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PROSPECTUS 2013 E84 EXETR Open Days An excellent open day; everyone was friendly, and even the The University of Exeter has three campuses; two in to visit all three at the following Exeter and one in Cornwall. There are opportunities weather smiled on us! The facilities looked really good, the campus Open Days. O was beautiful and the presentations helpful. Exeter University – pen Days in Exeter Open s treatham and St Luke’s campuses, Days in Cornwall does exactly what it says in the prospectus! Exeter c ornwall Campus, near Falmouth Tuesday 12 June 2012 s aturday 23 June 2012 Open Day Visitor s aturday 8 September 2012 s aturday 29 September 2012 Take the opportunity to have a look around our beautiful campuses, meet academic and support staff, chat to current students and find out what you want to know about the perfect for finding out what life at University. Exeter is really like. The Open Days are Campus Tours How to book your place Streatham and pen Days St Luke’s campuses Bookings are essential for all our events. O The tours of our campuses in Exeter are usually led by a current student and generally include the There are limited places available for all our Open Days chance to visit the Library Days , Sports Park and Students’ events and tours so it is important to book your Open Guild. Where possible visitors will have the chance place in advance to avoid disappointment. in Cornwall to view an example of the accommodation available. in Exeter Open Days and Campus Tours in Ex eter Tours of the S Held at our Cornwall Campus treatham Campus take place from Held at both Streatham and St Luke’s campuses. Tuesday 12 June 2012 near Falmouth Monday to Friday at 2pm in term time. Book online at: eptember 2012 Saturday 8 S www Saturday 23 June 2012 Tours of the .exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/visiting September 2012 St Luke’s Campus take place on Phone: +44 (0)1392 724043 Saturday 29 Tuesdays and Fridays at 12:00 noon in term time. Email: [email protected] Cornwall Campus, near Falmouth Take a look around: Open Days and Campus Tours in Cornwall Tours of our www.exeter.ac.uk/virtualtours Cornwall Campus run on Wednesdays Held at our and Fridays at 2pm. Cornwall Campus, near Falmouth. Days and Campus Tours Tours are led by current Book online at: Full details of our Open students who will give you an authentic and lively www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/visiting can be found inside the back cover. introduction to student life. The tour takes in Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 student accommodation on campus. Email: [email protected] Self-guided campus tour leaflets and audio Visit www.exeter.ac.uk/virtualtours for tours are also available to download at virtual tours of the www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/visiting/tours Streatham Campus, S t Luke’s Campus and Cornwall Campus.

I absolutely loved the atmosphere on campus – the place is beautiful! I was inspired by my subject talk (Psychology), it made me want to start studying there and then. Accommodation was much better than I have previously seen elsewhere. I really couldn’t fault Exeter. Cover artwork by Alexander Beleschenko Open Day visitor Commissioned as the glass artwork of the new Forum at the University of Exeter

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Ten reasons to choose the University of Exeter 3 Engineering 85 What the world says about Exeter 4 English 90 Our world-class research 8 Environmental Science 94 Planning your future 10 Film Studies 96 Studying at the University of Exeter 14 Flexible Combined Honours 98 Life in Exeter: location, campuses, life 18 Geography 100 Music and culture 23 Geology 105 Sport 24 History 107 Accommodation 26 Law 111 Wellbeing 28 Liberal Arts 114 Academic support 30 Mathematics 116 Life in Cornwall: location, campus, life 32 Medical Imaging 119 Music and culture 36 Medicine 121 Sport 37 Mining Engineering 123 Accommodation 38 Modern Languages 125 Wellbeing 40 Natural Sciences 130 Academic support 42 Philosophy 132 Money matters 44 Physics 134 Study abroad 47 P olitics and International Relations 137 International students 50 Psychology 140 Renewable Energy 144 SUBJECTS Sociology 146 Guide to subject entries 54 Sport Sciences 148 Theology 151 Programmes P rogrammes for international students 153 Accounting and Finance 56 Arab and Islamic Studies 58 APPLICATION PROCEDURE Archaeology 61 Applying to Exeter 155 Art History and Visual Culture 63 Entrance requirements 155 Biosciences 65 Our offer and decision 157 Business, Management and Leadership 70 Classics and Ancient History 73 VISITING US Clinical Science 75 Campus maps 158 Computer Science 77 Visiting the University 162 Drama 80 Key contacts 163 Economics 82 Programme index 164

2 The University of Exeter

ARTIST IMPRESSION OF ESI BUILDING, CORNWALL CAMPUS The University of Exeter 3 Ten reasons to choose the University of Exeter

We are in the top one per cent 1 of universities in the world The Students’ Guild has broken the record for turnout 2 in student elections twice in the past two years We have invested more than £350 million 3 in new facilities across our three campuses We are fourth in the UK for teaching 4 in the National Student Survey 2011 Our full-time undergraduate student population 5 has increased by 50 per cent in the last five years We have six interdisciplinary 6 academic colleges We have an alumni network 7 of more than 70,000 people We came eighth in the 2010/2011 British Universities 8 and Colleges Sport (BUCS) rankings We are ranked ninth in the Sunday 9 Times University Guide 2012 We are also ranked tenth in The 10 Times Good University Guide 2012 4 The University of Exeter What the world says about the University of Exeter

Whatever their backgrounds, Exeter students embrace the opportunities that come their way at this most dynamic of institutions.

S unday Times, 11 Sept 2011

Young people have the ability to make change happen and the value of educating and engaging with our students cannot be underestimated. Our academic institutions should be places where ideas can be properly explored and where students are empowered to scrutinise decision- makers. The University of Exeter is just that and the teaching, support and community it offers its young learners are nothing short of inspirational.

shami chakrabarti, director of liberty, honorary graduate

There is energy, dynamism and talent at Exeter in great abundance. If I were an undergraduate again it would definitely be very high on my list.

jonathan dimbleby, broadcaster, honorary graduate

Into our elite top 10 universities for the first time, Exeter has been shortlisted for our University of the Year award four times (2002, 2006, 2010 and again this year), more than any other university. It is testimony to the consistent high quality of its offer to students, which is being ramped up another notch or 10 with perhaps the most audacious ongoing campus makeover of any university in Britain.

S unday Times University Guide 2012 The University of Exeter 5 6 The University of Exeter The University of Exeter 7 What our students say about the academics who teach them

The following quotes are taken from the nominations for the Students’ Guild Teaching Awards, 2011

If you have a member of staff with so much passion and commitment, then those feelings resonate down to their students and it’s irrespective of the subject’s difficulty, it makes it fun and enjoyable.

...about Gary Abrahams, Teaching Fellow, Business School, winner of best feedback provider, by Kevin Gibney

Pete is one of the most inspiring people I’ve ever met, never mind being a fantastic lecturer, great public speaker and overall nice guy. He seems to always have time to listen to you and makes you feel valued with what you have to say.

...about prof pete vukusic, associate professor of physics, by olivia calloway

Some lecturers read off sheets of paper and others murmur; others just expect the sources to teach the lesson. Dr Basham uses interactive games, role play, movies, ranging sources, stories of her research; everyone loves her lessons.

...about Dr Victoria Basham, Lecturer, Politics, winner of most innovative teaching, by Robert Lloyd

He is a fabulous teacher, who gave up his time to not just encourage, but to engage me in debate and lead me to a greater understanding.

...about Dr Nigel Pleasants, Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Philosophy, by M Hedrick

The way he leads seminars brings out the very best in people in terms of their intellect, their ideas and their confidence. I don’t think there is anyone on the planet that could do this better.

...about Dr Paul Young, Senior Lecturer, English, by Tania Kinane 8 Our research

Our world-class research

At Exeter you will study and learn Combating climate change Tackling global uncertainties with the experts – with those who With over 150 researchers tackling Our social scientists have unrivalled are shaping their field of study and climate change, the environment expertise in Middle East and Islamic writing core texts. This means that and sustainability, and a unique world politics, dealing with conflict your learning and teaching will be partnership with the Met Office, we’re causation, management and regulation up-to-date and you will benefit from uniquely positioned to investigate on the ground where it affects real access to the latest thinking, equipment the world’s biggest challenge. people’s lives. Meanwhile, our scientists and resources. Mathematical predictions, expeditions and social scientists are undertaking to polar ice caps and investigations collaborative initiatives to help feed We pride ourselves on being a vibrant of public understanding make up a an expanding world population, centre for new ideas. Every subject we holistic approach across the sciences, curing crop diseases and analysing teach was assessed as including world- humanities, and social sciences. food economics. class research in the latest Research Assessment Exercise in 2008, and we have a higher proportion of research Making a healthier world Understanding society students than any UK university Working closely with the NHS, and identity outside Oxford and Cambridge. we’re making breakthroughs in How we live, who we are, and This makes for a rich community treatments and interventions which what we believe are key questions of discovery, which includes dramatically improve quality of life at Exeter. From the ‘glass cliff’ facing undergraduates as much as professors. for people suffering from diabetes female chief executives at failing and mood disorders. We’re also businesses, to the way ancient The knowledge uncovered by our tackling the global problems of migration patterns still influence researchers is at the heart of your obesity and an ageing population, our behaviour, and how environment education. These are just some of the and engineering new technologies and place interact with literature, areas where we’re making an impact, to enable the early identification of our research into the way we live and which you’ll be contributing to. diseases such as malaria. now is leading the world.

If you want to find out more about our research, visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ research/excellence

It has been a pleasure to be taught and surrounded by academics at the forefront of their research in their specialism – consistently interesting and inspiring.

Emma Solomon, BSc Sports Science, MSc Sports and Exercise Medicine, PhD Physical Activity Promotion The University of Exeter 9 10 Planning your future

Take a look at our website for full details of all the opportunities open to you: Planning your future www.exeter.ac.uk/ undergraduate/ employability

Exeter offers fantastic opportunities for you to really make the most of your time here and increase your employability through work experience, student business projects and more volunteering opportunities than any other university. Taking advantage of these can really help you to stand out from the crowd when you graduate and compete successfully in the job market.

BARONESS Floella Benjamin, OBE, DL, Chancellor of the University of Exeter

Do more, go further! career development. Employers like a comprehensive range of services Supporting our graduates in securing to recruit graduates who can show and activities to help you become a graduate-level employment and evidence of having ‘joined in’, worked successful graduate in the job market postgraduate study is given the highest as a team, shown leadership or spent or in further study and training. Six priority at the University of Exeter. We time travelling and experiencing new months after graduation 93 per cent aim to be the university of choice for situations and cultures. Everything of Exeter’s first degree graduates were career-minded students and employers you do socially, academically and in the in employment or further study.* from all sectors, locally, nationally and work place can potentially make you We are proud of our track record of from across the globe. more employable, as long as you can our graduates who have gone on to reflect on your experiences, understand rewarding and interesting careers Evidence shows that gaining a good their value and explain their value and are dedicated to helping our degree from a good university is no to someone else. We will help you to current and future students emulate longer enough to secure graduate level identify and articulate these skills to these successes. employment. You need to be able to any prospective employer. *HESA 2009/2010 demonstrate how your degree, skills, work experience and commercial There are many ways to add value to Services for students your CV and job applications while awareness equip you for graduate The investment we’ve made in the you’re a student at Exeter, from level work or postgraduate study. We employability of our students is management training to business will help you get an excellent degree evident in the creation of the £48 placements, one of the UK’s largest and we are committed to offering million Forum that houses our Career student volunteering programmes and you an exceptionally wide range of Zone. The Career Zone offers you help pre-teacher training, to a world-wide opportunities to gain the graduate- in all stages of your career planning network of study abroad opportunities level skills, experience and expertise and job hunting. The professional and careers advice from our own employers are looking for. careers staff based at our campuses successful alumni. More than 60 per cent of graduate in Exeter and Cornwall will guide you employers do not mind what subject With our central Career Zone full towards making an informed choice of you are studying, as long as you can of information and support in finding career or postgraduate study and have show how your experiences have work experience, events and training a wealth of expertise, opportunities impacted upon your personal and sessions relevant to you, Exeter offers and useful resources that you can take advantage of during your time as a student at the University. You can find details on our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/employability Planning your future 11

Getting a job is not just about obtaining a good degree: the skills students develop throughout university shape their employability. Students at Exeter have access to a wide range of opportunities to build their skills and experience alongside their academic studies, and understand how they can transfer these skills into the recruitment market. The Careers Zone encourages students to meet local and national employers so they understand what employers are looking for, which is invaluable in an increasingly competitive marketplace.

Ros alind Gilbe rt, Student Hir e Manag er, Pricew aterho useCoo pers LLP In today’s competitive job market students need to engage in extracurricular activities during their university degree to help make them attractive to employers. Skills gained from work experience, volunteering and Guild activities I’ve been working with University of Exeter students can help to demonstrate the skills and qualities employers for several years now and find them extremely bright, are looking for. Students should be thinking about their efficiently organised, keen and eminentlyeer opportunities, well prepared career paths from their first year onwards. I am delighted for the jobs market. In terms of car to see the University of Exeter has placed the career and Exeter provides a steady stream of graduates for the employment prospects of its students as its highest priority. BBC and other media organisations, and rightly so. The University offers everything a student could need to start Carl Gille ard, Chief Executive Officer, Ass ociation of G building up necessary experience: the student, website media raduate Recruite rs scene is excellent, with a vibrant newspaper

and radio and TV stations.

ews Correspondent Simon Hall, BBC N

We run a comprehensive programme of If you’re based at our Cornwall Contact with employers events in Exeter, including at least four Campus you’ll have access to a The University enjoys superb links with annual Careers Fairs which are attended dedicated careers team. Services hundreds of international, national and by around 200 companies, individual include talks, confidential careers regional companies and organisations, guidance interviews, psychometric interviews, an extensive Careers with many of them specifically testing, employer presentations, skills Library and computer suite with targeting Exeter graduates. We are events and guidance on preparing your specialist software. You can attend in the top 20 of Higher Education CV and making applications. There careers interviews, group workshops Institutions that were targeted by are general events and fairs covering and a variety of careers events and fairs. the largest number of top employers specialist areas such as Law as well as Students based at the Cornwall Campus in 2010/11 (The Graduate Market in the Virtual Careers Fair that gives you can also access all services delivered 2011, High Fliers Research) and have access to a wider range of graduate in Exeter. There is an annual Graduate been placed in the World’s Top 100 opportunities online. Widen Your Careers Fair held at the Cornwall Universities for employer satisfaction Options Fortnight gives information Campus in the Autumn term which (QS World University rankings on career opportunities such as the attracts a range of national, regional 2011/12). You’ll have access to around voluntary and not-for-profit sectors and local companies. Career planning 700 graduate employers who advertise and self-employment. Mock interviews and skills development programmes are vacancies at the University and you’ll are also held throughout the year, many developed within degree programmes have the opportunity to take part in with employers. These activities will across all campuses. mock interviews and presentations help you to be a more successful with employers and meet them face-to- student as well as preparing you to face at our careers fairs. compete in the jobs market. All students can access online services through the employability website at Over the past few years, Procter & Gamble www.exeter.ac.uk/employability has begun to actively recruit at the University of wherever they are located. Exeter. We have been impressed with the calibre of the University’s students, with the willingness of the departments to partner with industry and the great enthusiasm of the students.

Meri Williams, Recruitment Leader for the South West, Procter & Gamble 12 Planning your future

After graduation Exeter is targeted by graduate employers in all sectors so you will be joining a university that offers some of the best employment opportunities in the country. The University is also one of the few institutions in the UK where levels of graduate employment and postgraduate study actually increased during the recent economic recession. Even once The University of Exeter is committed to supporting students who you have graduated we will continue want to graduate into their perfect job and there is no end to the to support you and offer opportunities invaluable support I’ve received. As well as studying for my Law for further training. degree I also run my own online business, Rosalind James. It’s often hard enough juggling academic work, societies and a social life Alumni at university so being the Company Director of a fledging business as The University of Exeter is in contact well can make life a bit stressful. with more than 70,000 alumni in more than 150 countries. As a student, you Thankfully, the University of Exeter fully supports student become a part of this community and entrepreneurship and when I asked for help, the employability team can access a range of free benefits for put me in touch with an incredible business mentor through the the rest of your life. Career Mentor Scheme. Aimed to give students a direct link into their chosen industry, I have found the scheme incredibly beneficial and The Development and Alumni Relations can’t recommend it highly enough. My mentor Anne (who runs a Office runs an extensive programme of multi-million pound international dancewear company and is an MBE!) reunions and professional networking has been an invaluable source of inspiration and encouragement events which are held in the UK to me, helping me to improve, develop and expand Rosalind James and internationally. Professional during my time at Exeter. As a result I have just secured £5,000 networking events include media, law, business development funding from the EU which means I can keep finance and business, and politics. working on Rosalind James whilst spending this year abroad in Bilbao, Spain as part of my Law degree. Exeter alumni are valuable contacts. Many graduates are prominent in Whether I decide to pursue Law as a career or dedicate myself their chosen fields, reflecting Exeter’s completely to my business, Exeter has given me the best possible strength as a university with a strong opportunity to maximise my employability and it’s fantastic to know employment record. that there are people here to help you, whichever career path you choose. Alumni enjoy giving something back by passing on their experience and Emma Green, 3rd year LLB Law with European Study knowledge to current students. Many alumni also offer support to students in developing their careers, including speaking to groups of students and The University is concerned with providing offering individual support. a whole package to prepare you for the future; it’s Further information can be found at not just about the academic aspect. I’ve attended a www.exeter.ac.uk/alumnisupporters whole host of employability and skills sessions and workshops which have changed my approach to careers entirely. undergraduate Classics student Planning your future 13

Many people believe that universities are just a place to acquire knowledge about their chosen degree; I did. At the University of Exeter you learn more than just a subject. I’ve had the chance to pursue so many possibilities since I started my programme.

In my second year I won a scholarship to take part in the Catalyst Course, a residential course where we learned about leadership skills and sustainability. I was also selected to take part in the Career Mentor Scheme where I was paired with a perfect candidate to guide me in my career choices.

I also won the Floella Benjamin Career Development Award, to expand the community based organisation I funded in Kenya. This charity is aimed at helping vulnerable children in a rural school by providing them with one hot meal a day and taking care of their most basic needs.

This year, I am setting up a Leadership Society at the University and completing the Exeter Leaders Award – as well as graduating from a great university. The help and support I have received during my journey here has been invaluable.

Lucia Beltrame, BA Management with Leadership, 3rd year

I can trace many of the skills I have now back to my time at Exeter. In fact, it’s only with hindsight that I realise how many ‘soft skills’ my degree gave me. We were encouraged to really push ourselves and achieve as much as we could. I now realise how important this was. For example, I had the chance to study abroad for a year, which I think made my CV stand out and helped me secure a graduate position at Citi Investment Bank. In my current role at M&G Investments, I’m continually exposed to new areas of the business. I have to understand them very quickly so I can establish what risks affect them. Thanks to my experience at Exeter, this really doesn’t faze me at all.

Xanthe Bowker-Douglass, Risk Manager, M&G Investments, BA Accounting and Finance with French, 2005 14 The University of Exeter

Studying at the University of Exeter

Academic excellence Research-inspired teaching You should expect to be an active The University of Exeter is the fastest- Our academics are at the forefront of contributor in seminars, tutorials rising university in both UK and world their fields and their passion for their and online learning environments. league tables. Our status has been subjects drives their teaching. We In addition, you will be guided and confirmed by our ranking in The Sunday believe that every student benefits from supported by tutors to become Times University Guide 2012. We now being part of a research-led culture increasingly independent in your rank 9th in this league table, 10th in and being taught by experts – you will learning. You’ll also be encouraged The Times and 11th in The Guardian. discuss the very latest ideas in seminars to take part in a wide range of extra We are also ranked in the top one and tutorials and, in appropriate curricular and employment related per cent of universities in the world degree programmes, you will become activities which will enhance your skills according to the Times Higher Education an active member of a research team. and contribute to your opportunities international rankings. Our ambition Our research-intensive culture is after you graduate. We recognise this is to cement our place in the UK ‘Ivy confirmed by our standing as a leading activity through the very popular League’ and be ranked among the research university in the UK according Exeter Award Scheme. world’s top 100 universities. to the latest Research Assessment Innovative teaching and assessment Exercise (2008) where 90 per cent methods balanced with well-established The University is once again in the of our research was rated as being at approaches create a stimulating and top 10 for student satisfaction, internationally recognised levels.* This effective learning environment. You’ll according to the 2011 National Student enables us to offer a broad range of staff learn through popular and time- Satisfaction (NSS) Survey. We rank expertise and hence module choice. honoured traditional methods including 8th out of 118 UK higher education Staff who are active in research can lectures, seminars and tutorials as institutions for overall satisfaction. more easily support a style of learning well as field work, laboratory classes Exeter has maintained its top 10 that’s based on the student becoming a and IT sessions depending on your position every year since the survey researcher and active learner. was launched seven years ago. We now degree programme. However, you’ll rank 4th in the country for student *based on percentage of research categorised find that you’re also involved in using satisfaction around the quality of our as 3* and/or 4* new technologies which complement teaching, up one place from last year. the contact you have with tutors in the Active learning and majority of our programmes. At Exeter we ensure that the teaching innovative teaching and support we offer provides you At the University of Exeter, we provide Technology-enhanced learning is with the academic excellence needed you with an educational environment possible because the University has to enhance your experience with us where you become part of a vibrant invested heavily in an interactive and to boost your employability after learning community and in which online learning environment (ELE – the graduation. Over 80 per cent of our research inspires and leads our Exeter Learning Environment) which students leave us with First Class teaching. ‘Inspiring’ is the word most encourages blogging, online discussion Honours or a 2:1. Our students demand commonly used by our student body forums and virtual field trips as well a lot of us and we of them – we aim to to describe their lecturers and we see as hosting all the materials and notes, make our teaching inspirational and students as our partners in the learning including e-books and e-journals, for your learning exceptional. process; our learning, teaching style your modules and increasingly, video and ethos encourage class participation archives of lectures. Our facilities for and active reflection by students. videoconferencing and webcasting allow students on different campuses to share Studying at the University of Exeter 15

I have taken part in many things whilst here at Cornwall, which I suppose is the whole point of university. I have been Subject Chair for the three years I have studied here and I’ve taken part in two ‘Students as Change Agents’ conferences. I have also been involved in many other extracurricular activities, including the planning of the new Exchange building on the campus.

Luke Dunham, UG student, Cornwall Campus

learning experiences and to review Working in partnership Free Choice Modules – Many sessions in their own time and at their Through the Students as Change programmes include the opportunity own pace. This creates opportunities Agents project the University works in to take up to a quarter of your studies for you to personalise the experience to partnership with the student body to outside your main subject of study meet your own needs. continuously improve the learning and – this could be in another academic subject area, languages or to add some Personal tutors teaching experience and most degree programmes have a Staff-Student vocational elements such a leadership We are committed to a system of Liaison Committee (SSLC) where module run by the Business School. personal tutoring so that students students’ recommendations for change receive the individual support and are embedded into strategic planning You also have the option to advice they need to succeed in their and action. We welcome students as our take modules identified in our study here. All students have a personal partners in developing our programmes SUSTAIN:ability pathways. These tutor who is there to support you and and our methods of learning. Through modules address different aspects of help you deal with any problems or our UK-leading ExChange programme sustainability and will help prepare you issues that arise. we provide support to the SSLCs to for future work in a changing global Student academic skills allow the students to undertake change environment. Details can be found at development agent projects and this further benefits www.exeter.ac.uk/sustainability In order to support your learning the development of our programmes. Study Abroad – You can broaden and development and enhance your Student Learning Partnerships are your horizons by studying for up to employability, we provide a skills currently being developed with the a year in Europe or, in certain degree service for all students, with bases on Students’ Guild to further develop programmes, North America, Australia Streatham, St Luke’s and Cornwall these principles and they will offer a or New Zealand amongst others (see campuses. We offer a wide-range of two-way exchange between what we page 47). skills programmes, workshops, expect of you as one of our students individual support and online and what we promise to deliver as part “Enhanced modularity is one of the interactive resources to ensure you of your overall student experience. most important and best aspects of get the very best out of your time at Student choice my degree. After the first year I knew Exeter. We can help you maximise your There are several ways in which you can that I wanted to pursue a career in potential in the following areas: marketing and public relations; the • essay-writing shape your degree to fit your interests and career plans: ability to choose modules outside of • managing dissertations my programme has opened up new • giving presentations Flexible Combined Honours learning opportunities which I can • time management and prioritising Scheme – This scheme enables you to use in my career.” combine modules from a number of Undergraduate in Sociology • critical reading and writing different fields of study not otherwise • revision strategies and exam available through an existing Combined techniques Honours programme (see page 98). • note-taking 16 Studying at the University of Exeter

ning experience beyond At Exeter you have the opportunity to extend your lear simply doing the reading and going to the lectures – you’re an active member of a vibrant academic partnership. Whether that’s as a programme representative or an agent for change, you are empowered to find improvements in everything the University does and are given the opportunity to see your changes implemented, ensuring the voice of every student is heard and acted upon.

As Vice President Academic Affairs for the Students’ Guild I represent every student who studies here, ensuring that your learning experience is at the heart of everything the University does. I am the link between the student body and the University; so when you have an idea or a problem which needs solving you can come to me and I’ll make sure the right person listens.

Exeter is a sector leader in so much of what it does because of the partnership between the Guild and University. Our annual Teaching Awards are among the best in the country and the ‘Students as Change Agents’ project has received international recognition. At Exeter, students are listened to, students matter.

At Exeter the quality of your education and your employment prospects come together to ensure you are prepared for any future challenges you face. Our students and our graduates are world-class, and this comes from the high standard of support and encouragement available both inside and outside the classroom.

What makes Exeter special is the extent to which our students shape the learning environment, making it exciting, challenging and so much more than just a degree. s ice President Academic Affair James Eales, Students’ Guild V Studying at the University of Exeter 17

Lecturer Profiles Our students run an annual teaching awards scheme which inspires our lecturers to go the extra mile. You can read more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate

I find the role of teaching forms a “Every year Alex provides a wonderful core part of my identity. I want to service to the students he teaches; challenge students to develop the skill he doesn’t just lecture with passion sets that they possess, but have not and enthusiasm but his interpersonal fully developed or used. I place skills make him warm and ever- myself in the centre of this journey approachable. He doesn’t just by coaching and equipping students support people academically but also with the knowledge they need to in their day-to-day lives and future meet the challenges put forth to plans. Me and my peers all see Alex them. When students find the level not just as a lecturer and academic, of commitment of their lecturer but as a friend who will support us is equal (if not greater) to their throughout our career.” “As a marketer with a background level of commitment to the class, Tim Hill, nomination for the in anthropology, I am interested in great things happen. Students’ Guild Teaching Awards the dynamics that occur between consumer actions, the marketplace, I have high expectations of both and cultural meanings. My interest my students and myself. My aim is in this area has led me to pursue to ensure that my students have research within the healthcare everything they need to succeed not sector where I explore the impacts only academically, but also throughout of disease upon communities. An their careers.” important component of my research Dr Alex Thompson, Lecturer in Marketing, is incorporating these experiences in winner of the Students’ Guild Best Lecturer the classroom. Award, 2011

We want our students to question “ Ian’s module taught me to think on and develop their own ideas, to an entirely different level, allowing become more active, questioning, me to understand, appreciate and critical, careful learners. care for the world in a manner I think few do. It’s also improved In my final year ‘Geographies of my confidence hugely in talking Material Culture’ module, students spontaneously in front of groups of learn about trade(in)justice through people. It was the most challenging researching documentaries, artwork, module of my degree, but also journalism and academic research the one I have taken most from. that has provoked discussion of farm, Absolutely fascinating.” factory and other workers’ (often Amelia Cozon, nomination for the Students’ “Geography is the holistic ‘world ‘sweatshop’) pay and conditions. They Guild Teaching Awards discipline’. It helps us to better look for discussions of these sources understand complex and thorny in blogs, YouTube comments, Amazon “ Ian doesn’t just teach you; instead arguments about climate change, book reviews, databases of newspaper you are asked to research things (un)fair trade, natural hazards, articles and academic publications. yourself and then tell people what multiculturalism, sustainability and They work in groups and publish their you found out through blogs and more. There are no easy answers. findings online. Students are not only other methods. You have to get That’s why so many people go to learning about my research, they’re involved in the work in order to university to study the subject. Our doing it with me. We’re learning complete the assignments, so instead task as lecturers is to explain and together, publishing together. None of just absorbing information, you get enthuse in class, to show what’s worth of us is entirely sure what we’ll find. immersed in it and therefore learn on reading in the academic literature, and It’s exciting.” a much deeper level. It changed how I thought about things as a person encourage students to develop rich, Dr Ian Cook, Associate Professor of complex, critical understandings in Geography and if that doesn’t show innovative presentations, coursework and exams. and exemplary teaching I don’t know what does!”

Alice Goodbrook, nomination for the Students’ Guild Teaching Awards 18 The University of Exeter

Campuses in Exeter

The University has around 18,000 students, of which 13,350 are undergraduates. This means it’s large enough to offer the academic excellence and facilities you’d expect to find in a major university, but also offers a friendly and welcoming atmosphere.

Exeter is very Streatham Campus easy to fall in love with. This is an exciting time to be at has seen huge investment over the It has one of the most the University of Exeter. We are past couple of years, the centrepiece of looking to the future following a which is the Forum which offers a new beautiful campuses £275 million investment in facilities Student Services Centre, a refurbished in the country, in one on the Streatham Campus. This library, new technology-rich learning includes a £130 million investment spaces, a 400-seat lecture theatre, a of the most beautiful in new on-campus student residences, new University reception and retail the Forum, a £48 million student-facing and catering outlets. counties in Britain. redevelopment of the heart of the Virgin Guide to campus, a £25 million investment in The city centre is only a 15-minute walk British Universities the Business School and £25 million for away so you can enjoy the advantages new facilities for Biosciences. of a campus-based university without missing out on life in the city. The majority of students are based at the Streatham Campus, which is the The catered halls of residence and most largest site in Exeter. The campus is one of our purpose-built self-catered flats of the most beautiful in the country are either on campus or nearby in the and offers a unique environment in city centre, so you’ll have easy access to which to study with lakes, parkland, everything you’ll need without having woodland and gardens to enjoy to do lots of travelling around the city. throughout the year. The campus Life in Exeter 19

St Luke’s Campus St Luke’s Campus is not only about joining You will study at St Luke’s Campus in Academic facilities include a library, a university, it is also Exeter if you are studying Sport and which has recently undergone a £1 Health Sciences or Medicine. million refurbishment, IT facilities and about joining a family. support, and modern seminar rooms Coming to university is Students have studied at St Luke’s for and lecture theatres. The St Luke’s over 150 years and although much has Campus has excellent facilities for such a major leap which changed over the years, the campus sport including a sports hall, an air- has retained a vibrant, collegiate conditioned health and fitness studio is softened by being atmosphere in which everyone soon and an indoor heated swimming pool. immediately accepted gets to know each other. As you walk through the arches of the traditional The Students’ Guild organises many into a group of like- North Cloisters you will see the lawns events and activities on campus but of the quadrangle surrounded by students at St Luke’s also take full minded people. modern teaching buildings, including advantage of all the academic, social Undergraduate in Sport Sciences the Medical School building, and and sporting facilities at the Streatham student residences. The campus has Campus which is about a 25-minute both a catered hall and self-catered walk or a short bus ride away and the accommodation attached to it. buses run very frequently between the campuses.

I have had a fantastic three years at Exeter. The campus is beautiful and the University is an inspiring place to study. Both around students and about town, I have felt at home here since day one; everything about Exeter is friendly and welcoming.

Undergraduate in Flexible Combined Honours 20 Life in Exeter

Life on campus

It is undeniable that the University of Exeter has become one of the finest universities in the UK and indeed the world, having become an almost permanent fixture in the UK’s top 10 higher education rankings. But despite its prominence in both teaching and research, it is the Guild’s Students’ Guild contribution to the phenomenon that is the At our campuses in Exeter, the ‘Exeter Experience’ that transforms student life Students’ Guild (Exeter’s Students’ here in Exeter from excellent to truly exceptional. Union) is central to student life and is recognised as one of the UK’s Your programme is, or hopefully should be, an important factor when it leading students’ unions. The Guild comes to selecting a university. But very rarely do prospective students is a dynamic, innovative and award- consider all the other opportunities that being a student offers them. winning organisation, existing to Here at Exeter we have one of the most active student bodies in the UK, represent all the diverse students of with chances to join societies, to volunteer, or earn a little extra cash the University of Exeter. The Guild by working for the Guild, being taken up and enjoyed every day. These is a member-led organisation, which opportunities not only provide students with exciting ways to spend their means all our students have a say in time whilst here at Exeter but also help build their skill base and look the running of the Guild and it often great on CVs. sets national records for turnout in students’ union elections. Through As President, I work as part of a four person sabbatical team charged Guild representation, the broad range with: defending the academic rights of all students; ensuring the welfare of services and exceptional activities, of every member of the student body; and acting as the social hub for we are confident that you’ll have the activity on and off campus. In essence we just want to make sure you are best possible university experience safe and have as much fun as possible during your time here. at Exeter. Roughly four years ago I was one of the lucky few who knew exactly Representing you which university I wanted to attend. I knew that my programme was one The Guild represents the interests of the best in the country and that I was going to attend a lush utopian of all students studying in Exeter to campus near the sea. Looking back now, these factors have somewhat the University. Elected officers sit on paled in comparison to everything I have experienced over the years. No a number of committees and make other place I have visited on my modest travels has ever inspired the kind sure our students’ views are heard. of belief and success that the University of Exeter and specifically the This includes the University’s Budget Students’ Guild does. Scrutiny Group where students can Nick Davis, Students’ Guild President 2011/12 comment on and help the University make spending decisions. The Guild also represents our students externally to the local community, the media, the National Union of Students (NUS) and the Government. There are a wide range of representative positions which students get involved with. These can involve things like organising events, running campaigns and representing student views to the University. Life in Exeter 21

Supporting you Societies Volunteering The Guild’s support services try to cater In Exeter, thousands of students Our extremely successful RAG (raising for every eventuality and any problems sign up to over 170 different Guild- and giving) involves large numbers of that might arise during your time at affiliated societies. These societies cover students in imaginative events on and the University of Exeter. The Student a wide range of activities enabling our off campus raising money for local, Advice Unit employs professional staff students to get fully involved with national and international charities. who advise on legal, accommodation, university life. Societies range from In 2010/11 they raised over £80,000. financial and academic problems. The Archaeology, Jazz Orchestra and the We also have one of the most active Guild also has a team of friendly and Expedition Society to the Lit Soc, Community Action (CA) groups in very approachable students who can give Photosoc, Ski Club and Welsh Societies. the country with over 1,000 student you lots of information based on their You can get involved with the running volunteers. CA has been operating for own experiences at Exeter, especially on of any of these and if there’s a club you over 40 years and is continuing to grow settling in to university life or tips for want that we don’t have, we’ll help you with ever increasing opportunities in the successful house hunting. As well as the set it up. The full list is available at Exeter area. CA runs a number of weekly Advice Unit, there’s also VOICE, your www.exeterguild.com/societies projects and one off events. You could student listening service. Operated by get involved with anything from running a dedicated team of student volunteers, Media a Kids’ Camp, enjoying tea and cake with VOICE is there for you from 8pm to We have one of the most vibrant the elderly, redecorating a homeless 8am throughout term time to give student media networks in the country, shelter or cleaning up the beach. All of information or just listen when you need receiving several national awards. which can significantly contribute to someone. They can make sure you can Based on the Streatham Campus, your employability skills and CV. contact the relevant support services X-Media includes a student radio when you need them. station, newspaper, TV station and website. Involvement in Guild media For information on other support has provided the springboard for The enthusiasm of the students services, both academic and pastoral, the careers of several famous Exeter and their dedication to activities available at our campuses, please see graduates, including Thom Yorke of and volunteering is striking, and page 28 and 30. Radiohead, who was a DJ, and Emma it’s these elements that have B, who was a Guild Sabbatical Officer. made my Exeter experience Entertaining you Several of the station managers really worthwhile. Societies The Lemon Grove is the main live music who have been in control at XTV are for me were the best part venue and nightclub on the Streatham now working in the TV industry for of university; I’ve had some Campus in Exeter. It regularly plays companies such as the BBC, Carlton and fantastic experiences, been host to well-known bands and some FoxTel in Sydney. Previous members part of some amazing events, of the best nights out in Exeter. Last have also used XTV to build portfolios learnt some useful skills and year saw Chase and Status, Black Veil for film school applications and to get made friends I know I’ll keep Brides, We are Scientists, Foreign into television work. To find out more, for the rest of my life. I’ve been Beggars, Example, The King Blues, Miss please see www.xmedia.ex.ac.uk on committees for five societies Dynamite, Jaguar Skillz and Frank including St John Ambulance, Turner play here. Every Saturday over XTV, and have started my own 1,200 students descend on the Lemon society; ExeTech, which goes to Grove for the ‘Lemmy’ club night. Our show there’s a society in Exeter student groups also put on regular for everyone, and if you think events from RAG nights to Beats and there’s something missing you Bass sessions. can create it! Mike Evans, BA History For more information please visit and ancient history www.exeterguild.com 22 Life in Exeter

With a touch of buzzy, big city atmosphere, a large student population and a thriving arts scene, Exeter is one of the liveliest cities in the South West... The excellent selection of funky bars, cafés and restaurants make Exeter a vibrant place to be after dark.

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Life in Exeter

Welcome Week in Exeter Exeter has a population of around The city’s arts centre, the Exeter Welcome Week is your opportunity 118,000 and is consistently rated as Phoenix, offers top quality theatre, to find your feet before term begins. one of the best places to live in the dynamic dance, live music from around It is a great introduction to life at the UK. Exeter’s popularity as a growing the world, exhibitions of visual arts and University of Exeter. We’ll make sure business centre means the city is crafts and thought-provoking films. that you get to know your way around, weathering the current economic Exeter’s Northcott Theatre is based make friends and ease yourself into the climate better than some cities. on the Streatham Campus and stages academic side of life by meeting your Unemployment is below the national its own productions as well as touring tutors and fellow students. During average and the University’s campus shows, comedy nights and concerts. Welcome Week you’ll find out about investment projects have contributed The Vue Cinema is the main cinema in the Students’ Guild, Student Support towards Exeter retaining its status as Exeter but the Picturehouse is also very Services, IT and Library facilities, and an investment centre. popular. Its programme includes art the Sports Park. house and classic films as well as major It is a safe, student-friendly city with blockbusters and it has a café/bar with Members of the Welcome Team are a vibrant and fun culture and relaxed fabulous views. on hand to answer all your questions atmosphere. Most new students and to guide you through the week’s find that Exeter is not a particularly The nightlife in Exeter is dominated events. All the entertainment events expensive city in which to live, and by a diverse range of bars, pubs, clubs are optional – you can join in as many that you can enjoy a relatively high and restaurants in the city centre, with or as few of these as you like, though standard of living. student nights most nights of the week. most people find it difficult to fit in all Performers from the London stand- The cafés, restaurants, pubs and the things they want to do. up comedy circuit regularly visit the modern shops of the city centre mix Comedy Club at the Corn Exchange. The sports teams run taster sessions easily with Exeter’s historic buildings. Live music can be enjoyed throughout and trials and all the societies will The city centre itself has an impressive the city in various venues, on campus compete for your attention at the shopping centre with all the stores and and at the large Westpoint Arena. Activities Fair. facilities you’d expect in the regional capital. But the real enjoyment of For a comprehensive guide to Exeter, Although attendance at Welcome Week shopping in Exeter is to explore the written by one of our students, please is optional, most students say “Don’t side streets and some of the more see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ miss it.” It’s your chance to thoroughly unconventional shops, such as the guidetoexeter enjoy yourself and settle into your new Cathedral Green with its bars and home before term starts and you have restaurants or Gandy Street with its to start studying. diverse range of shops selling designer labels, jewellery and gifts. For more information about Welcome Week in Exeter, please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/newstudents The University of Exeter 23

Music and Culture

Music, theatre and art are an important The University has a very lively music Student music societies part of life at the University of Exeter scene and provides the venues for many There are many student music and there are plenty of opportunities gigs (see page 21) as well as hosting societies at Exeter including bands to see plays, films, musicals and classical concerts by the Bournemouth and DJs, two orchestras, concert band, concerts, ranging from pop to classical. Symphony Orchestra who perform jazz orchestra and a wide variety of The Streatham Campus has a new throughout the year at the Streatham choirs. Folk music, dance societies, music building that supports further Campus. Distinguished chamber groups bell-ringing and a clarinet choir opportunities in all musical genres and and soloists also visit regularly. There complete the current list, with new makes the music experience at Exeter are also plenty of opportunities to join societies and small ensembles forming genuinely first class. ensembles, attend concerts, recitals every year. An introduction to all the and lectures, and continue instrumental music at Exeter is provided in Music The University has almost 1,000 and vocal tuition as well as learn how Week, an optional residential week important and diverse artworks, to conduct. before Welcome Week in September. worth over £2 million and exhibitions For further information please see our by local artists are regularly held The Streatham Campus is home to website www.exeter.ac.uk/music on the Streatham Campus. The the Exeter Northcott Theatre, the University’s sculpture audio tour is a city’s professional repertory theatre. Music Scholarships along with Chapel great way to see the Streatham Campus The theatre also hosts touring choral and organ scholarships are also accompanied by expert commentary companies and amateur productions available and full details can be found – there are 25 sculptures set both in including ones from the University’s at www.exeter.ac.uk/funding and on the open and in University buildings, Footlights, Exeter Theatre Company page 45. including works by Barbara Hepworth and the Gilbert and Sullivan and Peter Randall-Page. For details visit Society. Details can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/fineart and follow www.exeternorthcott.co.uk the links to ‘sculpture walk’. There are If you enjoy performing yourself or also regular, free history of art and have always wanted the opportunity to music lectures held throughout the act or get involved with set or costume year at lunchtimes on campus for all design, there are student societies students and staff. waiting to hear from you. 24 Sport in Exeter

Sport

For many students, sport is a Sports clubs in Exeter defining factor in their overall American Football // Archery // Athletics // Badminton // Basketball // student experience while at Exeter. Bike // Canoe // Cheerleading and Gymnastics // Clay Shooting // Climbing Success in sport at the University // Cricket // Fencing // Football // Gliding // Golf // Hockey // Jiujitsu // of Exeter continues each year, both Karate (Shotokan) // Lacrosse // Netball // Polo // Powerkiting // Riding in competition, where we finished // Rifle // Rowing // Rugby League // Rugby Union // Sailing // Snooker 8th in the British Universities and and Pool // Snowsports // Speleology (Caving) // Squash and Racketball // Colleges Sports (BUCS) rankings Sub Aqua // Surf // Swimming // Table Tennis // Taekwondo // Tennis // 2010/11, and in recreational sport Trampolining // Triathlon // Ultimate Frisbee // Volleyball // Waterpolo // with increasing numbers of individuals Waterski, Wakeboard and Kitesurf // Windsurfing // and teams enjoying the facilities across our campuses.

Our teams compete for national Athletic Union General recreation titles in numerous competitions The Athletic Union is responsible including cricket, golf, hockey, programme for coordinating all the sports clubs netball, rowing, rugby union, sailing, The Sports Park in Exeter runs a varied which provide both competitive and squash, surfing and tennis. The and popular programme of fitness recreational sport. Students of all skill University has invested in the region classes throughout the year including levels are welcome. You’ll find all the of £12 million in the last few years pump and tone, body combat, spinning major field sports, plus a lot of water to create our superb sports facilities, and circuits as well as tai chi, yoga, sports (Exeter’s location is perfect), and they are now amongst the best zumba, pilates and pole dancing. Gym martial arts and many more indoor and in the UK and include a £2.25 million inductions are offered to all new users outdoor sports. The intramural sport indoor cricket centre on the Streatham of fitness equipment. Personal training programme has over 2,000 students Campus. A further £8.1 million in and fitness testing are available from participating across a range of activities developments to the Sports Park will highly qualified staff. Subsidised including 5-a-side and 11-a-side include creation of a new fitness suite, coaching, teaching and officiating football, badminton, basketball, renewal of pitches, covering of courts courses are organised in many sports. mixed hockey and mixed netball. The and a new pavilion for outdoor sport, Sports Volunteering Scheme goes from High Performance with work due for completion before strength to strength, with over 100 Programme September 2013. Whatever your level of our students helping to provide The University High Performance of sporting ability you’ll have every sporting opportunities for children in Programme oversees the development chance to take part in sport at Exeter, Exeter. More information can be found and delivery of our elite sporting and membership of the Sports Park is at www.exeter.ac.uk/au infrastructure including the currently at nearly 6,500. More details management of our focus sports are at www.exeter.ac.uk/sport and flagship Sports Scholarship Facilities Scheme. There are approximately Across both our campuses in 250 athletes across 10 focus sports Exeter, we have excellent facilities on the programme. including many different indoor and outdoor pitches, squash courts, gyms with the latest fitness equipment and free-weight areas, exercise studios and sports halls. We also have an indoor pool at St Luke’s, an outdoor one at the Streatham Campus, a fleet of firefly dinghies at the Roadford RYA Sailing Centre and a well-equipped boathouse on the Exeter canal. The University of Exeter 25

Sports scholarships Our flagship Sports Scholarship Scheme, which is open to students of outstanding sporting ability, is one of the best in the UK. It provides a comprehensive package of support and financial benefits to meet the needs of the individual athlete.

For full details of our Sports Scholarships please see page 45.

Further information on specialist facilities, sports-specific programmes and scholarships can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/sport

Ever since I opened the Exeter University Undergraduate Prospectus back in 2009 I felt sure it was the place for me. I was not wrong. Its outstanding academic reputation, coupled with its ability to consistently be one of England’s top sporting institutions, makes it the ideal place to study for any aspiring young athletes with an aim to leave in three years’ time with a top-class degree.

As a University Sports Scholar you receive a great deal of support not only through funding, but also access to top coaches, and your own individual sports mentor. The High Performance Unit on campus is also incredibly supportive and provides the platform to take that extra step, while you also have the chance to meet many other students in the same position as yourself.

As a golfer I get access to two gym instructors working weekly in a top-class environment to improve my physical fitness. I also receive training twice a week from top golf professionals and have a golf manager who plans and monitors my playing schedule.

Overall, my time so far at Exeter has been everything I could have asked for. I have met so many new friends, enhanced my own individual performance and had an amazing time in the process. I would happily recommend Exeter to anyone.

