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UNDERGRADUATE GUIDE 2020/21 OUR COMMITMENT TO Y No1 Our Teaching Intensive, Research Informed approach enablesou our students to get a quality teaching experience; No.4 in the UK*. No2 We believe in providing a positive and supporting learning environment; resulting in being No.1^. #UniAsItShouldBe No3 We invest in state-of-the-art facilities and equipment used in industry, helping your transition into employment. No4 We have a personal approach to learning and support, and we are proud to know our students by name. University of Bolton 01204 903 903 /UniversityofBolton Deane Road No5 No hidden extras, we provide you with all the Bolton [email protected] @BoltonUni ** BL3 5AB tools you need to complete your course . bolton.ac.uk @BoltonUni /UniversityofBolton *4th in the UK for teaching quality - Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 - correct at the time of going to print, February 2019. ^No.1 in Greater Manchester for student satisfaction - Complete University Guide 2019. **Terms and conditions apply - see uob.ac UNDERGRADUATE GUIDE 2020/21 OUR COMMITMENT TO Y No1 Our Teaching Intensive, Research Informed approach enablesou our students to get a quality teaching experience; No.4 in the UK*. No2 We believe in providing a positive and supporting learning environment; resulting in being No.1^. #UniAsItShouldBe No3 We invest in state-of-the-art facilities and equipment used in industry, helping your transition into employment. No4 We have a personal approach to learning and support, and we are proud to know our students by name. University of Bolton 01204 903 903 /UniversityofBolton Deane Road No5 No hidden extras, we provide you with all the Bolton [email protected] @BoltonUni ** BL3 5AB tools you need to complete your course . bolton.ac.uk @BoltonUni /UniversityofBolton *4th in the UK for teaching quality - Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019 - correct at the time of going to print, February 2019. ^No.1 in Greater Manchester for student satisfaction - Complete University Guide 2019. **Terms and conditions apply - see uob.ac Page The information given in this guide is intended as a general Page guide to the University of Bolton, its courses and facilities. 3 The information contained in this guide was believed to be correct and accurate at the time of it going to press (it was printed 7 Page in February 2019). The prospectus does not form part of your TEACHING contract with the university. It is therefore important that you check the university’s website at www.bolton.ac.uk for the latest Useful 11 CONTACTS QUALITY GETTING information and updates or contact the university using the See why we have been contact details contained within this document. awarded 4th in the UK AROUND See all that Bolton and Greater FITTING IN The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your for teaching quality. course as described in its published material and the programme PROSPECTUS & Manchester has to offer. Feel right at home specification for the academic year in which you begin your COURSE HOTLINE with a wide range of course. The university considers changes to courses very Page carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please clubs, societies and bolton.ac.uk/courses Page social activities. be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing 9 basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, [email protected] financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of 5 course modules and mode of associated assessments may be 01204 903 903 updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules ALL ABOUT are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. ENHANCE YOUR The published course material and the programme specification STUDENT ADVISORS EMPLOYABILITY contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to LEARNING See how our students benefit from live change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this bolton.ac.uk/students projects and industry relationships. reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module. Discover our great facilities and Where changes are made to material information contained [email protected] how they support your studies. in this prospectus or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admission and enrolment, we will inform 01204 903 733 applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant. Courses that are not yet validated are clearly identified. STUDENTS’ UNION Applicants should refer to the important information located at boltonsu.com www.bolton.ac.uk/admissions before making an application. Any offer of a place on a course at the university is made on the basis [email protected] of the university’s terms and conditions applicable at the time you Be accept your offer and those terms and conditions are located at: 01204 900 850 https://www.bolton.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student- Page policies/. It is important that you have the opportunity to read and understand these terms before accepting your offer. If you STUDENT FUNDING ADVISOR ShouldPage are unclear about any of the terms and conditions, you should It 35 ask the Admissions Team for clarification before you confirm your [email protected] AsPage acceptance. By accepting a place at the university you are agree 19 01204 903 497 Uni to abide by the rules and regulations of the university as details in HOME AWAY LEARN # the university’s Student Admissions Policy, Course Fees Policy and 15 FROM HOME other Rules, Regulations and other provisions and requirements OUR & EARN and other policies and procedures of the university and relevant ACCOMMODATION Welcome to Details of our apprenticeships. AWARD-WINNING partners which apply to students. Orlando Village. [email protected] No liability to parents, sponsors or other third parties COURSES The university’s dealings and contracts with students and 01204 903 481 See our full course list. prospective students do not create a contract or other legally binding relationship between the university and anyone else, for example parents, guardians or sponsors. DISABILITY TEAM The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your [email protected] course as described in its published material and the programme Page Page specification for the academic year in which you begin your 01204 903 478 course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review 13 37 on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode 07799 657 035 COME & of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. FEES EXPLORE This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material INTERNATIONAL Page Open and Access All Areas & FUNDING APPLYING and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional Days are a great way to modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances bolton.ac.uk/international Find out all the facts. FOR UNI 17 understand how we can outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run All you need to know support your career ambitions. any specific optional module. [email protected] about entry requirements. Alternative formats available by visiting uob.ac +44 (0)1204 903 110 UNI MY EXPERIENCE... WHAT HAPPENED AT THE OPEN DAY? It was a great opportunity to meet the lecturers who’ll WHY BOLTON? be teaching you, speak with The courses are both BPS accredited students, explore the campus and have a great reputation with small and get a feel for the university. class sizes, their quality was assured, I loved the day so much that and I knew that I’d be able to work in the once I enrolled, I became field of psychology, once I graduated. a Student Ambassador. The lecturers were very friendly. THE SUPPORT The lecturers are all very friendly and go out of MY CAREER their way to help. Not just I got my job through the Psychology academically but also with department at the university, the charity any concerns in terms of approached my professor to carry out some my future career. Put simply, research into the need for psychological without the University of interventions in schools. I was appointed as Bolton I wouldn’t be working a research assistant whilst studying for my in the career I do now. masters degree and things just kind of snowballed from there. I am now Project Co-ordinator for the Hummingbird Project, a psycho-educational intervention for school-aged children based around Positive Psychology. The university has completely changed my life. I was working in retail when I enrolled and now I’m in a job that Andy Platt STUDIED GRADUATED I’m passionate about. 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PROFESSOR GEORGE HOLMES quality VICE CHANCELLOR Offering exciting opportunities THE TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES to develop your skills and interests, GOOD UNIVERSITY supporting your career ambitions.