THE UNIVERSITY OF Undergraduate PROSPECTUS 2014 ENTRY

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1 Contents

Welcome 4 Accounting and Finance 54 Drama 93 Manchester people 6 Aerospace Engineering 56 Earth Sciences 96 The Manchester experience 10 Archaeology 58 Economics 98 Our research 12 Architecture 62 Economic and Social Studies 100 Our campus 14 Art History and Visual Studies 63 Electrical, Electronic and The city of Manchester 20 Mechatronic Engineering 102 Business Studies Accommodation 30 and Managem ent 65 Engineering and Science Support 36 with an Integrated Chemical Engineering 70 Library and IT 38 Foundation Year 105 Chemistry 73 Study abroad 40 English Literature Chinese 78 and American Studies 106 Careers 42 Civil Engineering 80 English Language Sport, health and fitness 44 Classics and Ancient History 83 for Education 108 The Students’ Union 46 Computer Science 85 Environmental Science 110 International students 48 Computing 89 European Studies 114 Finance 50 Dentistry and Oral French 115 Our courses 52 Health Sciences 91 Geography 117

2 “The thing about Manchester is it’s got a specific direction it’s going in - which is upwards.”

Professor Brian Cox School of Physics and Astronomy

German 119 Medicine 160 Psychology 189 History 121 Middle Eastern Studies 164 Religions and Theology 191 Human Communication 123 Modern Languages 167 Russian 193 Italian 125 Music 169 Social Anthropology 195 Japanese 130 Nursing and Midwifery 171 Social Sciences 197 Joint Language courses 131 Optometry 173 Sociology 199 Law 133 Petroleum Engineering 175 Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies 201 Learning Disability Studies 135 Pharmacy and Textiles 203 Life Sciences 136 Pharmaceutical Sciences 176 Small print 206 Life Sciences with Philosophy 178 Maps 214 a Foundation Year 145 Physics and Astronomy 180 Linguistics and Course index 222 Planning and Environmental English Language 147 Management 182 Management and Leisure 152 Politics and Materials Science 153 International Relations 186 Mathematics 156 Politics, Philosophy Mechanical Engineering 158 and Economics 188

3 “Manchester has so much to offer students and, if you get involved, you can learn a wide range of skills and really enhance your CV. I’ve got involved in as many things as possible and it is those extracurricular things that have made my university experience so memorable.”

Sophie Taylor LLB Law

4 Welcome to The

We’re influential and forward-thinking, down-to- Our ambitious plans are backed by the biggest earth and friendly, and we’ll give you an amazing investment programme ever seen in UK higher university experience that’s rooted in a rich heritage. education – we’ve already invested £750 million in buildings and facilities since 2004 and we’re now Part of the prestigious Russell Group of universities, putting another £1 billion into further teaching with outstanding facilities and the widest range of and student facilities. courses, we are highly respected across the globe as a centre of teaching excellence. We’ve got the people to do it We enjoy an international reputation for our We have more Nobel laureates on our staff than pioneering researc h and innovation, which vitalise any other UK university. You’ll be taught by experts our undergraduate courses and introduce you to the who are recognised internationally as being at the latest thinking in your chosen field. Our problem- forefront of their subject – and who incorporate based approach to learning will inspire you to think the very latest thinking and discoveries directly critically and creatively, cultivating your independence into your course. and making you more attractive to employers. And best of all, you’ll get to experience all of this We give you excellent job prospects at the heart of Britain’s most popular student city. An annual review of the graduate market in 2012 named us the most targeted universi ty in the UK We make things happen by Britain’s best-known employers. We turn enthusiasm into achievement and ground- Our Careers Service runs events and programmes breaking theory into cutting-edge practice. That’s why developed with more than 4,000 graduate recruiters, we’re at the forefront of the search for solutions to from major multinationals to small- and medium- some of the world’s most pressing problems. sized enterprises. 92% of our graduates go straight We’ve been accomplishing feats of global significance into employment or further study. for more than 180 years, from inventing the modern computer to splitting the atom, and from founding We offer much more than a degree present-day economics to giving the world graphene At Manchester you’ll find the broadest range of – the two-dimensional ‘wonder material’ that is one opportunities outside of your studies for de veloping atom thick, but 200 times stronger than steel. your interests and having fun. These include And we don’t work in isolation. We have strong links outstanding sports facilities, supported community with industry and the public services, and our volunteering, study abroad pathways, skills- research makes a real difference to people’s lives development programmes, mentoring and across the world. much more.

We know where we’re going We’re on the way to becoming one of the world’s top 25 universities – the preferred destination for the best We’d love you to join us teachers and students, where the highest academic Choose The University of Manchester and values are cherished and your student experience is discover your own path to future success. second to none.

5 Manchester people

Manchester students are a diverse and dynamic • You want to take charge of your future, learning bunch, drawn from all corners of the globe, with the about potential career paths and prospective energy and commitment to build a better future via employers, so you can plan for an exciting future an exceptional educational experience. and find out what you need to do to succeed. They learn quickly how to balance the demands • You want to get to know and love Manchester, of a rigorous education with the attractions of a a vibrant, friendly and creative place with an fascinating student city, by enthusiastically making enduring energy for progress and change. the most of the opportunities we offer. • You want to develop confidence and independence, try new things and meet challensge Are you a Manchester student? head on, find your voice and form opinions, • You want practical experience as well as academic develop your inner drive and ambition, be inspired knowledge on courses designed in close and get involved. collaboration with industry and informed by the best research, to make you more employable. • You want to look outside of the University, to be challenged to view the world in different • You want to meet the world at the UK’s biggest ways, to identify problems and find new ways and most diverse university community, mixing of solving them. with students from 180 countries and making friends for life at a place that prides itself on • You don’t want your future to happen to you. nurturing responsible global citizens. You want to make your future happen.

We have the largest alumni community of any Sophie Raworth campus-based university in the UK and many of our Broadcaster and journalist graduates hold positions of seniority in business, Lord Terrence Burns academia, politics, industry and the media. Chairman, Santander Tom Bloxham Winnie Cheung Chairman, Urban Splash Former Chief Executive, Hong Kong Institute of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Certified Public Accountants Composer and conductor Sir Philip Craven Mark Kermode President, International Paralympic Society Film critic Chuka Ummuna Sir Norman Foster Shadow Secr etary of State for Business Innovation Architect and designer John von Spreckelsen Teo Chee Hean Chairman, Thorntons plc Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong (Singapore) Television comedy writers HE George Maxwell Richards Toby Jones President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Actor Ian King Jane Cocking Business and City Editor of The Times Humanitarian Director of Oxfam Benedict Cumberbatch Actor

6 “Manchester is a place for individuals, brilliant kids who like to do their own thing... and, if you are Who comes to Manchester? ready, it will release A total of 25 Nobel Prize winners have you to do the same.” taught or studied here and our worldwide community of almost 270,000 graduates The Virgin Guide to hold top positions in every imaginable British Universities field. We’re proud that our illustrious alumni retain lifelong connections with us, sharing their experiences and expertise with students.

7 Dr Qing Jun Meng Life Sciences Alumni, students and p112 staff share their stories in the profiles that are scattered throughout this prospectus.

Professor Dame Tina Lavender Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work p184

Jack Burke History student and Student Volunteer of the Year 2012 p60

Dr Jennifer O’Brien Geography graduate and Lecturer in Human Geography p128

8 Professor Brian Cox Physics and Astronomy p76

David Adler Neuroscience student p94

Eleanor Morris Speech and Language Therapy student p150

Sian Hughes Politics, Philosophy and Economics graduate p162

9 The Mancheste r experience

Nowadays you need more than a strong academic We give you… qualification to achieve your potential as a graduate. That’s why we give you the skills and opportunities • Teaching by real experts, underpinned by to set you up for success throughout your life. internationally significant research and strong industrial links. You’ll be taught by some of the best minds in the country who are world-leaders in the ir field. You’ll find their passion infectious and their enthusiasm will rub off on you. We challenge you to... • Flexible, multidisciplinary courses that you can tailor to your interests and career ambitions. All • think critically; our courses are divided into units, some of which • question, reason and analyse; are optional. The range of optional course units typically increases as you progress, often including • take the initiative; units from other courses, or delivered by the • play an active role in teams; Careers Service. • take charge of your learning and career • Ca development; reer development opportunities throughout your degree to help you prepare for a bright • cultivate advanced written and verbal future. You can take part in workshops and gain communication skills; work experience via our Careers Service. There • be proactive, seeking out opportunities are also opportunities for work placements and beyond your course; internships, or you could get involved in one of the • value integrity and be a responsible city’s festivals, such as the Manchester International citizen of the world. Festival or Manchester Literature Festival. • Courses that challenge y our preconceptions and give you a greater understanding of what it means to be a responsible global citizen. Our Manchester Leadership Programme could form part of your degree, combining community volunteering with a course unit that explores topics such as ethical leadership and social responsibility. • An education that encourages independent critical thinking and analysis. Rather than just being taught to pass exams, you will be assessed on the skills that employers value, such as how to work as part of a team, make presentations and tackle problems creatively. • Individual support to help you take control of your learning and develop your confidence. An academic adviser will work with you to help you achieve your full potential and give you advice and assistance if the going gets tough.

10 • Personalised learning that puts you at the heart • Hundreds of extra-curricular activities to help you of your academic experience. As well as fantastic develop different skills and have lots of fun too. facilities, including our state-of-the-art Alan Gilbert The UK’s biggest Students’ Union offers an Learning Commons, our virtual learning incredible choice of student societies for you to environment gives you study materials and join. We also have excellent sports clubs, facilities activities online, as well as interactive sessions with and fitness programmes. staff and other students – so you can juggle your study and personal life to suit you. • Continual monitoring and improvement of your university experience. Our Directorate for the • The chance to satisfy your curiosity about the Student Experience is dedicated to enhancing your world. Our University College courses allow you to time with us, working in partnership with the broaden your horizons and dip your toe into Students’ Union and aca demic departments to different disciplines. Drawing on the best teaching listen to and respond to your needs. talent across the University, you can take courses that showcase Manchester’s research and challenge conventional thinking – exactly what university is all about.

11 Our research

We are recognised at a global level for the quality and Bringing research into the classroom volume of our pioneering research. The best international teaching and learning In the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008) institutions are also great research institutions, and an impressive 65% of our research activity was rated The University of Manchester falls firmly into that ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’, with category. Here you can mix with, and learn from, most of the remainder judged to be of a quality that many of the best and brightest peop le in the world, is ‘recognised internationally in terms of originality, in a stimulating and inspirational intellectual significance and rigour’. environment. We also emerged as one of the country’s top research You will be taught by staff who are recognised institutions, ranked third in the UK in terms of internationally to be at the forefront of their subject, research power. and who can incorporate the very latest thinking and discoveries directly into your course. Research that is Many of our academic staff are professional hitting the headlines one day may feature in one of researchers as well as tutors and lecturers, carrying your lectures the next. out scholarly or scientific investigation into their specialist subjects and making innovative discoveries We have strong collaborative links with indus try and that contribute to global knowledge. public services, which inform our research and ensure that your course is tailored to the needs of employers. Our research also has real-world impact. We are at And to help further our research, we invest the forefront of the searc h for solutions to some of significantly in facilities and resources, some of which the world’s most pressing problems and are making will be available for you to use too. a real difference to the quality of people’s lives.

Top 10 universities by research activity University research activity Ranking judged to be “world-leading” (4*) at 4* and 3* as measured by number or “internationally excellent” (3*) of full-time equivalent staff 1 University of Oxford 1,580 2 University of Cambridge 1,452 3 The University of Manchester 1,194 4 University College London 1,179 5 University of Edinburgh 1,029 6 Imperial College London 893 7 University of Nottingham 809 8 University of Leeds 773 9 University of Bristol 736 10 University of Sheffield 728

Source: HEFCE RAE 2008

12 “I chose Manchester because it has one of the best RAE rankings and top-class facilities.”

Ali Jahran Biomedical Materials Science

13 OUR CAMPUS

Packed with excellent facilities and reaching into the heart of Britain’s number one student city, our friendly campus offers everything you need to get the most from both your studies and your leisure time. We have around 40,000 students from 180 countries, creating a mini metropolis where a multicultural community comes together to study and relax.

14 15 Our campus

The best facilities for teaching, learning and living We’ve completed the biggest investment in buildings students’ union and a new medical school. We’ll also and facilities ever seen at a British university, to create be refurbishing our radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, the best learning environment for you. Our iconic one of the jewels in our crown. Victorian buildings are now joined by contemporary lecture theatres, laboratories, studios, computer labs The University’s main focus is along the bustling and a host of student support services. Oxford Road and we’ll also be spending several million pounds on making this a better place to be But things don’t stand still at Manchester. W e’ve for the whole Manchester community – including just announced plans to invest a further £1 billion extensive tree planting and pedestrianisation in 2015. in our campus. In the next few years you’ll see a new engineering campus, new centres for law and business, a major refurbishment of the library (already one of the largest at a UK university), a bigger, better

Living here We offer you a safe and attractive living environment, providing one of the widest choices of university accommodation in the country. See p30.

16 Sport We’ve got fantastic sports facilities, including three fitness suites, a 50-metre swimming pool and lots of indoor courts and outdoor pitches. See p44.

Culture and entertainment We have our own museum and art gallery, and an independent theatre is based on campus. See p22.

17 Sustainability Our award-winning environmental practices include comprehensive, cross-campus Students’ Union recycling facilities and the monitoring of energy usage. All The Students’ Union is the hub of new buildings are constructed student life. It’s right in the middle of our to maximise efficiency, while campus and has its own shops, cafes and campus shops and cafes stock bars, as well as four live entertainment Fairtrade products. venues – including the famous . See p46.

18 A new hub for learning We’re very proud of our new Alan Gilbert Learning Commons, which opened in 2012. This ultra-modern building emerged phoenix-like from a 1960s shell, and includes the most up-to-date IT facilities, lots of flexible learning spaces and a host of student-centred services. We developed the iconic £25 million building through consultation with our students. They helped design the furniture, provided the eclectic mix of art and defined the shape and use of the space by telling us exactly what they needed. The building is designed to the highest standards of sustainability – even the lighting adjusts automatically, according to the level of natural light and the occupancy of the rooms. The Learning Commons is open 24/7 and can accommodate more than 1,000 students. There are 30 bookable rooms and a variety of pods and spaces, making it great for group study or independent learning.

19 OUR CITY

We’re proud to be at the heart of the most popular student city in the UK. The University is an integral part of this exciting place and we’re certain it will feel like in next to no time.

20 21 The city of Manchester

Manchester’s unique character comes from its Art and culture pioneering past – this is the place where the industrial From classic art to the campaign for social justice to revolution really took hold. It grew dramatically in the the history of football, Manchester’s got an impressive 19th century on the wealth created by cotton, and range of museums and galleries, and many are free the city’s amazing Victorian civic buildings, mills and so you’ll keep going back for more. factories shout ‘This is Manchester. We’ve arrived’. You can explore ancient worlds at the Univers ity’s But it’s not all about industry. Manchester shakes up own , or browse one of the the music scene, nurtures creativity and hosts world's finest collections of rare books and international sporting events. Never content to live on manuscripts at our John Rylands Library. The Museum past glories, this is a place that looks to the future of Science and Industry brings innovation to life in the with a passion for progress. world's oldest railway station, while the Imperial War Museum North asks how war shapes people’s lives. Manchester is also home to the National Football Museum and People’s History Museum. Important classic and contemporary art is on show at the and another University gem, the . You’ll also discover smaller permanent and pop-up galleries dotted all over the city.

“The positives and negatives of life in Manchester power the imagination and creativity of the city. Out of the disharmony of Manchester, England, comes rock and roll.”

Dave Haslam DJ and author

22 “Don’t talk about what you are going to do, do it. That is the Manchester habit. And in the past, through the manifestation of this quality, the word Manchester became a synonym for energy and freedom and the right to do and to think without shackles.”

Sir Edward Abbott Parry Judge and dramatist

23 Festivals Notable names are superclub Sankeys, which Manchester’s enduring energy and cosmopolitan attracts internationally acclaimed DJs, and The creativity can be seen in its impressive array of Warehouse Project, where the world’s biggest dance festivals. acts come together in an old cotton mill. Recent headlining shows include Fatboy Slim, Soulwax and 2013 marks the fourth outing of the biennial Chemical Brothers. Manchester International Festival, with 18 days of world premieres. Future Everything brings art, digital The Printworks is home to some of busiest and culture, music and performance together, while most popular venues: Tiger Tiger, Entourage and Parklife and Dot to Dot present the best new music The Birdcage. Canal Street, known as the Gay Village, and dance acts. is lined with bars and clubs, including Alter Ego, G-A-Y, Crunch, Queer and New York, New York Manchester Pride, one of the best gay festivals in the among others. world, bursts on to the streets every year. South East Asian Culture is celebrated at the Manchester Mega and the Locks offer glamour at Avici Mela. The ¡Viva! film festival showcases Spanish and While, Sugar Buddha and Sakura, or head to the Latin American film, and the Manchester Literature Northern Quarter for some of city’s best live music Festival gives us the best in contemporary writing nights and DJ sets at Mint Lounge, Black Dog from across the world. Ballroom and Hula Tiki Lounge. Nightlife You don’t even need to venture off campus to have a good night out. Favourites include the Deaf You’ll be inundated with club promo offers the Institute, which offers everything from grime to indie, minute you arrive on campus and Mancheste r's motown to nu-disco, and reggae to electro. And thriving nightlife scene is reflected in its dazzling Factory251, the former home of Factory Records, variety of clubs. gives you dubstep and drum and bass, old school R&B and hip-hop.

“Manchester is a great city to be in as a student, because everything I need is so accessible, and I always feel safe.”

Catrin Vaughan Student

24 “I love living in Manchester because it is so diverse in terms of the food and culture you can get “There is never a dull moment on your doorstep. in Manchester - it’s got to be the Manchester also has best uni city in the UK!” amazing venues for Sandy Jackson live music and great Student shopping.”

Emily Hind Student

25 Music and theatre Shopping Manchester attracts some of the world’s biggest bands Manchester is renowned for its shopping, which and DJs, as well as plenty of up-and-coming talent. encompasses brilliant British designers, established worldwide brands and quirky independent one-offs. Catch big names on international tours at the MEN Arena, Apollo or our own Manchester Academy. Market Street is the very definition of the modern Discover new acts at Night and Day, Band On the British high street and a good starting point for any Wall, Roadhouse and Matt and Phreds. shopping trip. You’ll find premium department stores Harvey Nichols and Selfridges at nearby Exchange If classical is more your thing, you’ll know that Square, or head to King Street, Manchester’s most Manchester is home to the Hallé and BBC upmarket shopping street for top designer emporia. Philharmonic orchestras, which both perform at the The Northern Quarter is the place for independent . Leading chamber orchestra shops that you won’t find anywhere else and that Manchester Camerata can also be seen there, as well embody Manchester’s creative diversity. as at the Royal Northern College of Music, which stages a diverse programme of music. Theatre and opera buffs can find everything from arias to musicals hot from the West End, while experimental theatre productions take place at the Palace Theatre, Royal Exchange, Contact The atre and The Lowry. “Manchester's got everything except a beach. “

lan Brown Lead singer with The Stone Roses

Homegrown Mancunian legends

• The Smiths • Happy • Joy Division Mondays • New Order • Mr Scruff • Oasis • Elbow • Stone Roses • Bee Gees • Chemical • The Hallé Brothers Orchestra • Hacienda • Tony Wilson • John Cooper Clarke

26 “I have really enjoyed the different opportunities everywhere that are just waiting for me to go and take hold of them.”

Jeffery Rahal Student

27 Sport Food Manchester has long been synonymous with football Manchester has a great reputation for food and thanks to Manchester United and Manchester City, drink. It’s a multicultural medley of gastronomic but there’s much more to discover here. In 2013 the delights, with cuisine from practically every nation Rugby League World Cup is being fought for in and to suit any budget, from high-class dining to venues across Greater Manchester and the North top-notch takeaways. Try the biggest Chinatown in West, culminating in the final at Old Trafford. We’ve the UK outside London, or the famous ‘Curry Mile’ also got rugby union, or you can watch national and for starters. There’s so much to choose from you’ll international cricket at Lancashire Cricket Club, just still be discovering great new places to eat when outside the city centre. you graduate. Manchester is home to the victorious Team GB cycling team and Britain’s first indoor Olympic cycling track at Sportcity, where you’ll also find major squash, tennis FIND www.visitmanchester.com and netball events. If you want to do more than just www.timeout.com/manchester watch the action, you can hire a bike and helmet, and OUT www.creativetourist.com test the track at the , learn to MORE www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk ski, snowboard or climb at the world’s largest indoor www.manchestersfinest.com ski slope or sign up for the annual Great Manchester Run, the nation’s favourite 10k running event.

28 Getting away from it all With a major international airport on your doorstep and excellent road and rail links with the rest of the UK, Manchester is one of the most accessible cities in the country and the perfect base for exploring. You can enjoy a day out in Blackpool, a night out in Liverpool or a weekend getaway in the Lake District. If you’re looking further afield, can take you Manchester directl y to 190 destinations.

Liverpool/Leeds (45 minutes by car) Lake District (1.5 hours by car) London (2 hours by train) Paris (1 1/2 hours by plane) Barcelona (2 1/2 hours by plane) Athens (4 hours by plane) New York (8 hours by plane) Singapore (13 1/2 hours by plane)

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29 Accommodation

One of the most exciting things about coming to Our accommodation guarantee university for the first time is deciding where you’re If you’re a new first-year undergraduate student going to live. Whether you prefer traditional or coming to live here by yourself, we guarantee you modern, catered or self-catered, our huge range of a place in University accommodation. To take student accommodation means we’ve got something advantage of this offer, you must submit your for everyone. accommodation application by 31 August and hold One thing you can be certain of is that wherever you an unconditional offer to study here. choose to live, Manchester will quickly become a When applying, you will be asked to nominate your home from home. three preferred halls. Most applicants are allocated a room in one of their prefe rred halls, but we can’t always guarantee that you’ll get one of your preferences. We offer...

• guaranteed University accommodation to all new first years coming to live alone in Manchester; • guaranteed University accommodation to all international (non-EU) students for the duration of their studies; • every type of housing imaginable, from modern self-catering flats to traditional collegiate-style halls of residence.

30 “From traditional and modern halls of residence, to smart, modern flats, through to small suburban Victorian houses, there’s something to suit all domestic tastes.”

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31 Hall life Most of our halls are based in one of the following three areas: • City campus – close to the city centre and at the heart of Manchester our teaching campus; city centre • Victoria Park campus – a nearby suburb about a mile (2km) from campus; • – a student suburb less than two miles (3km) from campus. For a map of our accommodation, see p220. City campus

"Halls are a base camp for your Victoria Park campus big city adventure, a chance to meet new people and stage your own adventures, while still under the watchful eye of someone who, at least for now, knows better than you." Fallowfield Jacob Carr (Dalton Ellis Hall) campus

32 Halls are self-contained communities and some have their own bars, common rooms and social activities, so they are an ideal place to make new friends. All halls have single bedrooms with an Ethernet connection. In self-catered halls you share a living room and/or kitchen with other students. Some halls offer en suite facilities while others have shared bathrooms. Typical room plans*:

Shared Lounge / Study Study Study Kitchen Bedroom Bedroom Bedroom with with washbasin en-suite

*NB: Due to the diversity of halls, please note that these are indicative floor plans only.

33 Fees Family accommodation Costs vary depending on facilities, but sample We offer a variety of accommodation specifically for 2012/13 prices are: students with families and partners. These include double rooms and flats, but unfortunately demand • £96 per week for a single self-catering room exceeds supply, so this type of accommodation with shared facilities; cannot be guaranteed. Contact us to discuss your • £122 per week for a single room with en requirements and we’ll try to help. suite facilities; Private accommodation • £125 per week for a single room in a hall of residence with meals provided. If you don’t want to live in halls, you should contact Manchester Student Homes. They are the best source of information on privately rented student Special requirements accommodation in Manchester. Let us know if you’ve got any special needs, such as a disability, medical condition or any special dietary requi rements. As soon as you know you’re coming to Manchester, simply get in touch and we’ll do our best to help.

“Living in halls is a must- do of the uni experience. There’s always someone to talk to and something to do, support if needed, and lots of great friends to make. Dalton Ellis Hall ticked every box for me and made my first year an amazing time. Highlights were the meals, places to meet up, staff and the mix of students.”

Rob Marsland (Dalton Ellis Hall)

34 “Halls are something you’re only ever going to do once – an environment where everyone is sharing new experiences, having a crazy time and gaining independence. It’s the easiest way to meet people you’ll ever get and so many people are like-minded. There are also great sport opportunities.”

Simon Willis (Richmond Park)

FIND For more on University accommodation, FIND For more on private accommodation, OUT including: including: • full terms of accommodation OUT • housing advice MORE guarantee MORE • private student properties • how and when to apply • University-leased houses • meeting your specialist requirements • Manchester Student Homes • visiting our residences code of standards • details on individual halls www.manchesterstudenthomes.com www.manchester.ac.uk/ t +44 (0)161 275 7680 accommodation manchesterstudenthomes@ t +44 (0)161 275 2888 manchester.ac.uk [email protected]

35 Support

We’ve got nearly 40,000 students, but we make sure Counselling that every individual who comes here gets all the Trained counsellors working within our University support they need. Counselling Service offer free, confidential advice on any pers onal problems affecting your work or well- being. There are also residential pastoral care teams We offer you... who provide help and support in University-managed accommodation, including emergency duty cover at • specialist support services to help you night and at the weekend. look after your general well-being and keep you on track academically; Nightline is a listening and information telephone service run by students for students, providing a • experienced and sympathetic people, reassuring point of contact through the night. offering support and advice, to help you find a solution to any difficulty – financial, Staying safe personal, academic or administrative. We offer practical advice on the many simple precautions you can take to maximise your personal security and safeguard your possessions. We also Our Student Services Centre is the single point of have our own security service and closed-circuit TV contact for your administrative dealings with us, system, making our campus and residences areas of including questions relating to finance, immigration, low crime. student cards, exams or graduation. You can call in and speak to us in person, or contact us by telephone Safety and security are issues in all big cities, but our or email. excellent relationship with Greater Manchester Police helps keep you informed, so you can enjoy everything If you’d rather talk to fellow students, you can use that Ma nchester has to offer without taking any the Students’ Union Advice Service, which is staffed unnecessary risks. by professional advisors and specially trained student officers with expertise in welfare, academic matters Disability support and the particular needs of different student groups. If you have additional needs arising from a medical condition, a physical or sensory disability, a specific Health learning difficulty, such as dyslexia, or a mental health You’ll need to register with a local doctor for your problem that affects your study, our Disability Support main health care. Lists of doctors are available from Office can offer support. our Student Occupational Health Service, our Students’ Union Advice Service, local post offices or If you think you need extra help, we’d encourage you online at www.nhs.uk. to make this known at the time of your application. You can contact us or visit us at any time to discuss Our University Dental Hospital offers emergency your needs, and this can be in complete confidence if dental treatment, while our Student Occupational you prefer. Health Service provides advice and support in relation to health concerns that may affect your academic See p212 for more on disability support. studies.

36 Childcare Care leavers Our nursery facilities are located conveniently close If you’re a care leaver, we may be able to help you to campus. Places for children aged between six with your application and your studies once you months and five years are available on weekdays, all arrive. We want to make sure you have access year round, from 8.30am to 5.30pm, although due to appropriate support, so please email to high demand for some age groups you may have [email protected] at any time in complete to join a waiting list. For more information call: confidence. • Dryden Street Nursery +44 (0)161 272 7121 Equality and diversity We are committed to providing you with a positive • Echoes Nursery working and learning environment, free from +44 (0)161 200 4979 discrimination, harassment, or victimisation. You • Students’ Union A dvice Service can seek confidential advice and guidance on any +44 (0)161 275 8066 or +44 (0)161 275 8077 equality and diversity issue from our Equality and Diversity Team. Religion 8,500 international students from 180 countries FIND make our student population one of the most diverse OUT http://my.manchester.ac.uk/guest in the UK. And the cosmopolitan city of Manchester has places of worship for most faiths and religions, MORE including many on, or near, our campus. Some areas on campus are reserved for quiet prayer and reflection, including dedicated Muslim prayer facilities. You’ll also find student societies for most major religions based in our Students’ Union. “Everyone is so nice. It can be daunting coming Chaplains are available if you want to talk through problems, explore issues of faith or find information to a big city and a new on local faith communities. They operate from the university, but everyone’s following chaplaincy centres: there to help you, and you • St Peter’s House for the Anglican, Baptist, just feel so welcome.” Methodist and United Reformed Church denominations, and for links to chap laincies of Lauren Meadows other faiths: BA Social Sciences t +44 (0)161 275 2894 • Avila House for the Roman Catholic Chaplaincy t +44 (0)161 273 1456 • Hillel House for the Jewish Chaplaincy t +44 (0)161 226 1139

37 “The University Library is simply amazing. It can seem quite daunting on your first day because of the vast collection of books, but soon you find your way and start to really love it!”

Oliver Rieche BA Law with Politics

38 Library and IT

With continuous investment in one of the biggest Help and support university libraries in the UK, several specialist libraries Our specialist library staff are there to provide advice, and extensive cross-campus IT facilities, we make sure training and help whenever you need it. When you you’ve got everything you need to be successful in arrive we’ll give you a full introduction to our services, your degree. and customer support is always close at hand to help you find the resources you need. We provide facilities and extra help for disabled students, and there is even a text-help service for We offer you... on-the-spot assistance if you can’t find what you’re • extensive learning and research facilities; looking for. • one of the largest and best-resourced IT facilities university libraries in the UK, with more There are nearly 4,000 computers on campus, many than four million books; within individual academic Schools and halls of • a dedicated IT provision that is constantly residence. Our large computer clusters are open to being updated to meet your all students and include access to laser printing and requirements; scanning facilities. Nearly all of our halls of residence offer Internet access and there is also extensive free • e-learning resources unrivalled by any Wi-Fi across campus. other UK university. When you become a Manchester student we’ll give you an IT account that lets you access all our main computing services. We’ll get you started on our Our libraries email system, which includes 25GB of storage space, a calendar for managing your schedule, instant Alongside traditional library services, we offer self- messaging and mobile phone compatibility. service facilities, state-of-the-art group study areas, an in-house binding service and Wi-Fi throughout. If you get stuck, there's always someone on hand to help via our 24/7 IT support telephone line. You can And whi le the newly opened £24 million Alan Gilbert also get help online or at one of our face-to-face Learning Commons doesn’t contain any books, it service desks across campus. does offer a stimulating 24/7 environment for study, combining inspiring décor with flexible spaces and Online learning the latest in learning technology. We provide an advanced virtual learning environment called Blackboard that gives you online access to Across campus several specialist libraries offer course materials, interactive learning activities, self- subject-specific and tailored services. The John assessment exercises and assignment submisssion, a Rylands Library, a magnificent neo-Gothic building well as the opportunity to have interactive discussions housing one of the world's finest collections of rare with teaching staff and other students. books and manuscripts, is also a thriving visitor attraction, with exhibitions and events taking place With access to resources 24/7 – including via mobile throughout the year. devices – Blackboard complements your face-to-face teaching and is a hugely popular and flexible tool for busy students.

FIND www.manchester.ac.uk/library OUT www.manchester.ac.uk/itservices MORE 39 Study abroad

Our study abroad programme offers you the exciting Study abroad options opportunity to experience life in a different country When and where you can study abroad depends as part of your course. on the course you choose. Some degrees (especially Students who opt in to this programme regularly tell those with a language) include a year abroad, and us that studying abroad has been the highlight of these are generally four-year courses. their degree, from both a personal and an academic Many other courses allow you to study abroad for perspective. You will broaden your horizons, one semester, usually in Year 2, and this option allows experience different cultures, learn or improve a you to graduate within the usual three years. Look foreign language and stand out from the crowd when out for the study abroad symbol in our course pages you graduate. at the back of this prospectus. We’re expanding our international partnerships each year, and they currently include around 120 Erasmus Language requirements universities in Europe and more than 70 universities Many of our Scandinavian, Dutch and German worldwide. From Amsterdam to Zurich, from partners teach in English, as well as those in North Auckland to Zhejiang, we’ve got a programme for America, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, South you – and you don’t even have to study a language Korea and Singapore, so you won’t necessarily need to take part. to speak a foreign language to study abroad. Of course, if you already have some knowledge of another language, studying abroad is the ideal We offe r you... opportunity to improve your fluency. And our University Language Centre offe rs courses for all • the widest range and highest calibre of students, so you can brush up your language skills partner universities, including some of the before you go. See www.manchester.ac.uk/langcent top universities in the world – with no for more details. additional tuition fees; Fees and costs • a commitment to the quality of student If you take a year abroad as part of a four-year experience and support abroad – we work course, the tuition fees applicable to the year abroad closely with our partners to ensure you will be significantly reduced. You will not pay have a safe and rewarding experience; additional tuition fees to the partner university and • a dedicated Study Abroad Unit to help you will still be entitled to your student loan while you research your options and prepare for you’re abroad. your time abroad. If you’re participating in an Erasmus exchange to Europe, you normally receive an Erasmus grant (around £160 per month) to help cover additional costs. If you’re participating in a worldwide exchange, you’ll need to budget for flights, visas and health insurance, as well as day-to-day living expenses.

www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/ FIND studyabroad OUT t +44 (0)161 275 3053 MORE [email protected]

40 “The best year of my life, it has made me open my eyes to future possibilities I would never have even considered.”

James Amphlett MChem

Look out for this icon in our course pages. Wherever you see it, STUDY there are ABROAD opportunities to opportunities study abroad.

41 “The Careers Service really helped me get a job after graduation. During my final year they helped me to get my CV checked, practise psychometric tests, and attend several careers fairs and events. As I came to the end of my course I heard about a great job through the Manchester Graduate Internship Programme. The Careers Service helped me edit my CV and covering letter for this role, which I feel really helped me get to the interview stage. I was successful in securing a marketing internship in Manchester.”

Sophie Robinson BSc (Hons) Management (Marketing)

42 Careers

When you first come to Manchester you may have Careers development as part no real career plan in mind, or you might know of your degree exactly what you want to do. Either way, we offer you everything you need to take control of your future Many of our academic Schools offer careers-related and give yourself the best chance of securing your course units that count towards your degree. By ideal job after graduation. selecting these units you can develop skills susch a teamwork and commercial awareness – and many Top employers target Manchester graduates, so we lectures are delivered by employers, so you can find give you every opportunity to make important out exactly what they are looking for. connections and find out about careers opportunities in your chosen field. In addition, our Manchester Leadership Programme (MLP) combines a credit-bearing ‘Leadership in Each year our careers fairs, workshops and Action’ course unit with up to 60 hours of voluntary presentations attract more than 600 exhibitors and work in the community. MLP is widely respected 20,000 visitors; no other university works harder to because you develop a range of transferable skills get your career off the ground. that employers like to see on your CV, while making a positive difference to the lives of local people.

We offer you... Support after graduation You can continue to use our Careers Service for two • access to more than 6,000 employers; years after graduation. And if you don’t have a job lined up, or would like more experience in a particular • careers advice from the day you arrive, sector, you could also apply for the Manchester including help finding part-time jobs and Graduate Internship Programme. work experience to make you stand out from the crowd; The programme offers paid graduate-level positions in Greater Manchester, allowing you to develop your • opportunities to develop your skills by career in the UK's best city to live in. Salaries may volunteering in the local community; vary, but in 2011 the average was £15,000 per • one-to-one mentoring with experienced annum pro rata. professionals; • practical skills-development courses and workshops to boost your CV; FIND www.manchester.ac.uk/careers www.manchester.ac.uk/mlp • a comprehensive careers website, plus an OUT t +44 (0)161 275 2828 online vacancy mailing service, a MORE [email protected] dedicated careers Facebook group for your course, and the latest careers news and events via our blogs and on Twitter.

43 Sport, health and fitness

There are so many benefits to playing sport at Manchester Aquatics Centre university: staying fit and healthy, giving your brain Two 50-metre swimming pools, plus a diving pool, cells valuable downtime from study and developing fun pool, fitness suite, sauna, steam room and spa. your team skills. Wythenshawe Sports Ground But most of all you’ll be socialising with new friends 26 full-sized football pitches. and having plenty of fun. Our clubs, fitness programmes and classes offer you the perfect Organised sport chance to compete in your favourite sport – or try something new. Athletic Union More than 40 sports clubs cater for all levels, from beginners to elite athletes. Most compete on Wednesday afternoons in the British Un iversities and We offer you... Colleges Sport leagues, where we are consistently ranked in the top ten. • fantastic facilities, with discounted rates for students, including three fitness suites, Campus sport two 50m swimming pools, and loads of Play recreational sport with friends in a series of indoor courts and outdoor pitches; leagues, where the emphasis is on having fun and being part of campus life. • more than 40 Athletic Union sports clubs to join; Hall sport A free timetable of fun sports and activities for • the widest range of activities for students living in our halls of residence. beginners; Getting involved – sport for all • scholarships for performance athletes up to the value of £3,500; You can keep fit and healthy via our extensive fitness and well-being programme. With dance classes, boot • a whole city of sport, including Sport City, camp, holistic therapies, campus walks, jogs and home to the Manchester Velodrome, a more, there’s something for everyone, so you’ve no reg ional tennis centre, a national squash excuse not to get involved. centre and a regional athletics centre. You could also gain valuable work experience and develop your leadership skills via our Sports Volunteer Scheme. Our network of contacts with local schools Our facilities and sports clubs gives you access to variety of roles, including coaching, officiating, sports development Armitage Sports Centre and administration. Recently extended, air-conditioned fitness suite with free-weights area; new outdoor multi-use courts; Sport scholarships double-sized indoor sports hall; four squash courts; two new floodlit, 3G five-a-side football pitches; two If you’re competing at a regional or national level, full-sized floodlit artificial turf pitches; six grass you could be eligible for support and funding through pitches. our Sport Manchester Scholarship Scheme. We’ll help you balance your demanding training and Sugden Sports Centre competition schedule with the pressures of studying Large air-conditioned fitness suite and free-weights for a degree. area; six squash courts; two double-sized sports ha lls; outdoor 3G five-a-side pitch; multi-activity room. FIND www.manchester.ac.uk/sport OUT t +44 (0)161 275 4962 MORE 44 “When I came to Manchester I knew I wanted to try something new so I went to the Sport Fair, where there were lots of sports to choose from. Everyone was so friendly and welcoming, which made it really difficult to decide. I tried a couple of free taster sessions and eventually decided that women’s rugby was perfect for me. We have a fantastic team and great training facilities – it’s definitely had an impact on my experience in Manchester!”

Katy Mulqueen Women’s rugby captain

45 The Students’ Union

Student life isn’t just about studying. It’s about Standing up for your interests making friends, going out, gaining skills and Each year we elect other students to represent the experience, taking a stand and getting the right views and interests of all of us. When 40,000 voices support from the University. become one, we can make ourselves heard on a local That’s why the Students’ Union is here. To make sure and national scale. that your life in Manchester is as varied and fulfilling The main decision makers of the Students’ Union as it can possibly be. are the Exec Team. Elected by you, they lead on implementing your ideas, running campaigns, supporting student-led activities and raising issues We offer you... that are important to you.

• the UK’s largest students’ union, with You have the power to make real changes during more than 300 student-run clubs, societies your time in Manchester. You can get involved by and campaigns; standing for election, starting your own campaign, suggesting an idea for change, or voting in student • four live music venues, attracting the elections. latest big-name and up-and-coming bands; Advice and support • the chance to make decisions about the We offer a free confidential support service run by Union and influence the way our professiona l advisors, where you can get information University is run; and advice on personal and academic issues. • free, confidential and impartial advice. With the exception of public holidays we’re open 10am to 4pm all year round. You can make an appointment in advance, or just drop in if you prefer. Societies and activities Venues and shops We run over 300 student societies, so you can get We have four Manchester Academy music venues, involved in everything from philosophy to bhangra. which play host to the biggest acts around. From Foo And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, you can Fighters to Kylie, we’ve had them all. always start your own. On top of this we have a great selection of places to We also give you loads of great opportunities to eat and drink. Biko’s Cafe is ideal for relaxing and enhance your CV. You could help out with our radio grabbing a bite to eat between lectures, while the station, TV channel or student newspaper, or get Union Bar provides a selection of tasty meals, cheap involved in volunteering and charity work. drinks and a great place to socialise. On top of all this we organise Pangaea, the biggest We also have the Union Store, which sells clothing, student-led festival in Europe. This biannual, not-for- stationery and other essentials, and the Grab and Go, profi t event takes place across 14 indoor and outdoor where you can pick up a sandwich. And you can rest spaces, and usually has around 50 acts on the bill. assured t hat every penny made from these services goes back into enhancing your student experience.

FIND t +44 (0)161 275 2930 www.manchesterstudentsunion.com OUT Twitter: @ManchesterSU MORE Facebook: facebook.com/manchestersu

46 “If you want to do something, there’s no shortage of opportunities. The range is huge. I didn’t appreciate that until I got here.”

Jack Burke BA History

47 “I love The University of Manchester. Manchester is one of the biggest student cities, with an open campus and an extremely welcoming atmosphere. It’s a home away from home for me.”

Shruti Sethi BSc Management (Accounting and Finance)

48 International students

Coming to Manchester is a perfect opportunity to • professional, confidential advice on a range of meet new people, experience a different way of life issues, including immigration and visa guidance; and enhance your career prospects by gaining a well respected degree. • the widest variety of student-based clubs and societies, including the International Society, which Each year we welcome more international students is dedicated to providing a supportive and social than any other UK university, so whatever you study, network for people of all nations; you’ll soon make new friends from across the world. • places of worship for all major faiths; • an extensive range of pre-sessional English language programmes and free continui ng English We offer you... language support throughout your studies. For details visit www.manchester.ac.uk/langcent. • a truly diverse university, welcoming more than 8,500 international students from For more on student support, see p36. 180 different countries; Careers • a friendly, multicultural campus at the heart of a vibrant city; We are recognised worldwide for the quality of our graduates. That’s why international employers target • a well respected degree that is highly Manchester graduates over those of other rated by employers worldwide. universities. Our award winning Careers Service offers targeted help for international students, including a dedicdate A tradition of academic excellence international careers blog, work experience for Our international reputation as a leading teaching international students and advice on how to promote and research institution is demonstrated by our yourself in the global jobs market. consistently strong performance in the Shanghai Jiao And thanks to our size and global reach, we have an Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World extensive worldwide network of contacts, making it Universities. The 2012 survey ranked us fifth in the easy for you to connect with employers and alumni in UK and 40th globally. your home country. As the UK’s largest campus-based university, we offer For more on careers, see p42. you the greatest breadth and diversity of courses. And our vibrant campus, which includes one of the Accommodation guarantee UK’s biggest libraries and a brand-ne w £24 million learning environment, is about to receive a further If you come to Manchester unaccompanied yand pa £1 billion of investment in new teaching buildings the overseas rate of fees, we guarantee you a place in and student facilities. University-managed accommodation, with free Internet access in most residences. For more details Support visit www.manchester.ac.uk/accommodation. We want you to settle in quickly, enjoy your time in For more on accommodation, see p30. Manchester and be successful in your studies. That’s why we offer you: FIND • a free airport collection service for new students www.manchester.ac.uk/ arriving at Manchester Airport; OUT international MORE • a dedicated orientation programme upon arrival;

49 Finance

If you’ve got the ability, finance shouldn’t be a barrier Bursaries and scholarships to coming here and being successful. That’s why The following awards are available for UK students: we’ve invested in one of the most generous financial support packages in the UK. The Manchester Bursary More than a third of all our students will receive Available to any of our students who is registered on bursaries of up to £3,000 per year – and many will an eligible* undergraduate course and has a receive more. Remember you don’t have to pay your household income below the relevant threshold, as fees up front and you can get plenty of information determined by Student Finance. You can choose how and advice to help you manage your money. to receive this support – either as a cash bursary or as a discount on your fees or accommodation bill. sThi Financial basics for UK students bursary is additional to the government package of maintenance grants. • The government provides tuition fee loans, which you only repay after you leave university and start to earn enough. Monthly repayments are a set Residual percentage of your earnings over £21,000 and are household Award Detail not related to how much you owe in total. income

• In 2013 we charged a headline fee of £9,000 per £1,000 cash bursary annum. Please note that this may rise in line with £3,000 in and £2,000 fee or changes in t he government fees cap. Year 1 accommodation discount • All eligible full-time students can get a Up to £25,000 maintenance loan to help with expenses such as £3,000 cash bursary or £3,000 in a £3,000 fee discount accommodation, food and bills. You might also be subsequent or a split between eligible for a maintenance grant, which does not years have to be repaid. them

• We offer a discounted fee structure for students £2,000 cash bursary or taking a year abroad or year in industry; some £25,001 to £2,000 a £2,000 fee discount students will pay no fee for this year and no one £42,611 each year or a split between will pay more than a fee of £3,000. them

*Some years of study within certain courses qualify for NHS funding. If you are eligible for NHS funding, you may not receive the Manchester Bursary in addition.

50 “The scholarships and bursaries I’ve received played a big part in my decision to choose Manchester. They let me Foundation year bursaries concentrate on my course without We offer generous financial support worth up to having to worry about earning £5,000 for students on our foundation ‘Year 0’ courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Life extra money to fund my studies.” Sciences, Science and Engineering. Kamran Hussain School of Law Residual household Award Detail income £1,000 cash bursary Support for disabled students Up to and £4,000 fee or £5,000 UK students can access Disabled Students’ £25,000 accommodation discount Allowances for study-related disability support, and our Disability Support Office (DSO) can help you £1,000 cash bursary apply. Personal care support should be funded by £25,001 to and £3,000 fee or your home local services department. £4,000 £42,611 accommodation discount International students must ensure they have sufficient funding for their personal care needs. Opportunity Manchester Scholarships Contact the DSO for details of how much this might cost. A £1,000 annual scholarship will be awarded to students meeting either of the following criteria: The Natalie Kate Moss Trust provides a limited numbe r of scholarships for students who have had • You have successfully applied for a place here after a brain injury, for example from a stroke or completing the Man chester Access Programme for haemorrhage. local Year 12/13 students; For more information email [email protected] • You are under the age of 25 and are, or have been, or visit www.manchester.ac.uk/dso. in public care for at least three months.

Faculty and School scholarships Our Faculties and Schools also offer their own FIND For more on financial support, scholarships for students on certain courses. Details OUT including videos, tips and advice, visit are available in the course pages of this prospectus, www.manchester.ac.uk/ or on our website. MORE studentfinance. For more on government support visit www.gov.uk/studentfinance.

51 OUR COURSES

Entry requirements Due to the breadth of courses available at Manchester, we are unable to publish the full range of our entry requirements in this prospectus. We have therefore included an indicative range of entry requirements for each broad subject area. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, and does not include all subject-specific, GCSE or non-academic requirements that may also be required.

English language requirements You must be proficient in English language, the medium of instruction and examination in our University. The minimum standard for admission to most courses is GCSE English Language Grade C or above, or an International English Language Testing (IELTS) average score of 6.0. For courses that are more linguistically demanding, such as Law, Management and Medicine, requi rements are normally higher.

Have a look at our course index at the back of this prospectus for entry requirements to specific courses.

