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Study Abroad

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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 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 in their shiny new fantastic cities, but it’s London that Museum, opera at ; stadiums; cheer on the local sets the pace, breaks the news it’s not just for tourists, it’s a stars at ’s Upton and starts the trends. regular A–Z of British culture that Park; see top-level rugby at navigates the , Twickenham, at Wimbledon London’s liveliest and most takes in the Tate, winds through and cricket at Lord’s or . 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 , curries in you just don’t get better! hockey teams, which all play Brick Lane, art in , 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 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! , , Knightsbridge, With over 6,500 licensed , , restaurants – almost a quarter , 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.

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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 •  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 and • 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 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 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 focused on Canary Wharf, the ExCel Centre, the , 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, , 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 . including Full Metal Jacket, The Britain, having first been enclosed 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 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 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).

The name Stratford comes Code) and use for grinding the area. Even from the Old English word for corn. To the east of Stratford lived in the area, at Kingsley Hall street (meaning Roman Road) is Forest Gated, the start of (used as a set in in the Oscar combined with ‘ford’ (a river , well known winning Gandhi movie), for a few crossing). Stratford was once as the haunt of the notorious months in 1931. an important stopover on the 18th century highwayman Dick most important of Roman roads, Turpin. Another claim to fame for Stratford’s latest claim to fame between Camolodunum (modern- is that actor-turned- is the forthcoming 2012 London day Colchester) and Governor of California Arnold Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London). The development of Schwarzenegger lived there for a The Olympic Park, which will Stratford and the East End in the while in the ! contain major venues including 18th and 19th centuries buried the , Aquatics any remaining parts of the old Stratford has its very own Centre, London Velopark and Roman Road, but the Old Ford ‘Cultural Quarter’, comprising the Olympic Village, is being still exists on the outskirts of the Theatre Royal (opened in constructed right next to our Stratford on the , which 1884), (an arts Stratford Campus. Like our flows to the Thames. venue) and the Picturehouse Docklands Campus, Stratford (an independent cinema). The Campus will be used as a base Later on, the area would be promotional film for the Beatles’ by the USA Olympic team home to the Abbey of St single Penny Lane was filmed before and during the Games. Mary’s, founded in 1135. It was in and around Angel Lane in The Stratford International rail a dominating influence on the Stratford. The area is also the terminus will also be open in time area until the dissolution of the focal point of the UK hip-hop for the Olympic Games, with monasteries under Henry VIII in scene known as Grime. high-speed trains running directly 1538. It was one of the largest to mainland Europe. abbeys in England, possessing Adjacent to Stratford, in the 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) of land in Bow area, are numerous historic the Stratford area. references. Geoffrey Chaucer, in The Canterbury Tales, mentions Also in the area were the ‘Temple ‘…Stratford atte Bowe’. Later Mills’, water mills belonging to on, the famous campaigner for the Knights Templar (well known women’s votes, Sylvia Pankhurst, to fans of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci based her Suffragette cause in

16 17 Stansted Airport Stratford 30miles The Emirates Jubilee Olympic Park North West Ham Waters Football London Upton Ground Park Camden Finsbury Town Covent Park Hackney Stratford Garden StratfoCampusrd London University of East Islington

T M25 Bloomsbury Victoria Park City of Canning London Shoreditch Cyprus DLR Barking Canary Wharf Town Jubilee & DLR Bank & Whitechapel Tower Gateway Tower Hamlets E C Docklands Westminster Canary X El Lakeside Centre Campus Waterloo Wharf University of East London Shopping Centre

Southwark Thames London O2 Barrier City Airport arena Heathrow Battersea M25 Airport Park Greenwich 15 miles Shad Thames Bluewater Shopping Vauxhall Centre