Laurie Potter, BSc Exercise and Sports Science 26 The University of Exeter

Accommodation

Starting university can be daunting, Guaranteed Options but living in university accommodation All new students entering Year 1 of an We have variety of contract lengths gives you a great way to settle in undergraduate programme who have and price ranges to ensure there is and make friends quickly. All of our firmly accepted the offer of a place at something for everyone, We also have accommodation offers a safe and secure the University of Exeter and who have a range of room types from standard community in which you can start applied for accommodation by the rooms, most of which have a washbasin your university career. In recent years advertised deadline will be guaranteed in the room; to en-suite rooms which we have made a multi-million pound an offer of a place in University have a private shower, washbasin and investment in the building of new accommodation*. toilet; and studios which have an en- accommodation on all our campuses, suite bathroom and a kitchen area. which are designed to the highest Study Abroad and Erasmus students standard and complement our existing at the University of Exeter for the All rents include utilities charges, residences. full academic year will be guaranteed contents insurance and broadband University accommodation if their connection. Conveniently located application is received by the advertised All of our accommodation is either deadline. Wellbeing in residences on the campuses or a maximum of Throughout the University there is a 30-minute walk away. That means *University accommodation is accommodation owned, a comprehensive range of support managed or approved by the University. you’re close to central teaching services offered as well as our 24/7 buildings and sports facilities as well Our accommodation security response team. In our as the campus social spaces, shops, At our campuses in Exeter we have accommodation, we also have a restaurants and bars so you won’t something for everyone, with a choice Residence Life team who provide be wasting your time or money on of catered halls, self-catered flats, town help and advice on welfare issues commuting. In Exeter, much of our houses and studio accommodation and guidance on other matters accommodation is also conveniently whilst you are a resident with us. located for the city centre. Around 75 per cent of our accommodation is on campus, however Catered halls students have a choice of living on Our catered halls in Exeter provide campus or in our residences in the city. meals for those students who do not wish to cook for themselves. Many Full details about the accommodation halls have other amenities such as a available can be found on our website, communal TV, laundry facilities and which includes virtual tours. Please see study areas. All rooms also have a www.exeter.ac.uk/accommodation broadband connection. Single and twin rooms are available. Accommodation in Exeter 27

Self-catered accommodation Accommodation for Accommodation after All rooms in our self-catered disabled students your first year accommodation are single. Rooms We are committed to promoting If you wish, you are able to apply to are arranged in cluster flats or town equality of opportunity and have live in University accommodation houses, the size of which range from accessible, en-suite rooms. We after your first year, as the University’s three to 12 people (apart from the are happy to discuss individual large stock of accommodation enables studios). The kitchens are modern requirements with students who have us to provide students outside of and well equipped and have dining disabilities and we encourage you to our guarantee with accommodation. areas. Some of the accommodation contact the Accommodation Office Alternatively, you would seek also has communal lounges. All rooms and the Accessibility Service at an accommodation in the private sector. have a broadband connection and early stage so that we can do all that there are laundry facilities available for we reasonably can to find or adapt More information residents to use conveniently located accommodation that will be suitable The staff in our Accommodation Office near to the residences. for you. deal with both University-owned/ managed/approved and private rented Family accommodation Private sector accommodation accommodation. They are always There are 16 self-catered family flats The Accommodation Office maintains happy to help with any queries or on the Streatham Campus for students a database of rooms available in the problems you may have relating to who are accompanied by a partner and private sector and the Students’ Guild accommodation during your time children under the age of 16. Please run a letting agency, Exe Lets, with as a student at Exeter. They can be contact the Accommodation Office for an office on the Streatham Campus. contacted as follows: further information. Each resident will normally have their own bedroom and share a kitchen and Phone: +44 (0)1392 722524 bathroom with their housemates. Email: [email protected] Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/ Typical costs 2012 prices accommodation

Type of room Length of let Typical cost Our website is updated with Catered – single 31 weeks £4,184 - £6,089 information for the next academic year by the end of March each year. Catered – shared 31 weeks £3,689 - £5,010 If you have Exeter as your FIRM choice, you will be able to apply for Self-catered – single 40/44 weeks £3,105 - £5,448 accommodation online from the Rents include all utility bills and contents insurance, and meals in catered halls middle of April 2013 for entry in October 2013. Rents are reviewed annually and details for October 2013 will be available on our website in March 2013. 28 Wellbeing in Exeter

Wellbeing

Moving away from home, making Within your academic department, A confidential counselling service is new friends and adapting to life at you will have a personal tutor, with available to all registered students. university can be exciting and it can whom you can discuss any problems Online counselling and guided self- also be challenging. We hope that while or general academic progress. They will help services are also available from you are at the University of Exeter be able to advise you or direct you to the team. In addition, if you have a you will take full advantage of all the other sources of help for your specific mental health condition which impacts opportunities to learn, to embrace circumstances. Your department will on your ability to cope or study at student life to the full and to grow also let you know who can provide university, you may find it helpful to and develop as a person. This means appropriate academic advice relating discuss your situation with one of our developing an understanding of the to specific programmes of study and mental health advisers. We also offer things you need to do to keep yourself modules. mental-health mentoring to help you healthy in mind, body and spirit, and cope with specific difficulties affecting taking personal responsibility for your Visit our web directory for full your studies. This is not an exhaustive own wellbeing. Through our Wellbeing information on our support services: list of the services on offer, and we Services we aim to provide a range of www.exeter.ac.uk/students/services continually look for new and creative different services and support pathways A healthy body approaches to support students. to help you with this. Whilst you are a student at the Disability support For some students this may mean one- University of Exeter you will need to We provide support for students with a to-one support from counselling and register with a general practitioner range of disabilities. You’re encouraged mental health professionals; others may (GP). There is a Student Health Centre to declare any disability on your benefit from using online resources on the Streatham Campus and the application form. This will not affect and self-help guides. We recognise the St Luke’s Campus is served by the your application but will enable the importance of diet and lifestyle on Heavitree Health Centre. Further University to plan and prepare for ability to participate fully in student information on advice, support and your arrival and support. life, so we offer information, advice and activities to help you maintain a support to help you develop healthy healthy lifestyle can be found at Staff have expertise in, and experience habits around eating and exercise, and www.exeter.ac.uk/students/services of, supporting people with specific learning difficulties (including dyslexia), to have a sensible approach to alcohol. A healthy mind We also recognise the need to provide physical disabilities, autistic spectrum support for your spiritual growth Health and wellbeing are crucial disorders and other disabilities such as through our Multi-faith Chaplaincy. ingredients for effective study and a chronic fatigue syndrome and repetitive rewarding student experience. But strain injury. Staff provide advice Spring 2012 saw the opening of staying well in body and mind isn’t on sources of funding and support our Student Services Centre in the always easy at university. We recognise for students, and offer diagnostic Forum on the Streatham Campus. that it’s much more difficult to learn assessment for students who feel they This state-of-the-art facility provides and enjoy student life when personal may have dyslexia or dyspraxia. a one-stop-shop for a wide range of difficulties or emotional worries arise. student enquiries, from support for Our Wellbeing Services Team offer a We aim to ensure that support during students with disabilities, immigration range of services to support students your time at the University is well and visa advice for international personally and in their studies when coordinated and effective in providing students, as well the Career Zone, difficulties occur. you with every opportunity to succeed accommodation, registration and and progress to graduation. You are Student Finance advice and support. welcome to visit or contact us before you apply or after you arrive. The University of Exeter 29

Students’ Guild Advice Unit Responsible citizenship The staff of the Guild’s Student An important part of the development Advice Unit can offer independent and of our students is the role that they impartial advice and help in response play in our local communities and to questions or problems you might we foster an attitude of responsible have relating to money, housing, citizenship. We have a team of 10 personal relationships and to legal community wardens who deliver matters. More information can be additional support, advice and found at www.exeterguild.org/advice guidance to students living off campus. They offer basic, practical Family support peer advice about living independently Our purpose-built Family Centre on as well as providing support if you the Streatham Campus provides want to get more involved with your nursery places for children from six local community. weeks to school age. The centre received an excellent report following Visit our web directory for further its Ofsted inspection. Places are often details of all our support services: over-subscribed so you should apply www.exeter.ac.uk/students/services for a nursery place when you apply to the University or as soon as you realise you are pregnant. I always knew that French and Maths were two subjects I could excel at and Exeter was one of the only universities which offered an UK students on a low income may equally balanced programme between the two through the Flexible apply for a means-tested subsidy Combined Honours scheme. The programme sounded great and the funded by the government and module choices are so flexible that I could tailor my studies around administered by the University. my interests. Throughout my degree, both departments have been Religious provision extremely supportive and it is obvious that the lecturers are very The University Multi-faith Chaplaincy is passionate about their subjects. available to all staff and students of the It was evident that student support is taken very seriously here University, irrespective of their faith and, as it was my first time away from home, I found this very or background, for all aspects of their reassuring. My personal tutor has encouraged my learning and lives. Our Chaplains provide pastoral wellbeing since I started. care and confidential counselling as well as explanation of, and instruction There are so many things to get involved in at Exeter, from sports in, a range of faiths. A large group of to fundraising, theatre to politics, and every society is extremely Chaplains work closely with each other welcoming. There is always an opportunity to meet new people and and with the student societies, under try something new. the leadership of the Lazenby Chaplain. Being at a campus university has also been an advantage - especially Islamic students have their own as the Exeter campus is so beautiful! The Streatham Campus is Prayer Rooms on the Streatham incredible. The upkeep of the grounds and the calmness of the Campus with separate facilities for landscape provide an excellent environment against the hustle and both men and women and the bustle of university life. University also maintains close Becky Elliot, 3rd year BSc Mathematics and French contacts with representatives of other faiths in the city. 30 Academic Support in Exeter

Academic Support

At the University of Exeter all our Nearly all University owned halls of including the literary and historical academic support facilities are residence are connected to our network, archives of the Bill Douglas Centre for combined within Academic Services. giving you access to all University the History of Cinema and Popular This allows us to make your passage resources and fast broadband access. Culture. From the latest e-books to from registration to graduation as It’s not a problem if you don’t have your medieval manuscripts, Exeter provides seamless as possible, allowing you to own computer – there are public-access a world-class research-intensive library make the most of your time here at the PC ‘clusters’ at all campuses – many environment for your study. University. Academic Services covers a open 24 hours a day. You can even wide range of services from your email borrow a laptop for use in the libraries. Subject specialists run a comprehensive account, to the audiovisual equipment programme of training to help you in your lecture theatres; from the We have a dedicated IT Help Desk get the very best from the rich print University libraries to shared-use PCs that can assist you with any queries – and electronic resources available in and a host of student support services. from support for the specific IT services your chosen subject, as well as one-to- offered by the University, to virus one appointments to suit you. There IT services problems and internet access. We even are extra services and facilities for As a student at Exeter you will have run laptop clinics to supplement your international students who have their access to ‘MyExeter’, our student portal own support arrangements to help own Library International Officer. which is home to all the vital IT services you get your laptop working on our that you’ll need throughout your time network. Students based in Exeter can use any at Exeter. You can access MyExeter of our libraries: We are also investing in our learning from any web-enabled computer in the • Main Library – our flagship world and get access to your email and spaces to ensure you have excellent teaching facilities; these include undergraduate library has benefitted calendar, documents saved to your own from £5.8 million investment in new file space, teaching timetables and the expanding our lecture capture service so you can see lectures again online. facilities for our collections and for online Student Information Desk where group, silent and quiet study with you can ask any non-academic support Library services state of the art multi-media and question at any time. We pride ourselves on our library computer clusters. facilities and have benefitted from an MyExeter will also give you access to • Research Commons – our research the ‘Exeter Learning Environment’ £18 million refurbishment on all our major library buildings. library is open to all students seeking (ELE). This is our virtual learning a quiet study environment or access environment that enables you to access The Main Library is one of only five to our unique Special Collections and online the learning materials for your academic libraries in England that are film museum. modules. We are also actively working open 24/7 throughout the academic with mobile devices, adding mobile year; we have e-books, e-journals and • St Luke’s Campus Library – this apps and services to enhance the Exeter specialist databases in every subject. completely refurbished campus library experience and allowing you to locate Exeter has one of the highest UK has silent, quiet and group study areas of interest across our campuses. academic library ratios of printed zones, multi-media facilities and books to students with a stock in collections supporting Sport Science We are investing £6.4 million in our and Medicine. University network to provide a high- excess of 1.2 million and a dedicated speed network across our campuses and Ready Text collection of the very For further information about library a 24/7 wireless service in many areas highest demand items. We also have and IT services at the Exeter campuses, across our campuses, making study and internationally important Special please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/as research more flexible and accessible. Collections exclusive to Exeter The University of Exeter 31

Foreign Language Centre Employers are increasingly looking for Part-time study The Foreign Language Centre (FLC) is graduates across all subjects who have Our Flexible Combined Honours based on the Streatham Campus. We additional language skills. To help your scheme (see page 98) is available to provide a range of language courses, employability, you can choose to have those wishing to study part-time, including daytime undergraduate the language modules you study with and some of our other undergraduate modules as part of your main degree the FLC named in your degree title, for degrees are also potentially available and a certificated Evening Language example ‘BA History with proficiency by part-time study. However, you Programme, which has a fee. Whatever in Spanish’. To achieve this, you must should check with the relevant your degree, you can benefit from successfully complete a minimum of 60 academic department to ensure learning languages during your time credits in one language. Full details can that it is possible with respect to here at Exeter. be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/flc timetabling arrangements before you Supporting mature students make a formal application (the contact Hundreds of students from all subjects details are given under ‘Programme At the University of Exeter we very across the University choose to take information’ in the subject entries). much welcome applicants who may language modules as part of their A three-year undergraduate degree not have come directly from school degree. You can choose to learn a would typically take six years to or college and who wish to return to completely new language, or to improve complete by part-time study. one you have studied before. Modules education at different stages of their are available at a range of levels from lives. We fully appreciate that the You should apply directly to the beginners to advanced in: decision to enter higher education as University’s Admissions Office for a student within this category can be part-time programmes and not through French // German // Italian // a difficult one in terms of commitment UCAS. Application forms are available Japanese // Mandarin Chinese // and financial circumstances. We will from the Admissions Office and should Portuguese // Spanish endeavour to provide the support that be returned between 1 September and you need to make the most of your If you have relevant prior language 30 June immediately preceding the time here, and with that support and October entry. learning, we offer fast-track modules your own determination, you’ll find which enable you to progress to a the whole experience very rewarding. higher level more quickly. We also have To find out more about applying to languages ‘for business’ that help you Exeter and the support available develop your knowledge of the language for mature students please visit in a business context. www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ All our undergraduate modules maturestudents are assessed and count for credits towards your main degree. You might take our modules as an option (where your degree programme allows this) or to help you prepare for study in a foreign country (for example, on a ‘with European Study’ degree or for an Erasmus exchange). 32 The University of Exeter

Cornwall Campus

Situated close to Falmouth, the Our Cornish roots go back decades: capacity for the existing Learning Cornwall Campus is designed to meet the Institute of Cornish Studies and Resource Centre (LRC), with a new the needs of 21st century students Camborne School of Mines became facility called The Exchange. This will and offers the very latest academic, part of the University in 1970 and provide a series of informal learning research and residential facilities. Our 1993, respectively. Both these environments and link the LRC to a newest development, the £30 million historical Cornish departments range of distinctive new spaces that Environment and Sustainability moved to the Cornwall Campus reflect how our students, staff and Institute (ESI), puts the University and when it opened in 2004. visitors work together. Cornwall at the forefront of research into the solutions to problems of The campus’s striking main buildings The environment and sustainability environmental change. feature the very best facilities, with underpin this campus’s unique ethos; teaching labs, lecture theatres and they’re the basis for much of the The Cornwall Campus gives you seminar rooms equipped with the research here and recur throughout intimacy and friendliness (with latest technologies. The latest phase of our degree programmes as well as around 4,000 students), and world development sees not just the building in student societies, clubs and the class, cutting-edge teaching and of the ESI, but also an increased running of the campus. research. Though one of the smallest top ten university campuses in the UK, we excel in tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges through our You socialise with students programmes and research projects. In from an extremely broad range of an arrangement we think is unique, we share the campus with University subjects whilst living in one of the College Falmouth, a leading specialist UK’s most beautiful areas. Cornwall arts institution. This creates a vibrant mix of students, with a diverse range of has something about it, a swagger interests and backgrounds. that you can’t ignore. If you visit you’ll see it; most people find it hard to forget.

Stephen Crosse, BA History Life in Cornwall 33

Life on campus

Previous FXU Presidents have spoken of the unique environment and idyllic setting of the University of Exeter Cornwall Campus but I feel that these aspects are a given. My belief is that when students choose Cornwall they do so, initially at least, for the beaches, the Cornish vibe and its FXU unrivalled community atmosphere. As incredible The Cornwall Campus Students’ Union as these things are, they’re the tip of the iceberg. is known as FXU and jointly represents The University of Exeter’s activities in Cornwall are students of the University of Exeter at the forefront of both learning and research, helped in a large Cornwall Campus and University part by the idea of Cornwall as a living laboratory. We truly are creating College Falmouth (FXU stands for a world renowned campus with an educational ethos to match. Falmouth and Exeter Union). Students from each institution have their own The FXU guarantees representation, opportunities and support for Student President and the support students of the University of Exeter and University College Falmouth. of a joint Welfare President. As with It’s my job, as your Student President, to not only represent you in the Guild in Exeter (of which you’ll Cornwall but to also do so in Exeter. automatically be a member, too), FXU will play a major role in your student We offer almost 90 different sports and societies that give you the experience, starting with a programme opportunity to get involved in every aspect of university life and, of Freshers’ activities. FXU organises finally, we support all endeavours, both academic and social. Students events on and off campus, helps at the Cornwall Campus study subjects from performing arts to mining students to set up and run sports engineering, this breadth gives us our strength and identity. Few places clubs and societies, has a successful in the world can offer such academic and social variety and we are proud, Community Action and RAG base, and in the FXU, to represent such diverse students. We look forward to being a runs a support and advice service. fundamental part of your experience here in Cornwall. Representing you Jonathan Harris, FXU President, 2011/12 The FXU Presidents work full-time to represent all students. They sit on boards and committees, I’d recommend the Cornwall Campus to anyone who particularly likes communicating with the University to an adventurous outdoor lifestyle. I feel very lucky to be able to spend make sure students’ views are heard. my weekends on the water, gig rowing and meeting new people In addition they represent the students who share similar interests. to the local community, the media, the National Union of Students (NUS) The Cornwall Campus immediately feels friendly and welcoming. and the government. There’s always something going on, or alternatively you can just chill out with a cup of tea in The Stannary between lectures!

Poppy Millar, BSc Applied Geology 34 Life in Cornwall

Supporting you nights also run regularly and local and Volunteering The Student Support Service aims to student bands frequently get the Student volunteering at the Cornwall cater for every eventuality and any chance to entertain. Campus is coordinated through FXU problems that might arise while you’re Community Action, the Union’s The Stannary also plays host to a range a student. Encompassing counselling, community volunteering and charity of FXU events such as a Freshers’ Ball, student living, the nursery, accessibility fundraising team. There are loads of Snow Ball and end of year Garden Party. and chaplaincy, these services are opportunities to get involved in weekly provided by professional staff across The Woodlane Bar, part of University volunteering activities, including the campus. College Falmouth, is available to charity fundraising, individual University of Exeter students too, voluntary placements and even long- FXU also provides a confidential advice and provides a great alternative term projects in the local community. service, independent of the University. within Falmouth itself. Regular volunteering partners include It covers financial, housing, legal and The National Trust, Surfers Against academic issues. The qualified and For further information about social Sewage and the Monkey Sanctuary. experienced advisers provide practical opportunities on campus please visit More unusually, there are also support and signposting to other www.fxu.org.uk opportunities to train in cetacean services if needed. Sports clubs and rescue or get involved with community The Careers Advisory Service, also arts projects in schools. Every year we recreational societies see increasing numbers of students based on the campus, provides high The range of clubs and societies quality careers information and taking part in voluntary work during is a cornerstone of the Cornwall their studies. Volunteering is a fantastic guidance to students of all disciplines. Campus, with FXU providing practical For further information about the way to make friends, gain valuable support, as well as subsidies for many academic support available on the experience and enhance your CV. activities to help reduce the cost of For more information please visit: Cornwall Campus, please see page 42. getting involved. Clubs vary from the www.fxu.org.uk/communityaction Entertaining you traditional sports of rugby, football and hockey to the more unusual The Stannary, with a 1,300 capacity, paddleboarding and Tremorz (street is the social hub of the campus and is dance). Other popular groups include fast becoming one of Cornwall’s best the Hip Hop Society, Exploration, Bee venues, with gigs, comedy and a weekly Soc and the Renewable Energy and club night. As its status grows, so does Sustainability Society. There’s an ever- the profile of the acts performing, growing list of student clubs, so if we which have included Chase and Status, don’t currently have the one you want, The Correspondents, A-Skillz, Benji FXU will help you set your own up once Boko and Love Riot. Open mic and film you’re here! Life in Cornwall 35

Life in Cornwall

Freshers’ activities If you choose to study at our Cornwall Nearby Falmouth has developed into in Cornwall Campus, you’ll find the county has a a vibrant town, thanks to the number At the Cornwall Campus, your huge amount to offer students. It will of students in the area, with a wealth introduction to student life is action appeal to you if you want to study in of bars, pubs and restaurants and a packed, with events during the days beautiful surroundings and live as lively café culture. It’s also the centre and evenings designed to get you part of a vibrant student community of Cornwall’s creative scene, with interacting with new friends and the where you constantly meet people businesses, studios, shops and galleries local area. The opportunities are varied you know. Here, you’ll find a fantastic opening all the time, and great live and exciting; one day might mean a free student lifestyle in a safe, friendly and music across the town. Falmouth’s surf lesson on an amazing north coast energising environment, with plenty seven beaches, beautiful rivers and the beach, quickly followed by a fancy- of opportunities for sporting and world-famous marina also make it a dress showdown in the campus bar. outdoor activities. haven for those who love sand, sailing and surf. Alternatively, you could get involved The campus is a few minutes’ walk from in conservation or arts work, and then Penryn, home to a rapidly expanding Cornwall has changed a lot recently chill out at a film night. It’s a great collection of independent cafés, shops, and continues to do so. It’s becoming way to get settled into university life, galleries and restaurants, as well as associated with groundbreaking work and the range of activities is aimed Jubilee Wharf, one of the country’s in renewable energy and developments at all tastes. FXU also provides advice leading zero carbon buildings. It such as the Eden Project which have and welfare support to help with the provides an inspirational environment attracted worldwide acclaim. transition into studying and working for artists, and a home for Miss in a new environment. Undoubtedly, Peapod’s café, which has great views Freshers’ activities are fun, exciting and and regular live music. Penryn’s railway very entertaining. station is a 10-minute journey from For information about Freshers’ Falmouth and 20 minutes from Truro. activities at the Cornwall Campus, please see www.fxu.org.uk Media Students run a newspaper called Flex I am currently the Chief Editor of Flex, and a radio station called Radiowave. the student newspaper, which is great Flex has an amazing 130 contributors to put on my CV. When I graduate I from across all the programmes at the intend to move to South Africa where Cornwall Campus who regularly submit I want to work as an investigative work. It offers the opportunity for journalist exposing political ambitious students to showcase corruption, social crises and economic their talent while gaining valuable calamities in the hope of giving work experience. something back to my homeland. Studying at the University of Exeter Cornwall Campus has been the single greatest experience of my life so far. I have made friends here who I will be socialising with well into my old age, I am doing a degree I am passionate about, I live in the best part of the UK and, on top of that, I am lucky enough to find inspiration for my poetry every single day.

Graham Barclay, BA English 36 The University of Exeter

Music and Culture

For students at the Cornwall Campus, and theatre tours and the Students’ cover a range of genres including jazz, Falmouth is central to Cornwall’s Union, FXU, organises regular trips to classical, world, gospel and a cappella; thriving creative scene, with many local theatres. Further afield, whether the Tremough Follies is a musical galleries and studios. In addition to the it’s contemporary art at Tate St Ives, theatre group which, like all the others, on-campus venue, The Stannary, the Penzance and Newlyn’s many (large welcomes students of all abilities. Eden Project near St Austell hosts the and small) galleries, performances on Eden Sessions, Princess Pavilion hosts the cliff-edge at the Minack Theatre or Music scholarships are available nationally-known and local musicians regular – and reliably groundbreaking and full details can be found at and many bars and pubs around the – shows by Cornwall’s internationally- www.exeter.ac.uk/funding and on town also feature live music. renowned KneeHigh Theatre, you’ll find page 45. a wealth of opportunities to feed your The Performance Centre on campus creative side. provides purpose-built facilities for both student use and visiting Student music societies performers and there’s also a cinema The Music Society incorporates a jazz on campus. In Falmouth itself there’s band, orchestra, string ensemble, the five screen Phoenix Cinema, along choir and woodwind ensemble; they with The Poly (previously The Arts all rehearse regularly and perform on Centre) which offers film, theatre and the campus as well as at local events. events too. Truro’s Hall for Cornwall There’s also the Tremough Singers, hosts national music, comedy, dance who meet and perform regularly and

The campus’s unique location was definitely a key factor in attracting me. The small yet vibrant environment provides many sporting and outdoor activities, and everything being so close means you can go for walks and discover some of Cornwall’s treasures. Falmouth is lively, with tons of bars, pubs, restaurants and cafés, as well as a neat collection of locally run shops and businesses. One of my favourite elements is the live music scene, providing the town with a constant pulse. nal Studies litics and Internatio Lauren Eldon, BA Po Sport in Cornwall 37

Sport

There’s a wide range of student-run Sports clubs in Cornwall sports clubs at our Cornwall Campus, ranging from the competitive to All the FXU supported clubs are set up and run by students, and change recreational and social. Many clubs each year to reflect current interests. Current clubs include: play in local leagues as well as Badminton // Bike Club // Capoeira // Climbing // Cricket // Expeditions University-related competitions. FXU, // Football // Hockey // Horseriding // Kayaking // Kung Fu // Lacrosse // the Students’ Union at the Cornwall Netball // Paddleboarding // Paintballing // Rugby // Sailing // Sea Swimming Campus, is registered with British // Shooting // Skateboarding // Snorkel & Dive // Snowsports // Squash and Universities and Colleges Sports Tennis // Surfing // Swimming // Tang Soo Do // Tremorz (Street Dance) // (BUCS) and also supports further Ultimate Frisbee sports development for students If your favourite sport isn’t represented, FXU will help you to set up a club in conjunction with the Penryn or find a local alternative. Community Sports Partnership.

Water sports obviously feature strongly in Cornwall; it’s one of the best places Facilities FXU sports scholarship in the country for surfing and sailing The spacious and modern campus and volunteering schemes and the campus has great links with Sports Centre offers the latest fitness Students with exceptional sporting local water sports providers and clubs, equipment, a free-weights area and a talent can apply for the FXU Sports including traditional Cornish gig- fitness studio. Regular classes include Scholarship Scheme. FXU will make rowing clubs. The Cornwall-based surf spinning, yoga, pilates, kettlebells, every effort to accommodate students’ team has taken podium positions in boxercise and zumba. You can join as a training and performance needs. the BUCS surf competitions for the last member or just pay-as-you-go. A Sports Volunteering Scheme provides five years. students with a range of volunteering Away from the gym, the campus has The Camborne School of Mines at opportunities. For further information, new one- and two-mile running routes please visit www.fxu.org.uk the Cornwall Campus takes part in and an orienteering route. These the world’s second oldest varsity have been set up with the help of the competition, the Bottle Match, against FLEXSI project, which is funded by the Royal College of Mines at Imperial Sport England, part of a national Active College London. First contested in University plan to encourage students 1902, it now consists of rugby union, to participate in sports and physical football, men’s and women’s hockey, activity. We also have a multi-use squash, netball, golf and basketball. games area, which offers an all-weather, floodlit facility for 5-a-side football, hockey skills and tennis, for use by students. For further information please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ cornwall/facilities/sport 38 The University of Exeter

Accommodation

One sure way to make university life The communal kitchen/dining areas Accommodation for easier to adapt to is living in university are furnished with fully fitted kitchen, disabled students accommodation. It helps you settle television, table and chairs. Additional A number of rooms have been modified in, make friends and, especially on a facilities at Glasney Student Village for students with a range of disabilities. campus like Cornwall, you’ll really start include coin-operated launderettes, We are happy to discuss individual to get a feel for the place and find your several bicycle stores and surfboard requirements with students who have way around. stores, and the recently opened on- disabilities, and we encourage you to campus café, Koofi. The Cornwall Campus’s self-catered contact the Accommodation Office accommodation is safe, secure, well Glasney Student Village is self-catered, and the Accessibility Service at an designed and purpose built; its but if you prefer to have your meals early stage. atmosphere, attractiveness, intimacy prepared for you, the nearby campus Private sector accommodation and convenience will help your restaurant and bar, The Stannary, offers There is a good range of private university career get off to the best a range of options throughout the day housing available for rent in and possible start. (Mon-Fri). At the restaurant you can around Falmouth and Penryn. The pay-as-you-go or buy vouchers from the Accommodation Office at the Cornwall Please see www.exeter.ac.uk/ Finance Office to cover your meals. The Campus helps students find private undergraduate/accommodation campus shops sell a variety of essential sector accommodation with an online food items, and there is also a large Self-catered accommodation list of private sector accommodation, supermarket in nearby Penryn. Glasney Student Village offers high house hunting sessions and quality, en-suite accommodation on Residence support team accommodation fairs. campus. The residences are divided Glasney Village is staffed 24 hours into self-catered flats, each with seven per day, 365 days per year. There is study-bedrooms. The rooms, the an out-of-hours team working through majority of which are single occupancy, the night as well as on-call managers are furnished to a high standard. Single if required. occupancy rooms include a double bed, wardrobe, desk, telephone and internet points. A small number of rooms are available on the basis of shared occupancy and are furnished with bunk beds. Dual occupancy rooms are available at a reduced rate. The University of Exeter 39

Your accommodation guarantee It’s so difficult to single out a Every full-time first year undergraduate particular element which I enjoy most is guaranteed accommodation in about the Cornwall Campus. It’s very University residences* as long as you social; you don’t feel like another have firmly accepted your offer of a student, but a member of a family place at the University and complete within a close-knit community. I have and submit your application by the really enjoyed meeting a wide range of published deadline. people from diverse backgrounds, and the small class sizes on my programme Study Abroad and Erasmus students allow you to make some very close at the University of Exeter for the friends. Another enjoyable aspect is the full academic year will be guaranteed ability to use a wide range of resources University accommodation if their on an innovative and modern campus application is received by the which is still developing. advertised deadline. There’s also access to a wide range of extracurricular activities and *University accommodation is accommodation owned, managed or approved by the University. societies. I’m still having an amazing experience here; my programme is stimulating and extremely enjoyable and the social life is simply fantastic! I believe my experience is unique, because of the range of More information students who study both at the University of Exeter and University Further information is available College Falmouth on the same campus. from the Accommodation Office at the Cornwall Campus. The staff are Daniel Venton, BA Geography always happy to help with any queries or problems you may have relating to accommodation. They can be contacted Typical costs 2012 prices as follows: Type of room Length of let Typical cost Tel: +44 (0)1326 370436 Email: accommodation@ Self-catered – single 40 weeks £4,830 tremoughservices.com Self-catered – shared 40 weeks £2,898 Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/ undergraduate/accommodation Rents include all utility bills and contents insurance Rents are reviewed annually and details for October 2013 entry will be available in March 2013. 40 The University of Exeter

Wellbeing

At the Cornwall Campus, the Living A healthy mind Our aim is to make sure you receive Support Coordinator provides support All students are entitled to confidential well coordinated and effective support and signposting and deals with welfare counselling services through the while you’re here, to give you the best issues in liaison with the Student Student Support Services team. Exactly chance to succeed and graduate. You’re Support Services team and external what form this takes depends on a very welcome to visit or to contact the agencies including, for example, first assessment and is based on your Accessibility Service before you apply. healthcare professionals. particular needs and circumstances. It Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ may be that you’d benefit from one-to- cornwall/support/accessibility Within your academic department, one sessions with a qualified counsellor your personal tutor will be available Student advice unit or mental health mentoring to help to discuss any problems with you, The staff of the Students’ Union you through specific difficulties. These academic or otherwise. If you need (FXU) at the Cornwall Campus offer are just a couple of examples and we’re general academic advice relating to, for independent, impartial advice and always looking for new and creative example, dyslexia or study skills they’ll help with queries relating to money, ways to help students. point you in the most helpful direction. housing, personal relationships and Your tutor will also support you in Disability support legal matters. You can find out more at identifying specific advice relating to We provide support for students www.fxu.org.uk/advice your programmes of study. with disabilities and encourage you Family support to declare your disability on your You can find out more about our The Cornwall Campus is served by the application form. This doesn’t affect Student Support Services and Campus Woodlane Nursery, in Falmouth. It your application, but it does help us Facilities at www.exeter.ac.uk/ welcomes babies from 12 months old to prepare for your arrival and plan cornwall/support and and has separate facilities for children your support. www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/facilities over the age of three. Children up to the age of eight can use the after-school A healthy body Staff in our Accessibility Service support students with disabilities to and holiday clubs. Find out more at While you’re at the University of participate fully in campus activities; www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/ Exeter you’ll need to register with a they also act as a source of advice for support/childcare general practitioner (GP). The Cornwall staff and students, and disseminate Campus is served by Penryn Surgery good practice. In addition, the service which provides a clinic on campus helps students to identify technical three times a week. You can find or equipment needs and apply for information on how to stay healthy funding, benefits and allowances. at www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/ support/health Wellbeing in Cornwall 41

I do a lot of volunteering with organisations like the Cornwall Wildlife Trust and the RSPB, but also as a befriender for Carrick Mind. These experiences enrich your life at university as well as enhancing your employability. They give you valuable skills and help you work out what you enjoy and, more importantly, what you don’t!

Stephen Crosse, BA History

Religious provision The Cornwall Campus Chaplaincy The student lifestyle met all my provides a welcoming and supportive expectations and I enjoyed new environment for students and staff experiences and opportunities I of all faiths or none. The Chaplaincy wouldn’t have otherwise had. An has a quiet room – The Oasis – which example of this is being a Student provides a place to worship, pray, Ambassador for the University. I meditate or relax. The Chaplaincy has a felt I had to grab the opportunity to diverse faith team with representatives promote a university that has only from several different faiths and offered positive academic experiences traditions who are available to advise to me. Ambassador work is also a and lead worship on campus. You can great platform on which to develop find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ and realise personal skills, to build cornwall/support/chaplaincy confidence and meet a range of interesting people. It’s also given me The Students’ Union (FXU) supports some great stuff to put on my CV. a number of faith and spiritual societies including the Falmouth Roseanna Freiburghaus, BA English Christian Union, Islamic Society and Catholic Society. Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/ The University is also a member of support/fxu Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE); SIFE brings together students and Responsible citizenship businesses on projects which make a Students at the Cornwall Campus difference in their communities, as well can take part in the University’s as developing students’ business skills. Exeter Award and Leaders Award. While developing employability skills, participation in the Award programmes includes sessions in Time and Stress Management and Corporate Social Responsibility, which can enhance wellbeing. 42 Academic Support in Cornwall

Academic Support

All our academic support facilities We are investing £6.4 million in our The library service are combined within Academic University network to provide a high- in Cornwall Services, which means your passage speed network across our campuses and The Cornwall Campus Learning from registration to graduation is as a 24/7 wireless service in many areas Resources Centre, Library and IT seamless as possible. Academic Services across our campuses, making study and facilities provide an accessible and covers a wide range of services, from research more flexible and accessible. excellent study environment. Library your email account to the audiovisual users benefit from 24/7 access during equipment in your lecture theatres, and Residences in Glasney Student Village have free internet access giving you term time, self-service facilities, a from the University libraries to shared- range of different study areas, including use PCs and academic skills support. access to all University resources. It’s not a problem if you don’t have your group and silent study, with wifi IT services own computer; there are public-access access throughout. The majority of texts have been purchased in recent All students have access to ‘MyExeter’, PC ‘clusters’ on campus and you can years and the entire collection, which our student portal where you’ll find even borrow a laptop from our IT contains 120,000 books, 3,000 maps everything IT-related that you’ll need. Services team. and 25,000 videos/DVDs is continually Any web-enabled computer in the world reviewed and updated. There is access will connect you to MyExeter, allowing Our dedicated IT Help Desk will assist to a comprehensive range of electronic you access to your emails and calendar, with any IT queries, whether they’re resources: e-journals, databases as well as to all your documents and about the University’s services, virus and e-books. Archives and Special teaching timetables. problems or internet access. We also run laptop clinics to supplement your Collections include the Camborne MyExeter also gives you access to own IT support arrangements. School of Mines archives and the the ‘Exeter Learning Environment’ Institute of Cornish Studies collection. (ELE). This is our new virtual learning Many of our learning spaces are Cornwall Campus students enjoy access environment that enables you to access equipped with the latest lecture- to all the libraries in Exeter and at online the learning materials for your capture and video conferencing University College Falmouth, and can modules. We are also actively working facilities so that you can access some make requests for inter-library loans. with mobile devices, adding mobile lectures remotely or see them again apps and services to enhance the Exeter online through the ELE. experience and allowing you to locate areas of interest across our campuses. The University of Exeter 43

You’ll have an induction programme Our support service, ASK: Academic Our Open Days allow you to find out to cover the LRC and IT facilities; Skills, provides guidance and more about studying at the University enquiry and help desks provide further information on all aspects of learning and the support available to you as support and advice throughout your and study. Many students who have a mature student. To find out more studies. There are also detailed sessions been out of formal education for please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ on information search techniques, some time find this particularly undergraduate/opendays information resources in your subject useful. For further information about area and journal and database searches. ASK: Academic Skills please visit For further information about applying One-to-one appointments can be made www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/ as a mature student, please contact with Academic Liaison Librarians who support/ask the Cornwall Campus Admissions and support learning, teaching and research Student Recruitment Office, by on the Cornwall Campus. For impartial advice about the financial phone on +44 (0) 1326 371801 or support you may be able to access and email: [email protected] The striking £10 million Exchange other aspects of returning to education building, a major expansion of the and studying at the Cornwall Campus, LRC, further enhances the library, please contact the FXU Advice Unit: teaching and learning facilities telephone: +44 (0)1326 213742, available to students. email: [email protected]

For further information about library and IT services please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall/facilities As a mature student, I’d like to say a few words to anyone who’s Supporting mature students considering a return to education. I At the Cornwall Campus we very much was intimidated and concerned that welcome applicants who wish to return I wasn’t smart enough to cope with to education at different stages of their what I knew to be one of the most lives. It can be a complex decision; our demanding degrees available today. Mature Students’ Network provides I’m now a third-year student, on target peer support and targeted activities. for a great degree with honours and To find out more about applying to the absolutely loving my time here. If you University and the support available have a hankering to change your life, please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ your career and your future, then do it. undergraduate/maturestudents Matthew McLeod, BEng Mining Engineering 44 Money matters Money matters

We are committed to attracting and University of Exeter partial fee waivers supporting the most talented students Under the National Scholarship Programme, partial fee waivers (fee reductions) to the University of Exeter, irrespective are available for students whose declared household income is below £25,000. of your financial background. A range If you are eligible, you will receive these partial fee waivers for each year of of financial support is available undergraduate study. Details for 2012 entry are as follows (details for 2013 from both the University and the entry will be available on our website in February 2013). Government to help you afford to study no matter what your circumstances or Household income Partial fee waiver background. We also provide expert financial advice and guidance to offer Below £16,000 Tuition fee reduction of £3,000, or if you prefer the best practical help and support you may opt for a £2,000 fee reduction and receive possible to ensure you are able to make £1,000 as an accommodation bursary the most of your time at Exeter. £16,001 to £20,000 Tuition fee reduction of £2,000 Further information about the £20,001 to £25,000 Tuition fee reduction of £1,000 specific support available at Exeter can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/ undergraduate/money BM,BS Medicine: the fee is £9,000 • This oesd not apply to the BA English (2012 level) per year for Years 1-4. with Study in North America where Tuition fees In Year 5 the Department of Health the fee will be £9,000 (2012 level) for For UK and EU students starting a new provides support for tuition fees. each year. full-time degree at the University of Exeter the fee is £9,000 (2012 level – Year Abroad or Year in Industry: if, fees for 2013 will be available on our as part of your degree programme, Under the new system, as a website in February 2013). This figure you spend a full academic year abroad UK/EU student, you will be may be subject to small increments set or if you spend a full year on a work able to apply for a loan to by the Government each year. placement (in the UK or overseas) you cover all your tuition fees in will pay a reduced fee as follows: each year of your degree. The only degrees which are an exception to this are: • UK/EU students who spend a full • You will not have to pay for academic year studying or working any of your tuition fees in MEng, MMath or MPhys four year abroad under the Erasmus scheme are advance degrees: the fee is £9,000 (2012 level) exempt from tuition fees for that year for the first three years. The fourth year • You will only start repaying will be charged at 50 per cent of the • UK/EU students on non-Erasmus the loan once you’ve standard undergraduate fee subject to international student exchange, or graduated and are earning satisfactory academic progress. on work placements either overseas over £21,000 per year or in the UK, pay £1,500 (2012 level) BSc Medical Imaging (Diagnostic tuition fee for that year Radiography): the NHS will pay the tuition fee for students who fulfil residency requirements. The University of Exeter 45

Fee waivers for care leavers Sports scholarships Music scholarships The University will provide financial Sports scholarships of up to £2,000 per Music and choral scholarships are support for care leavers under the year are available, at both our Exeter open to all kinds of musicians and age of 25 who have spent a minimum and Cornwall campuses, for students of composers, not just from the classical period of three months in local outstanding sporting ability who show tradition. The scholarships enable authority care, as per the Care Leavers’ evidence of achievement or potential at students to continue taking individual Act. This support will include a full fee national level. Scholarships are awarded lessons, or undertake to support waiver for all years of study. on a yearly basis and can be renewed student music in directly practical ways. up to a further two years, subject to University of Exeter bursaries satisfactory sporting performance, For further information on our music The Access to Exeter bursary is a academic progress and general conduct. scholarships visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ guaranteed, non-competitive bursary A full package of support services funding/prospective available to students with a low including sports science testing, Subject-specific scholarships household income (as defined by the physiotherapy and mentoring services, Details of subject-specific scholarships Department for Business, Innovation equating to a cash equivalent of £500, for home/EU and international and Skills and Student Finance), which is also provided. In return for an award, students can be found on our website does not have to be paid back. every scholar must compete for the at www.exeter.ac.uk/funding/ University in BUCS events. Under the scheme we will provide a prospective We also advise range of bursaries depending on your Students of outstanding sporting international students to seek household income. Students eligible ability in any sport recognised by information about scholarships from for the partial fee waiver will also be the University’s Athletic Union are your own Ministry of Education, eligible for the Access to Exeter bursary considered, but the emphasis for from the appropriate inter-university scheme. The details shown here are awards is placed on badminton, cricket, organisation or from the British for 2012 entry; details for 2013 entry golf, hockey, lacrosse, netball, rowing, Council. will be available on our website in rugby, sailing and tennis. February 2013. Government grants and loans For further information please see Alongside the bursaries and Household Bursary www.exeter.ac.uk/sport scholarships offered by the University income award of Exeter, there is financial support available from the Government to help Up to £25,000 £1,500 cover the costs of living and studying. The figures below relate to financial £25,001 £1,000 support for students who are normally to £35,000 resident in England and starting £35,001 £500 university in 2012. Financial support to £42,600 is also available for students from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and also other EU countries; for further details visit the DirectGov Student Finance website at www.direct.gov.uk/ studentfinance 46 Money matters

The cost of living The amount you spend as a student is, to some extent, up to you. You will need to make choices about how you live and what your priorities are. For a first year UK student living in University catered accommodation, the term-time (31 weeks) costs are likely to be something like this:

Accommodation (average £156 per week) £4,830 Social life at £35 per week £1,085 Books and equipment £300 Food – lunches, coffees etc at £20 per week £620 Clubs and societies £275 Clothing £270 TV licence £145 Travel home £150 Toiletries £150 Telephone and internet £300 House deposit for your second year £375 TOTAL £8,500

Maintenance grant Access to Learning Fund Help and advice A means-tested non-repayable grant of The Access to Learning Fund provides The staff of the Students’ Guild up to £3,250 per year, available for new extra financial support to UK students Advice Unit in Exeter and the Students’ full-time students from lower-income who have serious financial difficulties Union at the Cornwall Campus can backgrounds. There are additional, non- and who might otherwise have to help you with financial queries. They repayable grants for eligible students. abandon their studies. The Access to can advise you before you enrol at the Tuition fee loan Learning Fund can be of particular help University and once you’re here you can to students with dependant children; contact the Advice Unit for personal Covers your full tuition fees and single parents; students entering advice and information in a one-to- means that you will not have to pay higher education from care; mature one capacity, via email, telephone or undergraduate tuition fees before you students; students from low-income in person. start or during your time at university. backgrounds; students with disabilities; It is paid direct to the university. and final-year undergraduate students. This help is available to all students Maintenance loan and you do not have to have a Working while studying serious problem – you can even get Students can apply for a loan to Most students find that the South West information before a problem ever help with their living costs. The is not a particularly expensive place arises. More information can be found amount you get will depend on your to live. However, many students now at www.exeterguild.org/advice for household income and the level of choose to supplement their student students based in Exeter and at grant you receive. loan and grant by working part-time. www.fxu.org.uk for students based You will start to repay your total The Career Zone helps students find at the Cornwall Campus. part-time and holiday work and the loan (loan for fees and loan for International students maintenance) after you have graduated Careers Service at the Cornwall Campus Please refer to page 53 for details of and are earning more than £21,000 a offers a similar service for Cornwall- international student tuition fees and year. You then pay back nine per cent based students. a guide to living costs. For further of your income over £21,000. The level information about how your fee status of interest charged will depend on the is determined see the UKCISA guidance amount you earn and the lowest at www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/ earners will only pay interest at the fees_student_support.php rate of inflation. Study abroad 47

Study abroad

Your experience at the University of If you are studying modern languages We consider it important that no one Exeter can reach far beyond the South or following a degree ‘with European is excluded from studying abroad on West of England: the International Study’ you will spend the third year of language grounds alone. There are some Office facilitates student mobility across a four-year degree studying in Europe. European destinations where classes Europe and internationally through a For students on other degrees, it may will be taught in English, such as The number of recognised schemes as part be possible to spend half a year in Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and of your degree programme. Students Europe as part of a three-year degree. Turkey. This is particularly relevant to who have studied abroad demonstrate The destinations available for 2013 students based at our Cornwall Campus initiative, independence, motivation are listed on our website as a guide. who don’t have access to the Foreign and, depending on where they stay, may Through the European Credit Transfer Language Centre in Exeter. Although also have gained a working knowledge Scheme you will gain full academic you won’t need to speak another of another language – all qualities credit for the courses that you language in class you will still need to employers are looking for. undertake while abroad. function in everyday life and so you will be expected to take some language European study abroad Language is an important element classes in your host country. Under the Erasmus scheme students when studying in Europe. Whether you can exchange with students from are planning to study in Europe for a International study abroad partner European universities as full year or half a year, you will have If you are interested in studying an integral part of their degree to be sufficiently competent to study further afield, the option to study programmes. Exeter’s highly successful effectively in the language of your host outside Europe is available. Some of our Erasmus programme is well established institution. If you’re based in Exeter programmes allow one academic year and we are proud that some of our and your language skills are not initially abroad, usually the third year of a four- cross channel partners house the best good enough, you will be required to year programme. The exception to this departments in Europe in particular attend classes in the Foreign Language is the three-year BA in English with disciplines. In 2011/12 about 400 Centre (see page 31) during your first Study in North America where the students studied at our 180 partner and/or second year and continue with second year of a three-year programme universities. language study when you are abroad. is spent in the USA or Canada. As part Even if you are competent in the of a three-year degree it may also be language we will still encourage you to possible to study for half a year at an take language classes. international destination. You will be awarded full academic credit for your study abroad period. 48 The University of Exeter

There are opportunities to study in Erasmus work placement countries including the USA, Canada, Students are increasingly aware Australia, New Zealand, Japan, of developing employability skills Singapore and Hong Kong. Please check whilst at university. The Erasmus available destinations and options on Work Placement scheme promotes our website. employability and mobility across Entry requirements Europe and is funded by the EU. Students taking part in this scheme for study abroad spend between three and 12 months The entry requirements for our on a work placement in Europe as programmes with study abroad can an integral part of their studies, be found in the subject entries of gaining work experience and academic this prospectus. Students wishing recognition for that work. Because to spend half a year abroad can you will need to be competent in your discuss the possibilities with their target language this option is especially department during the first year of relevant to modern language or ‘with study. Permission to take part in study European Study’ students but it may abroad will depend on your academic also be an option available on other progress, your language ability and the programmes. Previous participants places available in your chosen country. have worked in a variety of areas: marketing, translation, law, TV production, fashion and with charities. In my second year I went to Toronto, and you know what? It was Students have used the opportunity to great. I did things I’ll always remember: stand on top of the 550 metre test their future career aspirations and tall CN Tower with only a sheet of glass beneath my feet; eat at the in the process have gained a wealth of famous dive bar Sneaky Dee’s; watch the city’s ice hockey team win a experience they can add to their CV. historic victory over their arch rivals; see some of my favourite bands Students on Modern Language degrees play the legendary Lee’s Palace; and go to a Q&A with Tim Burton for also have the opportunity to undertake my college’s newspaper. a teaching assistantship with the I got involved with as much as I could, writing for two of the dozen British Council for their year abroad. or more student newspapers there. Being involved in this rich media Information for incoming culture made me question why Exeter couldn’t have the same, so overseas students when I got back I set up Exetera Magazine. At the beginning of the If you are an overseas student wishing year we got sponsorship from the College of Humanities, and we’re to study at Exeter for one year as running an initial circulation of 1,000 every month or so, which is a contributing element towards terrifying but brilliant. Without a doubt, if I hadn’t gone to Toronto, your home degree, either as part of Exetera would not exist. an international exchange or as an Academically Toronto is one of the top universities in the world, and independent student, you should they push you hard, with frequent assessments and lots of contact consult our Study Abroad website at hours. I was stretched, but the work ethic that was drummed into me www.exeter.ac.uk/international/ there means I’m coping a lot more with the demands of my third year. students/studyabroad European independent students should apply A year abroad is perfect for anyone who, like me, has a hard time through the Admissions Office (see staying in one place. There’ll always be a place in my heart for Exeter page 155). and I’m glad to be back, but living in Toronto was an experience that I will never forget.

max benwell, ba english with study in north america The University of Exeter 49

Study abroad destinations For a full list of the destinations available in 2012/13, please see our website: www.exeter.ac.uk/ international Further information We recognise that the prospect of studying abroad is both exciting and daunting. The International Office team is on hand with advice and our website is packed with information. You will usually be able to meet students who have spent time at the university in which you are interested or students who are visiting from that university. Our aim is to give you as much help as we can to enable you to make the As a student of French and Spanish, I knew that spending a year right decision. Together with your abroad would be a compulsory part of my degree. Before I arrived department we will also support you at the University of Exeter, I was rather nervous and apprehensive before you go, while you are away and about what this would entail. I felt my language skills were not on your return. good enough to cope with living and studying abroad – how would I ever be able to follow lectures in French? However, I needn’t have For further information on any worried, as the support network at the University, both before and aspect of studying abroad, please during the year, meant that no matter how small the problem, I contact the International Office: always had someone to talk to. Phone: +44 (0)1392 723841 It sounds like a cliché, but my year abroad was definitely the best Email: [email protected] year of my life! I spent the first semester studying at the University [email protected] of Rouen, where I not only improved my language skills, but gained Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/ more knowledge of the French culture than could ever be learnt from international/abroad textbooks, travelled widely throughout France and made friends from around the world. It was hard to say goodbye, but I spent my second semester studying in Cordoba in the south of Spain. I thoroughly enjoyed my time here too and before long spoke Spanish like the locals and took part in all the city’s fiestas!

I would definitely recommend studying abroad to anyone, regardless of their discipline, as it’s a brilliant experience to get to know a different culture, language or way of life, as well as enabling you to increase your self-confidence and meet new people. The hardest part of my year abroad was having to leave!

Antonia Wimbush, BA French and Spanish 50 International students

International students

The University warmly welcomes You can study a wide variety of subjects, Entrance requirements international students and ensures that from the traditional to professionally Applications for all full-time you have all the support you need, both accredited programmes or a unique undergraduate degrees have to be before you arrive and whilst you are combination devised through our made through UCAS see studying with us, to help you make the Flexible Combined Honours scheme www.ucas.ac.uk while visiting most of your time in the UK. At present (see page 98). Alternatively you can students can apply direct to the around 4,000 students from over 130 transfer here for the last two years University see www.exeter.ac.uk/ countries outside the UK contribute of your degree and earn an Exeter studyabroad. In this prospectus, to a thriving international community qualification, or study with us as a academic requirements are expressed across our three campuses. visiting student to earn credits towards in terms of A levels or the International qualifications at your home university Baccalaureate; however the University The University is surrounded by some (see www.exeter.ac.uk/studyabroad) recognises a large number of other of the most beautiful countryside and or as part of an exchange agreement overseas qualifications. coastline in the UK. Our campuses with one of our 180 partner universities are compact and convenient – the worldwide. If your previous academic qualifications teaching buildings, libraries, student do not meet the entrance requirements accommodation and the social buildings Before you arrive for one of our Bachelors degrees you are all close together so it is easy to find Our International Office staff are happy can apply for the Foundation or your way around. The Streatham and to answer questions from prospective Diploma Programme for international St Luke’s campuses are conveniently students about any aspect of living and students at INTO University of Exeter located a 15-minute walk or five-minute studying at the University of Exeter, (see page 153). bus ride from the historic student- including the suitability of your existing friendly city of Exeter, which is two and academic qualifications and English For further guidance on the a half hours from London. Students language proficiency. If you are in the equivalence of overseas qualifications, studying at our Cornwall Campus will UK and wish to visit the University, details of our local representatives, find it equally easy to reach Falmouth, we will be happy to arrange a tour for or information about where you can a scenic port town situated in beautiful you; please see www.exeter.ac.uk/ meet one of our staff, please see the ‘In countryside which has a vibrant and undergraduate/visiting or contact the Your Country’ section of our website friendly student community where International Office. www.exeter.ac.uk/international/ you constantly meet people you know. students or contact the International The Cornwall Campus is just over Our International Students’ Guide Office. four hours by train from London and contains all the information you will approximately two and a half hours by need to prepare for your studies here, English language train from Exeter. from making a visa application, to what To get the most out of your time at the to expect when you get here including University of Exeter you will need to travel in the UK, the cost of living and have strong English language skills (see the services available to international www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ students, including medical treatment. international for our requirements). A copy is available to download from If the results of your English language our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/ test show you need to improve your internationalguide English before commencing your The University of Exeter 51

studies, you can attend a Pre-Sessional English course at the INTO University of Exeter Centre during the summer months. These intensive courses are designed for students who need to improve their ability in English and study skills before they start their degree programme. Applicants who undertake a pre-sessional course may be permitted to start their formal programme of study without retaking an IELTS or TOEFL test, depending on their language ability at entry and their progress in the Centre. For details of entry requirements please visit www.intohigher.com/exeter After studying science at school I decided I wanted to switch to a If you do not meet the pre-sessional business course for university. The BA Management programme entry requirements or want to study a at Exeter is rated highly by past alumni around the world, and the longer English language course during added incentive of studying Leadership got my attention. Now I’m the academic year, the Centre also here I like the practical approach in tutorials, which makes learning offer an English for Undergraduate theories a lot easier and fun. Study course. This course is available throughout the year with intakes at the I was anxious about settling in and meeting people, but the moment beginning of each term. Full details and I got here I met people from my home country, and gradually made an application form can be found at friends with British as well as international students. In my second www.intohigher.com/exeter year I moved into a house with four friends I made during my Booking your accommodation first year, and the five of us each covered a different country and continent – Bermuda, France, Kenya, India and Hong Kong! Full-year, unaccompanied, first-year international students are guaranteed There are societies on campus for just about everything you can think an offer of University accommodation of, and getting involved is the best way to meet like-minded people. for the first year of their studies I’m a member of the Campus Bands Society, Motorsports Society, the providing they return their application International Society and the Asian Society. I met some great people, form and deposit by the deadline. The made friends, and even formed a band; we’ve won competitions and University has both fully catered halls played gigs around Exeter. of residence and self-catered flats and most study bedrooms have broadband The campus would easily be rated as one of the best in the world, and telephone connections. Please see it’s a real scenic paradise. The view of the hills from my room in page 26 for accommodation in Exeter Holland Hall was amazing. For admission at one of the new ‘Ivy and page 42 for accommodation in League’ universities, where there is equal emphasis on studying and Cornwall. student life, choose Exeter! Life here gets better every day.

Abhyuday Purkayastha, BA Management with Leadership 52 The University of Exeter

When you arrive The Meet and Greet Scheme and Welcome Week in Exeter or Freshers’ Fortnight in Cornwall, held immediately before the start of term in October, smooth your transition to University life in the UK. A programme of events introduces the University and provides practical information about life in England before your programme begins. You will be able to visit the local area, register with a Health Centre, open a bank account and meet representatives of campus organisations, ask lots of questions and make many new friends. If you are offered a place to study here you Ever since I was young, I’ve wanted to study at a prestigious university. will receive full details of the Exeter made that dream a reality. I chose to come here because I think programme in July. students are able to develop personal and professional skills that they’ll use for the rest of their careers. The introductory programmes are coordinated by our International I wanted to study Politics because it ties in so much with current Student Support Office. Our affairs, including the political situation in my own country, Romania. International Student Advisers in We are able to analyse and investigate political events, and also try Exeter and Cornwall act as a focal point and understand the hidden meanings behind them all. I know the for help and advice with any matters politics department is one of the best in the UK as well. relating to your welfare throughout your studies. They are able to assist Coming from a different country it took a little while to get used to the with immigration issues including different teaching systems used here, but I was very impressed by the the renewal of student visas, provide attitude of the staff, lecturers and tutors. The classes were organised to advice on bringing your family to the encourage students’ creativity and ideas wherever possible. UK with you and produce a termly e-newsletter packed with cultural tips, I also had a lot of help to settle in. Academically, I had help with event news and useful information. proof-reading and writing my essays, while tutors also took the time They also coordinate a wide range of to explain things to me carefully. There were also social events held in cultural events throughout the year in Welcome Week to help introduce us to university life. partnership with student societies. I think I am quite a sociable person and settled in quickly. I wanted We recognise that you continue to to try as many things as possible as a way of meeting new friends. I develop your language skills after joined a lot of societies and take part in a number of activities such registration and so the INTO Centre in as becoming a member of the Welcome Team 2011, volunteering for Exeter and Academic Skills Service in the Community Action team and acting as Vice President of the Choral Cornwall offer a range of in-sessional Society. classes, workshops and tutorials free of There are so many good things about Exeter. We are given help to charge for students and spouses. develop skills that will be helpful throughout our careers, the campus is amazing and there are so many events, such as Chinese New Year and Diwali, where we can meet new people. I would definitely recommend Exeter to friends.