52 Subject areas marked with this symbol in the STUDY prospectus offer ABROAD opportunities for opportunities study abroad

53 STUDY ABROAD Accounting opportunities and Finance

Find out more... Accounting and Finance at TYPICAL OFFER Manchester has a first-class BSc Accounting A-level: AAA-AAB reputation, taught by staff whose www.mbs.ac.uk/undergraduate IB: 35 research is recognised as “world [email protected] leading” and “internati onally For entry requirements to specific t +44 (0)161 306 3425/3401 excellent”(source: RAE 2008). Our courses, see our course index at Facebook: www.facebook.com/ graduates are highly sought after; the back of this prospectus. mbsincomingundergraduates many leading firms (including KPMG, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, YouTube: www.youtube.com/ PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accounting BSc 3/4yrs manchestermbs Grant Thornton) work closely with UCAS Code N400 Twitter: @MBSnews us, participating in key events and guest lectures to equip you with Accounting and Finance LinkedIn: the key skills required to excel in BA (Econ) 3yrs www.linkedin.com/company/ today’s competitive marketplace. UCAS Code NN43 manchester-business-school Your choice of course will depend Economics and Finance upon whether you want our BA (Econ) 3yrs professionally ori ented course UCAS Code LN13 BA (Economic and (BSc), or prefer to study within a Social Studies) wider social sciences framework Finance BA (Econ) 3yrs www.manchester.ac.uk/ (BA Econ). UCAS Code N300 socialsciences See also Business Studies and socialsciencesbaecon@manchester. What you study Management, Economic and ac.uk Social Studies. t +44 (0)161 275 4470/ Accounting 2291/1473/ 4748 (optional paid internship) Run by MBS WHY MANCHESTER? Get a fast track to a career in • Excellent relati ons with MBS virtual open day accountancy with this innovative professional and business If you can’t make it to one of our course, which integrates study of communities in the city, many undergraduate events on campus, the theory and practice of of whom work closely with us our virtual open day is the next accounting with the opportunity to inform your learning best thing. Find out more about to gain relevant work experience. current students’ experiences, our • Choice of courses, giving We work in collaboration with the courses and our campus. you access to both diverse ICAEW’s Undergraduate go.mbs.ac.uk/virtualopenday complementary subjects in our Partner ship Programme, which School of Social Sciences, or a enables you to undertake a paid specialist degree and fast-track internship in Year 3. Students to chartered accountancy at have completed internships at Manchester Business School KPMG, Ernst & Young, Mazars, (MBS) Grant Thornton and Morgan Stanley. For further details, see: • Teaching informed by cutting- icaew.com/upp edge research that meets international standards of excellence

54 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Year 1: Study auditing and BA (Economic and Social professional accounting practice, Studies) – specialising in financial reporting and decision- Accounting and/or Finance making and management Run jointly by our School I was an audit assistant accounting, with foundation of Social Sciences and MBS course units in quantitative at KPMG at Canary Wharf Enjoy opportunities to specialise in methods, economics and law. in London. An intern at finance, accounting and finance, Choose optional course units in or economics and finance, against KPMG is treated like a management or related subjects. a social sciences background. ‘‘graduate and I had a really Year 2: Develop analytical skills Hi ghly flexible, it enables you to varied workload. Working and gain more in-depth change your specialism during understanding of accounting Years 1 and 2. for a professional firm theory and practice, including gave me a real insight into Study abroad is available. financial reporting and the business world; I have accountability and statement Year 1: Study accounting, analysis. Study business strategy finance, economics, closely examined large and business information systems, maths/statistics and options from firms such as TfL, Kier widen your knowledge of law and other subject areas, including and Higgins. I made management accounting, and government, politics and some great business select an optional course unit in sociology. management or a related subject. connections and secured Year 2: Study accounting and Internship (optional): Successful finance in more depth, with myself a graduate job applicants for the paid internship options to take other social with KPMG. I would spend an academic year working science and language course recommend an internship with a firm of professional units. accountants, or other approved to anybody – make the Year 3: Choose specialist areas of financial organisation. Put theory most of this opportunity accounting and finance from a into pra ctice, further develop all- wide range of options, from while you can. important transferable skills and auditing, to international finance. get real insight into the An important independent Andrew Simner profession. research project brings together BSc Accounting Year 3: Consolidate practical skills your knowledge and skills attained and theoretical knowledge via a over the entire degree. project course unit that Both our accounting courses offer incorporates group and individual you the chance to obtain projects and essays. Gain further exemptions from professional specialised knowledge in areas examinations. The level of such as taxation and auditing, exemptions depends on the broaden your understanding of course and options you select. the wider business context and enjoy substantial exemptions from See Economic and Social Studies. ’’ professional accountancy exams (up to eight ICAEW ACA exams, seven ACCA and eight CIMA). Find out more online: www.mbs.ac.uk/ug/accounting

55 Aerospace Engineering

Find out more... or Incorporated Engineer (BEng TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/mace degree). For details, see: A-level: AAA-AAB [email protected] www.manchester.ac.uk/mace/u IB: 37-35 t +44 (0)161 306 9210 ndergraduate/accreditation For entry requirements to specific One of the pioneers in courses, see our course index at engineering education and What you study the back of this prospectus. research, the Mechanics Institute – Year 1 establishes a strategic the forerunner to The University overview of the main areas of of Manchester – was founded by aerospace engineering and Aerospace Engineering Sir William Fairbairn in 1824. introduces the underlying science BEng 3yrs The term ‘Reynolds Number’ and mathematics, all taught in a UCAS Code H400 recognises the fundamental work challenging and active learning in fluid flow that was undertaken environment. Years 2 and 3 Aerospace Engineering by our first Professor, Osborne develop the key knowledge and MEng 4yrs Reynolds (appointe d in 1868). understanding necessary to enter UCAS Code H402 Today, all our engineering industry, or postgraduate study. degrees have a strong base of This incorporates a major design Aerospace Engineering engineering science and build project. Year 4 (for MEng with Management MEng 4yrs a solid foundation of practical students) provides specialisation in engineering and consolidates UCAS Code H4ND design and analysis. Because our staff are actively involved in practical experience via an research, our teaching evolves to advanced aerospace design Aerospace Engineering project. with Industrial Experience reflect state-of-the-art technology, MEng 5yrs giving you access to expertise in Aerospace Engineering UCAS Code H406 a wide range of engineering disciplines. Year 1: Discover aircraft flight, See also Engineering and Science spacecraft flight and aerospace with an Integrated Foundation Year. Plenty of staff contact and our systems, as well as modelling and high quality resources will ensure simulation. Gain the basic you a rewarding experience. knowledge and skills that are WHY MANCHESTER? Excellent student support includes applicable to all areas of an extensive tutorial system for engineering, such as mechanics, • Long, distinguished history in academic support and pastoral heat, fluids, design and engineering education and care, student-to-student mathematics. research – Manchester was the mentoring, a dedicated first English university to offer an undergraduate office, and Year 2: Start your detailed engineering degree approachable, well-qualified and education in key areas of aerospace engineering. Course • Extensive engineering industry co-operative staff. units in aircraft design, aircraft links, enhancing both performance, flight dynamics undergraduate teaching and Professional accreditation and control systems provide the ground-breaking research All our aerospace engineering Honours degrees are accredited by technical foundations for • Excellent resources for the relevant professional aerospace project work, while information, computation and institutions. This means your units in aerodynamics, propulsion, experimentation degree will be recognised as structures and dynamics provide • Professional accreditation by providing the educational base for the underlying scientific base. You relevant UK institutions Chartered Engineer (MEng degree) also study further mathematics and numerical methods.

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Year 3: Gain an integrated view Aerospace Engineering As a graduate ‘with Industrial of vehicles and systems, with with Management Experience’, your engineering reference to applicable sciences Ideal if you would like a career as education is enhanced by hands- and technologies – and develop an engineering project manager. on engineering, giving you this through topics in aerospace You focus more on the study of additional knowledge and skills design, systems, propulsion and management issues, displacing that you can sell to an employer. structures and aerodynamics, some of the engineering topics in You have access to the best exemplified by the holistic favour of marketing, strategy and university careers services in the treatment of helicopters. Develop enterprise in Year 3, plus project UK and help is available to you on your appreciation of finance and risk management in all aspects of your career. multidisciplinary technology and Year 4. your skills in professional communication via a major design Aerospace Engineering project. Undertake an individual with Industrial Experience project, fostering your Combine the mainstream competence in research and MEng course with one year of My Univers ity is a place development. experience in the UK aerospace where talent is praised Over the three years, all students engineering industry, working and problems get solved. follow the same course and reach on real projects and gaining I have been awarded the same level of study. This invaluable experience as a ‘‘the Manchester Success provides the grounding for careers practicing engineer. in industry and for postgraduate Scholarship; the School study. Career opportunities paid in full for a You could enter the global Year 4 (MEng): Develop skills aerospace and defence industries, prestigious summer and proficiency in specialist or continue on to postgraduate school with the European subject areas and undertake a study. The enormous range of major group design project that Space Agency; and over career opportunities reflects the consolidates all previous the summer I developed diverse and multidisciplinary experience an d knowledge. This nature of the aerospace sector. two engineering projects presents a realistic challenge in Excelling in transferable skills such terms of novelty, creativity and of my own, one of as simulation, problem-solving, innovation in design, and develops which was generously design, management and a systematic approach to design modelling, enables graduates to paid for. optimisation. Teams operate a adapt to new challenges and typical development life cycle and offers a broad insight into Bogdan Termegan the year-long exercise culminates engineering solutions. You can MEng Aerospace Engineering in a major design review with also opt for careers in high invited observers from industry. technology, or pursue The final year of the MEng opportunities in business, develops the technical skills and management and finance. self-confidence necessary for As a graduate ‘with leadersh ip in industry and Management’, your combination research. of an engineering education and an awareness of business issues will increase your range of career options to include commercial and ’’ project management.

57 STUDY ABROAD opportunities Archaeology

Find out more... What you study TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/ Archaeology A-level: ABB-BBB archaeology Explore archaeology from the IB: 34-31 [email protected] Palaeolithic period to the recent t +44 (0)161 275 4987 For entry requirements to specific past, combining an understanding courses, see our course index at Archaeology at Manchester is an of period-based research with the back of this prospectus. exciting and dynamic subject area aspects of theory and practice. where staff and students engage After a broad-based study of in a fascinating journey of arc haeology in Year 1, you Ancient History and discovery, investigating the progress to more specialised areas Archaeology BA 3yrs immense wealth of human of interest in Years 2 and 3. cultural diversity and achievement. UCAS Code VV14 Fieldwork and excavation provide In a lively, stimulating a core element and you are Archaeology BA 3yrs environment, our enthusiastic involved in a range of exciting UCAS Code V400 team of 11 academics, with an field projects in Britain, Africa, the international reputation for Eastern Mediterranean, the South Archaeology and research, provide excellent Pacific or the Near East. Anthropology BA 3 yrs standards of teaching and UCAS Code VL46 learning in a friendly community Ancient History of more than 150 undergraduates and Archaeology Archaeology and Art History and 30 graduate students. Study the ancient Mediterranean BA 3yrs empires alongside the archaeology UCAS Code VV43 Worldwide research of Britain, Western Europe, the and fieldwork Greek and Roman worlds, the Your teaching is directly informed Near East, Africa and Australasia. by our cutting-edge research For two years, you study Ancient WHY MANCHESTER? throughout the world, including History and Archaeology in Britain, Ireland and western parallel, with more opportunity for • Diverse, multidisciplinary Europe, the Mediterranean, the specialisation in Year 3. Near East, Polynesia, Australia environment where Throughout your degree, you can and Africa. archaeologists can work choose to follow a pathway that alongs ide anthropologists, We emphasise both practical emphasises either archaeological visual culture historians and fieldwork skills and the intellectual fieldwork, or ancient history and ancient historians frameworks within which modern languages. • On-campus resources of archaeology is practiced. Manchester Museum and Fieldwork is a central component, Whitworth Art Gallery ranging from archaeological digs to ethnographic research. • Teaching directly informed by contemporary global research Up to one-third of our student body progresses onto • Extensive training in postgraduate courses at archaeological fieldwork Manchester or elsewhere; many more find employment in careers associated with archaeology.

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Archaeology Career opportunities and Anthropology A degree in Archaeology provides Study this fascinating degree, you with a wide variety of which offers you not only a academic and practical skills that My archaeology degree comprehensive knowledge of are highly valued by employers, has added to my cultural diversity in the past, but such as communication skills, time also a sophisticated understanding management, interpersonal skills, knowledge of of the social and material project management and archaeological practice dimensions of human life. Develop cultural/institutional sensitivity. ‘‘and theory. It has given the range of analytical and Many of our students have gone practical skills needed to me a firm ground on on to pursue careers in several understand and critically assess different areas o f archaeology, which to expand my own both past and present materiality history, museums, galleries and experience and has given and cultural life. cultural resource management, me the opportunity to In Years 1 and 2, you study or have pursued further study study something that I Anthropology and Archaeology in through master’s and PhD parallel, with more opportunity for programmes. Others have love. The degree also specialisation in Year 3. benefited more generally from helped me gain their wide skill set and found confidence in my abilities Archaeology and Art History employment in law, education, Gain a broad and dedicated financial services, industry, media and skills, which were knowledge of various aspects of and administration. crucial to gaining the visual and material culture of employment in the different regions of the world (eg archaeology sector. Europe, Africa, Pacific), from the Paleolithic, to the present day. After obtaining a broad-based Kirsty Whitall knowledge in both subjects, you BA Archaeology may choose to pursue both equally, or specialise in either archaeology or art history. ’’

59 Jack was awarded Student Volunteer of the Year in 2012. While he was studying he ran (and saved from closure) the Soup Kitchen project for homeless people in Manchester. He graduated in 2012 and now works full time for Student Action, running 26 student- led volunteering projects.

Manchester made me... a better leader

I came to Manchester because it has a When you’re at university you can get buzz that I didn’t feel at any other stuck in a bubble. By volunteering you university campus. It’s a great university get out of that bubble and see the real city. but also a fantastic city. And I was instantly Student Action gives you the chance to taken by it. There’s so much else going on; embrace all the city’s got to offer and to the music scene and the sport are connect with the local community. amazing. It’s the whole package. I’m a lot more confident than I was After my first semester I realised I when I came to university because of all needed to do something constructive. I the volunteering I’ve done. It’s given me found Student Action, the Students’ Union the skills and confidence to go into the volunteering organisation, which I now world of work. The situations you run. I put a lot of time into the Soup encounter when you do something like a Kitchen and there were some problems soup kitchen certainly prepare you for the when the council wanted us to move but real world. I feel quite prepared for what’s we fought to stay put. We serve hot food going to hit me in the future. and drinks to the homeless, but maybe the most important part is the human interaction. Many of the guys we work with beg on the street all day and don’t have the opportunity to talk to any one about the issues they’re facing. We also do outreach where we walk round town, handing out food and signposting other support and services. It can be quite harrowing but you do feel that you're making a difference.

60 Jack Burke History student and Student Volunteer of the Year 2012

“Volunteering is a great way of bringing students together. I’ve met so many people through volunteering, from such diverse backgrounds and from all over the world.”

61 STUDY ABROAD opportunities Architecture

Find out more... Year 3: Applying knowledge TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/ gained in Years 1 and 2, you A-level: AAA architecture develop and extend your IB: 37 www.msa.ac.uk understanding of contemporary [email protected] architecture within a wide For entry requirements to specific t +44 (0)161 275 6923 historical and theoretical frame. courses, see our course index at Ideas are tested in a major project, the back of this prospectus. What you study which offers you the chance to Architecture education consists synthesise your design ideas of five years of full-time study through a focussed, research- Architecture BA 3yrs divided between two degrees. informed brief that you develop. UCAS Code K100 These are the three-year BA (Hons) in Archi tecture, followed by the Career opportunities two-year Master of Architecture Our graduates go on to work as WHY MANCHESTER? degree, which carry exemption architects for leading architectural from the Architects Registration and design practices, and in • One of the largest schools of Board (ARB) and the Royal leading roles within the wider Architecture in the UK, Institute of British Architects (RIBA) construction industry, or in aligned established via an innovative Part 1 and Part 2 examinations creative design disciplines. collaboration between The respectively. Excellent opportunities also exist University of Manchester and for you to undertake research for On graduation from the BA you Manchester Metropolitan further postgraduate degrees. University normally undertake a year of professional experience in an • Considerable resources and architectural office under the expertise in teaching and guidance of our School. This first researc h from both institutions experience of practice prepa res Being an architecture • A degree award from both you for your continuing institutions architectural education should student in a city as vibrant you choose to progress onto the as Manchester has been • Supported by strong Master of Architecture. relationships with industry, the full of exciting profession and the RIBA Year 1: Develop your architectural ‘‘experiences. I also creative process through a series thoroughly enjoyed the of studio design projects and skills workshops. Our emphasis is on study trips abroad, as helping you begin to develop a they gave me a chance to way of thinking, working and learn through travel. I designing as an individual designer with an understanding of have learnt so much from human nature, space and content. the course and I can't see Year 2: Further develop your design myself anywhere else! processes, critical thinking and model-making skills. We test these Sheel Doshi through projects to develop your BA Architecture own design solutions. You develop ideas about and understanding of the city, and how this informs the production of space. 62 ’’ A STUDY ABROAD Art History opportunities and Visual Studies

Find out more... TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? www.manchester.ac.uk/arts/ A-level: ABB • Dedicated resources include arthistoryvisualstudies IB: 36-33 special library collections, [email protected] For entry requirements to specific Manchester Museum and t +44 (0)161 3061251 courses, see our course index at Whitworth Art Gallery the back of this prospectus. • Opportunities for volunteering While th e main emphasis of our and placements at Whitworth extraordinarily diverse range of Art Gallery courses is on Europe, you could History of Art BA 3yrs • Many courses include fieldwork also study North American, Middle UCAS Code V360 trips, plus you may study abroad Eastern and Chinese art. Fieldwork in Europe, North America or is a central component at History of Art and a Modern Australia Manchester. Language (French) BA 4yrs • Long-established department UCAS Code RV13 Art and architectural historians with outstanding research and work in the same building as excellent teaching colleagues in Art Gallery and History of Art and a Modern Language (German) BA 4yrs • Wide coverage of art and Museum Studies and Archaeology. We have our own subject area UCAS Code RV23 architectural history, from ancient Greece, to modern and library and the main university library is nearby. The Special History of Art and a Modern contemporary art, film, photography and performance Col lections of the John Rylands Language (Italian) BA 4yrs Library are an immensely rich UCAS Code RV33 study resource and we have very close links with the University’s History of Art and a Modern Whitworth Art Gallery Language (Po rtuguese) (undergoing a £12 million BA 4yrs renovation) and Manchester UCAS Code RV53 Museum. We will warmly welcome you into History of Art and a Modern our friendly, active community, Language (Russian) BA 4yrs where high standards of teaching UCAS Code RV73 and international levels of research ensure a lively, History of Art and a Modern stimulating academic Language (Spanish) BA 4yrs environment. You’ll have excellent UCAS Code RV43 support from academic advisers See also Archaeology. and a student peer mentoring system. An active student-led society, the Art Group, organises talks, visits, and social events.

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What you study History of Art and a Modern Language History of Art (French, German, Italian, Explore a broad range of areas Portuguese, Russian, within art and architectural or Spanish) The History of Art history, from antiquity to the Get a firm grounding in both degree prov ides a present day. We have particular disciplines before spending Year 3 strengths in modern and wide-ranging basic abroad, immersing yourself in the knowledge of the subject contemporary art, as well as language and culture of an ‘‘ Medieval and Renaissance art and appropriate country. In Year 4, and a chance, later in architecture, and we offer plenty take a combination of course units of opportunities to study non- the course, to focus that reflect the development of on specific interests. Western subjects. A gallery studies your interests throughout your pathway covers the history of course. You also have access to I enjoyed my three museums, curating, and making our well-equipped University years at Manchester exhibitions. A work placement Language Centre. module offers practical experience immensely and the in this area. You can choose to See Modern Languages techniques, methods specialise, depending on your and confidence I interests, as you progress. Career opportunities Manchester has an outstanding gained have been Archaeology and Art History careers service and an excellent invaluable to me in Gain a broad and dedicated employment record for our my chosen career. knowledge of different aspects graduates. You could apply for of the visual and material culture work experience in museums Andrew Hardman of different global regions (eg and galleries, or get involved in BA History of Art Europe, Africa, Pacific), from the University outreach projects and Paleolithic to the present day. in widening participation in After obtaining a broad-based local schools. knowledge in both subjects , you Many of our graduates work as may choose to specialise in either curators or conservators in art archaeology or art history. galleries and museums, some of See Archaeology. whom have taken the highly- regarded MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies. Quite a few have gone on to successful careers in the commercial art world and ’’ auction houses. Other professions include teachers, librarians, administrators, journalists and consultants working in areas related to the arts.

64 A B STUDY ABROAD Business Studies opportunities and Management

International Business, Finance TYPICAL OFFER and Economics BSc 3yrs WHY MANCHESTER? Business Studies UCAS Code N1N3 • One of Europe’s leading centres A-level: AAB for business and management IB: 35 International Management studies BSc 4yrs Business and Management UCAS Code N247 • Diverse range of generic, Run by MBS specialist, multidisciplinary and A-level: AAB flexible degree options IB: 35 with 6, 6, 5 in the higher International Management level subjects with American Business • Teaching informed by the latest Studies BSc 4yrs thinking, generated by leading For entry requirements to specific UCAS Code N2T 7 specialists’ research activities, courses, see our course index at and by close links with industry the back of this prospectus. Management BSc 3yrs and employers UCAS Code N201

Business Studies Management (Accounting Find out more... BA (Econ) 3yrs and Finance) BSc 3yrs Management, IM, IMABS, IBFE UCAS Code N100 UCAS Code NN24 and ITMB www.mbs.ac.uk/undergraduate Business Studies and Management (Human [email protected] Economics BA (Econ) 3yrs Resources) BSc 3yrs t +44 (0)161 306 3425/3401 UCAS Code NL11 UCAS Code N600 Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Business Studies and Politics Management (Innovation, mbsincomingundergraduates BA (Econ) 3yrs Sustainability and YouTube: www.youtube.com/ UCAS Code NL12 Entrepreneurship) BSc 3yrs manchestermbs UCAS Code N200 Twitter: @MBSnews Business Studies and LinkedIn: Sociology BA (Econ) 3yrs Management (International www.linkedin.com/company/ UCAS Code NL13 Business Economics) BSc 3yrs manchester-business-school UCAS Code N246 Information Technology Business Studies Management for Business Management (International www.manchester.ac.uk/ BSc 3yrs Studies) BSc 3yrs socialsciences UCAS Code GN51 UCAS Code N120 [email protected] t +44 (0)161 275 Information Technology Management (Marketing) 4470/2291/1473/4748 Management for Business BSc 3yrs MBS virtual open day with Industrial Experience UCAS Code N2N5 BSc 4yrs If you can’t make it to one of our See also Computing, Economic undergraduate events on campus, UCAS Code GN5C and Social Studies, Modern our virtual open day is the next Languages. best thing. Find out more about current students’ experiences, our courses and our campus. go.mbs.ac.uk/virtualopenday

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At Manchester, we offer you a The BA (Economic and Social options in accounting and finance, comprehensive, contemporary Studies) is a multidisciplinary economics, globalisation, law and education that is highly regarded degree designed to give you modern languages. by employers. Upon graduation, maximum flexibility and choice. Year 3: Study international you will be able to carry out You can specialise in business finance, managerial economics independent enquiry in business, studies, or combine it with other and international business management and related subjects, social science disciplines, such as analysis. Consider options in and demonstrate a wide range of economics, politics, or sociology accounting and finance, contexts skills highly sought after by (see Economic and Social Studies). for international business, employers. economics, law and modern Run by Manchester Business What you study languages. School (MBS), our BSc International Business, Management degrees offer you an Finance and Economics (IBFE) Career opportunities applied approach to understanding Run by MBS Interested in a career in banking business and management and the and finance? IBFE is ideal. Our context in which they operate. You Interested in contemporary graduates have secured positions focus on the study of key economic events? Gain a such as assurance associate, disciplines, such as accounting and sophisticated academic commercial strategist, finance finance, economics, human understanding of international trader and audit trainee, with resources, marketing, operations business, with a contextual employers including Barclays management and quantitative understanding of globalisation’s Capital, RBS, Zolfo Cooper, Grant methods, and you could possibly reach and its social and economic Thornton, KPMG and PwC. take an international focus in your effects, and the numerical and later years. literacy skills required in today’s IBFE graduates have also job market. developed careers in other At MBS, you can choose from a corporate and public sector wide range of three and four-year Take an interdisciplina ry approach settings, including roles in degree courses, spend a year to the study of international consulting and general graduate overseas or in industry, and business, drawing on academic schemes. Some have progressed spe cialise in particular aspects of expertise from across MBS and our onto law conversion courses and business and management. We School of Social Sciences. We further study in finance, also offer a specialist course in encourage you to think critically economics, management and accounting: a fast-track for and independently, and to engage international business at aspiring chartered accountants with competing academic and institutions across the globe. (see Accounting and Finance). practitioner perspectives on You could represent our School at international business issues. Find out more... global case competitions in your Year 1: Study business, finance www.mbs.ac.uk/ug/ibfe final year. and economics via accounting and Run by our School of Social finance, micro and Management / Management Sciences, with input from MBS, macroeconomics, mathematics with a Specialism our BA (Econ) Business Studies and stat istics, financial and digital Run by MBS degrees incorporate similar innovation, and business and knowledge to our management management skills; plus either Enj oy a flexible course structure de grees, but focus more on international politics, or work, and wide range of options. These understanding business from a organisations and society. degrees share a common first year, making transfer between social science perspective, drawing Year 2: Study finance, managerial on discipline areas such as them straightforward, so you economics and international should apply for only one of them. economics, politics and sociology. business strategy. Consider

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• Management – Year 1: As a potential future Find out more... Our general degree. leader of industry, you need an www.mbs.ac.uk/ug/management understanding of the various • Management (Accounting disciplines underpinning and Finance) – Learn how International Management (IM) manag ement studies. Study organisations finance their accounting and finance, International Management activities and how they keep economics, work psychology, with American Business track of their money. sociology, quantitative methods, Studies (IMABS) • Management (Human marketing and business and Run by MBS Resources) – Focus on human management skills. A case study Grab the chance to study (in resource management, course unit gives you a practical English) for a year at a university employment policy and understanding of the theories you or business school in Europe, practice, industrial relations, learn in your first semester. South-East Asia, Australia, or New organisational psychology and Years 2 and 3: Develop your own Zealand, on our four-year IM organisational analysis, both interests by choosing course units degree. We have 28 exchange within the UK and from various management-related partners in 16 countries. internationally. disciplines – eg accounting and Alternatively, spend a year in the • Management (Innovation, finance, economics, employment USA or Cana da on our IMABS Sustainabilit y and studies/law, marketing, operations course. We have 22 exchange Entrepreneurship) – Explore management, psychology, partners across 11 US states and strategic innovation sociology, information systems four Canadian provinces; most management and sustainable and statistics. feature in the Financial Times development through real Management (Specialism) global business school rankings company case study analysis, as students start to specialise in their top 100. well as entrepreneurship and chosen area in Year 2. Choose at small business development. Year 1: Study the key disciplines least one-third of your Year 2 underpinning management, • Management (International options and half of your final-year including accounting and finance, Business Economics) – Learn options from core units in your economics, work psychology, about the international specialist area, including an marketing, quantitative methods, dimension of organisations’ optional final-year dissertation or and business and management operations, particularly the project. Select your remaining skills. economic, financial and units from our wide-ranging investment aspects. management portfolio. Year 2: IMABS students specialise in America n history and culture • Management (International and the fundamentals of the US Studies) – Study marketing, Career opportunities political and economic system. IM operations, finance and Recent Management graduates students study international investment, or human resource have secured positions such as business strategy. All students management with an management trainee, audit then choose from a wide range of international focus. graduate, HR graduate analyst and internet consultant, with options, including human • Management (Marketing) – employers including KPMG, resources, marketing, strategy, Focus on strategic marketing Balfour Beatty, Tesco, Deutsche information systems, management, marketing Bank and Microsoft. Others have innovation/technology research, product development, pursued further study in business, management and various brand management, integrated economics, enterprise, languages international issues. marketing communications and branding at institutions across and/or retailing. the globe.

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Year 3: Study business to real business problems. Many Final year: Focus on advanced and management overseas employers, including Accenture, topics in technology management (see a list of our current partners: British Airways, Microsoft, Ford, and business applications. Half of www.mbs.ac.uk/undergraduate BT and Capgemini, recognise the this year comprises a choice of /international-exchange) unique nature of these degrees. options. You also undertake an individual project (previous Year 4: Back in Manchester, You focus equally on four major students have investigated how choose from a wide range of skills and knowledge areas IBM uses technology to manage specialised international options necessary for a successful business remote teams and the implications across all key disciplines, with the or consultancy career in IT of social networks on opportunity to undertake a management: business; management processes). dissertation. technology; personal and interpersonal skills; and project Career opportunities Career opportunities management. You learn primarily Graduates have a broad Recent IM and IMABS graduates through team-based project work, understanding of management, have secured jobs such as supported by business mentors. together with knowledge of management trainee, wealth Year 1: Study course units across current and future developments manage ment analyst, territory business, management and IT, in IT and how these may impact manager and ACA trainee, with inc luding database design and on business. Examples of jobs employers including ExxonMobil, development, human computer recent ITMB graduates have gone HSBC (Beverly Hills), Bombardier interaction and financial reporting. onto include technical analyst, (Sweden), Crown Worldwide (San Collaborate on a team project, business analyst, social media Francisco), Google, Deloitte and based on a real life business marketing intern and IT Diageo. problem (current projects are consultant, with employers supported by Credit Suisse and including Credit Suisse, eBay, Find out more... involve developing a web-based Accenture and IBM. www.mbs.ac.uk/ug/im system supporting client www.mbs.ac.uk/ug/imabs management for investment Find out more... bankers). www.mbs.ac.uk/ug/itmb Information Technology Years 2 and 3: Enhance Management for Business your team-working, project (ITMB) BA (Econ) Business Studies management, business, Run by our School of Social Information Technology management and IT skills through Sciences, with input from MBS Management for Business cours e units including virtual with Industrial Experience team-working, social media and Business cou rses within the BA (ITMBIE) social networks, and another (Economic and Social Studies) degree include: Run by MBS team project. ITMBIE students take a course unit in industrial • Business Studies We designed these degrees in experience preparation before collaboration with over 60 major spending Year 3 in industry, • Business Studies and Economics employers (including IBM, returning to Manchester for their • Business Studies and Politics Deloitte, Fujitsu, Unilever and the final year (previous students have • Business Studies and Sociology BBC) who need graduates who completed placements with understand both business and IT, Fujitsu, IBM, Accenture, SAP, Business is not just about a group and have excellent project and Logica, AstraZeneca and Intel, of managers making decisions team-working skills. Employer amongst others). about an organisation. Politics, the involvement is integral to these economy and other social factors degrees, giving you early exposure

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influence businesses and how they Year 2: Choices abound – eg compete, both within a country pursue statistical or operations and internationally. research options (extending numeracy), or undertake language Our Business Studies streams The opportunity to study course units (further transferable within the BA (Econ) help you skills). If you are pursuing one of abroad at Copenhagen understand how businesses the joint specialisations, options Business School was life- operate within the broader exist to broaden your study in economic, political and social changing. This experience politics, economics and sociology. environment. These are modern, ‘‘undoubtedly developed multidisciplinary courses focusing Year 3: Choose from a greater my skills a great deal – on relevant topics in economics, number of subject-based options, accounting, finance, politics, and further develop your personally, academically sociology, social anthropology and transferable skills (interpersonal and professionally.e I hav criminology, as well as standard and team environment) via a found that the global business studies topics such as compulsory business analysis human resource management, project. Many other course units, element to my degree marketing and information including those in accounting has helped to prepare technology. and/or finance, are also available me for working in an to you in Years 2 and 3. This combination of social science international company. disciplines – unique to the BA Career opportunities (Econ) – will provide you with the Hannah Salton practical knowledge and skills Due to the large number of relevant to a career in business, as specialist areas on the BA (Econ), BSc International Management well as an understanding of the graduates have a wide variety of (2009) role and operation of business career opportunities. Graduates specialising in business-related Now human resource manager organisations in relation to the at British Telecom broader economic, political and degrees have pursued careers in soci al environment. management, consultancy, the Civil Service, finance, journalism Year 1: Develop various and teaching. transferable and intellectual skills (eg informatics, numeracy and study skills), and study subject- based material relating to different disciplines (eg economics, mathematics, statistics, computer applications, accounting and finance), to help you analyse ’’ business performance. Consider further enhancing your contextual understanding of the business environment by studying politics, or a qualitative social science such as sociology, gaining an essential appreciation of the organisational and behavioural dimension of business.

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Chemical Engineering with Join our friendly School and TYPICAL OFFER Study in Europe MEng 4yrs discover a stimulating A-level: AAA UCAS Code H810 environment with high quality teaching. Our long tradition of IB: 37 For our Petroleum Engineering innovation and excellence is degrees, see Earth Sciences; see For entry requirements to specific unrivalled: this is the birthplace of also Aerospace Engineering, courses, see our course index at the discipline of chemical Chemistry, Civil Engineering, the back of this prospectus. engineering where, in 1887, Electrical and Electronic George E Davis first delivered a Engineering, Engineering and series of lectures on the subject Science with an Integrated and published the first-ever Chemical Engineering Foundation Year, Mechanical chemical engineering book, BEng 3yrs Engineering. UCAS Code H800 Handbook of Chemical Engineering, in 1901. Chemical Engineering WHY MANCHESTER? MEng 4yrs What you study • Manchester is the birthplace of UCAS Code H801 chemical engineering as an All courses academic discipline, with a Chemical engineering concerns Chemical Engineering distinguished history the science, technology and (Business Management) manageme nt involved in making MEng 4yrs • Reputation as a world leader in the materials and products UCAS Code HN82 industrially relevant research and needed by our society. Whichever teaching in chemical course you choose, you study a Chemical Engineering (Energy engineering and related subjects range of core materials and Environment) MEng 4yrs • Leading employers in industry incorporating the fundamentals of UCAS Code H8F4 and business would rather chemical engineering, as well as recruit our engineering supporting mathematics and Chemical Engineering with graduates than any others science. Biotechnology MEng 4yrs (National Signposts for Technical aspects revolve around UCAS Code H8C5 Employability survey) managing the behaviour of • Among the elite of UK chemical materials and chemical reactions – Chemical Engineering engineering departments, with predicting and manipulating with Chemistry MEng 4yrs excellent results in the most compositions, flows, temperatures UCAS Code H8F1 recent Research Assessment and pressures of solids, liquids and Exercise (RAE 2008) gases. Learn about chemical, Chemical Engineering with physical and biological processes Environmental Technology using mathematical equations, as MEng 4yrs well as about the equipment and UCAS Code H8F8 Find out more... techniques used for large-scale www.manchester.ac.uk/ceas manufacturing and the safety Chemical Engineering [email protected] issues surrounding the industry. If with Industrial Experience t +44 (0)161 306 9331 you choose a MEng degree, you MEng 4yrs study further options in your UCAS Code H803 chosen specialism as well as core chemical engineering.

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Our flexible courses allow you to Chemical Engineering Chemical Engineering find out what interests you and with Biotechnology with Industrial Experi ence what you are best at before you Consider the science of living Spend Year 3 in industry. Your choose your specialist subjects. organisms and systems and how placement will vary depending on they are translated into economic the company you are with. We Chemical Engineering MEng and safe products and processes – have excellent industry contacts Study advanced Chemical eg the manufacture of medicines, and will give you a lot of help Engineering options to gain a the use of genetic processing, finding a placement. Students deeper understanding of treating industrial and human have been placed in companies fundamental Chemical waste, and finding ways of using such as: AstraZeneca, British Engineering subjects. renewable resources. Sugar, BP, ICI Paint, Chevron Texaco, Kraft Foods, Chemical Engineering Chemical Engineering Schlumberger, Dupont, Syngenta, (Business Management) with Chemistry BNFL and Exxon Mobil. Many chemical engineers progress Find out how the skills of the Work on a project and learn about to senior management positions in chemical engineer and the safety, health and env ironmental process companies. Study subj ects chemist are brought together to issues in industry and achieving such as business economics, design and manufacture products targets and objectives. Enhance marketing, financial management, as wide-ranging as and extend your knowledge of strategic planning, project petrochemicals, pharmaceutical Chemical Engineering and your management and quality tablets, inkjet printing modules, skills relating to project work, management to get a head start. deodorant sticks and chocolate. design and industrial applications. Gain an understanding of Chemical Engineering processes from the molecular level Chemical Engineering (Energy and Environment) up to industrial scale. with Study in Europe A major challenge to society and Benefit from language tuition in to future chemical engineers is Chemical Engineering with French, German, or Spanish how to produce and use energy in Environmental Technology during Year 2. This includes ways that are sustainable, Explore how chemical engineers spoken language, grammar and economical and environmentally make a difference to the some technical vocabulary. Take a friendly. Study specialist units environment by reducing waste, year abroad in France, Germany, related to energy, including energy creating more efficient or Spain, attending lectures and systems, wastewater engineering manufacturing processes and tutorials, participating in group technology and utility systems, using clean technology. work, writing reports and taking distributed and renewable energy examinations in the local systems, and the nuclear fuel language. cycle. You will graduate both with a solid background in core chemical engineering and with additional expertise in a topic of major significance in the 21st century.

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Career opportunities Business management specialists You could pursue a career in are well placed for management industry as a design engineer, roles within the chemical consultant, or manager; or choose engineering sector, and also for to undertake research and careers in finance, consulting and development of new products and marketing. processes. Fields open to you are Chemical engineers with a as diverse as food and drink, European language have an chemicals, oil, gas and advantage in care er opportunities petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, all over the world. toiletries, energy generation and disposal of waste. You can also consider careers in non-chemical engineering sectors, such as business, finance, The sheer volume of marketing, banking, insurance knowledge and skills I and IT. Many graduates progress into senior management. acquired and applied during my placement If you follow a MEng course, your ‘‘and university studies specialism can help determine your career. Specialists in has proven invaluable. biotechnology are particularly I found the confidence sought after in the fields of healthcare, nutrition and to use my initiative, pharmaceuticals. Graduates with critically analyse results, knowledge of chemistry, as well and learn how to make as chemical engineering, often follow careers in product appropriate changes development, while specialists in to ensure feasible environmental technology are in solutions are deduced. demand to solve pollution problems and develop industrial I found the experience processes that are less harmful to rewarding, fascinating the environment. and very enjoyable.

Susannah Tess Cakebread-Brown MEng Chemical Engineering with Industrial Experience

72 ’’ AB C STUDY ABROAD opportunities Chemistry

coverage, excellence in all the core TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? sub-disciplines of Chemistry, A-level: AAB - ABB outstanding facilities and a range • External links with industry and IB: 35 - 33 of collaborations with life internal multidisciplinary links that sciences, medicine and other For entry requirements to specific inform and improve our courses physical and applied sciences. courses, see our course index at • Internationally renowned the back of this prospectus. We offer you multidisciplinary research covering the full MChem courses that combine spectrum of chemical activity, chemistry with other areas, such ensuring courses based on the as forensic and analytical science, Chemistry BSc 3yrs latest knowledge medicinal chemistry, industrial UCAS Code F100 • Wide choice of degrees, experience and international including options such as year- study. We also have BSc courses Chemistry MChem 4yrs long industrial placements in in Chemistry and in Me dicinal UCAS Code F109 Europe or North America Chemistry. • Extensive experience of all We are a major research Chemistry with Forensic aspects of practical chemistry, university; the most recent HESA and Analytical Chemistry including group research figures for research income show MChem 4yrs projects and final-year research Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, UCAS Code F1F4 projects Bristol and Manchester as the top five earners (2010/11). As such, Chemistry with Industrial • Chemistry scored 92% in the we expose our undergraduates to Experience MChem 4yrs 2012 National Student the very latest developments in UCAS Code F101 Satisfaction survey the field. All our staff teach as • In the UK’s top four for well as carry out research, so you Chemistry with International “research power” in Chemistry are taught by experts in each area, Study (MChem) 4yrs (Research Assessment Exercise and we offer a wide range of UCAS Code F104 2008) undergradu ate research projects that reflect the diversity of our Chemistry with Medicinal research. Everything from enzymatic reactions to single Chemistry BSc 3yrs Find out more... UCAS Code F150 molecule magnets, from plasma www.manchester.ac.uk/chemistry clean-up of diesel exhaust to ug-chem@ma nchester.ac.uk fabrication of nanoparticles, from Chemistry with Medicinal t +44 (0)161 306 9271 Chemistry MChem 4yrs analysing the complex chemistry of living systems to synthesising UCAS Code F152 Chemistry is a broad and exciting science that underpins one of the natural products, takes place at UK’s largest industrial sectors. The Manchester. School of Chemistry at Manchester Excellent links with industry and is continuing its long and facilities include: the Knowledge illustrious contribution to the Centre for Materials Chemistry; subject, and we are currently one the Centre for Microporous of the largest schools of Chemistry Materials; the Centre for in the UK. Radiochemistry Research; the Our great strengths in teaching Organic Materials Innovation and research include Centre, the Dalton Nuclear comprehensive academic Institute and the National Service for EPR Spectroscopy.

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What you study independently and as part of a Chemistry with Choose a three or four-year small group, as well as of report International Study (MChem) course, leading to a BSc or writing, designing your group Years 1 and 2: Follow the core MChem degree. Years 1 and 2 research project, and presentation MChem, while studying your follow a core structure; Years 3 of your results. chosen language (where and 4 allow greater flexibility. MChem Year 4: Tailor this final appropriate). Core topics include year towards your own interests Year 3: Study Chemistry in a thermodynamics, kinetics, by choosing advanced chemistry university outside of the UK. We quantum chemistry, organic options and other specialist link with a range of universities in reaction mechanisms, natural lectures. Carry out an extended Spain, Germany, France, Italy, product chemistry, stereochemistry individual project associated with North America and the Far East via and heterocyclic chemistry, one of the research groups, which the ERASMUS and Worldwide structure and bonding, s, p, d and will consolidate many of the skills Universities Schemes. Our host f block chemistry, interfaces, acquired in your Year 3 group universities have been carefully materials and biologi cal chemistry. project; it increases your selected on the basis of their track Other course units cover a range experience of working record of academic excellence, of transferable skills, including independently and as part of a their support of cultural presentational, quantitative, research group, designing project, exchanges and their aspirations computer and IT skills. Finally, you literature-based report writing, for the continued all-round can study subsidiary course units research report writing, and development of the student. Our in other subjects. presentation of your results. course director keeps in touch Eligibility for continuation on the with you, and you may be visited. MChem course is based on your Chemistry with You are assessed entirely via the general performance and your Industrial Experience marks obtained from your host Year 2 mark. If you do not reach Years 1, 2 and Final: Follow the university. the threshold mark required to core MChem course. In Year 2, Year 4: As Chemistry MChem enter Year 3 of the MChem, you you also get help in CV (above). will be transferre d to the BSc preparation and interview course. techniques, to help you find a Chemistry with Medicinal placement in industry. Chemistry (BSc/MChem) Chemistry Year 3: Undertake a paid Ideal if you have a strong interest BSc Final Year: Take core and placement within the chemical in the biological aspects of advanced chemistry units, plus industry. An academic tutor Chemistry. In addition to core units available in other subjects. assigned to you will visit you twice Chemistry units, take course units Practical work takes the form of a during your placement. You also such as: fundamentals of series of mini-projects. Four mini- study two core chemistry units by biochemistry; properties of projects provide experience in distributed learning, using medicines; fundamentals of drug synthesis, measurement, materials on a CD-ROM and discovery; the big killers; medicinal computational chemistry, and you online, and will write a placement chemistry; advanced drug prepare a literature-based report. report and give a presenta tion on discovery; and synthesis for drug your work. MChem Year 3: Study chemistry discovery and development. These in greater depth and breadth, units are taught jointly by lecturers including core chemistry and from the pharmaceutical industry, advanc ed options. Undertake a our School of Chemistry and from year-long group research project, other schools in the University. gaining experience of working

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BSc Final Year: Take core Year 3: Progress Around half of our graduates get chemistry units, advanced forensic/analytical work through a first job directly using their chemistry units and units dealing the Year 3 group research project chemical knowledge; 25% go with advanced aspects of (see Chemistry MChe m Year 3) onto a further degree; and the medicinal chemistry, such as and an advanced lecture unit. remaining 25% opt for diverse advanced drug discovery, and careers in such areas as finance, Year 4: Take an extended research synthesis for drug discovery and management, computing and IT. project (see Chemistry MChem development. Practical work takes Year 4) in association with one of the form of a series of mini- our research groups, such as projects (see Chemistry BSc Final instrumentation and analytical Year). science; plus specialist course units MChem Year 3: Take taught units in pharmaceuticals, Manchester is an exciting, as in the BSc, and perform a year- instrumentation and advanced vibrant city – a welcome long group project on a topic with analytical techniques ranging from a medicina l chemistry flavour (see nuclear magnetic resonance contrast to my quiet Chemistry MChem Year 3). (NMR) and mass spectrometry, home town. Forensics is a through to bioanalytical methods. ‘‘fantastic area of study MChem Final Year: Undertake an extended research project in and, combined with Career opportunities organic chemistry (see Chemistry chemistry, opens up many MChem Year 4) in association Our graduates enter a wide range with one of our research groups, of careers. You will be numerate, career paths thanks to its plus course units in chemistry, literate, versatile, creative and applications of analytical bioorganic chemistry and skilled in problem solving. skills, covering a wide medicinal chemistry. Throughout the academic year, variety of topics including our School runs an extensive Chemistry with Forensic programme of employability drugs of abuse, DNA and Analytical Chemistry events to further enhance your sequencing and even law. (MChem) employment prospects, most of I know that the skills I am Discover a range of forensic and which are open to all students analytical techniques that from all years. These events are developing will benefit complement your studies in core run in collaboration with the me, no matter what I do. chemistry. University’s Careers Service, involving various alumni, Years 1 and 2: Follow the core Benjamin Ball employers and the Royal Society chemistry structure essential for MChem Chemistry with of Chemistry, and include your training. Gain a foundation in Forensic and Analytical numerous drop-in sessions held in Chemistry forensic and analytical work via our Chemistry Building. specialist units in forensic/analytical chemistry and selected laboratory Depending on your degree, you classes. Undertake a core unit: may have additional specialist Introduction to the English Legal knowledge in analytical, medicinal, System. or forensic chemistry, or a European language. If you spend Year 3 abroad, you will gain highly sought- after life skills and demonstrate a proven ability to adapt, attributes which will make you highly ’’ attractive to future employers.

75 Brian came to Manchester as an undergraduate Physics student 20 years ago and has never left. He is now Professor of Particle Physics and works with his research group on the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva. He has also made three series for the BBC over the last three years and regularly appears on TV and radio.

Manchester made me... take science education outside of the University

I’m loving lecturing first-year Quantum Being on TV wasn’t part of a career Mechanics and Relativity. It’s a superb plan. I just happened to be sat there at the way of enhancing your understanding of Large Hadron Collider when someone the subject. It ring-fences my time in came in with a camera! The Wonders of Manchester ‘doing’ physics, it makes me the Solar System series did a lot to broaden think and means I can meet all the first- the appeal of science programmes. year students, which is good. And it means Stargazing Live too, which we did from the I’m not up a mountain in Namibia or University’s radio telescope Jodrell Bank, is somewhere! tremendously successful around the world. It turns out that people are interested in Some people are surprised that I still astronomy. How surprising is that? do proper science. They think: ‘you’re on telly, so you can’t do science’ when in fact This University values education virtually everyone that presents science on beyond its walls as much as it values the BBC has a PhD and most of them are education within its walls. A university active academics. should be outward facing. It's part of the community, part of the economy and part of the world. Manchester’s academics, students and alumni are encouraged to spread the joy of learning and the joy of knowledge out there. It’s clearly one of the best universities in the world. And it’s like home to me.

