • Cafés, restaurant and campus bookshop • £21 million sports and academic complex opening 2011. 8 9 life of London by destroying the another Bond film, For Your Eyes and other developments. King Docklands docks, warehouses and trading Only, was also filmed here. Henry VIII was born in Greenwich infrastructure. The famous East in 1491, and the modern concept End spirit saw the area through Another Docklands landmark is of ‘time’ was also born there! East London’s Docklands area has been a major communications hub for these traumatic times, but by the the Canary Wharf development, In 2012 the park will be an centuries, from the global trading that used to take place in our area to the recent 1970s technological advances Europe’s biggest and newest Olympic venue, hosting the saw the closure of the Royal global finance and publishing equestrian events. development of the region into the largest financial and media centre in Europe, Docks to vessels. centre. This overlooks the O2 focused on Canary Wharf, the ExCel Centre, the O2 Arena, City Airport and the Arena – recently named the world’s University of East London. The Royal Docks are now a leisure most popular music and events and communications hub. London venue for the second year in City Airport is located on an island succession. The O2 has recently between two of the historic docks, hosted Led Zeppelin, Prince, Our ultra-modern Docklands to be designed especially for as Our Mutual Friend and Great and the London Regatta Centre is Madonna and Metallica among campus (which will be used as steam ships. Their large size (Royal Expectations, and there is a just along the waterfront from UEL. many others. a base by the USA team during Albert Dock was the largest dock memorable description of the the London 2012 Olympic and in the world) meant that the docks docks, their buildings and people The area has also appeared as Not far from the O2 is Greenwich Paralympic Games) is located instantly flourished, as they could in Joseph Conrad’s The Mirror of a location in numerous films, Park, the oldest royal parkland in at the historic Royal Docks. The take much larger ships than any the Sea. including Full Metal Jacket, The Britain, having first been enclosed Royal Victoria Dock was the first other docks in Europe at the time. Constant Gardener, Love Actually in 1433. That means that, of these to be opened, in 1855, in In 1941, at the height of World and the James Bond movie despite later landscaping, many honour of Queen Victoria. Built to Charles Dickens makes frequent War II, the docks were heavily The World is Not Enough. Most archaeological features remain facilitate Britain’s immense trading use of the East London riverside bombed during the Blitz, the aim famously, the opening sequence of there, untouched by the buildings network, they were the first docks and Docklands in novels such being to paralyse the commercial 10 11 Stratford Campus 12 13 Stratford Campus Our Stratford Campus, which combines heritage and state-of- the-art facilities, is located in the Our Campus is in the heart of Stratford, future home of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic heart of Stratford, Games. Recent developments include new laboratories and computing facilities, and new home of the buildings housing The Cass School of Education and the Centre for 2012 Olympics Clinical Education in Podiatry, Physiotherapy and Sports Science. Stratford has a busy town centre, with cafés, bars and restaurants, fine leisure and cultural facilities and excellent transport links. The new Westfield Stratford City shopping centre currently in development, will be Europe’s largest urban shopping mall when it opens in 2011. Schools • Cass School of Education • School of Health and Bioscience • School of Law • School of Psychology. Key facts • Great transport links including Jubilee and Central Lines, mainline train services and the Docklands Light Railway • 25 minutes from London’s West End • 24/7 Library and Learning Centre • Restaurant and campus bookshop. 14 15 Stratford Our Stratford Campus, with its red-brick buildings, is a traditional British university campus. Stratford is also a deeply historic region (though not to be confused with Statford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace some 150 miles away).