Er- ika Maria Szasz, from Romania, BA Politics The University of Exeter 53

The International Students Council In addition to the cost of tuition Further information represents international student fees, we suggest you allow a further For more information, including concerns to the Students’ Guild. £6,750 for nine months or £9,000 for details of our local representatives, The Students’ Guild coordinates a 12 months living expenses, excluding please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/ variety of clubs and societies including your airfares, based on a single international/students or contact international students’ societies in student living in standard University the International Office: both Exeter and Cornwall along self-catered accommodation. These Phone: +44 (0) 1392 723405 with a number of other societies costs are an estimate and actual Email: [email protected] representing different ethnic, costs will vary according to your or write to us at: nationality or language groups (please type of accommodation and lifestyle. International Office see www.exeterguild.org/societies For further details of the cost of Laver Building or www.fxu.org.uk for the Cornwall living in the South West, please see North Park Road Campus). These can be a great way to the International Students’ Guide Exeter, Devon, make new friends and learn about available from our website, and the EX4 4QE other cultures. Accommodation Office website at www.exeter.ac.uk/accommodation For further information on all aspects Followers of the main religious faiths of living in Cornwall and studying at will find a place to worship close by The Careers Advisory Service in the University’s Cornwall Campus or on the campus. Muslim students Cornwall and our on-campus job shop please contact our International have their own Prayer Rooms on the in the Careers Zone in Exeter, provide Student Support team in Cornwall. Streatham Campus with separate assistance with finding part-time work Phone: +44 (0)1326 254187 facilities for both men and women. where this is permissible. Email: internationalcornwall@ Our Multi-Faith Chaplaincies in Exeter exeter.ac.uk Some departments provide partial and Cornwall provide a welcoming and Web: www.exeter.ac.uk/ scholarships to international supportive environment for students undergraduate/international and staff of all faiths. students and you are advised to check the scholarships website at The UK Council for International Students on programmes of longer than www.exeter.ac.uk/funding for Student Affairs (UKCISA) has an six months are entitled to free National up-to-date information. informative website with advice Health Service treatment and can about fee status, immigration and Emergency financial assistance is register at a local Health Centre on or employment regulations; please see available for international students near to one of our campuses on arrival. www.ukcisa.org.uk via the Fund for International Student Tuition fees and living costs Hardship (FISH). Details can be found Details of the latest immigration To gain a UK student visa, applicants by following the link to International regulations for students and their must show that they have enough Students at www.exeter.ac.uk/ dependants can be found on the UK funds for both academic costs and studentfinance Border Agency website; please see living expenses. Our offer letters www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/ state the annual tuition fee and a visas-immigration/studying monthly allowance for living expenses. Tuition fees are reviewed annually Former Exeter students are an and details for the coming year are excellent source of first-hand usually available in the preceding information and they will be happy October. Details can be found at to share their experiences of studying www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ here and to tell you about the social international/livingcosts life on the campuses and life in Britain. Please contact our International Alumni Officer: Phone: +44 (0) 1392 723052 Email: [email protected] 54 Guide to Subject Entries

Guide to Subject Entries

Our subject entries include programmes Under the programme details we taught at our campuses in Exeter describe the areas you will study. Many and at our campus in Cornwall . programmes also allow you to choose Some subjects are taught at only one some of your modules from a list of location whilst others are taught at options which means that you can both. shape your degree to your interests and career plans. Many of the options relate In the subject entries, you’ll find directly to staff research interests and information about the department your the options available may change from subject is taught in as well as further year to year. Programme specifications information relevant to particular and a full module list for each degree subjects such as field work, study abroad can be found on the relevant website and scholarships. You’ll also find contact given under each subject entry. details to find out more about the subject and links to our website. Full details of how to apply for any of our programmes can be found in The applicant and entrant figures given the Applications section on page 155. in the subject entries are taken from the If you have a question about your 2011/12 admissions cycle. For subjects eligibility for a particular programme, which include Combined Honours the entry requirements or the typical degrees, the figures are split across the offer, contact: subjects involved so do not reflect the total number of individual applicants Admissions Office and entrants for all subjects. Phone:  0844 6200012 (UK callers) +44 (0)1392 723044 (EU/International callers) Email: [email protected] Website: www.exeter.ac.uk/ undergraduate/applications The University of Exeter 55

Programmes in Exeter Programmes in Cornwall

Accounting and Finance History Biosciences Arab and Islamic Studies Law English Archaeology Liberal Arts Environmental Science Art History and Visual Culture Mathematics Flexible Combined Honours Biosciences Medical Imaging Geography Business, Management and Medicine Geology Leadership Modern Languages History Classics and Ancient History Natural Sciences Mathematics Clinical Science Philosophy Mining Engineering Computer Science Physics and Astronomy Politics and International Relations Drama Politics and International Relations Renewable Energy Economics Psychology Engineering Sociology English Sport Sciences Film Studies Theology Flexible Combined Honours Programmes for International Geography Students

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Accounting and Finance

In the last Research Assessment Exercise the Business School was ranked 2nd in the UK for world leading and internationally 1st in the UK for attracting the most gifted excellent research. We have strong links with professional firms and institutes and the AAB+ students majority of our Accounting staff have worked in the profession, industry or commerce. 7th for Accounting and Finance in The Times If your aim is to pursue a career in accounting Good University Guide 2012 with a major accounting firm or in industry or the financial sector, you should consider 92% for Overall Satisfaction in the National the BA Accounting and Finance as this degree offers considerable exemptions from the Student Survey (2011) examinations of the professional bodies. If you want a broader programme which still 2nd in the UK for world leading and internationally includes core accounting subjects, you may p be better suited to the BA Business and excellent research Accounting degree. This programme allows you considerable choice of options across a Exemptions from professional accounting range of business subjects and enables you to appreciate the wider context within which examinations accounting operates. As with most degrees in the Business School, you have the opportunity Study or work abroad or gain industrial experience to study overseas or to undertake a period of industrial experience. There is no requirement Opportunities to participate in a programme of for you to have studied accounting before coming to us, as we will not assume any prior employability events knowledge of the subject. The KPMG School Leavers’ Programme offers Extremely strong links with professional firms you the opportunity to combine a degree with work experience at KPMG and a professional and institutes accounting qualification with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) Distinguished practitioners from the profession over six years. give guest lectures Learning and Teaching You will learn through tutorials and seminars Degrees in Exeter where you will discuss topics and learn to BA Single Honours give presentations, as well as in conventional Accounting and Finance* lectures. Communication and teamwork Business and Accounting* skills are emphasised. You’ll have a personal BSc Single Honours tutor who is available for advice and support Accounting (KPMG) throughout your studies. *4-year programmes with European or International Study or with Industrial Experience available Assessment Modules are normally assessed either by Numbers exam alone or by a mix of assessed work Entrants: 66 and written exams. Assessed work includes Applicants: 462 essays, case studies, projects, group work and presentations. You will have to pass the Programme information assessments in your first year to proceed to Email: [email protected] the second year but they do not count towards Phone: +44 (0)1392 723200 your final degree classification. www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school A subject brochure for the Business School is available. You may also be interested in: pRAE  2008 based on the percentage Business and Management (see page 70) of research categorised as 4* and 3* Economics (see page 82) Mathematics (see page 116) Accounting and Finance 57

Work Placement Opportunities BA Accounting and Finance BA Business and Accounting All Accounting programmes can include a one LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) year placement in business or industry in your This degree offers considerable exemptions This degree is aimed at students seeking a third year and be awarded ‘with Industrial from the exams of the professional bodies specialist understanding of accounting as well Experience’. You then return to Exeter for the and is specifically targeted at students who as a general introduction to a broad range of final year of your degree. You may apply for wish to pursue a career in accountancy. The business subjects. It builds on the strengths direct entry to the four-year programmes or programme gives you an understanding of of the Accounting and Finance degree, with apply to transfer by the second term of your the legal, business and social environments which it shares a common first year. Flexibility first year. Full details can be found by in which accountancy operates and enables is achieved through a choice of modules in the following the link to Employability at you to be conversant in the technical second and third year. www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school/ languages and practices of the accounting Year 1: Economics for Business; Introduction undergraduate sector in a market economy. to Financial Accounting; Introduction to Study Abroad Year 1: Economics for Business; Business Management Accounting; Business Law Law for Accountants; Introduction to for Accountants; Introduction to Statistics; All Accounting programmes can include a year Statistics; Introduction to Management Management Concepts and Practice; Business of study in Europe or further afield including Accounting; Introduction to Financial Finance for Accountants. Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Accounting; Management Concepts and the USA and Canada and be awarded ‘with Year 2: Financial Accounting; either Practice; Business Finance for Accountants. European Study’ or ‘with International Study’. Organisational Behaviour and Human In your third year you will study, or combine Year 2: Financial Accounting; Taxation (or Resource Management or Consumer Behaviour study with a work placement while abroad. a language for the ‘with European Study’ and Principles of Marketing; Management You then return to Exeter for the final year of programme); Auditing; Information Systems; Accounting I and II; options (or a language for your degree. You may apply for direct entry to Management Accounting I and II. the ‘with European Study’ programme); the four-year programmes or apply to transfer Year 3: Corporate Law; options, to include Year 3: Strategic Management; Financial at the end of the first year of a three-year Taxation if not taken in the second year; Management; options. programme. Full details can be found by Financial Management; Financial Reporting following the link to Study Abroad at and Analysis; Governance, Accountability www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school/ BSc Accounting (KPMG) and Audit. undergraduate LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) The KPMG School Leavers’ programme enables Careers you to complete a degree programme, work The Business School has a dedicated experience with KPMG and become a fully Employability Team, whose focus from day chartered accountant with the Institute of one of your first year is to work on promoting Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) and enhancing your employability. A degree in six years. For more details see: in accountancy will help you to develop a wide www.kpmg.co.uk/slp range of essential skills such as analytical problem solving, teamwork, research and ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ENTRY DATA organising and communicating information. DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER The majority of our graduates follow their BA Single Honours degree with graduate careers in economics, Accounting and Finance GCSE Maths minimum grade B or GCE AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 accounting, business, actuarial science, N422 3 yrs (N423 European 4 yrs; NN4H AL/AS MathsÌ; GCSE English Language marketing, insurance, banking, finance or International 4 yrs; NN43 Industry 4 yrs) minimum grade B management both in the commercial and Business and Accounting NN41 3 yrs (NN4C European 4 yrs; NN1L public sectors. A large number of graduate International 4 yrs; NND4 Industry 4 yrs) recruiters in these sectors visit Exeter to recruit our students. Some of our graduates BSc Single Honours Accounting (KPMG) GCSE Maths minimum grade B or GCE AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 pursue their interest in their studies to a Applications to this programme are made AL/AS MathsÌ; GCSE English Language greater depth by taking a postgraduate directly to KPMG at www.kpmg.co.uk/slp minimum grade B degree, often here at Exeter. Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information on Additional Selection Criteria at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/accounting employability ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer GCE AL/AS Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at Programme Details www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Full details of these programmes, including Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. information about the available option For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications modules for each programme, can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school/ undergraduate 58 Arab and Islamic Studies

Arab and Islamic Studies

The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies is one of the UK’s, and indeed Europe’s, main centres for teaching and research in this field. No previous knowledge of a language required The degree programmes we offer fall into five overlapping areas of study: Middle East Only UK institution offering Arabic, Persian studies, Islamic studies, Arabic language and literature, Persian and Kurdish. We are the and Kurdish only institution in the UK that teaches Arabic, Persian and Kurdish and our interests range Spend a year in the Arab world for any of our across the Middle East and the whole world of Islam, from Europe to Asia. Our modules Arabic degrees relate directly to our research interests, so you will be taught by experts and be brought up to Spend a term in Iran for our BA in Arabic and date with contemporary issues. Persian The Institute houses the Arab World Documentation Unit which has one of the State-of-the-art study facilities in the Institute of largest collections of material on the Gulf region in the world. The University also has an Arabic and Islamic Studies building excellent library collection on the Middle East with over 50,000 volumes, of which around 97% for Overall Satisfaction in the National half are in Western languages (90 per cent p English) and half are in Middle Eastern Student Survey (2011) languages (85 per cent Arabic). Learning and Teaching Degrees in Exeter The Institute occupies a purpose-built building BA Single Honours with state-of-the-art IT and audio-visual Arabic equipment, spacious lecture rooms and Arabic and Islamic Studies common rooms. You will learn your chosen Arabic and Kurdish language(s) in small interactive classes of Arabic and Middle East Studies about 15-20 students, using the language Arabic and Persian laboratory, satellite TV, the internet and computer-assisted language learning. Non- Islamic Studies language modules are delivered through Middle East Studies lectures, seminars, tutorials and discussions. Middle East Studies with Arabic You can also expect to develop transferable Middle East Studies with Kurdish skills in communication (writing and BA Combined Honours presentation) and study techniques that will We offer a range of Combined enable you to undertake independent research Honours degrees with languages (Arabic, and analysis. You’ll have a personal tutor who French, German, Italian, Russian or is available for advice and support throughout Spanish), Politics or Sociology. The full list of your programme of study. programmes can be seen in the Entry Data table on page 60. Assessment You will be assessed by exam and coursework, Numbers including essay writing and a dissertation (in Entrants: 29 your last year of study). You must pass your Applicants: 186 first year assessment in order to progress to the second year, but the results do not Programme information count towards your degree classification. For Email: [email protected] three-year programmes, the assessments Phone: +44 (0)1392 723192 in the second and third years contribute to www.exeter.ac.uk/iais your final degree classification. For four-year programmes the assessments in the second, A subject brochure is available which includes third and fourth years all contribute to your full programme and module details. final degree classification.

ppercentage of students who agreed they were satisfied Arab and Islamic Studies 59

Study Abroad BA Arabic and Islamic Studies BA Islamic Studies All Arabic language students on four-year LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) programmes spend the second year of their No previous knowledge of Arabic is required; No previous knowledge of Arabic is required; programme at one of our accredited Arabic 4 year programme, including a study year in an 3 year programme. language study centres – details of these can Arab country. This programme focuses on Islam as a religion be found on our website. Students on our A strong language base is combined with and as a civilisation. The language element programme in Arabic and Persian spend half an emphasis on understanding Islam as a will train you to read classical Arabic. You can a year at one of these centres and the other religion, culture, civilisation and way of life. expect to achieve a high level of understanding half at the University of Shiraz (Iran) (subject Compulsory language modules are studied of the many diverse dimensions of Islam and to Foreign Office guidance). Our students over the four years of the degree, including the an ability to read classical and modern texts. return to Exeter with increased fluency in year abroad. the language and an invaluable cultural BA Middle East Studies appreciation of the region. Information BA Arabic and Kurdish LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) about the study abroad year can be found LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) No language study required; 3 year programme. at www.exeter.ac.uk/iais/undergraduate/ No previous knowledge of Arabic or Kurdish is You can expect to achieve a high level of social studyabroad required; 4 year programme, including a study scientific understanding of the Middle East. year in an Arab country. No language study is required, although you Careers You can expect to achieve a high level of are free to study Persian, Kurdish or Arabic. The degree programmes we offer provide you proficiency in reading, speaking and writing with an appreciation and understanding of the Modern Standard Arabic and Kurdish BA Middle East Studies culture, history and language of the Middle (Kurmanji and Sorani), which will enable you with Arabic East and the wider world of Islam. You will to communicate readily on a personal and LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) develop analytical and research skills during professional basis. No previous knowledge of Arabic is required; your programme as well as an awareness of 3 year programme. different interpretations of issues and events. BA Arabic and Middle The expertise of the Institute’s staff in the You will develop opinions and use effective East Studies social sciences and modern history provides a communication skills to put forward your LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) balanced multidisciplinary study of the area. ideas and conclusions. You will also develop No previous knowledge of Arabic is required; You can expect to gain a thorough knowledge your skills of organising your workload and 4 year programme, including a study year in of the dynamics of the contemporary Middle meeting deadlines. an Arab country. East, and to be able to use Arabic effectively. All these skills are valued by employers This language-based degree will provide you from many different fields and can open up with an understanding of a variety of political, BA Middle East Studies career paths in a wide variety of areas from social, cultural and ideological dimensions with Kurdish academic research and government work to of the major forces that contend power and LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) more commercially-based careers. Find out influence, and that shape economic, social and No previous knowledge of Arabic or Kurdish is more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ cultural life in the Middle East. required; 3 year programme. employability You can expect to achieve an ability to deal BA Arabic and Persian with written and aural materials in Kurdish Programme Details LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) (Kurmanji and Sorani) of various types and an Below is a list of our Single Honours No previous knowledge of Arabic or Persian is appreciation of cultural and social differences programmes. Full details of these, including required; 4 year programme, including a study in interpreting and living Islam. full module details and our Combined Honours year in an Arab country and Iran (subject to programmes, can be found in our subject Foreign Office guidance). Combined Honours Degrees brochure and at www.exeter.ac.uk/iais/ You can expect to achieve a high level of Arabic may also be studied with a Modern undergraduate proficiency in reading, speaking and writing Language (French, German, Italian, Russian or Modern Standard Arabic and Persian, which Spanish), Politics or Sociology. No previous BA Arabic will enable you to communicate readily on a knowledge of Arabic is required. We offer personal and professional basis. You may also LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) four-year programmes, which include a choose to pursue your interests in literature, No previous knowledge of Arabic is required; Study Year in an Arab country and three-year history and cultures of the Arabic- and Persian- 4 year programme including a study year in an programmes. The Arabic language component speaking worlds. Arab country. in these programmes follows the pattern of This is a language-based degree that will the BA in Arabic described above. For details provide you with a thorough understanding of of the second subject, please see the relevant the culture and literature of the Arab peoples. subject entry. Compulsory language modules are followed over the four years of the degree, including the year abroad, and there are also compulsory modules on Arab literature and on Islam and Arab history. 60 Arab and Islamic Studies

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ARAB AND ISLAMIC STUDIES ENTRY DATA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER

BA Single Honours Arabic AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 T624 4 yrs Arabic and Islamic Studies T601 4 yrs Arabic and Kurdish T690 4 yrs Arabic and Middle East Studies QT46 4 yrs Islamic Studies T602 3 yrs Middle East Studies T604 3 yrs Middle East Studies with Arabic T603 3 yrs Middle East Studies with Kurdish T691 3 yrs BA Combined Honours Arabic and Persian AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 Q420 4 yrs

French and Arabic GCE AL French; IB French HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 RT16 4 yrs

German and Arabic GCE AL German; IB German HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 RT26 4 yrs

Italian and Arabic GCE AL in a modern foreign language; AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 RQ34 4 yrs IB MFL HL5

Politics and Arabic AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 LQ24 4 yrs Politics and Arabic Studies LQF4 3 yrs

Russian and Arabic GCE AL in a modern foreign language; AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 RT76 4 yrs IB MFL HL5

Sociology and Middle East Studies AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 LT36 3 yrs

Spanish and Arabic GCE AL in a modern foreign language; AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 RT46 4 yrs IB MFL HL5

International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

I’d only heard good things about Exeter before applying and when I found out that the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies is one of the best of its kind, my mind was made up. Now that I’m well into my degree I have to say that Exeter has exceeded my expectations. The flexibility offered is unparalleled and means you can learn about what you’re actually interested in.

CRAIG BROWNE, BA ARABIC WITH GERMAN AND PERSIAN Archaeology 61

Archaeology

Studying the physical remains of the past in all its forms, from ancient landscapes to individual artefacts, Archaeology at Exeter is a Highly ranked in the 2012 league tables: 6th in dynamic and varied subject working across the humanities and the sciences. Our approach to The Times Good University Guide; 5th in The archaeology has a vibrant interdisciplinary feel and we offer a fully integrated programme of Complete University Guide Combined Honours degrees as well as Single Honours programmes. The department has Top 10 for Overall Satisfactionp in the National a relaxed and friendly atmosphere and you’ll benefit from small-group teaching, excellent Student Survey (2011) modern infrastructure and plenty of contact with staff. Our active research has contributed 2nd in the UK for world leading andt internationally to our international standing; we were ranked 2nd in the UK for world leading and excellent research in Archaeology internationally excellent research in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. This benefits Top 10 for graduate levelv employment and you directly in a wide range of modules where you will be able to share our enthusiasm and postgraduate study rates involvement in the archaeology of many periods and places. It also affords numerous Substantial practical and field work experience opportunities get personally involved in research and to experience the thrills of Opportunities for professional placements and archaeological discovery. study abroad We have research links and field projects in the UK and Europe (Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Poland, Romania and Russia), as well Degrees in Exeter as across the wider world (Egypt, Kazakhstan, BA Single Honours India, Tropical and Andean South America Archaeology and the USA). BSc Single Honours Archaeology with Forensic Science Learning and Teaching Our teaching is carried out through a range BA Combined Honours of lectures, seminars, tutorials, field visits Archaeology and Anthropology and practical sessions. Through activities Ancient History and Archaeology* such as group work and problem solving we *4-year programmes with European or International will help you develop the transferable skills Study or with Industrial Experience available that employers value. You’ll have a personal tutor who is available for advice and support Numbers throughout your studies. Entrants: 40 Applicants: 348 We have outstanding facilities including laboratories, state-of-the art equipment and Programme information extensive reference collections. Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)1392 722491/724350 Assessment www.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology You must pass your first year assessment in order to progress to the second year, but A subject brochure is available which includes these results do not count towards your full programme and module details. degree classification. For three-year programmes, the assessments in the second and third years contribute to your final degree classification. For four-year programmes the assessments in the second, third and fourth years all count. Assessment includes exams pbased  on the percentage of positive responses for full and assessed coursework, including essays, service universities tRAE 2008 based on the percentage of research projects and practical assignments. Formal categorised as 4* or 3* exams contribute about 40 per cent of your vbased on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first degree graduates in Archaeology with a known career or study overall assessment. destination (HESA 2009/10) 62 Archaeology

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Careers BSc Archaeology with placement or a choice of a module in another Our programmes are designed to develop Forensic Science discipline (eg, Criminology). Your dissertation topic may either be on archaeology or forensic your skills of analysis, assessment and LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) interpretation as well as the production of This programme allows you to combine the archaeology. written and oral reports. The broad-based study of two exciting, scientifically related, nature of the subject and of the skills it disciplines that share many techniques of Combined Honours Degrees provides give a strong grounding for a wide analysis. Both focus on uncovering details of BA Archaeology range of careers, not only those related to past events (particularly death and burial) and Anthropology archaeology but also in much wider fields and will develop your problem-solving skills LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) ranging from teaching to business. You can and boost your employability. This degree Archaeology and Anthropology are two boost your employability by taking up the will provide you with a sound knowledge closely linked subjects and this Combined opportunity of a professional placement, methods in forensic archaeology and Honours degree gives you the opportunity and many of our students go on to further anthropology (including human remains) to study the considerable common ground postgraduate study. Find out more at as well as techniques used in criminal cases. between them. Exploring people and society www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ Students benefit from input from professional in the past as well as the present, you will employability specialists and guest lecturers. engage with ethnographic studies of cultures Programme Details Year 1 Along with the general archaeological around the world. At Exeter you will have knowledge gained you will get an introduction the particular advantage of being able to Full details of these programmes, including to a selection of key scientific skills that are experience all three fields of Anthropology, information about the option modules, can useful to both archaeological and forensic comprising Archaeology, Social Anthropology, be found in our subject brochure and at sciences, and participate in a simulated crime and Physical Anthropology and the study of www.exeter.ac.uk/archaeology/ scene exercise. human remains. undergraduate/degrees Year 2 In addition to other archaeological BA Archaeology topics you will gain an introduction to the BA Ancient History LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) principles of the study of human remains. and Archaeology Our BA in Archaeology allows you to develop This year also introduces pathological and LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) in-depth knowledge about a range of periods anatomical variation applied to establishing Archaeology may also be studied with Ancient and places as well as the broad variety of human identity and the place of such History, which will allow you to develop your techniques and skills that archaeologists use to studies within the discipline of biological understanding of ancient cultures with a engage with the past. This includes the option anthropology. Your studies will also cover particular emphasis on Greece and Rome, and of undertaking a professional placement and aspects of forensic sciences such as ballistics, to explore the interface between archaeological studying for half a year abroad. DNA fingerprinting and drugs analysis and and textual approaches to the past. For details includes sessions by experts involved in the of Ancient History, please refer to the Classics Year 1 In your first year, the modules you criminal justice system. and Ancient History entry. take will give you a solid grounding in the techniques of archaeology and the key topics Year 3 In Year 3 you will study the complexity Flexible Combined Honours and variability of funerary treatment and that archaeologists study in all periods, from LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) rituals through a series of lectures based upon prehistory to the Middle Ages and beyond. Archaeology may also be studied under a chronological development in Europe and the Flexible Combined Honours scheme Year 2 During the second year you’ll take the Near East from the Middle Palaeolithic (see page 98). one of the field work modules then choose to the medieval period. You will also choose from a wide variety of options, including options, which may include a professional topics grounded in the sciences as well as the humanities, giving you the flexibility to tailor ARCHAEOLOGY ENTRY DATA your degree to your interests and ambitions. DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER Year 3 The only compulsory module in the BA Single Honours third year is the Dissertation which many Archaeology V400 3 yrs AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 students find the most rewarding part of their degree. It gives you the chance to carry BSc Single Honours out independent research in an area of most Archaeology with Forensic Science AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 F490 3 yrs interest to you. You will also choose optional modules which may include a work placement. BA Combined Honours Archaeology and Anthropology AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 VL46 3 yrs Ancient History and Archaeology See Classics and Ancient History V VC4 3 yrs (VV1K 4yrsÌ)

International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international ÌFor details about study abroad please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/archaeology/combined/entry Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications Art History and Visual Culture 63 Art History and Visual Culture

Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter is an exciting area of study which explores both the history of art Wide variety of techniques and approaches to as well as more recent ideas of the visual – extending the analysis of visual forms from learning, including opportunities for study ‘in the the traditional right through to areas of modern cultural activity. The degree offers field’ at galleries and museums a thorough grounding in the principles and history of art, fostering awareness of the Internationally-recognised fine art, heritage and classificatory procedures by which painting, sculpture and architecture can be considered film collections on site in relation to their cultural and historical contexts. It also develops the skills required Opportunity to study abroad in the analysis of visual works, promoting an understanding of the idea of visual culture Varied programme allowing the study of a range and its implications for understanding cultural activity more broadly. of fine arts and contemporary visual forms Our Art History and Visual Culture Flexibility to customise your degree around your programme builds on the University of Exeter’s strong links in these areas, and our own interests internationally-recognised buildings, artworks and collections. These include fine art and Designed to develop a broad range of highly heritage collections, a sculpture walk and one of Britain’s largest public collections of books, desirable transferable skills, but with specialist prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory of cinema. knowledge and professional experience Learning and Teaching You will be taught by internationally respected Degrees in Exeter research-active staff. We use a wide variety of BA Single Honours techniques and approaches to help you learn Art History and Visual Culture* and get the most out of your degree. Our BA Combined Honours teaching methods make full use of seminars, Drama and Visual Culture* lectures, study groups and web-based learning, English and Visual Culture* along with relevant work ‘in the field’ at History and Visual Culture* galleries and museums, and through our art Modern Languages and Visual Culture galleries and collections on site. We integrate the latest approaches with traditional *4-year programmes with Study Abroad available learning and teaching to give you a varied and Numbers challenging programme. During core modules New programmes so figures for you will learn through individual practical and 2013 not available curatorial work, project work, team work and a research project, all of which are designed to Programme information help you develop key skills for success through Email: [email protected] your degree and into your future career. Phone: +44 (0)1392 724202 www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/ Study Abroad visualculture As part of our Art History and Visual Culture degree you may study for either a full year or A subject brochure is available which includes half a year at one of our partner institutions full programme and module details. across the world. Full details of these schemes and of our partner institutions can be found on the Study Abroad page at www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/ undergraduate/studyabroad 64 Art History and Visual Culture

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Assessment you can choose to study art and material To tie together these options, you will also You will be assessed in all years through culture in ancient societies or focus on visual study one further core module: New and Old a variety of assessment methods. These culture within a specific society or time period Art Histories. right up to the present day. In addition, you’ll could include coursework, practical work, Year 3 In the final year of your degree, you also have the opportunity to spend either a exams, written reports or presentations will have the opportunity to focus your full year or half a year studying at one of our amongst others. You must pass your first year studies on particular areas of individual international partner institutions. assessment in order to progress to the second interest. The year provides a further range of year, but the results do not count towards Year 1 Four core modules will offer you a methodological and period-based options, your degree classification. solid foundation in the methodologies and such as: Museological and Curatorial Studies; skills involved in Art History and Visual Art in Ancient Society; Visual Art, Gender Careers Culture: Introductions to the History of Art; and Sexuality since 1960; Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture produces Introductions to Art Theory; Introducing French Visual Culture; Intermedia; Images students with a broad range of highly desirable Visual Cultures; and Visual Methodologies. of Total War; Theology, Art and Politics; Arts transferable skills, but also with attractive Management; and History in Material Form: It is possible to take modules outside of Art specialist knowledge and professional Exhibitions in Germany and Austria Today. experience. You will benefit from productive History and Visual Culture, instead of one of engagement with collections, institutions the above modules. You can choose from a You will also produce a dedicated dissertation and art groups in the area, in tandem with range of modules offered within the College in the areas of Art History and/or Visual interaction with the wider arts community in of Humanities, according to your particular Culture, giving you a chance to get into a the South West and beyond. interests. These might include: Approaches to favourite subject in real depth. Criticism; History Foundation; Understanding You will be able to use the skills you develop the Medieval and Early-Modern World; or Combined Honours Degrees in a range of sectors, including heritage Understanding the Modern World. LOCATION: STREATHAM CAMPUS (EXETER) management; museums/galleries; arts Year 2 In this year you will build on your Visual Culture can also be studied with Drama, administration; consultancy; market research; English, History or Modern Languages. For civil service; teaching; new media industries; learning and skills developed in the previous year through a range of option choice. details of these programmes please see the journalism and publishing; research; charities; relevant subject entry. advertising and public relations. These can include: Critical Readings in Art History; Art and the City; Video-Installation- Visual Culture may also be studied under Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ Performance; Spectacular Attractions: Cinema the Flexible Combined Honours scheme employability/prospective and Sensation; a field work module, or the (see page 98). career-focused Humanities in the Workplace. Programme Details Full details can be found in our subject ART HISTORY AND VISUAL CULTURE ENTRY DATA brochure and at www.exeter.ac.uk/ DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER humanities/visualculture BA Single Honours Art History and Visual Culture AAA-AAB; IB:36-34 BA Art History and VW31 3 yrs Visual Culture BA Combined Honours LOCATION: STREATHAM CAMPUS (EXETER) Drama and Visual Culture See Drama Art History and Visual Culture provides an WW42 3 yrs (WW24 4 yrs) excellent grounding in both traditional fine English and Visual Culture See English arts and contemporary visual forms. Through WQ23 3 yrs (WQF3 4 yrs) the flexible structure of the degree, you will study painting, sculpture, illustration History and Visual Culture See History WV21 3 yrs (WV12 4 yrs) and architecture alongside film, video, performance, and digital art. First year Modern Languages See Modern Languages modules introduce you to the breadth of and Visual Culture the concerns of both Art History and Visual WR29 4 yrs Culture, to historical contexts and analytical International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at methods, while also encouraging you to think www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international about how these methodologies and contexts Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. change the way we think about art. During For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications your second and third years you will be able to follow your own personal interests through a wide range of optional modules. For instance, Biosciences 65

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Biosciences at the University of Exeter is a rapidly expanding centre for the teaching of, and research into, biological sciences. As 7th in the UK for Biology in The Sunday a student of Biosciences you will be taught by academics who are international research Times University Guide 2012 leaders in cutting-edge subjects across the whole spectrum of biology; ranging from 8th for Biology in the National Student Survey evolution, conservation and ecology, through p whole organism biology and microbiology, to (2011) molecular and cellular biology, computational biology and biological chemistry. Broad-based and specialist degrees Our facilities are excellent with state-of-the-art State-of-the-art learning facilities teaching laboratories in Exeter and Cornwall, including next-generation DNA sequencing Learn with internationally leading researchers and proteomics facilities and an advanced bioimaging suite in Exeter. The University’s Undertake challenging independent research £30 million Environment and Sustainability Institute on the Cornwall Campus is leading All final year modules are based on the current cutting-edge interdisciplinary research into solutions to problems of environmental research of our academics change. In so doing it will enhance lives by improving people’s relationships with the Dedicated career management environment. Our location in the South West of England Field study opportunities in the UK and overseas provides an added bonus offering superb Opportunities to study abroad for a year locations for field studies. Careers A degree in Biosciences will help you to Degrees in Exeter Degrees in cornwall develop a wide range of key skills for employment and further study such as BSc Single Honours BA Single Honours analytical problem solving, teamwork and Biological Sciences* Animal Behaviour* organising and communicating information. Biochemistry* Conservation Biology and Ecology* Our graduates are employed in a wide variety Biochemistry with Industrial Experience Evolutionary Biology* of related roles in the UK and overseas Biological and Medicinal Chemistry* Zoology* including laboratory-based positions, the Biological and Medicinal Chemistry pharmaceutical industry, conservation Numbers with Industrial Experience management, ecology, medicine and nursing, Entrants: 136 and veterinary science. Others use the skills Numbers Applicants: 767 gained during their studies to enter widely Entrants: 178 Programme information different career paths in law, business or Applicants: 1,151 Email: [email protected] management. Many of our students continue their interest in the subject by following a Programme information Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 postgraduate degree and research in their Email: [email protected] www.exeter.ac.uk/biosciences chosen area or by training as a teacher. Find Phone: +44 (0)1392 723788 out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/biosciences/ www.exeter.ac.uk/biosciences undergraduate/careers

*4-year programmes with Study Abroad available Study Abroad All our Single Honours degrees have four- A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details. year variations ‘With Study Abroad’ that give You may also be interested in you the opportunity to spend your third year Clinical Science (see page 75) studying at a university overseas. We have Environmental Science (see page 94) partner institutions in Europe, North America and the Pacific Rim. For further information, Human Biosciences (see page 148) see www.exeter.ac.uk/biosciences/ Natural Sciences (see page 130) undergraduate/studyabroad pbased  on the average percentage of positive responses across all survey categories for full service universities 66 Biosciences

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Biosciences: Programmes in Cornwall BSc Conservation Biology Cornwall Campus Full details can be found in our subject and Ecology Some of the world’s foremost biologists brochure and at www.exeter.ac.uk/ LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS working in evolution, behaviour, ecology biosciences/undergraduate This degree programme offers you more direct and conservation teach our degrees at the field experience than any other Ecology degree Cornwall Campus. These research-active staff, BSc Animal Behaviour in the UK, in locations from Cornwall to based within our Centre for Ecology and LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS Africa*. The programme will provide you with Conservation, cover a range of specialisms This programme encompasses all aspects the knowledge and skills that are essential for from conservation of sea turtles and birds, of behaviour in wild, domestic and captive working conservationists and ecologists. You through evolutionary biology, genetics, animals. Animal behaviour aims to understand will learn about the science of conservation molecular ecology, to behavioural and the how and why of natural behaviour, how and ecology and gain essential skills, including population ecology. The team prides itself behaviour varies among individuals, species wildlife identification and data handling. on undertaking cutting-edge teaching and and species groups, how current and past Year 1 Introduction to Evolution and research designed to address the factors that environments and ecology influence Behavioural Ecology; Laboratory Techniques influence biodiversity and complexity in the behaviour and the underlying gene- in Zoology, Evolution and Animal Behaviour; natural world. environment interactions. Physiology; Genetics; Introduction to Learning and Teaching The programme highlights the value of Invertebrate Zoology; Introduction to studying animals in their natural habitats, Vertebrate Zoology; Key Skills in Ecology At our Cornwall Campus you will be welcomed utilising the expertise of staff members who and Evolution; optional modules. into an interactive, dynamic and intimate run long-term studies of iconic species in the environment in which to share enthusiasm Year 2 Biodiversity and Conservation; wild. This approach is underpinned by field and passion for the specialisms covered. Population and Community Ecology; Analysis courses in years 2 and 3. Throughout the Teaching and learning is through lectures, of Biological Data; Critical Thinking and programme an interdisciplinary approach is seminars, tutorials, field work, laboratory Scientific Reasoning; Practical Skills in Ecology encouraged and you will be exposed to a wide sessions and independent study. Field work or Behaviour and Biodiversity Field Course; range of theoretical and practical techniques is an essential aspect of our programmes and optional modules. used to study animal behaviour. varies from one day field trips in Cornwall to a Year 3 Research Project; Field Course (Africa, two-week field course to South Africa, Borneo Year 1 Introduction to Evolution and Bahamas, Borneo or Spain*); optional modules or the Bahamas.* Behavioural Ecology; Laboratory Techniques including Trends in Ecology and Evolution; in Zoology, Evolution and Animal Behaviour; You will have the opportunity to undertake Marine Vertebrate Conservation; and Animal Physiology; Genetics; Introduction to challenging independent research projects Life History, Diversity and Conservation. Invertebrate Zoology; Key Skills in Ecology dealing with questions and issues at the and Evolution; optional modules. cutting edge of research in conservation, ecology and related fields. Our academics have Year 2 Analysis of Biological Data; Animal close links with a wide range of conservation Behaviour; Behaviour and Biodiversity Field and environmental organisations, with whom Course; Behavioural Ecology; Critical Thinking there may be the chance to collaborate for and Scientific Reasoning; optional modules. your third year research project. Many of our students also work with these organisations Year 3 Research Project; Field Course (Africa, during their vacations. Bahamas, Borneo or Spain*); optional modules including The Biology of Mammals; Nature *Field course destinations may be subject to change. Versus Nurture; and Wildlife Forensics.

It’s amazing in the Biosciences department, being taught by professors who lead their field. The field trips are unique; I’ve been all around Cornwall and to Scotland, Cyprus and South Africa, learning about natural history and animal behaviour. However, the best bit is that the lecturers are so friendly. They get to know you, which means that teaching is a lot more fun. And they care about your prospects: two employability series are being run and this, coupled with the Exeter Award, has given me a great chance in the job market.

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BSc Evolutionary Biology Biosciences: Our academics have close links with a wide LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS Streatham Campus range of industrial, medical and conservation organisations, with whom there may be the Evolutionary Biology is a fast growing area Choosing a Biosciences degree at our chance to collaborate for your third-year of study, utilising ever-more sophisticated Streatham Campus will lead you into a research project. Many of our students technology to unravel the history of life on community of world-leading scientists, also work with these organisations during earth. You will utilise our cutting edge facilities whose enthusiasm for research is matched their vacations. Our four year programmes to develop advanced knowledge in this rapidly by their passion for teaching. We are one with industrial experience build upon developing field. of only a handful of departments in the UK these relationships, enabling you to gain who can offer both breadth and depth in all Year 1 Introduction to Evolution and valuable paid experience in the chemical, aspects of biology, covering ecology, whole Behavioural Ecology; Laboratory Techniques pharmaceutical or biotechnology sectors. organism biology, microbiology, cell biology, in Zoology, Evolution and Animal Behaviour; Previous students have had placements biochemistry and computational biology. Physiology; Genetics; Introduction to with organisations such as Shell, Cefas and Our relationships with other disciplines at Invertebrate Zoology; Introduction to GlaxoSmithKline. Vertebrate Zoology; Key Skills in Ecology and the University including Psychology, Sports Evolution; optional modules. and Health Sciences, Physics, Engineering and Mathematics, and the Peninsula Medical Programmes in Exeter Year 2 Evolutionary Genetics; Critical School, ensure you will receive the highest Full details can be found in our subject Thinking and Scientific Reasoning; Behavioural quality teaching in a truly interdisciplinary brochure and at www.exeter.ac.uk/ Ecology; Evolutionary Ecology; Analysis of environment. It also means you can choose biosciences/undergraduate Biological Data; Behaviour and Biodiversity either a broad and personally tailored Field Course; optional modules. Biological Sciences degree, with the BSc Biological Sciences opportunity to specialise in your final year, or Year 3 Research Project; Field Course (Africa LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) a more focused degree such as Biochemistry Bahamas, Borneo or Spain*); optional modules This is our most popular and flexible degree or Biological and Medicinal Chemistry. including Nature Versus Nurture; Applied programme, which gives you the option to These latter programmes also have four year Entomology; and Mating Systems Biology. design either a bespoke, broad-based biology versions with the chance to undertake a year’s degree or a more focused degree specialising in placement in the biological or pharmaceutical BSc Zoology animal systems, microbiology and infectious industry. For students wishing to experience disease, or molecular and cellular biology. LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS higher education in a different culture, all our Building on the diverse zoological expertise These specialisms allow you to graduate with programmes have the option to spend a year your chosen specialism named as part of of our staff and the unique habitats and studying abroad. wildlife of Cornwall, our Zoology degree gives the degree title, eg, BSc Biological Sciences you a deep understanding of animal biology Learning and Teaching (Animal Systems). Our optional residential and is also suitable for students seeking to field courses are held during the summer At the Streatham Campus you will be pursue careers in both human and veterinary vacation in the UK and abroad. welcomed into a friendly and supportive medicine. scientific environment. Our relationship Year 1 Fundamental Skills for Biosciences; Year 1 Introduction to Zoology; Genetics; with our students is one of partnership; Biochemistry; Genetics; Microbiology and Microbiology and Cell Biology; Animal and engagement and enthusiasm from both staff Cell Biology; Diversity of Animals, Plants Plant Physiology; Key Skills in Ecology and and students results in the best possible and Protists; Animal and Plant Physiology; Evolution; Laboratory Techniques in Zoology, undergraduate experience. Teaching and Introduction to Ecology; option of Evolution and Animal Behaviour; optional learning is through a combination of lectures, Introduction to Biotechnology or Structure modules. seminars, online, field work, laboratory and Reactivity of Organic Compounds. sessions and independent study. From day Year 2 Research Skills and Bioethics plus Year 2.Wildlife Disease; Functional Animal one, you will be exposed to our top researchers Ecology; Critical Thinking and Scientific seven options from a choice spanning the during academic tutorial sessions and large range of biology, including field courses in the Reasoning; Analysis of Biological Data; group lectures. By the time you enter your Behaviour and Biodiversity Field Course; UK and abroad and subjects including forensic final year, your learning will predominantly science and human molecular biology. optional modules. consist of small, focused sessions, based Year 3 Research Project; Field Course (Africa around the research interests of our staff. You Year 3 Independent Research Project or Bahamas, Borneo or Spain*); optional modules will also have the opportunity to undertake Dissertation plus five options covering including The Biology of Mammals; Mating a challenging independent research project subjects such as the ecology of environmental Systems Biology; and Animal Life History, dealing with questions and issues at the change, cell cycle and cancer, evolution of Diversity and Conservation. cutting edge of life science research. infectious diseases, and ecotoxicology.

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BSc Biochemistry BSc Biological and (also available with Industrial Experience) Medicinal Chemistry LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) (also available with Industrial Experience) This degree programme is aimed at LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) understanding biological systems at a This interdisciplinary degree shows how cellular and biochemical level. After a broad fundamental aspects of biology and chemistry foundation first year, this programme are applied in the field of medical science. You emphasises cellular biochemistry, providing can study a broad medicinal chemistry degree specialist modules covering key topics aimed or one that focuses on an understanding of at understanding why the cell is the functional molecular biology and biochemistry. The four unit of life. The four year version includes a year version includes a year working on a year working on a research project in industry. research project in industry. Year 1 Fundamental Skills for Biosciences; Year 1 Fundamental Skills for Biosciences; Biochemistry; Genetics; Microbiology and Biochemistry; Genetics; Microbiology and Cell Biology; Introduction to Biotechnology; Cell Biology; Introduction to Biotechnology; Structure and Reactivity of Organic Structure and Reactivity of Organic Compounds 1; Essential Elements of Life. Compounds 1; Essential Elements of Life; Physical Chemistry for the Life Sciences. Year 2 Research Skills and Bioethics; Genomics and Biotechnology; Analysis of Year 2 Research Skills and Bioethics; Structure Biological Macromolecules; Metabolism; and Reactivity of Organic Compounds 2; Structure and Reactivity of Organic Medical and General Microbiology; Genomics Compounds 2; Advanced Cell Biology. and Biotechnology; Analysis of Biological Macromolecules; Metabolism; Elements of Year 3 (4) Dissertation/Research Project; Frontiers in Cell Biology plus optional modules Chemistry in Biological Systems. including Specialist Topics in Chemical Year 3 (4) Independent Research Project or Sciences; Molecular Basis of Infection; Dissertation; Organic Synthesis; Pharmacology Secondary Metabolism and Metabolites; and Medicinal Chemistry; Secondary Science Communication. Metabolism and Metabolites. Flexible Combined Honours LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Biological Sciences: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biochemistry or Chemistry may also be studied under the Flexible Combined Honours scheme (see page 98).

It’s vital to stand out from your peers and opportunities such as a year in industry and the Exeter Award can really help you to do so. I found my time at Exeter so welcoming and fulfilling and I will be sad to say goodbye when I leave.

RUTH ROWLAND-JONES, BSC BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY WITH INDUSTRIAL PLACEMENT

The variety of modules in biology encourages interest and personal development, allowing you to discover what your strengths are and keeps you excited by your degree.

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BIOSCIENCES ENTRY DATA Unless otherwise stated, all programmes require GCE AL Biology or IB Biology HL5, GCSE Maths at grade B and either GCSE Double Award Science or GCSE Chemistry at grade C, in addition to any requirements listed below.

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BSc Single Honours Animal Behaviour GCE AL science subject, Biology or AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 D391 3 yrs Psychology preferred; GCSE Maths at grade B if GCE AL/AS is not offered. IB science HL5 Animal Behaviour with Study Abroad GCE AL science subject, Biology or AAA-AAB IB: 36-34 D392 4 yrs Psychology preferred; GCSE Maths at grade B if GCE AL/AS is not offered. IB science HL5 Conservation Biology and Ecology plus preferably another AL science subject AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 C190 3 yrs Conservation Biology and Ecology plus preferably another AL science subject AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 with Study Abroad C150 4 yrs Evolutionary Biology plus preferably another AL science subject AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 C182 3 yrs Evolutionary Biology with plus preferably another AL science subject AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 Study Abroad C183 4 yrs Zoology plus preferably another AL science subject AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 C300 3 yrs Zoology with Study Abroad plus preferably another AL science subject AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 C301 4 yrs

BSc Single Honours Biological Sciences plus preferably another AL science subject AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 C100 3 yrs Biological Sciences with plus preferably another AL science subject AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 Study Abroad C000 4 yrs Biochemistry plus GCE AL Chemistry; IB Chemistry HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 C724 3 yrs Biochemistry with plus GCE AL Chemistry; IB Chemistry HL5 AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 Study Abroad C732 4 yrs Biochemistry with plus GCE AL Chemistry; IB Chemistry HL5 AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 Industrial Experience C7374 yrs Biological and Medicinal Chemistry plus GCE AL Chemistry; IB Chemistry HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 CF71 3 yrs

Biological and Medicinal Chemistry plus GCE AL Chemistry; IB Chemistry HL5 AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 with Study Abroad CF7C 4 yrs Biological and Medicinal Chemistry plus GCE AL Chemistry; IB Chemistry HL5 AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 with Industrial Experience FC17 4 yrs

GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements. 70 Business, Management and Leadership Business, Management and Leadership

Our degrees in Business, Management and Leadership provide a stimulating introduction to the broad range of academic studies 3rd in the UK for attracting the most gifted that inform management studies. They are designed to equip you for a management AAB+ students career in industry, commerce or the public sector. You will gain a detailed understanding 3rd for Business and 4th for Managementp in the of the functional areas of business and the relationship of management theories and National Student Survey (2011) practice to them. An important and attractive feature of these programmes is the option of 10th for Business Studies in The Times Good a final-year business project which allows you to apply your theoretical knowledge and skills University Guide 2012 to problems in the local or wider business community. There is no requirement for you Study or work abroad or gain industrial experience to have studied business before coming to us, as we will not assume any prior knowledge of Opportunities to participate in a programme of the subject. employability events Learning and Teaching You will learn through tutorials and seminars, Strong links with professional firms and institutes where you will discuss topics and learn to make presentations, as well as in conventional Guest lectures from distinguished practitioners lectures. Communication and team-working skills are emphasised. You’ll have a Personal from a variety of sectors and management Tutor who is available for advice and support disciplines throughout your studies. Assessment Opportunities to engage with the business Modules are normally assessed either by exam alone or by a mix of assessed work community and written exams. Assessed work includes essays, case studies, projects, group work Inclusive and supportive learning environment and presentations. You will have to pass the assessments in your first year to proceed to the second year but they do not count towards Degrees in Exeter your final degree classification. BA Single Honours Programme information Business and Management* Email: [email protected] Work Placement Opportunities Management with Leadership* Phone: +44 (0)1392 723200 All Business, Management and Leadership Management with Marketing* www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school programmes can include a one year placement in business or industry in your third year Management with Tourism* A subject brochure for the Business School BSc Single Honours and be awarded ‘with Industrial Experience’. is available. You then return to Exeter for the final year IT Management for Business* You may also be interested in: of your degree. You may apply for direct *4-year programmes with European or International Accounting and Finance (see page 56) entry to the four-year programmes or Study or with Industrial Experience available. BSc IT apply to transfer by the second term of Management for Business is only available with Economics (see page 82) your first year. Full details can be found by Industrial Experience. Mathematics (see page 116) following the link to Employability at Numbers www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school/ Entrants: 127 undergraduate Applicants: 1,160

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Study Abroad Year 1 Economics for Business; Accounting I Year 1 Accounting I; Microeconomics for All Business, Management and Leadership and II; Introduction to Business Information Business; Marketing and Society; Theory and programmes (with the exception of BSc IT Systems; Statistics for Business and Practice of Management; options. Management; Theory and Practice of Management for Business) can include a year Year 2 Organisational Behaviour and Human Management; options. of study in Europe or further afield including Resource Management; Consumer Behaviour; Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Year 2 Organisational Behaviour and Principles of Marketing; options. USA or Canada and be awarded ‘with European Human Resource Management; Consumer Year 3 Strategic Management; Consumer Study’ or ‘with International Study’. In your Behaviour; Managerial Accounting; Operations Research; Services Marketing; options. third year you will study, or combine study Management; Principles of Marketing; with a work placement while abroad. You then options. return to Exeter for the final year of your BA Management with Tourism degree. You may apply for direct entry to the Year 3 Strategic Management; Finance for LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) four-year programmes or apply to transfer Managers or Financial Management; options. In this degree, you will study organisations, at the end of the first year of a three-year their management and the changing external programme. Full details can be found by BA Management environment in which they operate, together following the link to Study Abroad at with Leadership with the theory and practice of tourism. www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school/ LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) You will prepare for a career in business undergraduate In this degree, you will study organisations, and management, with an emphasis on their management and the changing vocationally relevant management skills and Careers external environment in which they operate, knowledge pertaining to the tourism sector. The Business School has a dedicated together with the theory and practice of Year 1 Economics for Business; Accounting Employability Team, whose focus from leadership. It will prepare you for a career I; Business and Tourism; Introduction to day one of your first year is to work on in business and management by giving you Tourism; Theory of Management; options. promoting and enhancing your employability. a detailed understanding of the functional A degree in a business-related subject will areas of business and how they interact Year 2 Organisational Behaviour and Human help you to develop a wide range of essential with management theories and practice. Resource Management; Consumer Behaviour; skills such as analytical problem solving, In addition, you will develop a crucial International Tourism Management; teamworking, research, and organising and understanding of the way that leaders Managing the Tourism Environment; communicating information. The majority of influence and contribute to the success Principles of Marketing; options. graduates from the Business School follow of organisations in both the private and Year 3 Strategic Management; Tourism their degree with a career in finance, banking public sector. Research Dissertation; Tourism Research or management both in the commercial and Economics for Business; Accounting Methods and Techniques; options. public sectors. A large number of graduate Year 1 I; Introduction to Leadership Studies; recruiters in these sectors visit Exeter to Leadership and Teams; Theory and Practice recruit our students. Some of our graduates of Management; options. pursue their interest in their studies to a greater depth by taking a postgraduate Year 2 Organisational Behaviour and Human degree, often here at Exeter. Find out more Resource Management; Consumer Behaviour; at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ Foundations of Leadership; Leadership in employability Action: Deciding and Doing; Principles of Marketing; options. Programme Details Strategic Management; Contemporary Full details of these programmes, including Year 3 Leadership Issues; Exploring Leadership: information about the available option Critical Inquiry; options. modules for each programme can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school/ undergraduate BA Management BA Business and Management with Marketing LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Key to finding out what customers want or You will study organisations, their need is to understand how they behave, and management and the changing external this programme has a strong emphasis on environment in which they operate. This understanding consumers. The marketing degree will prepare you for a career in elements of this programme will introduce business and management by giving you a you to the basic principles that deliver good detailed understanding of the functional marketing practice. You will learn about areas of business and how they interact with consumers, how they behave and how to management theories and practice. ascertain their wants and needs. You will also learn the role of markets and marketing in today’s society. 72 Business, Management and Leadership

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BSc IT Management BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP ENTRY DATA for Business DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) BA Single Honours This programme is an initiative of the e-skills Business and Management GCSE Maths minimum grade B or GCE AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 council of the UK (www.e-skills.com) aiming N202 3 yrs (N203 European 4 yrs; NN1F AL/AS MathsÌ; GCSE English Language to provide training for IT managers working in International 4 yrs; NN12 Industry 4 yrs) minimum grade B business. It is designed to give you the ability Management with Leadership N2X9 3 yrs (N290 European 4 yrs; N291 to apply IT to business situations, evaluate International 4 yrs; N2XX Industry 4 yrs) technical knowledge and confidently take on Management with Marketing project and team management in IT-related N2N5 3 yrs (N2NM European 4 yrs; N2NA business scenarios. International 4 yrs; N2NN Industry 4 yrs) Management with Tourism Year 1 Accounting I; Elements of Computing; N2N8 3 yrs (N2NV European 4 yrs; N2NB Object-Orientated Programming; Introduction International 4 yrs; N2NW Industry 4 yrs) to Business Information Systems; BSc Single Honours Programming for Business; Social and IT Management for Business GCE AL MathsÌ, IT or science preferred*; AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 Professional Issues of the Information Age; GN52 3 yrs (GN5G Industry 4 yrs) IB Maths, IT or science HL5; GCSE Maths Theory and Practice of Management; option. minimum grade B, but preference is given to students offering grade A. GCE AL/ Year 2 Organisational Behaviour and Human AS Maths may be accepted in lieu of this Resource Management; Software Engineering; requirement Software Development; Information Systems; Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information on Additional Selection Criteria at IT Management and Professional Skills; www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/business Principles of Marketing; options. ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer GCE AL/AS Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. GCE AL/AS science includes: Applied Science; Biology; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; Year 3 ITMB Individual Project; Enterprise Physics; Science. Computing; Management of Information *Applicants without one of these A levels must demonstrate an interest or aptitude for programming as part of Systems; options. their application. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Flexible Combined Honours Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other Management may also be studied under types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications the Flexible Combined Honours scheme (see page 98).

After studying science at school I decided I wanted to switch to a business course for university. The BA Management programme at Exeter is rated highly by past alumni around the world and the added incentive of studying Leadership got my attention. Now I’m here I like the practical approach in tutorials, which makes learning theories a lot easier and fun.