Brixton Gatwick Airport 35miles DLR

Belgravia Chelsea Docklands Marylebone Stratford National Theatre Westminster Chelsea FC Lord’s Cricket Ground 2012 Olympic Park /City Hall Chelsea Flower Show Excel Centre Arts Picture House Cinema Design Museum Downing Street Bloomsbury O2 Arena Sherlock Holmes Museum Stratford Circus Arts Venue West End Theatre Royal Oval Cricket Ground Carnaby Street Houses of Parliament Greenwich Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Comedy Store Arts Picture House Cinema Gherkin (Swiss Re Tower) Arsenal FC () Shoreditch Art Gallery (cinemas) Brixton London Museum Camden Jazz Café Nightclubs and Bars Greenwich Market/ Theatre Brixton Market St Paul’s Cathedral Camden Lock Market Tower Hamlets National Gallery Ritzy Cinema The Monument Soho Tower Bridge National Portrait Gallery Whitechapel Old Royal Naval College Chinatown Nelson’s Column Brick Lane Curry Restaurants Royal Observatory/Planetarium Clapham Notting Hill Restaurants Oxford Street Up the Creek Comedy Club Canary Wharf Notting Hill Gate Upton Park Circus Whitechapel Art Gallery Canary Wharf Tower Hyde Park Portobello Market South Kensington West Ham United FC Regent Street Selfridge’s Cineworld Cinema Covent Garden Serpentine Lake Harrods Museum in Docklands Bars Regent’s Park Waterloo Theatreland West India Quay Market Islington London Zoo Science/History Museums Imax Cinema Shops and Restaurants Regent’s Park Victoria and Albert Museum Trocadero (shops, cinemas) Life at UEL

UEL has a student community of over 23,000 students from around 120 countries. Whether you choose to study full-time or part-time, student life is never dull. Our campus bars and an ever-growing range of clubs and societies will keep you entertained when you need a break from your studies.

UEL Students’ Union (UELSU) Clubs and societies • Childreach International • Christian Union As a member of UELSU, Our wide range of clubs and you’ll gain access to a wide societies offers something for • Coafrology range of facilities, opportunities, everyone. If you can’t find what • E-soc (Entrepreneurship) support and representation you’re looking for, don’t worry – • Empowerment that will guide and inspire you, all you need to set up your own • Fashion from those uncertain steps as a society is ten willing members fresher through to those final, and a registration form. • Fine Art self-assured strides across the • Ghanaian graduation stage. The following is a brief list of the • Graphic Design main clubs and societies that were • Hellenic Run by our students, for our running in January 2010. students, UELSU aims to ensure • IndoPak (Indian Pakistani) each and every one of you is • International Students Clubs offered the best chance to settle in • RAMS (Rock and smoothly, discover wonderful new • American Football Mountain Sports) friends, interests and ambitions, • Badminton • Samba and add exciting new dimensions to your university experience. • Basketball (Men’s & Women’s) • Somali • Cricket • Spanish Best of all, it allows you, as a • Dodgeball • Stop the WAR student, to have a real impact on • Football (Men’s & Women’s) • Taekwando the running of your university. By voting or standing in SU • Gaelic Football • Tamil elections, forming or joining our • Hockey • St. Johns Ambulance clubs and societies, or simply (Men’s, Women’s and Mixed) • Watersports. planning or partying at SU events, • Netball you’ll be playing an essential • Rowing role ensuring student life is fun, Bars and events • Rugby (Men’s & Women’s) challenging, and rewarding. Bars at both campuses provide • Sailing. a relaxed, friendly environment in Further information which to hang out with friends, www.uelunion.org Societies play a few games of pool or just enjoy some of the cheapest • Afro-Caribbean drinks in London. • Amnesty International • Anime There are regular events to keep • Anthropology you entertained, from comedy • Architecture to karaoke, and school disco to themed music nights.

20 21 Study Abroad Options

The Study Abroad programme is flexible and it is possible to combine modules from several subject areas. If English isn’t your first language, you can also choose to combine your academic study with an element of English language training. Approximate start dates for each option are given below but as the academic calendar varies from year to year, please check our website for exact dates.