76 Professor Brian Cox School of Physics and Astronomy

“A university should be outward facing. It’s part of the community, it’s part of the economy, it’s part of the world. And that’s central to the ethos of Manchester.“

77 STUDY ABROAD opportunities Chinese

As you progress, you may draw TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? on the wide range of research A-level: ABB • Excellent quality, range and expertise in Chinese studies across IB: 35 flexibility of degree courses in our Faculty of Humanities, Chinese increasingly tailoring your studies For entry requirements to specific in line with the development of courses, see our course index at • Teaching by a diverse team of your interests. the back of this prospectus. internationally recognised academic specialists in the field What you study • State-of-the-art resources in the Chinese Studies Chinese Studies BA 4yrs University Library and University Gain a firm grounding in Chinese UCAS Code T100 Language Centre language and contemporary • Comprehension, translation, Chinese culture, society, economy Chinese and Linguistics grammar and oral work taught and politics, as well as in China’s BA 4yrs by native Chinese speakers changing relations with the West. UCAS Code TQ11 • Spend a year in the People’s Study Chinese language Republic of China or Taiwan throughout, developing various Chinese and Screen Studies linguistic skills: speaking and BA 4yrs writing accurately; understanding UCAS Code TW16 and analysing audio, visual and Find out more... written material; using different English Language and Chinese www.manchester.ac.uk/alc registers; speaking to a group with BA 4yrs [email protected] confidence; and translating with UCAS Code QT31 t +44 (0)161 275 3211 appropriate sensitivity. Choose China-related topics in Modern Language and politics, history, linguistic and Our four-year degree courses Business and Management cultural studies, cinema, enable you to either build on (Chinese) BA 4yrs economics, development studies, existing intermediate (ie AS-level UCAS Code NT11 bu siness and translation studies, pass or equivalent) or advanced (ie drawing on the wide range of You may also study Chinese strong A-level pass or equivalent) research expertise in Chinese at beginners', intermediate or knowledge of the language, or studies. You should achieve a advanced level with French, study it as a beginner. German, Italian, Japanese, good mastery of the Mandarin Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish; We draw on expertise across our Chinese language and develop a see Modern Languages. See also Schools of Arts, Languages and sound knowledge of Chinese Linguistics and English Language, Cultures; Social Sciences; culture, history, society, economy and Joint Language Courses. Environment and Development; and politics, particularly in the and Manchester Business School – context of China's place in the giving you a firm grounding in world at a time of globalisation. Chinese language and Chinese cultural studies, as well as in related fields of history, politics, sociology, management and economics.

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Joint courses Modern Language and In all of the following courses, you Business and Management study both subjects equally in Year (Chinese) 1; in later years, you can maintain Study business and management The Chinese course this balance or devote more in European and global contexts, at Manchester has weight to one subject or the other as well as the Chinese language (subject to certain restrictions for and culture. Core language course definitely exceeded ab initio Chinese learners). units are complemented by units my expectations. I've covering aspects of Chinese ‘‘been impressed by the culture, society, literature, Chinese and Linguistics speed at which I have Combine the study of Chinese linguistics, history, migration, language, literature, society and thought and cinema. You also managed to acquire the history with the study of study aspects of management, language, particularly as economics, finance, accounting linguistics. You may take another I began the course at foreign language at any and international relations. . In appropriate level. In year one, you year one, you study both subjects beginner's level. It's study both subjects equally; in equally; in later years, you can also been nice to later years, you can maintain this maintain this balance or devote have small, close-knit balance or devote more weight to more weight to one subject or one subject or the other (subject the other (subject to certain classes with native- to certain restrictions for ab initio restrictions for ab initio speaking teachers. Chinese learners). Chinese learners). See Modern Languages. Susannah Jones English Language and Chinese BA English Language Study the structure, history and Chinese and Screen Studies and Chinese varieties of English alongside Combine the study of Chinese general linguistics and language, literature, cinema, sociolinguistics. Core Chinese society and history, with the language units are complemented study of core course units in by units in culture, society, understanding film, its history literature, linguistics, history, and pre-history, and its thought and cinema. In year one, development across other media you study both subjects equally; in (such as television, DVD, internet later years, you can maintain this distribution). balance or devote more weight to one subject or the other (subject In year one, you study both ’’ to certain restrictions for ab initio subjects equally; in later years, Chinese learners). you can maintain this balance or devote more weight to one subject or the other (subject to certain restrictions for ab initio Chinese learners).

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Find out more... Relevant, up-to-date teaching TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/mace All our civil engineering courses A-level: AAA-AAB [email protected] fulfil the requirements of the IB: 37-35 t +44 (0)161 306 9210 Engineering Council UK and the relevant professional institutions One of the pioneers in For entry requirements to specific as set out by the Joint Board of engineering education and courses, see our course index at Moderators. the back of this prospectus. research, the Mechanics Institute – the forerunner to The University of Our staff members undertake Manchester – was founded by Sir internationally renowned, fundamental and industrially Civil Engineering BEng 3yrs William Fairbairn in 1824. The term ‘Reynolds Number’ focused research across a wide UCAS Code H200 recognises the fundamental work range of engineering disciplines; leading-edge research expertise Civil Engineering MEng 4yrs in fluid flow that was undertaken by our first Professor, Osborne that is embedded in our teaching. UCAS Code H201 Reynolds (appointed in 1868). Research interests in civil Civil Engineering (Enterprise) Today, all our engineering degrees engineering include: building MEng 4yrs have a strong base of engineering aerodynamics; commercial UCAS Code H204 science and build a solid management; construction foundation of practical design and materials scie nce; conservation of Civil and Structural analysis. Because our staff are structures; contamination studies; Engineering MEng 4yrs actively involved in research, our engineering systems and design; UCAS Code H220 teaching evolves to reflect state- environmental engineering; fluid of-the-art technology, giving you dynamics; fire engineering; Civil Engineering with access to expertise in a wide range geotechnics; numerical modelling; Industrial Experience of engineering disciplines. project management; risk and variability of materials; stadia MEng 5yrs Plenty of staff contact and our dynamics and crowd-loading; and UCAS Code H207 high-quality resources will ensure tidal and wind energy. See also Engi neering and Science you a rewarding experience. Enjoy with a Foundation Year. excellent student support, You undertake one major research including an extensive tutorial project in Year 3. MEng students WHY MANCHESTER? system for academic support and also undertake a group design project with joint supervision from • Long, distinguished history in pastoral care, student-to-student industry. These projects reflect engineering education and mentoring, a dedicated current knowledge and relevant research – Manchester was the undergraduate office, and industrial practice. first English university to offer an approachable, well-qualified and engineering degree co-operative staff. Professional accreditation • Extensive engineering industry All our Civil Engineering degrees links, enhancing both are professionally accredited by undergraduate teaching and the Joint Board of Moderators. For ground-breaking research full details, see: • Excellent resources for www.manchester.ac.uk/mace/ information, computation and undergraduate/accreditation. experimentation • Professional accreditation by relevant UK institutions

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What you study conduct leading-edge research in Civil Engineering with All courses contain the same core their field, preparing you to Industrial Experience civil engineering subjects. Our become a future leader in the Take our standard MEng course MEng courses offer you the field. plus a structured placement in opportunity to develop specialised Year 4 within the UK civil, understanding and skills in the Civil Engineering (Enterprise) structural engineering, or area of your interest. Enterprise and business-related construction industry, to develop course units replace some non- your experience. As well as local Civil Engineering core engineering material in all supervision, you have support Year 1: Discover civil engineering, years, to provide you with from our University’s network and studying subjects such as maths, valuable and transferable skills in an individual tutor who visits you mechanics, computation, enterprise and management. at your workplace. Work on a range of real civil and structural construction materials, structures Become a world-class engineer engineering projects, gaining and geotechnics, and engineering who understands the fundamental valuable experience as a practicing design and management. principles underpinning the engineer. Year 2: Develop a deeper science of engineering, but who can also apply that knowledge understanding of fundamental Transferring courses civil engineering subjects, such as within the broader context of the Should you wish to transfer structural analysis and design, modern business environment. courses, you must observe the geotechnics, hydraulics and water Knowledge of business and following conditions: engineering, construction management gives you a greater materials, surveying, civil appreciation of the wider issues in • If you are on the BEng but engineering design and the industry, enhancing your achieve the standard for MEng, management, plus further studies knowledge of the commercial we will invite you to transfer to of maths and computation. environment and market. MEng at the end of Year 2. Attend a residential field course in However, if you are registered the Lake District to practice Civil and Structural MEng but do not meet the surveying and civil engineering Engineering requirements at the end of Years design. Ideal for those wishing to 2 or 3, we will transfer you to BEng. Once transferred to BEng, Year 3: Develop your specialist specialise in structural you cannot transfer back to knowledge and skills further in engineering, such as the design MEng. subjects that include structural and construction of bridges and analysis and design, geotechnics, large buildings. • If you are registered on MEng, hydraulics, construction materials While emphasising aspects of you can transfer to BEng and and management. Undertake a structural engineering, core units graduate at the end of Year 3. year-long individual research cover the same subjects as our • You can change between MEng project that you choose from our Civil Engineering degree, thus Civil Engineering and MEng Civil wide range of subjects. satisfying academic requirements and S tructural Engineering in Year 4 (MEng): Develop your for entry to the Institution of Civil Year 4, but you must inform us design skills in a realistic Engineers and the Institution of early on in that year. environment through a group Structural Engineers. I n Years 3 • If you are registered on MEng design project that is jointly and 4, you undertake numerically Civil Engineering with Industrial supervised by an industrial demanding research and design Experience, you can transfer to collaborator. You m ay follow your projects relating to a wide range the other home-based MEng specialist interest and select from of structures, gaining expertise courses. a range of specialist course units that can be supplemented by a taught by staff members who choice of complementary options.

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Career opportunities Our degree courses provide the academic basis for a professional career in the planning, design, construction and management of Taking a Civil and major civil and structural Structural Engineering engineering projects. course in Manchester has They also lead to many other opened my world to a opportunities, and our graduates ‘‘ number of opportunities. are in demand from all sectors of industry, commerce and public I've worked with industrial service. The skills you develop give representatives on real you the ability to analyse and projects, been taught by solve complex problems by a rigorous approach, and to renowned experts in their communicate the results field and have been effectively. Our graduates find inspired on where to take employment in diverse areas, such as computing, law, insurance, my career following production engineering, the oil graduation. industry, retail management, environmental work and property Alan Roper development. MEng Civil and Structural Engineering As a graduate ‘with Industrial Experience’ or on an ‘Enterprise’ course, you emerge with not only a solid engineering training, but also a useful insight into the commercial world, which equips you for a diverse range of careers, including general management and sales, as well as jobs in more technical fields. You will have access to advice and development opportunities at the ’’ best university careers services in the UK, with help available to you on all aspects of your career.

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What you study TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? Single Honours degrees A-level: ABB - BBB • One of the largest IB: 34 - 31 concentrations of classics and Classical Studies ancient history experts of any For entry requirements to specific Enjoy the most flexible of our university in the country, and a courses, see our course index at Single Honours courses, offering a wide variety of courses the back of this prospectus. broad-based study of the literature, culture and history of • Exceptional teaching quality and the Greek and Roman worlds. scholarship of international Choose whether to take the standing, as represented by our Ancient History BA 3yrs degree without studying global reputation for research, language, or to take either Greek UCAS Code V110 which keeps course content or Latin (or both) at any level, cutting-edge Classical Studies BA 3yrs including beginner. Study UCAS Code Q810 • One of the largest library specialist course units, which may collections of classics-related include ancient literature, history, Classics BA 3yrs material in Britain religion, philosophy, art and archaeology. UCAS Code Q800

Latin and English Literature Find out more... Ancient History Another flexible degree course, BA 3yrs www.manchester.ac.uk/arts ideal if you have a mainly UCAS Code QQ36 [email protected] historical interest in the Greek and t +44 (0)161 275 3107 Roman worlds. Again, you can Latin and Italian BA 4yrs The civilisations of the ancient take the course without studying UCAS Code QR63 Mediterranean continue to be a language, or study an ancient source of new insights and language at any level, including Latin and Linguistics BA 3yrs inspiration to every generation of beginner. UCAS Code QQ61 students, teachers and researchers. Take course units in Greek and Manchester offers you the Roman history as the core of your Latin and Spanish BA 4yrs opportunity to study this course; you can also study o thers UCAS Code QR64 challenging subject by moving from those listed under Classical through a vast field of enquiry: Studies (above) as background. cultural study, language, literature, Latin with French BA 4yrs Units from modern and mediaeval religion, myth, history, archaeology, UCAS Code Q6R1 history are widely available. philosophy, and much more. See also Archaeology. Our degrees cater for a wide Classics Please note that the Single range of interests and make our This course is based on the study Honours degrees in Greek and in teaching readily accessible to of Greek and/or Latin language Latin, and the degree in Classics those who may have had little or and literature. The traditional and Ancient History, are no longer no previous opportunity to study route combines both Latin and available as individually named classical languages or civilisation. Greek language and literature, or degrees. However, the constituent Our great variety of degree you can choose to focus parts of all of them are now courses and individual course units exclusively on the language and available as specific routes in the allows you to pursue your literature of either Latin or Greek. Classics degree. Those wishing to particular interests in an pursue these routes should apply atmosphere of enthusiastic You can also combi ne the study for Classics. questioning and inte llectual rigour. of Greek and Latin language,

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literature and culture with the Latin and Spanish/Latin and Career opportu nities examination of Greek and Roman Italian/Latin with French A classical degree is highly prized political, social and intellectual Study the language, literature and by employers, and we see our history. You take either Greek or culture of both societies, studying graduates take up jobs in the Latin language, alongside core each language in all three years. media, the civil service, industry, course units in ancient history and These four-year courses include a banking, accountancy, retail appropriate units in classical year abroad where possible; this management and law, as well as literature. In addition, you can also includes enrolment on classical teaching. Many graduates choose select specialist course units from courses at a Spanish, Italian, or to continue their studies by taking the range outlined under Classical French university. a graduate programme at Studies. Manchester, or elsewhere. All routes through the Classics Latin and Linguistics course can be taken by students Study Latin language and who have not studied the literature in each of your three languages before, as well as those years, in parallel to analytical and who already have them at AS/A2- theoretical study of language in My Ancient History level or equivalent. general, including the nature of degree has made me language and models of its Where appropriate (i.e. where structure. think more deeply about students possess the required level truth and narrative, and of expertise in the relevant ancient Ancient History language), a proportion of the ‘‘allowed me to see how a and Archaeology texts for course units in Literature, Combine the study of ancient society functioned on and for some units in History, are history and archaeology in more very different structures, studied in the original language. ways than one. Take options in but functioned Greek and Roman history, and Joint Honours degrees nonetheless. It has from the broad range of course The following courses offer you units available from Archaeology. allowed me to form links similar opportunities to study the Alternative pathways give you the from the present to the ancient texts in the original choice of learning ancient ancients and so think in language: languages, or developing practical archaeological skills. See more abstract terms. Latin and English Literature Archaeology. Study Latin language and Daniel Prince literature in each of your three BA Ancient History years, in parallel with the full range of English studies (options include Old and Middle English, Renaissance, historical and contemporary English language, and cultural theory). ’’

84 AB C Computer Science

Computer Science with Software Engineering TYPICAL OFFER Business and Management BSc 3yrs BSc programmes: BSc 3yrs UCAS Code GG6K A-level: AAB UCAS Code G4N2 (Please note that all courses Software Engineering except for Internet Computing Computer Science with MEng 4yrs and Computing for Business Business and Management UCAS Code GG64 Applications require with Industrial Experience A-level Mathematics) BSc 4yrs Software Engineering with UCAS Code GNK1 IB: 35 Industrial Experience BSc 4yrs UCAS Code G603 MEng programmes: Computer Science with A-level: A*AA Industrial Experience BSc 4yrs IB: 38 UCAS Code G405 WHY MANCHESTER? For entry requirements to specific • Distinguished history in courses, see our course index at Computer Systems computer science, dating from the back of this prospectus. Engineering BEng 3yrs the birth of the world’s first UCAS Code HH66 stored-program compute r at this University Computer Systems Artificial Intelligence BSc 3yrs Engineering MEng 4yrs • Multidisciplinary courses UCAS Code G700 UCAS Code GH4P involving major collaborations with Manchester Business Artificial Intelligence Computer Systems School and many schools across MEng 4yrs Engineering with Industrial Engineering and Physical UCAS Code G702 Experience BEng 4yrs Sciences UCAS Code HHQ6 • Entrepreneurial culture, enabling Artificial Intelligence with Industrial Experience BSc 4yrs close relationships with industry Computing for Business UCAS Code G701 Applications BSc 3yrs • Knowledge, principles and transferable skills necessary for UCAS Code G510 Computer Science BSc 3yrs rewarding careers in technology and related disciplines UCAS Code G400 Computing for Business Applications with Industrial Computer Science MEng 4yrs Experience BSc 4yrs UCAS Code G401 UCAS Code G511 Find out more... www.manchester.ac.uk/cs Computer Science and Internet Computing BSc 3yrs ug.comp.sci@ma nchester.ac.uk Mathematics BSc 3yrs UCAS Code G450 t +44 (0)161 275 6124 UCAS Code GG14 Internet Computing Computer Science and with Industrial Experience Mathematics with Industrial UCAS Code G451 Experience BSc 4yrs UCAS Code GG41

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Computing is transforming our Student life students. In your final year, you world, changing the way we work Being a student here is also fun; study specialised topics at an and play, and redefining fields of we provide a friendly and advanced level and broaden your human endeavour as diverse as supportive environment for you. skills and experience with a period healthcare, engineering and We have a thriving student social in industry, enterprise-related government. Computer science committee and students are active course units, and indus try-focused underpins this revolution, bringing in many aspects of University life. project work. together understanding of the Our graduates keep in touch with Our four-year BSc with Industrial scientific and technological us and have written about their Experience courses enable you to foundations of computing, experiences on our website: spend a full year in industry. hardware and software methods, www.manchester.ac.uk/cs/unde Students with industrial and information and rgraduate/studentprofiles experience not only tend to communication technologies. Manchester has an int ernational improve their final degree Manchester saw the birth of the reputation as a world leader in performance, but also enhance computer and introduced the research and teaching across the their employment prospects. You Computer Science undergraduate full breadth of computing, from can also study any of our courses degree. Today, we remain at the embedded computer systems to as a three-year BSc. forefront of the discipline and information management, and offer some of the UK’s strongest from computer architecture to Computer Science undergraduate courses. We are e-government. See Computing. Get a thorough grounding in the also one of the UK’s largest principles and practice of computer science schools, giving What you study computer science, from hardware us strength and depth across the All our courses develop high-level design, through software discipline – if it’s going on practical and theoretical skills development and maintenance, to anywhere, it’s going on here. through the study of a broad a wide range of application areas, Collaborations across the range of computer science topics. on this our most popular and University, an entrepreneurial You can focus on a particular area flexible course. To help you choose culture and extensive industry through a specialist degree, or your course units, we organise links inform our undergraduate flavour your degree through the them into ‘themes’ that focus degrees and ensure that what you choice of ‘themes’ – related your studies and project work, learn is relevant to applications in collections of course units that letting you specialise in areas such the real world – and to a broad together provide key skills in a as web and distributed systems, spectrum of careers. We have one focused area. Whatever route you computer architecture, visual of the UK’s broadest offerings of choose, you will gain knowledge computing and information computer science courses, and practical experience of current systems in business. enabling you to specialise across technologies, and a thorough the discipline. We also aim for grounding in the principles of the Softw are Engineering maximum flexibility, so you can subject. Upon graduation, you will As computer systems become ever tailor your course to your interests be well prepared to deal with larger and more complex, the and career aspirations as your future developments in this rapidly problems of developing and expe rience of the subject changing field – either in maintaining them become more develops. employment, or in further study. significant. Gain a thorough We offer almost all of our courses grounding in the general theory in a number of variants. Our four- and practice of software year MEng courses fulfil the development and maintenance, highest professional requirements with particular emphasis on the and challenge the ablest of development of large or mission-

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critical systems, and those Interdisciplinary courses Joint courses intended for use in rapidly Unlike our other courses, these do One of our strengths is the variety changing environments. Cover not need A-level Mathematics. They of collaborations we have with topics relating to the software combine relevant computational other schools in the University. lifecycle, from finding out what techniques with complementary the system is really supposed to material in important application Computer Science with do, to the production of a running areas, and are taught jointly with Business and Management system using modern tools for business information system and Enjoy the opportunity to build an supporting parts of this process. interactive systems specialists from understanding of the general Manchester Business School. principles and practi ce of Artificial Intelligence computer systems and software Extend the study of general Computing for development, while also studying principles and practice of Business Applications in Manchester Business School to computer systems and software Modern organisations are heavily develop an understanding of the development, with the chance to dependent on IT systems, rangi ng nature of business and examine some techniques of from applications such as financial management roles and practices. artificial intelligence. These tackle management packages, to the problems of enabling a sophisticated decision support and Computer Science computer to interpret the world knowledge management tools. and Mathematics around it, learn and reason about Gain a thorough grounding in the Develop a powerful combination what it perceives, and general principles and practice of of mathematical and computer communicate with people and software development and science skills in a course run jointly other computers about what the maintenance, with particular with our School of Mathematics. world is like and what it wants emphasis on the development and In particular, gain high-level to do. deployment of software systems practical and theoretical skills over in organisational settings. Examine a broad range of computer Computer Systems the way in which IT systems science topics, and a knowledge Engineering interact with other parts of an and understanding of Sophisticated electronic systems organi sation and develop the skills mathematical ideas, including the permeate all aspects of life, such to use this knowledge to design concepts of rigorous argument as MP3 players, games consol es, effective software systems. and formal proof. Explore how the mobile phones, vehicle control subjects are increasingly used to systems and radar. All of these Internet Computing support each other. are embedded systems, which The internet has become central typically contain memory, one to a wide range of commercial, or more microprocessors, a educational and leisure activities. communications capability, As a result, it is used directly by a application-specific hardware diverse collection of individuals and software. Extensive and organisations, with different knowledge and skills are requirements and priorities. Gain needed to support their knowledge and understanding of development, including digital the architecture and design of electronics, software engineering, web-based systems and web computer architecture and digital development tools. Develop skills signal processing. that underpin the development and evaluation of collaborative and interactive websites in commercial settings.

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Career opportunities Significant employment opportunities exist in the traditional IT industry, but our Since I joined the School graduates are increasingly in demand from a very broad range of Computer Science, I of employers, as they come to have developed as an depend increasingly on computer- individual on a number of based products, services and ways ‘‘ of working. You could work in levels. There is the virtually all areas of business and technical side of things, society, including finance, films which has developed and games, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, consumer produc ts greatly as I interacted and public services. Increasingly, with various technologies employers are seeking graduates and parts of the with high-level computing skills, and the ability to apply them in discipline, but I have innovative ways to solve the gained important soft problems facing their skills as well; I am now organisations. better at managing my From large multinational firms to time and priorities, small local organisations, employers actively target our communicating, students for sponsorship, industry networking and working in placements and full-time positions teams. I have also after graduation. They know our graduates are equipped with the managed to interact with skills they need: strong technical some of the best ability and the ability to work companies worldwide via effectively with others. Now is a particularly good time to study the numerous career fairs computer science; all potential organised within the employers of our graduates are School, understanding forecasting a serious shortage of the sort of high quality graduates what they do and making that our courses produce. an informed decision about my future career.

Nicolae Caprarescu BSc Computer Science with Industrial Experience

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Computing

Intelligent problem solving History of innovation WHY MANCHESTER? Computing is about designing Over the course of its short history, • Diverse choice of computing solutions to real problems. computing has radically changed courses that equip you with the Technology alone does not solve the way people experience the skills to shape the future of problems; the skill and ingenuity world – and our University has business, engineering, science of the scientist, the engi neer, or played a long and distinguished and society the practitioner is the real driving role in this development. force. • Multidisciplinary approach, From the very beginning, when which recognises that The diversity of problems to which the first computer in the world to computing needs to take computing is applied is difficult to store its program electronically account of people, culture, comprehend: from designing a was built here, through to today, processes and organisations, silicon chip containing more than when embedded computing if technology is to be used 100 million transistors in an area systems are all-pervasive – in our effectively no larger than a postage stamp, mobile phones, DVD and MP3 to developing an internet players, in satellite navigation • Knowledge, principles and shopping site that recognises your systems, in medical transferable skills necessary interests and suggests items you instrumentation and diagnostic for a career at the forefront of might like to buy; from using equipment – we have been at the innovation, for talented and medical imaging to map tumours, forefront of the development of ambitious students or to understand how the human both technology and applications. brain works, to using embedded Manchester offers breadth and systems that monitor the depth in our range of computing One of the defining forces of the movement of chemicals through courses. Whatever your area of 21st century, computing the soil; from working with NASA interest in computing, we will transforms our world, changing to find bugs in the design of the almost certainly be able to offer the ways in which we work and K9 Martian Rover program, to a programme of study to fit your play, and redefining fields of using computer graphics to needs. human endeavour as diverse as combat the pain suffered by healthcare and manufacturing, amputees. Perhaps you already have a clear engineering and government. idea of what you want to focus Computing brings together on in your studies, whether on Computing at Manchester is computer science, electronics, the scientific and technological driven by the challenges presented mathematics, design, psychology, foundations of computing, on by these new areas of application. business and management and hardware or software design, Our courses involve finding new information syste ms. It unites an or on the interface between intellectual challenges: how to understanding of the scientific computing and business. represent complex knowledge and and technological foundations of information; how computers can computing, hardware and Alternatively, perhaps you are interact naturally with people; software methods, and interested in studying a how to design complex systems; information and communication computing-related course, but do and how computers can be made technologies to design not yet know exactly what will to work in business and technology-based systems, most attract you. If this sounds like management contexts. information and knowledge you, please read the individual management systems and subject area entries to find out business processes. more about the courses we offer, take a look at our School websites, or contact us if you feel you need advice. We are keen to help you choose the right course for you.

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What you study Accounting, Management Computing courses at and Information Systems Manchester See Accounting and Finance. Our School of Computer Science and Manchester Business School – both world-leading in their own Courses that explore the right – work together to provide a relationship between computing coherent set of courses. Where and other disciplines: appropriate, we offer courses jointly, exploiting the strengths of Computer Science and both schools. Mathematics See Computer Science. Courses that concentrate on the core principles of computing and its myriad of applications:

Computer Science Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence Computer Systems Engineering See Computer Science.

Courses that emphasise the effective use of information and communications technology in the public and private sectors:

Computing for Business Applications Computer Science with Business and Management Internet Computing Information Technology Management for Business (an e-skills course) See Computer Science, and Business Studies and Management.

90 ABC D Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences

Find out more... Dedicated teams have designed TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/dentistry these themes and integrated them Due to the detailed nature of [email protected] into each year of the course, entry requirements for Dentistry t +44 (0)161 306 0231 ensuring that your knowledge and and Oral Health Science courses, skills develop in an integrated we are unable to include a typical What you study fashion as the focus moves from offer in the prospectus. For basic building blocks in Year 1, to complete and up-to-date BDS (Bachelor of Dental professional competence in Year 5. information on our entry Surgery) in Dental Surgery requirements for Dentistry and The subjects taught in all UK How you learn Oral Health Science, you need to dental schools are controlled by Our emphasis on integration of visit our website: the Gene ral Dental Council. Their theory and practice throughout www.manchester.ac.uk/dentistry document ‘Preparing for Practice – your course lends itself to enquiry- /undergraduate Dental Team Learning Outcomes based learning (EBL), which covers for registration’ gives details on a spectrum of approaches: For entry requirements to specific what is covered in the BDS courses, see our course indext a programme. • Exploration of a scenario or the back of this prospectus. problem drives the whole Manchester’s dental course learning experience (EBL) has been designed in close consultation with students and • Small-scale investigations (eg Dentistry (including staff in our School of Dentistry to fieldwork/case studies) Foundation Year) BDS 6yrs provide an integrated, enquiry- • Projects and research activity UCAS Code A204 based, five-year course, building on and incorporating our existing Through EBL, you participate in a Dentistry (first-year entry) high quality learning/t eaching, our wide range of different learning BDS 5yrs expertise in enquiry-based activities, including small group seminars, themed theatre events, UCAS Code A206 learning and our well-established outreach courses. A key feature is case-based activities, computer- integration between theory and assisted learning and th e use of Oral Health Sciences BSc 3yrs web-based resources. This means UCAS Code B840 practice, central to which is early learning/teaching in the clinical that traditional lectures and context. tutorials will not form a major part of your learning experience, but WHY MANCHESTER? Five themes run through our carefully integrated, appropriate • Distinguished reputation in course: early clinical experience will. dentistry, long established since • Human health and disease Years 3 to 5: A significant part of 1884 • The mouth in health and disease clinical teaching takes place in • Choice of the BDS, allowing you outreach community clinics in to practise as a dentist, or the • Clinical competence different areas of Greater BSc Oral Health Science, • Scientific understanding and Manchester. Use of outreach allowing you to practise as a thought teaching was pioneered in dental hygienist or dental Manchester with our first therapist • Team working, communication pa ediatric outreach teaching in skills, ICT, reflective practice 1975. We now have 11 outreach • Extensive experience in outreach clinics to which you may be community clinics, allowing you assigned. to treat patients regularly and experience clinical dentistry in a ‘real world’ environment

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Foundation year Career opportunities If you have any questions about (available for UK/EU As a BDS graduate, you can work the health screening, contact: students only) in general practice (normally after Elizabeth Aniteye, Occupa tional If your A-level (or equivalent) completing a year of mandatory Health Nurse Adviser subjects do not include the vocational dental practice), the t +44 (0)161 275 2862 required sciences, you will need to community dental service, hospital [email protected] join our Foundation Year, intended practice, university teaching and to provide the scientific research, various individual Successful applicants will also be knowledge and skills necessary for organisations and the armed required to pass a Disclosure and you to progress to the first year of forces. Sometimes you may need Barring Scheme (DBS) check. This the five-year BDS course on further training and specialisation. replaces the Criminal Records satisfactory completion of the Your qualification is recognised Bureau check at enhanced level. end-of-year assessment. throughout the European Union As well as any criminal convictions, and in many other countries. you must disclose any cautions, Oral Health Sciences reprimands or final warnings that As a graduate in Oral Health you may have received. This course covers a wide variety Sciences, you can work in all of subjects, including basic sectors of dentistry as a dental sciences, human diseases, hygienist or dental therapist. This periodontology, dental caries, role incorporates the skills of both restorative dentistry, dental dental hygienists and dental radiography, behavioural science, therapists and reflects the Studying dentistry at orthodontics, and general and oral philosophy outlined in the General Manchester is, without a health promotion. Dental Council document doubt, the best decision ‘Developing the Dental Team’ (see: How you learn www.gdc-uk.org). I've made. The course Year 1: Most teaching takes place ‘‘challenges me each day to in lectures, seminars and tutorials. Health screening improve my knowledge, You begin to develop your clinical In our School of Dentistry, we are technical abilities, skills on patient simulators mindful of our overriding duty of progressing to your first adult care to the public, with whom you communication and patients. will come into close contact at an team-working skills. Year 2: Non-clini cal and clinical early stage of your studies. If your Meeting different people application is successful, you will subjects are integrated as you is a big part of it and, begin to treat child and adult there fore need to comply with the patients. viral screening requested by the whilst I've made some Department of Health to show great friends with staff Year 3: You provide dental care that you are not a carrier of for patients in a variety of settings, Hepatitis B or C, or HIV. and students, the biggest both within the School of reward is making a Dentistry and at outreach Additionally, we will ask you to community clinics. send a completed Pre-Acceptance difference for patients. Health Questionnaire, countersigned by your general Anthony Lee practitioner, to our Student BDS Dentistry Occupational Health Department.

92 ’’ ABC D STUDY ABROAD opportunities Drama

Find out more... half and half). The range of choices TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/drama allows you to focus on a more Due to the detailed nature of [email protected] theoretical or practical pathway, or entry requirements for Drama t +44 (0)161 275 3348 a blend of the two, and it is courses, we are unable to include possible to change the emphasis of your course in each year. a typical offer in the prospectus. Manchester was one of the first For entry requirements to specific British universities to teach Drama. Drama and Screen Studies courses, see our course index at Today, our scope and resources are (single Honours) the back of this prospectus. extensive, with useful contacts You would follow a similar course across the city and region. Our to Drama while focusing on the cutting-edge premises incorporates study of film and other screen the purpose-built Cosmo Rodewald media. Throughout your course, Drama BA 3yrs Concert Hall, the John Thaw Studio you can choose film options from UCAS Code W400 Theatre, the Lenagan Library, the variety of studies offered and audio/visual facilities and excellent take courses in video-making. Drama and English Literature performance, workshop and BA 3yrs practice spaces. Career opportunities UCAS Code WQ4H A wide variety of career See also English Literature What you study opportunities are open to you. and American Studies. Drama (single Honours) Our recent graduates now have successful careers in theatre, film In all three courses you study and television, applied theatre, Drama and Screen Studies Drama as a cultural process and journalism and publishing, BA 3yrs artistic discourse by developing an teaching and research, community UCAS Code WW46 intellectual and practical approach arts and arts administration. See also Music and Drama. to: plays and performance pieces; critical writing about theatre and performance; considering performance venues and live and WHY MANCHESTER? recorded performance. The course Drama at Manchester has • Established tradition at one of has a strong element of applied the first UK universities to teach and social theatre which examines opened my eyes to a new drama how theatre and performance wealth of knowledge, practices are used beyond the • £6 million premises and both on a personal and theatre building and event. You resources take course units on theatre or film ‘‘academic level. The • Wide-ranging teaching covering history and contextualisation, as relationship between the the history, theory, criticism and well as undertaking individual course and the city itself practice of drama and its research for a dissertation in Year 3 performance that can be practice-based. creates a brilliant • Unique disciplinary focus on the environment in which the way in which drama functions Drama and English Literature arts can be studied in a within its cultural context (Joint Honours) You would be able to choose a modern and exciting way. • Access to one of the country’s number of pathways drawn from most vibrant theatre, film and Drama and English Literature (eg Charlotte Knope performance cultures two-thirds drama and one-third BA Drama English Literature; one third Drama and two-thirds English Literature, or ’’ 93 David is one of life’s doers. Not content with following the traditional route, at the end of his second year he took himself off to a lab in Spain to study the brain.

Manchester made me... discover what I really want to do

I chose Neuroscience to try and answer I discovered slacklining in Spain. It’s like the big questions. I thought that if I tightrope-walking except the line moves could understand why I’m able to reflect like a trampoline and you can do back flips upon my existence and the existence of and front flips and other tricks. It can be a things, then I might be able to help explain meditative pursuit as well, because when the existence of things. you’re really high up and you’ve got to concentrate on balancing, if you think I had a year out in a laboratory in about a mistake you made two seconds Spain last year. In my second year I got ago or a mistake you might make in two interested in astrocytes, a type of cell in seconds, then you lose it and you fall. I the brain. There’s a world-leading expert wanted to find other people who on this type of cell at Manchester, and he slacklined and to share my love of it. So I has a laboratory in Spain which is working came back and set up a slacklining society. on this particular cell in Alzheimer’s We've now got a team and lots of people disease. He said I could go and work there learning. for a year, but I didn’t speak Spanish and I was the only undergraduate working with I also started teaching myself computer a small group of PhDs and post-docs, so it programming in Spain and that’s a big was quite a challenge. part of my life now. I’m now part of the Manchester Ultimate Programming Committee.

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“It’s important be involved in things other than your course – maybe more important than your studies. Coming to university is not about just following a path, or jumping through hoops; it’s about discovering yourself and finding out what’s best for you. The University of Manchester is a great place to do that.“

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Earth Sciences TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? Accredited by the Geological A-level: AAB-ABB • One of the UK’s largest centres Society of London IB: 35-33 for earth and environmental Take our undergraduate integrated teaching For entry requirements to specific master’s course with a broad courses, see our course index at • Diverse exciting fieldwork background in Earth Sciences. You the back of this prospectus. opportunities, funded by the can follow a Geology, University, as part of your course Environmental and Resource Geology, Geochemistry, or Planetary • Opportunities to gain industrial Geology pathway through the Earth Sciences MEarthSci 4yrs experience via work placements earlier years of the course. In Year 4, UCAS Code F640 you take master’s-level taught course units and undertake a Environmental and Resource Find out more... research project in an area of your Geology BSc 3yrs www.manchester.ac.uk/seaes choosing, working with staff at the UCAS Code F630 ug-earth-s [email protected] cutting edge of scientific research, t +44 (0)161 275 0776 often leading to published scientific Geochemistry BSc 3yrs articles. You have the option to UCAS Code F670 study abroad for one semester. Earth Sciences studies the Geography and Geology composition, behaviour and Environmental BSc 3yrs history of the Earth and other and Resource Geology UCAS Code FF68 planets. It integrates and applies Accredited by the Geological different scientific disciplines to Society of London problems such as the formation Geography and Geology Focus on exploration for earth and composition of the Earth, with a Year Abroad BSc 4yrs resources and the environmental causes of earthquake and volcanic UCAS Code FF86 impact of their extraction, along activity, causes of ice ages and the with the safe dispos al of any origin and evolution of life. Geology BSc 3yrs waste products. You could study UCAS Code F600 It is an immensely practical hydrogeology, mineral deposits, subject. Geologist s study many engineering geology and energy Geology with Planetary phenomena that affect our daily resources, and you may take units Science BSc 3yrs lives, such as: natural hazards shared with environmental UCAS Code F6F5 (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, scientists. This course offers a full landslides and floods), and how to fieldwork programme, including Geology with Planetary predict their occurrence; the independent mapping. Science MEarthSci 4 yrs search for new energy and mineral resources and their safe UCAS Code F6FM Geochemistry exploitation; maintaining quality Accredited by the Geological water supplies; the disposal of Society of London domestic, industrial and nuclear waste; and short and long-term Ideal if you have a good climatic change. background in physical sciences and are particularly interested in What you study the che mistry of natural systems and their evolution through time. For course units on all courses, You apply geochemical methods see: http://bit.ly/ruN8Fp to such diverse problems as the

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origin of the solar system and of rocks and minerals, evolution of courses are heavily subsidised. polluted groundwater. You could life on Earth, Earth resources, Students undertaking independent study biogeochemical cycles, geophysics and geological fieldwork (eg geologists) will need organic systems, isotope mapping. Teamwork, problem- to contribute towards travel and geochemistry and analytical solving and field skills play a key accommodation costs. You have techniques. This course offers a role in integrating all the elements opportunities to gain industrial full fieldwork programme, of the subject. Our wide choice of experience in areas from oil including independent mapping. options in Year 3 allows you to exploration to site investigation of explore more specific career paths contaminated land. Geography and Geology and provides an ideal foundation Ideal if you have a strong interest in for a postgraduate master’s degree, Career opportunities physical geography and geology and or entry to graduate employment Earth scientists find employment wish to focus on natural processes in the resources and geotechnical in oil, mining, engineering, water at the Earth's surface. You have a industries, or environmental and environmental fields as well wide choice of units and undertake geoscience. as in teaching, at universities and a dissertation typically in physical in government geological surveys. geography or geology, often field- Geology with Planetary Science based. This degree is run between Planetary scientists study the origin our School of Earth, Atmospheric and evolution of the planets and and Environmental Sciences (EASES) the other bodies in the solar and School of Environment and system. They try to answer Earth Sciences has Development. You may attend field questions like: "How did our solar courses run by both Schools. system form and evolve?" and excellent facilities, "How widespread is life in the resources and lectures. Geography and Geology universe?" To do this, they need to Obviously there is a lot of with a Year Abroad integrate ideas from diverse fields ‘‘hard work involved, but Ideal if you have a strong such as geosciences, physics, interest in physical geography chemistry and astronomy to there is a lot of fun to be and geology. Focus on the understand data from our had, too; the second year exploration of the solar system or natural processes that occur at field trips have provided the Earth's surface and acquire analysis of extraterrestrial materials. me with some great important skills in both In Year 1 you study more advanced geographical and geological maths, allowing you to complete memories. By the end, I’ll methods. Subject to maintaining physics-based astronomy options have a top notch degree the required academic standards, in Year 2 and more specialised and a choice of career you will spend a year abroad at units in Year 3. A planetary science one of our prestigious partner research project in your final year that will hopefully take universities We offer a substantial enables you to focus on the latest me to a hot country fee reduction for the year you developments in planetary science. spend abroad. Find out more at somewhere. www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/cour Fieldwork and placements ses/studyabr oad Dominic Mulroy Integral to your degree, fieldwork BSc Geochemistry allows you to apply skills learnt in Geology lectures and laboratories to real Accredited by the Geological settings. You develop observation Society of London and interpretation skills and Study all areas of earth sciences, techniques for investigating including plate tectonics, the origin specific problems. All tutor-led ’’ 97 Economics

Find out more... What you study www.manchester.ac.uk/ TYPICAL OFFER Economics BEconSc A-level: AAB socialsciences The Bachelor of Economic Science IB: 35 socialsciences@ma nchester.ac.uk t +44 (0)161 275 is a small, specialist Economics For entry requirements to specific 4470/2291/1473/4748 degree designed to provide you courses, see our course index at with specialist training and the back of this prospectus. knowledge in the study of economics. The course has a You need at least a grade A at The study of Economics is crucial strong quantitative (mathematics A-level Mathematics or equivalent to understanding the world and statistics) core and covers the for our BEconSc degree. around us, as a glance at the news reveals that many important core elements of micro- and issues facing societies across the macroeconomics. You will develop globe have a substantial economic the mathematical and related Economics BEconSc 3yrs dimension. quantitative skills necessary for UCAS Code L102 further study in economics, or for Many famous names in economics a career as a professional Economics BA (Econ) 3yrs have worked and studied at economist in the private or public Manchester, including two Nobel UCAS Code L100 sector. Laureates: Sir John Hicks, whose See also Economic and Social interpretation of Keynes General Over the degree, half of the Studies, History Theory is still considered the course units cover core material. dominant model taught to You can choose your remaining undergraduates at nearly all UK units from a wide range of universities; and Sir Arthur Lewis, options, including development WHY MANCHESTER? a development economist who economics, environmental • Long, distinguished history in became the first black person to economics, finance and economics, with a Chair ni receive a Nobel Prize outside the mathematics, allowing you to Political Economy founded at category of peace. Today, we are pursue your own additional Manchester in 1854 at the forefront of UK teaching interests. • Exclusive first-year study skills and research in economics, with Year 1: Study economics, and applied economics units an academic staff of nearly 50. mathematics and statistics and exclusive course units in Applied • Excellent technical capabilities Economics and Studying and transferable skills from Economics. You can develop your research-led teaching in Year 3 personal transferable skills, • Extensive choice of course units, including IT skills, and enhance due to the size of the Economics your quantitative and economic department and the significant understanding. Optional course diversity of interests of our staff units include languages, philosophy, other social sciences, or options in mathematics. Year 2: Study economics, econometrics and mathematical economics. You may take other options in Economics and/or enrol on our Manchester Leadership Programme (www.manches ter.ac.uk/mlp).

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Year 3: Study economics and an Career opportunities additional choice of course units Our graduates have pursued in econometrics and/or successful careers both in the mathematical economics, allowing public and private sectors, in a you to specialise in particular sub- wide range of national and Doing the BEconSc disciplines. We combine these international organisations such as course has given me the with a flexible choice of course JP MorganChase, KPMG, PwC, UK technical skills needed to units drawn from all areas of the Department of Health, and the be a career economist, economics discipline, including a NHS. A high proportion of ‘‘ collection of units in finance. This BEconSc graduates take as well a providing a good enables you to develop deep advantage of their specialised preparation for a specialist knowledge, so you can knowledge by going onto further graduate degree. Yet either pursue postgraduate postgraduate study in economics training in economics, finance, or and related areas. the course also gave me any related area, or enter directly much flexibility around into the job market upon graduation. the economics core. Free choices included applied When you graduate, your chosen course units (in your final year) economics, other social combine to give you a degree sciences, languages and specialisation in one of the history. following: • Economics Martin Kelly BEconSc Economics • Econometrics and Mathematical Economics • Financial Economics

Economics BA (Econ) Studying economics on this School of Social Sciences degree, the BA (Economi c and Social Studies), enables you to take a broad variety of subjects across the social ’’ sciences, including economics in your first year. You can then specialise in economics, or combine it with other subjects such as Finance, Politics, Business Studies, Sociology and Philosophy. See Economic and Social Studies.