ABHYUDAY PURKAYASTHA, BA MANAGEMENT WITH LEADERSHIP Classics and Ancient History 73

Classics and Ancient History

Classics is the traditional name for the study of Latin, Greek and Ancient History – the language, literature and society of the Greco- Top 10 for Classics in The Times, The Guardian and Roman world. You will explore two cultures, which though remote from us in time, are one p The Complete University guides 2012 of the main formative influences on Western civilisation. At Exeter you will engage with 3rd in the UK for world leading research some of the most exciting and innovative ideas and approaches in the subject today. 7th for graduate level employment and t Our degree programmes cover a broad base postgraduate study rates through the study of two civilisations which are of immense importance in world-history Study the ancient world in the context of and this helps us to understand our own culture. We also offer in-depth study through contemporary culture the close analysis of a wide range of sources, and in all Single Honours degree programmes, Wide chronological, geographical and through the study of an ancient language for at least one year. methodological variety in academic expertise We have an excellent reputation in both teaching and research and you will join a Innovative approaches to teaching and the ancient friendly department with a flourishing student Classics Society which runs a lively world social programme. No previous study of Latin or Greek needed for Learning and Teaching Our teaching methods make full use of Classical Studies or Ancient History seminars, study groups and web-based learning. We integrate the latest approaches with traditional lectures to give you a varied Degrees in EXETER and challenging programme. In the first two years the teaching is via both formal lectures BA Single Honours Numbers and discussion-based seminar groups. All Ancient History* Entrants: 78 third-year teaching is through discussion- Classical Studies* Applicants: 661 based seminar groups. Classics* Programme information BA Combined Honours Email: [email protected] Assessment Ancient History and Archaeology* Phone: +44 (0)1392 724202 Assessment in all three years is by coursework Classical Studies and English, a Modern and exams. You must pass your first year www.exeter.ac.uk/classics Language, Philosophy* or Theology* modules in order to proceed, but your French and Latin A subject brochure is available which includes performance at this level does not count History and Ancient History* full programme and module details. towards your final degree classification. *4-year programme with Study Abroad available Study Abroad If you take Classical Studies with a Modern Language you will normally spend your third year abroad; for details please see Modern Languages. For our other degrees you may study for half a year at a partner institution in Europe, North America or Australia or follow a four-year ‘with Study Abroad’ programme which allows you to spend your third year abroad. Full details of these schemes, and of our partner institutions, can be found on our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/ undergraduate/studyabroad pRAE 2008 based on percentage of research categorised as 4* tbased on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first degree graduates in Classics with a known career or study destination (HESA 2009/10) 74 Classics and Ancient History

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Careers Latin and the societies of Greece and Rome. approaches to the ancient world available A degree in Classics and Ancient History A ‘fast-track’ module is available to facilitate today. accelerated learning of Greek in the first year. provides you with an excellent range of Years 1 and 2 You will study Greek and skills such as logical thinking, the ability to Year 3 You will study two literary genres Roman literature, history and culture from interpret, assess and evaluate information, in depth (choosing, for example, from translated texts. You will also study either and strong presentation and communication Greek Tragedy, Hellenistic Poetry and Latin Greek or Latin language for two years and can skills. For our graduates, our degrees Hexameter Verse), take a module which choose to continue this language study in Year open up an exciting range of options for integrates translation and literary criticism, 3. A ‘fast-track’ module is available in Greek. postgraduate study and for employment and choose one further module from a wide Year 3 You will study a central period in the both in subject-related career paths such as range of options; a dissertation may be literary and political history of Greece or heritage management, museum work and substituted for this optional module. teaching, and diverse areas such as the Civil Rome, and choose three options from a wide variety of modules; a dissertation may be Service, business, politics, management and BA Classical Studies the arts. Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ substituted for one of the options. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) undergraduate/employability Classical Studies offers access to the culture Combined Honours Degrees and thought of the ancient world through LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Programme Details its literature and artefacts. Many of the texts Ancient History may be studied with Full details of these programmes, including are taught in translation, but you’ll also Archaeology or History. Classical Studies may information about the available option learn one of the classical languages in detail be studied with English, French, German, modules, can be found in our subject brochure for two years. The programme combines the Italian, Russian or Spanish, as well as with or at www.exeter.ac.uk/classics traditional virtues of rigorous attention to Philosophy or Theology. the nuances and subtleties of language with Classics and Ancient History may also be BA Ancient History some of the most exciting and innovative LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) studied under the Flexible Combined Honours Our Ancient History programme offers the scheme (see page 98). opportunity to develop an understanding of CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY ENTRY DATA the history, societies and political ideas of the DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER ancient Greek and Roman civilizations that is both in-depth and wide-ranging. BA Single Honours Ancient History V110 3 yrs (V112 4 yrs) AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 Years 1 and 2 Core modules will cover the Classical Studies Q801 3 yrs (Q802 4yrs) main issues of Greek and Roman history, the Classics GCE AL Latin or Greek; IB Latin or AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 societies and political ideas of the Greeks and V110 3 yrs (V112 4 yrs) Greek HL5 Romans and their ways of looking at their BA Combined Honours past. This involves a close study of original Ancient History and Archaeology AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 sources in translation. In Year 1 you will also V VC4 3 yrs (V V1K 4 yrs) study Latin or Greek language and you can Classical Studies and English GCE AL English Literature/English AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 choose to continue this language study in QQ3V 3 yrs Language and Literature grade A; IB Years 2 and 3. A ‘fast-track’ module is available English HL6 to facilitate accelerated learning of Greek in Classical Studies and French GCE AL French; IB French HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 the first year. QR8C 4 yrs Year 3 You will study a central period in the Classical Studies and German GCE AL German; IB German HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 literary and political history of Greece or Rome QR82 4 yrs and choose three options from a wide range of Classical Studies and Italian GCE AS in a modern foreign language AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 modules; a dissertation may be substituted for QR8H 4 yrs grade B; IB modern foreign language SL5 one of the options. Classical Studies and Russian QR87 4 yrs BA Classics Classical Studies and Spanish GCE AL in a modern foreign language; IB AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) QR84 4 yrs modern foreign language HL5 We offer an exciting programme that combines Classical Studies and Philosophy AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 the best traditional values of rigour and QVV5 3 yrs (QV8M 4yrs) attentiveness with the latest approaches to Classical Studies and Theology ancient literature. In this way, you acquire a QV85 3 yrs (QV86 4 yrs) number of skills that are transferable to many French and Latin QR61 4 yrs GCE AL French and Latin; IB French and AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 situations in life and employment. Latin HL5 See History Years 1 and 2 You will develop translation, History and Ancient History V111 3 yrs (V190 4 yrs) comprehension and critical skills through the study of set texts and translation from For details about study abroad please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/classics and into the classical languages. Modules in International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at literature, history and culture also give broader www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. perspectives. You’ll study both Greek and For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications Clinical Science 75

Clinical Science

This innovative Clinical Science degree programme aims to develop highly-skilled research scientists who are well positioned A unique degree, training future research scientists to help improve the quality of patient health within practical medical and healthcare to improve patient health settings. It was developed in consultation with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies Developed in consultation with industry and the and the National Health Service (NHS). NHS to help address a shortage in graduate skills The programme enables you to develop a strong grounding in contemporary science and future health needs and clinical research techniques to help meet changing healthcare research priorities and the Taught jointly by the Medical School and medical challenges of the future. You’ll learn how biomedical science, biotechnology and Biosciences at the University clinical research both underpin and advance medicine. You’ll also perform an independent Learn cutting-edge medical science and carry research project in internationally recognised research laboratories and can choose to apply out independent research using state-of-the-art for a Professional Training Year placement. resources and facilities Learning and Teaching Throughout the programme, you benefit Undertake an optional Professional Training Year from a careful blend of established and evidenced-based teaching methods employed (UK or North America) by the Medical School and Biosciences at the University. A variety of stimulating Structured support for professional development, and technology-enhanced teaching facilities and resources are available to support leadership skills and employability your learning. Learning occurs in a variety of settings including: expert-facilitated small-group Degrees in EXETER sessions (using clinical scenarios), lectures, BClinSci clinical placement sessions, laboratory Clinical Science practicals, life sciences and clinical skills practical sessions. This innovative and Numbers stimulating approach enables you to explore Entrants: 40 the rapidly advancing science that underpins Applicants: 161 health and disease (from testing and diagnosis Programme information to new treatment programmes), whilst retaining a clear clinical focus. Email: [email protected] Phone: 0844 6200012 Assessment www.exeter.ac.uk/clinicalscience Regular assessment is used to help provide A subject brochure is available which includes you with frequent feedback, enabling you full programme and module details. to identify your strengths, as well as areas for improvement. Feedback is provided in a You may also be interested in: number of different ways including online Medicine (see page 121) written feedback and self, peer, tutor or Applied Psychology (Clinical) (see page 140) small group feedback. Assessment formats include multiple-choice tests, essays, structured practical exams, reflective essays, oral and poster presentations, scientific report writing, short-answer questions tests and independent project work.

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Placements Science graduates compete well in the wider BClinSci Clinical Science Through a range of short clinical placements, graduate employment market, as they offer LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM AND you will have the opportunity to gain rich strong analytical and problem-solving skills St LUKE’S CAMPUSES) and vibrant first-hand experiences of how valued highly across all sectors. This degree provides flexibility in module choice, allowing you to study areas of specific innovative research can directly improve Future career pathways include: patient health. These sessions occur within interest in more depth. Your tailored module healthcare and internationally-renowned • Basic and applied molecular medicine choice reflects your own personal career research environments and will help you research eg, postgraduate (MSc or PhD) ambitions, enabling you to be a strong develop a deeper insight into your own training programmes or NHS research competitor in the graduate employment possible professional career opportunities and training market. aspirations. • Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Year 1 Integrated Clinical Science 1; The degree is further enhanced by an optional companies: eg, research and development Expanding Horizons 1; Biochemistry; Professional Training Year, occurring in your (R&D) sector, clinical trials, or sales and Genetics; Microbiology and Cell Biology; third year. Through this competitive-entry marketing Introduction to Biotechnology; Fundamental Skills for Bioscience. placement you have the opportunity to gain • Health technology assessment research invaluable research experience working Year 2 Integrated Clinical Science 2; • NHS graduate management training in a cutting-edge research team, helping Principles of Good Clinical Practice and to contribute to improving patient health • Training as scientific officers in areas such as Research; Expanding Horizons 2; Genomics through applied research. You will also further communication and policy, health and safety, and Biotechnology; Medical and General develop your key skills such as problem- and regulatory affairs Microbiology; Analysis of Biological solving, team-working, communication, Macromolecules; Human Molecular Biology; • Graduate entry to medicine or dentistry presentation, management and leadership. and Advanced Cell Biology. In addition you will have the opportunity to programmes apply and extend your practical skills. The Year 3 Professional Training Year (PTY): Professional Training Year increases your Programme Details Optional competitive-entry PTY placement future employability: providing a strengthened Full details of this programme, including incorporating Integrated Clinical Science 3 and CV and preparing you for a smooth transition information about the modules, can be Expanding Horizons 3. into the professional work environment after found in our subject brochure and at Final Year Integrated Clinical Science graduation. Our current placements include www.exeter.ac.uk/biosciences 4; Expanding Horizon 4 (independent Harvard Medical School (USA), Johns Hopkins research project); Medical Biotechnology; University (USA), and UK pharmaceutical and Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry; biotechnology industries and UK universities. Managing Clinical Trials: Putting Science into Practice; Medical Imaging – Principles Careers and Applications; Frontiers in Molecular Cell The degree is designed to prepare you for Biology; Cellular Basis of Immunity; Molecular employment in a wide variety of professional Basis of Infection; Microbial Effectors of careers. An employability-enhancing personal Disease; Environmental Microbiology. and career development programme is integrated into the degree which helps to CLINICAL SCIENCE ENTRY DATA develop the key transferable skills valued DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER by employers, such as problem-formulation and problem-solving, evidence appraisal, BClinSci reflective practice, teamwork, leadership Clinical Science GCE AL Biology and preferably another AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 B900 3 or 4 yrs (with PTY) GCE AL science subject. At least one and professional communication skills. Key science AL achieved at grade A. IB science vocational skills, such as advanced laboratory HL6, plus HL4 in a further subject. training within molecular biology, also Normally Biology must be studied at the enhance your employability. Additionally, Higher Level. those students undertaking a Professional GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; Training Year gain an invaluable insight Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; into the professional workplace, having also Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. attained an employer referee for their CV. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications As you may be working with vulnerable people in a variety of clinical settings throughout this degree, all offers are conditional upon a Criminal Conviction Self Declaration and an enhanced disclosure check via the Criminal Records Bureau. We will review all significant reports of convictions, cautions and verbal warnings and decide on a candidate’s suitability to enter the programme.

pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements. Computer Science 77

Computer Science

In addition to our core Computer Science degree, we offer a wide choice of programmes, from our industry-inspired degree in IT 1st for graduate level employmentp and Management for Business to our degrees with Mathematics, which have a more scientific postgraduate study rates focus. All our programmes include the opportunity to gain practical experience in 6th for Computer Science in the National Student industry, either through 8-12 week summer t placement or by taking a year in industry. Survey (2011) We maintain excellent teaching links Four-year degrees with an industrial placement with computer-related industries via e-skills, business-linked projects including year available assessment and prizes awarded by IBM, whilst organisations such as The Met Office, NATS Optional summer industrial placement that and Motorola also collaborate in research and student project work. contributes towards your degree Learning and Teaching £3 million invested in new academic and Our interdisciplinary programmes cover the full range of skills within computer science student facilities from programming, basic science, discrete mathematics and logic, through to the latest developments in knowledge representation, Degrees in EXETER pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and MSci Single Honours evolutionary computing. We have a strong Computer Science and Mathematics emphasis on the applications of computer BSc Single Honours science to solving practical scientific, Computer Science* technological and business problems. Teaching Computer Science and Mathematics* relates directly to our interdisciplinary IT Management for Business* research expertise and active research has the added benefit of bringing the most up-to-date *4-year programmes with Industrial Placement available ideas into your degree programme. Numbers We have excellent facilities with 24-hour Entrants: 10 access catering for different software and Applicants: 108 hardware needs. Our networks of computers run Windows and Linux and these support Programme information our extensive use of the Python and Java Email: [email protected] programming languages. These are our main Phone: +44 (0)1392 724061 languages as they embody all the principles of www.exeter.ac.uk/computerscience modern object-oriented design and platform- independence. In addition to Python and Java, A subject brochure is available which includes you will gain experience of other programming full programme and module details. and scripting languages. You may also be interested in: Electronic Engineering and Computer Assessment Science (see page 85) Assessment in all years is by coursework and exams. You must pass your first year modules in order to proceed, but your performance at this level does not count towards your final degree classification. Scholarships For College funding opportunities please visit www.exeter.ac.uk/emps/undergraduate/ funding pbased on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first degree graduates in Computer Science with a known career or study destination (HESA 2009/10) tbased on the average percentage of positive responses across all survey categories for full service universities 78 Computer Science

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Careers Year 2 The second year includes exposure In addition, we offer a four-year MSci which Our programmes will develop your skills to rigorous software development and offers an integrated Masters qualification to in a variety of technical areas such as software engineering best practice, together students wishing to combine these subjects. with information systems. Research-led programming and system design, as well as Year 1 This year gives you a solid foundation modules in machine learning and artificial incorporating skills and knowledge from the in both computer science and mathematics intelligence, and applied computing across related areas of mathematics, science and and includes an introduction to procedural science and industry give the distinctive engineering, along with the business aspects and object-oriented programming and system flavour of this degree. Options this year and impact of computing technologies. You architectures, alongside modules including include modules in algorithms, graphics, will also learn many more generic skills such vectors and matrices, calculus and geometry, networks and IT management. as project management, working in teams, and probability and discrete mathematics. communication and the ability to manage your On the three-year Computer Science These modules support the more advanced own time to meet tight deadlines. Most of our programme, you can take our Commercial and mathematics options available in later years graduates choose to use their technical skills Industrial Experience module as a summer and provide the mathematical underpinning to gain employment in computing related work placement. The four-year programme of later modules in computer science and areas after graduation or to continue their includes a year-long, paid placement with artificial intelligence. studies with a postgraduate degree. Find out a relevant company during your third Year 2 The second year includes exposure more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ year, working on a substantial project and to rigorous software development and employability gaining first-hand experience of the practical software engineering best practice, alongside application of computer science. Programme Details introducing information systems and some Full details of these programmes can be Year 3 (4 for year in industry) The project, of the research frontiers of computer science. found in our subject brochure and at in which you’ll develop a substantial software Additionally in mathematics you will cover www.exeter.ac.uk/computerscience system for scientific and/or business, forms analysis, vector calculus and differential the core of the final year and allows you to equations, alongside a range of options. develop your skills and interests in computer BSc Computer Science On the three-year degree BSc and four- science. The wide range of optional modules (also available with Industrial Placement) year MSci programmes, you can take our allows you to tailor your degree toward your LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Commercial and Industrial Experience module specific interests. Example options include Our degree in Computer Science will give you as a summer work placement. The four-year Advanced Computing; Commercial and practical skills in the specification, design and BSc programme includes a year-long, paid Industrial Experience; Enterprise Computing; implementation of computer systems as well placement with a relevant company during Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; as an understanding of the theory behind your third year, working on a substantial Nature Inspired Computation; Learning from them. It will also give you a perspective on project and gaining first-hand experience of Data; Computability and Complexity; Internet, developing fields such as machine learning, the practical application of computer science Cloud and Mobile Computing; and Biological evolutionary computation, neural networks and mathematics. Systems Computing and Bioinformatics. and enterprise and web-based computing, and expose you to a wide range of applications in Year 3 (4 for year in industry) You’ll science and industry, preparing you not just MSci Computer Science undertake a project in which you’ll develop a for today but also for tomorrow. and Mathematics substantial software system and take a wide range of optional modules. This allows you Year 1 This year gives you a solid foundation BSc Computer Science to tailor your degree toward your specific in computer science. It includes an and Mathematics interests. Example options include Commercial introduction to procedural and object- (also available with Industrial Placement) and Industrial Experience; Enterprise oriented programming, system architectures, LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Computing; Nature Inspired Computation; computing for the web, professional issues Mathematics has long influenced the and modules in artificial intelligence, alongside of computing, and explores some of the development of computer science, and the mathematics modules like Coding Theory, boundaries of scientific knowledge in the rapid growth of computing power has led to Cryptography and other options. field. Modules on vectors and matrices, the development of techniques and algorithms Year 4 (MSci only) This year includes and probability and discrete mathematics which, in turn, have influenced mathematics. advanced masters level modules in both provide the mathematical underpinning These programmes provide training in both computer science and mathematics, such as of later modules in computer science and computer science and mathematics and equip Machine Learning and Optimisation; Pattern artificial intelligence. you to analyse problems and design solutions Recognition; Intelligent Image Understanding; across the spectrum of the subjects. Modelling of Weather and Climate; Dynamical Systems and Chaos; and a significant individual supervised project, typically in the field of applied artificial intelligence. Computer Science 79

BSc IT Management Flexible Combined Honours for Business LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) (also available with Industrial Placement) Computer Science may also be studied LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) under the Flexible Combined Honours scheme These programmes, offered in conjunction (see page 98). with the Business School, are an initiative of the e-skills council of the UK (www.e-skills. COMPUTER SCIENCE ENTRY DATA com). They are designed to give you the DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER ability to apply computing and IT to business MSci Single Honours situations, evaluate technical knowledge Computer Science and Mathematics GCE AL MathsÌ grade A; IB Maths HL6 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 and confidently take on project and team GG4D 4 yrs management in IT-related business scenarios. In all years there are fortnightly ‘guru’ lectures BSc Single Honours delivered by leaders in industry, that cover Computer Science GCE AL MathsÌ; IB Maths HL5 AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 the use and impact of IT/computing in their I400 3 yrs particular sector and important current issues. Computer Science with Industrial Placement Year 1 The first year provides you with I401 4 yrs grounding in the fundamentals of information Computer Science and Mathematics GCE AL MathsÌ; IB Maths HL5 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 technology/computing and related business GG41 3 yrs concepts, including introducing procedural Computer Science and Mathematics and object oriented programming, system with Industrial Placement architectures, management theory, computer GG4C 4 yrs law, and business information systems. IT Management for Business GCE AL MathsÌ, IT or science preferred*; AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 GN52 3 yrs IB Maths, IT or Science HL5; GCSE Maths Year 2 The second year includes modules in IT Management for Business minimum grade B, but preference is given rigorous software development and software with Industrial Placement to students offering grade A. GCE AL/ engineering best practice. Organisational GN5G 4 yrs AS Maths may be accepted in lieu of this behaviour theories are introduced, along with requirement marketing principles, resource management ÌCandidates may offer GCE AL Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human and optional business modules. Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. On the three-year degree, you can take our *Applicants without one of these A levels must demonstrate an interest or aptitude for programming as part of Commercial and Industrial Experience option their application. as a summer work placement. The four- International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at year programme includes a year-long, paid www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international placement with a relevant company during Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other your third year, working on a substantial types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications project and gaining first-hand experience of the practical application of computing and pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements. business IT systems. Year 3 (4 for year in industry) A large part of your final year is constructed of optional modules, allowing you to focus on the specific areas of IT/computing and business, which most interest you and meet your employment goals. You will develop your computing and business skills in a significant business- focused software development project, and take modules in Enterprise Computing and the Management of Information Systems. 80 Drama

Drama

Our Drama programme is taught mainly through studio sessions as the relationship between theory and practice is central to the 4th for Drama in The Times Good University discipline. At the start of the programme p the emphasis is on group collaborative work Guide 2012 which becomes the basis for development of your individual interests and skills later on. Ranked 9th in UK for world leading research The programme develops your understanding of performance skills alongside a critical and Collaborative and practice-based approach imaginative engagement with the social, historical and cultural contexts of theatre. including drama in the community We expect you to be interested and involved in contemporary theatre and will encourage Opportunities to specialise in areas such as you in this both inside and outside of the classroom. All Drama students get equal directing, contemporary performance, music opportunities and challenges to act, to direct and to write or otherwise create theatre, actor training, applied drama, theatre dramatic events. history and technical theatre crafts We have excellent facilities for practical sessions, comprising eight large studio spaces (six are fully technically equipped and four Degrees in Exeter have sprung floors) and a number of smaller BA Single Honours rehearsal spaces, seminar rooms and Drama technical workshops. BA Combined Honours All our teaching grows out of our research Drama and Visual Culture interests, so you will be taught by people Drama and Visual Culture with Study Abroad at the forefront of their field and who are Numbers passionate about the subject. Current interests Entrants: 119 include areas such as the theory and practice of actor-training, non-western performance, Applications: 673 twentieth-century theatre practitioners, Programme information dramaturgy and playwriting, new media, live Email: [email protected] art, site-specific performance, gender and Phone: +44 (0)1392 722427 performance, Shakespeare, music theatre, www.exeter.ac.uk/drama voice training, arts management, theatre and religion and the politics of culture. A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details. Learning and Teaching Most of the teaching and learning is You may also be interested in: undertaken in studio exercises, rehearsals and English and Drama (see page 90) training workshops. Other activities include seminar presentations, independent research projects and public and restricted audience performances; and lectures where appropriate. You’ll have a personal tutor who is available for advice and support throughout your studies and a student mentor during the first year. Assessment Assessment of each module varies and may include continuous assessment, essay, performance and portfolio, or viva interview. Most work is assessed continuously through studio practice, seminar and essay and there are currently no timed, sit-down exams. You’re required to pass your first year in order to progress but these results do not count pRAE 2008 based on the percentage of research towards your final degree classification. categorised as 4 Drama 81

Careers Year 2 In your second year you study three The BA in Drama and Visual Culture is a Our Drama programme gives you an core modules: Staging the Text, which looks Combined Honours degree which enables you excellent insight into many areas relating to at play texts in their historical and cultural to divide your time equally between these two performance such as acting, directing, writing context and the transition from page to stage; related subject areas. You will study half of media and the technical areas, and many of Pre-texts and Contexts 2, which will extend your modules from the BA Drama programme our graduates choose to work in these fields and deepen your critical and theoretical (see above) and the other half from Visual following their first degree. Others may choose vocabulary of theatre; and Performance and Culture (see page 64). Interpretation which will introduce you to to follow their interest in the subject by By studying visual culture, you will learn a range of methodologies applied to fields further study for a postgraduate degree or by how to interpret visual images in order to of Drama Research. You will also choose a teaching the subject. understand contemporary and past societies, practical option from a range of modules. You and also how these images are a reflection of Your degree studies will encourage a very may be able to study abroad for half a year and a society itself and the belief systems to wide range of skills, which are widely prized you can choose to integrate a work experience which it adheres. For example, you might by graduate recruiters, including researching, into your degree in the module Humanities explore the emergence of a ‘society of the analysing and assessing sources, written and and the Workplace. verbal communication, group facilitation spectacle’ alongside the rise of reality TV managing and interpreting information and Year 3 In your final year you can specialise and social media in everyday life, or the idea developing ideas and arguments. Some of in practical options such as Interpretative of ‘virtual war’. Acting, Directing, Playwriting, Vocal Practice our graduates will use these skills to enter During your second and third years you will and Applied Drama. You can also write a careers in diverse areas such as law, business be able to follow your interests through a wide dissertation. Your degree culminates in the management and public relations. Find out range of optional modules: you can choose Practical Essay, a piece of original performance more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ to study art and material culture in ancient that you will create with a small group of employability societies; look in detail at the way art history fellow students for an audience beyond the works; or focus on visual culture within a University, and Theatre Praxis, an in-depth Programme Details specific society or time period right up to independent study of a chosen area of theatre Full details of these programmes, including the modern day. and performance. information about the available option modules, can be found in our subject brochure Our visual culture programme builds on and at www.exeter.ac.uk/drama BA Drama and Visual Culture Exeter’s internationally-recognised buildings, LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) artworks and collections. These include fine BA Drama Visual culture is an exciting area of study which art collections, a sculpture walk and one of incorporates a number of established subject- Britain’s largest public collections of books, LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the The degree is composed of a series of modules, areas, including art history and cultural studies. history and prehistory of cinema. most of which conclude with a presentation It will be of particular interest if your background open to other Drama students and staff, to the is in fine and modern art, the history of art, University at large, or to the general public. cinema, literature, cultural history, philosophy, In the early stages of the programme, the sociology or modern languages. emphasis is on group collaborative work. As you move through the degree this group work DRAMA ENTRY DATA becomes the basis for the development of DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER individual interests and skills. BA Single Honours Year 1 In the first half of the year you will Drama W400 3 yrs AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 study a studio-based module called Acting and Not Acting, and a seminar-based BA Combined Honours module, Pre-texts and Contexts of Drama Drama and Visual Culture AAA-AAB; IB 36-34 Ì 1, which introduces you to theatre studies WW42 3 yrs (WW24 4 yrs ) and performance analysis as disciplines of International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at Drama. In the second half of the year your www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international practical work will focus on a performance- ÌFor details about study abroad please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/drama orientated module rooted in research through Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. Offers/Interviews We try to see as many applicants as possible before making an offer, and normally interview practice entitled Research and Performance, applicants who may be offering alternative qualifications. A large proportion of applicants are invited to attend two and Theatrical Interpretation: Practitioners days of workshops and an interview. A short interview with an individual member of staff is combined with staff- will introduce a selection of modern and led and separate student-led studio sessions. Working and talking with each other and with current students are contemporary practitioners in their context. important features of this experience. This involves an overnight stay in Exeter. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications 82 Economics

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We offer a number of degrees in economics, allowing students to specialise in the areas that interest them most. The Business School 1st in the UK for attracting the most gifted is internationally rated for research and academic staff who teach on the undergraduate AAB+ students programmes in economics have a very wide range of research interests which is reflected in the broad subject range that we offer. 75 per cent of research pworld leading or Economics is a technical and rigorous subject internationally excellent and graduates leave equipped with a range of personal skills and a broad education, which 6th for graduate level employmentt and make them highly valued by employers. While we do not require Mathematics at A level for postgraduate study rates most of our programmes, you will need to be comfortable with maths. If you are less Flexibility to choose optional modules to suit your mathematical, then you should apply for Business Economics, which does not involve interests and career requirements intensive mathematical treatment of the subject. There is no requirement for you to Study or work abroad or gain industrial experience have studied economics before coming to us, as we will not assume any prior knowledge of Opportunities to participate in a programme of the subject. employability events Learning and Teaching An important part of our teaching strategy, Inclusive and supportive learning environment unique to Exeter, is the regular use of experiments in our lectures and tutorials. Due to a prestigious grant from the Higher Degrees in Exeter Education Academy, economic experiments are BA Single Honours now embedded into some modules. You might, Business Economics* for instance, participate as a buyer or seller in Economics* a market experiment; as a bidder in an auction Economics and Finance* experiment; or as a firm in an oligopoly Economics and Politics* experiment. You’ll also have a personal tutor Economics with Econometrics* who is available for advice and support throughout your studies. *4-year programmes with European or International Study or with Industrial Experience available Assessment Numbers Modules are normally assessed either by Entrants: 226 exam alone or by a mix of assessed work Applicants: 1,137 and written exams. Assessed work includes essays, case studies, projects, group work Programme information and presentations. You will have to pass the Email: [email protected] assessments at the end of the first year to Phone: +44 (0)1392 723200 proceed to the second year but they do not count towards your degree classification. www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school A subject brochure for the Business School Work Placement Opportunities is available. All Economics programmes can include a one year placement in business or industry in your You may also be interested in: third year and be awarded ‘with Industrial Accounting and Finance (see page 56) Experience’. You then return to Exeter for the Business, Management and Leadership final year of your degree. You may apply for (see page 70) direct entry to the four-year programmes or Mathematics (see page 116) apply to transfer by the second term of your first year. Full details can be found by following the link to Employability at pRAE 2008 based on the percentage of research www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school/ classified as 4* and 3* undergraduate tbased on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first degree graduates in Economics with a known career or study destination (HESA 2009/10) Economics 83

Study Abroad Year 1 Economic Principles; Basic BA Economics and Finance All Economics programmes can include a year Mathematical Economics (for those without LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) of study in Europe or further afield including A level Mathematics); Introduction to This programme explores modern economics Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Econometrics; Introduction to Statistics; and its application to financial systems USA or Canada and be awarded ‘with European Mathematics for Economists; options. and organisations. It provides you with Study’ or ‘with International Study’. In your Year 2 Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; the theoretical background you will need if third year you will study, or combine study Statistics and Econometrics; options. your aim is to work in the financial sector with a work placement while abroad. You and provides specialist knowledge of issues then return to Exeter for the final year of Year 3 Economic Issues: Theory and Policy; that directly impact on the importance your degree. You may apply for direct entry options. and efficiency of the financial sector both to the four-year programmes or apply nationally and globally. The programme to transfer at the end of the first year of a BA Business Economics introduces advanced financial techniques such three-year programme. Full details can be LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) as derivatives pricing, risk management and found by following the link to Study Abroad You will gain a theoretical and practical portfolio management. It will also develop at www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school/ understanding of the economic decisions your ability to critically analyse economic undergraduate faced by businesses and managers and events and their impact on financial markets. gain knowledge of the relevant national Careers and international environment in which Year 1 Economic Principles; Accounting I; The Business School has a dedicated businesses operate. The programme combines Basic Mathematical Economics (for those Employability Team, whose focus from day the development of key skills in economics, without A level Mathematics); Introduction one of your first year is to work on promoting accounting and social analysis with an to Econometrics; Introduction to Finance; and enhancing your employability. A degree understanding of how these skills can solve Introduction to Statistics; Mathematics for in Economics from Exeter will help you to many of the problems that face business Economists. develop a wide range of essential skills such managers. as analytical problem solving, teamwork, Year 2 Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; research, and organising and communicating Year 1: Economic Principles; Accounting I; Investment Analysis and Portfolio information. The majority of graduates from Introduction to Statistics; Theory and Practice Management; Statistics and Econometrics. of Management; options. the Business School follow their degree with Year 3 Financial Markets and Decisions I and a career in finance, banking, accounting, Year 2: Economic Principles and Policy; II; Money and Banking I and II; options. actuarial science or management both in the options. commercial and public sectors. A large number of graduate recruiters in these sectors visit Year 3: Economics of Management Strategy; BA Economics and Politics LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Exeter to recruit our students. Some of our options. This programme provides a thorough graduates pursue their interest in their studies grounding in both economics and politics, to a greater depth by taking a postgraduate BA Economics with particularly in their more practical aspects degree, often here at Exeter. Find out more Econometrics and brings out their connections and inter- at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) relationships. At each level there is a special employability Econometrics is the application of statistical inter-disciplinary module. Each of these concepts and methods to economics. This modules, in its different way, explores the Programme Details degree covers many of the topics that come interaction between economic ideas and Full details of these programmes, including under the general heading of econometrics, economic behaviour on the one hand and information about the available option including data analysis, estimation, model- the working of the political process and modules for each programme, can be found fitting and testing of hypotheses and special government policy on the other. at www.exeter.ac.uk/business-school/ techniques for dealing with economic data. undergraduate Econometrics is also relevant to a range Year 1 Economic Principles; State and of related problems in applied economics, Economy; Statistics for Business and BA Economics including time series analysis, forecasting Management; British Government and LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) and policy simulation. Politics; Power and Democracy; options. Modern economics covers a wide range Year 2 Economic Principles and Policy; of topics from inflation to the control of Year 1 Economic Principles; Basic Economics of Politics; The Political Economy monopoly power, from the study of developing Mathematical Economics (for those without of Globalisation; options. countries to the finance of multinational A level Mathematics); Introduction to companies. Our Economics degree is flexible Econometrics; Introduction to Statistics; Year 3 International Political Economy; The and wide-ranging and is designed to meet your Mathematics for Economists; options. Political Economy of Globalisation; options. needs – whether you wish to study a broad Year 2 Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; curriculum or to specialise in a particular area. Statistics and Econometrics; Introduction to Flexible Combined Honours Econometric Theory; options. 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DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER

BA Single Honours Business Economics GCSE Maths grade A or GCE AL/AS MathsÌ; A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 L112 3 yrs (L115 European 4 yrs; GCSE English Language grade B L194 International 4 yrs; L192 Industry 4 yrs) Economics L100 3 yrs (L101 European 4 yrs; L103 International 4 yrs; L102 Industry 4 yrs) Economics and Finance LN13 3 yrs (LNC3 European 4 yrs; LN1J International 4 yrs; LND3 Industry 4 yrs) Economics and Politics LL12 3 yrs (LL1F European 4 yrs; LLCF International 4 yrs; LL1G Industry 4 yrs)

Economics with Econometrics GCE AL MathsÌ; IB Maths HL5; GCSE A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 L190 3 yrs (L191 European 4 yrs; Maths grade A; GCSE English Language L195 International 4 yrs; grade B L193 Industry 4 yrs)

Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information on Additional Selection Criteria at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/economics ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer GCE AL/AS Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

I now know how competitive it’s going to be after I graduate in three or four years. With everything the University is offering I’m sure my employability will be so much better than I could have achieved elsewhere. The opportunities the University provided straight away as soon I arrived, made sure that I am never without anything to do.

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Engineering challenges lie at the heart of many of the most significant problems facing society in the 21st century, ranging from responding 1st for General Engineering in the National Student to climate change through developing p sustainable energy sources and making Survey (2011) efficient use of scarce natural resources. 7th in the UK for Mechanical Engineering in The At Exeter we offer a range of exciting, rewarding and professionally accredited Sunday Times University Guide 2012 specialist degrees covering the major engineering disciplines. We also recognise Top 10 for General Engineering in The Times, The that professional engineers often work together within multidisciplinary teams, Guardian and The Complete University guides 2012 solving problems collectively, and this underpins how we teach engineering at Exeter. All specialist programmes professionally Our degrees offer professional and academic t rigor within specialist engineering disciplines accredited combined with a strong multi-disciplinary thread throughout. All programmes available with Industrial Experience When you join us you may have had little experience of the different disciplines within or International Study engineering, so you may be uncertain which area will inspire you the most. Our core first Degrees in Exeter year lets you try them all, giving you the MEng and BEng Honours flexibility to change direction as you explore this fascinating subject. During the first year Civil Engineering* you will engage with our enthusiastic and Civil and Environmental Engineering supportive faculty across all disciplines and see (MEng only)* for yourself how essential a multidisciplinary Electronic Engineering* approach is to both a successful engineering Electronic Engineering and career and ground-breaking research. In Computer Science* the second and subsequent years you will Engineering and Management* specialise in your chosen area of engineering, Materials Engineering* leading to a specialist degree at MEng or BEng Mechanical Engineering* level. Added flexibility is provided through Engineering being able to transfer between BEng and MEng at the end of your second year, along *4-year programmes with European or International with opportunities to experience an industrial Study or with Industrial Experience available placement or a period of overseas study in any Numbers of our programmes. Entrants: 121 We collaborate with numerous UK and Applicants: 1,144 international industrial organisations, as well as smaller companies, ensuring our programmes Programme information are relevant to the industrial and commercial Email: [email protected] imperatives of today and to the needs of the Phone: +44 (0)1392 724061 future. Our faculty undertakes research projects www.exeter.ac.uk/engineering crossing engineering borders, collaborating with A subject brochure is available which includes scientists from across our integrated College full programme and module details. including physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists. This unique environment You may also be interested in: provides an inspirational learning platform, Engineering Geology and Geotechnics which combines with our state-of-the-art (see page 105) facilities and the personal support and academic Mathematics and Engineering (see page 116) guidance integral to our exemplary student Mining Engineering (see page 123) experience*, to provide the perfect launch-pad for future engineers. Renewable Energy (see page 144) pbased  on the average percentage of positive responses across all survey categories for full service universities *1st for General Engineering in the National Student Survey 2011 tprofessional accreditation is pending for International Study and Industrial Experience programmes 86 Engineering

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Accreditation Careers MEng/BEng Civil Engineering Exeter’s Engineering programmes have been A degree in Engineering from Exeter will (also available with Industrial continuously accredited for over 30 years by open many doors to future careers. During Experience or International Study) the relevant professional institutions. Our the programme you will develop a wide range LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) MEng and BEng programmes are accredited of highly employable general skills such as Civil Engineering is an ancient yet by the ICE, IET, IStructE, IoM3 and IMechE.* project management, time management, IT modern discipline that undergoes fast Our degree programmes also conform to the and communication alongside your specific changes with the introduction of advanced Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC (UK Standard engineering knowledge. These skills are all methodologies in design, construction, for Professional Engineering Competence) highly prized by recruiters and many leading analysis, optimisation and management of that specifies the requirements for achieving employers actively target our graduates. We buildings and infrastructure systems. You Chartered Engineer (CEng) status. have excellent working relationships with will be offered a well-balanced programme major international and UK-based engineering that combines fundamental subjects with *Professional accreditation is pending for International Study and Industrial Experience programmes companies such as Airbus, Arup, Black and contemporary approaches. Veatch, Boeing, Faber Maunsell, Ford, Halcrow, Learning and Teaching Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Pell Frischmann, Year 1 You’ll take a variety of core modules Philips, Pico Technology, QinetiQ, Rolls-Royce, (eg, Engineering Mechanics, Engineering We have excellent facilities for our Seagate, ST Microelectronics, Thales. Mathematics) which provide you with undergraduates, including modern, well- technical, professional and communication equipped teaching laboratories, student Most of our graduates choose to enter a skills from across the whole spectrum workshops, computer rooms and private technical career in industry after their degree of engineering and the foundation for study areas. You will learn in a variety of ways; studies however some prefer to use their specialisation in year 2 and beyond. You will new concepts and techniques are covered skills in more generalist areas such as finance also take our Professional Studies and Skills in lectures, problems are tackled in smaller or general management. Others choose to Development module which includes design tutorials and hands-on experience is gained continue their studies with a higher degree in activities, laboratory and workshop exercises in lab classes and via individual and group Engineering or study to become a teacher. and the design and building (in groups) of a projects. Project work is very important for Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ renewable energy generator. engineers in professional practice, so at Exeter undergraduate/employability you will undertake some form of project in Year 2 Modules studied include Structures; every year of your study. Mathematical Modelling; Professional Studies; Civil Engineering and and Management Science. The design modules Assessment in both the second and third year ensure an Civil and Environmental emphasis on engineering design. The final assessment for all our engineering Engineering degree programmes is a combination of marks Year 3 You’ll undertake an individual project gained on coursework, projects and exams. Developments in the construction industry and specialised Civil Engineering modules and more broadly in how we deal with various which include Structural Engineering; Water Industrial Experience or issues in urban areas and in the natural Resources; and Civil Engineering Hydraulics. International Study environment are driven by the ever increasing Year 4 (MEng only) In the fourth year you Engineering is an international profession demand for energy-efficient and sustainable will undertake a substantial interdisciplinary and many engineering graduates will work use of limited resources, technological group project, industrial case studies and overseas for part of their careers. One exciting progress in other engineering disciplines, independent study in advanced aspects of option is to spend half a year during your socio-economic activities and climate Civil Engineering. third year at one of our partner institutions in change. We will provide you with a broad and Europe under the Erasmus exchange scheme, sufficiently specialised knowledge in a range of or further afield via international exchange civil and environmental engineering subjects MEng Civil and agreements. Another option is to take an including geotechnics, structures and water Environmental Engineering industrial placement in the vacation prior engineering. The Joint Board of Moderators (also available with Industrial to the start of your third year (6-10 weeks, from four professional bodies (ICE, IStructE, Experience or International Study) subject to suitable arrangements). This is then IHE and CIHT) accredit our Civil Engineering LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) followed by an extended individual project programmes. Water-related problems and various other during your third year, specifically designed environmental issues are increasingly around your industrial placement. The Programme Details becoming key challenges at local and national combined placement and project allows you to Full details of these programmes, including levels as well as globally. There is now the need undertake paid vacation work while gaining information about the modules for each, for engineers with specialised knowledge in highly relevant industrial experience. You can can be found in our subject brochure and civil and environmental engineering who are take either the international study version or at www.exeter.ac.uk/engineering able to work efficiently in multidisciplinary the industrial experience version on most of teams. These are the skills with which the our programmes. Exeter MEng degree will equip you. Engineering 87

Year 1 You will take a variety of core modules first year, to the design and construction of Year 2 In the second year you’ll develop your (eg, Engineering Mechanics, Engineering state-of-the-art analogue and digital electronic specialist skills in electronic engineering Mathematics) which provide you with systems in year two, to the implementation with modules such as PICS, Microcontrollers technical, professional and communication of FPGA digital signal processing and and Microprocessors; Communication and skills from across the whole spectrum communication systems in year three. Networking Technologies; and Analogue and of engineering, and the foundation for Digital Electronics; together with computer Year 1 You will take a variety of core modules specialisation in the next years. You will science modules such as Information Systems; (eg, Electronics for Engineers, Materials and also take our Professional Studies and Skills and Method for Software Engineering. Manufacturing, Engineering Mathematics) Development module which includes design which provide you with technical, professional Year 3 The individual project gives you the activities, laboratory and workshop exercises and communication skills from across the opportunity to develop your interests in and the design and building (in groups) of a whole spectrum of engineering, and the electronic engineering, computer science renewable energy generator. foundation for specialisation in the next years. and the interplay between them. In addition Years 2 and 3 These two years are common You will also take our Professional Studies and you take specialised modules in Electronic with the Civil Engineering degree but in the Skills Development module which includes Engineering Design Studies; Compilers and second year you will undertake an individual design activities, laboratory and workshop Interpreters; and options. project with an environment related theme exercises and the design and building (in Year 4 (MEng only) This year includes a and your optional modules will allow you to groups) of a renewable energy generator. substantial interdisciplinary group project take a more specialised pathway with a focus Year 2 The emphasis in year 2 is on specialised and advanced modules in topics such as on civil engineering and its application to the electronic engineering modules in areas Computer Aided Engineering Design; Pattern impact of climate change. such as Analogue and Digital Electronics and Recognition; Intelligent Image Understanding. Year 4 You’ll undertake a substantial PICS. In addition you will enhance the non- interdisciplinary group project, industrial case technical skills you will need in your future studies and study advanced aspects of Civil career via modules such as Management and Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Engineering such as Urban Management Science. and Materials Drainage Design; Water Management; and Year 3 This year includes your individual Hydroinformatics. Engineering project that may be in one of any number of topical technology areas. You will also The Mechanical Engineering and Materials Electronic Engineering choose from a range of specialised electronic Engineering programmes offer a stimulating engineering modules, including Digital Signal mixture of theoretical study and hands-on Electronics shapes our world – from Processing; Communication Engineering; and practical work, all informed by recent advances mobile phones to hybrid cars, medical Electronic Engineering Design. in the engineering industry. Through a mixture instrumentation, renewable energy devices, of projects and taught modules our students aerospace systems and a host of other Year 4 (MEng only) This year includes a study topics such as fluid dynamics, mechanics technologies essential to our everyday life substantial interdisciplinary group project, of solids and structures, and dynamics, all and future well-being. Our degrees equip industrial case studies and advanced modules of which are relevant to a wide range of you with the skills and knowledge not only in topics such as Signal and Image Processing; industries including aerospace, renewable to understand the fundamentals of modern- Data Storage and Memory Technologies; energy, automotive, marine and many others. day electronic and computer technology, but Computer Aided Engineering Design; and a The Mechanical programmes are accredited by more importantly to help design, install and wide range of optional modules. the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and operate future technologies in a rewarding the Materials programmes by the Institute of and interesting professional career. Our MEng/BEng Electronic Materials, Minerals and Mining. Electronic Engineering programmes are Engineering and accredited by the IET. Computer Science Programme Details Full details of these programmes, including (also available with Industrial Programme Details information about the modules for each, Full details of these programmes, including Experience or International Study) can be found in our subject brochure and at information about the modules for each, can LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) www.exeter.ac.uk/engineering be found in our subject brochure and at This programme provides an in-depth training www.exeter.ac.uk/engineering in both the hardware and software aspects of modern electronic systems and computers, from the fundamentals of electronics to MEng/BEng Electronic microprocessors and manufacturing for Engineering electronic systems, to object-oriented (also available with Industrial programming and artificial intelligence and Experience or International Study) engineering management. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Year 1 You’ll take modules that provide The emphasis is on design and practical hands-on you with technical skills in electronics and experience right from the start in our Electronic computer science, together with essential Engineering programmes; from the building of a professional and communication skills. miniature renewable energy generator in your 88 Engineering

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MEng/BEng Mechanical MEng/BEng Materials Year 4 (MEng only) This year includes an Engineering Engineering interdisciplinary group project on a materials engineering topic which will normally be (also available with Industrial (also available with Industrial linked to an ongoing research project with Experience or International Study) Experience or International Study) an industrial partner. There is wide choice LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) of further specialist modules including Mechanical engineering is a challenging and These programmes are designed to train you in Mechanics of Materials; New Advances exciting subject that affects nearly all aspects core and specialist materials engineering skills in Materials Engineering; Computational of our lives. Our main objective is to provide to a high level so that you can begin to practice Modelling; Advanced Materials Engineering; you with the knowledge and flexibility to as a professional in the materials engineering and Computer Aided Engineering Design. enable you to play a leading role in the creation industry upon graduation. The programme of the technology of the 21st century. These addresses both the science of materials programmes are suitable for those who wish and their practical use in engineering, with Engineering and to pursue careers as professional engineers for example modules in materials science, employed by industry or research laboratories manufacturing and design methods. We feel Management requiring electro/mechanical engineering or it is important to teach theoretical topics at The commercial exploitation of technology in manufacturing engineering expertise. The the same time as applying those skills into fields from energy to mobile communications programmes are also well suited for those real world applications, often via projects or from aerospace systems and biomedical who aim to become managers in industry such as renewable power generation, damping instruments to Formula 1 racing cars depends and commerce and wish to start with a sound vibrations in jet engines, optimisation of race on professional engineering managers. background in modern engineering. car dynamics and design of city cars. As leaders of the engineering profession, engineering managers direct the development Year 1 You’ll take a variety of core modules Year 1 You’ll take a variety of core modules of new and profitable technology businesses (eg, Engineering Mechanics, Materials and (eg, Materials and Manufacturing, Engineering and shape the future of industry. Our Manufacturing, Engineering Mathematics) Mathematics) which provide you with engineering and management programme which provide you with technical, professional technical, professional and communication combines our leading edge mechanical or and communication skills from across the skills from across the whole spectrum whole spectrum of engineering, and the electronic engineering degree with the of engineering, and the foundation for foundation for specialisation in the following enhanced theory and practice in engineering specialisation in the following years. You will years. You will also take our Professional management that enables our graduates to also take our Professional Studies and Skills Studies and Skills Development module take a fast track to a management career in the Development module which includes design which includes design activities, laboratory most successful and dynamic enterprises. Our activities, laboratory and workshop exercises and workshop exercises and the design and Engineering and Management (Electronic) and the design and building (in groups) of a building (in groups) of a renewable energy programmes are accredited by the IET and the renewable energy generator. generator. Engineering and Management (Mechanical) Year 2 The focus of this year is on programmes by both IET and IMechE. Year 2 This year concentrates more on key specialisation in Materials Engineering. topics in mechanics and materials including Solid Mechanics, Dynamics, Mathematical Topics studied include solid mechanics, Programme Details Modelling, and Materials Engineering. Design materials engineering, statics, dynamics and Full details of these programmes, including is taught as a specific discipline from the mathematical modelling. Design is taught information about the modules for each, second year onwards. You will take a module in as a specific discipline from the second year can be found in our subject brochure and at Management and Management Science since it onwards and you will have the opportunity to www.exeter.ac.uk/engineering is common for professional engineers to have investigate some project ideas and will learn management responsibilities. about what it takes to design, manufacture MEng/BEng Engineering and test a device in a competitive and Management Year 3 You will continue to further specialise environment. The module Management and (also available with Industrial with a choice of advanced modules on topics Management Science is studied to address including fluid dynamics, computational the management responsibilities normal for Experience or International Study) modelling, manufacturing, thermofluids professional engineers. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) and energy conversion, and materials. Your These programmes allow you to preserve Individual Project will focus on a mechanical Year 3 Further specialisation into materials your core technical accreditation in electronic engineering related topic usually related to engineering continues in this year via or mechanical engineering while offering an ongoing collaborative industrial research a choice of advanced modules on topics additional depth in the theory and practice of project, and a design module takes formal including the fundamentals of materials managing an engineering business. Graduates methods for design to an advanced level. science, manufacturing, computational from engineering and management are sought modelling and energy conversion. Your after for many careers besides engineering, by Year 4 (MEng only) This year includes an Individual Project will focus on a materials employers who value their numerical, problem interdisciplinary group project on a mechanical engineering related topic usually linked to solving and management knowledge. engineering topic which will normally be an ongoing collaborative industrial research linked to an ongoing research project with project and a design module takes formal an industrial partner. You have a choice of methods for design to an advanced level. specialist modules including Computational Modelling; Mechanics of Materials; Advanced Materials Engineering; and Computer Aided Engineering Design. Engineering 89

Year 1 You’ll take a variety of core modules ENGINEERING ENTRY DATA (eg, Materials and Manufacturing, Engineering DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER Mathematics) which provide you with technical, professional and communication MEng Single Honours Civil Engineering GCE AL MathsÌ and another science AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 skills from across the whole spectrum H202 4 yrs (H201 Industry 4 yrs; subject; IB Maths HL5 and another science of engineering, and the foundation for H207 International 4 yrs) subject HL5 specialisation in the next years. You will Civil and Environmental Engineering also take our Professional Studies and Skills H290 4yrs (H291 Industry 4 yrs; Development module which includes design H292 International 4 yrs) activities, laboratory and workshop exercises Electronic Engineering H601 4 yrs (HPD0 Industry 4 yrs; and the design and building (in groups) of a H1C0 International 4 yrs) renewable energy generator. Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Year 2 In this year you will follow the HG64 4 yrs (IH61 Industry 4 yrs; modules according to your electronic or IH16 International 4 yrs) mechanical base discipline, together with Engineering and Management Management and Management Science and H704 4 yrs (NH12 Industry 4 yrs; Manufacturing Systems. HN1F International 4 yrs) Materials Engineering Year 3 Whilst you continue to follow your H191 4 yrs (H196 Industry 4 yrs; electronic or mechanical stream you will be H198 International 4 yrs) able to select modules from Management Mechanical Engineering of Product Development; Management of H302 4 yrs (H303 Industry 4 yrs; H309 International 4 yrs) Operations; and Management of Processes Engineering and People. You will also undertake an H104 4 yrs individual engineering project which may be in collaboration with industry and BEng Single Honours Civil Engineering GCE AL MathsÌ and another science AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 involve addressing a current engineering H200 3 yrs (H203 Industry 3 yrs; subject; IB Maths HL5 and another science management issue, and you will take the H205 International 3 yrs) subject HL5 module Engineering in Society and Company Electronic Engineering Finance, which looks at the role of professional H610 3 yrs (HP10 Industry 3 yrs; engineers and provides a foundation in HPC0 International 3 yrs) financial and accounting principles for Electronic Engineering and Computer Science business. HG6K 3 yrs (HI61 Industry 3 yrs; Year 4 (MEng only) While you continue HI16 International 3 yrs) Engineering and Management on your base engineering discipline you HN12 3 yrs (HN21 Industry 3 yrs; will undertake further study in engineering NH21 International 3 yrs) management topics from Agile, Lean and Materials Engineering Competitive Enterprise; Supply Chain H190 3 yrs (H195 Industry 3 yrs; Management; Operations Research and H197 International 3 yrs) Industrial Systems Modelling. You will also Mechanical Engineering H300 3 yrs (H301 Industry 3 yrs; undertake a substantial interdisciplinary H308 International 3 yrs) group project, often taking the role as Engineering group leader. The industrial case studies H101 3 yrs module will give you further exposure to ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer GCE AL Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. current engineering management topics GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Economics; through visits to companies and talks from Electronics; Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; engineering managers. Physics; Science (applied); Statistics. MEng offer holders who miss their conditional offer grades but meet the BEng entry requirements will be guaranteed a place on the equivalent BEng programme. BEng/MEng Engineering International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international You are normally encouraged to choose one Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. of the professionally accredited disciplines For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other described above. However, those who do not types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications wish to specialise immediately may initially p register for this broad-based engineering If more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements. programme before joining one of the specialised programmes from year 2 onwards. 90 English