Semester Abroad Semester or Year Abroad with English September to January, or February to June. Dates vary according to the length of English course required. This one-semester course gives you the opportunity to take The programme is similar to three 20-credit undergraduate the Semester or Year Abroad modules (equivalent to 10 ECTS programmes but it is combined credits each and 5 US credits). with a short English Language You can select from a range programme. It is designed for of programmes offered by our students who would need extra academic schools. English language support before starting their academic programme Different lengths of English course Year Abroad are available ranging from 5 to 22 weeks. The length of the September to June. course will depend on what your needs are. This one-year programme enables you to combine two uel.ac.uk/elc semesters of study by taking three 20-credit undergraduate modules each semester.

22 23 Academic School Profiles

Architecture and Visual Arts Computing, Information The Cass School Technology and Engineering of Education Our School of Architecture and The Visual Arts is housed Welcome to the School of The School of Education moved in a purpose-built centre opened Computing, Information into brand-new, purpose-built in 2004 by Turner Prize-winning Technology and Engineering. accommodation in 2009. sculptor Grayson Perry, a familiar The School brings together The new Centre boasts an face on TV and a former visiting the major areas of Computing outstanding range of facilities, professor at UEL. Designed by (including computer games, including fully equipped mock one of UEL’s own architects, the multimedia technology, music classrooms as well as teaching centre offers studios, workshops, technology, information security rooms, a lecture theatre, and teaching and seminar rooms, and software engineering) and facilities for local schools and together with galleries, exhibition business information systems colleges with whom the School areas and installation spaces, along with civil engineering, has a close working relationship. while the courtyards of the electrical engineering, product nearby Knowledge Dock design, geographical information building provide further space systems and land surveying. The Health and Bioscience for outdoor installations. synergy between engineering and computing provides a dynamism The School of Health and that ensures our programmes Bioscience offers a wide range The Royal Docks are challenging, relevant, highly of facilities, including the Centre Business School practical and focused on the skills for Podiatry, Physiotherapy and required in today’s workplace. We Sports Science. This outstanding Our Business School is based in have dedicated laboratory facilities clinic incorporates a foot a specially built centre opened in housed in new, purpose-built hospital for London offering NHS 2007 by Her Majesty the Queen. labs at our Docklands Campus, treatment, and is one of the finest The School has excellent teaching, providing you with access to the facilities of its kind in the UK. learning and research facilities, very latest equipment and facilities. Building on our growing reputation and is home to the Petchey for physiotherapy, sports science Centre for Entrepreneurship. and podiatry, the Centre also This innovative facility is dedicated provides clinical training facilities to promoting innovation in business, for complementary and herbal and to developing invaluable medicine. In addition, the School entrepreneurial skills among has newly upgraded laboratories, our students. and our sports studies programmes – in which we were rated in the top ten in the UK by University Guide 2007 and 2008 – will benefit even further from their proximity to the nearby Olympic facilities.

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Humanities and a coherent, exciting and wide- English Language Centre Social Sciences ranging intellectual experience. The School has its own dedicated Spread across the Stratford and Our School of Humanities law library, and an employment Docklands campuses, the English and Social Sciences, which manager offering specialist Language Centre provides English encompasses media and careers advice. support to students at all levels cultural studies, offers an array from intermediate to advanced. of specialist facilities, include Psychology Courses are designed to develop the Multimedia Production your English grammar, teach Centre (MPC), a cutting-edge Our School of Psychology is you to use English effectively in facility housing computer labs, one of the UK’s largest centres an academic environment and broadcast-standard studios, for postgraduate professional develop your academic study photographic and audio- psychology training. We provide skills. Students on presessional visual studios and much more. a wide range of programmes, English programmes have full Internationally recognised for many of them professionally access to UEL’s facilities, in the research, the School also accredited, at undergraduate and same way that other students do. houses our Institute of postgraduate levels, extending Performing Arts Development, across clinical, educational, offering an exciting and growing positive, occupational and range of degrees across the counselling psychology, as well performing arts. as career guidance, counselling and psychotherapy. We are also innovative, being the first Law psychology school in Europe to offer a postgraduate degree in UEL’s School of Law has a positive psychology, the fastest- distinct and vibrant identity, growing branch of the science. with a commitment to critical, We offer a range of specialised contemporary education from a research and laboratory facilities, cross-cultural and international computerised networks and perspective. It is a fast-growing databases, and specialist School with over 1,000 students accommodation for our currently enrolled and has a professional programmes. maturing research profile and Facilities include specialist sensitivity to issues of ethnicity, equipment such as EEG units, gender and class. The School eye-tracker and virtual-reality offers undergraduate and facilities, audio-visual recording postgraduate courses that reflect and editing suites, playback this unique character and offer facilities and computer suites.