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Economics BA (Econ) 3yrs Find out more... TYPICAL OFFER UCAS Code L100 www.manchester.ac.uk/ A-level: AAB socialsciences IB: 35 Economics and Criminology [email protected] BA (Econ) 3yrs t +44 (0)161 275 4470/ For entry requirements to specific 2291/1473/ 4748 courses, see our course index at UCAS Code LM19 the back of this prospectus. Economics and Finance BA (Econ) 3yrs UCAS Code LN13 Accounting and Finance BA (Econ) 3yrs Economics and Philosophy UCAS Code NN43 BA (SocSc i) 3yrs UCAS Code LV15 Business Studies BA (Econ) 3yrs Economics and Politics UCAS Code N100 BA (Econ) 3yrs UCAS Code LL12 Business Studies and Economics BA (Econ) 3yrs Economics and Sociology UCAS Code NL11 BA (Econ) 3yrs UCAS Code LL13 Business Studies and Politics BA (Econ) 3yrs Finance BA (Econ) 3yrs UCAS Code NL12 UCAS Code N300

Business Studies and Politics BA (Econ) 3yrs Sociology BA (Econ) 3yrs UCAS Code L244 UCAS Code NL13 See also Accounting and Finance, Development Studies Business Studies and BA (Econ) 3yrs Management, Economics, UCAS Code L900 Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, Social Development Studies and Anthropology, Sociology Economics BA (Econ) 3yrs UCAS Code LL91 WHY MANCHESTER? Development Studies • Maximum flexibility and choice and Politics BA (Econ) 3yrs in your preferred areas of study, with more than 260 course units UCAS Code LL92 available to chose from Development Studies and • Courses enhanced by Sociology BA (Econ) 3yrs researchers with “world- UCAS Code LL93 leading” and “internationally excellent” reputations

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Extensive choice Please note: you cannot specialise Year 2: Decide which area/s to Not everyone knows which areas in Accounting, Finance, or specialise in. You can take most they want to focus on when they Business Studies, either as a single of your course units in a single start at university. We have area or in combination with other area, within two, or possibly three therefore structured our course so areas, unless you apply for the areas. appropriate course code. that you do not have to decide Year 3: Specialise in one area, or which subject/s you will study in combine two areas of study. In most depth when you apply; What you study total, more than 260 course units instead, you take these crucial Year 1: Follow a broad are available, giving you decisions as you progress through programme of study that includes remarkable choice and the the three years of your course. economics, politics, the social opportunity to put together a sciences, and quantitative The BA Economics and Social programme of study that suits methods. The first year pathways Studies at Manchester offers you your particular interests. vary slightly depending on your the chance to specialise in diverse intended area of specialisation. range of subjects – see the Career opportunities For example, a student specialising relevant pages of this prospectus Due to the number of pathways in Accounting and Finance will for more information on the available through the degree, you study fewer course units in politics subjects: will have a wide variety of career and the social sciences than a opportunities in both the private • Accounting and Finance student specialising in Economics and the public sectors. Recent or Business Studies. You can also • Business Studies and graduates have pursued careers in take course units in computer Management management, accounting, applications and study skills. By consultancy, journalism, media, • Law (for Criminology) gaining a broad introduction to social work, teaching and law, at the social sciences, you will • Economics organisations such as Credit develop some of the basic Suisse, Merrill Lynch, HM Treasury, • Philosophy transferable and intellectual skills the BBC and the Welsh Assembly. • Politics that you will need as a student and in later life, as well as • Social Anthropology becoming more able to make an • Sociology informed choice of the subject areas you will study in Years 2 I picked the BA (Econ) When you apply, you must use and 3. one of the course codes listed course at Manchester above, but this does not restrict because I wanted to your eventual choice of specialisation/s. For exampl e, a explore my options at student who originally applied for ‘‘university and pick course Economics may eventually units from different combine Politics or Sociology with disciplines, and this Economics, or specialise in Development Studies. You may course was perfect for also choose combinations that are that. not listed here. Farah Nassef BA (Econ) Economics and Politics ’’ 101 Electrical, Electronic and Mechatronic Engineering

Electronic Engineering Find out more... TYPICAL OFFER with Industrial Experience www.manchester.ac.uk/eee GCE A-level MEng 5yrs [email protected] MEng: AAA at A-level including UCAS Code H615 t +44 (0)161 306 9351 Maths and either Physics, Electronics, or Further Maths. Mechatronic Engineering BEng 3yrs Our School of Electrical and BEng: AAB at A-level including UCAS Code HH36 Electronic Engineering is ideally Maths and either Physics, positioned to provide you with a Electronics, or Further Maths. Mechatronic Engineering sector-leading education in the IB: 37-35 MEng 4yrs subjects encompassed by electrical, electronic and UCAS Code HHH6 For entry requirements to specific mechatronic engineering. More courses, see our course index at than 60 academic staff specialise Mechatronic Engineering with the back of this prospectus. in subjects that range from Industrial Experience BEng 4yrs nanoeleconics through to power UCAS Code HH63 systems. Electrical and Electronic We are unique in the UK in Engineering BEng 3yrs Mechatronic Engineering with Industrial Experience MEng 5yrs combining proven excellence in UCAS Code H600 UCAS Code HHP3 both teaching and research (see: www.manchester.ac.uk/eee/rep Electrical and Electronic utation), which will influence Engineering MEng 4yrs potential employers when judging UCAS Code H605 the quality of your degree. Electrical and Electronic Industry recognises our Engineering with Industrial WHY MANCHESTER? achievements and we have teaching and research facilities Experience BEng 4yrs • 96% student satisfaction in the sponsored by companies including UCAS Code H606 National Student Survey (NSS), National Grid, Rolls-Royce and consistently one of the highest National Instruments (NI). Electrical and Electronic rankings for teaching quality for Engineering with Industrial any degree course in the UK As well as accrediting all our Experience MEng 5yrs undergraduate courses, the • Strong industry links that inform UCAS Code H601 Institution of Engineering and our course content and make Technology (IET) has given special you more employable Electronic Engineering commendation to our tutorial BEng 3yrs • Cutting-edge degrees informed scheme, Microcontroller and UCAS Code H610 by excellent research; we are Embedded Systems projects, ranked second in the UK for our industrial placements scheme, Electronic Engineering research quality Year 4 team project and the MEng 4yrs • Accreditation by the Institution of overall design of our course units. UCAS Code H614 Engineering and Technology (IET) They were particularly impressed by the strong sense of community Electronic Engineering • Excellent teaching facilities with in our School, as exemplified by with Industrial Experience modern lecture theatres, our extracurricular activities in BEng 4yrs dedicated computer suites and EEESoc and the Electronic Club. UCAS Code H613 well-equipped teaching laboratories

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Funding Two of the major sustainability Electrical and Electronic Many funding opportunities are challenges facing the world today Engineering open to our students, including are food security and energy, in The use of electricity is fundamental those available from: the Power the context of climate change and to modern life and, without a Academy, UK Electronics Skills diminishing resources. These are secure supply, society in its current Foundation (UKESF), BP, National key research themes for us, which form would collapse. Consequently, Instruments, IET and Procter and influence our teaching, particularly the importance of efficient and Gamble. in project work. sustainable generation, secure distribution, and intelligent user For more information, see Our taught course units, which devices cannot be overstated. This www.manchester.ac.uk/eee/ cover the range of the subject will be a lifetime challenge facing undergraduate/funding area, include laboratory and design content, as well as lectures the next generation as traditional sources of energy will run out and What you study and tutorials. new ways of generating, To ensure that we produce For more information, see distributing and using electricity graduates prized by industry, we www.manchester.ac.uk/eee/ must be sought. Electrical and take guidance from our Industrial undergraduate/courses electronic engineers have a vital Advisory Group: a forum where role in addressing this challenge. industry informs our School of its Flexible degrees In transport, electrical systems are vision for the future and advises The first three semesters of our increasingly being used in electric us on what they expect from top courses are common, allowing vehicles (road and rail), hybrid graduates. As a result of this you to switch between them at drives (part electric motor, part collaboration, our courses have a any time up to the end of the first internal com bustion engine), strong practical element, using semester in your second year. You engine management electronics, laboratory sessions and project can also choose between MEng or safety systems, on-board work to bring theory to life. BEng degree courses. entertainment and navigation Year 1: Build a microcontroller systems. development system – an essential Year in industry technology in this subject. All of our degree courses can be Graduates of this course will be able to contribute fully in the Year 2: Apply your microcontroller taken with an assessed year in industry (see course list) and our fields of: power systems analysis development syste m in a team- and protection; efficient and clean based Embedded Systems Project. industrial placement courses manager will help you find a power generation; smart grids; You will learn how electronics can renewable energy schemes; power add intelligence to many different suitable placement. A year in industry will develop your electronics; sophisticated control systems, the example used being systems; communications; and an autonomous system. business, team-working and other transferable skills, all of which are embedded computer systems. Year 3: Continue the practical sought after by graduate element with a substantial employers. It can be accredited by Electronic Engineering individual project that gives you the IET towards the training Today, and in the future, we look the opportunity to put theory into required for attaining Chartered to electronics to provide solutions practice. Engineer status. Industrial for complex problems. Take the Year 4: Devote 50% of your time experience will increase your mobile phone: a very sophisticated to a team project with a strong awareness of the broad range of computer and communications research content and industrial careers on offer and guide your system that links to a worldwide input. This will have a substantial choice of option subjects. network of antennas, allowing it impact on your employability. to connect to any other mobile or landline, as well as to the internet.

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Modern electronics requires an the sensors have to be interpreted Our graduates have excelled in a understanding of fundamental and the appropriate signals sent vast range of careers, including: analogue and digital circuits to out to the actuators to perform avionics, banking and commerce, enable the design of elements the required operation. A good b iomedical electronics, sustainable that can be connected together to understanding of feedback control energy, robotics and electric make systems, which serve as the is also required to be able to make vehicles. Others have successfully modular blocks for bigger, more changes in the system from one progressed to postgraduate study. complex systems. steady position to another without oscillations or unpredictable We live in an information age that movements. You will learn the requires electronics and digital techniques necessary for the signal processing systems (for design and implementation of images, audio and other signals). I have really enjoyed such intelligent mechatronic Technological developments in systems. the past three years at communications include concurrent processing (to allow Graduates of this course will be Manchester and it now the manipulation of the massive able to contribute fully in the feels like home. I continue amounts of data), data fields of: robotics; actuators; ‘‘to enjoy the course and networking and digital sensors and instrumentation; look forward to the communication systems for both autonomous systems; power local distribution and across the electronics; mechatronic analysis challenges it is going to Internet. and design; control; embedded bring in the future. computer systems; and production Graduates of this course will be engineeri ng. able to contribute fully in the Maria McKavanagh fields of: microelectronics; mobile MEng Electronic Engineering and wireless communications; Career opportunities smart grids; digital signal Are you interested in enabling processing; systems engineering; aeroplanes to fly, developing software design; concurrent sustainable energy networks, systems; embedded computer improving crop yields? Would you systems; networking; and like to produce a winning Formula analogue circuits and systems. One racing car, improve medical diagnostic equipment, make Mechatronic Engineering computer games more exciting? Would you like to advance mobile Mechatronics is the marriage of communication systems, reduce ’’ mechanical engineering with smart the emissions responsible for electronics and software, and is global warming, make life more vital to subjects such as industrial rewarding and sustainable? If so, automation and robotics. then our degree courses are for To interact with an object, a you. system must know where the In addition to subject-specific skills object is, be able to move the and knowledge, you will acquire object and place it in the required skills such as logical thinking, new position. The electroni cs team working, report writing, therefore require information from analysis, presentations, sensors that can detect position, programming and a high level of orientation, and visual or audio numeracy. This will open a wide signals. The electrical inputs from range of career opportunities.

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related disciplines within our • Chemistry Faculty of Engineering and TYPICAL OFFER • Computer Science Students are accepted from a Physical Sciences, with one of our wide range of backgrounds. Each foundation year courses. • Earth Sciences application is considered • Mathematics individually. What you study You study the mathematics, • Physics and Astronomy For entry requirements to specific physics and chemistry (where • Textile Technology (see Textiles) courses, see our course index at appropriate) essential for securing the back of this prospectus. success in the targeted degree Find out more about these subject courses. You also study academic areas in the relevant pages of this skills and information and prospectus. Engineering with an communications technology (ICT), You may discuss the different Integrated Foundation Year developing the transferable skills courses, or your suitability for 4/5yrs necessary for undergraduate them, with our Foundation UCAS Code H108 study, and undertake a project in Studies Office, or the relevant the discipline of your choice. admissions tutor. You will also Science with an Integrated receive further advice during the Foundation Year 4/5yrs Progression onto a degree Integrated Foundation Year. UCAS Code F008 After your foundation year, provided you meet the progression criteria of your chosen WHY MANCHESTER? School, successful completion of • Teaching carried out on the the Engineering with an I am a man of big dreams, Integrated Foundation Year course University campus by Univers ity and developing the staff with considerable guarantees progression onto the experience of delivering a first year of an appropriate degree motivation to follow them curriculum designed for a course chosen from: is no easy feat. The foundation year purpose • Aerospace Engineering ‘‘University’s history of • Courses designed to maximise • Chemical Engineering great scientists and Nobel your achievement and fully prepare you for degree study in • Civil Engineering Prize winners provide that engineering or science • Electrical, Electronic and motivation to discover, • Long, distinguished history in Mechatronic Engineering revolutionise and excel in engineering and science • Materials Science your field, but you also education and research • Mechanical Engineering meet people from all over • Petroleum Engineering (see the world who share your Find out more... Earth Sciences) energy and www.foundationstudies.eps.ma Provided you meet the progression determination. nchester.ac.uk criteria of your chosen School, [email protected] successful completion of the Haseeb Abbasi t +44 (0)161 306 4742 Science with an Integrated Engineering with an Integrated Foundation Year course Foundation Year Prepare for study on degree guarantees progression onto the courses in engineering and first year of an appropriate degree associated disciplines, or science- course chosen from: ’’ 105 STUDY ABROAD English Literature opportunities and American Studies

Find out more... What you study TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/english English Litera ture A-level: AAA-ABB [email protected] Enjoy access to the full range of IB: 33-37 t +44 (0)161 275 3107 English studies. Alongside the For entry requirements to specific The most recent Research traditional range of English courses, see our course index at Assessment Exercise ranked us as literature – from the Anglo-Saxon the back of this prospectus. the second highest English and period to the present day – you American Studies department in may study American, Irish and the United Kingdom. Our research post-colonial literatures, as well as excellence informs our teaching cultural theory, creative writing, American Studies BA 3yrs and our students enjoy gender studies, and film. UCAS Code T701 masterclasses taught by global leaders in their fields, on subjects Year 1: Discover the analytical, English Literature BA 3yrs from Shakespeare to critical, and theoretical skills that UCAS Code Q320 contemporary fiction, as well as you will need to study English t alks by world-famous writers at literature at de gree level, while English Literature and the Centre for New Writing, such also sampling a broad range of American Studies BA 3yrs as Jeanette Winterson (our historical periods and genres. UCAS Code QT37 recently appointed Professor of Year 2: Concentrate on exploring Creative Writing), Hilary Mantel, literature in its social and historical English Literature and Seamus Heaney and Neil Gaiman. contexts. You have the Creative Writing BA 3yrs Our University Library includes opportunity both to study UCAS Code Q3W8 among its extensive holdings Medieval, early modern, 18th and renowned collections in the 19th century literatures, and to History and American Studies medieval, Victorian and American consider the role of gender, BA 3yrs literary fields, as well as the sexuality and national identity in literary studies. UCAS Code VT17 archive material of the Manchester Poetry Centre. Several Year 3: Develop your own See also Drama and Engl ish major researc h databases are interests by choosing from a wide Literature, Linguistics and English dedicated to topics such as the ra nge of specialist options, all Language, Art History and Visual African American Experience, the taught by experts in the field. Studies, Modern Languages. 19th century US press, and Currently we offer more than 20 American religion. Our English options in areas ranging from and American Studies film library Medieval poetry to futuristic WHY MANCHESTER? is another substantial resource. fictions; single author studies such • One of the UK’s largest Our lively, student-run English as Beckett and modernity and DH communities of English and Literature and American Studies Lawrence; generic course units American Studies scholars, with societies offer social and such as British Romanticism; an outstanding research record intellectual entertainment through thematic units such as European writing and the Third Reich, and • Direct access to internationally readings, talks, parties, theatre crime and law in 18th and 19th famous writers and researchers visits and plays. century literature; plus our • Courses informed by research offeri ngs in postcolonial literature excellence and creative writing. The compulsory long essay also gives • Excellent, comprehensive range you a chance to develop your own of relevant library resources area of expertise.

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American Studies American Studies Study the history, literature, film, with English or with History politics and popular culture of Follow a similar pattern to the America. American Studies course, except that half of your degree is in American Studies has Year 1: Gain a solid grounding in English Literature or in History. allowed me to critically debates about the character, Compulsory introductory course nature and purpose of America, analyse what is perhaps units in Year 1, the opportunity to and receive a broad introduction study in North America in Year 2, the most powerful to American history, literature and ‘‘ and various interdisciplinary country in the world by culture. courses in Year 3 complement studying its history, Year 2: You could study at a many of the options and patterns politics and literature… North American university; our of study outlined above. In Years 2 exchange partners span the and 3, you may also opt to take I have found each course continent, from the University of more credits in one part of the unit that I've studied California, to the Univer sity of degree, adopting a major/minor fascinating and can Massachusetts. You also take profile to reflect your interests. From Jamestown to James Brown, genuinely say I've fully an innovative interdisciplinary English Literature enjoyed my whole degree. course unit on the African- with Creative Writing American experience, and choose Follow a similar pattern to the Mikaila Nichols other units in American literature, English Literature and American BA American Studies film and history. Studies courses, except that a Year 3: A compulsory long essay third of your degree is in Creative and choice of five units that reflect Writing. Compulsory introductory the research expertise of the course units in Year 1 on different American Studies staff. These may genres will be followed by include units on California, slavery, intensive workshop courses in the civil rights and black power Years 2 and 3 with writers based movements, southern literature, in our Centre for New Writing. conspiracy culture, film and politics, American masculinities, Career opportunities ’’ African-American writing, hip-hop Our graduates take up careers in and Hollywood. journalism, accountancy, law, banking, advertising, business management, education, computing, the media, and the civil service.

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Find out more What you study TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/education Individual course units are varied. A-level: ABB-BBB [email protected] Units currently available include: IB: 36-31 t +44 (0)161 275 5964 Key Themes in Education, Pronunciation and Grammar, For entry requirements to specific Social Justice in Education (Year courses, see our course index at This unique undergradua te course 1); Words and Context, the back of this prospectus. focuses specifically on English Psychology of Learning, Language, language and its connections with Education and Society (Year 2); education. Our deliberately limited Classroom Communication and English Language for student intake offers you close Learning, Language Acquisition, Education BA 3yrs staff-student relationships, small- Bilingualism (Year 3). group teaching and guided, UCAS Code X3Q1 In half of Year 2 and throughout one-to-one supervision. Year 3, most of your course units You may seek a career in school are optional, allowing you to tailor WHY MANCHESTER? teaching, or in a related vocation your curriculum according to your such as TESOL (Teaching of English own interests and career • A solid foundation for a as a Second or Other Language), aspirations. You also undertake a teaching career within various speech therapy, special research report in Year 2 and a sectors – eg educational needs and adult final-year dissertation. primary/secondary/adult literacy. Maybe you have a strong education, workplace learning, interest in how people learn: TESOL Placement culturally, socially, or Gain invaluable experience in a • Study placements for excellent psychologically. Or perhaps you work setting via your research work experience opportunities love studying contemporary project, helping you to discover English language and want to find • 100% student satisfa ction in the which kind of career you wish to out how it can be applied across a National Student Survey (2012) enter, make the contacts to get range of real-world settings. your foot in the door, and get an • Writing centre (Write Away) Whatever your interests, we have early start in conducting and enables feedback on essay drafts the course units to match. writing up your own personal in progress We look for students who are research. Many of our graduates • Small year group (up to 25 curious to learn more about issues are now employed by the students) provides a positive and surrounding English language use, company or organisation at which supportive learning environment th e nature of spoken and written the y undertook their placement. • Take up to 20% of your degree communication, educational Some students have gained in units anywhere within our issues, and how language reflects experience working in local Faculty of Humanities and impacts upon wider society schools or colleges. Some and culture. You will explore the collected data from prisoners psychology and sociology of learning literacy skills. Others have learning, as well as examine public travelled the globe participating in policy in relation to issues of local projects (eg building a new access, fairness and social justice. school for children in Ghana), or examining unusual teaching practices (eg the use of music in New Zealand schools to engage autistic children).

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Career opportunities We take your employability very seriously. Aside from the vocational aspects of the research project, our compulsory course I flew to Africa and unit on Career Management observed teaching involves guest lectures from methods in a Gambian people in all sorts of occupations. school for five weeks, We also hold regular ‘Looking ‘‘ Forward' days, in which recent while teaching five- to graduates return to tell current 18-year-olds. This once- students what they're up to. in-a-lifetime trip not only The skills you develop, such as allowed me to develop as written and oral communi cation, team working techniques and an individual, but also intercultural awareness, are useful distinguished me from across a variety of careers. Our other potential PGCE graduates also demonstrate the ability and initiative required to candidates. design and manage a project with a high degree of autonomy, Laura Lovett qualities that will be highly prized BA English Language in any workplace. for Education Progression to PGCE is common. Our University runs PGCE programmes at both primary and secondary level, described as “outstandi ng” by Ofsted. ’’

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Environmental science is the study What you study TYPICAL OFFER of how physical, chemical, and Environmental Science A-level: AAB – ABB biological processes maintain and Study three fundamental scientific IB: 35-33 interact with life, and how humans affect nature. As well as strands – biosciences, geosciences For entry requirements to specific the natural sciences, social and environmental physics – courses, see our course index at sciences give insights into human through all three years of your the back of this prospectus. behaviour and how our social, degree. Bioscience, applied to key political and economic institutions ecosystems, looks at advances in impact on environmental quality. applied environmental biology, microbiology and geomicrobiology Environmental Science A science-based understanding of in order to understand impacts on BSc 3yrs our environment is vital to ensure the biosphere brought about by UCAS Code F850 that human needs are met in a sustainable way, so everyone will changing environmental have access to clean water, clean conditions. Geoscience, applied to Environmental Science Earth processes, uses concepts with a Year Abroad BSc 4yrs air, and the earth resources required for agriculture and and examples from geochemistry, UCAS Code F750 industrial activity. biochemistry and mineralogy in order to develop a quantitative Environmental Science with Based in our School of Earth, understanding of environmental a Year in Industry BSc 4yrs Atmospheric and Environmental chemistry. Environmental physics, UCAS Code F75Z Sciences, this multidisciplinary applied to Earth as a system, uses degree also includes important atmospheric physics and contributions from other Schools, geophysics to explain how physics particularly Life Sciences, and principles may be applied to WHY MANCHESTER? Environment, Education and environmental science. • One of the largest centres for Development. We offer a friendly earth and environmental atmosphere and stimulating These three strands are woven teaching in the UK learning environment, with together by integrative course units via tutori als, field courses, • Divers e exciting fieldwork welcoming, enthusiastic staff and strong exper tise over many areas. and project-based learning. opportunities, subsidised by the Course content draws on University, as part of your course Our course provides training for interdisciplinary research expertise • Cutting-edge research that scientists, plus an awareness of across our School, and entails informs our taught courses environmental problems and regular contact with experts, solutions. Communication skills including staff and academic • Four-year degree options enable are a key component. Fieldwork is visitors from outside the you to take a year abroad or in also important: you undertake University. We tailor our industry relevant, integrated and exciting curriculum towards job prospects, subsidised fieldwork in each of using input from an industrial your three years. You may also board of environmental Find out more... take extra fieldwork options in employers. such places as the French Alps, www.manchester.ac.uk/seaes Ecuador, Greece and South Africa. [email protected] t +44 (0)161 275 0776

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You may interact with students Year in Industry from other disciplines on Apply your environmental science University-wide course units, such understanding in a professional as sustainability and leadership, environment by working for a year and take selected humanities in an organisation in the sector. The annual field trips are course units in areas such as You develop business skills and an integral part of the planning and economics, where learn directly which aspects of a course, as they have environmental concerns are of career are the most rewarding to allowed me to gain increasing importance. An you personally. We offer you help ‘‘ optional Manchester Advanced in identifying a suitable host valuable scientific Technology Enterprise unit teaches organisation, and support through surveying skills and put you skills to set up your own your placement by regular contact the theory I learnt in class business. with a member of academic staff. The year is assessed via an online into practice. Year Abroad reflective journal that you Expand your knowledge and maintain during your placement. Sarah Perry BSc Environmental Science unde rstanding of environmental See a full list of course units: science by studying in a different http://bit.ly/ruN8Fp culture and region of the Earth, at one of our University's partner Career opportunities institutions around the world. You Our Environmental Science degree follow course units that can lead to empl oyment complement those available in opportunities in the commercial, Manchester, and author a journal industrial, government and reflecting on insights that you educational sectors, as well as gain both from your studies and providing the foundation required from engagement with the for further postgraduate study in ’’ citizens of the host country. When environmental science and related you return, you will give a seminar science-based disciplines. You to Year 2 students explaining what could find employment in a you learned from your time diverse range of roles, including as abroad. The year is assessed via a consultant, manager, or scientist your performance in exams at the working in the field or laboratory. host institution, your reflective journal and your seminar. Our graduates have gone on to successful , high profile careers in the environmental and energy industries, and in academia.

111 Qing-Jun Meng researches biological clocks and their role in age-related disease. He came to Manchester from China in 2003.

Manchester made me... feel welcome

I studied medicine in China and did my The research environment in PhD in Aviation Medicine and Manchester is just excellent. It’s a Aerospace Physiology. I got interested in fantastic environment with great faculty jet lag and body clocks when I was support. It's a nurturing environment that’s teaching pilots and astronautical medical helped me progress so far. The key to officers. successful research is collaboration, and we’re in a perfect place to work I came to Manchester because of its collaboratively and take advantage of what reputation for research into biological each partner has. We're ranked very highly timing. We’re researching how changes in within the country – top three in Life the body’s circadian rhythm during ageing Sciences. cause disease. We know that circadian rhythms, our body clocks, deteriorate with We have the best teachers. We use the age and this contributes to many diseases. most up-to-date material in lectures and We’re looking at osteoarthritis, which is a the techniques and experiments are well known age-related disease. We’re also cutting edge. Students go right to the researching breast cancer because we forefront of the field and are in the lab already know that shift workers have much with the best supervisors by their side. higher risk compared to people with normal working hours. Studying circadian rhythm and clock genes is a whole new way of looking at and treating disease. I'm very hopeful we can target body clocks to alleviate symptoms, and help cure and prevent disease, and I’m looking forward to taking the findings of the laboratories to the hospital bedside.

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“I found the move from China very smooth. Manchester is a truly multicultural city. It welcomes nationals from different countries. If you grasp the English language and you have strong motivation, that’s all you need.”

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Find out more... Core language course units are TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/alc complemented by choices from a A-level: ABB-BBB [email protected] wide range of other subjects, IB: 35-31 t +44 (0)161 275 3211 including the following: culture, society, literature, linguistics, For candidates with appropriate For entry requirements to specific history, art and cinema related to qualifications, our courses in courses, see our course index at your main language; world and European Studies and a Modern the back of this prospectus. European politics; economics; Language offer you an alternative economic, social, or political approach to language studies at history; sociology or social European Studies and a Modern undergraduate level. They anthropology; and a wide range Language (French) BA 4yrs encourage you to develop a of additional languages. UCAS Code RR19 problem-solving approach to the real world, recognising that See Modern Languages. European Studies and a Modern contemporary European problems Language (German) BA 4yrs and issues cannot be broken UCAS Code RR29 down into neat academic disciplines. European Studies and a Modern I wanted to further my Language (Italian) BA 4yrs What you study UCAS Code RR39 knowledge of the These courses have at their centre European Studies and a the principal elements of a Single European Union, yet the Modern Language Honours language course course itself provides (Portuguese) BA 4yrs combined with core units in ‘‘much more than just that. UCAS Code RR59 politics, focusing on contemporary Europe and the European Union. It’s amazing because you European Studies and a You will develop your knowledge get to study not only Modern Language (Russian) of Europe and, in particular, of politics, but also BA 4yrs your chosen language and culture. UCAS Code RR97 sociology, history, You also have a choice of further economics and a modern European Studies and a Modern units in politics, or course units in economics, history, or sociology. A language as well. Language (Spanish) BA 4yrs further language can also be UCAS Code RR49 studied. These choices widen in Victor Badilas See also Modern Languages. the second and final years of the BA European Studies and course, allowing you to pursue Modern Language (German) your particular interests. WHY MANCHESTER? • The chance to place your We will equip you with strong language studies within the analytical skills, an informed wider context of European and understanding of contemporary general politics European developments, and written and oral competence in • Diverse choice of subjects one major Eur opean language to complementary to your degree level. language studies, from literature to political history ’’ • Year abroad in a country where your chosen language is spoken

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develop various linguistic skills: TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? speaking and writing accurate A-level: AAB-ABB • One of the largest and oldest French; understanding and analysing IB: 36-33 centres in the UK for French and audio-visual and written material; Francophone studies using different registers; speaking to For entry requirements to specific a group with confidence; translating courses, see our course index at • Exceptionally wide range of with appropriate sensitivity; and the back of this prospectus. course units, from the medieval mastering the techniques of to the contemporary period argument in written French. English Language and French • Renowned expertise in visual A lively student-run French Society BA 4yrs cultures of the French-speaking organises social events throughout world UCAS Code QR31 the year, including trips to France. • Teaching by international and We also enjoy a close re lationship English Literature and a Modern national specialists with with the Manchester branch of Language (French) BA 4yrs outstanding scholarship and the Alliance Française, and with UCAS Code RQ13 research activities the independent arts and cinema centre and the French and Linguistics BA 4yrs • Ye ar 3 spent abroad in a French- (which hosts the UCAS Code RQ11 speaking country annual French play during the Palaver Language Festival). French and Screen Studies BA 4yrs Find out more... What you study UCAS Code RW16 www.manchester.ac.uk/alc Years 1 and 2: Reinforce your French Studies BA 4yrs [email protected] skills of linguistic acquisition and independent learning via core UCAS Code R110 t +44 (0)161 275 3211 language course units, including History and French BA 4yrs intensive small-group teaching UCAS Code VR11 Firmly committed to high quality supported by independent language teaching, we are fortunate language learning tasks. to have many native speakers of History of Art and a Modern Year 3: Spend the year in a French- French among our staff; individuals Language (French) BA 4yrs speaking country, where you can who, as part of a dedicated UCAS Code RV13 complete a work placement, work language teaching team, will enable as a British Council English Modern Language and you to practise, extend and refine Language Assistant, or study at one Business and Management your French language skills. of our many partner universities (French) BA 4yrs You ha ve around 15 hours per (Paris, Lille, Rennes, Lyon, Poitiers, UCAS Code NR11 week of scheduled learning Avignon, Toulouse, Brussels, French may also be studied at activities, such as lectures, Geneva, Grenoble, Quebec, Honours level with another seminars, language work, Martinique and La Réunion). coursework surgeries and revision modern language (Arabic, Year 4: Further develop your sessions, plus diverse online Chinese, German, Hebrew, Italian, awareness of correct idiomatic and materials specially devised to help Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or grammatical usage in written and you in your studies. Spanish) – see Modern Languages. spoken French, and strengthen See also European Studies, Art By engaging in discussions and your skills of translation between History and Visual Studies, Life delivering regular presentations in French and English. seminars, you will improve your Sciences, Linguistics and English You can, for example, study units communication skills. Our core Language, Mathematics. in: French and Francophone language teaching enables you to 115 French STUDY ABROAD opportunities

cinema and photography; art; English Literature and a Francophone culture, society, music; linguistics and translation Modern Language (French) literature, linguistics, history, art, studies; aspects of medieval and Core French language course units thought, and cinema. renaissance society and culture; are complemented by a huge the evolution of literary and visual range of other subjects, including Modern Language and texts; theatre and performance; areas of English language, cultural Business and Management history and thought; gender and theory, and literature, and of (French) sexuality; post-colonialism; and French and Francophone culture, Core French language course units multiculturalism. society, literature, linguistics, are complemented by units history, thought, art, and cinema. covering aspects of French and Single Honours degree Several French units are taught in Francophone culture, society, French. literature, linguistics, history, art, French Studies photography and cinema. You Gain a thorough grounding in the French and Screen Studies also study aspects of language, society and culture of Combine the study of French management, economics, finance, the French-speaking world. Core language and French and accounting and European and language course units – including Francophone culture, society, international issues in business. comprehension, translation, literature, linguistics, history, grammar and oral work with native thought and art, with the study of speakers – are complemented by core course units in understanding an unusually wide range of film, its history and prehistory, and subjects, including French culture, its development across other society, literature, linguistics, I’ve studied media (eg television, DVD, history, thought, art, photography, internet distributi on). impressionism, theatre, cinema and performance. medieval poetry, In your first two years, you can History and French Dadaism, colonialism, also study one or two course units Core French language course units ‘‘phonetics, pragmatics, in another subject (free-choice are complemented by other units options) chosen from a very wide on diverse subjects, including the Enlightenment, range within our Faculty of aspects of cultural, political, social, biometrics, social realism, Humanities. economic, and military history, World War II, the French from ancient times to the current Joint Honours degrees century; and French and New Wave, comedy and In all degree courses below, you Francophone culture, society, tragedy – and lived in study both subjects equally in Year literature, linguistics, history, and Quebec. All thanks to 1, then, in subsequent years, you cinema. can maintain this balance, or French at The University devote more weight to one subject. History of Art and a Modern of Manchester. What else Language (French) could I have asked for? English Language and French Gain a comprehensive grounding Course units in the structure, in both the history of art and Jack Stokes history and varieties of English are language and culture in the BA French Studies complemented by units in general French-speaking world. Core linguistics and sociolinguistics. French language course units are Core Frenc h language units are complemented by numerous other complemented by units in French units covering aspects of art from and Francophone culture, society, around the world, and art-related literature, linguistics, history, thought, from Ancient Greece to thought, art and cinema. the present; and French and 116 ’’ ABCDEF G STUDY ABROAD opportunities Geography

What you study TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? • One of the best-equipped Geography Four-year courses universities at which to study We offer both a BA (Hons) and A-level: AAA geography in Europe BSc (Hons) in Geography. Entry IB: 36 requirements, curriculum and • Course that is unique in the Three-year courses career opportunities associated degree of flexibility it offers you A-level: AAB with each are the same. You begin to structure your own IB: 35 with course units in three main programme of study areas: human geography, people For entry requirements to specific • Several field courses across all and environment, and physical courses, see our course index at fields of study enable you to learn geography. You have increasing the back of this prospectus. and meet with staff and students flexibility as you progress, so that in an informal atmosphere by the final year you choose three Geography BA 3yrs from about 12 course units. UCAS Code L700 • Study abroa d option for a year, and associated dissertation work Course units cover diverse Geography BSc 3yrs interests and issues in geography: UCAS Code F802 economic, cultural, political, medical, urban and historical Geography with International Find out more... geography; ecolo gy; hydrology; Study BA 4yrs www.manchester.ac.uk/geography palaeo environments; UCAS Code LF78 [email protected] geoarchaeology; glaciology; t +44 (0)161 275 0969 Geography with International climatology; geomorphology; Study BSc 4yrs remote sensing; and geographical information systems and science. UCAS Code FL87 Our teaching and research Geography interests cover most aspects of Geography with (Integrated Masters) MGeog geography, while our extensive International Study 4yrs facilities include map and book Study abroad in Year 3 at a UCAS Code F800 libraries, audiovisual equipment, partner university in various laboratories and computer clusters European countries, or in See also Environmental Science, with networked PCs and internet Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Earth Sciences, Planning access. Hong Kong, Singapore, or the Each course has its ow n induction USA. Dissertation work is usually to help you settle in; for example, related to this period of study. Single Honours students begin their degree with a three-day field Geography Integrated course in the Lake District. You Masters (MGeog) also get to know your fellow Offered for the first time this year, students better through social our exciting new course enables events organised by the you to take the basic Geography Manchester University course plus a specialist fourth year Geographical Society (MUGS). leading to a Master of Geography qualification. Unlike freestanding master’s courses, all four years of this course are eligible for student loan support.

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In Year 4, you complete a year- long research project, choose four course units from a wide choice and take part in a seminar and study programme that teaches I’ve loved studying you to evaluate geographical Geography at research and its application in Manchester. A wide policy, professional and variety of course units is commercial spheres. Beyond the ‘‘ two core units, there are no on offer, with lecturers at restrictions on choice, so you can the cutting edge of tailor the programme to your own requirements. Each option is research. You can study taught by researc hers actively anything from rivers and working in the field, so you will climate change to explore and engage with cutting- edge geographical research. globalisation and politics, so there's something for An alternative version of the MGeog, an MGeog with Planning everyone. degree, has recently also been approved by the University. See Stephanie Dylak Planning for details. BSc Geography

Career opportunities Surveys show that geography graduates are very employable. You will offer a range of analytical techniques, including literacy, numera cy and ICT ability, as well as skills in presentation, problem- solving and communication. Some of our graduates use ’’ geographical skills directly in their careers, such as in environmental work, regeneration, planning, or education. Many others follow a less specialist path in areas such as management, advertising, the media, social services, finance and the legal profession. You could also do postgraduate study, or vocational training.

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level or pos t A-level with Arabic, You’ll also have access to rich TYPICAL OFFER Chinese, French, Hebrew, Italian, resources: the holdings of our A-level: AAB-BBB Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or University Library are outstanding IB: 36-31 Spanish – see Modern Languages. in all areas of German studies. For entry requirements to specific We have Erasmus exchanges with courses, see our course index at the universities of Basel, Berlin, the back of this prospectus. WHY MANCHESTER? Freiburg, Hamburg, Heidelberg, • International reputation as a Innsbruck and Leipzig, and leading British centre for sponsor students to work as English Language German studies, balancing English language assistants in and German BA 4yrs tradition and innovation schools during the time that is UCAS Code QR32 spent in a German-speaking • Broad range of expertise, country. English Literature and including history, politics, film a Modern Language (German) and cultural studies, as well as We maintain a lively research culture through regular research BA 4yrs linguistics and literature seminars and academic UCAS Code RQ23 • Exceptional range of courses confere nces. Interdisciplinary mirroring the vitality and research includes work on culture European Studies and diversity of German culture German BA 4 yrs and dictatorship, dialects and UCAS Code RR29 • On-campus branch of the language obsolescence, diaspora Goethe-Institut’s Examination and minority cultures, Holocaust German and Linguistics BA 4yrs Centre, whose qualifications we studies, German art and UCAS Code RQ21 are accredited to offer architecture, and aspects of German culture from the 19th • Exceptional freedom and German and Screen Studies century to the present day. flexibility to choose course units BA 4yrs Our German Society is one of the UCAS Code RW26 that interest you liveliest student societies in the German Studies BA 4yrs Faculty and maintains a regular UCAS Code R210 programme of events, including Find out more... the Stammtisch, p arties, film History and German BA 4yrs www.manchester.ac.uk/alc nights and theatre trips; the UCAS Code VR12 [email protected] highlight is the annual German t +44 (0)161 275 3211 play at the Contact Theatre on History of Art and a Modern You are in regular contact with campus. A recent Brecht Language (German) BA 4yrs German native speakers from the production was taken to the UCAS Code RV23 start of your cours e, thanks to Edinburgh Festival, and in 2011 Manchester’s working partnership Manchester hosted the intervarsity Modern Language and with the DAAD (German football tournament, the Business and Management Academic Exchange Service) and ‘Sauerkraut Cup’. (German) BA 4yrs the Austrian Cultural Institute. As UCAS Code NR12 well as helping you to develop What you study See also European Studies, your oral and written skills In all courses, you have around Linguistics and English Language, (including German for business 15 hours per week of scheduled Modern Languages. German may purposes), our native speakers learning activities, such as also be studied with Life Sciences keep you abreast of political, lectures, seminars, language work, and Mathematics. You may also social and cultural affairs in the coursework 'surgeries' and study German from beginners' German-speaking countries. revision sessions.

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German Studies Modern Language and German and Screen Studies Gain a thorough grounding in Business and Management Study German language, culture, German language and culture via (German) society, literature, linguistics, core language course units – Combine German language study history, thought and art, with core including oral work, with units covering aspects of course units in unde rstanding film, comprehension, translation and German culture, society, literature, its history and pre-history, and its grammar with native speakers – linguistics, history, art, and development across other media complemented by diverse subjects cinema. You also study aspects of (eg television, DVD, internet such as German culture, society, management, economics, finance, distribution). literature, linguistics, history, art accounting and international In Year 1, you study both subjects and cinema. Language teaching issues in b usiness. equally; in later years, you can takes place in German. In Year 1, you study both subjects maintain this balance, or devote equally; in later years, you can In Years 1 and 2, you may study more weight to one subject. You maintain this balance, or devote one or two course units in another spend Year 3 in a German- more weight to German. You subject (free choice options), which speaking country. spend Year 3 in a German- can include a second language. speaking country. See Modern Languages. English Literature and a Modern Language (German) English Language and German Study the structure, history and Combine core German language varieties of English alongside study with German units in general linguistics and socio- Being taught by lecturers culture, society, literature, linguistics, combined with core linguistics, history, art and cinema, language units in German and who are among the best and the broadly chronological various other units in German in their fields, having a study of literature, from the Anglo culture, society, lite rature, brilliant year abroad in Saxon period to the present day. linguistics, history, art and cinema. ‘‘Berlin, and generally being In Year 1, you study both subjects In Year 1, you study both subjects equally; in later years, you can equally; in later years, you can part of such a friendly and mainta in this equal weighting, or maintain this balance, or devote supportive department devote more weight to one more weight to one subject. You have made my time subject. You spend Year 3 in a spend Year 3 in a German- German-speaking country. speaking country. studying German at Manchester a fantastic History of Art and a Modern History and German experience. Language (German) Combine German language study Combine German language study with units on very diverse subjects, Abbie Cresswell with numerous other units including aspects of cultural, BA History and German covering aspects of European and political, social, economic, and North American art, and art- military history, from ancient times related thought, from Ancient to the 21st century, and German Greece to the present; and culture, society, literature, German culture, society, literature, linguistics, history and cinema. linguistics, history, art, and cinema. In Year 1, you study both subjects In Year 1, you study both subjects equally; in later years, you can equally; in later years, you can maintain this balance, or devote maintain this balance, or devote more weight to German. You more weight to one subject. spend Year 3 in a German-speaking ’’ country. 120 ABCDEFG H STUDY ABROAD opportunities History

Our learning environment is an TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? exciting one, designed to foster MHist and History • One of the largest a wide range of study skills and (Single Honours) concentrations of history experts research techniques. You are A-level: AAA/AAB in the country, and a wide supported by academic advisors, IB: 37 variety of courses student mentors and a helpful, highly efficient administrative • Scholarship of international Politics and Modern History staff, and will also benefit from standing, as represented by our A-level: AAB/ABB exceptional computing facilities. IB: 35-33 global reputati on for research, which keeps course content We support all our course units History and Sociology; Modern cutting-edge by a comprehensive Blackboard History with Economics virtual learning environment, and • Library facilities among the very A-level: ABB/BBB use e-learning to aid your best in the country IB: 33-32 development and ensure you For entry requirements to specific receive timely and constructive courses, see our course index at feedback on written work. the back of this prospectus. Find out more... www.manchester.ac.uk/history What you study [email protected] History History BA 3yrs t +44 (0)161 306 1251 Our most popular and flexible UCAS Code V100 History at Manchester is taught by course. Choose from a diverse History with Integrated staff at the very cutting edge of range of course units from history, Masters MHist 4yrs their subjects, who write many of as well as from the history of the books and articles that you UCAS Code V101 science, technology and medicine. will read. You can also develop a specialism History and Sociology BA 3yrs Our courses take maximum in a particular area of history, UCAS Code VL13 advantage of the range and especially through extended breadth of this expertise, offering pieces of independent coursework Modern History with in Years 1 and 2, and through the Economics BA 3yrs history from ancient times in 800 BC, through medieval to modern final-year dissertation. UCAS Code V136 late 20th century. We also offer Final-year units offer in-depth Politics and Modern History course units in many different studies chosen from particular BA 3yrs kinds of history, including political, topics in British, European, UCAS Code VL12 social, economic, cultural and American, African and Asian gender history, while the history, in one of which you write See also Archaeology, Classics geographic areas we cover include and Ancient History, English and a dissertation involving not only Britain and Europe, but independent research. American Studies, Modern also Asia, Russia, Africa and Languages. beyond. You may also spend part of your degree studying abroad. We encourage you to study a diverse range of types of history and to develop your own original and imaginative approaches to historical study.

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History with Integrated to produce rich and sophisticated unions and professional Masters research. You may write a final- associations, social work, teaching Take the Manchester MHist: a year dissertation in either subject. and voluntary organisations, the four-year advanced degree course armed services and the police. currently unique amongst English Politics and Modern History universities. After following the One of the best-established three-year History Honours course, courses of its kind in the country. you receive specialist research Study the historical development training while undertaking of the modern world, its political Manchester is a really advanced master’s-level course systems and its political thought. exciting place to study units in Year 4. Year 1 involves broad course units history because there are The high entry requirement for in history, comparative politics and this degree reflects the political theory, while Year 2 loads of lecturers with expectation that students of high develops your understanding of a ‘‘really diverse and range of distinctive approaches to calibre will compete for entry to fascinating expertise. achieve a master’s-level degree via the two subjects, including course our undergraduate entry system. units on the politics and the What's more, we are in a history of diverse parts of the city with enormous world. In Year 3, you choose Modern History with historical significance; Economics specialised units at the cutting edge of historical and political history at Manchester Concentrate on the economic, research and write a dissertation political and social development of isn't just words in books, in either subject. societies since 1500. Key subjects it's the buildings, the mills are the political history of Europe, Career opportunities and exchanges, the fabric the impact of industrialisation, social change and the rise of The skills you acquire as an of the city. I am also globalisation. As part of this historian are particularly desirable enjoying the to employers. You could find work degree, you take one course unit opportunities to get in economics in each year. Your in areas related to your particular final-year dissertation is a major degree, or consider a wide range involved with other study involving independent of professions and careers for projects; this year I am research. which a good degree, rather than a specific subject, is required. Your one of the editors ofe Th History and Sociology ability to manage and analyse Manchester Historian, the diverse data and your literacy and Cover past and present societies department's magazine. communication skills will be from both historical and valued highly in the job market. sociological perspectives, Charlie Bush comparing and contrasting these Many graduates c hoose to BA History different ways of studying continue their studies by taking a humanity. This highly flexible graduate programme at course offers topics relating to a Manchester, or elsewhere. Recent wide historical and geographical history graduates have entered range of societies and cultures. careers in law, accountancy, You are trained in quantitative and banking, popular music, qualitative re search methods and, journalism and broadcasting, the by gaining skills across two Civil Service, management, disciplines, you will be equipped property development, trade ’’

122 ABCDEFG H Human Communication

Founded in 1919 as the Year 1: Get a general foundation TYPICAL OFFER Department for Education of the in healthcare science, including A-level: BBB (Healthcare Science), Deaf, our Division of Human general anatomy and physiology AAB (Speech and Language Communication and Deafness is and pathophysiology of the Therapy) now part of the School of neurosensory systems. Learn the Psychological Sciences, focusing technology involved in relation to IB: 31 (Healthcare Science), 35 on the study of audiology and diagnostic testing procedures and (Speech and Language Therapy) deafness, speech and language explore the perception o f disease For entry requirements to specific therapy, and human and health psychology. Discover courses, see our course index at communication. specific techniques for evaluating the back of this prospectus. hearing (and other senses), What you study including brain processing and how we, as health care Healthcare Science professionals, can help improve Healthcare Science (Audiology) (Audiology) BSc 3yrs the quality of people’s lives. Our new three-year course provides UCAS Code B611 the entry-level training needs of Begin to develop your practical skills in conducting various clinical Speech and Language Therapy clinical audiologists wishing to work test procedures, including hearing BSc 4yrs in the NHS, education and independent health care services. assessments, and learn to UCAS Code B620 communicate effectively with Gain a broad understanding of people who experience hearing audiological principles, theory and lo ss. Finally, discover the basic WHY MANCHESTER? knowledge, which can be principles and theories that • Long, distinguished history in translated into thoughtful, reflective underpin aural rehabilitation. You human communication, dating and quality practice. We also offer, also explore a patient-centred back to 1919 monitor and evaluate a wide range approach to healthcare delivery. of appropriate clinical experience. • Extensive clinical experience From week eight of semester one alongside academic and Within the ‘Department of onwards, you work on placement practical work, preparing you Health’s Modernising Scientific for two days each week. fully for your future career Careers’ framework, audiology has been grouped with Year 2: Focus more on specific • NHS-funded Speech and neurophysiology and vision areas of audiology, including the Language Therapy course, sciences. Elements of these areas more complex aspects of hearing meaning no tuition fees for therefore also form part of the and balance assessments, adult UK/EU students; UK students first year of your degree. aural rehabilitation and state-of- may also apply for an NHS the-art digital technology, including bursary You cover theoretical, practical hearing aids and cochlear implants. and clinical aspects of audiology • Healthcare Science (Audiology) As well as broader elements of and related neurosensory topics, course approved as a training patient care, you explore public studying academic components in programme for both NHS and health issues and how healthcare is all three years. In Years 1 and 2, private sector delivered in the NHS and beyond, substantial practical skills training and study research methods and takes place in our well-equipped statistics. You also undertake a Find out more... laboratories. You undertake 15-week clinical placement. www.psych- supervised clinical education and Year 3: Develop your specialist sci.manchester.ac .uk practice within NHS and knowledge and understanding in [email protected] independent sector clinics in all audiological science, and your [email protected] three years. ability to apply th is to clinical tel +44 (0)161 275 3389

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practice. You may also choose one Years 2, 3 and 4: Focus mostly on Alternatively, previous graduates subject as an optional course unit specific communication and have undertaken further courses from a number of areas, such as: swallowing difficulties by client at Mancheste r, such as the MSc in Introduction to Vestibular group, and clinical experience. Advanced Audiology, the highly Assessment, or Paediatric You also study clinical linguistics, competitive MSc in Clinical Audiology. . statistics and research design. Science (Neurosensory Science), or a PhD. Further opportunities You’ll also conduct an individual You undertake block clinical include research, or employment research project, supervised by one placements of between four and in independent sector audiology of our researchers, and undertake eight weeks. Placement settings services and the hearing aid a 22-week clinic placement, where vary and include community-based manufacturing industry. you will build on your clinical skills visits, hospitals, schools or clinics. and learn to apply them to whole Gain experience of working in a Speech and language therapists in patient journeys. professional team, with clients of the UK are mainly employed by all ages who have a range of the NHS, although there are Speech and Language communication and swallowing opportunities within charitable Therapy disorders, developmental and and private organisati ons. Many Speech and language therapists acquired. Placements and therapists work in educational identify, assess and support the associated supervisory support are settings, while some set up in needs of people with swallowing organised in partnership with independent practice or take and communication disorders – eg speech and language therapy research posts. There are also children who have failed to service providers in the North opportunities overseas. develop some aspect of their West. They can be anywhere in communication ability, adults who this region, so you may need have acquired communication and temporary accommodation during swallowing disorders through your placement. stroke, adults with learning I have had a wonderful difficulties, people with voice Funding for Speech and year, enjoyed every problems, or people with a Language Therapy stammer. The aim is often to help All UK and EU students have their moment (well almost, indi viduals develop the most tuition fees paid in full by the NHS. as the Anatomy and effective form of communication Unfortunately, due to funding ‘‘Physiology practicals within their social environment. issues, we are only able to accept applications from EU citizens. UK were slightly daunting!) You develop the core theoretical students may also apply for a knowledge and specialist clinical and learnt so much. means-tested bursary; should you skills required to support the I am taking away so receive this, you are entitled to needs of people with claim excess travel expenses. much knowledge from communication and swallowing difficulties. All years include my first year. academic and practical work, with Career opportunities considerable clinical experience. With a BSc (Hons) Healthcare Maxine Winstanley Science degree and a clinical BSc Speech and Language Year 1: Cover subjects essential qualification, you can register as an Therapy for an understanding of typical audiologist and work in the NHS, or speech, language and swallowing, apply for registration with the including: anatomy and Health and Care Professions physiology; audiology; linguistics; Council to work in the independent lifespan development; and sector as a hearing aid dispenser. psychology. You undertake local clinical ‘taster’ placement sessions. 124 ’’ ABCDEFGH I STUDY ABROAD opportunities Italian

Italian studies at Manchester TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? combine s innovative teaching A-level: AAB-BBB • One of the top-rated methods with expertise in diverse IB: 35-31 departments in the UK with areas such as cultural history, consistently high levels of linguistics, translation studies, For entry requirements to specific student satisfaction visual culture and history of the courses, see our course index at book. In 2010 and 2011 our • Direct access throughout to the back of this prospectus. department secured a sector- leading experts with leading 100% in the National international research Student Survey, proudly reputations English Literature and a Modern continuing a tradition of excellent Language (Italian) BA 4yrs • Largest available selection of teaching that dates back to the UCAS Code RQ33 combined BA degrees with 1880s. Italian English Language and Italian Italian history and culture were of BA 4yrs • Excellence in teaching: several particular interest to the Victorian UCAS Code QR33 staff have won University merchants of northern England; teaching awards and have been an inheritance that is readily History and Italian BA 4yrs recognised nationally for their observable in the fabric of UCAS Code RV31 innovative use of e-learning Manchester today, from the Free History of Art and a Modern • World-class library holdings in Trade Hall and , Language (Italian) BA 4yrs Italian studies, including the to the John Rylands Library and . We build UCAS Code RV33 largest collection of early Italian printed books in the world, and on this cultural heritage in our Italian Studies BA 4yrs an impressive Italian manuscript teaching, making use of our UCAS Code R300 collection world-class holdings of early manuscripts and books, prints and Italian and Linguistics BA 4yrs paintings, and contemporary UCAS Code RQ31 literary archives and special Find out more... collections that these merchants Italian and Screen Studies www.manchester.ac.uk/alc imported from Italy. BA 4yrs [email protected] We offer something for all tastes: UCAS Code RW36 t +44 (0)161 275 3211 from the factional politics of the Modern Language and medieval communes and the Business and Management works of Dante and Boccaccio, to (Italian) BA 4yrs the emergence of Italy as a nation UCAS Code NR13 in the 19th century; from the See also Business and advent and fall of fascism, to the Management, Linguistics and mythology of Renaissance art; English Language, and Modern from the relation of language Languages. Italian may also be forms to social contexts, to the studied with Latin (see Classics literary forms of the Italian novel. and Ancient History) and Life Our pu rpose-designed courses are Sciences. You may also study informed by the latest Italian from scratch or post developments in language A-level, with Arabic, Chinese, pedagogy and delivered by native French, German, Hebrew, speakers. While face-to-face Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or teaching remains at the heart of Spanish (see Modern Languages). our courses, we supplement this

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with a range of innovative You will strengthen your What you study e-learning techniques that allow competency over all applied In all courses, you have around 15 you to access material in multiple language skills, from speaking and hours per week of scheduled formats and link up directly with writing, to aural and translation learning activities, such as fellow students in Italy. work across a range of registers lectures, seminars, language work, and media. You can also benefit Each year we accept around 50 coursework 'surgeries' and from units that examine bus iness students, of whom two-thirds revision sessions . You spend Year Italian: from involvement with start the language from scratch. 3 abroad. VPal, which connects you by We assume no prior knowledge video-link to a student in a partner and are confident that the speed Italian Studies Italian university for conversation; and intensity of the course will Enjoy our fullest immersion and or from taking a language exam soon sweep you up in its most comprehensive study of validated by the Italian Ministry of momentum. If you are unsure of Italian language and culture. Take Education, if you are thinking of your level, try our pre-registration core language units working abroad. We are currently diagnostic test online and we’ll complemented by culture units the sole UK examination centre ensure you start from the right that cover a broad chronological for the PLIDA language point. and subject spectrum. Language qualifications. units involve applied language Post A-level (or equivalent) For your year abroad, you can skills, including comprehension, candidates have a separate course choose to complete work translation, grammar and oral unit in Year 1 building confidence placements, w ork in a school as a work with native speakers. across your reading, writing and British Council English language spoken skills. We deliver our In Year 1, learn the skills required assistant, or take advantage of our cultural course units in both to read Italian culture, with wide variety of Erasmus English and Italian and teach and introductory units on Italian exchanges, which includes assess you via a range of linguistic forms, contemporary Bergamo, Bologna, Cagliari, innovative teaching techniques Italian culture, visual culture and Ferrara, Macerata, Naples, that seek to build your reading medieval and renaissance Palermo, Perugia, Pisa and Siena. competence in transferable skills culture. You then apply these skills and e-learning. in Years 2 and 4. In Years 1 and 2, you may study one or two units in Our students organise social another subject. events throughout the year, especially when you arrive, when Joint courses you will meet peer mentors who In all the following courses, you will have contacted you prior to study both subjects equally in Year arrival. 1; in later years, you can maintain this balanc e, or devote more weight to one subject.