English

We are one of the leading English departments in the UK, with strengths in teaching and research covering literature Top 10 for English in The Times, The Guardian and and culture from the medieval period p to the present day; we have particular The Complete University guides 2012 specialisations in film, visual culture and creative writing. As well as exploring 1st in the UK for world leading research in English the writings of canonical figures such as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Austen Top 10 for graduate levelt employment and or Joyce, our Single and Joint Honours programmes encourage study of a broad postgraduate study rates range of works, including popular fiction, drama, film and comparatively little-known 93% for Overall Satisfaction in the National or neglected authors. Student Survey (2011) Your learning experience benefits from the world-leading, up-to-date research of our Participation in events involving internationally teaching staff. We give priority to developing your ability to read perceptively and critically, acclaimed authors, actors and directors while fostering a capacity for creative and original thought. Opportunities to study in the USA and Canada Learning and Teaching Opportunities to study Combined Honours in We use a variety of learning and teaching methods including lectures, seminars, student subjects including Drama, Film or Visual Culture study groups, and web and IT resources. Seminars, usually of two hours and involving between 10 and 20 students, are central to the student learning experience. Seminar Degrees in Exeter Degrees in cornwall preparation typically involves student study BA Single Honours BA Single Honours groups, a distinctive and successful feature of English English our programmes. All modules in the first two English with Study in North America BA Joint Honours years and most in the final year are supported by a tailored series of lectures. The ‘Exeter BA Combined Honours English and History* Learning Environment’ (ELE), possessing English and Drama Geography and English dedicated and interactive websites for each English and Film Studies Numbers module, facilitates use of a wide range of Classical Studies and English Entrants: 90 electronic resources for teaching and learning. English and a Modern Language Applicants: 526 English and Visual Culture* Assessment Programme information Assessment in English is by mixed methods, Numbers Email: [email protected] including essays, two-hour exams, and group- Entrants: 250 Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 presentation work. In your final year, you’ll Applicants: 1,419 www.exeter.ac.uk/english write a dissertation of 8,000 words or more Programme information on a subject of your choice. The ratio of formal exam to other forms of assessment, over the Email: [email protected] whole programme, is approximately 40:60. You Phone: +44 (0)1392 725309 will have to pass the exams at the end of Year www.exeter.ac.uk/english 1 but they do not count towards your final *4-year programmes with Study Abroad available degree classification. A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details. Careers A degree in English from the University of Exeter provides an excellent general understanding of language, literature and culture, while developing generic skills such as researching, critical analysis, independent study, time management pRAE 2008 based on the percentage of research categorised as 4* and communication skills. tbased on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first degree graduates in English with a known career or study destination (HESA 2009/10) English 91

Many of our graduates choose to study their Year 2 Two pre-1800 options from: Chaucer Year 2 Two English modules from a range that chosen area of interest in more depth by and His Contemporaries; Desire and Power: includes: Chaucer and his Contemporaries; following a postgraduate degree, often at English Literature 1570-1640; Renaissance Creative Writing; Introduction to American Exeter. Others use their knowledge and skills and Revolution: 17th Century Literature; Literature; Desire and Power 1570-1640; in the teaching profession, publishing or Satire and the City: English Literature Spectacular Attractions: Cinema and the media, or to enter such diverse areas as 1660-1750. Plus two from: Revolutions Sensation, The Shock of the New 1900-1953. government administration, law, finance and and Evolutions: 19th Century Writings; In Drama you’ll take Pretexts and Contexts management. Find out more about graduate Introduction to American Literature; The of Drama, and one from a range of other destinations and employment opportunities Shock of the New: Literature 1900-1953; modules. Further details can be found in the at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ Creative Writing: Finding a Voice; Shots Drama entry on page 80. employability in the Dark; Spectacular Attractions: Year 3 Dissertation in the area of either Cinema and Sensation; Humanities in English or Drama; plus the opportunity to the Workplace. English: focus your studies on particular areas of Streatham Campus Year 3 Dissertation or Creative Writing individual interest through a choice of Adopting critical and creative approaches, our Dissertation; plus one of Acts of Writing: around 45 specialist option modules across English degree programmes in Exeter seek to Literature and Film 1953 to the present; both subjects. develop your understanding of a wide range of Shakespeare and Renaissance Tragedy; genres and literatures in English. Modules are Romanticism: plus two from around 25-30 specialist options. BA English and Film Studies taught by staff with world-leading expertise in LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) literature from the Middle Ages to the present, This programme provides an opportunity in cinema throughout the 20th and 21st BA English with Study in to study an exciting range of materials in centuries, and in creative writing practices in North America literature and cinema and brings together poetry, prose, drama and film. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) all the advantages of studying within one of The range and depth of our research expertise Year 1 See English in Exeter. the country’s top rated research departments shapes all aspects of your learning experience. Year 2 This year is spent at a university in with the dedicated provision of film. You don’t The Single Honours degree encourages North America, either in the USA or Canada. need to have studied Film Studies to follow engagement with different periods, topics Currently we have arrangements with The this programme. Full details of this degree are and approaches throughout the programme. College of William and Mary, the University given on page 96. After an initial foundation year, later stages of Kansas, Iowa State University, the of the degree offer increasing opportunities University of Pittsburgh, and Vassar College BA English and Visual Culture for specialisation. Final year students typically in the USA and with Carleton University, the LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) write a dissertation on a topic of their choice, University of Victoria, and the University of Visual culture is an exciting area of study that while selecting from a broad range of specialist Toronto in Canada. incorporates a number of established subject modules matching individual staff members’ areas, including art history and cultural areas of expertise. Year 3 Students take one core module, two studies. It will be of particular interest if options (one American) and the Dissertation your background is in fine and modern art, Programmes in Exeter or Creative Writing Dissertation. the history of art, cinema, literature, cultural Full details of these programmes, including history, philosophy, sociology or modern detailed information about the modules, Combined Honours Degrees languages. BA English and Visual Culture can be found in our subject brochure and at enables you to divide your time equally www.exeter.ac.uk/english BA English and Drama Studies between these two related subject areas. You LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) will study half of your modules from English BA English English and Drama builds on two and the other half from Visual Culture. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) internationally-renowned centres of excellence By studying visual culture, you will learn This programme offers the opportunity to study in research, teaching and theatre practice. how to interpret visual images in order to English literature from the Middle Ages to the The programme is designed to provide an understand contemporary and past societies present, as well as film and creative writing understanding of the range and variety of and also how these images are a reflection options. Modules are designed to provide a sense literary and dramatic work, to introduce you of a society itself and the belief systems to of the range and variety of English literature to theoretical approaches along with historical which it adheres. For example, you might and culture, and to encourage you to engage and cultural contexts, and to develop your explore the emergence of a ‘society of the critically with texts in their historical and critical, imaginative, and practical engagement spectacle’ alongside the rise of reality TV theoretical contexts. Option modules allow you with the social, historical and cultural contexts and social media in everyday life, or the idea to concentrate on topics of particular interest. of theatre. of ‘virtual war’. Year 1 Beginnings: English Literature before Year 1 Beginnings: English Literature before 1800; Approaches to Criticism; Critical 1800; Acting and Not Acting; The Poem; and Practice; The Poem; plus two options from: The Shakespeare. You will also take a studio-based Novel; Film Studies: An Introduction; Creative module designed specifically for our English Writing; Shakespeare. and Drama students, Research, Text and Performance. 92 English

English CONTINUED

During your second and third years you will English: Programmes in Cornwall be able to follow your interests through a wide Cornwall Campus Full details of these programmes, including range of optional modules: you can choose Our English degree programmes at the detailed information about the modules, can to study art and material culture in ancient Cornwall Campus offer a traditionally broad be found in our subject brochure and at societies; look in detail at the way art history coverage of literatures in English to the www.exeter.ac.uk/english works; or focus on visual culture within a present day, and their ancestry in classical, specific society or time period right up to the Old English and medieval texts. Exploring BA English modern day. the work of some of the giants of English LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS Our visual culture programme builds on literature is juxtaposed with the excitement This programme includes the study of a Exeter’s internationally recognised buildings, of studying contemporary literary and wide variety of English literatures from the artworks and collections. These include fine cultural works, with an added emphasis on Middle Ages to the present. You’ll explore the art collections, a sculpture walk and one of studies in literature and the environment. history of literature from the earliest Greek Britain’s largest public collections of books, epic to contemporary texts, and ways of The programmes introduce you to a broad, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the reading literature from a variety of theoretical stimulating range of topics and materials history and prehistory of cinema. perspectives. As well as more traditional areas through a variety of approaches, both of study, the programme offers a unique form precise and imaginative. You will gain an of interdisciplinary study with a focus on Other Combined understanding of the principal genres and questions of place and the environment. Honours Degrees range of literatures in English and knowledge LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) of their cultural and critical contexts. Teaching Year 1 Past and Present Foundations; Culture English may be studied in Exeter with Classical is by research-active staff who are experts in and Criticism 1 and 2; Past and Present Studies or a Modern Language (French, their field. Their expertise directly influences Reinventions. German, Italian, Russian or Spanish). For the modules offered, particularly in Year 3, Year 2 Renaissance, Reformation and details of the English component, please see ensuring you develop knowledge of the latest Rebellion: English Literature 1580-1700; From above. For details of the second subject please thinking in your subject. refer to the relevant subject’s entry. Romanticism to Decadence; From Modernism to the Contemporary; Reason and Passion. Flexible Combined Honours Year 3 Dissertation; Literature and the LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Environment; plus two optional modules from English may also be studied under a list that has in the past included: Literary the Flexible Combined Honours scheme Decadence; Witchcraft and Magic in Literature; (see page 98). Women’s Writing: Romantic to Modern; The Gothic; Literature, Culture, and Crisis in Early Modern England; Places and Journeys; Sex, Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Literature.

The University of Exeter was my first choice, Joint Honours Degrees due to its high ranking and worldwide renown. We LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS English may be studied in Cornwall with have lecturers who are famous in their areas, and Geography or History. For details of the English component, please see above. For only share them between a few students so it’s details of the second subject please refer to the always possible to get an appointment. The low relevant subject’s entry. student-to-staff ratio is excellent for developing your Flexible Combined Honours LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS own interests and getting support when needed. In English may also be studied under the Flexible Combined Honours scheme (see page 98). my second year I came across a History module on Celtic Literature which is the area I am passionate about, and both departments supported me and allowed me to take this module.

ANNA KILCOOLEY, BA ENGLISH (CORNWALL CAMPUS) English 93

ENGLISH ENTRY DATA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER

BA Single Honours English GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A; IB A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 Q300 3 yrs English HL6; GCSE English Literature or English with Study in North America English Language grade A Q310 3 yrs

BA Combined Honours Classical Studies and English See Classics and Ancient History QQ3V 3 yrs

English and Drama GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A; IB AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 WQ34 3 yrs English HL6

English and Film Studies GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A; IB AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Q3W6 3 yrs English HL6

English and French GCE AL English LiteratureÌ and French AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 QR31 4 yrs grade A; IB English and French HL6

English and German GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A and AAB-AAB; IB: 34-32 QR32 4 yrs German; IB English HL6 and German HL5

English and Italian GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A and AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 QR33 4 yrs GCE AS modern foreign language grade B; English and Russian IB English HL6 and MFL SL5 QR37 4 yrs

English and Spanish GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A and AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 QR34 4 yrs modern foreign language; IB English HL6 and MFL SL5

English and Visual Culture GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A; IB AAA-AAB; IB 36-34 WQ23 3 yrs (WQF3 4 yrs) English HL6

BA Single Honours English GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A; IB AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Q301 3 yrs English HL6

BA Joint Honours English and History GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A; IB AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 QVH1 3 yrs (QV3D 4 yrs) English HL6

Geography and English See Geography LQ73 3 yrs

Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information about Additional Selection Criteria at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/english ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer either GCE AL English Literature or English Language and Literature. For details about study abroad please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/english International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

My degree has been dramatically improved by the University’s commitment to making its students well-rounded by the time they leave. As I come up to applying for graduate schemes, I believe I’m in a better position because of this. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time here, and couldn’t recommend it enough.

ALICE POOLE, BA ENGLISH (STREATHAM CAMPUS) 94 Enviromental Science

Environmental Science

Do you want to make a difference and change the future of the planet? Are you inspired by the complexity of the natural environment? 7th in the UK for Geography and Environmental Could you help develop new ways to manage the world’s natural resources? If so, then Science in The Sunday Times University Guide 2012 environmental science is the subject for you. Addresses the grand challenges facing our planet Environmental science is a quantitative and interdisciplinary approach to understanding including climate change, biodiversity, sustainability and managing the world in which we live. Environmental scientists are concerned with and environmental decision-making understanding spatial patterns in physical, biological and chemical phenomena in the Focus on developing your practical skills and Earth’s system at local, regional and global scales and finding appropriate solutions theoretical grounding, with training in essential to environmental problems by assessing, reporting and quantifying environmental skills relevant to the environmental jobs market risks. They work in areas as diverse as contaminated land assessment and Close links with industry leaders in the remediation, natural resource management, practical conservation, pollution mitigation, environmental sector ecosystem service assessment, environmental monitoring, mapping and consultancy. Our Work placement opportunities degree in Environmental Science will give you the skills and expertise you need to address the Field study in the UK and overseas world’s greatest challenges in climate change, such as, biodiversity, sustainability Opportunities to study abroad for a year and environmental decision-making. Jobs in environmental sectors across the Degrees in CORNWALL globe are likely to increase in the future as population growth intensifies the demand for BSc Single Honours resources and emerging global environmental Environmental Science policies place a question mark over the Numbers longevity of carbon-hungry energy supplies. New programme so figures for 2013 A growing body of scientific evidence, with not available significant contribution from staff at the University of Exeter, is highlighting the fragile Programme information future of biodiversity, water resources, food Email: [email protected] security and natural carbon stocks under Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 global climate change. Climate change is now www.exeter.ac.uk/environmentalscience acknowledged by scientists, governments, businesses and social, environmental A subject brochure is available which includes and economic organisations as one of the full programme and module details. greatest challenges of our time. Our changing environment presents a fascinating and urgent You may also be interested in set of challenges and opportunities for today’s Biosciences (see page 65) practitioners, policy makers and researchers. Geography (see page 100) Enviromental Science 95

Programme Details Year 1 Global Issues in Environmental Field work Full details can be found in our subject Science; Environmental Science Tutorials; You will engage in field work of all varieties brochure and at www.exeter.ac.uk/ Scientific Data Analysis; Introduction to and in many different environments. Led environmentalscience Ecology and Conservation; Earth System by expert staff, field trips are embedded Science; Environmental Science Field Trip; Field into modules throughout your degree to Techniques in Ecology and Conservation; A Legal give you a first-hand understanding of the BSc Environmental Science Foundation for Environmental Protection. LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS subject. In Year 1 you’ll explore ecological and Our BSc Environmental Science is the Year 2 Residential Fieldclass in California*; environmental principles in West Cornwall. In University’s flagship environmental degree, Applied Environmental Management; Year 2 you’ll attend a residential field class to enabling you to learn the science behind Population and Community Ecology; California* where you will gain field surveying the Earth’s amazing complexity and its Environmental Regulation and Redress; experience in the Mojave Desert and in the environmental processes. The programme is optional modules. coastal redwood forests near Santa Cruz. In at the cutting-edge of current thinking in the Year 3 you will plan your own field research Year 3 The Environment and the Media; environmental field: you will learn practical using the skills you have developed in Environmental Restoration and Remediation; and theoretical insights from world leading previous years. Sustainable Rural Futures; Research research experts in a range of environmental Dissertation; optional modules. disciplines. Assessment *Field class destinations may be subject to change Assessment methods vary depending on your You will benefit from learning at the cutting choice of modules, but are likely to include edge of interdisciplinary research through Learning and Teaching exams and coursework-based assessment. You the programme’s close relationship with the You will be taught by internationally must pass your first year assessment in order to University’s Environment and Sustainability recognised research-active staff through progress to the second year. The assessments in Institute (ESI) – an interdisciplinary centre a range of methods including lectures, the second and final years all contribute to your leading research into the consequences of seminars, tutorials, field work and final degree classification. environmental change and the mitigation and laboratory sessions. Emphasis is placed management of its effects. on developing your practical hands-on Careers Our aim is to train you in measuring, evaluating expertise, grounded by sound theoretical A degree in Environmental Science from the and making decisions about environmental knowledge. We embed important University of Exeter will equip you with a issues. From day one of your degree you will environmental science skills within modules, very wide range of skills with which to enter take a hands-on approach to the collection including GIS, remote sensing and data further study or employment. These include: and analysis of environmental data in the field analysis. data gathering; information retrieval; problem and laboratory. The programme will broaden solving; project planning and management; your horizons by enabling you to learn about Study Abroad report production and presentation (written and environmental processes at a range of scales You will have the opportunity to apply for oral); plus the ability to work as part of a team. from local issues affecting South West England a place to study with one of a number of A degree in environmental science will place you to those with global impacts. You’ll engage with international exchange partner universities. at the forefront of a discipline where resource issues relating to climate change, its impact To qualify for application for an exchange management and environmental decision on the world and efforts to mitigate its effect. place, we expect you to have successfully making are critical to the future health and You will uncover the complexities of the legal completed the first year of your studies with function of planet Earth. Find out more at processes that underpin environmental decision- average mark of at least 60 per cent. Places www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/employability making and discover how the law facilitates the are limited and will be awarded on a enforcement of environmental regulation. competitive basis.

Throughout the programme you will develop a ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ENTRY DATA wide range of practical skills to increase your DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER employability, working with satellite data and using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) BSc Single Honours to guide real-world environmental decision Environmental Science At least two GCE AL or IB HL5 science AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 F750 3 yrs subjects, Biology or Geography preferred making. The programme also takes advantage of the unique field work opportunities GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; available locally in the South West and Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; further afield including a residential field trip Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at to California* taking in the Mojave Desert www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international and the coastal redwood forests near Santa Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. Cruz. The programme will present you with For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including opportunities to gain insights from industry requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications leaders in the environmental sector and engage p with other relevant organisations through field If more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements. trips and work placement opportunities. 96 Film Studies

Film Studies

The Film Studies programmes at Exeter encompass the teaching of American, European, East Asian and other world cinemas 1st for Teaching and 5th for Overallp Satisfaction in from the early cinema era to the present day. In addition, the Combined Honours the National Student Survey (2011) programmes allow you to study film with literature, or with a Modern Language. 2nd for graduate level employment and t Across each of the programmes you will postgraduate study rates learn about the historical developments, theoretical perspectives and critical debates World-class film research resources relating to film and gain an understanding of the distinctive features of different national Based in the English department which isv ranked and international cinemas. In the process, you will discover the amazingly diverse range 1st in the UK for world leading research of aesthetic, cultural, social and political issues that have engaged filmmakers around Distinctive international approach to film analysis, the world. All programmes offer access to the University’s history and theory first-class facilities. These include the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and High rates of students graduating with a 1st or 2:1 Popular Culture, a unique collection of over 70,000 artefacts, books and journals relating degree to the history and pre-history of cinema, and the Library, which houses over 12,000 Vibrant programme of events, including writers, films on DVD and video as well as books and filmmakers and others from the creative industries contemporary journals. Learning and Teaching Degrees in EXETER We use a variety of learning and teaching methods, including lectures, seminars, BA Single Honours screenings, student study groups and web Film Studies and IT resources. All our modules centre the BA Combined Honours learning experience on seminars, involving English and Film Studies groups of between 10 and 20 students, Film Studies and a Modern Language typically running for two hours. Many modules are supported by weekly 50-minute lectures. Numbers Students often prepare for seminars by Entrants: 15 involvement in student study groups, which Applicants: 148 encourage collaboration and team working. Programme information Assessment Email: [email protected] You will be assessed by a combination of Phone: +44 (0)1392 724342 exams, essays, presentations and ‘sequence www.exeter.ac.uk/film analysis’ (the close reading of film clips). You will have to pass the assessments in your A subject brochure is available which includes first year in order to proceed to the second full programme and module details. year but they do not count toward your final degree classification. The assessments in the second year, year abroad (for Combined Honours Film Studies and Modern Language students) and the final year will contribute to your final degree classification.

pbased on the average percentage of positive responses for full service universities tbased on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first degree graduates in Film Studies with a known career or study destination (HESA 2009/10) vRAE 2008 based on the percentage of research categorised as 4* Film Studies 97

Careers Combined Honours Degrees Year 3 Dissertation or Creative Writing A degree in Film Studies can lead to a Dissertation; plus either Acts of Writing: variety of careers in teaching or in the film, BA English and Film Studies Literature and Film, 1953-present; or Shakespeare and Renaissance Tragedy; or media, publishing, fashion or other creative LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Romanticism; plus two optional Film modules. industries. Other students choose to continue This diverse programme offers you the chance their study of Film at postgraduate level. The to study literature, film and culture from the critical, communication and practical skills you early modern period to the present, from Other Combined acquire will uniquely equip you as facilitators Chaucer to contemporary digital media. You Honours Degrees and communicators. will gain a rich understanding of film and LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Film Studies may be studied with French, During the course of your studies you will literary history and analysis, and you will be German, Italian, Russian or Spanish. For develop the transferable skills associated able to work with resources unique to Exeter in details of the Film Studies component, please with research, time management and group the Bill Douglas Centre. The programme moves see above. For details of the second subject, working that are highly regarded by employers from an initial foundation year towards greater including the language requirement and the in all fields. Additionally for those of you choice and a higher degree of specialisation in year abroad arrangements, please refer to studying Film with a Modern Language, there the latter years. Modern Languages. will be opportunities for work abroad. Find out Year 1 Beginnings: English Literature before more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ 1800; Introduction to Film Analysis; Major employability Debates in Film Theory; plus two from: The Flexible Combined Honours Poem; The Novel; Introduction to Creative LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Film Studies may be studied under the Flexible Programme Details Writing; Shakespeare. Full details of Film Studies programmes, Combined Honours scheme (see page 98). including information on option modules, Year 2 Shots in the Dark; plus one from: can be found in our subject brochure and at Spectacular Attractions: Cinema and Sensation; www.exeter.ac.uk/film European Film Noir; East Asian Cinemas; Introduction to African Cinema; and two from: Chaucer and His Contemporaries; BA Film Studies Renaissance and Revolution: 17th Century LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Literature; The Enlightenment, 1700-1799; The distinctive feature of our BA Film Studies Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640; degree is its coverage of diverse cinemas. Introduction to American Literature; The Shock In your studies you will watch films from of the New: Literature 1900-1953; Humanities African, American, European, East Asian and other world cinemas. You’ll gain a deep and in the Workplace. wide ranging knowledge of film as a cultural, social, industrial and global phenomenon FILM STUDIES ENTRY DATA and familiarity with different conceptual and DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER theoretical approaches to film. The range of BA Single Honours films studied will equip you to understand the Film Studies AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 complex histories of the medium as well as W600 3 yrs how important issues of cultural difference are raised through cinema, giving you the tools BA Combined Honours English and Film Studies GCE AL English LiteratureÌ grade A; IB AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 and vocabulary to take a questioning attitude Q3W6 3 yrs English HL6 to your own culture. Film Studies and French GCE AL French; IB French HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Year 1 The first year will introduce you to WR61 4 yrs key concepts and methodologies and to a number of major debates. You’ll study Film Studies and German GCE AL German; IB German HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Introduction to Film History; Introduction to WR62 4 yrs Film Analysis; Major Debates in Film Theory; Film Studies and Italian GCE AS in a modern foreign language AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Transnational Cinema. WR63 4 yrs grade B; IB MFL SL5 Film Studies and Russian Year 2 Cinescapes: Time, Space, and Identity; WR67 4 yrs Shots in the Dark; Spectacular Attractions: Cinema and Sensation; European Film Noir; Film Studies and Spanish GCE AL in a modern foreign language; IB AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 East Asian Cinemas; Introduction to African WR64 4 yrs MFL HL5 Cinemas. ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer either GCE AL English Literature or English Language and Literature. Year 3 Studies in Authorship; Diasporic International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Cinemas; Film and Literature: Textual Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. Transformations; American Independent For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other Cinema; Cityscapes; Taiwan New Cinema and types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications Beyond; Dissertation. 98 Flexible Combined Honours

Flexible Combined Honours

Flexible Combined Honours (FCH) offers a unique and appealing degree structure as it lets you study a range of subjects, related or Create subject combinations not otherwise available totally diverse, in a very flexible manner. FCH allows you to develop a particular blend Study two or more subjects, or create your of knowledge and skills in line with your own subject interests and career objectives. You are own pathway guided by the FCH staff, academic FCH subject coordinators in each of your subject areas Vary the proportion of the subjects each year and your personal tutor – all are there to help you choose the most appropriate academic Leads to a named degree title of the subjects pathways and to get the most out of your degree and time at the University of Exeter. you study At its simplest level, FCH lets you combine Interdisciplinary degrees to suit your interests and two subjects where there is currently no existing Combined Honours degree on one of our campuses – eg, History and English; career ambitions Geography and Economics; or Management Add vocational elements to your studies and German. You can study a related or diverse range Opportunities for study or work abroad, UK-based of subjects from those offered by most departments of the University. This includes work experience combining subjects across the areas of arts/ humanities, sciences and social sciences, so Available at all campuses you can create a degree such as English and Mathematics; Biosciences and Theology; or Psychology and Management. The title of your degree will reflect your areas Degrees in Exeter Degrees in cornwall of study, eg, BA in International Relations BA/BSc Combined Honours BA Combined Honours and Law, BSc in Biosciences and Psychology, BA/BSc Combined Honours with BA in English and Mathematics or BA in Numbers Study or Work Abroad Mediterranean Studies. Entrants: 6 BA/BSc Combined Honours with Applicants: 26 You can study on the FCH degree from the UK Work Experience first year, either full- or part-time, or transfer Programme information onto it later. If you entered the University Numbers Email: [email protected] on another degree and you find it does not Entrants: 84 Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 allow you to follow the particular interests Applicants: 770 you wish to pursue, transferring to FCH from www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ your second year can allow you to develop degrees/flexible Programme information a programme better matched to your own Email: [email protected] particular interests and ambitions. Phone: +44 (0)1392 725270 www.exeter.ac.uk/fch Flexible Combined Honours: Streatham and Subject brochures are available which include full programme details for FCH degrees St Luke’s campuses in Exeter and Cornwall. FCH gives you the opportunity to study otherwise unavailable or unusual subject combinations and to customise your degree programme, making it distinctive and different. This is usually done by choosing two subject areas for your first year. Three subjects may also be possible, if compulsory modules allow – please ask about this before applying. You can also follow one of the readily available themed pathways such as Mediterranean Studies or Historical, Political and Sociological Studies for the whole or part of your study from your first year. Flexible Combined Honours 99

You can combine subjects in various The final year of your programme can also Flexible Combined Honours: proportions and the proportion can change include an independent study or dissertation Cornwall Campus each year, as long as any core, compulsory with individual supervision in a subject of If you opt for the Flexible Combined modules are taken. You can also drop a first- your choice. Honours scheme at our Cornwall Campus year subject and start a new one or follow a you can study either two or three subjects new themed pathway from the second year. Study or Work Abroad from the following list: The four-year ‘with Study or Work Abroad’ The following subject areas are available programme allows you to spend your third English // Geography // History // through FCH in Exeter – you can combine any year abroad at a University or working, Environmental Law // Politics two unless otherwise stated: either in Europe or beyond and can also be If you choose two subjects, in the first year you Ancient History // Animal Behaviour // taken by non-language students. You can will normally take 60 credits each year from Anthropology // Arabic // Archaeology // apply directly for the four-year programme each component. You might, however, want Biochemistry // Biosciences: Molecular and or transfer to this once you are at Exeter. to be more innovative and select a pathway Cellular Biology // Chemistry // Chinese Full details of this programme are at involving three disciplines. For example, (minor) // Classics/Classical Studies // www.exeter.ac.uk/fch/abroad there are many modules that will enable Computer Science // Economics // English you to explore how humanities and social // Film Studies // French // Geography Work Experience science disciplines question the construction // German // Greek (ancient) // Global The four-year ‘with UK Work experience’ and representation of ‘the environment’: for Futures - Sustainability // Historical, degree programme allows you to spend your example, what is ‘the environment’? What is Political and Sociological Studies // History third year in a UK-based work placement. You ‘nature’? What do we mean by ‘sustainability’? // International Relations // Italian // can apply directly for the four-year programme How have humans interacted with and Japanese (minor) // Kurdish // Latin // Law or transfer to this once you are at Exeter. constructed environments in the past? You // Management // Mathematics // Medieval Alternatively, a work experience module can can build an exciting and coherent programme Studies // Mediterranean Studies // Middle form part of your second or final year, to to equip you for employment in the growing East and North African Studies // Persian // add to your employability. The work can be field of environmental businesses and Philosophy // Politics // Politics, Philosophy in the UK or abroad. Full details about work organisations. Individual guidance is given on and Economics (PPE) // Psychology // experience are at www.exeter.ac.uk/fch/ module choices at regular points. Renaissance Studies // Russian // Sociology work-experience // Spanish // Sport and Health Sciences // Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) (minor) // Theology // Flexible Combined Honours ENTRY DATA Visual Culture DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER In the first year you usually take 60 credits in BA/BSc Flexible Combined Honours Y004 3 yrs Dependent on subjects chosen. For details, A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 each subject area to give a total of 120 credits. Y006 4 yrs – with Study or Work Abroad see www.exeter.ac.uk/fch/entry In subsequent years, the relative proportion Y007 4 yrs – UK Work Experience of subjects can be varied within the total of 120 credits. There is often some choice in the BA Flexible Combined Honours Y003 3 yrs Dependent on subjects chosen. For details AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 modules you take to make up each subject area see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ in the first year and certainly a wide choice for degrees/flexible second and subsequent years. A typical module Completing your UCAS form When completing your UCAS form for Y004, Y006, Y007 or Y003 you must indicate is worth 15 or 30 credits. your proposed subjects under ‘Further details’ in the ‘choices’ section of the application. Full details of how to complete the tthemed pathway – can form all or part of a programme form can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/flexible pthemed pathway forming the whole programme of study – International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at is not combined with another subject www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international vcannot be combined with each other Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. cannot be combined with each other For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including the study of Law as part of the FCH degree does not lead requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications to professional accreditation. A one-year BA Law degree is available to gain qualifying Law Society status after completion of your three-year FCH degree the study of Psychology can be either as an accredited British Psychology Society (BPS) accredited pathway or non-accredited

I’ve had a phenomenal time at Exeter, and have particularly enjoyed the flexibility that my programme offers. It allows me to study modules from subjects that I’m interested in, and has also enabled me to spend my third year away working in industry for IBM. The experience has really enhanced my employability and prospects of getting a job after I graduate.

Rich Lawlor, 4th year Flexible Combined Honours with UK Work Experience 100 Geography

Geography

Geography at the University of Exeter is a world class research and teaching discipline at the interface of the social and natural sciences. 7th in the UK for Geography and Environmental Our programmes aim to develop your ability to better understand the world, as well as the Science in The Sunday Times University Guide 2012 knowledge and skills to shape solutions for the p future. We aim to inspire in you an interest 8th in the UK for world leading research in and enthusiasm in geography that will shape Geography and Environmental Studies your life and career well beyond graduation. You’ll be encouraged to develop an 90% for Overall Satisfaction in the National Student understanding of human societies and t natural environments. As well as building Survey (2011) on familiar aspects of the physical and social world, such as the environment, Distinctive programmes available in Cornwall population change or resource management, you’ll consider the critical global issues and and Exeter challenges of the 21st century which are likely to affect environments and societies in the Flexible degree structures and pathways coming years. You will encounter exciting Excellent teaching and research facilities including developments such as climate modelling, vegetation and rivers, satellite mapping, a £3.7 million sediment research centre in Exeter environmental change, climate change, biosecurity, heritage, landscape, health and the £30 million Environment and Sustainability geographies and non-human geographies. Institute in Cornwall Careers A Geography degree from the University of Opportunities to study abroad Exeter will equip you with a very wide range of skills with which to enter further study or Field study in the UK and overseas employment. These include: data gathering; project planning and management; report production and presentation (written and oral); team working; numerical and analytical Degrees in Exeter Degrees in cornwall capacity; IT literacy; and spatial, social and BA Single Honours BA/BSc Single Honours environmental awareness. These skills are Geography* Geography* in demand from a wide range of graduate Geography with European Study BA Joint Honours employers. The breadth of career BSc Single Honours Geography and English opportunities open to geography graduates Geography* History and Geography is vast, with recent graduates starting careers Geography with European Study Politics and Geography in planning, water analysis, land management and conservation, management training, Numbers Numbers teaching and more. Find out more at Entrants: 217 Entrants: 50 www.exeter.ac.uk/geography/ Applicants: 1,206 Applicants: 252 undergraduate/employability Programme information Programme information Study Abroad Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] If you take one of our four year Geography Phone: +44 (0)1392 723341 Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 with European Study degrees at the Streatham www.exeter.ac.uk/geography www.exeter.ac.uk/geography Campus, you’ll spend your third year studying abroad at one of our partner European *International study abroad options available. universities. For students on all of our other Single Honours degree programmes, A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details. on both campuses, once you’re studying You may also be interested in: Environmental Science (see page 94) at the University of Exeter you’ll have the opportunity to apply to spend a year at a university overseas (outside Europe). This year abroad will be taken during your third year of tRAE 2008 based on percentage of research classified as 4* study. Full details of these schemes and p91% of Physical Geography students and 89% of Human of our partner institutions can be found Geography students agreed they were satisfied via the programme pages of our website www.exeter.ac.uk/geography/undergraduate Geography 101

Geography: Learning and teaching with a BA or BSc degree. The nature of this Cornwall Campus At the Cornwall Campus you will be welcomed approach to geographical study also means into an intimate and supportive learning that while you will be expected to have a strong Geography programmes at our Cornwall environment that encourages enthusiasm academic profile, you are not required to have Campus will give you an integrated and holistic and passion for Geography, and promotes previously studied specific subjects at A level. understanding of geography, equipping you interest in the global challenges geographers Year 1 Environment and Society; Investigating with the knowledge and skills to help address seek to address. You will benefit from excellent Social and Spatial Environments; Approaches the key issues and problems facing humans student:staff ratios, small group tutorials and to Geographical Knowledge; Earth System and our planet today. You will be taught friendly, accessible staff. Teaching and learning Science; Global Issues in Environmental by expert staff, who are actively engaged is through lectures, seminars, tutorials, Science; Analysis of Environmental Data; in research in a wide range of human and laboratory classes and field work. We have Tutorials; Residential Field Trip. physical geography specialisms. These include: well equipped laboratories with the latest climate change; remote sensing; landscape scientific teaching equipment. Year 2 Environment, Place and the Past; evolution; society and space; environment Society, Nature and Space; Environmental and sustainability in the past and present; Assessment Policy and Politics; Applied Environmental and energy policy. Your progress is monitored through tutorial Management; Atmosphere and Ocean work and practical assessments. The final Systems; Overseas Field Trip. Cornwall is an exceptional place in which degree mark is based on approximately 50 per to study Geography. The county is a perfect Year 3 Dissertation; Sustainable Rural cent exam-based and 50 per cent coursework- living laboratory that offers a diverse range Futures; Wastelands; Issues in Climate Change; based assessments. The latter include a final of marine and terrestrial habitats, a wealth The Carbon Cycle; Energy for a Low Carbon year dissertation, which is an independent of natural resources and a number of unique Economy; China and the Global Economy; research project in which you study the topic social landscapes. The University’s new Environmental Geomorphology; Landscape that excites you most. The modules taken in and Environmental Modelling; Environment Environment and Sustainability Institute Year 1 must be passed to progress to Year 2 and Empire; Histories of Science. (ESI) is located on the Cornwall Campus and but the marks obtained do not influence your further inspires the research and teaching final degree classification. in Geography. The ESI leads cutting-edge Joint Honours Degrees interdisciplinary research into solutions to LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS problems of environmental change. In so Programmes in Cornwall Geography may be studied with English, doing it enhances people’s lives by improving Full details of the programmes and modules History or Politics. For details of the their relationships with the environment. can be found in our subject brochure and at Geography component, please see above. Geography in Cornwall offers outstanding www.exeter.ac.uk/geography/undergraduate For details of the second subject please refer analytical and experimental laboratories for to the relevant subject entry. environmental change and process studies, BA/BSc Geography including the Beowulf high performance LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS Flexible Combined Honours computing facility and a dedicated GIS suite Our Single Honours Geography programme at LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS for geospatial modelling activities and remote the Cornwall Campus takes an innovative and Geography may also be studied under sensing. Our facilities are supported by a contemporary approach to studying geography. the Flexible Combined Honours scheme team of expert laboratory, research and Modules investigate key global challenges of (see page 98). computing technicians. the 21st century by exploring both human and physical issues and, importantly, the Field work connections between the two. This approach Field work is an important component of our allows you to gain an appreciation of global undergraduate degrees and we treat Cornwall challenges from multiple perspectives with as a living laboratory, taking learning into the an understanding of the interactions between field to explore the incredible landscapes in people, places and events. the region and beyond. In Year 1 you’ll develop The programme is aimed at students who are key field skills during a compulsory week-long curious to explore important global challenges, residential field course in west Cornwall. In but who also want to have the flexibility Year 2 you’ll attend a residential field class, to study specific human and/or physical for example in California*, which will enable geography topics as part of their degree. you to put your learning into practice and Following a first year of interdisciplinary gain new research skills. Many modules modules tackling broad issues, you will have also include days in the field, and you’ll be the opportunity to choose a thematic route encouraged to explore Cornwall’s unique through more specialist modules in the environment in dissertation research and second and final years. This arrangement independent coursework. combines a holistic training in geography with the flexibility, depending on your choice of *Field course destinations may be subject to change. optional modules in years 2 and 3, to graduate 102 Geography

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I’m taught by highly experienced lecturers Geography: Streatham Campus who are at the cutting edge of research in their Our Geography programmes, delivered from the Streatham Campus in Exeter, offer you fields, and this influence has developed my interests choice from a range of optional modules in particular areas. My programme allows you time allowing you to tailor your programme to suit your developing interests. In the first year to generate areas of interest for more specialised you will study human and physical geography modules and develop key skills ensuring you modules in years two and three. There’s a wide have an excellent foundation and are well placed to progress successfully through the range of field work, and the Cornwall Campus degree. The second and final years offer you more flexibility to specialise, with optional allows easy access to many outstanding sites. The modules that draw on our research strengths. the range of learning styles that my programme uses Academic staff based at the Streatham Campus are all actively involved in research covering is incredible, from lectures, tutorials and seminars a wide range of topics in both human and physical geography and you’ll benefit from to professional speakers and extensive field work. direct access to the latest thinking in your subject. Our research interests cover most Plus, small class sizes and tutorials allow you to ask aspects of modern geography, with a particular questions and obtain feedback about assignments strength in hydrology, geomorphology and earth surface processes, Quaternary and presentations. environmental and climatic change, GIS, historical geography, rural geography, Daniel Venton, BA Geography, Cornwall Campus nature-culture relations, and cultural and political geography. We have strong links with international, national and local research projects including those in the UK and Europe, Iceland, the Middle and Far East, the Pacific Rim, the former Soviet Union and southern Africa, as well as North and South America. We offer well-equipped experimental laboratories, including a £3.7 million sediment research centre, a 75-seat GIS lab with high- spec workstations, a cartographic studio and a technical workshop. These facilities are managed by experienced and dedicated technical support staff. Geography 103

Field work Programmes in Exeter specialisation with an emphasis on physical Field work is an essential part of a Geography Full details of the programmes and modules geography. You can choose from a diverse set degree programme at Exeter. You will be can be found in our subject brochure and at of optional modules which span a breadth introduced to geographical research techniques www.exeter.ac.uk/geography/undergraduate of topics including areas in which we have in core modules and field courses during the a particular strength such as hydrology, first two years of your degree. Year 1 modules geomorphology and earth surface processes, BA Geography Quaternary environmental and climatic provide training in research design, use of IT LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) change, and GIS. and quantitative and qualitative analytical Our BA Geography programme will techniques that form the basis of your provide you with a broad understanding of Year 1 All first year Geography students study geographical investigation in your final year. geographical aspects of human society and the two core modules: Methods and Concepts in A combination of day and residential trips are physical environment in your first year, with Geography, and Geographies of Environment used to introduce you to the key geographical the opportunity to specialise through module and Sustainability. Other compulsory modules aspects of the South West. In the Years 2 and choices in years two and three. Following a first include: Study Skills for Physical Geographers; 3, field trips provide an opportunity for you year that provides a good foundation in human Investigating Physical Geography; Earth to develop and apply your research skills to and physical geography plus key skills, years 2 Systems; Global Climate Change. Plus real-world environments. The main residential and 3 offer you the opportunity to shape your optional modules. field class runs in Year 2 with past destinations degree to match your developing interests Year 2 Spatial Skills for Physical including Canada, Germany, Iceland, New with an emphasis on human geography. You’ll Geographers; Physical Geography Field Zealand, Scotland, Spain, the USA and the UK. choose from a range of optional modules which Trip; Physical Geography Practice. Plus draw upon our research strengths, including optional modules including Catchment Learning and teaching historical geography, rural geography, Hydrology and Geomorphology; Coasts; At the Streatham Campus you will join a nature-culture relations, cultural and political Environmental Feedbacks to Climate Change; large community of Geography students geography, climate and society. and staff presenting a thriving and vibrant World of Fire and Ice. Year 1 All first year Geography students in environment in which to study. We use Year 3 Dissertation; plus optional Exeter study two core modules: Methods and a range of teaching methods including modules including: Cryosphere; Drylands; Concepts in Geography, and Geographies large group lectures, seminars, tutorials, Climate-Society-Environment Interactions; of Environment and Sustainability. Other laboratory classes and field work. Tutorials Landscape Systems Management; Tropical compulsory modules include: Geographies of complement lectures by encouraging Coastal Environments; Geomorphology and Global Change; Place, Identity and Culture; you to explore issues in small group Environmental Change; Climate Change Study Skills for Human Geographers; discussion meetings (5-6 students per and Its Impacts. group). We have well equipped laboratories Investigating Human Geography. Plus optional modules. providing you with the latest scientific BA/BSc Geography teaching equipment. Year 2 Human Geography Practice; Human with European Study Geography Field Trip; Theory, Space and Assessment LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Society. Plus optional modules including: You may apply for direct entry to these degrees Your progress is monitored through tutorial Historical Human Geographies; Living or, exceptionally, students with appropriate work and practical assessments. The final Natures; Political Geographies; Social language skills can transfer to these degrees degree mark is composed of both exam-based Geography; and Geographies of Development. from one of the other degree programmes and coursework-based assessment, including during their second year. a final year dissertation. The modules taken in Year 3 Dissertation; plus optional modules Year 1 must be passed to progress to Year 2 but including: Geographies of Material Culture; Years 1 and 2 As for Geography in Exeter the marks obtained do not influence your final Geographies of Rurality; Postcolonial except that language modules replace some degree classification. Geographies; Animal Geographies; option modules. Climate-Society-Environment Interactions; Geographies of Monsters: Science, Society and Year 3 You will spend your third year at Environmental Risk; Geographies of the State; another European university with which Images of the Earth. we have exchange arrangements. Currently these are Bern, Bordeaux, Cantabria, Dublin, BSc Geography Göttingen, Graz and Poitiers. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Year 4 See Geography in Exeter (Year 3). The BSc programme offers you the opportunity to tailor your physical geography degree to suit Flexible Combined Honours your developing interests. The first year of the LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) programme provides an excellent grounding Geography may also be studied under the in both physical and human geography and Flexible Combined Honours scheme ensures you develop the core skills required (see page 98). to progress successfully. The second and final years allow for greater flexibility and 104 Geography

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GEOGRAPHY ENTRY DATA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER

BA/BSc Single Honours Geography AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 F804 3 yrs

BA Joint Honours Geography and English GCE AL in English LiteratureÌ; AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 LQ73 3 yrs IB HL5 in English

History and Geography AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 VL17 3 yrs

Politics and Geography AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 LL27 3 yrs

BA Single Honours Geography GCE AL or IB HL5 humanities or social AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 L705 3 yrs science subject

Geography with European Study GCE AL or IB HL5 humanities or social AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 L702 4 yrs science subject; GCE AS or IB SL in a modern foreign language

BSc Single Honours Geography GCE AL or IB HL5 science subject AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 F800 3 yrs

Geography with European Study GCE AL or IB HL5 science subject; GCE AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 F8R8 4 yrs AS or IB SL in a modern foreign language

ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer either GCE AL English Literature or English Language and Literature. GCE AL humanities/social sciences includes: Business Studies, English, Geography, Geology, History, Media Studies, Religious Studies, Economics, Law, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology. GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements.

The University of Exeter is highly ranked in the UK and the Geography programme is one of the most renowned and developed undergraduate programmes here. The quality of teaching is great and the lecturers are friendly and really helpful. Exeter does not only give me the opportunity of a well designed course and high quality education but also valuable life experiences.

Jessica Tsang, BA Geography, Streatham Campus Geology 105

Geology

The study of geology applies many different branches of science to understand how the Earth ‘works’ and has evolved over the last 4th for Geology in the National Student Survey 4.6 billion years. It ranges in scope from p the atomic through the continental to the 2011 cosmic, and encompasses such spectacular natural processes as earthquakes, landslides 5th in the UK for Physical Science in The Sunday and volcanic eruptions. Many applicants choose to study geology for these reasons Times University Guide 2012 alone. However, geology has many applied aspects and knowledge of these provides International reputation with excellent employment excellent opportunities for work in a variety of prospects landscapes and environments worldwide. Throughout our programmes, emphasis is 2nd for graduate level employmentt and placed on practical training in field-based skills, including geological mapping (surface postgraduate study rates and underground), core logging, surveying and environmental case studies. Field work plays Specialist facilities include world-class analytical an essential role, with residential field courses taking place in the UK and Europe, along with laboratories one-day courses based around the outstanding local geology in Cornwall and its associated Typical group size of 25 students ensures an extractive industry. effective learning environment Both programmes provide comprehensive training for students aiming to become Emphasis on field-based training professional geoscientists. The mixture of pure and applied earth science and engineering Accredited by The Geological Society modules and associated transferable skills, is appropriate for employment in many sectors Merit scholarships available including engineering geology, geotechnics, hydrogeology, environmental geology, mineral/oil exploration and production, or Degrees in CORNWALL study towards a postgraduate degree (MSc BSc Single Honours or PhD). Applied Geology The programmes are taught by Camborne Engineering Geology and Geotechnics School of Mines (CSM) which has a very strong Numbers international and national reputation for Entrants: 27 providing applied geoscientists for industry Applicants: 158 and are accredited by The Geological Society. Programme information Learning and Teaching Email: [email protected] Teaching is carried out via formal lectures, ‘hands Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 on’ practical classes and field-based teaching, www.exeter.ac.uk/geology including sessions in our test mine. Laboratory classes, using our extensive geological collections A subject brochure that includes full programme and petrographic microscopes, will develop your and module details is available. understanding of the major groups of rocks, minerals and fossils. Project work often involves You may also be interested in: use of our geochemical and mineralogical Mining Engineering (see page 123) analytical facilities. Between the second and third year, you will complete a major project which forms an important component of the third year of the degree programmes. This project may involve pbased on the average percentage of positive responses geological mapping, a research project or a across all survey categories for full service universities company placement (sometimes paid). tbased on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first degree graduates in Geology with a known career or study destination (HESA 2009/10) 106 Geology

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Assessment Year 2 Your studies continue in key areas BSc Engineering Geology You will have to pass the first year in order of fundamental geology and geotechnics. and Geotechnics Geological skills are developed to a high level to progress, but the marks do not contribute LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS to your final degree classification. The overall in sedimentology, igneous and metamorphic This programme provides additional emphasis mark for your degree is calculated from your petrology and structural geology and include a on geological engineering skills and is best second and third-year assessments. substantial amount of practical work and field- suited to students who intend to work in the based training. During the summer vacation engineering geology or geotechnical sectors. Scholarships before Year 3 you undertake independent Year 1 and 2 Please see BSc Applied Geology. A significant number of departmental study involving an industrial placement, geological mapping or a research project. merit scholarships, worth £2,000 per year Year 3 The emphasis, as for the Applied Modules include: Igneous and Metamorphic (reviewed each year), are awarded on the basis Geology programme, is on areas that Petrology; Sedimentology; Structural Geology; of academic excellence (six were awarded to maximise your employment potential, but Geological Field Techniques; and Geotechnics. first year geology students in 2011). Rio Tinto this includes a greater focus on engineering plc also select one Geology student at the Year 3 The emphasis changes to areas and so you undertake a module in Tunnel end of Year 1 who they sponsor through of applied geology that maximise your and Underground Excavation Design and an Years 2 and 3. For further details please employment potential. You also report on Engineering Geology Design Project. You also see www.exeter.ac.uk/csm your summer vacation project and undertake report on your Summer Vacation Project. The a separate research project on an area of Applied Field Geology module is a residential Careers interest. The Applied Field Geology module field class in either Spain or Cyprus and Twenty-one of our 22 graduates in 2011 is a residential field class in either Spain or provides a practical synthesis of much of Years have secured employment or postgraduate Cyprus and provides a practical synthesis of 2 and 3. Modules also include: Exploration study in areas directly related to their degree much of Years 2 and 3. Modules also include: Techniques; Hydrogeology; Surface Excavation programme, such as mineral exploration/ Exploration Techniques; Hydrogeology; Design; GIS for Geologists; Summer Vacation production, geotechnics or engineering Surface Excavation Design; Mineral Deposit Project with module options in Health and geology, either in the UK or overseas (typically Geology; GIS for Geologists; Geology Safety/Risk Management, Mineral; Deposit Australia or Africa). There are currently Research Project; Summer Vacation Project Geology and Contaminated Land Management significant global skill shortages in these with module options in Health and Safety/ and Remediation. areas and the majority of students have Risk Management and Contaminated Land obtained job offers before they graduate. Management and Remediation. Employers are usually in the Earth resources or civil engineering sector and range from GEOLOGY ENTRY DATA multinationals to consultancies and DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER junior exploration companies. Information about graduate careers can be found at BSc Single Honours www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ Applied Geology F613 3 yrs GCE AL in two science subjects or AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 Engineering Geology AL Geology; IB two sciences HL5. employability and Geotechnics F644 3 yrs GCSE Maths grade C Programme Details GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; Full details, including information about Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. the available optional modules, can be International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at found in our subject brochure and at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international www.exeter.ac.uk/geology Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including BSc Applied Geology requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements. This programme provides knowledge and understanding of a wide range of applied geoscience disciplines that are of relevance to potential employers. It is best suited to students who wish to develop a broad portfolio of geoscience skills. Year 1 The first year provides a foundation in geology and associated field work techniques, including surveying, together with a background in chemistry and mathematics. Modules include: Geology; Crystallography and Mineralogy; Earth and Environmental Chemistry; Stratigraphy and Palaeontology; Field Geology and Geological Maps; Mathematics 1A; Surveying and CAD. History 107

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Studying History at the University of Exeter will take you on a journey through the human race in historic times: its activities, ideas, Top 10 for History in The Times, The Guardian and creations, institutions and impact. What you encounter will enhance your understanding The Complete University guides 2012 of other subject areas and kinds of knowledge and improve your awareness of other cultures, Ranked in top 100 for History in the QS World providing mental resources that will be of use throughout your life. University Rankings 2011 Our programmes are high in quality, modern 92% for Overall Satisfaction in the National and innovative and introduce a range of countries, periods and themes in ways that Student Survey (2011) are stimulating and intellectually challenging. In addition, the content of the programmes Wide breadth of academic expertise in diverse is influenced by our research interests which are nationally and internationally rated and historical periods and geographical regions positioned at the forefront of academic debate. Our expertise ranges from the early medieval Online materials to support flexible learning period to the 21st century, with strengths in both the history of Britain and continental Innovative degrees at our Cornwall Campus Europe, and in world history. History can be studied in Exeter and also at our Cornwall Campus near Falmouth. Degrees in Exeter Degrees in cornwall Whichever campus you choose, you’ll find the same high-quality, research-led teaching for BA Single Honours BA Single Honours which we are well known. History* History* BA Combined Honours BA Joint Honours Learning and Teaching History may also be studied with Ancient English and History* Throughout the programmes, stress is laid History*, International Relations*, History and Geography on the need to analyse, discuss and deploy Philosophy*, Politics*, Visual Culture* or History and Politics* historical evidence in a variety of settings with a Modern Language. The full list of and not simply on the ability to memorise. Numbers programmes available can be seen in the You will learn through lectures, tutorials and Entrants: 55 entry data table on page 110. seminars, with a growing emphasis at each Applicants: 449 successive level on student-led learning. You Numbers Programme information will have a personal tutor as well as tutors Entrants: 155 in individual subjects and they will work Email: [email protected] Applicants: 1,242 with you to monitor your progress, as well Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 as offering pastoral support and other help. Programme information www.exeter.ac.uk/history You will have a chance to make your mark Email: [email protected] on the programmes through regular student Phone: +44 (0)1392 723301 evaluations and participation in the Student- www.exeter.ac.uk/history Staff Liaison Committees and the student History Societies.