26 27 Practicalities

Credit transfer Entry requirements How to apply

Each semester of study at UEL • You must be an undergraduate Applications for the Study Abroad typically grants 60 UEL credits, or postgraduate student in Programme should be made to which is equivalent to 30 ECTS your home country and have our International Office using our credits or 16 US credits (depends successfully completed at least Study Abroad Application Form. on home schools evaluation). one year of study. This can be downloaded from our website at uel.ac.uk/international. • You must be proficient in After the end of your programme, Alternatively, you can email English language and have UEL will issue a transcript showing [email protected] and we the equivalent of IELTS 6 in all the marks that you achieved in can send you further details. components. If you are taking each module that you have taken. the semester or year abroad Credits are normally transferable When applying, it is important to with English you will accepted to your home institution, but it is send us a transcript showing what with a lower IELTS score. important that you check this with you have studied in your home them beforehand. • A supporting reference from institution, along with the grades your university. that you achieved. Please also • Art and design students will be enclose an academic reference required to submit a portfolio. from your home institution.

28 29 30­ Accommodation

Our Student Village, located at our Docklands Campus, provides purpose-built accommodation for around 1,200 students in a stunning waterfront setting. There are two well-equipped launderettes and campus facilities include a refectory, coffee shops, a Students’ Union shop, a bookshop and an outdoor fitness trail.

Student Village Room types Off-campus accommodation You can apply for a place in our The following types of rooms There is a range of options for off- Student Village irrespective of the are available: campus accommodation. campus at which you are studying. Demand for places is high, so you • en-suite single: study-bedroom should apply for your place as in a cluster flat with shared soon as you can. We give priority kitchen/dining area to new students studying with us • en-suite enhanced single: for the first time, students who live as above but with larger furthest away from UEL, students study-bedroom coming from overseas, and students with disabilities. • studio flat: self-contained study-bedroom with integrated kitchenette and en-suite Accommodation features shower room All study-bedrooms feature • en-suite large kitchen: as the following: above but with larger integrated kitchen/diner. • en-suite shower room including washbasin and toilet • telephone set up for Residential Services incoming calls Our Residential Services team is • data point for free high-speed available all year round to help you internet access via the UEL find somewhere suitable to live, both on and off campus. network • bed, desk, chair, wardrobe, Further information bookshelves, pinboard and +44 (0)20 8223 5093/5094 storage space. uel.ac.uk/residential

30 31 Module Choices

At UEL we have literally 100s of modules (classes) available to Study Abroad students. You can build your own programme of studies, taking classes across different academic years and across different Schools as long as you have attained any prerequisite education that applies to specific modules.

Our range of modules is very extensive, including many classes that are not available elsewhere. Modules range from Music Industry Management to Computer Games Technology, and from Urban Dance to Decoding Stonehenge and much, much more besides.

To see our full range of modules available to Study Abroad students, and for further information, please visit uel.ac.uk/international

This publication has been prepared some months before the academic year to which it relates, and whilst every care has been taken to ensure accuracy at the time of going to press, its continuing accuracy cannot be guaranteed. In particular, we are constantly developing and improving the programmes, modules and options described in this publication, and we reserve the right to modify or discontinue them.

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