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English Literature and a History and Italian Modern Language (Italian) Combine core Italian language Combine core Italian language units with units on diverse units with diverse other subjects, subjects, including aspe cts of including areas of English cultural, political, social, I was an ab initio student language, cultural theory and economic, and military history, in Italian but, thanks to literature, and of Italian culture, from ancient times to the 21st the excellent teaching society, literature, linguistics, century, and Italian culture, and encouragement from history, art and cinema. society, literature, linguistics, ‘‘ history and cinema. our Italian lecturers, I now History of Art and a Modern feel very confident in Language (Italian) Italian and Screen Studies Italian. Because it is a Combine core Italian language Combine the study of Italian units with numerous other units language, culture, society, relatively small covering aspects of European and literature, linguistics, history and department, it is very North American art, and art- art, with core course units in friendly and everyone related thought, from Ancient understanding film, its history and Greece to the present; Italian pre-history, and its development knows each other. For culture, society, literature, across other media (eg television, my year abroad I spent linguistics, history, art and cinema. DVD, internet distribution). a semester studying in Ferrara, a small town in Modern Language and Business and Management the north of Italy, where (Italian) I fell in love with genuine Combine core Italian language Italian pizza and coffee, units with units covering aspects of Italian culture, society, and was able to travel all literature, linguistics, history, art over the country. and cinema. You also study aspects of management, Alexandra Manley economics finance, accounti ng BA French and Italian and international issues in business.

English Language and Italian Study the structure, history and varieties of English alongside general linguistics and sociolinguistics, combined with core Italian language units and units in Italian culture, society, ’’ literature, linguistics, history, art and cinema.

127 Dr Jen, who came to Manchester as an undergraduate in 2000, wears many different hats. She’s a lecturer in Human Geography but she’s also the School of Environment and Development’s champion for employability. And she also runs Venture Uganda, which has won two awards for enterprise.

Manchester made me... passionate about geography

I was attracted to Manchester by the This is a very supportive environment flexibility of the Geography course and both to work and to learn in. We joke because I loved the city. It’s so vibrant about the Geography family. I love it when and so full of history and culture – a really a student comes to me with an idea they inspiring place to be. Manchester is a want to play around with. It’s an incredibly wonderful city with incredible heritage. nurturing environment for ideas and a space to share inspiration and I’m When I started my PhD I set up Venture particularly proud when a student leaves Uganda, a business that offers bespoke my office with a big grin on their face fieldwork and holidays to Uganda. The because they understand. idea is that we’ll use the profits of the business to build a school of social I’m researching maternal child health enterprise out in Uganda that will work as in Uganda and it’s wonderful that my a poverty alleviation tool. It's enterprise at research can feed into my teaching. This its most pragmatic level with no loans and means I can stand in front of my students no borrowing. with real energy and enthusiasm and real passion. By applying theory to reality we We won the Venture Out and Venture begin to make students realise that as Further competitions run by the geographers they are well equipped to Manchester Enterprise Centre. One of the view the world differently, to identify things I love about the University is that problems, and also to see where and how everybody is open to ideas and to making to make changes. things happen. We encourage students to be global citizens, to be aware of their social responsibility and to be real leaders. Studying Geography prepares you to tackle anything the world might throw at you!

128 Dr Jennifer O’Brien Geography graduate and Lecturer in Human Geography

“We have world- leading researchers, real experts in their field. It’s incredibly important that we have top professors teaching students.”

129 STUDY ABROAD opportunities Japanese

Find out more... Modern Language and TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/alc Business and Management A-level: ABB [email protected] (Japanese) IB: 35 t +44 (0)161 275 3211 Study Japanese language, culture, business and management in Japan’s importance as a global For entry requirements to specific global contexts. Core language economic and cultural power has courses, see our course index at units are complemented by units long been recognised. At the back of this prospectus. covering aspects of management, Manchester, we enable you to finance, economics, accounting understand contemporary Japan English Language and and international business issues. through its language, culture and Japanese BA 4yrs In Year 1, you study both subjects history. UCAS Code QT32 equally; later, you can maintain this balance, or devote more Japanese and Screen Studies What you study weight to Japanese. BA 4yrs On all courses, you spend Year 3 UCAS Code TW26 at a university in Japan to improve Japanese and Screen Studies your language skills while gaining Combine Japanese language and Japanese Studies BA 4yrs first-hand knowledge of daily life. UCAS Code T200 culture with core units in understanding film, its history and Japanese Studies Linguistics and Japanese pre-history, and its development BA 4yrs Study Japanese language across other media (eg TV, DVD, UCAS Code QT12 throughout, with core language internet distribution). In Year 1 you units to develop your linguistic Modern Language and study both subjects equally; later, skills: speaking and writing; you can maintain this balance, or Business and Management understanding and analysing (Japanese) BA 4yrs devote up to two-thirds of your audio, video and written material; time on either subject. UCAS Code TN92 using different registers; speaking See also Linguistics and English confidently to a group; and Language. Japanese may also be translating with sensitivity. You studied from beginners’ or post can also study Japan-related topics such as society, popular culture AS-level alongside Chinese, The educational level here French, German, Italian, and religions, drawing on our Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish wide range of research expertise. is very good: from being a (see Modern Languages). complete beginner I can English Language now talk to Japanese WHY MANCHESTER? and Japanese Study the structure, history and ‘‘people in their language. • Wide choice of degree courses varieties of English alongside units I would not be able to • Firm grounding in the language, in general linguistics and progress this much contemporary culture and sociolinguistics, with core Japanese society of Japan, with a language units and units in areas without our teachers’ historically contextualised such as Japanese history, society, help. I am looking forward understanding of Japan's place popular culture and religions. In to my year in Japan. in the world Year 4, you study core Japanese • Courses that cater for different language units and specialised Anastasija Ozerova needs and levels; language study English language units, with BA Linguistics and Japanese from beginner to advanced various optional units. • One year spent in a Japanese university 130 ’’ STUDY ABROAD Joint Language opportunities Courses

German and Italian BA 4yrs Russian and Chinese BA 4yrs TYPICAL OFFER UCAS Code RR23 UCAS Code RT71 A-level: AAA-BBB German and Italian IPML 4yrs Russian and Chinese IPML 4yrs IB: 37-31 UCAS Code RRF3 UCAS Code TR17 For entry requirements to specific German and Japanese BA 4yrs Russian and Japanese BA 4yrs courses, see our course index at UCAS Code RT22 UCAS Code RT72 the back of this prospectus. German and Japanese IPML 4yrs Russian and Japanese IPML 4yrs UCAS Code RT2F UCAS Code RT7F Chinese and Japanese BA 4yrs UCAS Code TT12 German and Portuguese BA 4yrs Russian and Portuguese BA 4yrs UCAS Code RR25 UCAS Code RR57 Chinese and Japanese IPML 4yrs UCAS Code TT1F German and Russian BA 4yrs Russian and Spanish BA 4yrs UCAS Code RR27 UCAS Code RR74 French and Chinese BA 4yrs UCAS Code RT11 German and Russian IPML 4yrs Russian and Spanish IPML 4yrs UCAS Code RRF7 UCAS Code RR47 French and Chinese IPML 4yrs UCAS Code TR11 German and Spanish BA 4yrs Spanish and Chinese BA 4yrs UCAS Code RR24 UCAS Code RT41 French and German BA 4yrs UCAS Code RR12 German and Spanish IPML 4yrs Spanish and Chinese IPML 4yrs UCAS Code RRF4 UCAS Code TR14 French and German IPML 4yrs UCAS Code RRC2 Italian and Chinese BA 4yrs Spanish and Japanese BA 4yrs UCAS Code RT31 UCAS Code RT42 French and Italian BA 4yrs UCAS Code RR13 Italian and Chinese IPML 4yrs Spanish and Japanese IPML 4yrs UCAS Code TR13 UCAS Code RT4F French and Italian IPML 4yrs UCAS Code RRC3 Italian and Japanese BA 4yrs Spanish and Portuguese BA 4yrs UCAS Code RT32 UCAS Code RRK5 French and Japanese BA 4yrs UCAS Code RT12 Italian and Japanese IPML 4yrs UCAS Code RT3F WHY MANCHESTER? French and Japanese IPML 4yrs • Modern language provision UCAS Code RT1F Italian and Portuguese BA 4yrs among the largest and most UCAS Code RR35 French and Portuguese BA 4yrs diverse in the UK, with varied, UCAS Code RR15 Italian and Russian BA 4yrs flexible courses UCAS Code RR37 French and Russian BA 4yrs • Training in the modern spoken UCAS Code RR17 Italian and Russian IPML 4yrs and written language, through UCAS Code RRH7 oral classes with native speakers French and Russian IPML 4yrs Italian and Spanish BA 4yrs and various other activities, such UCAS Code RRC7 as comprehension and grammar UCAS Code RR34 French and Spanish BA 4yrs work Italian and Spanish IPML 4yrs UCAS Code RR14 • Language study complemented UCAS Code RRH4 French and Spanish IPML 4yrs by the study of linguistics, UCAS Code RRC4 Portuguese and Chinese BA 4yrs cultures, literature, or histories UCAS Code RT51 German and Chinese BA 4yrs of countries where those languages are spoken UCAS Code RT21 Portuguese and Japanese BA 4yrs German and Chinese IPML 4yrs UCAS Code TR25 UCAS Code TR12 131 Joint Language Courses STUDY ABROAD opportunities

Find out more Integrated Professional Six-year pathway Master in Languages (IPML) www.manchester.ac.uk/alc As above* except you spend Years [email protected] Duration: Four, five or six years 3 and 5 abroad, with at least 16 t +44 (0)161 275 3211 These challenging, enhanced-level weeks of each year spent in a undergraduate courses enable you professional environment. What you study to reach an outstanding level of *NB the structure of the five and Modern Languages expertise in any two of the six-year pathway will differ slightly Duration: Four years following: Chinese, French, German, from the four-year pathway due to Italian, Japanese, Russian and the period of time abroad. All You study two languages. If one is Spanish. You must have an A-level French, you will need A-level academic content remains or equivalent in both languages. unchanged. French. Chinese, German, Italian, These unique courses offer you a Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or distinctive combination of academic See Modern Languages for more Spanish may be studied at and professional training. information. For more details on beginners' level, in combination the following languages, please with another post A-level Four-year pathway also see: Chinese, French, language. Degrees are awarded as Year 1: Study both languages, German, Italian, Japanese, a single classificati on based on with the option to take a third. Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. your marks in both languages. Year 2: Study both languages in Year 1: Study each language area Manchester in Semester 1, then equally. study one language at a partner institution in Semester 2 (with the Years 2 and 4: Choose to devote Studying two languages up to two-thirds of your available option of continuing a third credits to either language area. language). Spend summer has given me the vacation abroad in a professional opportunity to meet such Year 3: Study abroad. You have environme nt for your second considerable freedom to tailor this language. a variety of different year: you may spend up to 32 ‘‘people. Being taught by weeks in one country, with eight Year 3: Study both languages in weeks in a country where the Manchester, with the option of native speakers has other language is spoken; you may taking a career management improved my ability and divide your time equally between course. Summer vacation abroad not only allowed me to countries where either language is in a professional environment for spoken, or choose from a range of one or two languages. become immersed in the options in between. Year 4: Take master’s-level course languages, but also learn Complete a ‘learning log’ while units, including a dissertation, about two completely abroad to develop understanding of research training, professional different cultures. the areas where you are staying and development and translation and keep you in touch with Manchester. interpreting. Katherine Grantham Some courses require additional Five-year pathway BA German and Italian work that contributes to your As above* except you spend degree classification. If you began either Year 3 or Year 4 abroad, a language ab initio (no previous with at least 16 weeks in a knowledge required) in Year 1, professional environment, plus an you are expected to spe nd at least eight-week summer vacation 16 weeks in a country where that period abroad in a professional language is spoken in Year 3. environment.

132 ’’ ABCDEFGHIJK L STUDY ABROAD opportunities Law

Find out more... What you study TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/law Law Law/Law with Criminology LLB [email protected] Our largest undergraduate degree A-level: AAA IB: 37 t +44 (0)161 306 1271/275 5590 course. Cover the core subjects of Law with Politics BA/LLB Manchester School of Law is held legal study and choose from our A-Level: AAB IB: 35 in high esteem by the legal extensive range of optional profession and regularly achieves subjects to suit your particular Criminology BA top ratings in national rankings of interests and career plans. This is a A-level: ABB IB: 33 university law schools. Many Qualifying Law Degree, thus For entry requirements to specific serving judges are Manchester providing exemption from the courses, see our course index at graduates or former academics Common Professional the back of this prospectus. (including Baroness Scotland, one Examination (CPE), which is of the first female Law Lords, a otherwise required if you wish to judge of the highest of all English become a barrister or solicitor. Criminology BA 3yrs courts), and many leading solicitors’ UCAS Code M901 firms provide us with sponsorship. Year 1: Study Legal Method, Contract, Public Law I, Public Law Law LLB 3yrs Every Manchester Law graduate II, Criminal Law, and Tort. UCAS Code M100 with a Lower Second class Honours degree or above is Year 2: Study four compulsory Law with Criminology LLB 3yrs guaranteed a place at one of the course units – Equity and Trusts, UCAS Code M1M9 branches of the College of Law Land Law, European Community and BPP, to study on the Legal Law, and Jurisprudence – plus two Law with Politics BA 3yrs Practice Course or the Bar options of your choice. UCAS Code M1L2 Professional Training Course. Year 3: Choose six units from a Law with Politics LLB 3yrs We will expose you to a breadth of comprehensive list of options. You UCAS Code LM21 scholarship, reflected in our wide may submit a dissertation in place range of courses on offer. Our full- of one of these subjects. WHY MANCHESTER? time staff of around 68 academics • Long-standing reputation as a have areas of interest encompassing Law with Criminology distinguished centre of research, diverse subjects and approaches, By taking law and criminology in dating from 1872 including private law, public law, our interdisciplinary School s(a European and international law, compared to taking a course run • Research-led teaching centre criminal law and justice, law and jointly by two different Schools), with staff from high profile economics, environmental law, legal you will enjoy an integrated, academic and professional theory, human rights, health care coherent course that allows many backgrounds, including lawyers, law and philosophy. Criminology topics to be approached from the criminologists and ethicists areas of interest also include drug viewpoint of both disciplines. • Two industry-funded Legal policy and use, policing, organised Some subjects are taught by Advice Centres, offering you crime and gangs and offender lawyers and criminologists hands-on experience in pro management and reintegration. working together. Some teaching staff research on topics such as bono legal work Although most of our students sentencing and the treatment of • Rigorous grounding in the law enter with three good A-levels, we victims of crime, which require an and its technique s, plus a sound are equally interested in those understanding of both discipl ines. appreciation of its theoretical returning to education with and policy implications, and of alternative entry qualifications, or Many of our staff take a socio- the links between law and who have shown evidence of legal approach to their research society recent academic achievement on and teaching, which is well suited top of their work experience. to this course. 133 Law STUDY ABROAD opportunities

Track 1: Major in ‘core’ law Learn to understand why crime Criminology subjects and graduate with a has become a pressing social The intellectual rigour of our qualifying law degree. problem, how criminal behaviour course provides you with the is related to other social issues and Track 2: Specialise increasingly in depth of knowledge and skills how the challenges facing the criminology or specialist law required both for developing a criminal justice system are subjects of your choice. relevant career in the field of researched. Gain the necessary criminal justice and for pursuing skills to interpret complex data Law with Politics further study and research. You and policy debates within the field may attend skills training courses Gain a solid and comprehensive of criminology. that have units aimed at grounding in key legal principles, employment in general and more with the ability to specialise in You will also develop skills relevant specialist careers, including particular areas of interest in later to various key professions in criminal justice and crime years. Discover leading criminal justice and crime reduction. approaches in areas such as reduction, including the police, international relations and prisons, offender management, Our strong academic base will European politics, as well as core youth justice, community safety equip you well for a career in a theoretical concepts, then follow and legal practice. range of criminal justice-related your particular interests within the professions, such as the police, field of politics in Years 2 and 3. Career opportunities security services, private security Our expertise makes Manchester sector, probation service, courts Law an especially good place to study services, prison service and local in this increasingly important field. Want to practise as a solicitor or authority community safety barrister? Our LLBs cover all the departments. The LLB Law with Politics is a core subjects required to qualify Qualifying Law Degree (QLD). On for exemptions at the next stage the BA Law with Politics you may in your training. choose whether or not you wish to obtain a QLD at the start of We have strong links with the Year 2. legal professions and public Law is challenging, but services, and our graduates have a good record of securing exciting, because it never Criminology employment in the legal stays still – it’s always Enjoy this exciting and rapidly profession and in other changing. The same can developing area of study. Solidly professional environments. A based in the disciplines of ‘‘be said for Manchester: dedicated law careers advisor can sociology, psychology and law, our give you careers advice. it's an amazing city where course offers you an excellent there is always something opportunity to study crime and Our School of Law and the the criminal justice system. A team University’s Careers Service have new to discover. of criminologists with extensive developed GILP: Getting into the research experience will teach you. Legal Profession, our dedicated Hollie Walsh careers education programme, in LLB Law with Politics which our director of external relations and the Bar Liaison Officer provide further information about the legal profession. Major law firms contribute to these sessions. You also receive advice on non-law careers as an extension of this programme.

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staff are involved in analysing and Placements TYPICAL OFFER monitoring the implementation of Geared towards your personal A-level: ABB-BBB government recommendations in interests, you can undertake these IB: 34-31 the field of learning disabilities. in a learning disability service or We stimulate our students to get school of your choosing, as long as For entry requirements to specific involved with people to make a it is within a reasonable travelling courses, see our course index at positive difference. distance of the University. the back of this prospectus. Please note: Participation on this course is subject to the University Career opportunities Learning Disability Studies receiving a satisfactory Criminal We prepare you for work in a range BA 3yrs Records Bureau (CRB) Disclosure. of learning disability services, UCAS Code B760 particularly in social care and What you study education. This includes statutory WHY MANCHESTER Year 1: Study six course units that services run by Local Authorities • Course that aims to bring about embrace a wide range of subject and the rapidly developing real change in the lives of learning areas, such as inclusion, citizenship voluntary and private sectors. disabled children and adults by and relationships, inclusive and Many of our graduates become working in partnership with them special education, learning teachers, managers of services, disability policy and practice, and • Placements geared towards your team leaders, or lecturers in an introduction to disability personal interests, undertaken in further education colleges. Others studies. Undertake a 40-day regional school s and learning go on to postgraduate research placement, practising your skills disability services of your choice and academia, or find and contributing to a school or employment in more specialised service, and choose options from settings, such as social policy Find out more... across our School or University to units, supported employment supplement your core course. www.manchester.ac.uk/ projects, advocacy projects, education Year 2: Study five units covering transition support, mentoring and [email protected] subjects such as education, gender, leisure and outdoor pursuits. t +44(0)161 275 3385 sexuality and identity, disability policy and practice, disability Learning Disability Studies studies and the law, and research encourages you to think critically methods. Undertake another 40- Having a learning disabled about disability and difference, and day practical placement and to examine how and why education choose options from across our child, I felt I knew enough and services for learning disabled School or University to supplement to get by – until I joined pupils and adults have developed as your core course. the course and realised they have. It also aims to critically evaluate current developments in Year 3: Study education practices, there is so much more to the management of learning ‘‘ the field of learning disability in learn. Lecturers are very disability services, partnership order to prepare you for a career in friendly and are always education and social care. research and the ethics and politics of learning disability ready to offer their advice Our degree is based upon services. Complete a dissertation and support. inclusion and social and based on a chosen area of contemporary models of disability. research, and choose options from Tayyauba Sheikh In partnership with other across our School or Univers ity to BA Learning Disability Studies institutions and organisations, our supplement your core course. ’’ 135 STUDY ABROAD opportunities Life Sciences

Biology with Science and Life Sciences with TYPICAL OFFER Society BSc 3yrs Industrial/Professional A-level: AAA-ABB UCAS Code C1V3 Experienc e BSc 4yrs UCAS Code C105 IB: 37-33 Biology with Science and For entry requirements to specific Society with Medical Biochemistry BSc 3yrs courses, see our course index at Industrial/Professional UCAS Code C724 the back of this prospectus. Experience BSc 4yrs UCAS Code C1L3 Medical Biochemistry with Industrial/Professional Interviews Biomedical Sciences BSc 3yrs Experience BSc 4yrs All applicants who meet, or are considered likely to meet, our UCAS Code B940 UCAS Code C741 academic entry requirements, have Biomedical Sciences with Microbiology BSc 3yrs a suitable personal statement and Industrial/Professional UCAS Code C500 references and live in the EU, will Experience BSc 4yrs be interviewed. UCAS Code B941 Microbiology with Industrial/Professional Applicants from outside the EU Biotechnology BSc 3yrs Experience BSc 4yrs may be interviewed by Skype or UCAS Code C560 UCAS Code C501 have a telephone inte rview. Biotechnology with Molecular Biology BSc 3yrs Industrial/Professional UCAS Code C720 THREE-YEAR DEGREES AND Experience BSc 4yrs UCAS Code C561 Molecular Biology with DEGREES WITH A YEAR OF Industrial/Professional PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Cell Biology BSc 3yrs Experience BSc 4yrs Anatomical Sciences BSc 3yrs UCAS Code C130 UCAS Code C702 UCAS Code B110 Cell Biology with Neuroscience BSc 3yrs Anatomical Sciences with Industrial/Professional UCAS Code B140 Industrial/Professional Experience BSc 4yrs Experience BSc 4yrs UCAS Code C131 Neuroscience with UCAS Code B111 Industrial/Professional Developmental Biology BSc Experience BSc 4yrs Biochemistry BSc 3yrs 3yrs UCAS Code B143 UCAS Code C700 UCAS Code C141 Pharmacology BSc 3yrs Biochemistry with Developmental Biology with UCAS Code B210 Industrial/Professional Industrial/Professional Experience BSc 4yrs Experience BSc 4yrs Pharmacology with UCAS Code C701 UCAS Code C143 Industrial/Professional Experience BSc 4yrs Biology BSc 3yrs Genetics BSc 3yrs UCAS Code B211 UCAS Code C100 UCAS Code C400 Pharmacology and Physiology Biology with Genetics with BSc 3yrs Industrial/Professional Industrial/Professional UCAS Code BB12 Experience BSc 4yrs Experience BSc 4yrs UCAS Code C101 UCAS Code C401 Pharmacology and Physiology with Industrial/Professional Life Sciences BSc 3yrs Experience BSc 4yrs UCAS Code C102 UCAS Code BBC2

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Physiology BSc 3yrs Genetics with a Modern UCAS Code B120 Language BSc 4yrs WHY MANCHESTER? UCAS Code C402 • Innovative teaching techniques, Physiology with state-of-the-art facilities and Industrial/Professional Life Sciences with a Modern tutors who are leading experts Experience BSc 4yrs Language BSc 4yrs from across the breadth of the UCAS Code B121 UCAS Code C103 life scienc es Plant Science BSc 3yrs Microbiology with a Modern • Dynamic community of scientists UCAS Code C200 Language BSc 4yrs working at the cutting edge of UCAS Code C502 research Plant Science with Industrial/Professional Molecular Biology with a • One of the best life science Experience BSc 4yrs Modern Language BSc 4yrs faculties in Europe for teaching UCAS Code C202 UCAS Code C722 and research quality Zoology BSc 3yrs Neuroscience with a Modern UCAS Code C300 Language BSc 4yrs UCAS Code B144 Find out more... Zoology with www.manchester.ac.uk/ Industrial/Professional Pharmacology with a Modern lifesciences Experience BSc 4yrs Language BSc 4yrs [email protected] UCAS Code C301 UCAS Code B212 t +44(0)161 275 5032 Physiology with a Modern DEGREES WITH Language BSc 4yrs A MODERN LANGUAGE Life sciences include the most UCAS Code B122 Anatomical Sciences with a dynamic and groundbreaking Modern Language BSc 4yrs Plant Science with a Modern sciences. We are continually gaining a deeper understanding of UCAS Code B114 Language BSc 4yrs the actions and interact ions of UCAS Code C201 Biochemistry with a Modern genes, molecules, cells, systems, Language BSc 4yrs Zoology with a Modern individuals and populations. This UCAS Code C705 Language BSc 4yrs knowledge provides a wealth of UCAS Code C303 opportunities – from developing Biology with a Modern new drugs and therapies to fight Language BSc 4yrs COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE disease, to generating new UCAS Code C106 AND MNEUROSCI DEGREES sources of fuel and engineering higher yielding crops. Biomedical Sciences with a Cognitive Neuroscience Modern Language BSc 4yrs and Psychology BSc 3yrs Our Faculty of Life Sciences is one UCAS Code B9R9 UCAS Code BC18 of the best in the country for both research and teaching quality. Cell Biology with a Modern Cognitive Neuroscience and Study with us and you will benefit Language BSc 4yrs Psychology with from state-of-the-art facilities, UCAS Code C132 Industrial/Professional innovative teaching techniques Experience BSc 4yrs and tutors who are leading Developmental Biology with a UCAS Code BCC8 Modern Language BSc 4yrs experts from across the breadth of life sciences. UCAS Code C1R9 Neuroscience MNeuroSci 4yrs UCAS Code B141

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Outside of our lecture theatres research grants and contracts. We Year 1. This advisor will monitor and laboratories, you can do field recently spent over £150 million your progress, give you advice on courses in Europe, Africa and on our research facilities, which choice of optional units, and Central America, undertake a encompass a staggering generate references for placement in an institution almost 28,000m2 of research space. placements/ employment/ anywhere in the world, and even postgraduate study. plan the set up of your own Why is our research relevant We currently have 230 academic biotechnology company. to you? staff and approximately 2,000 Our curriculum is informed by our undergra duate students. Research credentials research, so you could learn about Life sciences is an exciting and the latest advances in the life This comfortable ratio of staff to fast-moving area, so it is sciences, taught by the researchers students ensures the quality of important that you undertake who have made the discoveries. your learning experience and your first degree in an You could also make your own allows a friendly and informal interdisciplinary, active research contribution to our research if you atmosphere in which we env ironment. We have expertise in choose to carry out a project in encourage you to play an active many areas of life sciences, the laboratories of these leading role. We actively seek your views ranging from molecules to cells, scientists in your final year. on your course through our plants to animals, biomedical to student staff liaison committee Our international research population studies. Here at and include reps from all courses reputation will directly benefit Manchester, we are addressing in every Education Board meeting, you, as you will leave us with a research challenges of global acting on your feedback to make degree from a major research- significance, including: advancing improvements. intensive university. the understanding of wound All o f this has resulted in an healing and tissue regeneration; Innovative teaching overall mean student satisfaction exploring the cellular processes score of 93% from our 2012 We innovate in teaching methods: that lead to the development of graduates in the National Student for example, the use of computer- cancer; and developing Survey. environmentally sustainable based eLearning and student biofuels to replace fossil fuels. support. Our University is also the The University is undertaking a UK pioneer for implementing the global recruitment campaign for We are rated as one of the leading student-led Peer Assisted Study over 100 senior academic posts, centres for life sciences research in Scheme (PASS), and the scheme entitled 'world-leading minds'. So the UK. In the latest independent within our Faculty is the largest in far, our Faculty has made 18 new Research Assessment Exercise, the UK. appointments, including 95% of our research was classified professors, lecturers and research As well as traditional lectures, we as being of international fellows. These leading academics teach you via informal tutorials, significance, and we were ranked will be teaching and inspiri ng you seminars, laboratory sessions and second in the country in terms of during your time here, field courses, giving you plenty of “research power”. For detailed contributing to your lectures, opportunity to interact with staff information on our RAE results, research projects, tutorials and and other students in small see: www.manchester.ac.uk/ more. ls/aboutus /factsandfigures groups. Your personal advisor will meet with you individually on a We have more than 1,000 people regular basis throughout your involved in research and we hold course, and with your tutorial more than £100 million in group every week throughout

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Great facilities What you study and how Year 2: Start to specialise, selecting We continually invest in our you learn 11 units from more than 30, all of teaching and learning facilities to Your timetable is demanding. You which can be used toward a range improve the student experience. will have up to 20 hours of of our related degree courses. We spent over £5 million in the formally timetabled lectures, Most break new ground; others last 18 months refurbishing our tutorials and practicals each week, extend topics from Year 1. , the main and you are expected to spend at Prepare for independent research, building used for undergraduate least as much time in independent either via laboratory skills training, teaching. We have completely study. As well as lectures and or in-depth experience of primary refurbished our lecture theatres, practicals, important features are and grey literature/media the dissecting rooms used for the small-group seminars and interpretation and searching, anatomy teaching and the library, tutorial teaching on topics depending on your interests. which now offers Wi-Fi, relevant to your degree subject Building on skills developed in comfortable, flexible seating area, which develop your oral and Year 1, this provides the generic options and brand new group written communication, IT, team- techniques and course-specific learning facilities. Our student working and problem-solving expertise required to allow you to common room and café area have skills. A key transferable skill embark on a research placement, also been refurbished, offering Wi- required of a life scientist is the or your final-year research project. Fi and quick-access PCs to provide ability to work with others, so a flexible study and social space. teamwork is an important and Undertake a dissertation, perhaps integral part of all courses from supervised by a member of our Breadth and flexibility the outset. research sta ff, gaining first-hand knowledge of current research. of courses Year 1: Discover life sciences and Choice and flexibility are the cover key topics, most of which Most courses also offer hallmarks of our courses. The are arranged in units of 22 opportunities for you to study breadth of our research affords us lectures. Most course units include abroad in another university in expertise in a range of areas, electroni c learning (eLearning), in Europe, the USA, Canada, Hong allowing us to offer degree which interactive computer Kong, Singapore, or Australia for courses in more than 20 life packages present material that one semester in Year 2. science disciplines. supports, or adds to, lecture Year 3: (for degrees with All first-year courses have a content. They also provide Industrial/Professional Experience common core of units introducing feedback on your work as you or a Modern Language only): fundamental concepts. This means learn, to improve your Undertake a placement in the UK you can transfer between most understanding. or overseas (see Placements degree courses at the end of Year Develop laboratory and analytical below). 1 and, in some cases, later. If your skills in stand-alone practical units Final year: Focus on our rhesearc interests include subjects outside and, for some courses, in activities and take advanced units life sciences, we offer degrees residential field courses (held from a generous choice of with a language, or you can during vacations). Gain support options. Some courses specify choose optional units from the from our Peer-Assisted Study most of the units you will take, entire range offered by our Scheme (PASS), in which more while others allow you to University. Popular choices include senior undergraduates host open concentrate on your preferred law, language and business. discussions about lecture material, speciality, or select a more varied facilitate group work on programme. These advanced demanding material and provide course units include lectures, advice on pastoral issues. seminars, specialised practicals and directed reading.

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Undertake a research project – a line with your interests. We convenient online tra cking tool major element of your final year – currently offer placements in North can help you build a ‘living CV’ to coming into close contact with America, Africa, Asia, Australia record your skills as you progress postgraduates and other research and many European countries, as through your course. You will workers, and gaining first-hand well as throughout the UK. develop transferable skills in your tutorials and there are numerous experience of the demands and With Language: Undertake opportunities for you to apply rewards of original research. This research at a universi ty in a them in placements, projects and may involve extensive supervised country where your chosen work for the Faculty. We offer: practical work in a research language of study is spoken (we laboratory, or work on science currently offer degrees with • industrial/professional media, eLearning, educational, French, Spanish, German, Italian, placement years; data-analysis, bioinformatics, or Mandarin Chinese and Japanese). enterprise topics. For deta ils, visit: • summer placements in our Please note: our ‘with Language’ research laboratories; www.manchester.ac.uk/ls/under courses have specific language graduate/courses/modules/final entry requirements – see: • enterprise projects in yearprojects www.manchester.ac.uk/ugcourses collaboration with entrepreneurs from biotechnology companies; or http://bit.ly/s6YzL8 Careers and employability • jobs as student ambassadors, Placements Life science employment prospects representing us to prospective Gain valuable work experience that are excellent. In the last few years, applicants; will help you clarify your career companies and organisations that • roles as PASS leaders, facilitating objectives and give you an regul arly recruit large numbers of all the learning of first-year advantage in today’s competitive graduates have rated Manchester students; students amongst the most employment market. Most of our • roles as course representatives, employable in the country. degrees are available as a four-year representing the views of your course, where you spend Year 3 on On graduation, about 50% of our fellow students to staff. a research placement in the UK or students choose to pursue a career Many of our graduates have told overseas. There are two types: ‘with closely related to their Life Sciences us that having experience like this Industrial/Professional Experience’ degree. Many progress on to study has made them stand out from and ‘with a Modern Language.’ for further qualifications, such as the crowd when applying for jobs. With Industrial/Professional an MSc, MRes, or PhD. Other Experience: Our wide range of recent graduates have found work Contact us for our careers placements at over 200 partner in the pharmaceutical and brochure, or visit our website for organisations reflect the growing agrochemical industries, medical more information: range of science careers inside and technology, research institutes and www.manchester.ac.uk/ls/under outside of the laboratory. You could government agencies. graduate/careers work in pharmaceutical companies, The remaining 50% of graduates or http://bit.ly/vUCNs2 industrial and international research are highly sought after by the For more details on our extensive institutes, educational large multinational organisations activities, contact us and ask for environments, hospitals, and use their well-developed our Faculty brochure, or visit our biotechnology start-ups, technology transferable skills to enter careers website. To come and look round transfer companies, and science in management, accountancy, our facilities, contact our communication organisations, such marketing, law, publishing and Recruitment and Admissions as medical writing companies, more. Office staff, who will be delighted media offices and museums. From the start of your degree, you to organise a personal tour for We will help you find a placement will build skills that will make you you with a student ambassador at appropriate to your course and in attractive to future employers. Our a mutually convenient time. 140 ABCDEFGHIJK LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

What you study Biology with Science Biotechnology and Society Gain a solid understanding of Anatomical Sciences Do you want to see the life science, technology, and business Study modern aspects of biology sciences as part of society? management, along with the relevant to human structure and Undertake a broad biological entrepreneurial skills required to function. Cover structure from the course while also setting the exploit technological advances whole individual to the sub- biosciences in their contemporary within a competitive environment cellular level, and relate structure social context. We offer a wide that will be invaluable to future to function in the adult and range of training at our world- employers. These courses blend during embryonic development. renowned Centre for the History our science and technology We emphasise the study of of Science, Technology and provision, complemented by units human anatomy, but other Medicine. Specialist areas of staff incorpora ting aspects of business mammals are studied where include the critical history and management, industrial appropriate. Take advantage of social implications of genetics, technology and entrepreneurial our excellent newly refurbished evolutionary theory, biomedical skills. dissecting room facilities for the sciences and modern medical The commercial exploitation of practical element of your practice. teaching. biological systems has had a major Explore the changing social, impact commercially over the last Biochemistry ethical and political dimension of decade and will continue to grow Consider the chemistry of the life sciences, while also developing in the post-genomic era, in areas substances and processes research, writing and ranging from drug discovery, to occurring in living cells and communication skills. If you like stem cell research and genetic tissues. Biochemistry forms the science, but you also like engineering. basis of virtually all life science and humanities and social studies, this many exciting discoveries made in is the course for you. Cell Biology this subject have contributed to Learn how cells function, both our understanding of life, the Biomedical Sciences individually and within organisms. solving of medical problems, and Want to make a fundamental Cell biology integrates other life to the discovery and production of contribution to the curre nt sciences, such as biochemistry and safe and effective drugs. revolution in medical science? molecular biology, to explain the Improvements in healthcare structure and function of cells. Biology continue to be driven by dramatic Consider how cell diversity arises Take a broad biological course advances in life sciences. Gain and how cells cooperate and where early specialisation is broad, up-to-date training in a communicate with each other in avoided. A wide spectrum of wide range of medically related normal tissues and in developing training in the biological sciences disciplines. Flexibility and the embryos. strong practical component of is offered by staff who are Cell biology is one of the major these courses give you a sound specialists in their chosen subject growth areas of life sciences in the basis for a career at the forefront areas. Gain practical experience of post-genomic era and uses new of medical research. Other different environments and technologies, including cell attractive careers exist in the organisations via field courses, culture, manipul ation of genes, pharmaceutical industry, in based in locations in the UK and monoclonal antibodies and labora tories and organisations abroad, chosen for the richness advanced light and electron linked with the health services, and interest of their flora and microscopy. These developments and in journalism. fauna. You may choose to take support the existing and future one or more field courses. needs of society in many areas of medicine, including cancer research, the control of

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autoimmune disease, and the impact on our understanding of The human genome project has study of birth defects; and in evolution and modern medicine, provided us with the sequence of other fields, such as plant including birth defects and cancer. the entire human genome and biotechnology and environmental In particular, the revolutionary identified around 25,000 human monitoring. potential of stem cell manipulation, genes. The challenge now is to with the purpose of forming understand the function of all Cognitive Neuroscience replacement cells or organs, these genes and how they and Psychology represents the future of medicine. cooperate to make us who we are, and to learn how we can best One of the most challenging Developmental biology is a use this knowledge to improve problems in modern biology is to multidisciplinary field that uses the human society. Genetics will understand the brains and most up-to-date te chnologies. continue to play a key role in behaviours of humans and other Gain research-driven knowledge this quest. animals. Approaches to this are and experience in a broad range diverse, varying from the study of of biological subjects, ranging biological systems at the from the molecular functions of Life Sciences molecular level, to analysis of individual genes and proteins, Committed to biosciences, but huma n performance. through to the structure and have not yet decided on the area in which you would like to Combine studies of major topics function of whole organs. specialise? Take this degree, which in experimental psychology and Developmental biology integrates will help you to make the decision neuroscience to gain a broad, subjects such as genetics, at the end of your first year from a interdisciplinary background in this molecular biology, biochemistry, position of greater knowledge. fast-moving and exciting field. cell biology, anatomy, physiology The combination of your first-year Draw on resources from and computer modelling. units enables you to transfer to psychological sciences and life almost any of the degree courses sciences and cover topics such as Genetics within our Faculty. Your individual how humans and animals think Genetics is fundamentally study course will be carefully (cognitive processes), how the importa nt to all branches of planned with advice from your world is sensed (perception), modern biology, from evolutionary advisors. computational modelling, biology to medicine, and extends development and into many practical areas, such as psychopathology. biotechnology and agriculture. Medical Biochemistry Are you a biochemist considering The degree is accredited by the Discover the principles of heredity a career in research into the British Psychological Society (BPS). and evolution and learn how we biochemical basis of disease and As well as providing a solid can map genes and understand therapeutic medicine? This area foundation for a career in the life their function. Consider how the offe rs great career prospects, sciences, this degree also development of multi cellular because pharmaceutical and constitutes your first step towards organisms can progress from a healthcare companies need well- professional chartered single cell through regulated trained medical biochemists. You psychologist status. courses of gene expression, and could become key to the efforts of l earn the detailed mechanisms by such companies to develop new Developmental Biology which genes can be switched on drugs targeted against specific Focus on understanding how a and off. Learn to understand how enzymes, hormone receptors, or single cell (eg the fertilised egg) model organisms, such as the fruit other biologically important forms an embryo and then fly and the mouse, are of molecules. becomes a fully formed adult enormous biomedical importance, organism in species as varied as and discover how our genetic plants, insects and mammals. This makeup can predispose us to knowledge is making a significant different diseases.

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Microbiology biotechnology. We are starting to the theoretical aspects against Study a broad discipline that understand the molecular basis of an extensive background of involves the study of the biology illnesses such as cancer and laboratory work, using a wide of bacteria, viruses, protozoa and inherited diseases, and in some variety of methods. fungi. We focus on the cases, they can be treated using pathogenic potential of the genetic tools. Physiology organisms that cause disease in Genetic manipulation in Study function in animals and man; also covered are aspects of biotechnology enables the humans. A major challenge to the biochemistry, physiology and manufacture of such valuable physiologists in the post-genomic genetics of microorganisms. products as blood clotting factors, era is to determine the function of Recently, our knowledge of how insulin and vaccines. Gain an the many uncha racterised proteins microbes function has expanded understanding of these areas and encoded by the human genome. enormously, both in the disease practical experience in This will involve understanding process and at molecular level. experimental approaches used in how these proteins influence the Genetic engineers are using the laboratory. activity of cells, tissues and the bacteria and viruses to clone whole organism in health and eukaryotic genes to study and Neuroscience disease. treat human genetic disorders. Study the nervous system and Our physiology research and Vaccines are being developed for how it works to generate teaching ranges from examining diseases such as AIDS, behaviour, perception, movement, molecular mechanisms in single Legionnaire’s disease and thought, memory and other key cells, to studying functional listeriosis. In the areas of functions. This calls on a wide changes in human tissues in biotechnology, agriculture and range of knowledge and disease states. food production, microbes are experimental techniques, and continually exploited for the recently there have been Pharmacology and Physiology benefit of man. significant advances in our Enjoy the opportunity to study understanding of the function of these two closely related Molecular Biology the nervous system, from the disciplines and become equipped Study a subject that underpins molecular level, through to the for careers in either field, or in much of today’s biological biology of higher brain function. areas in which knowledge of both research. It overlaps with You will cover much of this, with subjects is valuable. biochemistry, genetics and cell frequent reference to how biology – and the structure of our different disorders of the nervous Plant Science degree course reflects this. system affect normal brain While it is obvious that plants function. Over the last decade, recombinant support the continued existence DNA technology has allowed Our MNeuroSci course has an of life on Earth, you deal with far molecular biologists to make extra year in which you undertake more than photosynthetic energy enormous advances in our a major research project, capture in these courses. The understanding of how culminating in the award of an fascinating reproductive processes fundamental biological processes undergraduate masters and global importance of non- operate, by analysing, qualification. flowering plants, and the role of manipulating and controlling plants in biotechnology (eg algal genes and proteins. This has Pharmacology biofuels), are just two of a broad culminated in the completion of Study drug actions on living range of topics. several large genome projects that systems, applying biological Consider the significance of plants are changing the face of modern techniques to understanding the in global ecosystems, and as biology, especially in areas of actions of current drugs and the providers of food and raw medicine, agriculture and development of new drugs. Learn materials for industry. Attend a

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field course in the Mediterranean island of Majorca during Easter of your first year, when the orchids are in bloom – and build on this with a further summer field course Manchester has opened in Ecuador or the UK in Year 2, if up opportunities for me you are not starting a placement that I would never have early (eg to fit with field seasons). ‘‘thought possible. The Zoology first-year field course in Building on our international South Africa was a very research strengths, our Zoology unique way of learning, degree highlights some of the most exciting and thought- as well as a great bonding provoking aspects of 21st century experience with other life sciences. We emphasise the people on the course. mechanisms and evolution of animal behaviour, with course From this I have now units on behavioural neurobiology, made contacts which reproduction and hormones, means I regularly return behavioural rhythms, and pheromones and olfaction. to Africa to work. This At each stage, we study the would never have been interaction of animals with other possible without the help individuals and with whole populations. of those at the University, for which I am very Cover the whole range of animal life, from genes and development, grateful. through to animal behaviour, population dynamics and Thomas Peacham evolution. Gain direct experience BSc Zoology of studying animals via two compulsory field course units: one in the UK on Marine Biology (Year 1), which introduces you to research methods; the other abroad, on Evolutionary Biology and Behaviour (Year 2), during which you design and carry out a research project. Many Zoology students opt to do two field ’’ courses both years.