*4-year programmes with Study Abroad available Assessment You will be assessed by coursework and A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details. exams each year. Although formal exams are You may also be interested in: important tests of skill, up to 50 per cent of Ancient History (see page 73) your marks may be derived from other forms of coursework which include essays, projects, dissertations and measures of your skill in presentation and oral work. You must pass your first year modules in order to progress but your performance at this level does not count towards your final degree result. 108 History

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Careers History is a diverse and interdisciplinary Combined Honours Degrees A degree in History will provide you with a subject area and you’ll have the opportunity wide range of skills which will be useful in your to choose from a flexible range of history BA History and Visual Culture and related options as part of your degree. future study or employment. Alongside in- LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) These range in time from the collapse of the depth subject knowledge you’ll develop skills in Visual culture is an exciting area of study Roman Empire to post-Communist Europe, researching, analysing and assessing sources, which incorporates a number of established in place from America to Asia and Africa, and written and verbal communication, managing subject-areas, including art history and cultural in content from modern political movements and interpreting information and developing studies. It will be of particular interest if your and parties to women’s history and material ideas and arguments. In addition you will background is in fine and modern art, the culture. This will give you considerable scope learn how to manage your time and meet tight history of art, cinema, literature, cultural to shape your degree to suit your current and deadlines. Some of our graduates choose to history, philosophy, sociology or modern emerging interests. follow their interest in their degree studies languages. with postgraduate study or with a career in teaching or museum and archive work. Programmes in Exeter The BA in History and Visual Culture is a Others use the more generic skills gained on Combined Honours degree which enables you Full details of the programmes, including to divide your time equally between these two their course to enter a wide variety of careers information about the individual modules, such as law, government administration and related subject areas. You will study half of can be found in our subject brochure and at your modules from the BA History (see above) business. Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ www.exeter.ac.uk/history/undergraduate undergraduate/employability and the other half from Visual Culture. By studying visual culture, you will learn Study Abroad BA History LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) how to interpret visual images in order to If you take History with a Modern Language Our History programme is a progressive understand contemporary and past societies, you will normally spend your third year one, building on a broad foundation in the and also how these images are a reflection of a abroad; for details please see the Modern first year, to highly specialised work in the society itself and the belief systems to which Languages Entry. final year, including the study of a particular it adheres. For example, you might explore For our other degree programmes you may subject in depth and a dissertation on a topic the emergence of a ‘society of the spectacle’ study for half a year at a partner institution in of personal interest. As you progress through alongside the rise of reality TV and social Europe, North America or Australia. Students the degree programme you will be offered media in everyday life, or the idea of ‘virtual based at both campuses can also follow a considerable choice as to what you may study war’. four-year ‘with Study Abroad’ programme and you’ll have the opportunity to specialise in During your second and third years you will which allows you to spend your third year different kinds of history. be able to follow your interests through a wide abroad. You may apply directly for the four- Year 1 History Foundation including a group range of optional modules: you can choose year programme or transfer from another project; Understanding the Medieval and to study art and material culture in ancient programme once you are at the University. Early Modern World; Understanding the societies; look in detail at the way art history Full details of these schemes and of our Modern World; Sources and Skills modules. works; or focus on visual culture within a partner institutions can be found on our ‘Understanding’ modules cover a wide specific society or time period right up to the website at www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/ variety of themes and subjects and provide a modern day. undergraduate/studyabroad foundation for module choices in years 2 and Our visual culture programme builds on 3. ‘Sources and Skills’ modules cover a wide Exeter’s internationally recognised buildings, History: range of subjects and may include The Norman artworks and collections. These include fine Streatham Campus Conquest and German Perspectives on World art collections, a sculpture walk and one of War II and help to prepare you for your At the Streatham Campus in Exeter we Britain’s largest public collections of books, independent study in Year 2. have some of the leading historians in their prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the fields. We’re firmly committed to research Year 2 Doing History (guided independent history and prehistory of cinema. and publication of the highest quality and study); Uses of the Past; and ‘Options’ this has a direct impact on the quality of our modules, which explore a particular subject Other Combined undergraduate teaching. in depth and range from the Transformation Honours Degrees of England 600-850 AD to African American We have strengths in Early Modern British LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) History. History may also be studied with Ancient and Modern European history, and particular History, International Relations, Philosophy, specialisms in the histories of power (including Year 3 Dissertation; ‘Special Subject’ modules; Politics or with a Modern Language (French, security and conflict), identity (including ‘Comparative Histories’ modules. Special German, Italian, Russian or Spanish). The faith, gender and nation), knowledge Subjects are taught largely from documents History component follows broadly the same (including medicine) and resources (including and range in time and place from The pattern as the BA History degree at Exeter, consumption and sustainable development). Celtic Frontier to Colonial Conflict and though you will only take half your credits at Our Centre for Maritime Historical Studies Decolonisation. Comparative Histories explore each level in History. For details of the was the first of its kind to be opened in a different approaches to a single theme, such second subject, please refer to the relevant British university and our other research as warfare or diet, over a long range of time subject entry. centres are also a focus for interdisciplinary or in a global perspective. research activity across the institution. History 109

History: BA History Joint Honours Degrees Cornwall Campus LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS The History department at the Cornwall This programme offers a traditional basis History may be studied with English, Geography Campus has some of the leading historians in British, European and World history, but or Politics. These Joint Honours degrees give in their field. All our members of staff are it is in the last area that we are particularly you the opportunity to divide your study research-active and publish their research at innovative. Our strengths lie in using history between two complementary areas of interest the highest international level. Our expertise to understand the challenges posed by and explore the interface between them. For is concentrated in the modern period, globalisation, ethnic conflict and scientific and details of the second subject, please refer to from approximately 1600 to the present, environmental change. the relevant subject’s entry. incorporating international, economic, social Year 1 History Foundation; World History; and cultural history and many geographical Public History; Microhistories. Public History Flexible areas, including the Americas, the Far East, allows you to develop your skills in oral history Combined Honours the Middle East, Europe and Britain. Whether and archival work in museums, galleries LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) you study Single Honours History or combine and other organisations. World History AND CORNWALL CAMPUS it with another subject, you will be introduced is divided into two parts, the first dealing History may also be studied under the Flexible to a stimulating range of periods, areas and with the ways in which historians have dealt Combined Honours scheme (see page 98) approaches to history. with globalisation, the second focuses on which allows you to combine History with At Cornwall we pride ourselves on our science, the environment and sustainability. subjects not currently available as a Combined ability to engage individually with our students Microhistories also has two parts: the first Honours or Joint Honours programme. throughout their studies and this is reflected introduces you to the history of everyday in the outstanding ratings in the National life and the second concentrates on place Student Survey. and identity. Year 2 Doing History (research methods) Programmes in Cornwall or Public History Project; option modules. Full details of the programmes, including Option modules undertake intensive surveys information about the individual modules, of areas of historical debate, such as The can be found in our subject brochure and at English Radical Tradition since 1700; Early www.exeter.ac.uk/history/undergraduate Modern England: A Social History; Resources; Globalisation and Control: the Developing World since 1945. Year 3 Dissertation; Research modules. Research modules relate closely to the research interests of staff and include Britain and the Telecommunications Revolution; The Politics of Nature: Sustaining the British Environment since 1600; and The Three Klans: Ethno- politics in 20th Century USA.

Studying History at the University of Exeter has given me the most amazing first year. The knowledge, enthusiasm and organisation of the academic staff has been fantastic in encouraging me to pursue my subject further and challenge any pre-conceptions we might have of history. The organisation of the programme also meant that I was able to study a diverse range of modules to really test out as many new areas of the subject as I could fit in and wanted to try.

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DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER

BA Single Honours History GCSE English Language grade A A*AA-AAB; IB 38-34 V100 3 yrs (V103 4yrs)

BA Combined Honours History and Ancient History AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 V111 3 yrs (V190 4 yrs)

History and French RV1C 4 yrs GCE AL French; IB French HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

History and German RV2C 4 yrs GCE AL German; IB German HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32

History and International Relations GCSE English Language grade A AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 LVF1 3 yrs (VL1F 4 yrs)

History and Italian RV3C 4 yrs GCE AS in a modern foreign language AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 History and Russian RV71 4 yrs grade B; IB MFL SL5 History and Politics GCSE English Language grade A AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 LV21 3 yrs (VL1G 4yrs)

History and Spanish GCE AL in a modern foreign language; IB AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 RV4C 4 yrs MFL HL5

History and Visual Culture AAA-AAB; IB; 36-34 WV21 3 yrs (WV12 4 yrs)

Philosophy and History See Philosophy VV51 3 yrs (VV5C 4 yrs)

BA Single Honours History AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 V102 3 yrs (V104 4 yrs)

BA Combined Honours English and History See English QVH1 3 yrs (QV3D 4 yrs)

History and Geography See Geography VL17 3 yrs

History and Politics AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 VLC2 3 yrs (VLD2 4 yrs)

Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information about Additional Selection Criteria at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/history For details about study abroad please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/history International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

Many of the lectures are both interesting and inspiring and often create enthusiasm for a subject that motivates you to explore the subject further and more in depth. I especially enjoy lectures that utilise other aspects like showing you paintings or playing you music in order to clarify or illustrate a point.

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Law

Our undergraduate programmes offer an exciting combination of traditional and innovative approaches to the academic Exemptions from academic stages of study of law. An Exeter law degree delivers a rigorous understanding of legal principles professional training as well as an examination of law in different theoretical and social contexts. Pioneering programmes leading to the dual The experience of studying law in applied settings, including through community qualification of the English LLB and either the legal projects, advocacy, pro bono work and mooting is a characteristic of the French Maîtrise or the German Magister Exeter approach. We have a wide variety of optional modules and offer the ability to Opportunities to study worldwide study overseas. The degree will give you all the skills necessary to pursue a career as a Academic rigour in an innovative learning lawyer and will also equip you with a firm foundation for other careers. environment Our academic staff work in a wide range Significantly above average employmentp prospects of legal fields from the historical and theoretical to the socio-legal. The Law compared to other Law Schools School also has three long-standing research groupings: Family Law, Legal History, and Wide range of opportunities for extra-curricular International and Human Rights Law. We are currently developing specialisms in pro bono activities European Law and Science, Culture and the Law. The research-led culture at Exeter will Dedicated law resources and library subject-support benefit you directly, as you will be taught by established scholars and trained teachers Employer-led presentations from law firms to who are consistently informed by their research activities. develop skills and improve opportunities The student-run Bracton Law Society is very active, organising not only social events but Excellent national and international reputation also visits from city and other lawyers along with mooting competitions, at which we have for mooting been internationally successful. In addition, there are regular seminars with departmental Degrees in Exeter guest speakers and opportunities for honing LLB Honours legal skills through voluntary work as well as Law advice on summer work placements. Legal skills workshops, mooting competitions, guest Law with European Study lecturers, research seminars and a host of Law with International Study other activities demonstrate that studying Law Law (European) Maîtrise/Magister at the University of Exeter offers you a wide Graduate LLB range of exciting opportunities. Numbers The Law School at Exeter is housed in the Entrants: 188 Amory Building in the attractive setting of the Applicants: 1,245 University’s Streatham Campus and includes a purpose-built Moot Room. Our Library has in Programme information excess of 40,000 law volumes and, in addition Email: [email protected] to United Kingdom, Commonwealth and some Phone: +44 (0)1392 723192 United States holdings, is particularly strong www.exeter.ac.uk/law in European Union, French and German law. A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details

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Learning and Teaching Careers Year 1 Legal Foundations; Work Experience or We are dedicated to providing an excellent A Law degree from the University of Exeter Advocacy; Constitutional and Administrative legal education. You will learn through will equip you with a wide range of skills Law; Criminal Law; Law of Contract. lectures, workshops and seminars. We place suitable not only for a career as a solicitor or Year 2 EU Law; Land Law; Law of Torts; considerable emphasis on the development barrister but also in the wider world of finance, options (a proportion of which may be in of legal skills such as legal research, problem administration and commerce. Skills, such as non-law subjects). analysis and legal reasoning. You will have the assimilation of large amounts of material, the opportunity to gain experience in public writing concise reports and problem solving, Year 3 Trusts and optional modules (a speaking and advocacy through presentations are regarded as essential by many graduate proportion of which may be in non-law and mooting. You will also have a personal recruiters. Many of our Law graduates follow subjects). tutor who is available for advice, personal their degree with further study in the law and development planning and general help then enter a training contract with a firm of Graduate LLB throughout your studies. solicitors or enter a pupillage in a barrister’s LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) chambers. There is an annual Law Fair for This programme allows non-law graduates In addition to large group lectures, we also students wishing to pursue a legal career and to undertake a two-year accelerated have a rolling programme of workshops or our Business and Outreach Coordinator helps conversion programme which leads to a seminars in each module arranged around legal facilitate opportunities for work placements qualifying LLB law degree. It covers all the problems. You will have the opportunity to and volunteering activities with local firms. foundation subjects that are required by participate and develop your own skills and Careers interviews and other employability- the UK’s Solicitors Regulation Authority to abilities. The first year currently begins with an focused events are also a regular feature on pass the Academic Stage of training that innovative group development project which campus. Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ forms part of the professional qualification encourages your team working skills. socialsciences/employability as a lawyer. There is also the opportunity A law degree equips you for both a legal future to study a specialist option from within or a variety of other careers because it enables Programme Details the Law School or a non-law module from you to develop both an analytic approach Full details of the programmes, including elsewhere in the University. The degree is to learning and the development of such information about the available optional vocation-facing and most graduates pursue important skills as research, problem analysis, modules, can be found in our subject brochure further training and a career in law after public speaking and presentations. Your and at www.exeter.ac.uk/law/undergraduate graduation. prospects upon graduation will be excellent, All our undergraduate degree programmes Year 1 Law of Contract; Constitutional and reflecting our relationship with the legal are accredited by the Joint Academic Studies Administrative Law; Land Law; Law of Torts. profession and employers. Board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority Year 2 Law of Trusts; Criminal Law; European and Bar Standards Board and have a series Assessment Union Law; optional modules. of compulsory modules which give you Assessment methods in Law are varied and exemption from the academic stage of reflect progression through the degree, professional training. On graduation you LLB Law with building on the knowledge and skills acquired can proceed to the Legal Practice Course or International Study in each year. In some of the compulsory Bar Professional Training Course. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) subjects, for example, assessment may involve This programme is available to you only after submission of an essay or an assignment LLB Law you have taken the first year of our LLB usually counting for 25 per cent of the marks Honours Law programme. You may be able LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) and an exam, counting for 75 per cent. to transfer onto the LLB with International After a core first year, the programme becomes First-year modules must be passed in order Study at the end of the first year if you get increasingly flexible in years two and three. to progress to the second year but are not marks equivalent to at least a mid to high 2:1 You can choose modules from a diverse set counted in your final degree classification. in the first-year modules and are successful at of options and design a programme to suit In the three-year programmes your degree interview – there are only two places per year your interests. There are opportunities to classification will be based on the results at each of our partner institutions. Providing see law from a variety of perspectives and to achieved in Years 2 and 3. For four-year you maintain high academic levels during gain practical experience of law in action. In programmes, your overall mark achieved for your second year, you can expect to spend the the Legal Foundations first year module you the Year Abroad is also included in your third year abroad in a law faculty in Australia, will learn about the legal system and legal degree classification. Canada, Singapore or the USA. Please note profession and you will work in a group to that you cannot apply for this degree initially analyse legal institutions such as the courts, through UCAS. lawyers, or tribunals by visiting them and Please contact the talking to relevant personnel in order to see Law School for further information and analyse how they work. There is also the ([email protected]). option to choose between a Work Experience or an Advocacy module in your first year, both of which will help you to develop and articulate your personal, legal and academic skills. Law 113

LLB Law European LLB Law with European Study Flexible Combined Honours (French)/Maîtrise LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LLB Law European This four-year programme enables you to Law may also be studied under the Flexible (German)/Magister combine the LLB in English law with a year Combined Honours scheme (see page 98). in a European law faculty. You can undertake LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) This programme is not a qualifying law degree additional language tuition in the first You will spend your first three years in and does not give you exemption from the two years to help you develop sufficient Exeter and in your fourth year you will study academic stage of professional training. A competence in your chosen language to follow either at the University of Rennes and follow one-year BA Law degree is available to gain the programme in the year abroad. one of the Maîtrise en Droit programmes qualifying Law Society status after completion or at the University of the Saarlandes/ Year 1 Legal Foundations; Work Experience or of your three-year FCH degree. Saarbrücken and follow the Magister Advocacy; Constitutional and Administrative programme. On successful completion Law; Law of Contract; language module you will obtain the dual qualification of relevant to the country in which your third LLB (European) (University of Exeter) and year will be spent. Maîtrise (University of Rennes) or Magister (University of the Saarlandes/Saarbrücken). Year 2 Law of Torts; EU Law; Land Law. In addition to being exempt from the academic Year 3 You will follow an approved programme stages of professional training in the UK, of study in a foreign law faculty (France, graduates will have the necessary knowledge Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, Spain, to pass the aptitude test which enables lawyers the Netherlands or Romania). from EU Member States to practice as a lawyer Year 4 Trusts; Criminal Law; and options in France or Germany. (which can be in non-law subjects). You must be competent in French or German as the modules in French or German law (at LAW ENTRY DATA Exeter) will be taught in that language. Both DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER linguistic and academic competence may be LLB Honours assessed during an interview as part of the Law GCSE English Language grade B AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 application process. M103 3 yrs Year 1 Legal Foundations; Constitutional Law (European) GCSE English Language grade B; GCE AL AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 French or German grade A; IB French or and Administrative Law; Advocacy or M120 4 yrs German HL6 Work Experience; Law of Contract; Droit Constitutionnel Français or Law with European Study Minimum of GCSE English Language AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 Staatsorganisationsrecht und Grundrechte. M124 4 yrs grade B and GCE AS in a modern foreign language grade B Year 2 Law of Torts; EU Law; Land Law; Droit Graduate LLB Honours degree of at Administratif Français or Schuldrecht AT. M106 2 yrs least 2.1 classification Year 3 Trusts; Criminal Law; Droit Français or equivalent des Contrats or Schuldrecht BT; optional International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at module (which can be in non-law subjects). www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. Year 4 Year spent abroad as set out above. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications 114 Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts

Our Liberal Arts degree is an innovative, challenging and flexible programme designed specifically to develop your intellectual Innovative, flexible and interdisciplinary and critical skills by engaging with the key issues, principles and debates underpinning programme contemporary global cultures. The breadth of knowledge you will acquire will be Designed to develop your intellectual skills by complemented by in-depth learning in your chosen field of specialisation – your ‘major’. engaging with global cultures Built into the programme is an optional fourth year, enabling you to extend your Equips you with the critical skills and studies by a year to gain an integrated Masters qualification. experience valued by employers Rooted in areas of study spanning the Includes an optional integrated Masters degree spectrum of humanities and social science subjects, the Liberal Arts programme is designed not only to develop you into an Degrees in Exeter intellectually-engaged member of the global BA/MLibArts Single Honours community, but also to equip you with an Liberal Arts impressive range of critical skills that will make you particularly attractive to employers. Numbers New programmes so figures for 2013 Subjects studied cover a range of humanities not available and social sciences, and a language, as well as mathematics or science. In addition, you’ll Programme information also be able to spend either a full year or half Email: [email protected] a year studying at one of our international Phone: +44 (0)1392 724202 partner institutions. You can further develop www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/ your employability potential by undertaking a undergraduate work placement or a research internship that we can help you to secure, or by opting to take A subject brochure is available which includes an extra year of study to gain the integrated full programme and module details Masters qualification. Majors Offered Anthropology // Arab and Islamic Studies // Archaeology // Art History // Classics and Ancient History // Drama // English // Film Studies // History // Modern Languages // Philosophy // Politics // Sociology // Theology and Religion // Visual Culture Learning and Teaching You will be taught by internationally respected research-active staff. We use a wide variety of techniques and approaches to help you learn and get the most out of your degree. Our teaching methods make full use of seminars, study groups, tutorials and web-based learning. We integrate the latest approaches with traditional lectures to give you a varied and challenging programme. During core modules you will learn through practical work, problem-solving, project work, team work and research projects, all of which are designed to help you develop key skills for success for the rest of your degree – and your future career. Liberal Arts 115

Study Abroad BA/MLibArts Liberal Arts Year 3 You will pursue your major by selecting As part of the Liberal Arts degree you may LOCATION: STREATHAM CAMPUS (EXETER) modules in your chosen discipline. If you choose study for either a full year or half a year at one This innovative programme equips you with to take the BA route, you will also research and of our partner institutions across the world. the intellectual and critical skills designed to write a dissertation on a Liberal Arts theme. Full details of these schemes and of develop you into a global citizen. Your breadth This would mark the completion of the BA our partner institutions can be found on the of knowledge and understanding across a programme. Alternatively, you might decide Study Abroad page at www.exeter.ac.uk/ diverse range of humanities and social-science to work towards converting your degree into a humanities/undergraduate subjects will be firmly grounded in your Masters. In taking this route, you will spend the specific area of specialisation (your ‘major’). third year of your degree taking modules in your Assessment The programme gives you the opportunity to nominated major and you will also complete an You will be assessed in all years through a conduct some of your studies abroad, and we individual research project, before moving on to variety of assessment methods. These could will support you in securing a work experience the fourth year of the programme. include coursework, exams, written reports or placement or a research internship. You will Year 4 (optional Masters route only) You presentations amongst others. You must pass also be able to extend your studies by a year will take a range of modules at both BA your first-year assessment in order to progress and so convert your degree into a Masters and Masters levels in your major area of to the second year, but the results do not count qualification. specialisation and you will also write a Liberal towards your degree classification. Year 1 Three core modules will give you a Arts dissertation. Successful completion of this solid foundation in the skills, methods and stage of the programme would convert your Careers principles of Liberal Arts learning. Alongside Liberal Arts studies into a Masters degree. The skills you will develop will provide an edge these modules, you will also take an ancient or over other arts, humanities or social sciences modern language, or a module in quantitative degrees particularly given to the core foreign methodology, or a science module. language (ancient or modern) and science/ quantitative research modules that you will Year 2 You will take a practice-based core study alongside your option modules. The module that will develop your research and opportunity to study abroad will give you a problem-solving skills. You will also take wider understanding of the world and inter- further modules in language, science or cultural awareness, while the chance to develop quantitative method and optional modules a work experience placement or research selected from a diverse range of humanities internship during your studies will show and social science subjects. At the end of potential employers how you can apply your this year, and with the help of your academic knowledge and skills in the workplace. advisor, you will nominate your ‘major’ – the area of study in which you will specialise for On completion you will be able to demonstrate the rest of your degree. critical thinking, communication skills, textual analysis, quantitative analysis, teamwork and research skills. These abilities are highly LIBERAL ARTS ENTRY DATA valued in a number of career sectors. Find out DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ MLibArts Single Honours employability Liberal Arts A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 LA98 4 yrs

Programme Details BA Single Honours A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 Full details can be found in our subject Liberal Arts brochure and at www.exeter.ac.uk/ LA99 3 yrs humanities/undergraduate International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications 116 Mathematics

Mathematics

The University of Exeter is an ideal place to study mathematics. On the Streatham Campus, the department is large enough 91% for Overall Satisfaction in the National to provide expertise to cater for student interests across the range of subjects but Student Survey (2011) small enough to ensure a supportive learning environment. At the Cornwall Campus, Single and multidiscipline degree programmes mathematics draws on expertise from the Environment and Sustainability Institute and Optional summer industrial placement that an inter-disciplinary atmosphere through strong collaborations with ecology, renewable contributes towards your degree energy and socio-economics. Our staff are not only active in research, with international £3 million invested in new academic and recognition in topics across mathematics, but are also involved in teaching, which means student facilities that the most up-to-date ideas are brought into your degree programme. Research work at Exeter includes areas Degrees in Exeter Degrees in cornwall of algebraic geometry, number theory, geophysical and astrophysical fluid MMath Single Honours BSc Single Honours dynamics, dynamical systems and control, Mathematics Mathematics and the Environment climate modelling, mathematical biology MSci Single Honours Numbers and ecology, laser dynamics and various Mathematics (Climate Science) New programme so figures for 2013 topics in statistics and optimisation. Mathematics (Mathematical Biology) not available Mathematics forms part of a College Mathematics with Business and Finance with Computer Science, Engineering and BSc Single Honours Programme information Physical Sciences and these surroundings Mathematics Email: [email protected] support collaborations on many levels. You Mathematics with Accounting, Economics, Phone: +44 (0)1392 724061 will enjoy excellent learning support and Finance or Management www.exeter.ac.uk/maths study facilities. We have spacious modern BSc Combined Honours computing laboratories and a dedicated study resources centre. Mathematics and Engineering or Physics We offer a wide choice of degree programmes Numbers so you can choose to study mathematics on Entrants: 151 its own or with a subsidiary subject such Applicants: 913 as accountancy, economics, management, Programme information finance, or in an inter-disciplinary context aligned with the Environment and Email: [email protected] Sustainability Institute, or as a Combined Phone: +44 (0)1392 724061 Honours degree with engineering or physics. www.exeter.ac.uk/maths You can also use our Flexible Combined Honours scheme to widen your options A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details. further to include other subjects taught at the University; for example you could combine You may also be interested in: mathematics with biology, geography or a Computer Science and Mathematics (see page 77) modern language. Natural Sciences (see page 130) Mathematics 117

Learning and Teaching Programme Details Year 4 MMath Project; options from a range Teaching is mainly via lectures, but our In the first year, most modules are common of advanced modules. comprehensive arrangements for tutorial to all Single Honours degrees. This means Year 4 MSci (Climate Science) The Climate classes, mathematics and computer surgeries that transferring between our programmes, System; Modelling of Weather and Climate; and office hours, especially in the first two including between three-year and four-year Fluid Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans; years, ensure that you receive excellent programmes, can generally be arranged during Computation and Numerical Analysis; support from members of staff. You will your first year and in some cases up until the Project; options. have a personal tutor who is available for end of the second year. advice and support throughout your studies. Year 4 MSci (Mathematical Biology) Full details of these programmes, including Computer practicals help to develop skills as Introduction to Molecular Biology; Dynamics information about the available option well as mathematical insight. and Evolution of Biological Systems; modules for each, can be found in our subject Mathematical Analysis for Biological Systems; Students take modules that combine brochure and at www.exeter.ac.uk/maths Computational and Numerical Analysis; mathematics with the development of skills Project; options. in communicating mathematical ideas MMath Mathematics and results. This will equip you with the MSci Mathematics MSci Mathematics with transferable skills required in today’s rapidly changing workplace. BSc Mathematics Business and Finance LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Assessment These degrees provide a strong foundation This four-year programme combines in all the main areas of mathematics: pure advanced study of Mathematics with a Your work is assessed by a combination mathematics, applied mathematics and subsidiary component in Business/Finance. of exams and coursework. The assessed statistics/optimisation. Through option Years one to three are the same as one of coursework will help you to work steadily modules you can choose to specialise in the BSc programmes below and the fourth throughout your degree, and in mathematics one area of mathematics or to continue year comprises: Methods for Stochastics this is particularly important since the subject with a broad-based programme. and Finance; Analysis and Computation for matter develops logically from fairly simple Finance; Mathematical Theory of Option beginnings. Coursework contributes 20 per The four-year MMath and MSci degrees allow Pricing; Financial Modelling; Project; options. cent to the assessment of most of the modules you to explore your mathematical interests to in these programmes. You’re required to pass a greater depth and to obtain a higher level your first year but your results do not count qualification. They are an excellent preparation BSc Mathematics with towards your final degree classification. for a career as a professional mathematician. Accounting, Economics, The MMath degree caters for those considering Finance or Management Careers postgraduate research in mathematics or a LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) A degree in mathematics from Exeter will career in industrial research and development. These three-year degrees are similar to the equip you with a wide range of subject- The MSci degree prepares you to work in an BSc in Mathematics, but at least 25 per cent specific and more general skills which are area of science of contemporary importance of the modules are replaced by modules highly prized by employers. Specific skills will which depends heavily on mathematical tools in Accounting, Economics, Finance or include an analytical approach to problem and models. The first three years of all the Management as appropriate. You may take solving, handling data using modern software, programmes are essentially the same, while further modules in the subsidiary subject as and a readiness to tackle new concepts. In the final year of the four-year programmes electives in the second and third years. The addition you will develop the ability to work involves more advanced and specialised combination of skills developed during these independently, work to tight deadlines and material. programmes make graduates very attractive to develop communication skills. a wide range of employers. Year 1 Vectors and Matrices; Calculus We have excellent links with employers, locally and Geometry; Programming for Science; and nationally, and encourage our students Mathematical Investigations; Advanced to carry out work placements. Employers also Calculus; Numbers, Symmetries and Groups; come to the University to provide careers Probability and Discrete Mathematics; advice, give guest lectures and help students Dynamics. to find placements. Mathematics graduates Year 2 Analysis; Differential Equations; from Exeter are highly valued by employers in Algebraic Structures; Vector Calculus and a broad range of sectors. Applications; options including an elective Our graduates enter a wide variety of fields outside Mathematics. where their analytical skills are valued, both in Year 3 A wide range of optional modules business and in the public sector. Areas such are available, including Mathematics: as finance and actuarial work are particularly History and Culture. On the MMath and popular. A number of graduates each year MSci programmes, there is also the chance decide to follow their degree with a higher to study abroad for a semester in the USA, degree in an area of particular interest or Canada or Australia. train to become teachers. Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ employability 118 Mathematics

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BSc Mathematics MATHEMATICS ENTRY DATA and the Environment DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS MMath Single Honours This unique programme addresses the central Mathematics GCE AL MathsÌ grade A; IB Maths HL6 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 questions relating to climate change and G102 4 yrs our response to it. You will look at how the MSci Single Honours natural world is reacting to climate change; Mathematics GCE AL MathsÌ grade A; IB Maths HL6 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 how cultures and society are responding to G103 4 yrs emerging environmental pressures; and what Mathematics with Business the alternatives to fossil fuels in a global and Finance energy market are. Such issues are central G1N1 4yrs to this programme as it combines a solid BSc Single Honours foundation in mathematics and statistics Mathematics GCE AL MathsÌ grade A; IB Maths HL6 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 with the century’s key environmental and G100 3 yrs societal issues and policies. This programme Mathematics with Accounting G1N4 3 yrs caters for employment in traditional areas for Mathematics with Economics mathematics graduates and new emerging G1L1 3 yrs areas related to sustainability, renewable Mathematics with Finance energies and environment policy. G1N3 3 yrs Mathematics with Management Year 1 Mathematics of the Environment 1; G1N2 3 yrs Vectors and Matrices; Calculus; Data Analysis; Computing. Applied options in Ecology, BSc Combined Honours Mathematics and Engineering GCE AL MathsÌ; IB Maths HL5 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 Renewable Energy, Socio-economics. GH11 3 yrs

Year 2 Mathematics of the Environment 2; Mathematics and Physics GCE AL MathsÌ and Physics; IB Maths and A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 Calculus and Dynamics; Statistical Modelling; FG31 3 yrs Physics HL5 Systems and Transforms; Computational GCE AL MathsÌ grade A; IB Maths HL6 A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 Modelling. Options in ecology, renewable Mathematics and the Environment GF19 3 yrs energy, socio-economics. ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer GCE AL Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. Year 3 Mathematics of the Environment 3; International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at Field Course; Group Project; options from www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Mathematical Biology; Statistical Ecology; Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. Environmental Modelling; Social Dynamics; For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including Climate Science; Wave, Wind and Solar Power. requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

Combined Honours Degrees LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Mathematics may be studied with Engineering or Physics. A 4-year MSci in Computer Science and Mathematics, and a 4-year BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics with Industrial Placement, are also available (see page 77). Mathematics modules normally take up half your time and the remaining modules are taken in the other subject studied.

Flexible Combined Honours LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Mathematics may also be studied under the Flexible Combined Honours scheme (see page 98), for example in combination with a Modern Language (with the option of a year abroad), Biology or Geography. Medical Imaging 119 Medical Imaging (Diagnostic Radiography)

Diagnostic Radiographers fulfil an essential role in the modern healthcare setting. They use their skills and knowledge to produce detailed, 6th for graduate level employmentp and high quality images of what is happening in the human body, all the while using empathy postgraduate study rates and interpersonal skills to put the patient at ease. These images are used in the diagnosis 7th for Subjects Allied to Medicine in The Times of injury and disease and help to ensure that Good University Guide 2012 prompt, effective treatment is given. We educate radiographers to be confident in their Accredited by the Society and College technical ability and to be able to empathise with and relate to patients while working effectively in of Radiographers a multi-professional environment. Tuition fees paid by NHS for UK applicants Inter-professional learning is delivered as part of the core syllabus and in practice, Means-tested NHS bursaries available for students where you’ll be encouraged to develop the insight and skills needed to work effectively satisfying residency requirements in the multidisciplinary hospital setting upon graduation. The University is a partner with Clinical placements in 10 hospitals across Cornwall, Plymouth University and University College Plymouth St Mark and St John in Devon, Dorset and Somerset the Peninsula Health Collaboration (PHC), with the aim of providing additional Degrees in Exeter inter-professional opportunities throughout BSc Single Honours the programme. Medical Imaging (Diagnostic Radiography) The programme is based within the Physics Numbers Building where specialist facilities for radiography include a diagnostic x-ray room Entrants: 57 with digital imaging and ultrasound facilities Applicants: 312 where practical work is undertaken; and Programme information laboratories for computing and practical Email: [email protected] physics work, for putting theory into practice. Phone: +44 (0)1392 725349 In addition the University has a research MRI scanner at the St Luke’s Campus in www.exeter.ac.uk/medical-imaging Exeter within the Magnetic Resonance Research Centre. A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details Learning and Teaching In all three years the programme is comprised of blocks which include clinical placements and the teaching of the academic subjects needed to underpin radiography. Your learning is through lectures, tutorials and seminars with clinical placements in the Radiology Department of one of our placement hospitals across the South West. During placements, clinical tutors visit you in the hospitals on a regular basis to assess your progression and learning requirements.

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Assessment sufficient detail to ensure that at the end of You will be assessed by a combination of three years you are competent to start work as continuous assessment (both academic and a Diagnostic Radiographer. clinical) and exams. The ratio of continuous Year 1 Foundations of Patient Care; Anatomy assessment to exams is approximately 5:4. and Physiology; Evidence-Based Professional You will have to pass the assessments in your Practice; Clinical Imaging; Introduction to first year to proceed to the second year but Radiation Physics; Radiographic Anatomy; they do not count towards your degree Practice Placement. classification. The assessments in the second and third year will each contribute to your final Year 2 Clinical Imaging; Project Studies; degree classification. Science for Medical Imaging; Pathology for Radiographers; Practice Placement. Careers Year 3 Project Studies; Skeletal Image A radiography degree is a passport to an Interpretation; Digital Image Processing interesting job and a fulfilling career. Starting for Radiographers; Clinical Imaging; salaries are over £20,000 and there is a grading Practice Placement. structure that sees an individual’s salary increase as they move up the profession. Medical Imaging (Diagnostic Radiography) ENTRY DATA There are also management opportunities, DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER consultant and research radiography posts. BSc Single Honours Radiographers trained in the UK are Medical Imaging GCE AL science; IB science HL; ABB-BBC; IB: 32-28 recognised as being among the best in the (Diagnostic Radiography) GCSE Maths grade C world and the health providers of many B821 3 yrs foreign countries recruit in the UK. On GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; graduation you will be eligible to apply for Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; Psychology; registration as a Diagnostic Radiographer Science (applied); Statistics. with the Health Professions Council (HPC) Programme Requirement We do require you to have undertaken some form of work experience in a radiography and for membership of the Society and department. This work experience should be for a minimum period of two days and up to five days, although it can be undertaken one day at a time over an extended period in an imaging department within a district general hospital or larger College of Radiographers. hospital. Offers for this degree will be conditional upon students completing a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) disclosure, which is deemed satisfactory, and satisfying full health assessments. Programme Details Offers/Interviews All applicants who meet the entry requirements will be invited to attend an interview. This is a Full details of this programme can be relatively informal process and will take the form of an individual meeting for you with one of our academics and a found in our subject brochure and at radiographer. During this meeting we will consider your application and discuss your personal statement. We invite you to ask any questions you may have, and there is the opportunity for you to update any information on your www.exeter.ac.uk/medical-imaging application since it was written. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at BSc Medical Imaging www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. (Diagnostic Radiography) For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications Our BSc in Medical Imaging (Diagnostic Radiography) aims to ensure that, on pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements. graduation, you have the skills required to successfully embark on a career as a Diagnostic Radiographer and to be eligible to apply for registration with the Health Professions Council (HPC). We aim to educate radiographers to be caring professionals, able to empathise with patients and offer high levels of patient care, while being confident in their technical ability through a strong academic foundation and able to work effectively in a multi-professional environment. This full-time three-year programme includes clinical placements which stretch into the summer vacation and as such this programme is longer than undergraduate programmes in other subjects. This enables us to provide both the academic and practical content in Medicine 121

Medicine

Our medical degree was formerly offered by the Peninsula Medical School, which was jointly run by Exeter and Plymouth A bold and innovative approach to clinical education universities. For 2013 entry, the two universities have decided to form their own Clinical experience from the first month of medical schools, subject to approval from the General Medical Council. The University of the programme Exeter Medical School will follow the existing Peninsula curriculum and students will A broad-based curriculum continue to undertake clinical placements in Study in a research-rich environment Devon and Cornwall. The five-year BMBS programme draws on the The latest medical technology strength of the partnership with the NHS in Devon and Cornwall to provide a unique Degrees in Exeter learning experience in healthcare. It develops BMBS skills for lifelong learning and the professional attitudes that you will need throughout your Medicine medical career. The importance of a multi- Numbers professional perspective is a key component Entrants: 125 and, during the programme, you learn both Applicants: 1,134 from and with other healthcare professionals.

Programme information The five-year programme leads to the award of Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Email: [email protected] (BMBS). We will work closely with you Phone: 0844 6200012 throughout your time studying at Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/medicine to ensure that you are properly advised on A subject brochure is available which includes career development and that your learning full programme and module details experiences enable you to be competitive in any medical employment market. You may also be interested in: Clinical Science (see page 75) Learning and Teaching You will learn in a variety of clinical and non-clinical settings. There is a strong patient focus and emphasis on the biomedical human sciences, as well as clinical and communication skills that underpin medical practice. Teaching is based on clinical case studies and uses a blend of structured, activity-based small group learning, large group plenary sessions and supported independent study. In the early part of the programme your learning is intensely supported and allows for group interaction, discussion and feedback. State-of-the-art clinical teaching facilities, IT and e-learning resources are used to support your learning. You will spend time in community placements. In the later years of the programme your learning occurs within the clinical environment with extensive opportunities to learn from patients. There is continued structured support for your learning through trigger cases, indicative presentations, clinician-supported teaching, feedback sessions, IT and e-learning, small group sessions and large group plenary sessions. 122 Medicine

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Programme Details Years 1 & 2 For your first two years you will Foundation Year The South West Peninsula Full details of this programme can be be based at the St Luke’s Campus, Exeter and Postgraduate Deanery is responsible for found in the University of Exeter Medical fully experience university life. The curriculum overseeing postgraduate medical education School brochure and on the website at in the first two years is based on the human and training in the South West. It supports www.exeter.ac.uk/medicine life-cycle, with emphasis on acquiring core the NHS by ensuring that its staff are knowledge of human and life sciences and trained to deliver the best possible quality BMBS Medicine public health and relating this to the patient. of patient care. The close alliance between the school, the deanery and the local NHS is LOCATION: EXETER (ST LUKE’S CAMPUS) Years 3 & 4 During the third and fourth instrumental in securing an excellent start Throughout your degree programme you will years of the programme you rotate through a for our students entering the Foundation study in a variety of clinical locations across series of hospital and community placements programme, ensuring a smooth transition the South West: in hospitals, general practice in six pathways, which provide extensive between undergraduate and postgraduate and the wider health community. experience of a wide range of clinical settings. medical education and training. The core curriculum delivers the essential Your learning is patient-centred and continues knowledge and skills for your role as a newly to develop your problem solving skills, whilst UK Clinical Aptitude qualified doctor, whilst allowing you a degree exposing you to the widest possible array of clinical experience. Test (UKCAT) of freedom in choosing a wide range of At the time of going to print, the University Special Study Units that amount to one-third Year 5 In Year Five, you learn the job of Exeter Medical School uses the UKCAT as of the programme. Exposure to the clinical of medicine and start to develop your a factor in determining which candidates are environment begins in your first week and understanding of principles of practice in selected for interview, along with predicted hands-on community experience increases the NHS. You undertake a series of or achieved grades and other information throughout the degree. The programme apprenticeship attachments in hospitals contained within an applicant’s UCAS form. integrates science and clinical skills so that across the region. At this stage you will have You are advised to visit the UKCAT website your science learning is applied throughout developed the personal and learning skills at www.ukcat.ac.uk the five years. required to analyse and evaluate patients’ conditions and to suggest forms of clinical The University of Exeter Medical School uses management. You’ll also take an elective which the Graduate Medical Schools Admissions Test may involve clinical or research placements, (GAMSAT) to assess non-direct school leavers’ academic aptitude to study medicine. or a combination of both. Many students take this opportunity to see the practice of medicine in another part of the world.

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BM BS Medicine GCE AL Chemistry and either Biology A*AA-AAA; IB: 38-36 A100 5 yrs or Physics. Biology must be achieved at a minimum of Grade C at AS level if not studied at AL. Four subjects must be studied at AS level. General Studies is not included in any offer. IB: Chemistry and Biology at HL6

Completing your Application Form The deadline for applications is 15 October 2012. No more than four choices should be used for clinical programmes. Interviews Successful candidates at the initial application stage will be invited to an interview which is designed to determine whether applicants have the non-academic qualities such as the communication skills, reflectiveness and empathy required to become a successful doctor. Please note that applicants are responsible for the cost of travel to the interview. As you may be working with vulnerable people in a variety of clinical settings throughout the degree programme, all offers are conditional upon a Criminal Conviction Self Declaration and an enhanced disclosure check via the Criminal Records Bureau. We will review all significant reports of convictions, cautions and verbal warnings and decide on a candidate’s suitability to enter the programme. Health Assessments All applicants invited to interview will be required to complete a health questionnaire and those accepting an offer will be screened by the Occupational Health Department. Students may be required to attend a medical examination as part of the admissions process and will be required to have tests to determine their Hepatitis B surface antigen status. Mining Engineering 123

Mining Engineering

Mining engineers are primarily responsible for the safe and economic production of the Earth’s minerals. They work with metal ores, Exceptional global employment prospects; diamonds, coal, oil and industrial minerals such as clays, granites and limestone. Many 1st for graduate level employmentp and mines involve deep underground excavations with high temperatures and very large stresses postgraduate study rates in the rock. Others involve surface working in quarries, open pits and strip mines. Only UK institution to offer an undergraduate Our BEng Mining Engineering is taught at Mining Engineering degree our Cornwall Campus by the University’s Camborne School of Mines (CSM), which has Close links with industry and paid placement been training mining engineers for over a century. Many extractive industry operations opportunities around the world around the world will have a CSM mining engineer somewhere within their staff. CSM Accredited by the Institute of Materials, is one of the best equipped departments of its 3) kind in Europe. Our staff are actively involved Minerals and Mining (IOM in research and you will benefit from their cutting-edge knowledge and our research Superb facilities include an underground test mine facilities. We are also the only university in the UK to have its own test mine for teaching and world-class analytical mineralogy labs and research. The Mining Engineering degree programme Taught by Camborne School of Mines which provides the knowledge and understanding of geology, rock mechanics, engineering design, has an excellent international reputation economics, surveying, management and associated practical skills that will enable you Emphasis on field-based training to make a valuable contribution as soon as you are employed. The programme is very wide ranging and so also provides an excellent basis Degrees in CORNWALL for careers in engineering management. BEng Honours Mining Engineering Learning and Teaching Numbers Our teaching includes lectures, tutorials, Entrants: 36 laboratory work, field courses, feasibility Applicants: 86 studies and projects. You will undertake blasting trials, ventilation surveys, surface Programme information and underground surveying exercises and Email: [email protected] learn how to operate mining equipment. You Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 will also gain work experience in the mining/ www.exeter.ac.uk/ extractive industry during the vacation of mining-minerals-engineering your second year and participate in an industrial tour. A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details. CSM is fortunate to have an underground test mine which works as a purpose-built You may also be interested in: testing facility where both teaching and Engineering (see page 85) research can be conducted in an authentic Geology (see page 105) setting.

Assessment Assessment is undertaken throughout each term via a combination of formal exams and associated coursework. You will have to pass the assessment in the first year in order to progress, but the marks do not contribute to pBased on proportion of UK domiciled, full-time, first your final degree classification. The overall degree graduates in Materials Technology with a known mark for your degree is calculated from your career or study destination (HESA 2009/10) second and third-year assessments. 124 Mining Engineering

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Scholarships Year 1 The first year of the programme Year 3 In the third year all subjects are very For College funding opportunities please visit is mainly devoted to general engineering closely connected with mining. Mine design, www.exeter.ac.uk/emps/undergraduate/ principles together with geology and surveying geotechnical engineering, mining geology funding In addition we have sponsorship from and an introduction to mining and minerals and minerals management are developed both individuals and major mining companies engineering. At the end of the first year, a further. You will also carry out a mining such as Rio Tinto, Sandvik, British Gypsum three-week surface surveying field course is feasibility study where you will work in and Aurum Mining for some of our students. held on campus. Modules include: Geology; groups to design and cost a mining project. Surveying and CAD; Mathematics; Mining and Throughout your third year you will work on Careers Minerals Engineering; Engineering Mechanics; an individual research project in your area of interest, under the supervision of a member A very high proportion of graduates of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics; of academic staff. Modules include: Mining Mining Engineering enter minerals-related Electrical and Electronic Principles. You will Software and Industrial Placement Report; employment, either in the UK or overseas. also attend a one-week induction course at our Minerals Engineering; Surface Excavation Other graduates move into related areas test mine and learn to use mining equipment Design; Accounting and Management; Health such as tunnelling, civil engineering design and explosives safely. and Safety, Risk Management; Tunnelling and or the oil and gas industry. However, recent Year 2 In year two more emphasis is placed Excavation Design; Mineral Economics and graduates are working in fields as diverse on mining subjects and management whilst Feasibility Studies; Working Environment and as sales and marketing and operations the engineering and geology topics from the Ventilation; Mining Project; Feasibility Study. management for major UK minerals providers. first year are further developed. Modules Some graduates opt to continue their training include: Fluid Mechanics; Mathematics 2; by undertaking postgraduate courses in Environmental Management; Surface Mining geotechnical engineering or computing or and Mine Transport; Project Management; undertake research degrees (MPhil/PhD). Mechanics of Materials; Geotechnics; Electrical Information about graduate careers can be Energy Conversion and Transport; Mining found at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ and Surveying. During the vacation between employability your second and third year you will work in the mining industry for at least eight weeks. Most Programme Details students work overseas during this period. Full details of this programme, including information about the available modules, MINING ENGINEERING ENTRY DATA can be found in our subject brochure and DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER at www.exeter.ac.uk/ mining-minerals-engineering BEng Honours Mining Engineering GCE AL in two science subjects including AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 J110 3 yrs either Physics or Chemistry; or GCE BEng Mining Engineering AL MathsÌ and GCSE science; IB two LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS sciences HL including either Physics or Our degree programme is truly Chemistry or HL Maths and GCSE Science. GCSE Maths grade C. multidisciplinary, including elements of civil and mechanical engineering, geology, ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer GCE AL Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. p metallurgy, economics, environmental GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biology ; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; management and health and safety. It’s also Physics; Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. highly vocational, so in addition to lecture- International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at based study, the programme includes field www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international trips, tours, a summer industrial placement Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. and practical classes in surveying and in For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including our test mine. You will generally spend your requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications second year summer vacation gaining work pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements. experience anywhere from Australia to the UK and will often be paid for doing so. The Mining Engineering degree programme is professionally accredited by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), providing the opportunity for you to work towards Chartered Engineer status after you graduate. Modern Languages 125

Modern Languages

Exeter has one of the strongest and most respected centres of modern languages research, teaching and learning in the UK. It Highly flexible degrees involving one, two comprises five major language areas: French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish. or three languages Our BA in Modern Languages enables you Study the cultures of Europe and beyond with to study one, two or (if you have a particular talent for languages) three languages, with academic specialists a wide variety of different emphases. All our degrees involve the study of culture as well as Regular guidance in your choice of degree path language: learning a language is a gateway to the critical analysis of a fantastic variety of tailored to your strengths and interests written and visual sources produced by the cultures in which our languages are spoken. Final degree title represents your choices eg, Our degrees offer a high level of choice, so you can focus on a main language and its BA French, BA Spanish with Russian, BA Italian culture, combine two or three languages or study languages alongside another subject. and German We understand that your interests are likely to change and grow during the course of your 4-year degrees with a well-structured year abroad degree, and so our flexible degree structure allows you to tailor your studies to your which may be spent teaching English, on a work strengths by taking up another language or specialising in a particular language area. placement or in university study Our extensive range of modules include the language, linguistics, history, politics, Friendly and vibrant teaching and learning philosophy, literature and cinema of the five major European languages and are taught environment by specialists including native speakers and academic staff at the cutting edge of research Degrees in Exeter in their particular disciplines. You can also choose from a range of options for your year BA Single Honours abroad, deciding whether you want to teach, Modern Languages (French, German, Italian, study at another institution or undertake a Russian and Spanish) work placement. BA Combined Honours Modern Languages and Visual Culture Although the programme title ‘Modern Languages’ is general, the degree title that you We offer a wide range of Combined graduate with will reflect the choices you have Honours Modern Language degrees with made and will clearly represent your expertise another subject. Please see under each in particular languages and cultures. language section for details. Learning and Teaching Numbers Teaching on our culture modules is varied: a Entrants: 196 class about linguistics takes a rather different Applicants: 1,270 form from a class about theatre or film, for instance. Most modules involve a combination Programme information of lectures and seminars, backed up by smaller Email: [email protected] group work and web-based learning on the Phone: +44 (0)1392 724220 University’s online learning environment. www.exeter.ac.uk/languages Between classes you prepare material, A subject brochure is available which includes evidence and arguments, individually or in groups. Seminars are your chance to try out full programme and current module details. ideas, present material to other members of the group and respond to new material on the basis of the critical techniques you’ve been taught. 126 Modern Languages

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Because our culture modules are taught by Study Abroad Careers experts you will have access to the latest One of the major attractions of a language A degree in Modern Languages from Exeter research ideas and methods, especially in degree is the year abroad; it’s an opportunity will provide you with a range of academic, final year modules. What does that mean in to immerse yourself in a foreign culture and personal and professional skills that will practice? It might mean studying an author develop your ability to cope in an unfamiliar prepare you for future employment. who was previously ignored and who you are environment. In our experience students find Language skills can be used in a wide range helping to ‘discover’; it might mean studying the year abroad challenging and rewarding in of employment such as business, a new film or museum exhibition that nobody equal measure. All Modern Language students management, finance, the civil service, has had a chance to write about yet; or it might normally spend a year abroad. Students taking law and the teaching profession. mean studying a facsimile of a manuscript Combined Honours with Arabic spend their In addition to your knowledge of a foreign that only a few researchers have seen. This second-year in an Arabic-speaking country; language you will develop high-level skills in ‘research-led teaching’ will give you an insight otherwise the year abroad is the third year. gathering and evaluating information and into how universities create new knowledge If you’re studying two of our core languages formulating and defending your ideas, as and you will be taught by people with immense you will normally spend the academic year (a well as the ability to work to tight deadlines. enthusiasm for subjects that they know minimum of seven months) in the country During your year abroad, you will learn to inside out. of the language in which you are a beginner, live in a different culture, developing your or in the country of the weaker of the two Our language teaching aims not just to independence and adaptability. These skills are languages. If you are studying at post-A level improve your production and comprehension in great demand by graduate recruiters. of the language but also to help you develop in both languages, you may be able to spend your language-learning skills. These will enable half of the year in one country and half in Each year some of our graduates follow their you to take responsibility for your language the other. interest in their subject with postgraduate study in areas such as translation or European learning, to continue learning the language(s) Depending on the country you’re going to, culture. Others use the skills gained on after graduation and to pick up new languages you’ll have the option of some or all of the their course to enter careers in business and in the future. following: studying at a university (most management both in the private and public commonly through an EU-funded exchange); Written language is taught through weekly sectors. Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ teaching English; or working in other classes of about 18 students with teams undergraduate/employability of tutors who contribute to a programme employment. Whichever option you choose, aimed at grammar improvement and the we will ensure that you receive advice and guidance about academic and practical matters Flexible Combined Honours development of advanced writing skills. You’ll Modern Languages can also be studied also have weekly oral practice in classes of before you leave, and there is a well-defined support network available to you while abroad. under the Flexible Combined Honours scheme eight to ten students with native speakers of (see page 98). the language(s) that you are studying. You will be able to swap experiences with other year abroad students on a dedicated website All language students have access to the and ask advice from students who were in language-learning facilities provided by the your locality the year before. Foreign Language Centre (see page 31). Assessment Modules are assessed by a combination of As part of my degree I travelled to exams and coursework (essays, dissertations, projects and other written and oral tasks). You Germany to study for a year at Frankfurt must pass your assessments in your first year University. This was undoubtedly the best thing in order to progress to the second year but they do not count towards your final degree about my course, as I met so many new people from classification. The assessments in the second year, year abroad and final year contribute all over the world and had a really positive to your final degree award. For full details of the assessment for each module, check the experience. undergraduate section of our website at www.exeter.ac.uk/languages DAN HARNETT, BA ENGLISH AND GERMAN Modern Languages 127

MODERN LANGUAGES ENTRY DATA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER

BA Single Honours Modern Languages Dependent on languages chosen, see below AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 R900 4 yrs BA Combined Honours Modern Languages Dependent on languages chosen, see below AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 and Visual Culture WR29 4 yrs

BA Modern Languages Completing your UCAS form

When completing your UCAS form for R900 indicate your proposed subjects under ‘Further details’ in the ‘choices’ section of the application using the abbreviations below, separated by a space:

MODERN LANGUAGES ENTRY DATA

Code Subject Required Subjects Fren French GCE AL French; IB French HL5 Germ German GCE AL German; IB German HL5 Ital Italian GCE AL in a modern foreign language; IB MFL HL5 Russ Russian GCE AL in a modern foreign language; IB MFL HL5 Span Spanish GCE AL in a modern foreign language; IB MFL HL5

Language Requirements for BA Modern Languages For all degrees which involve French OR German a minimum of grade B at A level in French and/or German is required. For those wishing to study French AND German a minimum of grade B at A level will be required in both languages. For degrees with Spanish and our other degrees, a minimum of grade B at A level in a Modern Foreign Language is required. For two-language degrees (including those with Arabic), an A level is required in at least ONE of the two languages. You may NOT take two languages at beginner’s level. For three- language degrees grade A at A level will be required in two of the three languages. For programmes combining a language with another subject (eg, History, English, etc.) you may study the language either at post-A level or at beginner’s level. In the case of beginners, evidence of language aptitude will be required (eg, an applicant holding an A level in French might be admitted onto a programme in Politics and Spanish where Spanish is studied from scratch). For application purposes, entrants holding a GCSE will be classed as beginners. BA Modern Languages with Visual Culture Completing your UCAS form

When completing your UCAS form for WR29 indicate your proposed language subject under ‘Further details’ in the ‘choices’ section of the application using the appropriate abbreviation below:

MODERN LANGUAGES ENTRY DATA

Code Subject Required Subjects Fren French GCE AL French; IB French HL5 Germ German GCE AL German; IB German HL5 Ital Italian GCE AS in a modern foreign language grade B; IB MFL SL5 Russ Russian GCE AS in a modern foreign language grade B; IB MFL SL5 Span Spanish GCE AL in a modern foreign language; IB MFL HL5

For information about changing language choices after you have applied, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/languages/modlang/entry International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications 128 Modern Languages

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Programme Details German Italian LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) French Studying German at Exeter gives you the Studying Italian at Exeter brings you into LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) opportunity to learn about the culture, contact with one of the most fascinating With over 500 undergraduates, French is the literature and society of the German-speaking cultures in the world. The research interests largest constituent part of the Department world, in particular Germany and Austria. of our lecturers will give you access to a wide of Modern Languages. We are an enthusiastic These countries have a rich cultural past range of aspects of Italian culture that they and energetic team whose internationally and play a vital role at the heart of today’s are passionate about. You’ll be able to interact renowned research feeds directly into a diverse Europe. The German language is a passport to with this research by following particular and stimulating teaching programme. a rich and diverse community of 120 million pathways that interest you most, including Our basic philosophy is to ensure broad speakers, to a treasure house of European Italian film, literature, linguistics including academic coverage with maximum choice. culture and to a major economy whose dialectology, or Italy’s political history; You can select from a wide variety of modules influence reaches out across the world. alternatively you can study across these topic areas. If you are not yet sure which area of in most areas of French Studies: cultural We offer a varied and stimulating selection Italian interests you, our introductory options studies from the Middle Ages to the present; of option modules reflecting the research in your first year will give you a flavour of the literature and the visual arts; film; linguistics; interests of our staff. The range of modules directions of study you might follow. philosophy; gender and sexuality studies. includes aspects of German literature and Many of these areas may be new to you, but culture from the late medieval period to By the end of your degree you will have we find that our students rise exceptionally the present day, museum studies, film and developed strong skills in spoken and written well to the challenge of broadening their the cultural development of the language. language and analytical thought, a deeper intellectual horizons. The flexibility of French Many students find trying out new fields and understanding of another culture and people, Studies at Exeter means that you can decide topics the most exciting thing about studying and have proven to yourself and others that to pursue a broad-based programme of study German at Exeter. you can meet a challenge head on. As our that includes modules taken from several of graduates testify, studying Italian will equip Our teaching activities have enjoyed the long- the areas mentioned above, or to specialise you with the skills employers seek across a standing support of the German Academic in one or two pathways. wide range of professions. Exchange Service or DAAD, which has supplied Full details of these programmes can be language assistants and access to support found in our subject brochure and at for trips to Germany. Our students have an Italian Combined www.exeter.ac.uk/french amazing variety of experiences during their Honours Degrees year abroad: one might be studying in Mozart’s LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) French Combined beautiful home town of Salzburg while another Italian can be studied alongside another Honours Degrees is teaching in the carnival capital of Germany, language (Arabic, French, German, Russian LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Cologne, and another is doing an internship in or Spanish) or with Classical Studies, English, French can be studied alongside another the great port city of Hamburg. Film Studies, History, International Relations, language (Arabic, German, Italian, Latin, Philosophy, Politics or Sociology. The Italian Russian, or Spanish) or with Classical Studies, German Combined component is set out above; for details of the English, Film Studies, History, International Honours Degrees second subject please refer to the relevant Relations, Philosophy, Politics or Sociology. subject’s entry. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Students take the same compulsory modules German can be studied alongside another in each year as Single Honours students and language (Arabic, French, Italian, Russian, or a selection of options. For details of the Spanish) or with Classical Studies, English, second subject please refer to the relevant Film Studies, History, International Relations, subject’s entry. Philosophy, Politics or Sociology. Combined Honours students take the core language modules and a selection of options. For details of the second subject please refer to the relevant subject’s entry.