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Find out more... What you study TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/ Our Foundation Year consists of We accept students from a lifesciences 120 academic credits. You study a wide range of backgrounds. [email protected] common core of units in biology, Each application is considered t +44 (0)161 275 5032 chemistry and mathematics. individually. You should apply If you want to enter one of the Biology forms approximately half through UCAS. degree courses offered by the the core content, including: For entry requirements to specific Faculty of Life Sciences, but do • Lectures on topics such as cell courses, see our course index at not have the appropriate entry biology, biochemistry, genetics, the back of this prospectus. qualifications, this course is for biotechnology, microbes and you. Perhaps you are a mature disease, ecol ogy and physiology student, have studied arts, Life Sciences with a languages or social sciences at • Laboratory work, which Foundation Year BSc 4/5yrs A-level (or equivalent), or have reinforces the subject material and helps you to develop UCAS Code C900 slightly underachieved in your science A-levels due to serious practical skills See also Life Sciences. circumstances outside your control. • Opportunities for fieldwork Our Foundation Year provides the Chemistry forms around one-third necessary academic backgroundn i of the core content, including: biology, chemistry and • Lectures on topics such as WHY MANCHESTER? mathematics to prepare you for study on any of our BSc (Hons) atomic structure, bonding, rates • Courses designed to maximise degree courses. We offer degree of reaction, inorganic and your achievement and fully courses in more than 20 life physical chemistry, organic and prepare you for degree study in sciences subjects and successful medicinal chemistry the life sciences completion of the Foundation • Laboratory practicals that • Innovative teaching techniques, Year allows you direct entry into support the lectures state-of-the-art facilities and any of these courses, including tutors who are leading experts Optometry. See Life Sciences and Mathema tics units focus on the from across the breadth of the Optometry to find out more. mathematical skills required by life life sciences scientists, including: To progress onto your preferred • One of the best life science course, you will need strengths • Accurate manipulation and faculties in the country for both in the relevant subject area. Some analysis of experimental data teaching and research quality degrees require higher marks in • Use of statistical and certain subjects than others mathematical techniques in a (eg Optometry). biological context

Where you study Most of our course is taught by the experienced staff of Xaverian College, located in Victoria Park about 1km south of the University. The college was graded ‘outstanding’ in its most recent Ofsted inspection and awarded Beacon College status in 2009.

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You will also spend time on our University campus most weeks, undertaking a complementary series of tutorials, seminars and laboratory exercises. My Foundation Year As a Foundation Year student, you experience has been are a full member of The fantastic so far! You get University of Manchester and the best of both Xaverian guaranteed access to all our ‘‘ College and the undergraduate facilities, activities and services outlined in this University; the staff and prospectus. the facilities are world class. You make new How you are supported You will receive academic and friends immediately, as pastoral support from your everyone is in the same personal tutor at Xaverian situation. There's advice College. Our Faculty staff provide and support in all areas, additional academic support. and it's reassuring to know you have someone to talk to if you need help.

Tom Ward BSc Life Sciences with a Foundation Year ’’

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English Language TYPICAL OFFER and Spanish BA 4yrs WHY MANCHESTER? A-level: AAB-BBB UCAS Code QR34 • Distinguished record of research IB: 35-31 that informs our course content, English Literature and with expert staff covering the For entry requirements to specific Linguistics BA 3yrs major areas of linguistics and courses, see our course index at UCAS Code QQ13 English language the back of this prospectus. French and Linguistics BA 4yrs • Excellent resources, including a UCAS Code RQ11 phonetics laboratory with Chinese and Linguistics BA 4yrs computing facilities for speech German and Linguistics BA 4yrs analysis, and extensive library UCAS Code TQ11 UCAS Code RQ21 collections of linguistics books English Language BA 3yrs Italian and Linguistics BA 4yrs and periodicals UCAS Code Q1Q3 UCAS Code RQ31 • Friendly and diverse place to study English Language Linguistics BA 3yrs and Chinese BA 4yrs UCAS Code Q100 UCAS Code QT31 Linguistics and a Middle Find out more English Language Eastern Language BA 4yrs and French BA 4yrs www.manchester.ac.uk/alc UCAS Code QT16 [email protected] UCAS Code QR31 Linguistics and Japanese BA 4yrs t +44 (0)161 275 3211 English Language UCAS Code QT12 and German BA 4yrs UCAS Code QR32 Linguistics and Portuguese Linguistics is concerned with BA 4yrs language and how it works. English Language UCAS Code QR15 A lingui st looks at the many and Italian BA 4yrs languages of the world and the UCAS Code QR33 Linguistics and Russian BA 4yrs many ways in which we use UCAS Code QR17 language, and asks such questions English Language as: how do languages resemble and Japanese BA 4yrs Linguistics and Screen Studies one another, and how do they UCAS Code QT32 BA 3yrs differ? How do the rich and varied UCAS Code QW16 English Language and a Middle forms that language adopts reflect Eastern Language BA 4yrs Linguistics and Social the enormous variety of uses to UCAS Code QT36 Anthropology BA 3yrs which it is put? How does a young UCAS Code QL16 child first learn to use language? English Language How does a language such as and Portuguese BA 4yrs Linguistics and Sociology English change over time? BA 3yrs UCAS Code RQ53 The question s we ask, and the UCAS Code QL13 English Language theories and methods we use in and Russian BA 4yrs Linguistics and Spanish BA 4yrs looking for answers, are not only UCAS Code QR37 UCAS Code QR14 close to aspects of philosophy, psychology and sociology, but also English Language and Screen See also, Classics and Ancient relevant for the study of foreign Studies BA 3yrs History, English Language for languages and for understanding UCAS Code QW36 Education, English Literature literature. and American Studies and Modern Languages. 147 Linguistics and English Language

Our students come from a wide Portuguese (see Modern course units in understanding film, variety of backgrounds. There are Languages). Study the structure, its history and pre-history, and its school-leavers and mature history and varieties of English development across other media students, from Britain and from alongside units in general (eg television, DVD, internet overseas, involved in many other linguistics, plus core units in your distribution). academic disciplines, making for a modern language, and optional In Year 1, you study both subjects lively social mix. units covering aspects of politics, equally; in later years you can literature, linguistics, society, maintain this balance or devote economics, translation studies, What you study more weight to English Language. cinema, history and culture. English Language Optional choice areas vary English Literature Study the English language, its according to the language studied and Linguistics structure, history, varieties and (see www.manchester.ac.uk/alc). dialects, and how we acquire and Study English literature, as offered use it. Study background material In Year 1, you study the two by English and American Studies, on the development of English in subject areas equally; in later years with linguistics – the study of Year 1, and learn the basic skills you can maintain this balance or language and ways of required in order to understand devote more weight to one understanding and describing the and describe the main subject. You spend Year 3 abroad structure, history and social components of language: sounds, under approved conditions. aspects of languages. Discover the grammar and semantics, plus basic analytical skills in Year 1; in basic study and research skills. English Language and a later years, you may focus on Choose from a wide range of Middle Eastern Language English language, general optional course units in Years 1, Gain a comprehensive grounding linguistics or a combination of the 2 and 3, including a dissertation. in both English language and a two. You follow a broadly You can also take free choice modern Middle Eastern language chronological journe y of literature options in other subjects, (Arabic or Hebrew). Core course from the Anglo-Saxon period including a foreign language. units in the structure, history, and through to the present day. varieties of English are In Year 1, you study both subjects You could spend a semester complemented by units in general equally; in later years you can abroad in Year 2. For up-to-da te linguistics. Take core units in your maintain this balance or devote information on partner institutions Middle Eastern language, and more weight to one subject. outside Europe, see: units about this language's historical and cultural context. You www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/cour Linguistics ses/studyabroad/destinations/p spend around 12 hours a week in Focus on the study of language, artneruniversities classes. and ways of understanding and or http://bit.ly/sv2Kbq In Year 1, you study both subjects describing the structure, history equally; in later years you can We also have Erasmus exchanges and social aspects of languages. maintain this balance or devote with the universities of Paderborn Discover the basic analytical skills more weight to one subject. Your in Germany and Vigo in Spain. for the main components of spend Year 3 abroad under language in Year 1: sounds, approved conditions English Language grammar, and semantics, plus basic study and research skills. and a Modern Language English Language Combine the study of English and Screen Studies You may choose from a wide Language with one of Chinese, range of course units, including Study the structure, history, and Japanese, French, Spanish, specialisation in various areas of varieties of English alongside units German, Italian, Russian, or linguistics (such as phonetics, in general linguistics, and core

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syntax, sociolinguistics, typology), In Ye ar 1, you study both subjects In Year 1, you study both subjects linguistic theory, and individual equally; in later years you can equally; in later years you can language families. You may also maintain this balance or devote maintain this balance or devote take free-choice options from more weight to one subject, and more weight to one subject. across the Faculty, including a can also take another foreign foreign language. language at an appropriate level. Career opportunities You could spend a semester You spend Year 3 abroad under The communication skills abroad in Year 2. For up-to-date approved conditions. developed during our courses are information on partner institutions valued by a huge range of outside Europe, see: Linguistics and employers, and our graduates Social Anthropology have followed a diverse range of www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/cour career paths. ses/studyabroad/destinations/p Combine the study of society, artneruniversities culture and social interaction, based in Social Anthropology, with or http://bit.ly/sv2Kbq the study of linguistics. We also have Erasmus exchange In Year 1, you study both subjects Linguistics has enabled arrangements with the universities equally; in later years you can of Paderborn in Germany and maintain this balance or devote me to continue with a Vigo in Spain. more weight to one subject, and subject I already had a can also choose to study a great interest in, Linguistics and foreign language. a Modern Language ‘‘exploring areas I had Combine the study of linguistics Linguistics and Sociology already studied in more with one of Chinese, Japanese, Combine the study of society and depth, while also French, Spanish, German, Italian, its organisation and structure, as intro ducing me to Russian, or Portuguese, covering offered by Sociology, with the the language, literature, culture, study of linguistics. completely different society, economics, cinema and aspects. history of your chosen language. In Year 1, you study both subjects equally; in later years you can In Year 1, you study both subjects maintain this balance or devote Lauren Baxendale equally; in later years you can m ore weight to one subject, and BA Linguistics maintain this balance or devote can also choose to study a foreign more weight to one subject, and language. can also take an additional language at an appropriate level. Linguistics You spend Year 3 abroad under and Screen Studies approved conditions. Combine the study of linguistics, including analysing the sounds, Linguistics and meanings and structures of a Middle Eastern Language language, with core course units in understanding film, its history ’’ Combine the study of linguistics with the study of a selected and pre-history, and its Middle Eastern language of development across other media specialisation (Arabic or Hebrew) (eg television, DVD, internet and aspects of Middle Eastern distribution). culture and history.

149 Eleanor applied through the Manchester Access Programme (MAP). MAP targets and supports talented students from backgrounds that are currently under- represented in higher education.

Manchester made me... decide to come to university

Neither of my parents went to We’re a very close-knit group and we university so I was able to apply to get a lot of support from our staff. They Manchester through MAP. It’s a scholarship have the time to spend with us. Most of scheme and I got extra UCAS points, but our lecturers are therapists themselves so it’s a lot more than that. I got lots of they have been there and done it and they support and information throughout the are highly respected in their field. application process. The MAP team and I’m one of the University’s student student ambassadors run workshops and bloggers. I write about all aspects of an overnight conference where you see being at university and I like answering the what being at university’s like. It was also questions I would have asked when I was great in the first few weeks to see some 16 or 17. I was very shocked to hear that friendly, familiar faces. 25,000 people read the blog! On Speech and Language Therapy we Manchester is a great place to study have a lot of placements so we get to because it’s big, but in a homely way. It see exactly what it’s like to do the job. You never feels impersonal – you don't feel like get experience of lots of different areas one of many. you could go into. I’ve worked in a primary school, disability clinics and a children’s centre so far. It’s great to put into practice what you’ve learnt.

150 Eleanor Morris Speech and Language Therapy student

“I didn’t know anyone who’d been to university and it was a big change moving away from home, but the Manchester Access Programme made me feel a lot more comfortable with it.”

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What you study Year 3: Continue with TYPICAL OFFER Your core programme covers management, research and A-level: AAB-BBB management, marketing, law, marketing, and undertake more IB: 36-31 finance, historical and detailed study in specialised contemporary aspects of leisure, subjects of your choice – eg For entry requirements to specific and research methods. As the running your own business, courses, see our course index at course progresses, you may take tourism management, events and the back of this prospectus. additional specialist options from entertainment manag ement, and within the course and from the sports management. An extended wider Faculty of Humanities; you ASP, associated research project Management and Leisure can also specialise in your choice and the presentation of a BA 3yrs of research work. placement report complete your UCAS Code N870 final-year work. In every academic year, you also See also Business Studies gain first-hand experience of Career opportunities and Management. industry by participating in Applied Study Periods (ASPs) with A broad range of career a host employer. You’ll make opportunities awaits you within the leisure sector, including the WHY MANCHESTER? industry contacts and have the opportunity to observe, learn and arts, sports and recreation, travel • Combination of academic study apply new skills. and tourism and events and practical experience gives management. The latest survey you a head start and flexibility of Year 1: Gain an introduction to shows that 85% of our graduates choice in your career the nature and scope of the were either in work or in further leisure sector, which you will build • Focus on management tactics study six months after finishing on each year, drawing upon the and skills within the conte xt of the course. disciplines that unde rpin the leisure industry management within the leisure • Chance to specialise in a subject sector. Study sociology, area of your choice for psychology, research methods, independent research work economics, history of leisure, I have found staff on the leisure law and introduction to management theory. course to be friendly, Find out more Undertake a residential field trip readily available and www.manchester.ac.uk/education to North Wales, getting to know supportive throughout. [email protected] other students and staff while ‘‘This course has given me t +44 (0)161 275 3463 learning about management issues in the rural leisure economy. the confidence, knowledge and Year 2: Study financial The leisure industry is one of management, human resource experience to compete in the fastest growing and most management, research methods, dynamic sectors of the economy. the current competitive marketing and law. Take a core Our Management and Leisure job market. Career Management unit focusing degree covers the history and on practical job-seeking advice. development of the sector and Jenna Burbridge Optional subjects include the social, legal, economic, BA Management and Leisure international leisure, the football managerial, financial and business and corporate psychological factors that responsibility. influence the management of leisure. 152 ’’ ABCDEFGHIJKL M Materials Science

What you study TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? • Strong links with relevant Materials Science A-level: AAA-AAB and Engineering IB: 37-35 industrial and clinical units, ensuring your degree is highly Study materials science: a For entry requirements to specific valued by employers synthesis of physics, chemistry and courses, see our course index at engineering. Advances in this area the back of this prospectus. • Self-contained, purpose-built drive technology developments in Materials Science Centre all major industrial sectors, from exploiting a full range of well aerospace and power generation, Biomaterials Science and equipped laboratories, lecture to electronics and Tissue Engineering BSc 3yrs rooms and advanced research telecommunications. Materials equipment UCAS Code J2BV scientists have unique • All courses accredited by IOM3, combinations of subject Biomaterials Science and fulfilling the academic knowledge and skills and are Tissue Engineering MEng 4yrs requirement for the award of highly sought after; they are UCAS Code BJ82 chartered engineer (CEng) status versatile and ideally suited to manage the multidiscipline Biomaterials Science and • One of the largest and most research teams usually found in Tissue Engineering with diverse university materials industrial research and Industrial Experience MEng activities in the world, bringing development. 4yrs together excellence in teaching UCAS Code J2B8 and research Years 1 and 2: Get a thorough grounding in the principles Materials Science and g overning the physical, chemical, Engineering BSc 3yrs Find out more and mechanical properties of all UCAS Code J500 www.manchester.ac.uk/materials solid materials. Learn to ug-materials@mancheste r.ac.uk Materials Science and understand how material Engineering MEng 4yrs t +44 (0)161 306 4149 structure, from the nano to the macro scale, governs behaviour, UCAS Code J501 Materials science is an exciting and learn the techniques used to Materials Science and and rapidly expanding field, with characterise structure and Engineering with Industrial excellent employment prospects in properties. Gain practical Experience MEng 4yrs a wide range of careers. At experience of designing and Manchester, you benefit from UCAS Code J503 selecting materials to solve internationally renowned teaching engineering challenges. See also Engineering and conducted by experts in the field, Science with an Integrated plus well-equipped laboratories Year 3 (BSc): Study advanced Foundation Year. and outstanding teaching topics such as functional ceramics, facilities, all backed by strong a dvanced processing and cellular industry links. materials. Undertake an individual research project over one-third of We pride ourselves on our friendly the year: as part of a research atmosphere and high level of team, use your initiative and staff/student contact through our imagination to work on mentoring and tutorial system. fascinating problems in materials Our student-run Materials Society science, while developing essential (Mat Soc) arranges various social practical and analytical skills and sporting activities within the valued by employers. School of Materials, including the annual Mat Soc ball.

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Year 3 (MEng): As above, plus Biomaterials Science Year 2: Study oral and craniofacial we introduce you to research and Tissue Engineering biomaterials science, methodology and practice. Study the use of materials in the biomechanics, molecular biology and tissue interactions and Year 3 (MEng with Industrial human body, principally for the biocompatibility. Continue to Experience): Work at a company replacement and regeneration of develop as a materials scientist selected by you, responsible for damaged or diseased tissues, and engineer via units on one or more substantial industrial covering many areas of biology, materials processing and materials projects under the joint biochemistry, anatomy, cell degradation, alongside team- supervision of a lecturer and a biology, tissue engineering and based engineering design projects. scientist or engineer at your host materials science. organisation. You’ll find out what Gain an understandi ng of the Year 3: Explore more advanced it is like to work in industrial interactions that occur between topics, such as tissue engineering research and development, differing classes of material and and nano biomaterials. Undertake develop interpers onal and the many tissues and organs of an individual research project over management skills and gain the the human body. Such knowledge one third of the year. As part of a direct experience that employers is the key to the development of research team, use your initiative look for. new materials for implants and and imagination to work on cutting-edge problems in Year 4 (MEng/MEng with scaffolds in tissue engineering, bioma terials and tissue Industrial Experience): Choose stem cell differentiation, drug engineering, while developing from various higher-level, cutting- delivery, and many other essential practical and analytical edge topics such as functional biomedical applications. skills valued by employers. ceramics and polymers, advanced Year 1: Learn what controls the engineering alloys and nano properties of materials, building a materials. You could become strong foundation for the study of familiar with state-of-the-art biomaterials. Discover the analysis techniques, like electron fundamentals of biomedicine, microscopy and synchrotron and with lecture course units on neutron diffraction, via lectures anatomy and physiology and practical work in laboratories. biochemistry and cell biology. As Undertake an individual research you progress, learn the project (see Year 3 BSc above). implications of applying synthetic materials for clinical applications in detail.

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Year 3 (MEng): As above, plus Career opportunities we introduce you to research Materials Science and Engineering methodology and practice. graduates are highly sought after Year 3 (MEng with Industrial and all of our graduates either The course has been Experience): Work at a company find employment in industry or go selected by you, responsible for onto higher-level study. Careers challenging; however, one or more substantial industrial include research and the academic and projects under the joint supervision development, management, administrative staff are of a lecturer and a scientist or production and technical roles in ‘‘ a great team, readily engineer at your host organisation. companies such as Rolls Royce, We also encourage placements Airbus, Unilever, 3M and Jaguar. approachable, and have with more clinical focus. You’ll Biomaterial scientists and tissue been nothing but find out what it is like to work engineers are in strong demand in supportive. The School in industrial research and the growing healthcare, development, develop pharmaceutical and medical of Materials boasts a interpersonal and management devices sector, and all of our global reputation as one skills and gain the direct gradu ates find employment or go of the leaders in materials experience that employers look for. on to higher level study. Employers teaching and research. Year 4 (MEng/MEng with of recent graduates include GlaxoSmithKline, Systagenix, Industrial Experience): Choose Syed Ahmed two taught course units from DePuy, the MHRA, and Biocompatibles. BSc Materials Science various higher-level, cutting-edge and Engineering topics to complement your Alongside superior research skills, individual research project (see our MEng graduates boast an Year 3 BSc above). enhanced understanding of the principles of business management and administration, which is highly relevant to and valued by many employers. ’’

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Mathematics with a Modern Single Honours degrees TYPICAL OFFER Language BSc 4yrs Choose to study one of these either A-level: A*AA – AAA UCAS Code G1R9 as a three-year BSc or a four-year MMath. The BSc gives you a good See also Computer Science, IB: 37 all-round mathematical knowledge, Physics and Astronomy, plus the experience of more Mathematics must be at least 6 at Engineering and Science with specialised results, methods and Higher Level for IB applicants. an Integrated Foundation Year. ideas. Our MMath adds sufficient For entry requirements to specific depth to prepare you for courses, see our course index at postgraduate studies, mathematical the back of this prospectus. WHY MANCHESTER? research, or work as a specialist • One of the largest, most mathematician in industry, respected schools of business, or higher education. Actuarial Science and mathematics in Britain Mathematics BSc 3 yrs Mathematics • Purpose-built building with UCAS Code NG31 Ideal if you are mathematically excellent facilities Mathematics BSc 3yrs gifted and want to keep your • Portfolio of high-quality, flexible UCAS Code G100 options open. Choose whether to degrees, with a large range of construct a broad mathematical Mathematics MMath 4yrs options programme, or a more specialised UCAS Code G104 • Strong tradition of good one. You could study other relations between staff and subjects, such as accounting, Mathematics and Philosophy economics, a science, a language, BSc 3yrs students, and a high standard of pastoral care music, politics, or psychology. UCAS Code GV15 Whatever you choose, the Mathematics and Statistics flexibility of our course means you BSc 3yrs can graduate with finely honed Find out more skills in your preferred areas. UCAS Code GGC3 www.manchester.ac.uk/mat hs Mathematics and Statistics [email protected] Mathematics and Statistics MMath 4yrs t +44 (0)161 275 5803/4 Accredited by the Royal Statistical UCAS Code GG13 Society

Mathematics with Financial Our staff are involved in high Ideal if you expect to use statistics Mathematics MMath 4yrs quality research across the whole in your professional work. Develop UCAS Code G1NJ of mathematics, including projects the capacity to formulate and in pure mathematics, logic, analyse problems, and to interpret Mathematics with Business applied mathematics, numerical scientific evidence using and Management BSc 3yrs analysis, probability and statistics. appropriate statistical UCAS Code G1N2 The breadth and excellence of our methodology. Mathematics with Finance BSc research is reflected in the very 3yrs wide range of higher-level course Mathematics with Financial Mathematics UCAS Code G1N3 units we offer in later years of your degree. Interested in learning about some Mathematics with Financial of the recent applications of Mathematics BSc 3yrs mathematics to the financial UCAS Code G1NH sector? Acquire a working knowl edge of models, as well as procedures and modern financial

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mathematics applied in banks, Mathematics with Career opportunities broker companies, insurance and a Modern Language A mathematics degree is good the financial departments of Develop your language skills (in preparation for any career national and international French, German, Italian, Japanese, requiring people who can think companies. Russian, or Spanish) while you clearly and logically. Popular areas train as a mathematician in this of employment are computing Combined Honours degrees four-year degree. Learn about the (including operational research), Study a BSc degree combining culture, literature and history of finance, administration, statistics, mathematics with another subject. the relevant country. Spend Year teaching (schools and colleges) Mathematical content is less than 3 overseas at a university studying and postgraduate study. in Single Honours, but the same mathematics, carrying out Several of our course units aim to skills are included. Mathematics approved paid work (eg in a extend your skills in ways that may makes up about two-thirds of the school), or improving your prove useful for your future career. ‘Mathematics with’ degrees; language on an approved course. For example: Career Management ‘Mathematics and’ degrees give See Modern Languages. Skills, run in collaboration with equal we ighting to the two our University’s Careers Service, disciplines. The G1N3 and NG31 Mathematics with Business helps you to improve your degrees are exceptions, as and Management presentation and group Mathematics forms about three- Build a firm foundation of interaction skills, and develop job quarters of these degrees. mathematics while gaining a pplication skills, such as CV exposure to the modern theory writing, to help you get a job Actuarial Science and practice of business, when you graduate. and Mathematics management and accounting. Accredited by the Institute You could cover fundamentals and Faculty of Actuaries of accounting and finance, marketing and strategy, and Develop a unique fusion of strong organisational behaviour. See mathematical skills, real-world Business Studies and I chose to study at The business understanding, Management. University of Manchester communication, interpersonal and leadership skills, all of which have because of the quality been identified by the actuari al Mathematics with Finance of the School of Interested in financial systems? profession as core skills required ‘‘Mathematics, combined by graduates and trainee Ta ke the same course units in actuaries. The degree’s financial mathematics as with the scope and accreditation means you will, Mathematics with Financial diverse range of course Mathematics, but with a greater subject to performance, be eligible unit choices – as well for a number of exemptions from component of accounting and the IFA’s professional finance, including the study of as the opportunity to examinations. international markets and study in one of the most multinational corporate finance. incredible cities on Mathematics and Philosophy the planet! Explore both subjects and the interesting border region between Joe Bronstein the two. Choose from a wide MMath Mathematics range of options in each discipline, including project work. See Philosophy. ’’ 157 Mechanical Engineering

Find out more Professional accreditation TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/mace All our Mechanical Engineering A-level: AAA-AAB [email protected] degrees are professionally IB: 37-35 t +44 (0)161 306 9210 accredited by the relevant bodies. For full details, see: For entry requirements to specific www.manchester.ac.uk/mace/u courses, see our course index at One of the pioneers in ndergraduate/accreditation the back of this prospectus. engineering education and research, the Mechanics Institute – What you study the forerunner to The University of Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering BEng 3yrs Manchester – was founded by Sir Years 1 and 2: Learn basic UCAS Code H300 William Fairbairn in 1824. The term ‘Reynolds Number’ engineering knowledge and skills. Mechanical Engineering recognises the fundamental work Subject to satisfactory MEng 4yrs in fluid flow that was undertaken performance, you may transfer UCAS Code H303 by our first professor, Osborne from the BEng to an MEng course Reynolds (appointed in 1868). at the end of Year 2. Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Experience Today, all our engineering degrees Year 3 (BEng): Foc us on MEng 5yrs have a strong base of engineering individual work, including a major solo investigative project. UCAS Code H301 science, while giving you a good practical grounding and Years 3 and 4 (MEng): Select Mechanical Engineering with knowledge of the environment subjects from a range of options Management BEng 3yrs you will work in as a professional to suit your individual needs UCAS Code H3N1 engineer. Because our staff are and career aspirations, combined actively involved in research, our Mechanical Engineering with with substantial individual and teaching evolves to reflect state- group projects. Management MEng 4yrs of-the-art technology, giving you UCAS Code H3ND access to expertise in a wide range Mechanical Engineering See also Engineering and of engineering disciplines. with Management Science with an Integrated Plenty of staff contact and our Run jointly with Manchester Foundation Year. high quality resources will ensure Business School you a challenging and rewarding Study mechanical and WHY MANCHESTER? experience. We provide excellent manufacturing engineering, • Long, distinguished history in student support, including an alongside industrial organisation, engineering education and extensive tutorial system for fina ncial reporting and research – Manchester was the academic support and pastoral management of people first English university to offer an care, student-to-student and systems. Mechanical engineering degree mentoring, a dedicated engineering is concerned with not undergraduate office, and • Extensive engineering industry only technology, but also people, approachable, well-qualified and links, enhancing both money and organisations. Projects co-operative staff. undergraduate teaching and must be planned, costed and ground-breaking research managed, and products must be • Excellent resources for designed, manufactured and information, computation and marketed in the real world, experi mentation therefore requiring an engineer to possess skills in management, • Professional accreditation by decision-making and finance. relevant UK institutions.

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Mechanical Engineering By gaining highly developed with Industrial Experience transferable skills, such as Boost your employment prospects simulation, problem-solving, further by taking a structured design, management and placement year in industry after modelling, a significant proportion Support in place mfro completing the first three years of of our graduates follow alternative lecturers for the students the Mechanical Engineering careers in high-level technology. is first class, as they are They are also increasingly sought course. Your academic tutor will always available to offer visit you at your place of work. after for positions in the business, ‘‘ management and financial arenas. help if you are struggling. Career opportunities As a graduate of the ‘with The Mechanical Mechanical engineering is the Management’ and ‘Industrial Engineering course is most fundamental of all the Experience’ courses, you eme rge diverse and includes a engineering disciplines. with not only solid engineering variety of course units to Professional mechanical engineers training, but also a useful insight can work in a whole range of into the commercial world, which give as much experience industries: aerospace, automobile, equips you for a wide range of as possible. building services, construction, careers, including general electronics, manufacturing and management and sales, as well as Rebecca Hodge the process industries. The jobs in more technical fields. BEng Mechanical Engineering demand for mechanical engineers You have access to advice and is high and relatively stable, development opportunities at the because it is less affected by best university Careers Service in recession in any single industry. the UK, and help is available to Mechanical engineers also find you on all aspects of your career. employment opportunities in other branches of engineering, where their key skills can play important roles. ’’

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Find out more You will have early clinical TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/medicine experience both in hospital and in Due to the detailed nature of [email protected] the community. entry requirements for Medicine t +44 (0)161 275 5025 As you progress through your courses, we are unable to include course, teaching and learning will a typical offer in the prospectus. explore your future role within the At Manchester, we ensure that all For complete and up-to-date healthcare team and introduce our medical gra duates have information on our entry you to the clinical science strengths in the following areas: requirements, you will need to necessary for medical practice. visit our website at: • Quality: Able to demonstrate You will become able to: www.manchester.ac.uk/medicine high standards in both academic If you are uncertain about the and clinical achievements • Develop personal themes and interests, such as global health, acceptability of your status or • Values: Possessing a strong academic research, or leadership qualifications, please contact us ethical framework, integrity, a (see below for details). We try to strong sense of responsibility (for • Acquire early in your degree the prov ide a personal service to all patients and communities), self- basic skills of medicine our applicants. awareness, an empowering (communication, history-taking, For entry requirements to specific sense of fairness (needs of a examination, procedural), courses, see our course index at diverse society, both locally and building and excelling in these the back of this prospectus. internationally) and the ability to as your course progresses become a leader and age nt of • Develop around the three main change themes of a doctor as Medicine (including Foundation • Knowledge, skills and practitioner, scholar and Year) MBChB 6yrs attributes: Possessing an scientist, and professional UCAS Code A104 extensive knowledge base that is • Build on what you learn in the applied through highly developed Medicine MBChB 5yrs three main themes, adding new interpersonal and clinical skills UCAS Code A106 topics and demonstrating your mastery of these through What you study assessments WHY MANCHESTER? Your degree course is divided into three phases of study, which • Benefit from assessments that • Modern and developing degree include training in the learning drive you towards achievement course at a world-ranking skills appropriate to ease your of excellence, with timely, university transition to studying medicine at detailed feedback • One of only five Academic a world-ranking university. Health Science Centres in the In phase one, we introduce you to country, carrying out world- the biome dical, behavioural and leadi ng research within our School social sciences underpinning and with our NHS partners that medicine. Course units adopt a informs our courses blend of different methods of • Personalised education teaching and learning, including supported by an academic advisor small-group (case-based, problem- who is a doctor and will stay with based, project-based and you throughout your course enquiry-based), e-learning, • Early clinical experience both in lectures, symposia and laboratory hospital and in the community sessions (in anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and microbiology).

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Where you study Foundation Year Years 1 and 2: On campus. If you do not have the requi red science qualifications for the five- Years 3 to 5: Gain the greatest year course, but have achieved possible access to a broad range good A-levels in other subjects, You are given exposure to of patients and doctors as teacher or have equivalent academic patients at an early stage. and role model, via off-campus competence or potential, apply clinical attachments through one This gives you the tools for our Foundation Year, which of our four teaching hospitals and required to conduct will provide you with the their associated district general ‘‘ necessary underpinnings of yourself within a hospital hospitals: Central Manchester biomedical sciences. The year is Foundation Trust (MRI), University environment. run in collaboration with Xaverian Hospital of South Manchester NHS College (www.xaverian.ac.uk), Trust (South), Salford Royal NHS Neil Forbes close to our campus. Satisfactory Founda tion Trust (Salford), Medicine MBChB completion leads directly on to the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals five-year course. Foundation Trust (Preston). We work in close partnership with Career opportunities local NHS Hospital and UK medical graduates are Community Trusts in Greater currently able to secure a place on Manchester and the wider North the two-year course that leads to West. This enables you to full registration with the General undertake a range of placements Medical Council. in both community and hospital settings. All placements are ’’ regularly audited to ensure you have a high-quality learning experience.

European Studies You may apply to enrol on the European Studies option in Year 1, if you have linguistic ability to AS or A2-level standard (or equivalent) in French, German, or Spanish. On this option, you enhance your language skills by weekly tuition in your selected language and will undertake an extended placement at one of our partner universities in France, Germany, Spain, or Switzerland.

161 After graduating in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), Sian went on to study for an MA in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response. She then worked as a student marketing intern at the University for a year before starting her job as administrator of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute and UK International Trauma Register.

Manchester made me... want to stay

Come and see Manchester on a rainy My year’s internship was invaluable. day! It poured with rain all day on my I got so much experience and my manager open day and still I knew it was where I was absolutely amazing about making sure wanted to be. that I got involved in everything. She really encouraged me to go on all types of There’s such a lot of flexibility on the training. It developed my confidence more PPE course, you can mould it to be exactly than I can say. what you want. I’ve got friends on PPE who do statistical jobs now because they I know I want to stay in Manchester. focused on Economics. Others have gone I worked in Rwanda after I graduated and on to do postgraduate degrees in Deep I do enjoy travelling for short amounts of Philosophy. The amount of choice it gives time, but I’m very much a home girl. And you is excellent. Manchester is definitely home. During my masters we organised a student-led conference to fill a gap. A lot of conferences are for academics with nothing really for students. It was a really good way to make strong friendships with people. We got some big names and it was a huge success.

162 Sian Hughes Politics, Philosophy and Economics graduate

“Manchester has rightly got a reputation as a university that’s academic without being arrogant. And there’s so much more to Manchester: the nightlife, the culture. Manchester as a whole is fantastic.”

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Modern Language and The Middle East plays an TYPICAL OFFER Business and Management important economic and political A-level: ABB-BBC (Arabic) BA 4yrs role in the modern world, and IB: 35-29 UCAS Code TN61 offers great cultural diversity and richness. Several globally For entry requirements to specific Modern Middle Eastern History important religious traditions courses, see our course index at BA 3yrs come from the Middle East, the back of this prospectus. UCAS Code V140 including those that have shaped Modern Middle Eastern History the history of Europe. A Middle Eastern Language and and a Middle Eastern Language At Manchester, we accompany a Modern European Language (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian or teaching in the Middle Eastern BA 4yrs Turkish) BA 4yrs languages – Arabic, Hebrew, UCAS Code (Arabic: V2T1; UCAS Code TR69 Turkish a nd Persian – with the Hebrew: V2T6 ; Persian : V2T3 ; study of the national cultures, Arabic Studies BA 4yrs Turkish : V2T0) societies and religious traditions, UCAS Code T624 placed in the context of their Middle Eastern neighbours. These English Language and a Middle languages are taught ab initio (no WHY MANCHESTER? Eastern Language BA 4yrs prior knowledge required). Our UCAS Code QT36 • More than a century’s courses explore the fascination of experience in studying the the modern Middle East, but also Hebrew and Israel Studies Middle East BA 4yrs its historical roots, and you can • Teaching informed by the explore classical forms of the UCAS Code Q4T6 research of internationally modern languages in some Linguistics and a Middle reputed staff with expertise in courses. Eastern Language BA 4yrs diverse fields – eg contemporary Our University Library and UCAS Code QT16 politics, modern history, religious University Language Centre studies, literature, film, and the Middle Eastern Languages provide excellent learning facilities study of contemporary Middle and support. BA 4yrs Eastern cultures and societies UCAS Code T608 • Degrees offering ample room for Middle Eastern Studies BA 3yrs personal choice and flexibility UCAS Code T601 • Focus on the present-day Middle Middle Eastern Studies and a East and the historical roots of Middle Eastern Language its current upheavals (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian or • Based in a multicultural city with Turkish) BA 4yrs Middle Eastern communities UCAS Code (Arabic: T610; Hebrew: T6Q4 ; Persian : T613 ; Turkish : VT61) Find out more Middle Eastern Studies and www.manchester.ac.uk/alc Screen Studies BA 4yrs ug.l [email protected] UCAS Code TW66 t +44 (0)161 275 3211

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What you study Linguistics and a Middle Middle Eastern Studies and a Eastern Language Middle Eastern Language A Middle Eastern Language Combine the study of linguistics (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian or and a Modern European with a Middle Eastern language. Turkish) Language Spend Year 3 on an intensive As Middle Eastern Studies above, Combine the study of two language course in a country plus the chance to gain languages with options in culture, where your chosen language is competency in a Middle Easte rn literature, politics, history, spoken. See Linguistics and language while developing linguistics and in religious studies. English Language. knowledge and understanding of If you study French or Spanish, the relevant countries and you need an A-level (minimum Middle Eastern Languages cultures. grade A) in that language. For Russian, Italian and German, you Achieve proficiency in two of either Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, or Persian Middle Eastern Studies and can study those languages ab Screen Studies initio; however, you must have at (NB Turkish and Persian may not be Study a Middle Eastern language least one A-level (minimum grade studied together), while studying while also focusing on B) in a foreign language. Spend the languages in their cultural and understanding film, its history and Year 3 abroad, divided between a historical context. Spend Year 3 pre-history, and its development Middle Eastern country and abroad at educational institutions in across other media (eg television, another country in which your two Middle Eastern countries DVD, internet distribution). Spend chosen languages are spoken. relevant to your languages, gaining confidence in your language skills Year 3 on an intensive language and first-hand experience of course in a country where your Arabic Studies contemporary life in these countries. chosen language is spoken. Combine written and spoken Modern Standard Arabic, with a Middle Eastern Studies Modern Language and wide choice of options in culture, Gain in-depth understanding of a Business and Management literature, history, international (Arabic) relations, politics and religious large region of central importance Study business and management studies. Build your own tailor- to the conte mporary world. Your in both European and global made curriculum around the course is informed by academic contexts, as well as the Arabic compulsory language core on this developments in fields such as language. You will learn aspects flexible course. Spend Year 3 globalisation, cultural identity, of management, economics, abroad on an intensive language diaspora and emigration studies, finance, accounting and course in a country where Arabic gender studies, and post-colonial international business issues. is spoken. studies, all of which are based on techniques in the analysis of Spend Year 3 abroad on an evidence across several Middle intensive language course in a English Language and a country where Arabic is spoken. Middle Eastern Language Eastern languages. Combine the study of the English Language skills are useful in language with a Middle Eastern achieving an advanced language. Spend Year 3 on an understanding of the Middle East, intensive language course in a but they are not the only .route country where your chosen This degree therefore encourages language is spoken. See the study of language(s) up to the Linguistics and English Language. end of Year 2, but does not make language study compulsory. Build Hebrew and Israel Studies your own tailor-made curriculum As Arabic Studi es above, but you according to your interests and spend Year 3 in Israel. priorities on this flexible course.

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Modern Middle Eastern Career opportunities History Opportunities exist for a wide Gain an in-depth understanding range of careers. Our graduates of the recent history of a large develop skills that are valuable for region that is of central many occupations, including Studying Arabic at importance in the contemporary teaching in schools and colleges, Manchester has given me world. Study the intellectual and broadcasting and print journalism, a better understanding of political forces, and the internal the publishing, legal, personnel the Middle East whilst conflicts, which have transformed and public sector professions, the ‘‘ the Middle East in modern times. Civil Service (including the foreign allowing me to develop Discover the complex and dynamic service and various intelligence essential academic skills, interactions between the peoples services), private business thanks to the friendly and and states of the Middle East and (especially oil, retail, tourism, and the wider international real estate), and many others. expert staff here in the communi ty. We also offer you the opportunity department. I was also to embark on postgraduate able to live and study Modern Middle Eastern studies within one of Middle Arabic in Egypt and History and a Middle Eastern Eastern Studies' sub-disciplines. Language (Arabic, Hebrew, A number of our graduates have Jordan, which was an Persian or Turkish) followed this path and pursued incredible experience. As Modern Middle Eastern History successful careers in higher above, plus the chance to achieve education within the UK and Kelly Murphy near-native proficiency in your abroad. BA Middle Eastern Studies and chosen language and study it a Modern European Language within its cultural and historical context. ’’

166 ABCDEFGHIJKL M Modern Languages

Our modern language provision Your progress and welfare are TYPICAL OFFER includes Japanese, Chinese, monitored by an academic advisor, A-level: AAA-BBC French, German, Italian, Russian, who can offer advice whenever IB: 37-29 Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, necessary. You also maintain a Hebrew, Persian and Turkish to personal development plan that For entry requirements to specific degree level, as well as instruction you can discuss with your courses, see our course index at in Catalan, Polish and Dutch. Our academic advisor. This helps you the back of this prospectus. Language Centre also offers assess your skills development, courses in English language and in and aids your career prospects a wide range of foreign languages by enabling you to build up a See also Chinese, European for students throughout the personal profile. Studies, French, German, Italian, University. Japanese, Middle Eastern Studies, Skills development Russian, Spanish and Portuguese. You can explore a wide range of subjects relating to the se and specialisation languages and the countries The languages specialisation where they are spoken. Besides enables you to study a modern WHY MANCHESTER? linguistic expertise, you acquire language over four years, • Modern language provision essential skills in IT, analysis, including a compulsory period of among the broadest and most communication, team working residence abroad in Year 3, in a diverse in the UK, with varied, and time management. country where the language you flexible courses study is widely spoken. We offer Single and Joint Honours • Training in the contemporary degrees, an Integrated Diverse activities designed to build spoken and written language, as Professional Master in Languages on your linguistic abilities include well as exposure to regional (IPML) – a prestigious work in speaking, listening, dialects, conducted largely by undergraduate masters – and reading and writing (including native speakers various combined courses with translation work). • Close links with representative partners across the University. Year 1 includes introductory units institutions of French, Spanish, covering linguist ic, cultural, German, Italian, Chinese and Facilities and resources literary, or historical subjects. As Japanese Our Uni versity Library, brand-new you progress, you can choose Learning Commons and our from an enormous range of more • Award-winning teachers and University Language Centre all specialised subjects, such as highly rated academic research have superb resources and self- linguistics, cultural studies, film staff, attracting generous study facilities. The ULC also helps and media studies, history, politics, government funding. put you in touch with native religion, literature and translation. speakers for regular conversation If you study a language in practice in your chosen language. combination with another subject We enjoy close links with (including a second language), Find out more branches of the Alliance Française you will study the two areas www.manchester.ac.uk/alc and Instituto Cervantes, both equally during Year 1. You may [email protected] based in the city centre, and we continue with this equal split, or t +44 (0)161 275 3211 are an official Prüfungszentrum weight your studies in a two- for Goe the-Institut examinations thirds/one-third combination in in German language. Years 2 and 4. This flexible

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approach enables you to build up a highly distinctive academic profile that is tailored to your particular interests and aims.

Career opportunities Language graduates are extremely successful in the job market; employers value high-level language skills, even where jobs do not directly require foreign languages. Your linguistic expertise and the diverse skills you acquire during your studies will open up many care er paths with an international dimension in areas such as business, industry and finance. Our alumni have pursued careers in areas such as journalism, broadcasting, IT, marketing, law, finance, project management, energy and publishing. You may also opt for further study, for a professional or vocational qualification (such as a PGCE) or for a higher degree (such as an MA or a PhD).

168 ABCDEFGHIJKL M STUDY ABROAD opportunities Music

• Around 100 departmental Multimillion-pound facilities TYPICAL OFFER concerts each year to standards Our contemporary £10 million A-level: AAB that equal those of many music-making facilities are among (Joint course with RNCM AAA) conservatoires the finest you’ll find anywhere. IB: 36-35 These include the Cosmo Find out more Rodewald Concert Hall, John You also need Associated Board Thaw Studio Theatre, Lenagan (or equivalent examinations) www.manchester.ac.uk/music Library, extensive audio/visual Grade 8, preferably at Distinction, [email protected] provision, the NOVARS on an instrument/voice. t +44 (0)161 275 4987 electrocoustic studios, and Providing a rare combination of For entry requirements to specific enhanced performance, workshop academic excellence with what is courses, see our course index at and practice spaces. the back of this prospectus. arguably the liveliest performance culture of any university, Teaching excellence Manchester is now recognised as Music MusB 3yrs Our lecturing staff of composers, UCAS Code W302 one of the best places to study music anywhere. performers and musicologists rank MusB and PgDip RNCM 4yrs among the finest minds in their (Applications via World-class talent fields worldwide. This research culture is the foundation for a www.cukas.ac.uk – With three professional orchestras distinctly unconventional CUKAS Code 399F) (BBC Philharmonic, Hallé curriculum of cutting-edge Music and Drama BA 3yrs Orchestra and Manchester teaching, and is complemented by UCAS Code WW34 Camerata), the BBC, Bridgewater first-class visiting instrume ntal Hall and Royal Northern College See Drama. teachers from the city’s three of Music (RNCM), Manchester is professional orchestras. WHY MANCHESTER? home to more professional music- • Consistently ranked within the making than any other UK city At Manchester, we see UK’s top three music departments outside of London – and benefits performance (making music), for the past 15 years from having a more compact and musicology (thinking about music) and composition (creating new • Consistently high satisfaction intimate music-making community music) as three sides of an ratings in the National Student than the capital city. equilateral triangle that all Survey – 96% in 2012 We put on more than 100 strengthen and complement one concerts every year, covering a • Manchester is home to more another. We pursue excellence in range from orchestral, choral, professional music-making than all three, and are particularly opera, contemporary, any other UK city outside London passionate about exploring the experimental and electroacoustic • Instrumental teachers drawn ways these things support and works, to jazz and world music. from the city’s three professional inform one another. Our internationally acclaimed orchestras, with many shared string quartet in residence, the with the Royal Northe rn College Quatuor Danel, offers chamber of Music music coaching, concerts and • Music at Manchester is housed seminars. Our Contemporary in one of Manchester’s premiere Ensemble in Association, Psappha, concert venues, including an provides a professional platform £8 million purpose-built building for the work of student with a state-of-the-art concert composers. hall and £2 million computer music research studios

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What you study Entrance to this course is highly Our course structures are highly competitive. To apply, you must flexible and offer a huge amount submit an application for course of choice, allowing you to pursue 399F to the RNCM via CUKAS by training to the highest academic early October, stating ‘Joint course I had a lot of performance and professional standards, with The University of opportunities, which whatever your interests. Manchester’. Your appl ication will was a big bonus. be equally reviewed by the RNCM Perhaps most MusB and the University. If you wish to ‘‘ Develop your existing skills to the be considered for the University importantly, the highest levels, discover aspects of MusB, in the event that your joint department provided the subject you may not even have course application is unsuccessful, me with a safe, heard of yet, and prepare for your you MUST apply to the MusB future career on our flagship three- course W302 through UCAS as supportive environment year degree. Develop a portfolio of well. where I felt I had the study that suits you as an individual space to spread my on our flexible course: you will Music and Drama initially explore the breadth of this As well as music, study theatre, musical wings and really wide-ranging subject, then acquire drama and film through history, work out where I was the depth of understanding and skill theory and practical performance heading musically. that you need in your chosen areas on this course. One-third of your of specialism. With course units time focuses on mus ic, one-third Marcus Farnsworth ranging from digital entertainment on drama, and one-third on MusB graduate and technologies to medieval notation, interdisciplinary topics, such as winner of the 2011 from world music to Wagnerian music theatre, or music and film. Ferrier Competition opera, and from film-music composition to conducting, our Career opportunities course promises to stimulate you as A Music degree from Manchester a musician practically, intellectually provides excellent training for a and creatively. host of careers, both within and outside of the music industry. Our MusB and PgDip RNCM graduates include some of the Joint Course country’s leading new performers, composers, conductors and music Combine study at a premier music scholars. Some go on to become conservatoire with one of the most music teachers, but a degree in highly rated university music Music doesn’t limit you – ’’ departments in the UK, on our employers know that our MusB (Hons) and graduate graduates are dedicated, creative, diploma RNCM four-year double versatile, excellent team players, degree. Our unique course highly organised, can work on their provides excellent training for own initiative and have exceptional students who are gifted both powers of concentration. Our academically and as performers. graduates’ careers include jobs as You follow both undergraduate diverse as accountancy, law, courses in Years 1 to 3, then spend journalism, broadcasting, Year 4 at the Royal Northern publishing, and the military. College of Music (200 metres from our School). Most performance tuition is provided by the RNCM. 170 ABCDEFGHIJKLM N Nursing and Midwifery

Find out more able to accept applications for TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/nursing these courses from UK and EU BNurs [email protected] citizens. UK students accepted A-level: Children’s: BBB, Adult: Adult: t +44 (0)161 306 7600 onto the courses may also apply BBC, Mental Health: BCC Child/Mental Health: for an NHS bursary. See: IB: 31-28 t +44 (0)161 306 7603 www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/students [email protected] BMidwif t +44 (0)161 306 7602 What you study A-level: ABB IB: 34-33 Our School topped the UK table Bachelor of Nursing (BNurs) for nursing and midwifery research Specialise in one of three fields of For entry requirements to specific in the last Research Assessment nursing practice: adult nursing, courses, see our course index at Exercise (2008) and regularly mental health nursing or child the back of this prospectus. receives excellent independent nursing. You must choose your assessments for the quality of our field before starting this course. teaching and learning. Courses are Study aspects of nursing theory Adult Nursing BNurs 3yrs divided equally between campus- UCAS Code B740 and practice core to all fields of based academic study and practice nursing throughout the course; Child Nursing BNurs 3yrs learning experience in a range of the emphasis on your chosen settings, where you are supervised UCAS Code B730 specialist field increases each year. by qualified health professionals We emphasise the importance of Mental Health Nursing (mentors). competence in clinical nursing BNurs 3yrs To allow you sufficient time in practice combined with in-depth UCAS Code B762 practice, our courses are based on knowledge and evidence-based a full-time working week in which Midwifery BMidwif 3yrs decision-making skills. you work similar shifts to your UCAS Code B720 Study the theoretical basis of mentor when in a practice setting. nursing practice and a range of This includes weekends, bank theories of human functioning holidays and night duty. Additional drawn from behavioural, social WHY MANCHESTER? private study is required each week and biological sciences. Undertake • One of the UK’s leading to prepare for lectures, practice supervised clinical practice in a departments in nursing, placements and assessments. range of nursing settings, midwifery and social work As well as gaining an academic increasing your clinical experience. qualification, successful students • International reputation for Year 1: Study nursing theory and become eligible for registration with outstanding teaching and practice, anatomy and physiology, the Nursing and Midwifery Council research microbiology, pharmacology, social (NMC) as a nurse or midwife, and behavioural sciences, nursing • Excellent clinical practice allowing you to practice in a wide theory, study skills, epidemiology learning opportunities in a range range of settings across the UK. Our and public health, research and of hospital and community courses prepare you to provide high evidence-based practice, and settings quality care to your clients and communication. Some shared • Registered qualification from the equip you with the potential to learning with students from other UK Nursing and Midwifery become future leaders and fields, with application of shared Council (NMC), allowing you to researchers in your chosen field. learning to your chosen field. practice as a qualified nurse or Funding Undertake at least two practice midwife All UK and EU students on nursing placements. and midwifery courses have their Years 2 and 3: Develop in-depth tuition fees paid in full by the NHS. knowledge and skills related to Due to funding issues, we are only your chosen field, across a range 171 Nursing and Midwifery

of settings and specific process. Study essential information practice by examining key aspects patient/client groups with a variety about childbearing, midwifery of management, leadership and of acute, medium- and long-term theory and evidence-based practice development. Complete a conditions. Elements of shared practice, as well as core topics such dissertation, learning to evaluate learning across all fields include as anatomy and physiology, research evidence and apply such pathology, pharmacology, health microbiology, and communication knowledge to practice, or begin to psychology, nursing assessment, skills. Gain detailed knowledge and plan your own research project. management and leadership, and understanding of infant feeding As well as the normal ra nge of research- and evidence-based issues. Practice placements focus on midwifery placements in Year 3, practice. You also join with the development of basic midwifery you regularly provide care for a students across the University to skills in a range of settings, small caseload of families. complete the Manchester including community, delivery suite Leadership Programme. and post-natal wards. Career opportunities Supervised practice placements Year 2: Examine aspects of Our graduates have taken up a increase in number each year and complicated childbirth and the wide variety of positions in their include an elective placement specific roles, responsibilities and chosen specialities in the UK and where you experience an area of skills of midwives when caring for overseas. Career prospects are specific interest. Year 3 develops women with complex needs. Study excellent, with significant and extends your knowledge and strategies for caring for sick and at- opportunities for employment and practice and the final extended risk neonates. Gain further further professional development practice placement enables you to knowledge and skills for and specialisation. UK-registered develop skills in management and understanding research, forming a nursing and midwifery leadership, ready for your role as a sound foundation for critically qualifications are recognised in qualified nurse. appraising research studies as a many countries and therefore basis for evidence-based provide potential opportunities for Bachelor of Midwifery (BMidwif) approaches to midwifery practice. travel and work abroad. Benefit from our philosophy of Examine models of midwifery-led midwifery practice, where midwives care, preparing for your midwifery work in partnership with women case holding experience. You will and their families to provide care also join with students from across that will meet their individual needs. the wider University to complete the The BMidwif degree has Learn to provide high quality care Manchester Leadership Programme. been a fantastic for your clients, and develop Practice placements will develop leadership skills, enabling you to your skills in providing antenatal, experience for me so far. contribute to the future intranatal and postnatal care. You All my learning has been development of maternity services. also undertake short placements ‘‘well supported by You will enjoy a well-structured in a neonatal or transitional care curriculum, excellent learning units, medical care environments lecturers and tutors, and opportunities, impressive learning and gynaecological areas. my time in the clinical resources and dedicated individual support. Your course is modular in Year 3: Consolidate and extend skills labs really helped structure and is divided equally your existing knowledge and skills prepare me for my clinical between theory and clinical practice. to facilitate the transition to placement. qualified midwife status, honing Year 1: Focus on the knowledge s kills for responding to and Olivia Duncan and skills needed to provide managing midwifery emergency BMidwif (Hons) midwifery care for women and situations and the role of the families experiencing a midwife in health promotion and physiologically normal childbirth public health. Prepare for qualified 172 ’’ ABCDEFGHIJKLMN O

Optometry

Find out more Informed teaching TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/ and research A-level: AAB lifesciences Our teaching is enhanced by the IB: 35 [email protected] contribution of more than 30 t +44 (0)161 275 5032 optometrists, dispensing opticians, For entry requirements to specific orthoptists and ophthalmologists courses, see our course index at from private and hospital practice, the back of this prospectus. Manchester has long been an all of who are part-time members important centre for optometry. of the Faculty. The British Optical Association was Optometry BSc 3yrs founded here in 1964, and we Our research interests embrace UCAS Code B510 were the first UK university to most aspects of visual science, introduce a course leading to a from the interaction of contact Optometry MOptom 4yrs BSc in Ophthalmic Optics, the lenses with the ocular surface, to You should only apply to our BSc. term now superseded by the more the processing of retinal images in At the end of Year 2, if you would internationally recognised the brain – all of which supports like to continue onto the MOptom Optometry. your learning. Eurolens Research, course and are selected (based on the European Centre for Contact a good academic performance), Cutting-edge facilities Lens Research, is based here. Our you can do so. research has a global impact – the Optometry moved into brand- MPOD instrument, which is used new, purpose-built facilities at the around the world to assess heart of the biomedical section of macular pigment as a sign of WHY MANCHESTER? our campus in 2011. The Carys macular degeneration, was Bannister Building includes a • New, purpose-built facilities developed by optometry staff in dispensary, 16 bespoke optometric • Clinical experience at one of Manchester. examination rooms for Year 3 Europe’s leading eye hospitals: clinics, numerous specialist clinic Manchester Royal Eye Hospital What you study rooms and dedicated laboratories • Renowned researchers involved for non-clinical practical sessions. Year 1: Discover the scientific in your lectures, practicals and principles that underpin clinics, giving you excellent optometry, including the standards of teaching properties of light, the anatomy of the eye and the processing of • Option to take our MOptom – vision in the brain. Learn about the only course in the country ophthalmic appliances, such as that allows you to register lenses, and instrumentation, such directly with the General Optical as retinoscopes. Get introduced to Council and go straight into general eye examination practice when you graduate, techniques and start to meet without needing a year- of pre patients in your second semester. registration practice Year 2: Further develop your • 95% overall satisfaction in the knowledge of ophthalmic 2012 National Student Survey appliances and optometric instrumentation. Discover a dbroa range of new topics, including human disease processes, pharmacology, contact lens practice and binocular vision.

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Develop your clinical skills so that Career opportunities by the end of the year, under Optometry is a vocational course supervision, you will have the with excellent career prospects; competence and confidence to 96% of our graduates are examine members of the public. employed in a graduate job within I really liked having mock Spend one week full-time at six months of completing their patients from second Manchester Royal Eye Hospital degree. semester, first year. It was during your summer vacation, Optometry is rewarding work, a little daunting at first, gaining a wealth of practical involving meeting a variety of ‘‘ but it really helps you to clinical experience in all hospital people and helping them to lead a departments. This is a unique full er life by correcting their vision communicate with element of our degree courses with spectacles or contact lenses, patients, which is a skill and is not offered at any other UK establishing the eyes are healthy you'll need every day in university. and advising on eye-care matters. practice. Years 3 and 4: If you wish to Increasingly, optometrists are proceed to the MOptom at the becoming involved with a wide scope of practice, including Emily Dennam end of Year 2 and are selected, BSc Optometry based on good academic prescribing ocular therapeutics for performance and communication eye disease. skills, you embark on the final two Many graduates enjoy the years, which include a year of business challenge of establishing practical experience – in both and running their own optometric private practice and at an eye practices. Some optometrists hospital – plus advanced project choose to wor k in the Hospital Eye and lecture courses. Service, or you could choose to Otherwise, you take Year 3 of the teach or undertake research in BSc, including further industry or academia. ’’ comprehensive clinical pra ctice, hospital clinics and a dissertation. Find out more For more information, contact us For full details of all our course and ask for our Optometry units, visit: brochure. If you would like to www.manchester.ac.uk come and have a look around our /lifesciences facilities, contact our Recruitment and Admissions Office staff, who will be happy to organise a personal tour with a student ambassador at a mutually convenient time.

174 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO P Petroleum Engineering

The availability and exploitation of TYPICAL OFFER oil and gas resources underpin the A-level: AAB world's economy and, as the The Petroleum IB: 35 petroleum industry reaches Engineering course maturity, new h ydrocarbon For entry requirements to specific resources are becoming at The University of courses, see our course index at increasingly difficult to find. In Manchester is a great the back of this prospectus. addition, the worldwide demand ‘‘combination of for oil is increasing rapidly. The geoscience and decline in new discoveries, Petroleum Engineering coupled with increased demand, engineering, practical- BEng 3yrs has resulted in rising oil prices, based and theoretical UCAS Code H850 and so oil companies are placing work. The course units more emphasis on efficient Petroleum Engineering recovery to maintain production incorporated and the MEng 4yrs and meet increasing demands. connections with UCAS Code H851 Petroleum engineers work at the industry are placing me interface between geology and in excellent stead for a en gineering and play a pivotal role WHY MANCHESTER? in the efficient exploitation and graduate position in the • Joint course with teaching long-term recovery of oil and gas industry shared between our School of hydrocarbons. These Earth, Atmospheric and undergraduate courses are Sarah Barber Environmental Sciences and designed to equip you with the BEng Petroleum Engineering School of Chemical Engineering knowledge and skills that are and Analytical Sciences required by the petroleum industry. Several of the course • Industrial in put to course design units will be lead by industry and delivery professionals and the project work • Dedicated laboratory space is designed to simulate real with access to industry standard petroleum engineering problems. software Producing oil and gas from • Design projects in each year, reserves effectively and safely is of enabling you to put theory immense economic importance, ’’ into practice and requires a broad spectrum of knowledge and skills. These Petroleum Engineering Find out more courses aim to equip you with the www.manchester.ac.uk/seaes skills and knowledge required to [email protected] manage and operate oil fields t +44 (0)161 306 9360 effectively.

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Find out more Pharmacy at Manchester TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/pharmacy Established in 1883, pharmacy Due to the detailed nature of [email protected] and pharmaceutical sciences have entry requirements for the two t +44 (0)161 275 2334 a long tradition in Manchester. pharmacy courses, we are unable Today, we are an innovative leader to include a typical offer in the in the teaching of the subject and perform research of international prospectus. For complete and up Pharmacy as a profession to-date information on our entry repute. One of the most dramatic requirements for Pharmacy and advances in healthcare has been Our research is advanced within Pharmaceutical Science, you will the development of highly specific six themes: the design of novel need to visit our website: and effective medicines, which anti-cancer compounds; www.manchester.ac.uk/pharmacy have virtually eliminated killer improving the understanding and For entry requirements to specific diseases of the past and reduc ed design of anti-infective and novel courses, see our course index at the impact of many others. diagnostic agents; prediction of the back of this pros pectus. pha rmacokinetics in humans; Today, more than ever before, delivery and pharmacokinetics of administering the nation’s health biopharmaceuticals; controlled care requires a team effort Pharmacy MPharm (including and responsive drug delivery; and involving many professions. The policy-relevant medicines research. Foundation Year) 1 + 4yrs pharmacist is a key member of UCAS Code B231 this team, developing, dispensing You have the opportunity to participate in an area of research Pharmacy MPharm 4yrs and managing the use of medicines. in your final year, ranging from UCAS Code B230 traditional laboratory-based Community pharmacists have projects, pharmacy practice and everyday contact with the general professional topics, to outreach public, acting as a readily WHY MANCHESTER? and public engagement activities – accessible, qualified advisor on all of which are topical and have • Distinguished history at the first health matters. The combination UK university to award degrees in the past occasionally led to of a scientific discipline working publications. in pharmacy within a social context provides a • Unique combination of great deal of workplace What you study scientific, professional and satisfaction. clinical excellence in teaching to Hospital pharmacists are Foundation Year prepare you fully for all areas of responsible for provision of If you have A-levels (or equivalent) the pharmacy profession medicines to patients, and also in appropriate subjects, but not • Innovative teaching practices, provide advice to medical and the grades required for direct state-of-the-art teaching nursing colleagues on the action admission to our MPharm degree, faciliti es and specialist teacher and use of medicines and any but you have experienced practitioners ensure our courses potential toxic side effects. educational or other disadvantage, we encourage you are informative, immensely Industrial pharmacists work in rewarding and fun to apply to our Foundation Year. the areas of research, production You may also apply if you do not and marketing of medicines. have the required science qualifications for direct admission, but have achieved good A-level grades in other subjects, or can demonstrate equivalent academic competence or potential.

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We run this course in collaboration Follow a compulsory core course with Xaverian College unit with extensive specialisation (www.xaverian.ac.uk), a short in your final year, involving a walk from our campus, alongside large-scale project in the area of tutorials and laboratory classes in your choice. Undertake visits to a My experience as a the University’s School of Pharmacy. local hospital as a formal part of pharmacy student thus You study a common core of units your studies from Year 2 onwards, far has been amazing! in biology and chemistry, along participating in ward rounds and My favourite aspect has with some foundation mathematics discussing patient case histori es ‘‘ and statistics and a pharmacy with practising hospital been working through specific unit. pharmacists. courses in various Satisfactory completion of end-of- Your knowledge is mainly assessed scientific disciplines and year assessment leads onto our in end-of-semester examinations understanding their MPharm. by essay-type questions, short answers, multiple-choice contribution to pharmacy. MPharm questions and web-based This has allowed me to Gain a broad-based, scientifically assessment. Your practical skills also appreciate the are continuously assessed during strong education in pharmacy, expertise of my including extensive clinical practical classes and examinations. training, which enables you to In Year 4, you undertake a project professors and the work enter all areas of the profession on from which your laboratory, oral that goes into running the communication and report-writing graduation and to adapt to course. As such, I have changes that may occur during skills are assessed. Your final your professional life. Become degree mark is based on the great confidence in the conversant with the wide range of results of examinations in Years 2, quality of education I'm topics relating to pharmacy and 3 and 4, and the Year 4 project. receiving. the pharmaceutical sciences, be Career opportunities able to communicate effectively Christine Mwangi and appreciate the professional Upon successful completion of the Pharmacy MPharm and social role of the pharmacist. MPharm degree, the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Develop communication skills Britain recognises you as entitled through oral and written to register as a pharmacist after presentations, and learn via completing one year of pre- innovative teaching methods, such registration training. as problem- and enquiry-based learning, tutorials, video and Our Pharmacy course has a broad computer-assisted learning, interdisciplinary scientific base and alongside more traditional is flexible enough to meet methods of formal lectures and differing career aspirations, ’’ practical classes. whether in community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, the Use our computer-assisted pharmaceutical industry, or learning laboratory throughout research. your degree as an aid to your studies, and undertake role-play Pharmacy can offer you rewarding simulations via interactive video and worthwhile careers, with an programmes in therapeutics exceptional variety of interesting teaching. employment.

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What these questions have in TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? common is that they are A-level: AAB-ABB • Long-established tradition of fundamental to our ordinary IB: 35-34 teaching and research in understanding of the world. philosophy Unless we can answer them, we For entry requirements to specific cannot hope fully to understand • Cooperative and supportive courses, see our course index at knowledge, reality, mind, environment that promotes a the back of this prospectus. language, ethics, science, religion, spirit of open enquiry and or art. intellectual ri gour for our students To try to answer them, we need to Economics and Philosophy step outside of our ordinary way • Student-run Philosophy Society BA (Econ) 3yrs of thinking about the world, and that meets regularly for talks UCAS Code LV15 look at things from a different and social activities angle. We need to think logically, Philosophy BA 3yrs but also creatively; analytically, but UCAS Code V500 also imaginatively. Find out more Doing that can hurt your head Philosophy and Criminology www.manchester.ac.uk/ sometimes, but is also a lot of fun. BA (SocSci) 3yrs socialsciences t +44 (0)161 275 UCAS Code VL53 Philosophy at Manchester 4470/2291/1473/4748 We have a long and distinguished Philosophy and Politics history in philos ophy. Past BA (SocSci) 3yrs professors have included Samuel UCAS Code VL52 What is philosophy? Alexander, Dorothy Emmet, Here are some philosophical Michael Polanyi, Arthur Prior and Politics, Philosophy and questions… Graham Bird (Ludwig Wittgenstein Economics (BA) 3yrs was here for a while too, although Can we really know that things UCAS Code LV25 he was studying aeronautical are as they seem? engineering rather than Social Anthropology and Are we free to decide what to do, philosophy). when the universe is governed by Philosophy BA (SocSci) 3yrs Besides supporting the research of the strict laws of physics? UCAS Code LV65 our individual members, we have Could a machine think or have recently hosted a number of Sociology and Philosophy feelings? successful international BA (SocSci) 3yrs conferences and become host to Are any sorts of behaviour UCAS Code LV35 an annual series of Ro yal Institute objectively right or wrong, or do of Philosophy symposia. See also Economic and Social we merely think that they are right Studies; Mathematics; Physics and or wrong? Relations between students and Astronomy, Politics, Philosophy staff are friendly and relaxed, Are the claims of science and and Economics; Social Sciences. supported by our highly successful religion consistent? personal tutoring and mentoring What makes an artwork schemes. beautiful?

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What you study Career opportunities Studying philosophy teaches you Philosophy to think critically and imaginatively Gain in-depth knowledge and about a wide range of problems, understanding of some central and to present a clear and cogent areas of Western analytical case for your own conclusions. philosophy, and develop the ability These are transferable skills highly to evaluate and think through for prized by employers. yourself philosophical arguments and positions, on this structured Our recent graduates have gone yet flexible course, informed by on to enjoy careers in journalism, current research. law, publishing, social work and management and financial The distinctive feature of this consultancy. course is its analytical spine. Discover some central areas of analyti cal philosophy in Year 1 (including critical thinking, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of mind), While Philosophy is a equipping you to cover more challenging degree, the specialist course units in Years 2 support and guidance and 3. that lecturers and tutors Options include course units in ‘‘readily offer has definitely ethics, aesthetics, logic, metaphysics, the philosophy of made it rewarding! The language, the philosophy of structure of the course religion and the history of gives you a taster of most philosophy. of what philosophy has to Social Sciences offer, and then Combine Philosophy with encoura ges you to Criminology, Politics, Sociology, or Social Anthropology. Take a range explore those areas that of course units in social sciences are of greatest interest to disciplines in Years 1 and 2, you. including in Philosophy; then continue to do so in your final Rob Knowles year, or specialise in a single area. BA Philosophy Now taking our MRes Philosophy ’’ 179 STUDY ABROAD Physics opportunities and Astronomy

(including super fluids, TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? superconductors and liquid A-level: A*A*A-A*AA • One of the largest and most crystals); nanoscale and mesoscopic IB: 39-38 respected Schools of Physics and physics; non-linear dynamics and Astronomy in Britain, with two chaos; atomic, molecular and laser For entry requirements to specific Nobel Laureates on our staff manipulation physics; high energy courses, see our course index at particle physics; laser photonics; • State-of-the-art facilities for the back of this prospectus. nuclear physics; accelerator physics; teaching and research, following biophysics, and theoretical physics. Mathematics and Physics a £75 million extension and BSc 3yrs refurbishment Many of our physicists work at major experimental facilities UCAS Code FG31 • Only Russell Group Physics around the world. Our research department with an average Mathematics and Physics activities consistently attract overall student satisfaction score MMath&Phys 4yrs industrial support, and industry of over 95% over the last six UCAS Code FG3C has strongly backed our National Student Surveys Physics BSc 3yrs programme to encourage more • , the women to study physics. UCAS Code F300 internationally renowned centre Physics MPhys 4yrs for radio astronomy, is part of What you study UCAS Code F305 our School You may follow either a three-year Physics with Astrophysics • Well-equipped laboratories, BSc, or a four-year MPhys degree BSc 3yrs including rooftop optical and in most of our courses. You UCAS Code F3F5 radio telescopes, plus extensive usually decide which to choose at in-house computing facilities the start of Year 3, independent of Physics with Astrophysics and a dedicated library your original choice at the UCAS MPhys 4yrs application stage. UCAS Code F3FA Find out more Physics with Philosophy BSc 3yrs Physics www.manchester.ac.uk/physics UCAS Code F3V5 Provides a foundation in classical [email protected] physics in Years 1 and 2, including Physics with Philosophy t +44 (0)161 275 4210 dynamics, waves, electromagnetism MPhys 4yrs and thermodynamics. We also UCAS Code F3VM At Manchester, our reputation rests introduce newer concepts, such as equally on teaching and research. Physics with Study in Europe the unification of space and time, Our tradition has been established MPhys 4yrs the meaning of wave-particle by many eminent teachers and duality, and the relation between UCAS Code F301 researchers, including 12 Nobel entropy and disorder. This Physics with Theoretical Prize winners, such as Rutherford, introduction is taught through Physics BSc 3 years Bohr, Bragg, Cockcroft, Chadwick course units in special relativity, UCAS code F345 and Blackett – and, most recently, quantum mechanics, cosmology Geim and Novoselov, who received and statistical mechanics. Physics with Theoretical the prize in 2010 for their Physics MPhys 4yrs pioneering work on graphene. These modern concepts and the UCAS Code F346 techniques of classical physics lay the foundation for study in Years See also Engineering and Science Wide-ranging research 3 and 4, during which you may with an Integrated Foundation Year. Our research interests cover all of modern physics: astronomy; c hoose from a wide range of cosmology and astrophysics; options designed to develop your condensed and soft matter physics expertise in diverse topics,

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including: atomic and molecular Physics with Study in Europe* cosmology, high energy particle structure; solid-state electronic Combine a comprehensive study of physics, nuclear physics and quark devices; electromagnetic radiation; physics with one year of study in matter, and field theory in curved lasers; stars and cosmology; Europe. Get a working knowledge space-time. See Mathematics. particle and nuclear physics; and of a European language and a the more advanced aspects of different culture. Language tuition, Visit days theoretical physics. including some physics tutorials in Promising applicants will be the foreign language, forms an invited to attend one of our visit Physics with Astrophysics integral part of the course. days, held regularly between Ideal if you want to obtain a solid Exchanges are supported by the October and April. You will see grounding in physics, but also European Union’s Erasmus our School at first hand, meet study astronomy. programme. Most students study staff and current students, and will have an informal 30-minute Astrophysics principally involves at universities in France, Spain, interview with a member of staff. the application of the laws of Italy and Germany. physics to distant regions in which the physical conditions can only Physics with Philosophy Career opportunities More than two-thirds of our be inferred from the emission of Gain a solid grounding in all aspects graduates make direct use of their electromagnetic radiation. of theoretical and experimental knowledge of physics and work in physics, replacing a substantial Learn about the sun and the solar science-related, technical, or amount of laboratory work with system, the stars and the galaxy, computing jobs, or go into lecture courses and project work in distant galaxies and quasars and teaching or postgraduate research. the beginning of the universe in philosophy. Typical course units the Big Bang. Discover how to forming the philosophy stream Others go into the commercial, apply basic physics in situations include moral philosophy, theory of financial, actuarial and business that are often extreme compared knowledge, philosophy of science, sectors, pursuing careers in areas to those available on Earth. Enjoy and ethics. You might also study the such as management, banking, the chance to conduct works of Spinoza, Wittgenstein and accountancy, insurance and expe riments at Jodrell Bank, home Aristotle. marketing, where analytical, numerical and technical skills are to the world’s third largest fully If you continue to MPhys level, steerable radio telescope. you undertake a major project in highly valued. an area of physics and philosophy Physics with in Year 4, and choose from a Theoretical Physics diverse range of optional course Aimed at students interested in the units. See Philosophy. There are so many more mathematical and theoretical brilliant opportunities aspects of physics. A significant Mathematics and Physics to take advantage of! amount of practical work is Study both mathematics and physics replaced by lecture courses and in depth. Teaching is greatly Ashley Timmons project work in theoretical physics. strengthened by staff research ‘‘MPhys Physics In Years 1 and 2, you study the interests: we have large and lively topics of advanced dynamics, groups active in both applied advanced mathematics and mathematics and theoretical physics. Topics of study from applied computational physics. In Years 3 * In addition to our Study in and 4, you study in more depth mathematics may include Europe course, we have exchange topics of particular interest to you, hydrodynamics, waves, elasticity and programmes with universities in such as advanced quantum theory, modelling of industrial processes. North America, Singapore and electrodynamics and general Research interests of the theoretical Australia. You can apply to study at relativity. physicists cover, amongst others, ’’one of these universities in Year 3. 181 STUDY ABROAD Planning and Environmental opportunities Management

Find out more What you study www.manchester.ac.uk/planning TYPICAL OFFER All cours es A-level: BBB [email protected] Year 1: Gain a broad introduction IB: 32-31 t +44 (0)161 275 0969 to the environment and the MGeog / GIM with Planning problems of dealing with cities A-level: AAA The planning and management of and regions. Get a flavour of IB: 36 the environment is increasingly problems and issues faced by the professionals; examine social, For entry requirements to specific important as governments and economic, ecological and design courses, see our course index at societies all over the world aspects of the environment; learn the back of this prospectus. struggle to balance the demands of economic and sustainable to gather, analyse and present development. information; and undertake day Environmental Management field trips around the North West. BA 3yrs Have you ever wondered how the Make the transition to university place you live in has developed? UCAS Code F851 life via dedicated small group Who decides what kinds of tutorials and our highly successful Geography (Integrated development take place and where? student peer mentor system. Masters with Planning) What decisions impact upon the MGeog 4yrs state of the environment in your You may switch between courses at the end of this year. You UCAS Code F801 neighbourhood – or indeed the planet – and how they are made? continue for each course as Town and Country Planning follows: BA 3yrs To engage with these challenging questions, you need a good UCAS Code K402 Environmental Management understanding of the environment Year 2: Study topics such as and its many interactive processes. Town and Country Planning protected landscapes, rural You also need to understand the MTCP 4yrs management and sustainable impact that different types of UCAS Code K400 cities. Go on a rural field week interventions have on the and examine how the Urban Studies BSc 3yrs environment, whether in the form environment there is being UCAS Code K421 of a new se ttlement, or the managed, undertaking group- designation of a protected See also Environmental Science. work and presentations. Options landscape, as societies look to include a work placement with an develop and move forward. WHY MANCHESTER? organisation in environmental • The world’s first industrial city, management, and a course unit now a vibrant 21st century The Manchester environment from across the University. metropolis, set between three Manchester is a place of major urban change, with a modern city Year 3: Develop strong practice- national parks – an ideal study related skills in areas such as location centre, a regional shopping complex on its outskirts and one environmental law, environmental • Field trips throughout your of the fastest-growing airports in impact assessment, strategic degree, including one-week Europe. environmental assessment, and residential field trips in the UK project appraisal and auditing. and overseas Various rural environments also lie Write a dissertation on a topic of close at hand, including three your choice. Optional course units • Flexible courses with optional spectacular national parks. currently include sustainable course units from across the communities, cities and University, and the chance to consumption. spend one semester studying abroad in Year 2

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Geography Integrated Year 4: Develop your specialism Career opportunities Masters with Planning and undertake professional- Our academic and professional (MGeog) related studies such as land and courses lead to diverse employment Study our brand-new, four-year development; analysis and opportunities across public and master’s course, studying monitoring of spatial policies; and private sectors. More than half of geography in Years 1 to 3 with a international planning (with an the RTPI membership is based in final year of postgraduate-level overseas field trip). Take a course the private sector. Our graduates studies in town planning. Gain the unit in professional and career are popular with diverse employers, knowledge and skills necessary for developme nt. Options include a particularly in environmental a professional career in planning placement in a public or private consultancy, where your ability to and related areas. sector planning office, plus topics analyse and propose policies and such as: urban design and implement strategies is vital and a We are currently seeking regeneration, planning for wide variety of management and professional accreditation of this environmental change, communication skills is appreciated. course by the RTPI. environmental impact assessment, After London, Manchester hosts neighbourhood planning, the largest number of planning and Town and Country Planning community development, strategic environmental consultancies in (MTCP) environmental assessment, the UK. Take a four-year course that leads environmental impact assessment, If you decide not to follow a to an enhanced undergraduate and client-based projects. degree at master’s level and full vocational career, your experience in problem solving, wide knowledge professional recognition by the Urban Studies Royal Town Planning Institute base and transferable skills in Year 2: Take a management and (RTPI). Alternatively, you can take strategic thinking, teamwork, control approach to understanding the first three years and leave with creativity and communication will how cities and their regions change, a BA Honours degree that is still prepare you for several other including an in-depth look at town partially accredited by the RTPI. careers. A growing number of our planning and the management of graduates find jobs in non-planning Year 2: Study topics such as urban rural environments. Undertake areas, including business. policy and politics, rural practical projects, looking at management, protected landscapes settlement planning, and undertake and UK spatial planning. Undertake a week's rural studies, usually in a a field trip to a rural area in the UK, nearby national park. Options and take the highly practical include a course unit from across settlement project, developing skills the University, or studying abroad One of the many things for neighbourhood design. Options for a semester. that helped me in my include a course unit from across Year 3: Study the major problems career was the use of the University, or studying abroad of restructuring cities and regions. for a semester. outside lecturers and Write a dissertation on a topic of ‘‘professionals in the Year 3: Study core topics such as: your choice. Take a course unit in planning law, infrastructure and professional and career environment and planning spatial planning; and urban theory, development. sector to provide an planning theory and professional You could continue on to our values. Write a dissertation on a insight into the real world. MTCP. topic of your choice. Optional topics currently include: Chris Mars sustainable communities; climate BA Environmental change impacts; energy, power Management and society; and coastal processes. ’’ 183 Tina is a professor of Midwifery. She was made a dame in 2012 for services to midwifery, and particularly for her commitment to raising the profile of midwifery and women’s health through education and research in the UK and Africa.

Manchester made me... improve midwifery training

A lot of people think Midwifery’s all Global health and research is a key part about the babies and that’s obviously a of our work and we have so many experts really important element of it, but it’s at Manchester who can really bring the bigger than that. Midwifery is about curriculum alive. getting women in the optimum health to We’ve got a lot of experts with have a baby in the first place. It’s about international reputations. The trusts supporting them through the whole that are associated with us are very strong childbirth experience and with their babies so students get a good academic and afterwards. clinical experience. Manchester has a very I got involved in working in Africa 15 mixed demography, which means that years ago. We’ve got a very strong students support women and their families network of midwives there now and we’ve from lots of different social and ethnic worked to improve the training, education backgrounds – and those different and practice of midwives. Things are backgrounds bring with them different undoubtedly improving in many parts of challenges. So students get a good Africa and it’s really good to be a part of rounded experience of all those challenges that. and how to overcome them in support of those women and their families. The beauty of working internationally is that it's a two-way process, so we can My own area of research is the bring back our experiences and knowledge management of prolonged labour. I like to Manchester. That means our students it when I get to go out and talk to women; are not learning from textbooks, they are it keeps your feet firmly on the ground. learning from people who have been there and know the stories of the individual midwives and the women having babies.

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“You can achieve as an individual, but you get much more fulfilment if you can help someone else achieve. The thing I’m most proud of is seeing a student develop into a very proficient clinical midwife. It’s fantastic to feel that you’ve been a part of that.“

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What you study TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? • Long-standi ng reputation for Politics and International A-level: AAB-ABB Relations IB: 35-34 teaching and research in politics for more than 50 years Specialise in politics within a For entry requirements to specific global context on this single courses, see our course index at • International reputation for honours degree, designed for the back of this prospectus. research excellence those who wish from the outset to • Extensive and diverse choice of specialise in the study of politics and international relations. Business Studies and Politics relevant subject areas BA (Econ) 3yrs Year 1: Gain a grounding in the UCAS Code NL12 three sub-areas of comparative Find out more politics, political theory and Development Studies and international relations. Politics BA (Econ) 3yrs www.manchester.ac.uk/ socialsciences UCAS Code LL92 Year 2: Continue to study the [email protected] three core sub-fields and start to Economics and Politics t +44 (0)161 275 explore your own areas of interest. BA (Econ) 3yrs 4470/2291/1473/4748 Complete an independent project UCAS Code LL12 on a topic of your choosing and have the opportunity to take free Philosophy and Politics Politics and International Relations choice course units, such as: BA (SocSci) 3yrs is the study of political institutions, Politics of Globalisation and UCAS Code VL52 actors and processes, and the Development; From Blitzg to Bi examination of power – how it is Politics BA (Econ) 3yrs Society, Politics in Britain since attained and what it is used for. It 1940; Arguing about Politics and UCAS Code L244 covers comparative political Chinese Politics Today. Politics and Criminology systems and political behaviour, international politics, political Year 3: Choose from a range of BA (SocSci) 3yrs our more specialised options, and UCAS Code LM29 theory and ideas. This structure extends across everything we do, undertake a final-year dissertation Politics and International from undergraduate teaching to on a topic of your choosing. Relations BSoSc 3yrs top-level research. Course unit options currently on offer include: News Media and UCAS Code L200 Our internationally recognised International Crisis; Political Politics and Social experts work in all these areas. Morality and ‘Dirty Hands’; The Anthropology BA (SocSci) The largest UK unit of our kind, Politics of Hate; and War and the UCAS Code LL26 we offer a wide choice of topics, Politics of Ethics. includin g British and American Politics and Sociology politics, ethics, comparative BA (Economic and Social BA (SocSci) 3yrs European politics, the European Studies) in Politics UCAS Code LL23 Union, international relations, Study politics and international third-world politics, political relations as part of this wide- Politics, Philosophy and theory, globalisation and gender. Economics BA 3yrs ranging social science degree, in UCAS Code LV25 which you can take a broad variety of subjects, or specialise in See also Economic and Social a particular area. See Economic Studies, History, Law, Politics, and Social Studies. Philosophy and Economics, Social Sciences.

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Social Sciences Study politics alongside a number of other social sciences subjects – criminology, philosophy, sociology and social anthropology – on this Because of the great multidisciplinary degree. See mentoring scheme on our Social Sciences. course, I felt welcome from the day I started. Career opportunities ‘‘ Our graduates have become And the University hosts journalists, human rights loads of international campaigners, financial students, which makes it consultants, teachers, lobbyists, parliamentary researchers, a great place to study graduate trainees, publishers international relations. and project management The fact that you can co-ordinators. discuss issues such as the Greek economic crisis with someone who is from Greece and has first-hand experience gives political discussions another dimension.

Andreas Hansen BSocSc Politics and International Relations ’’

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from global money markets to the consider the option of specialising TYPICAL OFFER ethics of killing, and learn rigour in two of the three disciplines. A-level: AAB in understanding and argument. IB: 35 Study with us and enhance your Career opportunities The intellectual and analytical skills For entry requirements to specific capacity to assess competing ideas that you will acquire with us will courses, see our course index at about political events, ideologies, equip you for a wide range of the back of this prospectus. and institutions, while developing the ability to evaluate economic careers. You will be well placed to policies, placing the study of pursue a career in areas such as economics in its broader journalism, law, publishing, social Politics, Philosophy and work, government, management Economics BA 3yrs institutional and political context. Get to grips with philosophically and financial consultancy. UCAS Code LV25 deep questions of metaphysics, Some of our most recent ethics, and mind, and learn to graduates have successfully appraise competing answers obtained positions at KPMG, WHY MANCHESTER? to them. Goldman Sachs, Lloyds, Alliance • Long-standing reputation for Financial Group, and Shelter. teaching and research in political What you study Many others build on the excellent economy for more than 50 years In Years 1 and 2, you take an academic grounding that PPE • International reputation for equal number of course units offers by unde rtaking research excellence: third among across the three disciplines. You postgraduate study in one of the social sciences faculties in the may focus on just two disciplines three disciplines. UK in terms of “research in your final year, if you prefer. power” Year 1: Discover all three subjects, • Access to the multidisciplinary gaining the intellectual skills and expertise of more than 165 requisite knowl edge to specialise member of academic staff in our and make informed decisions PPE at The University of School of Social Sciences about your course choices in later Manchester creates years. Take core course units in • Student-run PPE society meets micro- and macro-economics, open-minded students regularly for academic support quantitative methods, critical who pursue knowledge and social activities thinking and political theory, ‘‘and approach subjects alongside further optional units from different angles, from politics and philosophy. enabling them to see the Find out more Year 2: Develop your www.manchester.ac.uk/ understanding of each of the world in a new way. No socialsciences disciplines, while enjoying greater wonder it’s one of the flexibility to choose course units t +44 (0)161 275 most well respected that reflect your o wn developing 4470/2291/1473/4748 interests. courses at the university! Year 3: Investigate questions that Ceri Wills Our Politics, Philosophy and call for intellectual skills and BA Politics, Philosophy Economics (PPE) degree at knowledge from each of the three and Economics Manchester is a structured, disciplines, in Topics in PPE. balanced, flexible course, directly Complete a dissertation on a topic informed by current research, in of your choice, supervised by a which you study topics ranging specialist in that area, and 188 ’’ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO P STUDY ABROAD opportunities Psychology

Find out more What you study TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/ Gain a comprehensive foundation A-level: AAB psych-sci in the essential topics of IB: 35 [email protected] psychology, with the ability to t +44 (0)161 275 8584 tailor your studies to your own For entry requirements to specific interests in your final year. courses, see our course index at We divide our degree into the back of this prospectus. Study Psychology with us and join two parts: one of the longest-established psychology departments in the • Part 1 (Years 1 and 2): Study Psychology BSc 3yrs UK. The discipline of psychology compulsory units giving you a UCAS Code C800 itself has its roots in Manchester, thorough overview of the central The above course has a four-year and we appointed the first theoretical ideas and empirical variant, where you spend Year 3 Professor of Psychology in 1919. findings in psychology, plus experience of group working away from the University on the Our challenging course is and presentation, and training in ‘Study Abroad’ pathway. See designed to meet the needs of research methods, statistics and below for details. students with different interests. the use of computers. See also Cognitive Neuroscience We focus on areas where our and Psychology (under Life research is strongest, so you know • Part 2 (Year 3): Choose from a Sciences). you will get the most up-to-the- wide range of course units and minute thinking and ideas in this carry out a research project on a exciting and challenging subject. topic of your choice, under the WHY MANCHESTER? supervision of a member of Our course is accredited as • Impressive history in teaching staff. This leads to a written conferring eligibility for Graduate and research from a university report and presentation at the Membership of The British that was at the forefront of the end of the year. Psychological Society (BPS) and emergence of the discipline of the Graduate Basis for We devote a lot of time to training psychology Registration (GBR). The latter is you i n the skills required to carry • Accreditation by the British the first step towards becoming a out psychological investigations, Psychological Society – Chartered Psychologist. The through practical classes, essential for a professional course makes considerable instruction in computing and psychology career demands on our students, both in statistics and especially through time and effort. the research project, which forms • Outstanding facilities to a major part of Year 3. support both teaching and We welcome applications from research, including networked international students, and You could also take our PC clusters and research regularly take at least ten Manchester Leadership laboratories, University-wide IT international students onto the Programme in Year 2 or 3: facilities, modern lecture first year of our degree. To find www.manchester.ac.uk/mlp theatres, seminar room s and out about entry requirements for research cubicles your country, see: www.manchester.ac.uk/internat • Dynamic staff at the forefront ional/country of psychology research with excellent links to clinical psychology • Opportunity to study abroad for one year

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How you are taught Career opportunities You study a number of Psychology graduates are very compulsory course units in Years 1 employable. A Higher Education and 2. Each unit involves a series Careers Services Unit survey in of weekly lectures, supported by 2010 revealed that Psychology With a broad range of small-group teaching in seminars graduates enjoy amongst the course units, there's or laboratory classes. You also highest levels of graduate definitely something for work in student groups to carry employment, compared with everyone. The students out small-scale research projects other disciplines. ‘‘ and to work through your and staff have been so Our Psychology degree can ‘personal study’ unit. provide you with a good range of friendly and created a You are assigned an academic academic and transferable skills huge support system, so I advisor every year, who will that are attractive to employers never felt on my own." arrange regular meetings with you across a range of employment to discuss your work, and who is sectors , including presentation Catherine Iredale available to advise on personal skills, managing projects, group- BSc Psychology problems or difficulties. They will working, data analysis skills, meet you at least once every analytical thinking, and research semester to help you to build a skills. Graduates from our course personal and academic portfolio. currently hold positions in areas as This can be very helpful in diverse as PR, marketing, media, developing general learning skills accountancy, teaching, and social and in reviewing and evaluating work. transferable skills that will be Our degree is accredited by the important in future careers. British Psychological Society as In Year 3, you undertake a conferring eligibility for Graduate research project under the Basis for Registration (if you ’’ supe rvision of a member of staff, achieve a Second class Honours), who also acts as your academic allowing you to go on to further advisor for that year. study to pursue a career as a professional psychologist. A good Study abroad proportion of our graduates Take this four-year course variant become clinical, forensic, and spend Year 3 studying educational, occupational, or abroad. You may be considered health psychologists, or go onto for this scheme at the end of research careers. Year 2. You would need to achieve the appropriate progression criteria for this route and would be transferred to the ‘BSc Psychology with International Study’. www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/cour ses/ studyabroad

190 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP R STUDY ABROAD Religions opportunities and Theology

Find out more... What you study TYPICAL OFFER www.manchester.ac.uk/religion Comparative Religion [email protected] A-level: AAB-BBB (AAB for V610) and Social Anthropology IB: 36-31 t +44 (0)161 306 1252 Discover interesting areas where For entry requirements to specific these two quite different courses, see our course index at We are a leading UK department disciplines fruitfully come the back of this prospectus. for the study of Religions and together. Scholars of religion Theology in a comparative increasingly use anthropological context; our major competitors are concepts and tools to formulate Comparative Religions and overwhelmingly concerned with questions pertaining to religious Social Anthropology BA 3yrs either Christian Studies or Jewish phenomena, while religious ritual UCAS Code VL66 Studies alone. and magico-religious practice have long been standard topics in the Study of Religions and For three consecutive Research research of anthropologists. Theology BA 3yrs Assessment Exercises (RAEs), UCAS Code V600 our department has been ranked You can also study ethnographic among the very best; we were film and video, with our Granada Theological Studies in the only department in the UK to Centre for Visual Anthropology. Philosophy and Ethics BA 3yrs be ranked as 6* – the top grade UCAS Code V610 for outstandingly consistent Religions and Theology excellence in research – from Focus on the facts and challenges 2001 to 2008. In the 2008 RAE, of diversity and pluralism in many WHY MANCHESTER? Mancheste r had the fourth different religions on our most largest submission in the UK, flexible course, while also taking • UK’s highest international and was placed sixth nationally seriously the profound questions reputation for research in for overall quality. of ancient, medieval, modern religi on and theology, which and postmodern debates on informs all our courses From our wide and varied choice theological matters in all of course units you can study • Impressive range and variety of those religions. ancient Hebrew, Greek, or subject areas to choose from, Sanskrit; immerse yourself in the Concentrate on a specific religious including many interdisciplinary thought of ancient, medieval and tradition, or study a variety options modern theologians; debate the (eg Islam, Judaism, Christian • Fabulous library collection of philosophical, ethical, and political theology, Hindu and Buddhist books, manuscripts and archives dimensions of religious studies; world views). Consider a wide in religion and theology study scrolls and scriptures from a range of methodological variety of tr aditions, including approaches, including textual, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and theological, historical, South Asian religions; and philosophical, and sociological. familiarise yourself with a wide We are interested in the widest range of religious histories and interpretation of religion at a time social theories. when the world is taking religious difference very seriously.