There is a wide variety of module options available to all year groups as well as the chance to take modules in different departments, which is extremely important. The staff have all been fantastic at providing extra support in their office hours and are always ready to answer emails and specific queries.

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Russian Spanish BA Modern Languages LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) and Visual Culture Studying Russian at Exeter gives you a Our degree programmes place strong emphasis LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) fascinating opportunity to learn about a on the practical use of the Spanish language, The BA Modern Languages and Visual Culture centuries-old culture which has had an spoken by approximately 400 million people is a Combined Honours degree which enables enormous influence on our own view of the worldwide and of increasing status in the USA, you to divide your time equally between these world. You’ll be able to experience some of the and you’ll be able to develop fluency in the two related subject areas. You will study half of great works of literature and art such as Crime understanding and use of Spanish in a wide your modules from the BA Modern Languages and Punishment and Eugene Onegin, and some range of contexts. and the other half from Visual Culture. of the lesser-known exciting novels and poems During your studies you’ll be introduced that make up so much of Russian cultural life. On the modern languages side there is a great to some of the finest and most famous You’ll also have the chance to study Russian choice of modules enabling you to focus more works of art and literature, including the history, with modules specialising in the towards language skills or to learn about the visual arts, painting and cinema. You will tumultuous history of Russia in the twentieth society in which a language is spoken. These have the opportunity to study specific areas century. You’ll be learning a language spoken society-based modules cover topics as broad of Spanish and Latin American literature by over 288 million people as their first as history, politics, philosophy, literature with internationally recognised experts in language: Russian currently ranks fifth in and cinema. their field, and to add the formal study of the number of speakers worldwide and it is Spanish linguistics and sociolinguistics to Visual culture is an exciting area of study one of the six official languages of the UN. your individually tailored programme. which incorporates a number of established It is a strategically important language, not Pathways through the degree allow you to subject-areas, including art history and least because Russia is one of the four largest specialise in narrative fiction, drama, film cultural studies. It will be of particular interest emerging markets (BRIC) in the world today. and women’s literature. if your background is in fine and modern We aim to provide you with a challenging art, the history of art, cinema, literature, In addition, our programme allows you to intellectual training as well as the personal and cultural history, philosophy, sociology or integrate and develop both Catalan language key skills that are essential for the world of modern languages. and culture, and Portuguese, which is a work. We also provide the skills and expertise particularly good choice to sit alongside your By studying visual culture, you will learn for those who wish to pursue further research. study of Spanish and which may come to how to interpret visual images in order to Your year abroad enables you to gain greater form a significant part of your degree. understand contemporary and past societies, competence in the Russian language, to and also how these images are a reflection of a further your knowledge of Russian culture If you choose to spend your year abroad in society itself and the belief systems to which and society, and to develop your capacity for a Spanish-speaking country, we have well- it adheres. For example, you might explore independent learning. established exchanges with Spanish and the emergence of a ‘society of the spectacle’ Mexican universities or you can apply for a alongside the rise of reality TV and social Russian Combined teaching placement in Spain or Latin America. media in everyday life, or the idea of ‘virtual Honours Degrees A number of Santander Bursaries are available war’. During your second and third years you LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) to help support placements in Latin America. will be able to follow your interests through Russian can be studied alongside another a wide range of optional modules: you can language (Arabic, French, German, Italian or Spanish Combined choose to study art and material culture in Spanish) or with Classical Studies, English, Honours Degrees ancient societies; look in detail at the way art Film Studies, History, International Relations, LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) history works; or focus on visual culture within Philosophy, Politics or Sociology. For details Spanish can be studied alongside another a specific society or time period right up to of the second subject please refer to the foreign language (Arabic, French, German, the modern day. relevant subject’s entry. Italian or Russian) or with Classical Studies, We offer a great visual culture programme English, Film Studies, History, International because art and culture are at the heart of Relations, Philosophy, Politics or Sociology. the University: Exeter holds internationally- Students take the core language modules and recognised buildings, artworks and a number of foundation/option modules. For collections, including fine art collections, a details of the second subject please refer to the sculpture walk and one of Britain’s largest relevant subject’s entry. public collections of books, prints, artefacts and ephemera relating to the history and prehistory of cinema. 130 Natural Sciences

Natural Sciences

Finding scientific answers to the key challenges facing society, from an ageing population to climate change, requires a truly £230 million investment in science, engineering multi-disciplinary approach. Increasingly, scientific advances are taking place as and medicine traditional disciplines collide and inspire those working across the sciences. World leading research undertaken in all of our Natural Sciences at the University of Exeter is science and engineering subjects (RAE 2008) a degree that is designed for highly motivated students combining flexibility, choice and Contribute to our understanding of critical global intellectual rigour. It will place you at the heart of the learning process and give you the issues and the challenges they present opportunity to work alongside world-leading researchers who are exploring some of the 3 year BSc or 4 year research-focused MSci most important scientific developments of the 21st century. It will enable you to develop the essential skills and knowledge Degrees in EXETER that will allow you to make a real contribution BSc/MSci Single Honours to these challenges. Natural Sciences The degree ensures that you build solid Numbers foundations in the fundamentals of physical, Entrants: 50 biological and mathematical sciences and New programme for 2013 provides you with the flexibility to specialise in areas of specific interest as the programme Programme information progresses. It offers you the opportunity Email: [email protected] to switch between the three-year BSc Phone: +44 (0)1392 724061 programme and the four-year Masters (MSci) www.exeter.ac.uk/naturalsciences programme as your interests and career aspirations develop. A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details. As well as having the opportunity to specialise in the more traditional subject You may also be interested in: areas, you will be able to engage with the Biosciences (see page 65) inspirational new areas of modern scientific Mathematics (see page 116) innovation and research such as mathematical Physics (see page 134) and computational biology; biophysical, biochemical and biomedical science; materials science and materials chemistry; the science of oceans, atmospheres and climate; astrophysics; and energy research. This aspect of the programme is uniquely inspired and underpinned by some of the exciting and world leading interdisciplinary research being carried out within the University of Exeter’s Science Strategy themes: • climate change and sustainable futures • systems biology • functional materials • extrasolar planets • translational medicine, personalised healthcare and public health Natural Sciences 131

If you choose to study the four-year MSci in a wide variety of related roles in the Year 2 In the second year you will explore programme, you will have the opportunity to UK and overseas including laboratory- methodologies that span the breadth of join a research group associated with these based positions, industry, law, business, sciences and cross discipline boundaries, themes to undertake a real research project management, teaching or government. developing the skills you require to and contribute to cutting-edge science. Our Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ implement them. You will continue to develop Natural Sciences programme will allow you to undergraduate/employability mathematical skills that underpin 21st take full advantage of the growing demand in century science and shape the remaining research organisations, industry and business Programme details focus of your studies in subjects spanning for graduates who are able to work in the Full details of this programme, including biosciences, mathematics, engineering, multidisciplinary scientific environments of information about the modules, can be physics, psychology, geography and sport the future. found in our subject brochure and at and health sciences. www.exeter.ac.uk/naturalsciences You can find out more about the University’s Year 3 Your studies in your third year will Science Strategy at www.exeter.ac.uk/ include a dissertation related to one of the research/excellence/sciencestrategy BSc Natural Sciences key interdisciplinary research areas of the MSci Natural Sciences University of Exeter’s Science Strategy: climate Learning and teaching LOCATION: STREATHAM CAMPUS (EXETER) change and sustainable futures; functional Our Natural Sciences degree provides Our Natural Sciences degree will place you at materials; systems biology; extrasolar planets; the intellectual foundations for the the heart of a community of internationally and translational medicine, personalised interdisciplinary scientists of the future and respected scientists, whose enthusiasm for healthcare and public health. Within this enables you to explore the great challenges research is matched by their passion for framework, you will determine the specifics of facing society. Your breadth of knowledge teaching. Their relationship with students the research to suit your developing interests. and understanding across a diverse range of is one of partnership. Staff and student science subjects will complement your chosen Year 4 (MSci only) For students enrolled enthusiasm results in the best possible area of specialisation. on the MSci, the final year provides an undergraduate experience. We use a wide opportunity to work in the laboratories of variety of techniques and approaches to help Year 1 In your first year you will be research groups focused on one area of our you learn and get the most from your degree. introduced to the significant scientific Science Strategy. You will undertake a final Our teaching methods make full use of both challenges that inspire and permeate this year research project working for the whole traditional and contemporary approaches, programme. The programme is designed to academic year alongside leading scientists at including lectures, tutorials, laboratory provide you with core knowledge in disciplines the University. The remainder of your time sessions, study groups, and web-based including mathematics, programming and will be spent in a series of two or three week learning. During core modules you will learn biology. You will also begin to tailor your intensive, problem-based learning modules in through practical work, problem-solving, individual route through the programme which your scientific research, debating and project work, team work and research projects, covering subjects such as materials science, presentation skills will be further developed. all of which are designed to help you develop ecology, physics and chemistry. analytical skills and scientific acumen; key qualities for success for the rest of your degree NATURAL SCIENCES ENTRY DATA

– and your future career. DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER

MSci Single Honours Assessment Natural Sciences GCE AL MathsÌ and another from A*AA-AAB; IB:38-34 You will be assessed in all years through FGC0 4 yrs Physics, Chemistry or Biology; IB Maths a variety of means. These will include HL5 and Physics, Chemistry or Biology coursework, exams, written reports or HL5 presentations amongst others. You must pass BSc Single Honours your first year assessment in order to progress Natural Sciences GCE AL MathsÌ and another from A*AA-AAB; IB:38-34 to the second year, but the results do not CGF0 3 yrs Physics, Chemistry or Biology; IB Maths count towards your degree classification. HL5 and Physics, Chemistry or Biology HL5 Careers ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer GCE AL Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. Many employers look for graduates with a Please see our website for information about our definition of GCE AL/AS science for this programme. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at background in a broad based multidisciplinary www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international science degree, as it allows them to tackle Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. problems across disciplines. A Natural Sciences For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for degree from the University of Exeter will other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications provide you with a unique understanding of scientific global challenges facing our society. It will help you to develop a wide range of key skills for employment and further study such as analytical problem solving, teamwork, and organising and communicating information. As such, graduates will be highly employable 132 Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the most ancient of the academic disciplines and acts as a foundation for many other areas of academic study and research, 6th in the UK for world leading and internationally offering an excellent training in rigorous p thinking and wide-ranging enquiry. recognised research Our enthusiastic staff will introduce you to Top 10 in the UK for Philosophy in The Sunday core issues in philosophy. You’ll learn about metaphysics, which deals with the nature of Times University Guide 2012 existence, truth and knowledge; epistemology, which deals with the nature, origin and scope Flexibility to tailor your degree around your of knowledge; and moral philosophy, which deals with topics such as lying and human own interests rights. You will be taught by philosophers who are internationally renowned for their Opportunities to study abroad in Europe, USA, knowledge and expertise in the philosophy of the natural and social sciences as well as social, Australia and elsewhere political and moral philosophy. Distinctive interdisciplinary approach with Learning and Teaching Our academic staff are committed to sharing philosophers, sociologists and anthropologists their enthusiasm with you and given their research profiles, you will have the opportunity working together in teaching and research to work closely with professionals at the cutting edge of academic debate, and benefit from an innovative curriculum informed by Degrees in EXETER leading research. You’ll learn through lectures BA Single Honours and seminars, with an increasing emphasis on Philosophy* small group seminar discussion and project work in the second and third years. You’ll also BA Combined Honours have regular tutorials in which you meet with We offer a wide range of Combined your tutor to discuss essays, together with a Honours Philosophy degrees with a small group of other students. These personal modern language or another topic contacts are very important in developing (Classical Studies*, History*, Political staff-student relations and for getting to Economy*, Politics*, Sociology* or Theology*). know your fellow students. The full list of programmes available can be seen in the Entry Data table on page 133. Assessment Assessment in Philosophy is usually by *4-year programmes with Study Abroad available a combination of exams and assessed Numbers coursework (which includes the dissertation). Entrants: 57 The proportion of assessment by coursework Applicants: 478 varies according to module. You must pass your first year modules in order to progress Programme information but your performance at this level does not Email: [email protected] count towards your final degree result. Phone: +44 (0)1392 723192 www.exeter.ac.uk/philosophy Study Abroad If you take Philosophy with a modern A subject brochure is available which includes language you will normally spend your third full programme and module details. year abroad; for details please see Modern Languages. For other degrees, you may study for half a year at a partner institution in Europe, North America or Australia, or follow a four-year ‘with Study Abroad’ programme which allows you to spend your third year abroad. You may pRAE 2008 based on the percentage of research categorised apply directly for the four-year programme or as 4* and 3*. Philosophy at Exeter is included in the unit of assessment for Sociology. transfer from another programme once you are at Exeter. Full details of these schemes and of our partner institutions can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/socialsciences/ undergraduate/studyabroad Philosophy 133

Careers Combined Honours Degrees Year 3 Dissertation; International Political Our programmes give you an excellent Economy; options in Philosophy, Politics and all-round education, where you will learn to BA Philosophy and Economics. understand other people’s points of view, to Political Economy LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Other Combined communicate your own position clearly and to This degree allows you to study and Honours Degrees argue effectively. You will also learn to collect, understand the contribution that philosophy LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) assess and present evidence and to work can make to older and newer political and Philosophy may also be studied with Classical independently and in groups. Our programmes economic questions. It introduces you to the Studies, History, Politics, Sociology or are demanding and encourage initiative and central problems and methods of philosophical Theology or with French, German, Italian, open mindedness, helping to ensure that you’ll inquiry in combination with modules that Russian or Spanish. For details of the second be well equipped with a range of academic, build up specialisation in political philosophy, subject please refer to the relevant subject’s personal and professional skills that will political theory and normative economics. entry. prepare you well for future employment or study in a wide range of fields. Year 1 Knowledge and Reality or Evidence Flexible Combined Honours and Argument; Introduction to Philosophical Some of our graduates choose to follow LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Analysis; History of Political Thought; their interest in their degree studies with Philosophy may also be studied under Economic Principles; plus options such as State postgraduate study or with a teaching the Flexible Combined Honours scheme and Economy or Philosophy of Economics. qualification. Others use the more generic (see page 98). skills gained on their course to enter a Year 2 Political Thought of Modernity; options wide variety of careers such as government such as Economic Principles and Policy; Social administration, law and community work. Philosophy; and Philosophy of Morality. Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ undergraduate/employability PHILOSOPHY ENTRY DATA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER Programme Details BA Single Honours Full details of these programmes, Philosophy AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 including information about the available V500 3 yrs (V501 4 yrs) options modules for each programme, can BA Combined Honours be found in our subject brochure and at Classical Studies and Philosophy See Classics and Ancient History www.exeter.ac.uk/philosophy QV V5 3 yrs (QV8M 4 yrs) Philosophy and French GCE AL French; IB French HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 BA Philosophy VR51 4 yrs LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Philosophy and German GCE AL German; IB German HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 This programme allows you to study VR52 4 yrs philosophy in depth, in its many different facets. You will have the opportunity to discuss Philosophy and History AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 V V51 3 yrs (V V5C 4 yrs) long-standing questions about the nature of knowledge, science, reality, ethics, art Philosophy and Italian GCE AS in a modern foreign language AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 and beauty, the mind-body relationship, the VR53 4 yrs grade B; IB MFL SL5 meaning of life and more. From the beginning Philosophy and Russian VR57 4 yrs you will be encouraged to develop your own views on all these topics and to assess Philosophy and Political Economy AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 other philosophers’ take on them. Studying VL51 3 yrs (VL5C 4yrs) philosophy will teach you to think rigorously, Philosophy and Politics AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 to defend your views in a clear and consistent VL52 3 yrs (VL5F 4 yrs) way, to understand the why and what-for of Philosophy and Sociology AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 different points of view and ultimately to VL53 3 yrs (VL5H 4 yrs) develop a sharp, analytical and open mind. Philosophy and Spanish GCE AL in a modern foreign language; AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 IB MFL HL5 Year 1 Evidence and Argument; Introduction VR54 4 yrs to Philosophical Analysis; Knowledge and Philosophy and Theology AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Reality; Philosophical Readings; options. V V56 3 yrs (V V5P 4 yrs) Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information on Additional Selection Criteria at Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Year 2 www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/philosophy Nature; Philosophy of Morality; options. For details about study abroad please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/philosophy International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at Year 3 Dissertation; options. www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications 134 Physics and Astronomy Physics and Astronomy

The study of Physics is both stimulating and thought provoking, and requires commitment. At the University of Exeter you will discover 8th in the UK for world leading and internationally a very well-equipped department of Physics, p staffed by academics dedicated to their excellent research research and teaching. 5th in the UK for Physical Science in The Sunday Our research is highly rated, which has enormous benefits for you as a student. Times University Guide 2012 Lectures are illustrated with in-depth descriptions of recent discoveries and many 95% satisfaction with teaching qualityt in the of our option modules reflect our research interests. You can obtain first-hand experience National Student Survey (2011) v of what it is like to conduct research by undertaking a project in one of our 8th in the UK for graduate level employment research groups. The department provides a variety of modern Newly renovated student resources including apparatus in the undergraduate laboratories and extensive IT facilities for you to use. teaching laboratories and study environments Advanced research facilities include clean- rooms, mechanical and electronic workshops, Weekly, small group tutorials with academic staff rapid prototyping machinery, a helium liquefier enabling world leading research at low An experimental or theoretical project of up to temperatures, and a research grade telescope. Our research laboratories include facilities for 2-years duration on the MPhys degrees the fabrication of nanostructures, amplified ultra fast laser systems for the study of ultra Multi-million pound investment in high speed phenomena, microwave labs for the study of antennas and metamaterials and electromagnetism, biomedical and astronomy a suite of instruments for imaging biological materials. State-of-the-art supercomputers research, plus a new Centre for Graphene Science are used in our astrophysics and theoretical research. You will have the opportunity to Opportunities to study abroad or take a salaried use these facilities during your research industrial placement year project work. We firmly believe in individual attention and you will meet a member of the academic staff in weekly small-group tutorials, in problem- Degrees in EXETER solving classes, in the laboratories and when MPhys Single Honours Numbers you undertake project and research work. Physics Entrants: 90 There is an active and effective Staff/Student Physics with Astrophysics Applicants: 600 Consultative Committee where suggestions Physics with Professional Experience and ideas can be discussed and actioned. Programme information Physics with Study in Australia, You will feel part of a department that is Email: [email protected] New Zealand or North America enthusiastic about physics and wants you Phone: +44 (0)1392 725349 to succeed. BSc Single Honours www.exeter.ac.uk/physics Our Physics degrees are well-understood and Physics A subject brochure is available which respected in industry and commerce. Our Physics with Astrophysics includes full programme and module details. Single Honours programmes are accredited BSc Combined Honours by the Institute of Physics and will give you a You may also be interested in: Mathematics and Physics sound basis for a satisfying and fruitful career Natural Sciences (see page 130) as a professional scientist.

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Learning and Teaching Assessment Pre-University Physics Course All degree programmes involve a combination Assessment in the first two years is a We run a three-day Pre-University Physics of lectures, tutorials and interactive learning. combination of continuous evaluation and Course early in the Summer each year that Projects provide a link with the world of exams. About 50 per cent of the assessment is intended for A level (or equivalent) Physics research and are important not only in terms in each of these years is by exam; the rest students who have completed their first year. of the programme but in providing evidence involves work for projects, laboratories and It provides a unique opportunity to get a feel to employers of your achievement. Small- problem classes, and short mid-term tests. for the subject at this level and for university group tutorials (typically four students) You must pass your first year modules in life, before you make your choices on the form the core of our academic and personal order to proceed but your performance at UCAS form. support. Meeting every week during term this level does not count towards your final time, they provide an opportunity for two-way degree classification. Programme Details communication as well as for assignments The BSc degrees are three-year programmes to be set, marked and discussed. As well as Careers that give you a sound education in physics working with fellow students, you will get Our physics programmes will develop your and lead on to a wide variety of career to know the academic staff and feel part of skills in a variety of technical areas such as opportunities. The four-year MPhys degrees the department. practical laboratory work, problem solving take you further and prepare you for a using advanced mathematical techniques, physics-based career, including research and In a typical week in the first year you research and project work. You will also acquire development. All our programmes can lead will spend 17 hours in a formal teaching many more generic skills such as IT skills, naturally on to postgraduate study. environment and will be expected to spend project management, communication and the a similar amount of time in independent Full details of these programmes, including ability to manage your own time. You will find study. You’ll have four lectures in physics, information about the available option that a physics degree from Exeter is recognised two lectures in mathematics, one tutorial modules for each programme, can be found and respected by employers and employment and spend a day in the teaching laboratory. in our subject brochure and at prospects for physics graduates are excellent. Every week there are separate problem solving www.exeter.ac.uk/physics classes for physics and maths that last for up The largest proportion of our graduates to two hours. Time in private study is spent enter science-based industries in positions MPhys/BSc Physics developing the lecture material, tackling involving research and development, LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) assigned problems, doing tutorial work and production and management. Other careers These programmes will give you an excellent writing up reports on experiments. include scientific work in government understanding of mainstream physics and establishments (eg, QinetiQ or Harwell We believe every student benefits from being develop your physics intuition. You will Laboratories), hospital physics in the NHS part of a research-led culture and being study topics such as quantum mechanics, and technical management in broadcasting taught by experts – you will discuss the electromagnetism, optics, relativity, nuclear and the communications sector. Some very latest ideas in classes and tutorials and physics, quantum excitations in condensed students work in high-tech start-up become actively involved in research yourself. matter, thermodynamics and cosmology. There companies. MPhys projects are based in one of our are a variety of options to choose from and in the second year, modules from other subjects research groups – Electromagnetic Materials, For those wishing to specialise in research, are also available to you. In the third and Astrophysics, Quantum Systems and a period of further training for an MPhil or fourth years the programmes involve project Nanomaterials (including Graphene Science) PhD qualification is important. Some physics work, which for the MPhys programmes or Biomedical Physics – and they may be graduates wish to teach and a Postgraduate takes place within the department’s research experimental, theoretical, computational or a Certificate of Education is the starting point groups. Final year MPhys modules are allied combination of these. BSc students undertake into a profession where physicists are in great closely to our research interests, allowing you group projects to solve a problem posed by one demand. A number of graduates decide to use to understand and explore the latest ideas of our industrial partners. These projects aim their analytical and logical skills in careers in and results in topics such as metamaterials, to strengthen links between the department finance, banking or commercial management. and employers and help match your skills graphene science, photonics, astrophysics and with employers’ needs. As well as gaining an Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ biomedical physics. insight into how you could be employed after undergraduate/employability graduation, you will learn about working in a team, adhering to a budget and timeline and how to report to an industrial contact. 136 Physics and Astronomy

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MPhys/BSc Physics Combined Honours Degrees with Astrophysics LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) BSc Mathematics and Physics In these programmes you will learn the core of LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) mainstream physics, but also gain a balanced Because of the interplay between mathematics understanding of modern astrophysics, from and physics they co-exist and complement planets and stars to galaxies and cosmology. each other making this Combined Honours You will apply the fundamental laws of physics a fulfilling way to study the subject area. to some of the most remarkable environments The physics component is a coherent, self- in the universe. Observational astrophysics contained programme in degree-level physics, is taught using our undergraduate teaching recognised by the Institute of Physics. observatory. BSc projects, and the extended For information on the corresponding MPhys research projects, are normally mathematics component, see the Mathematics based on data from world-class ground and subject entry. space-based facilities and/or state-of-the- art computational codes for theoretical PHYSICS ENTRY DATA astrophysics. DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER MPhys Single Honours MPhys Physics with Physics F303 4 yrs GCE AL MathsÌ; GCE AL Physics; AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 Professional Experience Physics with Astrophysics F3FM 4 yrs IB Maths and Physics HL5 LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Physics with Professional GCE AL MathsÌ; GCE AL Physics; A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 Your third year will be spent in a work Experience F304 4 yrs IB Maths and Physics HL5 environment at one of a wide range of high- Physics with North American F3T7 4 yrs level and well-respected research laboratories. Study Physics with Australian You will be paid a salary during this year, of Study F3TV 4 yrs around £16,000. In addition to your work Physics with Study in within the laboratory, you will undertake New Zealand F308 4 yrs distance learning with the University as well BSc Single Honours as completing a project at the institution in Physics F300 3 yrs GCE AL MathsÌ; GCE AL Physics; AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 which you are placed. Companies currently Physics with Astrophysics F3F5 3 yrs IB Maths and Physics HL5 participating in this programme include BAE BSc Combined Honours Systems, Sharp UK Ltd, Hewlett Packard, Mathematics and Physics See Mathematics Unilever, QinetiQ and the Met Office. FG31 3 yrs ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer GCE AL Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. MPhys Physics with Study International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at in North America, Australia www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international or New Zealand Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications In these programmes you will broaden your Offers/Interviews Those applicants who meet our minimum entry requirements will be invited to visit the experience by studying physics in a new department between November and February. The visit will include tours and presentations relating to our research cultural environment. The programmes activity and a short period for discussion with a member of staff when details of programmes can be explained and are essentially the same as the physics any queries answered. All applications are considered on an individual basis and offers will be made shortly after a programmes offered entirely in Exeter, but visit has taken place. You are also welcome to visit the department before completing your UCAS form. If you wish they give you the opportunity to study at to do so, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Tutors (Please see page 134 for contact details). a university in the USA, Australia or New Zealand during your third academic year. We have agreements with Iowa State University, the University of Kansas and the University of I was initially attracted to Exeter because New Mexico in the USA; with the University of Sydney and the University of Wollongong of the academic excellence of the Physics in Australia; and Massey University and the University of Auckland in New Zealand. department and haven’t been disappointed. While the programme is undoubtedly challenging, I feel I’m gaining a strong foundation in my subject. The staff are fully supportive and approachable, and there’s a real sense they want you to do well.

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The Politics Department at the University of Exeter is one of the best in the UK. We put a premium on innovative research and are p One of the UK’s best politics departments committed to the delivery of high quality teaching on all our programmes. 6th in the UK for world leading research In today’s environment of rapid global, 9th for Politics in The Times and 4th in The Sunday technological and cultural transformations, politics is one of the most relevant and Times university guides 2012 exciting programmes of study. Studying politics or international relations at the International staff with a wide breadth of expertise University of Exeter takes you to the heart of issues where you’ll explore the political, with governmental and non-governmental historical, institutional, social, economic and cultural forces that mediate the exercise organisations of power within and between nations. Whether thinking about issues such as the environment, security, elections, the nature of democracy or party politics, the discipline Degrees in Exeter Degrees in cornwall of politics has a high degree of relevance, and its study is applicable in a number of different BA Single Honours BA Single Honours kinds of careers. Politics* Politics and International Studies* International Relations* BA Joint Honours Our teaching is research-led and all third BA Combined Honours History and Politics* year options are specialist seminar-centred We offer a wide range of Combined Honours Politics and Geography modules that reflect the interests of our degrees with a language or another topic academics. Current research interests Numbers include international relations, Middle East (History*, Philosophy* or Sociology*). The full Entrants: 35 politics, European politics, public policy list of programmes available can be seen in Applicants: 252 and administration, climate change and the Entry Data table on page 139. sustainability, campaigns and elections, Programme information Numbers political theory and security studies. We are Email: [email protected] Entrants: 153 committed to providing a broad education Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 in politics and international relations, which Applicants: 1,088 www.exeter.ac.uk/politics will expose you to a range of different and Programme information sometimes competing perspectives and Email: [email protected] approaches. Phone: +44 (0)1392 723192 www.exeter.ac.uk/politics Learning and Teaching We place considerable emphasis on teaching *4-year programmes with Study Abroad available in small groups, which gives you ample opportunity to participate, as well as providing A subject brochure is available which includes full programme and module details. close contact between you and members of staff. In the third year, much of your learning You may also be interested in occurs in seminar groups led by a member of Economics and Politics (see page 82) faculty on a specialised area of their research. Philosophy and Political Economy (see page 132) You’ll have a personal tutor who is available for advice and support throughout your studies. Assessment You will be assessed through a variety of tasks, including essays, individual and small group presentations, projects and exams. You may also complete a dissertation and/or project work, including a work placement project. You must pass your first year modules in order to proceed but your performance at this level does not count towards your final degree classification. p RAE 2008 based on the percentage of research categorised as 4* 138 Politics and International Relations

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Study Abroad Streatham Campus BA Politics If you take Politics or International Relations Politics and international relations are diverse, LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) with a Modern Language at the Streatham exciting and interdisciplinary subject areas. This programme is a progressive one, Campus you will normally spend your third You’ll have the opportunity to choose from a building on a broad foundation in the first year abroad; for details please see Modern wide range of options throughout your degree. year to highly specialised work in the final Languages. The core aim is to give you a wide scope to year, including a dissertation on a topic of shape your degree in a way that suits your personal interest. Modules in Years 1 and 2 For our other degree programmes, including existing and emerging interests. give you a basic grounding in political theory, those in Cornwall, you may study for half a international politics, comparative politics and year at a partner institution in Europe, North We have particular research strengths in public administration and lead to a free choice America or Australia. Students based at both Middle East politics, international relations, of modules in Year 3. campuses can also follow a four-year ‘with political theory, European governance, Study Abroad’ programme which allows you electoral politics, public policy and security Year 1 British Government and Politics; to spend your third year abroad. You may studies. We regularly host internationally Politics in Europe; History of Political Thought; apply directly for the four-year programme renowned visiting speakers for departmental Globalisation of World Politics; Facing the or transfer from another programme once seminars and you will be able to join the Challenges of World Politics; Power and you are at the University. Full details of these Politics Society, which organises regular Democracy; options. schemes and of our partner institutions can be social events. Year 2 Political Thought of Modernity; Public found at www.exeter.ac.uk/socialsciences/ Policy Administration; Comparative Politics; undergraduate/studyabroad Cornwall Campus options. You will also have the opportunity Careers As in Exeter, the content of our undergraduate to take part in the Exeter Politics Internship programmes in politics is influenced by our Programme during the summer vacation to We aim to offer as many activities as possible research interests that are nationally and gain valuable work experience. to help broaden your career development and internationally recognised and positioned equip you with the skills employers find most Year 3 Dissertation; The Politics of Climate at the forefront of academic debate. You’ll valuable. We deliver a range of interesting Change; Political Theory in Practice; Business benefit from this direct access to the latest employability events connected to politics and Politics; Electoral Politics; options, thinking and will discuss the very latest ideas and international relations, and are building including Political Participation. in seminars and tutorials. a network of placement providers through our Exeter Politics Internship Programme, We have particular research strengths in BA International Relations which provides you with the opportunity to international relations, Chinese politics, LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) gain valuable work experience (mostly based American politics, political theory, political This degree will give you a solid grounding in in Westminster working with an MP, behaviour, political psychology and understanding international issues together although they can also be in an MP’s environmental politics and sustainability. with the opportunity to specialise in a constituency office). We regularly host internationally renowned particular region or special subject, such as visiting speakers for departmental seminars transnational crime or globalisation. We aim Some of our graduates choose to follow their and you will be able to join the Politics Society to ensure that you’ll be able to understand interest in their programme studies with in Cornwall, which organises regular social and use the main concepts, approaches and postgraduate study. Others use the more events and an annual trip abroad to a location theories in the study of international relations generic skills gained on their programme to with an interesting political history. and to analyse, interpret and evaluate world enter a wide variety of careers such as law, political events and issues. government administration and business. Find out more at www.exeter.ac.uk/ Programme Details Year 1 Globalisation of World Politics; Facing undergraduate/employability Full details of all our programmes can be the Challenges of World Politics; options, two found in our subject brochure and at of which must be taken in politics, and two of www.exeter.ac.uk/politics/undergraduate which must be taken from other departments, such as sociology, history or philosophy. I did a really worthwhile internship in Year 2 Contemporary Theories of World Politics; Security Studies; options, including Parliament after my second year which helped me American Politics; War and Peace in the Middle East; Foreign Policy; Introduction to Middle decide to apply for a job as a political researcher East Politics; and Rethinking Third World Politics. You will also have the opportunity after I graduate. The University provides really to take part in the Exeter Politics Internship Programme during the summer vacation to impressive opportunities to help students im- gain valuable work experience. prove their employability, which is especially Year 3 Dissertation; The Political Economy of International Trade; Understanding important in the current tough job climate. Democracy and Human Rights in the Middle East; War and its Aftermath; The Media in HARRIET BAKER, BA POLITICS, THIRD YEAR Europe; options. Politics and International Relations 139

BA Politics and Politics and International Relations ENTRY DATA International Studies DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS BA Single Honours This exciting and distinctive programme Politics A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 includes study of the major areas of politics L200 3 yrs (L240 4yrs) and international studies, as well as optional International Relations A*AA-AAB; IB: 38-34 modules which closely reflect the research L250 3 yrs (L251 4 yrs) interests and expertise of staff. It is one of very few Single Honours degree programmes BA Combined Honours History and International Relations See History in the UK to allow students to combine politics LVF1 3 yrs (VL1F 4 yrs) and international studies. History and Politics LV21 3 yrs (VL1G 4yrs) Year 1 British Government and Politics; History of Political Thought; Globalisation International Relations and French GCE AL French; IB French HL5 AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 of World Politics; State, Society and Culture; LRF1 4 yrs Introduction to Environmental Politics; Power International Relations and German GCE AL German; IB German HL5 AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 and Democracy. LRF2 4 yrs GCE AS in a modern foreign language AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 Year 2 Modern Political Thought; The Ethics International Relations and Italian LR23 4 yrs grade B; IB MFL SL5 and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention; International Relations and Russian Chinese Politics; Sustainability and Policy; LRF7 4 yrs National and Community Identity; American International Relations and Spanish GCE AL in a modern foreign language; AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 Politics; Introduction to Security in World LRF4 4 yrs IB MFL HL5 Politics; Introduction to Postcolonial Politics; Media, Public Opinion and Campaigns; Philosophy and Politics See Philosophy VL52 3 yrs (VL5F 4 yrs) Gendering World Politics. You will also have the opportunity to take part in the Exeter Politics and Arabic See Arab and Islamic Studies Politics Internship Programme during the LQ24 4 yrs summer vacation to gain valuable work Politics and Arabic Studies LQF4 3 yrs experience. Politics and French GCE AL French; IB French HL5 AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 Year 3 Dissertation and options including: LR21 4 yrs Political Psychology of Elites and Masses; Politics and German GCE AL German; IB German HL5 AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 Gender, Militarisation and Resistance; Justice, LR22 4 yrs Rights and Violence; Global Environmental GCE AS in a modern foreign language AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 Politics; Creating Order Out of Chaos; Politics and Italian LRF3 4 yrs Politics and Russian LR27 4 yrs grade B; IB MFL SL5 Contemporary Political Theory; Political Participation. Politics and Sociology AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 LLH2 3 yrs (LL23 4 yrs) Combined Honours Degrees Politics and Spanish GCE AL in a modern foreign language; AAA-ABB; IB: 36-32 IB MFL HL5 LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) LR24 4 yrs Politics may be studied with a Modern BA Single Honours Language (French, German, Italian, Russian Politics and International Studies AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 or Spanish), History, Economics, Philosophy L290 3 yrs (L291 4 yrs) or Sociology. International Relations may BA Joint Honours be studied with History or with a Modern History and Politics See History Language (French, German, Italian, Russian VLC2 3 yrs (VLD2 4 yrs) or Spanish). For details of the second subject Politics and Geography See Geography please refer to the relevant subject’s entry. LL27 3 yrs Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information on Additional Selection Criteria at Joint Honours Degrees www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/politics LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS For details about study abroad please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/politics Politics may be studied at the Cornwall International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Campus with Geography or History. You will Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. study the core modules from each subject and For full and up-to-date information on applying to the University of Exeter and entry requirements, including a reduced number of options, in a choice of the requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications four pathways. Flexible Combined Honours LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) AND CORNWALL CAMPUS Politics and International Relations may also be studied under the Flexible Combined Honours scheme (see page 98). 140 Psychology

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Psychology at Exeter has an excellent reputation. We are one of the UK’s top Psychology departments, providing high- 10th in the UK for Psychology in The Sunday Times quality undergraduate programmes for intelligent and highly-motivated people, p University Guide 2012 whatever their background. Our academics work at the forefront of psychology; their 11th in the UK for world leading research passion for the subject inspires their teaching and provides an exciting learning 90% for Overall Satisfaction in the National experience. We have active programmes of t research in a wide variety of fields, such as Student Survey (2011) social psychology, organisational psychology, economic and consumer psychology, clinical Accredited by the British Psychological Society psychology, psychopathology, human cognition, cognitive neuroscience and Teaching team includes researchers in social, neuropsychology and animal behaviour. cognitive and clinical psychology Psychology plays an important role in drawing together techniques, theories, Specialist research laboratories, extensive computer findings and professional practice from several areas of expertise to address complex laboratories and state-of-the-art audiovisual facilities and socially and economically important questions about behaviour. It is a scientifically Interdisciplinary, flexible programme structures grounded subject that develops skills which are associated with the humanities as well as Unique partnership with the NHS; contracts the sciences. Our programmes are designed to provide a fantastic platform whatever include the high profile NHS Treatment Centre and your choice of future career. All our programmes provide British Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Psychological Society (BPS) accreditation. BPS accreditation confers eligibility for the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership, Degrees in EXETER provided the minimum standard of a Lower BSc Single Honours Second Class Honours is achieved. This is Applied Psychology (Clinical) the first step towards becoming a Chartered Psychology Psychologist. BSc Combined Honours Psychology with Sport and Exercise Science Programme Details Full details of these programmes can be Numbers found in our subject brochure and at Entrants: 195 www.exeter.ac.uk/psychology Applicants: 1,113 Programme information BSc Psychology Email: [email protected] LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Phone: +44 (0)1392 724611 Our BSc Psychology programme provides you with an excellent foundation in key areas www.exeter.ac.uk/psychology of psychology – developmental, cognitive, A subject brochure is available which biological, social, clinical and personality – includes full programme and module details. together with research methods and data analysis. You will have the opportunity to You may also be interested in: explore some of the research fields in which Animal Behaviour (see page 65) we specialise, such as social and organisational Clinical Science (see page 75) psychology, psychopathology, human cognition, cognitive neuroscience and animal behaviour. This broad and flexible programme allows you to explore your developing interests pRAE  2008 based on percentage of research categorised as in more depth through a wide range of 4* (world leading) optional modules. tThe BSc Applied Psychology (Clinical) programme has dual accreditation from the BPS and BABCP. BPS accredited and non-accredited pathways are available on the Flexible Combined Honours scheme. Psychology 141

Year 1 Human Cognition and Cognitive Year 1 Introduction to Cognition and Facilities Development; Introduction to Biological Cognitive Development; Introduction Our facilities are excellent. Undergraduates Psychology; Introduction to Social Psychology; to Biological Psychology; Introduction have a dedicated computer laboratory and Introduction to Clinical Psychology; to Statistics; Introduction to Research we have extensive facilities for the Introduction to Statistics; Introduction to Methods; Human Anatomy and Physiology; measurement of eye movements and for Research Methods. Practical classes will give Kinanthropometry; Foundations of Exercise the recording and modification of brain you training in quantitative, laboratory-based, and Sport Psychology; Biochemistry of activity. We have specialist laboratories for experimental methodology in psychology Exercise; Foundations of Exercise Physiology; interviewing brain-damaged and depressed covering the broad range of subject areas plus optional modules. patients, clinical skills suites with full audio- across the core modules. Year 2 Cognitive Psychology; Biological visual equipment, specialist facilities for Optional modules (25 per cent of the year’s Psychology; Social Psychology; Developmental studies of cognitive and social psychology, workload) are chosen from: Independent Work Psychology; Personality and Individual and well-equipped workshops. Experience; Classic Studies in Psychology; Differences; Methods and Statistics in Introduction to Animal Behaviour; Animal Psychology; Exercise Physiology; Sport Assessment Diversity and Behaviour; Introduction to the Psychology plus practicals. Almost all modules are assessed by a Evolution of Behaviour; or from modules combination of exams and coursework, or Year 3 Psychology Research Project and available in other disciplines. by coursework alone. Coursework comprises Sport Sciences Dissertation; three further more than half of the overall marks which Year 2 Cognitive Psychology; Biological options, with at least one from Psychology, count towards your final degree. You will have Psychology; Social Psychology; Developmental and one from Sport/Exercise. Options include: to pass most of the first year modules in order Psychology; Personality and Individual Factors Affecting Performance; Clinical to progress to the second year, although the Differences; Methods and Statistics in Exercise Prescription; Physical Activity and marks do not count towards your final degree Psychology; plus optional modules. Mental Health; The Body, Identity and Fitness classification. Assessments in the second in Physical Culture; The Psychology of There is a much greater emphasis on original and final years count towards your final Gender; Evolution of Human Behaviour; practical work and you will start to design and degree award. Applied Positive Psychology; Health Beliefs carry out your own investigations with the use and Behaviour. of computer software and statistics packages. Careers A degree in Psychology from Exeter will Year 3 You choose three seminars from the Flexible Combined Honours provide you with a range of academic, personal wide range available, most of which are in LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) and professional skills that will prepare you for areas where the seminar leader has an active Psychology may also be studied under employment, postgraduate study or training research involvement. They are grouped into the Flexible Combined Honours scheme for professional practice. As a Psychology three general subject areas: social, economic (see page 98). student you will develop essential skills highly and organisational psychology; cognitive valued by employers such as communication, psychology; and comparative clinical and child Learning and Teaching numeracy, critical thinking, independent psychology. You must choose one option Learning and teaching is through lectures, learning, empirical research, ethical awareness from each general subject area. Practical seminars, academic tutorials, laboratory and and team working. We run special careers work is carried out as part of a supervised field classes, the final year research project and seminars in years two and three of the research project chosen from a wide range directed private study. There is progression programmes, where you can get advice and of available topics and you will work closely from large group lectures and practicals discuss your career options in depth. with your supervisor. supported by smaller group teaching in the first and second years, to a greater focus on Some of our graduates use their knowledge Combined Honours smaller group teaching, plus a supervised of behaviour to enter careers such as the extended research project in the final year. branches of professional psychology (eg, BSc Psychology with Sport In the final-year seminars, students and the clinical, educational) or personnel work. and Exercise Science seminar leader discuss advanced topics in Others prefer to use the more generic skills LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM psychology. The seminar leader normally has obtained. The scientific skills developed AND ST LUKE’S CAMPUSES) an active research involvement in the seminar on your degree can give a foundation for This programme is taught jointly by topic so you will be at the forefront of the careers in research, high technology Psychology and Sport and Health Sciences. latest research developments. Throughout industries or management, legal and The degree provides a good foundation for your degree programme you will be supported advertising services. You will also be able to any student interested in a career as a by a Personal Tutor, with whom you will meet present well at interviews, an ability which psychologist with a particular focus on regularly in all three years and have access will enhance your employment prospects applying those skills in the broad areas of to further support such as our Statistics in a competitive environment. Find out sports, exercise and health maintenance. Helpdesk. more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ employability 142 Psychology

Psychology CONTINUED

BSc Applied Year 1 Introduction to Clinical Psychology; Assessment Psychology (Clinical) Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology You will be assessed in a number of ways LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) and Clinical Psychology; Professional Issues including examinations, essays, digitally This innovative and unique programme, and Development; Evidence Based recorded role play competency assessments, set within the UK centre of excellence for Low Psychological Therapy Practice; Introduction patient scenario presentations, case studies, Intensity Improving Access to Psychological to Cognition, Cognitive Development and patient work within the clinical practice Therapies (IAPT) training, has been developed Emotion; Introduction to Social Psychology; placement, a portfolio and a clinically focused for students who are committed to working Introduction to Research Methods; research dissertation. in mental health. It is designed to provide Introduction to Statistics. you with an understanding of the core Year 2 Engagement and Assessment of Careers areas of psychology, as well as train you in Patients with Common Mental Health The research and evidence-based focus psychological theory and develop your clinical Problems; Evidence Based Low Intensity of this programme alongside the clinical skills to enable you to work within a mental Treatment for Common Mental Health research internships provides an ideal basis health setting. Problems; Biological Basis of Behaviour; for a career in applied clinical psychology The BSc Applied Psychology (Clinical) has Personality, Individual Differences and or health services research. Your successful dual accreditation from the British Mental Health; Methods and Statistics in completion of the programme provides the Psychological Society (BPS) both as a Psychology; Cognition and Emotion; Social basic training requirements for employment as psychology degree and for the Psychological Psychology; Developmental Psychology and a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) Wellbeing Practitioner component, which Psychopathology. – with a brief period of additional relevant clinical experience this degree enables you supports eligibility for professional Year 3 Clinical Research Project supported by accreditation shortly after graduation. to apply for professional accreditation as a an academic member of the Mood Disorders PWP soon after graduation. If you decide you The programme includes modules with a Centre; Clinical Practice Placement within wish to pursue alternative career paths, you particular focus on the development of a local NHS community or voluntary sector can be confident that you will have developed professional practice and clinical competency mental health service; Improving Access to excellent transferable skills which will be in low intensity evidence-based psychological Psychological Therapies; Methodological and valuable in a range of sectors. therapies. These prepare you for a final year Statistical Approaches in Clinical Psychology work experience module where you will and Health Services Research. You will also be undertake the role of a trainee Psychological able to make a choice from a wide selection of Wellbeing Practitioner. clinically focused seminars. In addition to these modules there will Learning and Teaching be opportunities to undertake research You will be taught through a range of methods internships within the internationally including lectures, seminars, problem-based recognised Mood Disorders Centre, which learning, facilitated small group role play will enable you to develop your skills and and skills modelling, self-practice/self- provide excellent experience of working reflection supported by blogs, group clinical within a clinical and research setting. Due to skills supervision sessions, clinical research the nature of clinical training, modules based internship and a clinical practice placement. around the development of clinical practice will have high contact hours to ensure your Throughout your degree you will be supported clinical competency is developed to the by a Personal Tutor with whom you will highest standard. meet regularly in all three years to support your personal and professional development portfolio. This will focus on your academic, transferrable skills and clinical development and help you to better apply your knowledge into clinical applications. It will also be helpful in increasing your employability, supporting your continued professional development and your application for professional accreditation as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner. The teaching I have received, and the variety of sources of information available, have exceeded my expectations for my studies. The staff are enthusiastic and incorporate very recent and groundbreaking topics into lectures along with the core knowledge.

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PSYCHOLOGY ENTRY DATA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER

BSc Single Honours Psychology GCE AL science grade A; IB science AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 C802 3 yrs HL6; GCSE Maths grade B; GCSE English Language grade B Applied Psychology (Clinical) GCE AL science grade A; IB science AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 C810 3 yrs HL6; GCSE Maths grade B; GCSE English Language grade B

BSc Combined Honours Psychology with Sport GCE AL science grade A; IB science AAA-AAB; IB: 36-34 and Exercise Science HL6; GCSE Maths grade B; GCSE English C8C6 3 yrs Language grade B Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information about Additional Selection Criteria at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/psychology GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. Programme Requirement for BSc Applied Psychology (Clinical) Given your exposure to patients as part of the clinical and research training, offers for this degree will be conditional upon completion of a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) disclosure, which is deemed satisfactory, and satisfying full health assessments. We will also strongly encourage you to join a professional body such as the British Psychological Society under whose code of conduct and ethical practice you will be clinically responsible. Offers/Interviews for BSc Applied Psychology (Clinical) We meet all shortlisted applicants before making an offer. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend a day long interview process. This will include participation in a group exercise led by the Mood Disorders Centre Lived Experience Group, a brief interview with the teaching team, alongside an introduction to the programme and tour of the facilities and University. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements.

Even before arriving at Exeter I’d always wanted to get involved in scientific research, so I jumped at the chance when I found out my department offered research placements. After applying I was awarded a placement within the Cognition Research Group and I’m now investigating the role of cognitive control in inhibiting risky behaviour. I’ve learnt lots of new skills during my placement because I’ve been involved with almost every stage of the research process, from testing participants to inputting and analysing data. Over the past year, I’ve not only increased my employability but have had an invaluable insight into what it is like to be a researcher. Now it’s time to start on my final year dissertation, the department have really encouraged me to be independent by letting me choose the topic that most interests me.

MAISY BEST, BSC PSYCHOLOGY, THIRD YEAR 144 Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy

Our Renewable Energy degree programmes have been tailored to meet the needs of the booming renewable energy industry. Strong Practical vocational training involving extensive links with a wide variety of companies together with our research strengths in energy field work and an industrial placement policy, marine renewables, electrical power and networks and energy storage allow us to offer Expertise in energy policy, marine renewables, these programmes with substantial backing from the renewable energy industry. bio-fuels, electrical power and networks, wind, The programmes are taught at our Cornwall solar photovoltaic and thermal technologies Campus near Falmouth, which is also home to the Peninsula Research Institute for Marine Accredited for progression to Incorporated and Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE), a multi-million pound, international research facility that Chartered Engineer (CEng) by the Energy Institute provides research and development in support of marine projects such as the Wave Hub, a Superb facilities include a renewable energy globally important commercial wave energy hub off the north coast of Cornwall. laboratory, bio-diesel testing rig and wind turbine Our superb facilities and student resources include a fully-equipped renewable energy Excellent employment prospects in this rapidly laboratory, bio-diesel and photovoltaic (PV) testing rigs, wind turbine, field station developing sector and state-of-the-art IT equipment. Local commercial renewables developments are Industrial support from many of the key companies plentiful – recent developments include new wind farms, repowered and scaled-up older in the industry wind farms, the UK’s first solar PV farms and a world-leading wave energy development. Our new Environment and Sustainability Institute Degrees in cornwall building will be amongst the most sustainable BSc Single Honours in the country. These, together with field trips, Renewable Energy including a week long international trip and a MEng Single Honours 2-3 month work placement, provide a practical Renewable Energy context that complements the taught material. Numbers These are practical, vocational programmes Entrants: 34 for individuals seeking a professional role Applicants: 124 in the rapidly expanding and strategically important energy sector. We receive extensive Programme information industrial support from industry leaders Email: [email protected] including Bill Dunster Architects, Compact Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 Power, Cornwall Light and Power, EDF www.exeter.ac.uk/renewable-energy Energy, GL Garrad Hassan, Geoscience, Ocean Power Technologies, Scottish and Southern A subject brochure is available which Energy and Wardell Armstrong International. includes full programme and module details. Exemplifying this, our relationship with REG Windpower Ltd means Renewable Energy students have full access to the data acquisition system for the two 850kW wind turbines the company has recently built 500 metres from the campus. Learning and Teaching Our dedicated renewable energy laboratory is equipped with the latest technology and there are a number of renewable energy devices in situ around the campus that are used in teaching, the latest being the solar powered Performance Centre which opened in October 2010. The development of our Environment and Sustainability Institute at the Cornwall Renewable Energy 145

Campus will see a significant further company which is active in renewable energy BSc Renewable Energy expansion of installed renewable energy to develop solutions to real world problems in LOCATION: CORNWALL CAMPUS capacity on campus, all of which will be used a commercial environment. The department Year 1 Earth and Environmental Chemistry; to support teaching as well as representing the will help in setting up these placements and Surveying and CAD; Mathematics 1A; continuing commitment of the University to projects. Engineering Mechanics; Thermodynamics and sustainability in both our operations and in Fluid Mechanics; Mathematics 1B; Electrical our teaching and research. Careers and Electronic Principles; Renewable Energy Both degree programmes have been designed Systems 1. Assessment to include the knowledge and skills that Assessment methods vary between modules, potential employers in the energy sector Year 2 Fluid Mechanics; Mathematics 2A; but usually combine exams and coursework have told us they require. A very high Energy and Environmental Management; (which might include practical laboratory proportion of our graduates find employment Project Management; Mechanics of Materials; work, professional posters, group exercises, in the Renewable Energy sector or study Applied Thermodynamics; Electrical Energy essays or verbal presentations). You must for a higher degree. Conversion and Transport; Renewable Energy pass all your first year modules in order to Systems 2. The UK’s commitment to rapid expansion progress, but the results do not count towards of renewable energy, emphasised in the Year 3 Work Placement Report; Wind your degree classification. For three-year summer of 2009 with the publication of the Power; Energy Policy, Markets and Law; programmes, the assessments in the second UK RE Strategy document, is likely to mean Hydropower; Economics, Resource Assessment and third years contribute to your final degree investment of tens of billions of pounds in and Appraisal; Third Year Dissertation; GIS classification. For four-year programmes the the sector in the next decade. The adoption for Renewable Energy; international or assessments in the second, third and fourth of the UK’s microgeneration tariff in 2009, UK field trip. Four from: Socio-Economic years all contribute to your final degree and the planned adoption of the Renewable and Environmental Impacts of Renewable classification. Heat Incentive and Green Investment Bank, Energy Systems; Energy Storage Technology; suggests continued strong support for rapid Network Engineering, Monitoring and Field Work, Tours Management; Data Acquisition and Control; and Placements expansion of renewable energy in the UK. Other EU countries will be making similar Energy Generation from Biomass and Waste; Throughout the programmes you’ll benefit investments and the US, India, China and Modelling, Simulation and Control of Energy from hands on interaction with renewable many other nations are also investing heavily Systems; Solar Power; Energy Legislation and energy technology. This will include trips to in renewable generation. This will create Regulation; Data Acquisition and Control; renewable energy facilities such as Goonhilly broad opportunities for those seeking to Sustainable Architecture. wind farm as part of the Renewable Energy work in the sector. Systems module in year 1, and may include Year 4 (MEng only) Professional Ethics, events like public planning meetings or Both our programmes are accredited by the Competence and Commercial Awareness; energy use assessments of public or private Energy Institute for progression towards Industry Placement Project; Group Design buildings, or installation of new generators as Incorporated and Chartered Engineer status. Project; options from Further Electronics opportunities become available. and Electrical Engineering; Advanced Marine Programme Details Renewable Energy and Hydrodynamics; In the summer vacation between your Full details of these programmes can Advanced Wind Turbine Design; Energy second and third year, you’ll carry out a be found in our subject brochure and at Options for Sustainability; Themes in minimum six week industrial placement, www.exeter.ac.uk/renewable-energy Climate Change. for which you will usually be paid. The onus is on you to find a placement, although the renewable energy ENTRY DATA department can help by providing contact details and suggesting companies which suit DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER your interests. Companies with close ties to BSc Single Honours the department also provide placements Renewable Energy GCE AL science subject; GCE AS MathsÌ AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 for a number of students. F802 3 yrs advised (if not offered at AL); IB science HL5, Maths SL advised if not offered at HL. In the third year, you’ll conduct a field- GCSE Maths grade C based renewable energy technical resource MEng Single Honours assessment exercise. Working as a project Renewable Energy GCE AL science subject, GCE AS MathsÌ AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 team you will focus on the use of solar energy H221 4 yrs advised (if not offered at AL); IB science resources, geothermal energy, wind energy HL5, Maths SL advised if not offered at HL. GCSE Maths grade C and energy from waste. GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Electronics; If you study the MEng programme, you’ll carry Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; out a further industrial placement between Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. your third and fourth year. This placement ÌProgramme Requirement Candidates may offer GCE AL Maths, Pure Maths or Further Maths. is linked to a project that runs until the International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international following February and which forms a major Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. component of the final year of study. This For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other project will enable you to work closely with a MEngtypes of qualification, Renewable please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applicationsEnergy

pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements. 146 Sociology

Sociology

Sociology aims to provide a critical understanding of society. It examines the way that social groups are formed, sustained 6th in the UK for world leading and internationally and are able to impose cooperative forms of p action among their members. Accordingly, recognised research sociologists are interested in the wide range of social activities from intimate personal 92% for Overall Satisfaction in Sociology in the relations to the apparently faceless operation of state bureaucracies. In each case, sociology National Student Survey (2011) seeks to identify how the social context in which participants operate influences the 9th for Sociology in the UK in The Guardian practices in which they engage. Sociologists are particularly concerned with exploring the University Guide 2012 role of shared understandings in coordinating this action. Top 10 for Sociology in The Sunday Times Our academic staff have a wide range of University Guide 2012 research interests in sociology, anthropology and philosophy. Our research is particularly Flexibility to tailor your degree around your noted for the contributions it makes to the sociology and anthropology of culture (science own interests and technology, religion, the arts, sport and the military) and the sociology of knowledge Opportunities to study abroad in Europe, USA, and social theory. Our research was ranked 6th in the UK in the latest Research Australia and elsewhere Assessment Exercise (2008). As an undergraduate you’ll benefit from this Distinctive interdisciplinary approach with research culture as your teachers will be contributing to current debates, giving you philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists access to the latest thinking and resources. The department is also home to social working together in teaching and research anthropology at Exeter. Anthropology explores the rich diversity of human social and cultural life across the globe. Students can study anthropology in combination with sociology Degrees in exeter (see below) or archaeology (see page 61), and BA Single Honours Programme information as part of the Flexible Combined Honours Sociology* Email: [email protected] Degree (see page 98). BA Combined Honours Phone: +44 (0)1392 723192 Philosophy and Sociology* www.exeter.ac.uk/sociology Learning and Teaching Politics and Sociology* A subject brochure is available which includes You will learn through lectures, seminars and practical exercises, and you should expect an Sociology and Anthropology full programme and module details. Sociology and French, German, Italian, increasing emphasis on seminar discussion Russian or Spanish You may also be interested in: and project work in the second and final years. Sociology and Middle East Studies Archaeology and Anthropology (see page 61) We aim to convey sociology as a dynamic and reflexive mode of social scientific inquiry;

to impart knowledge and understanding of

*4-year programmes with Study Abroad available the nature, development and structure of contemporary societies, with in-depth focus on Numbers their core features; to encourage independent Entrants: 50 study; and to assist the development of Applicants: 384 sociologically informed critical judgement. Assessment We use diverse methods of assessment to support our emphasis on presentation, teamwork and projects/dissertations, as well as essay writing and exams. You must pass pRAE  2008 based on the percentage of research categorised as 4* and 3*. Philosophy at Exeter is your first year modules in order to progress, included in the unit of assessment for Sociology. but your performance at this level does not count towards your final degree classification. Sociology 147

Study Abroad inquiry. These lead you through to your Year 1 Introduction to Social Analysis; If you take Sociology with a modern increasing choice of specialist subjects in your Sociology of Contemporary Society; language you will normally spend your third second and final years. Introduction to Social Anthropology; Imagining Social Worlds: Texts and Artefacts. year abroad; for details please see Modern Year 1 Introduction to Social Analysis; Languages. Sociology of Contemporary Societies; Year 2 Theoretical Sociology; Sociological For other degrees, you may study for half a Imagining Social Worlds; options from a range Research; Anthropology: Ethnography Now; year at a partner institution in Europe, North of subjects in the social sciences. Into the Field; options. America or Australia or follow a four-year Year 2 Theoretical Sociology; Into the Field; Year 3 Either Sociology or Anthropology ‘with Study Abroad’ programme which allows Sociological Research; options. Dissertation; options. you to spend your third year abroad. You may apply directly for the four-year programme or Year 3 Dissertation; options. Other Combined transfer from another programme once you Combined Honours Degrees Honours Degrees are at Exeter. Full details of these schemes LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) and our partner institutions can be found BA Sociology and Anthropology Sociology may be studied with Middle East at www.exeter.ac.uk/socialsciences/ LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Studies, Philosophy, Politics or with a Modern undergraduate/studyabroad Sociology and anthropology are two closely Language (French, German, Italian, Russian or linked subjects and this Combined Honours Spanish). Details of the Sociology component Careers degree gives you the opportunity to study are outlined above. For details of the second Our Sociology programmes not only give you the considerable common ground between subject please refer to the relevant an understanding of this fascinating subject them. You’ll be introduced to sociological and subject’s entry. but also give you an excellent all-round anthropological ways of thinking from the education, where you will learn to understand classics in both disciplines to contemporary Flexible Combined Honours other people’s points of view, to communicate thinkers and learn to understand and LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) your own position clearly and to argue investigate diverse phenomena such as Sociology may also be studied under effectively. You will also learn to collect, witchcraft, beliefs in the past and present, the Flexible Combined Honours scheme assess and present evidence and to work rituals around spectator sports, consumer (see page 98). independently and in groups. behaviours and the social construction of scientific knowledge. Our programmes are demanding and encourage initiative and open mindedness, sociology ENTRY DATA helping to ensure that you’ll be well equipped DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER with a range of academic, personal and professional skills, all of which will prepare BA Single Honours Sociology AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 you for future employment or research in a L300 3 yrs (L302 4 yrs) wide variety of fields. Many of our graduates choose to follow their degree with employment BA Combined Honours See Philosophy or postgraduate study in people-focused fields Philosophy and Sociology VL53 3 yrs (VL5H 4 yrs) in the public and not-for-profit sectors, such as central and local government and charities. Politics and Sociology See Politics Others use the interpersonal, analytical and LLH2 3 yrs (LL23 4 yrs) research skills developed on the course to Sociology and Anthropology AAA-AAB; IB 36-34 follow careers in business, marketing L3L6 3 yrs and management. Find out more at Sociology and French GCE AL French; IB French HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ LR31 4 yrs employability Sociology and German GCE AL German; IB German HL5 AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 LR32 4 yrs Programme Details Sociology and Italian LR33 4 yrs GCE AS in a modern foreign language AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Full details of these programmes, Sociology and Russian LR37 4 yrs grade B; IB MFL SL5 including information about the available Sociology and Middle East Studies See Arab and Islamic Studies option modules for each programme, LT36 3 yrs can be found in our subject brochure and at Sociology and Spanish GCE AL in a modern foreign language; AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 www.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/undergraduate LR34 4 yrs IB MFL HL5 Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information on Additional Selection Criteria at BA Sociology www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/sociology LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) For details about study abroad please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/sociology Our Sociology degree introduces you to ways International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at of thinking about, seeing and investigating www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. the social, cultural and political world in which For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for we live. 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Sport and Health Sciences at Exeter has an excellent international reputation for its teaching and research. If you want an 1st in the UK for Sports Sciences in The Sunday innovative and holistic scientific approach to the understanding of sporting performance Times University Guide 2012 and exercise and health, combined with an excellent general education that can lead to a 3rd for Sports Science in the National Student wide range of employment opportunities, then p: top 6 for the last five years Sport and Health Sciences at Exeter is for you. Survey (2011) Our staff are highly qualified and have a wide 7th in the UK for world leading and internationally range of teaching experience and research t interests in the fields of exercise, sport and excellent research health. Their research often informs public policy on exercise and health and several staff Research-led teaching with academic collaborations provide scientific support and consultancy services to national and international athletes with industry and professional athletes and teams and organisations such as the Rugby Football Union, England and Wales Dedicated laboratories for biomechanics, Cricket Board and UK Athletics. As you would expect, many of our students represent the physiology and psychology University at their chosen sport and a number have also achieved regional, national and One of the UK’s top sporting universities: international sporting honours. Our extensive teaching and research facilities top 10 in British Universities and Colleges Sport include designated purpose-built laboratories for sport and exercise physiology, sports (BUCS) championships biomechanics and health and performance psychology. Through a diverse range of Generous sports scholarship scheme research-led modules, you can explore all facets of this broad scientific discipline, from Degrees in exeter biomechanics and physiology to psychology BSc Single Honours and research design. The University is also Exercise and Sport Sciences investing £8.1 million in developments to the Sports Park for completion by Human Biosciences September 2013. BSc Combined Honours Psychology with Sport and Alongside our BSc in Exercise and Sport Exercise Science Sciences, we offer a specialist degree in Human Biosciences, taught in collaboration Numbers with Biosciences, and for those particularly Entrants: 148 interested in the psychological aspects of Applicants: 1,005 the field, the BSc Psychology with Sport and Exercise Science provides a focused Programme information programme of study accredited by the British Email: [email protected] Psychological Society. Phone: +44 (0)1392 722896 www.exeter.ac.uk/sportscience Learning and Teaching A subject brochure is available which includes You will learn through lectures, tutor-led seminars, laboratory, and practical sessions. full programme and module details. You will have a personal tutor who is available

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You will also be encouraged to attend and Programme Details BSc Human Biosciences present at student conferences (eg, BASES The modules outlined below are indicative for LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM AND Student Conference). A number of our each programme and are subject to change. ST LUKE’S CAMPUSES) students also take modules in leadership Full details of these programmes, including the Human Biosciences at Exeter is taught studies with the Business School and sports latest information about the core and option jointly by Biosciences and Sport and Health law with the Law School. modules, can be found in our subject brochure Sciences. The programme represents an and at www.exeter.ac.uk/sportscience innovative, collaborative teaching response to Assessment a broadening demand for graduates with skills All modules are assessed, with Year 2 and BSc Exercise and Sport Sciences in fields of study relating to biological and 3 modules contributing towards your final LOCATION: EXETER (ST LUKE’S CAMPUS) sport sciences. It allows you to study scientific degree classification. Modules are assessed The Exercise and Sport Sciences programme aspects of health, physical activity and using a variety of methods including essays, enjoys an international reputation for biotechnology and recognises the importance exams, oral and written presentations, excellence. During the programme you that exercise can play in the prevention laboratory reports and a dissertation. We will cover the key areas of a balanced and treatment of disease. You will receive a aim to strike a 50:50 balance between multidisciplinary Exercise and Sport Sciences thorough grounding in the study of human coursework and exams over the duration of programme. The degree structure allows and molecular biology together with the the programmes. you to specialise in a particular area or to various sub-disciplines of exercise and sport follow a broader-based programme. Modules sciences, including biomechanics, kinesiology, Study Abroad are underpinned by the research excellence human and applied physiology, molecular Students studying Exercise and Sport Sciences and applied expertise of our staff, allowing biology, genetics and medical microbiology. have the opportunity to spend the first half current cutting edge material to be taught Year 1 Fundamental Skills for Biosciences; of their second year abroad. We currently on your degree. have arrangements with partner universities Genetics; Microbiology and Cell Biology; in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Year 1 Biochemistry of Exercise; Foundations Human Anatomy and Physiology; Foundations Portugal and Spain. Further information can of Biomechanics; Foundations of Exercise of Biomechanics; Foundations of Exercise be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/sportscience/ Physiology; Foundations of Sport and Exercise Physiology; Biochemistry of Exercise; studyabroad Psychology; Human Anatomy and Physiology; plus options including Introduction to Introduction to Statistics; Kinanthropometry; Biotechnology; Kinanthropometry. Learning and Personal Development. Careers Year 2 Exercise Physiology; Biomechanics Our degrees have high academic standing Year 2 Biomechanics and Kinesiology; and Kinesiology; Research Methods and are designed to prepare you optimally Exercise and Sport Psychology; Exercise and Analytical Procedures; plus options for employment or further training in a wide Physiology; Research Methods and Analytical from Medical and General Microbiology; variety of professional careers. The degrees Procedures; plus options from Applied Developmental Biology; Molecular Biology are first and foremost Honours degrees in Biomechanics; Exercise Programming; of the Gene; Human Molecular Biology; science. That means that you will be qualified Leadership: Challenges and Practices; Learning Evolution and Informatics; Forensic Science; to get a job on the basis of being accomplished and Teaching in Physical Education; Sport Advanced Cell Biology; Genomics and at undertaking degree-level scientific work. Psychology; Strength, Conditioning and Biotechnology; Exercise Programming; A number of our graduates choose to work in Athletic Training. Applied Biomechanics; Strength the sport, exercise and health sector, but many Conditioning and Athletic Training; choose to use their skills to gain employment Year 3 Dissertation or Independent Research Foundations of Sports Nutrition. in alternative sectors. Our programmes also Review; plus options from Biomechanical provide an excellent foundation for further Analysis of Human Movement; Business Year 3 Biosciences Research Project; study, through either a postgraduate degree or Awareness: Theory and Practice; Clinical Dissertation or Independent Research vocational training. Exercise Prescription; Emerging Themes in Review/Project; plus options from Frontiers PE; Employability and Career Development; in Molecular Cell Biology; Microbial Employability skills are embedded into the Factors Affecting Performance; Paediatric Effectors of Disease; Cellular Basis of curriculum and specialised careers initiatives Exercise Physiology; Physical Activity and Immunity; Molecular Basis of Infection; help maximise your career prospects. We also Mental Health; Sports Law for Non-Lawyers; Developmental Biology; Cell Cycle and offer employability and career development Sports Nutrition; Sports Psychology. Cancer; Medical Biotechnology; Evolution of modules which prove extremely popular with Infectious Diseases; Ecotoxicology; Science our students. Information about graduate Communication; Sports Nutrition; Factors destinations and our careers and employability Affecting Performance; Paediatric Exercise initiatives can be found on our website Physiology; Clinical Exercise Prescription; by following the link www.exeter.ac.uk/ Biomechanical Analysis of Human Movement; sportscience/undergraduate/careers Employability and Career Development. 150 Sport and Health Sciences

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Combined Honours Degrees sport and health sciences ENTRY DATA BSc Psychology with Sport DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER and Exercise Science BSc Single Honours AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM AND Exercise and Sport Sciences C602 3 yrs ST LUKE’S CAMPUSES) Taught jointly by Psychology and Sport and Human Biosciences GCE AL Biology and another science or AAB-ABB; IB: 34-32 Health Sciences, full details of this degree are C900 3 yrs two GCE AS science subjects; IB Biology and second science HL5 given on page 140. BSc Combined Honours Flexible Combined Honours Psychology with Sport See Psychology and Exercise Science LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM AND C8C6 3 yrs ST LUKE’S CAMPUSES) Exercise and Sport Sciences may also be Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information on Additional Selection Criteria at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/sport studied under the Flexible Combined GCE AL/AS science includes: Biology/Human Biologyp; Chemistry; Computing; Design and Technology; Honours scheme (see page 98). Electronics; Environmental Studies; Geography; Geology; Maths/Pure Maths/Further Mathsp; Physical Education; Physics; Psychology; Science (applied); Statistics. International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

pIf more than one of these is taken they would only count as one ‘science’ but could count as two A levels towards our general requirements.

Exeter has been a great place for undergraduate study. The teaching here is good and the practical laboratory seminars have helped me learn more. The programme is very ‘hands on’ and enhances the learning experience. We get good support from the staff and the atmosphere is really friendly. It is a very campus-based university and really convenient. The student lifestyle is great and there is always lots to do. There are also many sport clubs and societies to join. The University definitely has a good reputation and I believe plenty of opportunities will be available in the future. After completing my degree, I want to have a sports oriented career. The programme has helped me gain knowledge about the different fields of sports and more importantly I have identified my field of interest through the programme. I definitely made the right decision coming to the University of Exeter.

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Theology and Religion at Exeter is among the most challenging and stimulating subjects you can study. Religion is a major factor shaping 1st for Overall Satisfaction in the National Student the world in which we live and all religions p: top 5 for the past 4 years raise ethical and philosophical questions which Survey (2011) are among the most basic and important we face as human beings. Our broad and varied 5th for Theology in The Guardian and 7th in curriculum spanning theology and religion, ethics and philosophy and biblical studies The Times university guides 2012 is taught by enthusiastic staff and goes well beyond many of the issues you will have 4th for graduate level employmentt and explored at A level. You will also have the chance to study outside the lecture room with postgraduate study rates options to take field trips, a work placement or study abroad. You don’t have to be religious Varied programme including applied theology, to find the issues our Theology programmes raise, or the ways in which they tackle them, philosophy of religion, science and religion, ethics, compelling. Our friendly department is made up of students and staff with diverse opinions biblical studies, Christian doctrine and history and ideas about religion and faith, atheism and secularism. All you need is the desire to study Flexibility to customise your degree around your with enthusiasm and an open mind. own interests Learning and Teaching We use a wide range of teaching and learning Opportunities to take a work placement, methods including lectures, seminars, group-work, field trips, debates, portfolios, field trips or study abroad presentations and one-to-one or small group tutorials. Half of your degree is made up of Degrees in exeter optional modules. You can mix these across a range of interests or follow particular themes BA Single Honours such as religion and public life, science and Theology* religion, history of religions, biblical studies, BA Combined Honours ethics, philosophy, or Christian history Classical Studies and Theology* and doctrine. Half of these options may be Philosophy and Theology* chosen from areas other than Theology and *4-year programmes with Study Abroad available Religion such as Classics and Ancient History, Archaeology, Sociology, Philosophy, Arab and Numbers Islamic Studies, Politics or History. This gives Entrants: 34 you an excellent opportunity to ‘customise’ Applicants: 265 your degree to your own interests. You’ll have a personal tutor who is available for advice Programme information and support. Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)1392 724241 Assessment www.exeter.ac.uk/theology Assessment is based on essays, seminar A subject brochure is available which includes presentations, portfolios and exams. You will have to pass the first-year assessments to full programme and module details. progress but the marks do not count towards

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Study Abroad BA Theology in Christian Ethics; God and the Physicists; Students studying Theology have the LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics; Scribes, opportunity to study for half a year at a The BA in Theology gives you an excellent Apostles and Sages: Early Jewish Biblical partner institution in Europe, North America grounding in all the subjects essential to Exegesis; Heaven and Hell Throughout the or Australia or follow a four-year ‘with Study a good understanding of the discipline of Ages; Theology, Gender, Race and Class; Abroad’ programme which allows you to Theology, from biblical studies (with the Encountering the Historical Jesus; Ways of spend your third year abroad. You may apply option of studying the texts in the original Christian Living in the 4th and 5th Centuries; directly for the four-year programme or languages) to church history; and modern Philosophy and the Spiritual Life; Sacramental transfer from another programme once you theology to philosophy and ethics. The Theology and Social Justice. are at Exeter. Full details of these schemes programme gives you increasing flexibility Please note: We are currently revising the content and our partner institutions can be and choice as you progress through the of our degree programme so please refer to our found at www.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/ stages of the degree. website for full details of the modules you will undergraduate/studyabroad Years 1 and 2 You’ll gain a solid grounding in study. www.exeter.ac.uk/theology the broad areas of study essential to theology: Careers philosophy of religion and ethics, biblical Combined Honours Degrees Our Theology programmes give you an studies, and Christian history and doctrine. LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) excellent all-round education, enabling you to You’ll also choose from a range of optional Theology may be studied with Classical understand other people’s points of view, to modules to explore more specific areas of Studies or Philosophy. Details of the Theology communicate your own position clearly and enquiry. component are outlined above. For details of to argue effectively. You’ll also learn to collect, the second subject please refer to the relevant assess and present evidence and to work Year 3 In year three you can specialise more subject’s entry. independently and in groups. Our programmes particularly in areas of interest to you and are demanding and encourage initiative and write a dissertation on a research topic of Flexible Combined Honours your choice. open mindedness, helping to ensure that you’ll LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) be well equipped with a range of academic, Our option modules include: Religion in the Theology may also be studied under the personal and professional skills that will Modern World; Evolution, God and Gaia; New Flexible Combined Honours scheme prepare you for future employment. Testament Ethics; Life and Death in Ancient (see page 98). Our students have gone on to successful Israel and Judah; God, Sex and Money: Topics careers in many sectors including broadcasting, teaching, banking, youth and theology and religion ENTRY DATA community work, the law, management (public DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER and private sector), the Civil Service, public BSc Single Honours relations, and the armed services. Find out Theology AAB-BBB; IB: 34-30 more at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ V611 3 yrs (V610 4 yrs) employability BA Combined Honours Classical Studies and Theology See Classics and Ancient History Programme Details QV85 3 yrs (QV86 4 yrs) Full details of our programmes, including Philosophy and Theology See Philosophy up-to-date information about the available V V56 3 yrs (V V5P 4 yrs) modules, can be found in our subject brochure and at www.exeter.ac.uk/theology Additional Selection Criteria Please ensure you read the information on Additional Selection Criteria at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/theology For details about study abroad please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/degrees/theology International students can find details of English language requirements and Foundation programmes at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/international Typical Offer Please read the important information about our Typical Offer on page 157. For full and up-to-date information on applying to Exeter and entry requirements, including requirements for other types of qualification, please see www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/applications

I have really enjoyed the first year of the Theology degree programme; being part of a small department has meant that I’ve felt involved on a personal level, with staff making the effort to get to know me as an individual and being part of a friendly class.

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Learning and Teaching subject-specific pathways available. Successful leads to the award of a Certificate of Higher Teaching is delivered through a range of completion (subject to achieving the specified Education and offers direct entry to Year 2 of a methods including lectures, seminars, grades for progression) guarantees direct entry relevant business or engineering degree at the academic tutorials and, where appropriate, to a wide range of degree programmes at the University of Exeter. University of Exeter. laboratory classes. The programmes have The Diploma is a full-time academic also been designed to develop the key The Foundation programme lasts for three programme, which is comparable to studying transferable skills needed for successful terms or approximately nine months and the first year of a University of Exeter degree undergraduate study. has intakes in both September and January. programme. The programme is specifically Students, who do not meet the minimum designed for international students who show Assessment English language requirements for direct entry academic promise but who do not meet the Students are assessed by a combination of to the three-term Foundation programme, University’s academic and/or English language exams, tests and coursework assignments, may be eligible to apply for the Extended requirements for direct entry to Year 1 of an which might include essays, presentations, Foundation programme. Lasting four terms, undergraduate degree. problem-solving exercises, reports and the Extended Foundation programme The Diploma is suitable for international research projects. Exam in all modules take incorporates a term of intensive English students who have studied A levels, place at the end of each semester. Grades from language tuition at the beginning of the International Baccalaureate, a recognised the programme do not count towards a final course, allowing you to begin your course Foundation programme or an international degree but help the University assess students’ and improve your English to a level equivalent. Successful completion of the abilities in their chosen field of study. appropriate for academic study. Diploma programme (subject to achieving Progression Around 40 per cent of the course is devoted the specified grades for progression) offers Successful completion of the Foundation to subject based modules that relate directly direct entry to Year 2 of a select number of programme (subject to achieving specified to your proposed degree programme, undergraduate degree programmes offered grades for entry) leads to direct entry to Year including modules in Accounting and Finance, by the University of Exeter Business School 1 of a number of degree subjects including: Biological Sciences, British History and and College of Engineering, Mathematics and Accounting, Archaeology, Bioscience, Institutions, Chemical Sciences, Economics, Physical Sciences. The Diploma programme Economics, Engineering, Geology, History, Law, Management, Mathematics, Physics and lasts for three terms or approximately nine International Relations, Law, Management, Psychology. Academic English Language and months and has intakes in both September Mathematics, Politics and Psychology. Study Skills is a core subject, accounting for and January. approximately 60 per cent of classes, covering Around 80 per cent of the course is devoted to Successful completion of the Diploma reading and study skills, writing, listening and subject that relate directly to your proposed programme (subject to achieving specified speaking within the context of academic study. grades for entry) leads to direct entry to Year degree programme. All students take Academic 2 of a select number of undergraduate degree Diploma in Business English Language and Study Skills within the programmes in Business and Management, Management, Accounting and context of your academic discipline, which Business Economics, or Accounting and Economics, or Engineering accounts for approximately 20 per cent of Finance, offered by the University of classes, and covers reading, writing, listening LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) and speaking. Exeter Business School, as well as direct The Diploma programme prepares students entry to undergraduate degrees in General for entry to the second year of a relevant Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil undergraduate degree. Successful completion Engineering, Engineering and Management, and Materials Engineering, offered by the into university of exeter ENTRY DATA College of Engineering, Mathematics and DEGREE PROGRAMMES REQUIRED SUBJECTS TYPICAL OFFER Physical Sciences. Foundation Satisfactory completion of high Offers are made on an individual For full details of the specified school qualifications and minimum basis, but will require evidence progression grades for entry please visit English of academic success and www.intohigher.com/exeter language score competence in English Diploma Satisfactory completion of high Offers are made on an individual Programme Details school, recognised foundation basis, but will require evidence programme or first year of of academic success and Foundation overseas university degree competence in English LOCATION: EXETER (STREATHAM CAMPUS) qualifications and minimum English The Foundation programme is a pre-university language score academic course designed to bridge the gap A fuller list of recognised qualifications can be found by following the ‘In your country’ link at www.exeter.ac.uk/international for international students between high Students with less than IELTS 5.0 can enrol on an INTO English for University Study course for an appropriate period – see school and undergraduate studies in the UK. our website www.into.uk.com/exeter for further details. 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Before you apply How to apply We strongly advise that applications Before you make your application, All applications for full-time study must from international fee payers (see you should check that you have the be made through the Universities and www.ukcisa.org.uk/student/fees_ most up-to-date entry requirements, Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) student_support.php) are submitted information about our typical offer using their Apply online system. You by the appropriate deadlines stated and other important information can do this through your school or above. Applications from students in about how we assess your application. college if they are registered with this category may still be considered This can all be found on our website at UCAS, or independently. Full details after this date, if places are available. www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ and instructions can be found on the We would recommend that you applications UCAS website at www.ucas.com apply as soon as possible to avoid the disappointment of you chosen We make every effort to ensure The UCAS code and number for the programme being full. that the entry requirements are as University of Exeter is EXETR E84. up-to-date as possible in our printed Entry requirements Your application (irrespective of prospectus. However, since this is General entry requirements printed well in advance of the start of whether you are applying for deferred The University welcomes applications the admissions cycle, in some cases entry) should reach UCAS between 1 from appropriately qualified students our entry requirements and offers September 2012 and 15 January 2013. offering a wide range of qualifications. will change. Before attending an open Applicants for Medicine must apply day and making your application, between 1 September 2012 and 15 You can find full details of the we strongly advise that you check October 2012. qualifications which are acceptable the latest online information for the for entry at www.exeter.ac.uk/ programme(s) you are interested in and We guarantee that all Home/EU undergraduate/applications/entry contact the Admissions Office if you applications received by the UCAS have any questions. deadline of 15 January 2013 are given If English is not your first language equal consideration. Applications and you have not completed your Our undergraduate admissions policy received after this date will be education in an English-speaking can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/ considered on an individual basis, country (ie, the UK, Anglophone undergraduate/applications/policy depending on the availability of places. Canada, USA, Australia or New Zealand), you will need to submit Our terms and conditions can be found evidence of a good command of English at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ before starting your degree programme. applications/disclaimer Information about our English language requirements can be found at www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ applications/entry/language 156 The University of Exeter

Programme-specific If you would like further advice on our Interviews academic requirements entry requirements, please contact the The majority of programmes do not All programmes have specific entry Admissions Office. require an interview as part of the requirements which are shown in selection process. Where an interview the individual subject entries in Admissions Office in Exeter is included in the process, this is made this prospectus. Email: [email protected] clear in the individual subject entry Phone: UK callers requirements. The purpose and format Some programmes require prior study 0844 6200012 of the interview will be communicated of specific subjects and may also have EU/International callers to you clearly in advance so you know minimum levels of attainment required +44 (0) 1392 723044 what to expect and what role this plays at GCSE or equivalent, particularly in in the overall selection process. English language and/or Mathematics. Admissions Office in Cornwall These requirements are shown in Email: [email protected] What we look for in the entry requirement tables under Phone: UK callers your personal statement ‘Required subjects’. 01326 371801 In addition to academic qualifications, EU/International callers we also consider whether you are The grade requirements in terms of +44 (0) 1326 371801 suitably motivated to complete your GCE A level and International chosen programme of study, and Baccalaureate (IB) grades are shown How we assess your application whether the programme will challenge under ‘Typical offer’. The table also and benefit you. includes grades for specific A level In considering your application, we take subjects or in the IB at the Higher account of: Below is a summary of the type of Level (HL). • your achieved academic performance information we look for: in level 2 and 3 qualifications (GCSEs, • your reasons for the choice of Further information about our A and AS levels, and their equivalents) subjects taken at A level or equivalent offer and decision can be found at • your predicted performance in future and, where appropriate, the relevance www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ examinations of those subjects to your chosen applications/offer • your personal statement degree programme International students • your reference • why you have applied for a particular You should consult our general and programme and how this relates to • any additional statement supplied subject-specific entry requirements your current and previous studies by your school or college regarding information for A levels and the and experiences. If you have a career any special personal or extenuating International Baccalaureate, but the goal, it is helpful if you tell us how the circumstances which may impact, or University also recognises a wide range programme would enable you to fulfil have impacted on your studies of international qualifications. You that ambition Alongside these factors, we may also can find further information about • evidence of a willingness and desire to take into account the educational academic and English language entry learn at a higher level: we are looking context in which your academic requirements at www.exeter.ac.uk/ for students who have the potential achievements have been gained. For undergraduate/international and the drive to succeed further information please see our Mature students Admissions Policy at www.exeter. • details of any work experience, paid If you are considering applying as a ac.uk/undergraduate/applications/ or unpaid, and any other positions of mature student, you can find further policy responsibility that you’ve had. We’re information at www.exeter.ac.uk/ particularly interested in the skills undergraduate/maturestudents Please ensure you refer to our gained from these experiences and general and specific entry requirements how they relate to your own personal information and check the most development and how they may up-to-date entry requirements on help you in your studies and life our website. at university The University of Exeter 157

• information regarding volunteering Information about these additional What happens next and other extra-curricula activities criteria is given in the individual and what you have gained in terms subject entries online. Making your decision of experience and skills from these When you have received offers from interests Our decision all the universities to which you have Decisions on applications submitted by • your plans for how you will spend a applied, you will need to notify UCAS 15 January 2013 will normally be made gap year (if relevant) and what you of your decision by the deadlines UCAS by the end of March 2013 at the latest. will gain from these experiences will set for you. Further information on responding to your offers can be found For undergraduate full-time at www.ucas.com/students/offers/ Our offer and decision applications, we will write to inform replyingtoyouroffers Our offer you of our decision but the official Our offers are normally expressed offer and specific conditions will be Receiving your in terms of GCE A level grades or communicated to you by UCAS. If you examination results International Baccalaureate (IB) have supplied an email address you If you meet all the conditions of your points. If you are offering alternative will receive these communications offer, and have accepted us as your qualifications, the offer made will be at electronically via UCAS Track. Track first choice university, then we will a level equivalent to A level/IB points. also allows you to follow the progress be able to confirm your place. If you of your application online. are not able to satisfy the terms and Our ‘Typical offer’, including any conditions of our offer exactly, we It is very important that you carefully grades in specific subjects, is shown in may reconsider our offer in the light read the terms of your offer as the Entry Data table in the individual of your actual performance and the communicated to you via UCAS to subject entries. Where subjects are performance of others seeking entry to ensure that you know how to go about specified without grades you will be the same programme. Amended grades meeting any academic and non- expected to achieve a grade in line (eg, after an appeal) will also be taken academic conditions. If you are unsure with the typical offer range. Offers into consideration as long as results are about anything, please contact us for will normally be made within the received by 31 August 2013. publicised grade range. You are advised clarification. Further information about what to check our website for the most If we make you an offer and you happens at Confirmation can be found up-to-date information. have not had to attend an interview, at: www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ individual departments will invite you For some programmes where we receive applications/whatnext a large number of applications from to attend an Offer-Holder Visit Day, well-qualified applicants, we may not which will give you the chance to find Contact us be able to make an offer to all those out more about your programme and Admissions Office in Exeter who are predicted to achieve (or who department and decide whether to Email: [email protected] have already achieved) our typical offer. accept our offer. Offer-Holder Visit Phone: UK callers We will therefore consider additional Days mainly take place during the 0844 6200012 academic achievements alongside the period January to April. EU/International callers personal statement in deciding whether +44 (0) 1392 723044 we are able to make an offer. Admissions Office in Cornwall Email: [email protected] Phone: UK callers +44 (0) 1326 371801 EU/International callers +44 (0) 1326 371801 158 Campus maps

Campus maps

For those with smartphones you can now use our Augmented Reality app when visiting the campuses to show points of interest around you, including real objects, such as cafés and lecture theatres and virtual objects, for example Wikipedia entries or people using Twitter. www.exeter.ac.uk/students/life/layar

Streatham Campus Academic buildings Library 4 7G Administration/ Catered halls Alexander 47 11D Newman 18 6F social buildings Birks Grange 66 6B Holland Hall 62 5D Drama Lecture Theatres Catholic Chaplaincy 74 4B Hope Hall 41 8J Cornwall House 32 7I Amory 29 6H Old Library 7 8G Lazenby 38 8K Bill Douglas Centre Devonshire House 2 7F Classics and Ancient History Lopes Hall 34 6J Geography Accessibility Service Exeter Northcott 13 6F Mardon Hall 58 6D History Research Commons Theatre Moberly 71 4B International Relations Family Centre 59 6E Physics 21 5F Pennsylvania Court 36 7K Law Great Hall 1 7F Philosophy Physics Ransom Pickard 35 7K Radiography Kay House Duryard 85 2B Politics West Garth 78 2A Mary Harris 10 8F Sociology Queen’s 11 8F Memorial Chapel Theology English Northcote House 12 7F Self-catering residences Film Studies Building:One 84 6H Peter Chalk Centre 17 6F Birks Grange Village 79 6B University of Exeter Foreign Language Centre Clydesdale Court 64 6D Learning and Teaching Support Reed Hall 14 6E Business School Cook Mews 69 5A Centre (LaTiS) Reed Mews 15 6E Geoffrey Pope 20 6F Modern Languages Sir Christopher 77 4E Duryard Halls 72 3B Biosciences Holland Hall Studios 62 5D Roborough 8 8F Ondaatje Devon Cricket Centre King Edward Court 68 6A Harrison 23 5G Drama Sports Park 60 5E Lafrowda 43 7I Computer Science Streatham Court 31 6H Engineering Tennis Centre 61 5E Llewellyn Mews 70 5A Mathematics University of Exeter University Reception 1 7F Northfield 75 10D Business School Rowe House 45 8I Hatherly 6 8G Accounting St David’s 51 12B Biosciences Business and Management Economics St German’s 42 7J Institute of Arab and 16 6E Islamic Studies Thornlea 48 10D Arab and Islamic Studies Drama INTO International 83 6G Washington Singer 9 8E Study Centre Psychology Knightley 55 9E Xfi 30 6H Music University of Exeter Business School Laver 22 5G Archaeology The University of Exeter 159

New for 2012, The Forum, which includes a Student Services Centre, a refurbished library, technology-rich learning spaces, a 400-seat lecture theatre, the University reception and retail and catering outlets

The department locations are correct as of February 2012 160 Campus Maps

St Luke’s Campus Academic buildings Baring Court 5 Children’s Health and Exercise Research Centre Holnicote 4 Support Services Library 6 University of Exeter Medical School 8 Richards 9 Sport and Health Sciences Smeall 10 University of Exeter Medical School Administration/social buildings Chapel 2 Cloisters Restaurant 11 Sports Centre 7 Staff House 15 Cross Keys 3 Enquiries 1

Catered halls South Cloisters 12 Nancherrow 13 College House 14

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The department locations are correct as of February 2012

Cornwall Campus Academic/social Tremough House 2 Media Centre 4 buildings and The Annexe Daphne du Maurier building 1 Tremough House Environment and 6 Camborne School of Mines Department of English Sustainability Institute (ESI) (due for completion Autumn 2012) Department of Biosciences Chaplaincy Accessibility Services The Annexe Gym and fitness studio The Exchange 7 Accommodation Office (due for completion Autumn 2012) Library and IT suite Careers Advisory Service Teaching rooms and laboratories Counselling Service MUGA (Multi-Use Games Area) 8 The Stannary Restaurant and bars Shop

Students’ Union Self-catered Peter Lanyon building 3 residences Department of Geography Glasney Student Village 5 Department of History Department of Law Department of Politics Academic Support Unit Business Support Unit Teaching and seminar rooms 162 Visiting the University M6

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Cardiff M4 London Bristol M5 Visiting the A30 University Exeter Falmouth Streatham Campus and By car By coach St Luke’s Campus The M4/M5 links Exeter directly to For timetables visit London, the Midlands, South Wales www.nationalexpress.com or By train and the North including Scotland. phone National Express on The average journey time from London The average journey time from either +44 (0) 8717 818178. Paddington to Exeter St David’s station London or the Midlands is 3 hours. is 2 hours 30 minutes. The Streatham By car Campus is approximately 15 minutes’ Satellite navigation The Cornwall Campus is approx walk from Exeter St David’s (see the Use postcode EX4 4QJ for the 2 hours’ drive from Exeter. From the marked walking route on the Streatham Streatham Campus and EX2 4TE north, take the A30 west from Exeter Campus map). The local bus service for St Luke’s. until you reach the A39 signposted connects the station and the St Luke’s Truro. Drive through Truro, following Please note, parking on campus is Campus. the signs A39 to Falmouth. Follow the extremely limited. A39 towards Falmouth until you come By coach By air to the Treliever roundabout, where National Express coaches call at Exeter The nearest regional airports are at you will see signs to the CUC Coach Station. The local D bus connects Exeter, Plymouth and Bristol. Tremough Campus. the Coach Station to both Streatham Campus and St Luke’s Campus. For further details, please see Satellite navigation www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/directions Use postcode TR10 9EZ. Please note: some satellite navigation systems do Cornwall Campus not work properly in Cornwall and we recommend a level of caution when By train using the postcode for the campus, There are regular services to Truro from you may prefer to follow the directions all major British cities. At Truro, change above instead of relying on Sat Nav. to the branch line service to Penryn and Falmouth. The average journey By air time from London Paddington to Truro The closest airport to the Cornwall is just over 4 hours and from Truro Campus is at Newquay. to Penryn about 15 minutes. Penryn For further details, please see Station is about 15 minutes’ walk from www.exeter.ac.uk/visit/directions the Cornwall Campus. Key contacts 163 M6

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Eligibility and admission Accessibility Service Students’ Union to all programmes in Exeter in Cornwall (FXU) M5 Phone: 0844 6200012 The Old Library The Annex (UK callers) Prince of Wales Road Cornwall Campus +44 (0) 1392 723044 Exeter UK EX4 4SB Penryn, Cornwall UK TR10 9EZ (EU/International callers) Phone: +44 (0) 1392 723880 Phone: +44 (0) 1326 370447 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] M4 For programmes based in Cornwall: Accessibility Service Visiting the University Student Recruitment Office Phone: +44 (0) 1326 371801 in Cornwall Reed Hall M5 Email: [email protected] Student Services Exeter UK EX4 4RQ A30 Cornwall Campus General information for Penryn, Cornwall UK TR10 9EZ Phone: +44 (0)1392 724043 international students Phone: +44 (0) 1326 370443 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Phone: + 44 (0) 1392 723405 University website Email: [email protected] INTO University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk Accommodation in Exeter The INTO Building Stocker Road Terms and conditions Phone: +44 (0) 1392 722524 Exeter UK EX4 4PY www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/ Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 (0) 1392 724282 applications/disclaimer Email: [email protected] Accommodation in Cornwall Alternative formats Phone: +44 (0) 1326 253639 Students’ Guild This prospectus is available in Email: accommodation@ Devonshire House alternative formats, on request, to tremoughservices.com Stocker Road suit the needs of those with disabilities. Exeter UK EX4 4PZ Please contact the Accessibility Service Phone: +44 (0) 1392 723528 at the address above. Email: devonshirehouse-guild-info@ exeter.ac.uk

Acknowledgements Produced by We acknowledge with thanks individual Marketing Office, University of Exeter students and staff, Apex, Kate Bailey, Designed by Bob Berry, Gregory Bradley, Alex Design Studio, University of Exeter Campbell, Anita Corbin, Tom Dymond, Ede and Ravenscroft, Matt Jessop, Print Land Securities, Reni Mansi, Sophia Belmont Press, Northampton Milligan, Tim Pestridge, Princesshay, Published February 2012 Ben Rowe, Oliver Rudkin, Southwest © University of Exeter RDA (Molyneux Associates), Steve Tanner, Karen Taylor, Visit Cornwall Prospectus requests (Steve Burgess) and Jim Wileman. This prospectus can be downloaded from www.exeter.ac.uk/ undergraduate/prospectus or additional copies can be ordered from www.exeter.ac.uk/prospectus 164 Programme index

Programme index

SA Available with Study Abroad Electronic Engineering SA IND 87 History and Russian SA 108, 129 Philosophy and Political Economy SA 133 SA IND Available with Industry Placement Electronic Engineering and History and Spanish SA 108, 129 Philosophy and Politics 133, 138 SA IND SA CNL Delivered at our Cornwall Campus Computer Science 83 History and Visual Culture SA 64, 108 Philosophy and Russian 129, 133 SA Engineering 89 Human Biosciences 149 Philosophy and Sociology 133, 147 SA IND A Engineering and Management 88 Philosophy and Spanish SA 129, 133 Engineering Geology and Philosophy and TheologySA 133, 152 Accounting 57 CNL I SA IND Geotechnics 106 IND Physics SA IND 135 Accounting and Finance 57 SA IT Management for Business 72, 79 SA English 91 SA Physics with Astrophysics 136 Ancient History 74 CNL International Relations 138 English 92 SA Ancient History and International Relations and Politics 138 SA SA Archaeology 62, 74 English and Drama 91 French 128, 138 Politics and Arabic SA 59, 138 CNL Animal Behaviour 66 English and Film Studies 91, 97 International Relations and Politics and Arabic Studies 59, 138 SA SA Anthropology see Archaeology English and French 91, 128 German 128, 138 Politics and French SA 128, 138 SA and/or Sociology 62, 147 English and German 91, 128 International Relations and Politics and German SA 128, 138 CNL SA Italian SA 128, 138 Applied Psychology (Clinical) 142 English and History 91, 109 Politics and Geography CNL 101, 138 Arabic SA 59 English and Italian SA 91, 128 International Relations and SA Politics and International SA SA Russian 129, 138 Arabic and Islamic Studies 59 English and Russian 91, 129 Studies CNL SA 135 International Relations and Arabic and Kurdish SA 59 English and Spanish SA 91, 129 SA Spanish SA 129, 138 Politics and Italian 128, 138 Arabic and Middle East Studies SA 59 English and Visual Culture SA 64, 91 SA Islamic Studies 59 Politics and Russian 129, 138 Arabic and Persian SA 59 Environmental Science CNL 95 SA Italian and Arabic SA 59, 128 Politics and Sociology 138, 147 CNL SA SA Archaeology 62 Evolutionary Biology 67 SA Italian and Russian 128, 129 Politics and Spanish 129, 138

Archaeology and Anthropology 62 Exercise and Sport Sciences 149 SA Italian and Spanish 128, 129 Psychology 140 Archaeology and Forensic Science 62 Psychology with Sport and

Art History and Visual Culture 64 F Exercise Science 141 L Film Studies 97 SA Law 112 B Film Studies and French SA 97, 128 R Law (European) SA 113 Biochemistry SA IND 68 Film Studies and German SA 97, 128 Radiography see Medical Liberal Arts 115 Biological and Medicinal Film Studies and Italian SA 97, 128 Imaging (Diagnostic Radiography) 120 SA IND CNL Chemistry 68 Film Studies and Russian SA 97, 129 Renewable Energy 145 M SA SA SA Russian 129 Biological Sciences 67 Film Studies and Spanish 97, 129 SA IND Management with Leadership 71 SA SA IND SA IND Russian and Arabic 59, 129 Business and Accounting 57 Flexible Combined Honours 98 SA IND Management with Marketing 71 SA SA IND CNL Russian and Spanish 129 Business and Management 71 Flexible Combined Honours 99 SA IND SA IND Management with Tourism 71 Business Economics 83 Foundation Certificate SA IND Materials Engineering 88 S for International Students 154 SA Mathematics 117 Sociology SA 147 C French 128 SA IND SA Mathematics and Engineering 89, 118 Sociology and Anthropology 147 Civil Engineering 86 French and Arabic 59, 128 SA Mathematics and Physics 118, 136 Sociology and French SA 128, 147 Civil and Environmental French and German 128 SA IND Mathematics with Accounting 57, 117 SA Engineering 86 French and Italian SA 128 Sociology and German 128, 147 SA SA Mathematics with Business SA Classical Studies 74 French and Latin 74, 128 Sociology and Italian 128, 147 SA and Finance 117 Classical Studies and English 74, 91 French and Russian 128, 129 Sociology and Middle East Mathematics with Economics 83, 117 SA SA Studies 59, 147 Classical Studies and French 74, 128 French and Spanish 128, 129 SA Mathematics with Finance 57, 117 Sociology and Russian SA 129, 147 Classical Studies and German 74, 128 Mathematics with Management 71, 117 SA Classical Studies and Italian SA 74, 128 G Sociology and Spanish 129, 147 Mathematics and the SA Classical Studies and Geography SA 103 CNL Spanish 129 SA Environment 118 SA Philosophy 74, 133 CNL SA IND Spanish and Arabic 59, 129 SA Geography 101 Mechanical Engineering 88 Classical Studies and Russian 74, 129 CNL Sport Sciences see Exercise SA Geography and English 92, 101 Medical Imaging Classical Studies and Spanish 74, 129 CNL and Sport Sciences 149 SA Geology, Applied 106 (Diagnostic Radiography) 120 Classical Studies and Theology 74, 152 SA SA German 128 Medicine 121 Classics 74 SA T German and Arabic 59, 128 Middle East Studies 59 SA Clinical Science 76 SA Theology 152 German and Italian 128 Middle East Studies with Arabic 59 Computer Science IND 78 German and Russian SA 128, 129 Middle East Studies with Kurdish 59 Computer Science and SA CNL V IND German and Spanish 128, 129 Mining Engineering 124 Mathematics 78 Visual Culture see Art History Modern Languages SA 125 Conservation Biology and and Visual Culture 64 Ecology CNL SA 66 H Modern Languages and History SA 108 Visual Culture 64, 125 CNL SA Z D History 109 CNL SA SA N Zoology 67 Diploma for International Students 154 History and Ancient History 74, 108 SA Natural Sciences 131 Drama 81 History and French 108, 128 SA Drama and Visual Culture SA 64, 81 History and German 108, 128 History and Geography CNL 101, 109 P SA E History and International Philosophy 133 Relations SA 108, 138 Philosophy and French SA 128, 133 Economics SA IND 83 History and Italian SA 108, 128 Philosophy and German SA 128, 133 Economics and Finance SA IND 83 History and Politics SA 108, 138 Philosophy and History SA 108, 133 Economics and Politics SA IND 83 History and Politics CNL SA 109, 139 Philosophy and Italian SA 128, 133 Economics with Econometrics SA IND 83 Open Days An excellent open day; everyone was friendly, and even the The University of Exeter has three campuses; two in to visit all three at the following Exeter and one in Cornwall. There are opportunities weather smiled on us! The facilities looked really good, the campus Open Days. O was beautiful and the presentations helpful. Exeter University – pen Days in Exeter Open s treatham and St Luke’s campuses, Days in Cornwall does exactly what it says in the prospectus! Exeter c ornwall Campus, near Falmouth Tuesday 12 June 2012 s aturday 23 June 2012 Open Day Visitor s aturday 8 September 2012 s aturday 29 September 2012 Take the opportunity to have a look around our beautiful campuses, meet academic and support staff, chat to current students and find out what you want to know about the perfect for finding out what life at University. Exeter is really like. The Open Days are Campus Tours How to book your place Streatham and pen Days St Luke’s campuses Bookings are essential for all our events. O The tours of our campuses in Exeter are usually led by a current student and generally include the There are limited places available for all our Open Days chance to visit the Library Days , Sports Park and Students’ events and tours so it is important to book your Open Guild. Where possible visitors will have the chance place in advance to avoid disappointment. in Cornwall to view an example of the accommodation available. in Exeter Open Days and Campus Tours in Ex eter Tours of the S Held at our Cornwall Campus treatham Campus take place from Held at both Streatham and St Luke’s campuses. Tuesday 12 June 2012 near Falmouth Monday to Friday at 2pm in term time. Book online at: eptember 2012 Saturday 8 S www Saturday 23 June 2012 Tours of the .exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/visiting September 2012 St Luke’s Campus take place on Phone: +44 (0)1392 724043 Saturday 29 Tuesdays and Fridays at 12:00 noon in term time. Email: [email protected] Cornwall Campus, near Falmouth Take a look around: Open Days and Campus Tours in Cornwall Tours of our www.exeter.ac.uk/virtualtours Cornwall Campus run on Wednesdays Held at our and Fridays at 2pm. Cornwall Campus, near Falmouth. Days and Campus Tours Tours are led by current Book online at: Full details of our Open students who will give you an authentic and lively www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/visiting can be found inside the back cover. introduction to student life. The tour takes in Phone: +44 (0)1326 371801 student accommodation on campus. Email: [email protected] Self-guided campus tour leaflets and audio Visit www.exeter.ac.uk/virtualtours for tours are also available to download at virtual tours of the www.exeter.ac.uk/undergraduate/visiting/tours Streatham Campus, S t Luke’s Campus and Cornwall Campus.

I absolutely loved the atmosphere on campus – the place is beautiful! I was inspired by my subject talk (Psychology), it made me want to start studying there and then. Accommodation was much better than I have previously seen elsewhere. I really couldn’t fault Exeter. Cover artwork by Alexander Beleschenko Open Day visitor Commissioned as the glass artwork of the new Forum at the University of Exeter

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