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Theological Studies in Career opportunities Philosophy and Ethics Knowledge and understanding Focus on religious philosophy, of different cultural and religious especially as it impacts on beliefs are recognised by many theology and ethics. Study employers as a valuable asset. The department offers contemporary continental You will also develop skills that are specialist teaching with philosophy and Christian theology, valuable for many occupations, staff expertise in a variety with the opportunity to consider including: teaching in schools and of religious traditions. All their relation to Indian, Jewish and colleges; broadcasting and print ‘‘ Islamic philosophies and ethics. journalism; publishing, legal, academic staff are easily Our course maps very neatly on to personnel and public sector approachable and their the kind of topics that you might professions; Civil Service passion for their discipline first have met in your Religious employment; work within Studies A-level, whi ch often religious organisations, NGOs, is shown in their emphasises philosophy and ethics and many others. interaction with students. – and takes these interests further. Discover just how interrelated Nadir Mohammad theology, philosophy and BA Religions and Theology ethics are on this highly interdisciplinary course. While other institutions offer a very popular ethics supplement to theology and philosophy, unique to Manchester is the way ethics is related more generally to social ethics and politics, as well as to religious thought. ’’ Explore arguments for God’s existence, consider questions relating to suffering and evil, analyse the interactions between religion and politics, evaluate the religious aspects of existentialism, and investigate the complicated relationship between scientific and religious worldviews.

192 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP R STUDY ABROAD opportunities Russian

A small discipline area within a TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? large institution, Russian and East A-level: AAB-BBB • Distinguished history of teaching European Studies offers you the IB: 35-31 Russian language and culture best of both worlds: small class since 1919 size, individual attention from For entry requirements to specific course tutors and a supportive, • Highest-rated UK department courses, see our course index at close-knit student community, for research in Russian and East the back of this prospectus. combined with the intellectual, European Studies (RAE 2008) cultural and social diversity of a • High standards of teaching from large university in a vibrant, English Language and Russian established experts in the field, cosmopolitan city. BA 4yrs enthusiastic specialists and Alongside core Russian language UCAS Code QR37 dedicated language instructors course units, we offer you a wide with extensive teaching range of specialised units in topics English Literature and a experience Modern Language (Russian) such as cinema, history, literature BA 4yrs • Excellent holdings at our and culture, politics and society, UCAS Code RQ73 University Library, with broad business Russian, Polish language, collections in Russian and East and the history and culture of History and Russian BA 4yrs European Studies Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. UCAS Code RV71 • Impressive resources for both History of Art and a Modern teaching and independent study What you study Language (Russian) BA 4yrs in our University Language In all courses below, you have UCAS Code RV73 Centre around 15 hours per week of scheduled learning activities, such Linguistics and Russian • Wide range of extracurricular as lectures, seminars, language BA 4yrs activities, including a vibrant work, coursework 'surgeries' and UCAS Code QR17 Russian Student Society and an revision sessions. active peer-support scheme Modern Language and You also spend Year 3 in Russia or, Business and Management exceptionally, another Russian- (Russian) BA 4yrs speaking country. UCAS Code NR17 In all Joint Honours courses, you Find out more... study both subjects equally in Year Russian and Screen Studies www.manchester.ac.uk/alc BA 4yrs 1; in later years you can maintain [email protected] this balance, or devote more UCAS Code RW76 t +44 (0)161 275 3211 weight to one subject. Russian Studies BA 4yrs UCAS Code R700 It is possible to study Russian from beginner or post A-level, with Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, or Spanish. See also European Studies, Linguistics and English Language, Modern Languages.

193 Russian STUDY ABROAD opportunities

Russian Studies History of Art and a Modern Gain a comprehensive grounding Language (Russian) in Russian language, culture and Study core Russian language society. Core language course units course units alongside varied include grammar, translation, topics covering aspects of The lecturers are very comprehension and oral work with European and North American art nice and supportive and native speakers. Other units cover and art-related thought, from make sure they stay at a wide range of subjects, including Ancient Greece to the present; the students' pace, giving Russian cinema, society, literature, and Russian cinema, society, ‘‘ history, politics and thought. Every literature, history, politics and us ample opportunity to year, you have the option of taking thought. See Art History and ask if we're stuck. Our one or two course units in a Visual Studies, and Modern course covers work not subject outside Russian and East Languages. European Studies. only in written Russian Modern Language and and its grammar, but also English Language and Russian Business and Management regular oral practice and a Study the structure, history and (Russian) varieties of English, alongside Study core language course units course unit on various general linguistics and in Russian alongside aspects of aspects of Russian sociolinguistics, with core Russian cinema, society, literature, culture. It is a fantastic language units in Russian history, politics and thought, plus course and I would complemented by study in Russian aspects of management, cinema, society, literature, history, economics, finance, accounting, recommend it to anyone politics and thought. See and international issues in with a taste for languages. Linguistics and English Language. business. Take a specialised Business Russian course unit in Joseph Golding English Literature and a your final year. See Business BA Russian and German Modern Language (Russian) Studies and Management, and Study core Russian language Modern Languages. course units alongside a wide range of other subjects, including Russian and Screen Studies areas of English language, cultural Combine the study of Russian theory and literature, and of language, culture, history and Russian cinema, society, literature, society with the study of core history, politics and thought. See course units in understanding film, English Literature and American its history and pre-history, and its Studies. development across other media ’’ (eg television, DVD, internet History and Russian distribution). Study core Russian language course units alongside diverse subjects, including aspects of cultural, political, social, economic, and military history, from ancient times to the 20th century; and Russian cinema, society, literature, history, politics and thought. See History.

194 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPR S STUDY ABROAD Social opportunities Anthropology

Studying social anthropology TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? enables you to: understand how A-level: ABB-BBB • Access to cutting-edge research social and cultural diversity works; IB: 34-31 and thinking that is recognised gain techniques for thinking at an international level laterally about almost anything, For entry requirements to specific since knowing how others see the • Opportunities to explore visual, courses, see our course index at world gives you different angles political, economic, urban and the back of this prospectus. from which to understand the sensory anthropology, as well as social world in which you live; and anthropology of the media, develop your debating and science and technology. Archaeology and negotiating skills, as you learn how Anthropology BA 3yrs to handle diverse perspectives and UCAS Code VL46 ways of knowing. Find out more... Politics and Social In short, studying social Anthropology BA (Social www.manchester.ac.uk anthropology changes the way Sciences) /socialsciences you think. [email protected] UCAS Code LL26 t +44 (0)161 275 What you study Social Anthropology BA 4470/2291/1473/4748 (SocSci) 3/4yrs Social Anthropology UCAS Code L600 Social anthropology is the study of Learn how to study social and cultural diversity in our specialist Social Anthropology and social and cultural relations around the world. Manchester Single Honours degree, studying Criminology BA (Social particular peoples and areas of the Sciences) 3yrs Social Anthropology was founded in 1949 from a small group of world, as well as learning how to UCAS Code LM69 anthropologists who developed analyse and think through social Social Anthropology and the world-famous ‘Manchester and cultural material. Course units Philoso phy BA (Social School,’ a tradition that draw upon both our history and Sciences) specialised in looking at conflict, our current academic staff’s UCAS Code LV65 law, politics, performance and research. rituals, cities, and networks. Year 1: Gain a solid grounding in Social Anthropology and social anthropology, with access to Sociology BA (Social Sciences) Today, we continue that tradition the history of the subject, different UCAS Code LL63 and have developed further international recognition for: theoretical approaches and studies See also Economic and Social visual and media anthropology; of different topics and regions Studies, Social Sciences, Linguistics political and economic around the world. Study and English Language, Religions anthropology, especially in Latin introductory topics such as: social and Theology. America, the Balkans and the anthropology, power and culture, Pacific; and the anthropology of confl ict and inequality in everyday new technologies, including the life; regional studies of culture; internet, new reproductive and and cultural diversity in a global genetic technologies and perspective. engineering. We also have Year 2: Focus on core themes in specialisms in the study of social anthropology, and discover borders, place and space, and the in more detail some distinctive study of kinship, class and caste. aspects of social anthropology at Manchester, such as: sex, gender and kinship; anthropology of

195 Social Anthropology STUDY ABROAD opportunities

religion; political and economic Study social anthropology in one conservation projects, while others anthropology; ethnographer’s of our partner universities overseas have gone into filmmaking, radio, craft; materiality, sensoriality and in Year 3, returning to Manchester television broadcasting, visuality. Study current in Year 4 to complete your degree. journalism, the Civil Service, EU anthropology at Manchester, in You will gain practical cross- institutions, HR, market research, which five members of staff take cultural experience of another industrial relati ons, advertising, you through their own student culture, as well as law, accountancy and teaching. anthropological research in detail, acquiring knowledge, through to allow you to understand the experience and participation, of process of doing anthropology. the society in which it is embedded. Year 3: Take our core theory course unit, Arguing with I knew Manchester was Anthropology. Select other course Combined degrees the right choice for me units to suit your interests more Social Sciences closely – and to write a from the very first lecture. Study social anthropology as part What I loved about the dissertation based on your of this wide-ranging social science research interests. degree, which enables you to take ‘‘Anthropology Choose from a wide choice of a broad variety of subjects, or to department was that they specialist units, which are based specialise in a particular area, made a real effort to get on staff research interests. Recent including social anthropology. See units include medical Economic and Social Sciences. to know their students anthropology, anthropology of and what they were museums, anthropology of Archaeology and interested in. This made globalisation and development, Anthropology anthropology of the city, and Gain comprehensive knowledge for engaging and migration. In recent years, we of the divers ity of cultural, social entertaining lectures have offered advanced-level and material aspects of human where people were eager options in the sub-Saharan Africa, existence in prehistoric, historical to be involved, and the the Pacific, and the Middle East. and contemporary contexts. Benefit from both regional and staff knew students by Social Anthropology with global scope, focusing on name. I also loved that the International Study pathway particular peoples and areas, while staff were happy to share Curious about the diverse ways in considering much wider issues, which human beings live in the including past and current their current research world today? Interested, among processes of globalisation. See with students. other things, in cultural difference Archaeology. and similarity, in the social and Elizabeth Hardy economic relationships between Career opportunities BA Social Anthropology and within different parts of the You will be fully prepared to move world, and in the varied ways in on to postgraduate studies, or to which people make families, apply the skills you have learned in communities and societi es? What many career paths. Recent better way, then, to expand the graduates are now working for understanding of cultural diversity local and national government that you gain in studying social and a range of NGOs, including anthropology by also spending a relief and development agencies. year overseas? Some are working in museums, cultural industries and ’’ 196 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPR S STUDY ABROAD Social opportunities Sciences

Our BA Social Sciences at TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? Manchester gives you maximum A-level: ABB • Dynamic, multidisciplinary social flexibility and choice. sciences degree IB: 34 Not all students know which areas For entry requirements to specific • Unique offering of course units they want to focus on at the start courses, see our course index at with incredible choice of their degree. We have therefore structured this course so that you the back of this prospectus. • Access to cutting-edge research do not have to decide when you recogni sed at an international apply whi ch subject you will study level Philosophy and Criminology in most depth; you can take the BA (SocSci) 3 yrs crucial decisions as you progress through your three years. UCAS Code VL53 Find out more... On entry, you must select one of Philosophy and Politics www.manchester.ac.uk/ the ten joint pathways listed BA (SocSci) 3yrs socialsciences above and use the associated UCAS code VL52 [email protected] course code. However, this does t +44 (0)161 275 not restrict your eventual choice Politics and Criminology 4470/2291/1473/4748 BA (SocSci) 3yrs of area. UCAS code LM29 For example, on any of the joint pathways you could specialise in Politics and Social a single subject in Year 2, Anthropology BA (SocSci) 3yrs subsequently graduating with UCAS Code LL26 an exit award in that one subject, Politics and Sociology if you wish. BA (SocSci) 3yrs You have a wide range of course UCAS Code LL23 units to choose from in every Social Anthropology and subject, and a high degree of Philosophy BA (SocSci) 3 yrs flexibility in the way in which you combine them as your academic UCAS Code LV65 interests develop. Social Anthropology and Sociology BA (SocSci) 3yrs UCAS code LL63 Sociology and Criminology BA (SocSci) 3 yrs UCAS Code LM39 Sociology and Philosophy BA (SocSci) 3 yrs UCAS Code LV35

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Specialist areas Career opportunities You can specialise in Criminology, You will have a wide variety of Politics, Philosophy, Social career opportunities in both the Anthropology, or Sociology. You private and the public sectors, are also eligible to take selected thanks to the number of pathways course units in Economics and through this degree. Social Statistics. More information about these subject areas can be found in the relevant pages of this prospectus. I chose to study the What you study BA (SocSci) course Year 1: Follow a broad because of how diverse programme of study that includes three areas from the following: it is. It is extremely flexible philosophy, politi cs, sociology, and‘‘ you have so many criminology and social options to study different anthropology. Enjoy a wide- ranging introduction to the social course units. It's also a sciences and to some of the basic great way to meet so transferable skills you will need as many people that are a student (and in later life). Also take a course unit in social on other disciplines. research methods. Zainab Ahmed This year will enable you to make BA (SocSci) an informed choice of the subject areas you will study in later years. Year 2: Either take most of your course units in a single area, or choose to work within two or three areas. Final year: Specialise in one area, or combine two areas of study. In total, more than 260 course units ’’ are available, giving you remarkable choice and the opportunity to put together a programme of study that suits your particular interests.

198 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPR S STUDY ABROAD opportunities Sociology

Sociology looks at how society TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? works. It is the study of social life, A-level: AAB-BBB • One of the UK’s leading social change and the social IB: 35-32 Sociology departments with a causes and consequences of very strong international human behaviour. If you have ever For entry requirements to specific reputation, particularly in questioned why social life works courses, see our course index at relation to issues of social the way it does, or wondered the back of this prospectus. stratification and inequalities, whether things could be personal life and everyday lives, organised differently, then social networks and social sociology is the sub ject for you. Business Studies and movements, and culture, With social changes affecting us Sociology BA (Econ) 3yrs consumption and sustainability all (globally, nationally, locally and UCAS Code NL13 • Staff expertise in a range of individually), there could not be a Development Studies and approaches to social analysis, more exciting or relevant time to Sociology BA (Econ) 3yrs quantitative and qualitative study sociology – and there is no UCAS Code LL93 research methods, and historical better or more vibrant place to and comparative approaches study sociology than Manchester. Economics and Sociology BA (Econ) 3yrs • Courses informed by cutting- Our courses introduce you to the UCAS Code LL13 edge research, theories and principles and frameworks of studies sociology and enable you to Politics and Sociology develop skills in social analysis. BA (SocSci) 3yrs UCAS Code LL23 Find out more... What you study Take core course units about Social Anthropology and www.manchester.ac.uk/s ocialsci thinking and researching Sociology BA (SocSci) 3yrs ences/sociology sociologically, and practical course [email protected] UCAS Code LL63 units on research methods. Twitter: @MCRSociology Consider our wide range of Sociology (SocSc) 3yrs t +44 (0)161 275 optional course units on key issues UCAS Code L300 4470/2291/1473/4748 including: social divisions and Sociology and Criminology connections (class, gender, BA (SocSci) 3yrs ethnicity); intimate relations and UCAS Code LM39 personal life (families, sexualities, bodies, self and identity); social Sociology and Philosophy networks; media, culture and BA (SocSci) 3 yrs technology; consumption; social UCAS Code LV35 movements and social protest; See also Economic and Social work and organisations; Studies, History, Linguistics and environment and human-animal English Language, Social Sciences. relations; and globalisation and social change.

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Learn to examine social life in Year 2: Gain further training in You could enter a wide range of different and interlinked ways, research methods in preparation occupations, allowing you to keep from the finer details of intimate for a dissertation and for your options open. Our graduates and face-to-face interaction, to undertaking independent social have taken up diverse occupations long-term historical changes research. Choose from a range of in teaching, the police service, affecting relations between optional course units. social and advisory work, law, groups, organisations and research, policy development and Year 3: Discover both theoretical national societies. implementation, medi a and innovations and new empirical journalism, retail and trainee Develop the skills to analyse studies, frequently based on the management. contemporary social life, and to cutting edge of researc h, in such comprehend social processes, fields as ethnic relations, religion, problems and developments, as intimate relations, the body, well as various transferable skills counter-culture and technology. demanded in today’s job market. Write a dissertation based upon your own original research project. I have had so many Whether you aim to enter employment directly after amazing experiences. University or, like many students, Social Sciences The lectures are amazing Study sociology alongside a want to undertake further study and opportunities with it at MSc or PhD level, our courses number of other social sciences subjects – criminology, philosophy, ‘‘are even better. will meet your needs. Our BSocSc Sociology course places special politics and social anthropology – The lecturing staff emphasis on developing your in this multidisciplinary degree. are all so friendly, helpful employment opportunities, and See Economic and Social Studies. we work intensively with careers and welcoming. I really advisors to prepare our students Career opportunities can’t fault it.” for the best start in the world of Sociology does not restrict you to work. a particular occupation. It is an Penny Harvey ideal degree to distinguish BSocSc Sociology Sociology yourself as a skilled analyst and Specialise immediately in creative thinker in today’s Sociology in our Single Honours competitive labour market. degree, while enjoying some Employers in many sectors are freedom to take optional course currently looking to take on units from other disciplines in Year graduates who are equipped for 1 and throughout your degree. ‘people work’ and who Year 1: Focus on core sociological understand how individuals, frameworks and gain a basic groups, organisation and introduction to social research. institutions operate, giving ’’ Consider optional course units on sociology an edge in the job media sociology, globalisation, mark et. The transferable skills you personal life, work and will gain in social research are a organisations. We offer something genuine asset in an economy new to those who have completed increasingly focused upon the sociology A-level, while also processing of complex providing a basic foundation in the ‘information’. subject for those who have not.

200 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPR S STUDY ABROAD Spanish, Portuguese and opportunities Latin American Studies

Modern Language and • Manchester-based branch of the TYPICAL OFFER Business and Management Instituto Cervantes, which hosts A-level: AAB-ABB (Portuguese) BA 4yrs weekly cultural events and is IB: 36-33 UCAS Code NR15 one of only three in the UK For entry requirements to specific Modern Language and • Research in Spanish and courses, see our course index at Business and Management Portuguese rated the best in the the back of this prospectus. (Spanish) BA 4yrs UK in the E2008 RA UCAS Code NR14

Portuguese and Screen Find out more… English Language and Studies BA 4yrs Portuguese BA 4yrs www.manchester.ac.uk/alc UCAS Code RW56 UCAS Code RQ53 [email protected] Spanish, Portuguese and Latin t +44 (0)161 275 3211 English Language and Spanish American Studies BA 4yrs BA 4yrs Our large team of distinguished UCAS Code RR45 UCAS Code QR34 scholars and language tutors offer Spanish and Screen Studies expertise in Spanish, Catalan, English Literature and a BA 4yrs Portuguese and Latin American Modern Language UCAS Code RW46 (Portuguese) BA 4yrs studies. You could study diverse course units such as: UCAS Code QR35 You may also study Spanish with Brazilian/Portuguese studies; European Studies, Life Sciences, cultural and gender studies; film English Literature and a Modern Latin and Mathematics. Both studies; history, literature and Language (Spanish) BA 4yrs Span ish and Portuguese can be culture both in Spain and Latin UCAS Code RQ43 studied with another modern Ame rica; linguistics; Catalan language (including Arabic, History and Portuguese BA 4yrs studies; and textual criticism. UCAS Code RV51 Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, and Our Language Centre offers state History and Spanish BA 4yrs Russian) – see Modern Languages. of-the-art study facilities, while UCAS Code VR14 the student-run Spanish Society History of Art and a Modern organises events where you can meet informally with native Language (Portuguese) BA 4yrs WHY MANCHESTER? UCAS Code RV53 speakers of Spanish. We also offer • Prestigious centre for research a peer mentor scheme for all History of Art and a Modern and teaching on the Lusophone incoming Spanish students. Language (Spanish) BA 4yrs and Spanish-speaking worlds UCAS Code RV43 • Impressive range of subjects, What you study Latin American Studies and including aspects of the culture, literature, cinema, history and Spanish, Portuguese and Screen Studies BA 4yrs Latin American Studies UCAS Code TW76 linguistics of Spain, Latin America, the Hispanic Caribbean Immerse yourself in Spanish Linguistics and Portuguese and the Latino and Chicano language and Hispanic culture, BA 4yrs population of the USA with an introduction to UCAS Code QR15 Portuguese studies in Year 1, and • Internationally recognised a broad introduction to topics in Linguistics and Spanish BA 4yrs interdisciplinary Centre for Latin culture and literature from the UCAS Code QR14 American Cultural Studies, which lusophone and Spanish-speaking hosts events for the academic See Linguistics and English worlds. You may continue community and beyond Language. Portuguese language and/or pickup Catalan in Year 2.

201 Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies STUDY ABROAD opportunities

You have optional course units in History and Portuguese Spanish and Screen Studies areas such as history, literature, or or cinema, culture and linguistics. Histo ry and Spanish Latin American Studies Free choice options are available in Gain a comprehensive grounding and Screen Studies your first two years. Year 3 is in History and Portuguese or or spent either wholly in a Spanish- Spanish language and culture, Portuguese speaking country, or divided with a wide range of options in and Screen Studies between that and a lusophone history from ancient times to the Study Spanish and Portuguese country. 20th century, and Spanish or language, culture, society, Portuguese culture, society, literature, linguistics and history, Joint Honours degrees literature, linguistics and cinema. alongside core course units in In all of the following courses, understanding film, its history and you spend Year 3 in a Spanish or History of Art and a Modern pre-history, and its development Portuguese-speaking country. In Language (Portuguese) across other media (eg television, Year 1, you study both subjects or DVD, internet distribution). equally; in later years, you can History of Art and a Modern maintain this balance, or devote Language (Spanish) more weight to one subject. Study History of Art, from Ancient Greece to the present, from English Literature around the world, plus the Being part of the French and a Modern Language Spanish or Portuguese language. and Spanish societies has (Portuguese) Choose from a wide range of or options in Spanish and Portuguese encouraged me to take English Literature and a culture, society, literature, part in a number of Modern Language (Spanish) linguistics, history, art, thought ‘‘events, including bar Choose course units in English and cinema. literature from the Anglo-Saxon crawls, meals and theatre period to the present day, Modern Language and trips. These societies are supplemented by cultural theory. Business and Management a great way to make Complement these with the study (Portuguese) of Spanish or Portuguese or friends and do things you language and culture , society, Modern Language and wouldn't ordinarily do. literature, linguistics, history, art Business and Management and cinema. (Spanish) Ellie Appelqvist Prepare yourself for business in a MML French and Spanish English Language and globalised world by studying one Portuguese of the world’s most spoken or languages and their associated English Language and Spanish cultures, alongside business in a Learn about the structure, history European and global context, and varieties of English, with covering aspects of management, options available in linguistics as economics, finance, accounting well as English language. Study and international issues in Spanish or Portuguese language, business. Additional course units plus Spanish or Portuguese cover aspects of the culture, ’’ culture, society, literature, society, literature, linguistics, linguistics, history, art and cinema. history, art and cinema of your chosen language.

202 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS T STUDY ABROAD opportunities Textiles

What you study TYPICAL OFFER WHY MANCHESTER? All our courses are underpinned A-level: AAB • International reputation for by core units in textile science and IB: 35-33 teaching and research that technology. attracts funding and sponsorship For entry requirements to specific from industry and the retail Textile Science courses, see our course index at sector and Technology the back of this prospectus. • Superb facilities, including well- The continuing evolution of the equipped textile processing, industry provides exciting materials testing and chemistry opportunities, embracing the Design Management for high-performance technical Fashion Retailing BSc 3yrs laboratories with a wide variety of apparatus and industrial textiles sector, as well as the UCAS Code W290 machinery apparel and domestic textiles Fashion and Textile Retailing market. Recent innovations • Dedicated creative design include microclimate control BSc 3yrs studios and computer clusters UCAS Code JN45 clothes, mobile communication with access to digital media platforms and medical textiles. Management and Marketing of design and multimedia learning The multidisciplinary nature of Fashion Textiles BSc 3yrs packages textiles requires high-calibre UCAS Code JN42 • World’s largest collection of technical ma nagers and textile books in our University Textile Design and Design researchers with expertise in library Management BSc 3yrs engineering, chemistry, physics UCAS Code J4W2 • Excellent graduate employment and electronics. With our technical record expertise and broad equipment Textile Science and Technology base, we will equip you with the BSc 3yrs skills to create and implement the UCAS Code JJ49 next generation of textiles Find out more... innovations. All the above courses also have www.manchester.ac.uk/materials four-year variants, where you [email protected] Gain a fundamental spend Year 3 away from the t +44 (0)161 306 4149 understanding of fibre, yarn and University, on either the ‘Study fabric manufacture, textile science Abroad’ or ‘with Industrial and an introduction to textile Experience’ pathway. The dynamic nature of today’s management in Year 1, through global fashion and textiles an integrated ser ies of lectures, industries requires graduates with seminars and laboratory projects. a wide range of skills who are In later years, focus on the science highly creative and flexible. We and technology of textile materials offer science, technology, and processes, and business and management, design, fashion and management in textiles. retail subjects in a range of courses Study a related topic in detail in that reflect the diverse and unique your final-year research project. nature of fashion and textiles. Recent projects have included areas such as biomedical textiles, ink-jet printing and ethical production management.

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Textile Design Management and Marketing Fashion and Textile Retailing and Design Management of Fashion Textiles Ideal if you seek a fashion retail Ideal if you want to develop Ideal if you have a keen intere st in career, with a focus on clothing innovative and exciting fabric business and management, technology and business ranges from a strong technical allowing the study of management. You study and commercial knowledge base. management in the context of a retail/design, management and global industry. The global fashion technology, with the choice of Designers and design managers textiles industry is dynamic and two specific themes based on have crucial roles to play in diverse; we offer you a chance to business management and providing the marketplace with study the relevant subjects to clothing. The business option the right designs at the right time equip you for a career in this incorporates marketing and and price. Awareness of technical, exciting industry. business course units, including commercial, marketing and logistics and business fashion aspects of the industry is The broad range of subjects we communication. The clothing essential. offer you makes this course ideal option equips you with product for a variety of careers in fashion Develop the multidiscipl inary skills knowledge to work and effectively textiles and beyond. The fashion that are necessary in today's communicate with international and text iles industry incorporates competitive marketplace. Learn to fabric and garment manufacturers a diverse range of products and develop your creative ideas in the fashion supply chain. processes, from fashion apparel successfully into designs for and household textiles, as well as Develop the full range of knitted, woven and printed highly technical textile products academic, creative and fabrics, and to take these through such as performance sportswear, management skills required: from into actual fabrics using our through to industrial products like consumer behaviour, to textile unparalleled range of equipment – bulletproof vests and specialist testing, and from product from hand-sampling looms and fibres, yarns and fabrics. performance, to fashion knitting machines, to state-of-the- management. Become fully art, computer controlled power This is a business degree course conversant with this exciting machinery. with three specialist subject areas: industry through studying marketing, management and Develop your creativity and developments in retailing, the textile technology/science, all management skills alongside an mechanics of fashion and product applied in the context of fashion understanding of textile materials planning, as well as learning textiles. Study your two specialist and processes, via an integrated about the processes and materials subjects of management and series of practical studio-based involved in textile production. This marketing throughout your design projects, laboratory classes, enables you to fully understand degree. Start with an lectures, tutorials and seminars. the products you retail, and be introductory/foundation year in equally comfortable talking to In your final year, options allow fashion textiles marketing and technical managers about you to tailor the course to your management theory, building on performance requirements as you specific interests, whether in this in Year 2 with a focus on are analysing consumer behaviour. textile technology, or practically applying the subjects to management and enterprise. the fashion textiles industry, and ultimately building on this solid foundation in your final year with further specialist management and marketing units.

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Design Management those on the final year of the clothing industry as garment and for Fashion Retailing standard three-year courses. fabric technologists, quality control specialists, technical Ideal if you seek a fashion retail If you wish to take either of these managers, designers, design career with a focus on design pathways, you need to achieve managers, selectors, buyers, technology – digital media design the appropriate progression marketing managers, sales and and design communication. As criteria. retail design managers find production managers. Many enter careers in researc h and themselves facing more diverse Industrial placements roles, our degree meets these development, and a number Arrange your placement in Year 2, changing needs in what is follow careers unrelated to in liaison with our University’s currently one of the most rapidly textiles, such as teaching, Careers Service and academic evolving and major growth areas accountancy, advertising, finance staff. Spend Year 3 in employment of business. You will gain a and banking. within one or more placement detailed and broad understanding companies, where the work Recent employers include: of the fashion retailing sector with content comprises experience Arcadia, Debenhams, GAP, House design management techniques. relevant to the course. Undertake of Fraser, IBM, John Lewis, Marks Indulge your creativity and a case study of your placement and Spencer, Matalan, Mercedes, develop expertise in computer- company in order to better Next, Nike, Paul Smith, Shell and aided design and multimedia appreciate the commercial Speedo. design, alongside a sound environment and may coordinate knowledge of retailing, consumer a specific project. behaviour, fashion management and design communication, in this Study Abroad placements multidisciplinary degree. Develop Spend Year 3 abroad studying in I like the fact that a technical language in textile and an English-speaking university there is both practical fashion product development, overseas. Take course units chos en allowing you to gain subject from textiles, technology, design and academic work on knowledge in manufacturing and management subjects and a the course, as it will processes critical in the supervised research project. ‘‘become beneficial to me understanding of the fashion when I work in industry. supply chain. Career opportunities Become a highly creative manager Enjoy a wide range of career I feel I benefit from with multimedia skills, who has opportunities as a Manchester learning about the the technical and design Textile graduate. Our graduate science behind textiles; it competencies and the placement record has been management and marketing outstanding over many years, and comes in extremely useful knowledge demanded by today’s continues to be so, with when designing, as I fast-moving fashion retail industry. numerous companies actively understand everything recruiting our graduates. Many of about how textiles are Courses with Industrial our graduates have gone on to Experience/Study Abroad take up leading positions in made. All our courses are available with industry, commerce and education Industrial Experienc e or Study throughout the world. Alice Martin Abroad. Years 1 and 2 are the BSc Textile Design and Design Our courses prepare you for a Management same as the equivalent three-year variety of careers. Graduates go course. You return to Manchester into both the manufacturing and for Year 4 to study alongside retail sectors of the textile and ’’ 205 SMALL PRINT

Now you’ve had a look at all the fantastic opportunities we’ve got to offer, you’ll want to know more about what to do next, including all the essential details on: • Applications and admissions • Entry requirements • University regulations for applicants • Disability support • English language support • Equality and diversity policy, including widening participation

Please note… This prospectus is prepared well in advance of the academic year to which it relates and we reserve the right to make changes to the content or methods of delivery of courses, to discontinue courses or to merge and combine courses. At the time of going to press, the courses described are those that we are planning to offer and we will make all reasonable efforts to deliver courses in accordance with the descriptions set out in this prospect us. In other words, please check online, or with the relevant academic School, for the most up-to-date information on any course listed in this prospectus, in case we’ve recently had to change any details.

206 207 Applications and admissions The minimum acceptable level of proficiency for admission to most courses is GCSE English Language The University of Manchester is open to talented (grade C or above) or an International English students from all backgrounds and our aim is to Language Testing (IELTS) average score of 6.0 with a remove barriers to participation in higher education. minimum score of 5.5 in each component. For more linguistically demanding courses (such as Law, Entry requirements Management and Medicine), requirements are higher. If you are an international applicant intending to submit a secure English language test as evidence of General requirements your English language proficiency, please be aware We welcome applications from students achieving that certain English tests (including IELTS, iBT TOEFL excellence in a wide range of UK and international and PTE) must be taken within the two years prior to qualifications. Our entry requirements are designed to the start of your course at Manchester. ensure you are suitably prepared to follow your chosen course In addition to GCSE English language and IELTS, we accept a number of different English language Applicants for all courses must normally demonstrate qualifications. For further advice on the acceptability a broad general education, including acceptable levels of your qualifications, email our International of literacy and numeracy, equivalent to at least grade Development Team at C in GCSE English Language and Mathematics. [email protected]. Indicative entry requirements for each course can be Further details of the English Language support found in this prospectus under each subject area, and available is given on p212. in the course index. Admissions decisions are made within individual academic Schools. Returning to education We encourage applications from anyone wishing to Entry requirements will vary from one course to begin a degree course after a break from formal another and for some courses compulsory subject study, but recognise that standard selection measures requirements may also apply. You should therefore and procedures may not enable you to fully check the specific entry requirements for the course demonstrate your suita bility. you are interested in. Full entry requirements can be found on our website at www.manchester.ac.uk or Admissions officers will seek and consider alternative in the UCAS entry profiles at www.ucas.com. evidence in order to give you equivalent consideration. Should they deem this alternative If you have qualifications from outside the UK and EU evidence to be acceptable, standard academic entry and wish to check if they are acceptable for entry, requirements may be altered. please email our International Development Team at [email protected]. It is, however, very useful to start a degree course with relevant study skills and knowledge, and many The qualifications we accept are periodically subject subject areas will require evidence that you have to review, although we are committed to maintaining recently engaged in formal study. consistent entry requirements during an admissions cycle. Foundation year courses Foundation year courses enable students with ability, English language requirements but without appropriate qualifications, to progress Our teaching, assessment and student support are onto degree courses at the University via an initial delivered in English. You must therefore demonstrate preparatory year of study. See your proficiency in the written and spoken use of the www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/courses/foundationye English language to the general standard required by ar for full details. the University, and in the specific entry requirements of the course you are applying for. If you are an international applicant, and you will need a Tier 4 visa to study with us, we must also make sure that you meet the UK Border Agency’s English language requirements.

208 The application process you may have f aced, which can also be flagged up by using ‘contextual data’, or where such information is Applications must be made via UCAS. For full details made available through a referee, school, or college. see www.ucas.com. Find out more about the use of contextual data For places on courses starting the following online at www.manchester.ac.uk/contextualdata. September (except Medicine and Dentistry), Our applicants come from diverse educational, applications should be submitted to UCAS between: professional and personal backgrounds. As such, we • 1 September and 15 January for home students recognise that occasionally a course's standard procedure for assessing applications will not provide • 1 September and 30 June for overseas students our admissions staff with an accurate understanding of an applicant's suitability. In such cases we may ask Applications for places on Medicine and Dentistry for alternative evidence to support an application or courses must be submitted between 1 September adjust our standard admissions requirements. The and 15 October. admissions staff from the academic School will contact Our UCAS code M20 MANU. you directly where additional information is required. If you submit your application before the relevant Where you have already satisfied academic entry closing date, it will be considered equally against the requir ements, it is likely that you will be made an stated entry requirements and in the context of the unconditional offer. Where you are yet to take number of available places. We consider late examinations, the offer will be conditional upon the applications only for courses where places are still achievement of a specified level of performance in available. your examinations. Our admissions cycle opens on the first Monday of You will be advised by the admitting academic School October, at which point you will recneive a if you need satisfy any other requirements, such as automated acknowledgement of the receipt of your passing a Criminal Records Bureau check or application from us. demonstrating medical fitness to practise. Assessing your application O ur student admissions policy gives more information When we receive your application, it will be on the key principles of our recruitment, admissions considered against the course entry requirements and and widening participation activities. You can find it selection criteria. Information on the selection online at procedures for each of our courses can be found at www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/howtoapply/afteryoua www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/courses and in the entry pply/assessment. profiles on the UCAS website at www.ucas.com. Offers and examination results All applicants for a course are assessed against the An offer of a place on a course with us will be subject same entry criteria. Where places are limited they are to your meeting the academic and any other offered to those eligible applicants who best meet our conditions set out in the formal offer from UCAS. If selection criteria, and who our admissions staff judge you receive an offer from us, it is essential that you are to have most potential to benefit from their chosen aware of your offer conditions and the current terms course and to contribute both to the academic School on which your offer is made. If you are in any doubt, and the University. Regrettably, as many of our courses you are advised to contact the academic department receive several applications for each available place, for confirmation before accepting the offer we cannot offer places to all applicants, even if you After we have been notified of your exam results, and meet the academic entry requirements. if you meet the terms of your offer, there is no need Methods of assessing applications vary between to contact us at that point. Suc cessful applicants will courses, but may include prior and predicted receive confirmation from UCAS, and information academic achievement; references; personal or about registration. supporting statements; interview and aptitude tests. See p213 for more on our widening We also consider any exceptional individual participation policy. circumstances or personal barriers to learning that

209 Regulations for applicants Attendance and absence (General Regulation XX) Since the relationship between a university and a Each course has specific compulsory requirements for student is contractual, we have decided to set down the work and attendance of students that will be set this information for applicants, which we advise you down in your programme handbook, available to you to read before accepting a place. The information at registration. If you do not meet these may seem rather daunting, but it is important to put requirements, you will be given the opportunity to it in context: the overwhelming majority of students improve; if no improvement is made, you may not be complete their studies uneventfully and comply permitted to take the examinatio ns for your academic effortlessly with this re gulatory framework. course. You may appeal against such decisions if you When you accept a place with us, you agree to feel you have grounds. comply with the rules and regulations under which Examinations and assessments the University and its students must operate. The (General Regulation XII) principles underpinning these are set out in the Details of examination and assessment regulations University’s statutes, ordinances and regulations, full will be in your Faculty or School handbook and details of which are available at programme handbook, including information on www.manchester.ac.uk/governance. penalties for issues such as plagiarism, and requests Those which will be most directly relevant to you, for reviewing examiner decisions. as a registered student, are highlighted below, and Conduct and discipline of stu dents described more fully in other University documents, (General Regulation XVII) which will be provided to you when you start with us. You are expected to abide by University regulations Registration and payment of fees relating to conduct – both academic and non (Ordinance XVI) academic. Misconduct or breaches of regulations that Registration is your formal admission to the interfere with the proper functioning of University University, and includes tuition fees payment, or activities or the University community, or action that providing evidence of sponsorship/funding. You are otherwise damages the University, may lead to not entitled to attend classes or use University disciplinary action. facilities until you have registered. Fee payment Harassment methods will be outlined in the Crucial Guide, which We take sexual, racial, or personal harassme nt very is circulated to all new students before they register, seriously. If a harassment complaint is substantiated, and is available online at it may lead to disciplinary action. See ‘Equality and www.studentnet.manchester.ac.uk/crucial-guide. diversity’ on p211. Unless otherwise agreed, you shall cease to be a Complaints procedure (General Regulation XVIII) registered student if fee payments do not go through, To help ensure the standard and quality of our and you cannot re-register in following years until all courses, services and facilities, students have access to fees and any other sums due to the Uni versity are a formal complaints procedure, which we expect you paid in full. We also reserve the right to terminate to follow where appropriate before attempting to your registration if you are found to have omitted or resolve grievanc es by other means. We endeavour to falsified relevant facts or information in connection deal promptly and efficiently with complaints, to with your application. investigate them thoroughly and objectively and to Student fees increase with inflation. The University seek to resolve them satisfactorily. therefore also reserves the right to make such alterations to the fees as necessary. For fees queries, contact our Student Services Centre, or visit www.manches ter.ac.uk/studentfinance.

210 Computer use Library (General Regulation XIV) (Ordinance XIV and General Regulation XV) Library services and facilities available to students are University computing facilities are available for set out in a series of user guides available in the academic and related work only. Misuse, abuse or Library. Admission to the Libra ry, use of its materials interference with any computing equipment, and resources, fines and conduct within the Library programme, data, documentation or other accessible are governed by University regulations. Failure to materials is prohibited. Our regulations define the observe these regulations, or misconduct within the responsibilities of users of University facilities. Breach Library, may result in disciplinary action. these and the University will take disciplinary acti on – and may also refer the matter to the police, if it constitutes an offence under civil or criminal law. We reserve the right to monitor use of email/Internet if Equality and diversity there are reasonable grounds to suspect their misuse. We seek to provide a positive learning environment that is free from discrimination, harassment or Copyright (Ordinance XIV) victimisation, where all students are treated with No copyright-protected materials should be copied in respect and dignity. We aim to create a friendly and any medium, or used in any way other than that welcoming environment for you, irrespective of your provided for under the terms of the relevant law on age, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, copyright; in accordance with guidance issued by the nationality, religion or belief (including lack of belief) University; under the terms of the copyright licences or sexual orientation. We aim to ensure that: held by the University; by special permission granted by or on behalf of the owner of the copyright • you have equal access to the full range of material. Infringement will be liable to disciplinary institutional facilities wherever possible; action and may result in prosecution. • you are supported on equality and diversity issues Intellectual Property (IP) and Data Protection through train ing, guidance, publications and (Ordinance XIV) awareness-raising events; University project work that a student is involved in • we engage and consult on key issues that are may create an invention or other work in which there important to you. is IP, or result in the work being published in collaboration with others. You might also do work Please see our website outside your studies using University resources. In www.manchester.ac.uk/equalityanddiversity most such cases, the University owns this IP, assuming for details, or contact us: responsibility for protecting it and, where appropriate, t +44 (0)161 306 5857 commercialising it. We acknowledge the position of text +44 (0)794 360 0656 students who have created IP and seek to ensure that [email protected] they get appropriate recognition and reward. The University also retains the right to use and copy theses and other works created by students in various ways for its teaching and research work. The University processes personal information about you, which will be used in administering all matters relating to your course and, as appropriate and relevant, relating to the provision of University facilities. Data is processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and within the limits agreed with the University’s Data Protection Officer. You have the right to check the information we hold and correct it if necessary.

211 Students with additional Open days support needs Details of our open day details are available at www.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/opendays/. If We recommend that all students with additional support you would prefer a private appointment, contact the needs contact our Disability Support Office (DSO). DSO and a member of staff will be pleased to arrange a meeting with you. We welcome applications from people with additional support needs arising from a long-term medical Accommodation condition, disability, mental health difficulty, or Please inform the Accommodation Office if you need specific learning difficulty, such as dyslexia, dyspraxia any specific facilities, eg wheelchair-adapted etc. All such applications will be considered on exactly accommodation, flashing alarms, etc . Adaptations the same academic grounds as other applications, but have been made to a number of rooms in halls of you must make your own decision as to the suitability residence to meet the needs of students with of the University’s provision. impaired mobility. Provision has also been made to meet the needs of students with hearing or sight We can provide a copy of the University’s Single impairments, and there are extensive IT and other Equality Scheme and Action Plan, which sets out the support facilities. policy and provision for students with a disability. We can also advise and help with applying for the To find out more call +44 (0) 161 275 2881. Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA). Specialist equipment We have specialist software for disabled students and English language support provision for other support for anyone who is Our University Language Centre offers English registered with the DSO. We also have a bank of loan language courses t o help you before and during equipment, including digital recorders, chairs, your degree. computers etc. For details, contact the DSO. The English for University Study and English for www.manchester.ac.uk/dso Personal and Professional Development programmes Email: [email protected] are available throughout the year offering extended +44 (0)161 275 7512 periods of English language tuition to help you Additional information for disabled students is also achieve your study goals. available from the Students’ Union Welfare Offi cer on We provide intensive pre-sessional academic English +44 (0)161 275 2945. courses leading up to the start of the academic year, Contact us in advance equipping you with skills to succeed here. Part-time in- If you have additional support needs, you are invited sessional support services ensure that you continue to to contact the Admissions Officer of the school in be fully supported if you need to develop further your which you are interested, or the DSO, to discuss what English language skills during your academic studies. support is available. You are welcome to visit us We also offer advice and help for international before applying, to decide whether this university is students, and because we’re a regional IELTS testing right for you. We advise all disabled students to centre, you can prepare for and take your test at the indicate their disability on their UCAS appl ication, as University Language Centre. this will make the DSO aware of you and we can then provide support as early as possible. Additional support needs do not necessarily arise from a health issue, but if you need any particular medical treatment, you can find out about local availability by contacting our Occupational Health Service. More details are available on our Occupational Health website at www.studentnet.manchester.ac .uk/occupational- health/.

212 Pre-registration courses We also identify students aged 16 or older who • English for University Study (Sept–Sept) – general demonstrate outstanding achievement and potential and academic English, IELTS Preparation for progression to Manchester. We run and attend a range of events on and off campus, deliver • English for Personal and Professional Development workshops, taster visits, and campus tours, and (Sept–Sept) – general and business English undertake presentations on course applications and choices. • Summer pre-sessional courses (Apr–Sept twenty, ten, five and three weeks) – academic English Finally, we offer our pioneering Manchester Access Programme (MAP). This provides an intense Post-registration courses programme of support, admissions advice and • Testing service with recommendations on results financial support to a targeted group of outstanding post-16 learners in Greater Manchester who • In-sessional support clas ses – Academic Writing, have the potential to enter Manchester or other Academic Listening, and Speaking, Pronunciation research-intensive universities. and Grammar You can find out more about all of these initiatives • Academic writing tutorials/clinics – advice, at www.manchester.ac.uk/schoolsandcolleges. feedback and tutorial support Fair admissions For more information visit www.manchester.ac.uk/ulc Because we want the most able students from all sections of society, we seek as much information as possible about you during the admissions process. Widening participation We understand some of our applicants are from areas where few people go to university; others may not We are proud of the unparalleled diversity of our have been to schools and colleges that achieve the student body; more people from less-advantaged highest average results. In these cases we highlight families and neighbourhoods come and study at your application for further consideration using what Manchester than any other Russell Group university. is called ‘contextual data’. All aspects of our We make sure that if you have the talent, your social, admissions processes are made clear for every educational, financial or cultural background will not applicant and can found at be a barrier to studying with us. www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/howtoapply. Pre-entry work Financial support We proactively support able students from all sections If you have the talent, we want to ensure finance is of society to realise their full educational potential not a barrier to coming here and being successful. and this is called ‘widening participation’. We deliver That’s why we’ve proactively invested in one of the an innovative set of activities to support progression most generous financial support packages in the UK. to higher education, beginning with support for And wherever possible, we allow you to choose how primary, secondary and post-16 learners but also you receive this support – either as a cash bursary or covering admissions and student support initiatives. as a discount on fees or university accommodation. We have a strong commitment to working in To find out more, you can read more about student partnership with our local school and college finance on p50 and at communities to advance educational opportunities. www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/studentfinance. A large proportion of our work with primary and secondary pupils and their key influencers is Above all we want to support you in making the right concentrated in Greater Mancheste r. Examples decision for you. If you have any questions about include campus visits, mentoring programmes, higher entry to the University, or our student support education summer schools, taster courses and facilities, call us on +44 (0)161 275 2077. We would lectures in schools. This work fosters an increased also encourage you to visit us on one of our open awareness of higher education among learners who days (see the inside front cover for details) and see for may have little experience of university study in their yourself everything we have to offer you. families and neighbourhoods.

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All directions listed are to the Visitors Centre in University Place building 37 on the campus map (see p219).

By air Go straight on through the next set of traffic lights From Manchester Airport and our Visitors Centre is on the left-hand side in Bus: 43 University Place, (building 37 on the campus map). Rail: To Piccadilly Train Station Taxi: Approximately £25 M62 (Westbound), M60 Leave M62 at J18 and join M60 ring road. By bus Leave M60 at J22 and turn right at traffic lights onto Oldham Road (A62). Continue along until the end From Piccadilly Train Station: 147 and turn left to join Great Street (A665). From Piccadilly Bus Station: 14, 16, 41, 42, 43, 44, Follow signs for the Universities and join the 48, 111, 140, 142, 157 and 250 Mancunian Way (A57M). Leave at the second exit onto Higher Cambridge Street. Turn left at the next By rail set of traffic lights onto Booth Street West. Continue Piccadilly Station: a two-minute walk from north to the next set of traffic lights and turn right. campus and linked to the south campus by the 147 Our Visitors Centre is on the left-hand side in Oxford Road Link shuttle bus which runs every ten University Place, (building 37 on the campus map). minutes, Monday to Friday, from Stop D, Fairfield Street.

From Victoria Train Station: catch a Metrolink tram or M6/M56 walk to Piccadilly Bus Station and catch one of above Leave the M6 at Junction 19 and turn right onto services. the A556. Follow signs for Manchester Airport and join the M56. Stay on M56 until it joins Princess Oxford Road Station: a 15-minute walk to both the Parkway (A5103). north and south campuses. Continue for a further four miles (7km) before By road turning right at the Royal Brewery into Moss Lane All approach routes are clearly signposted East (B5219). Continue to the T-junction and turn left ‘Universities’. onto Oxford Road (B5117). Proceed down Oxford Road past the hospitals and the Holy Name Church M62 (Eastbound), M602 on the right-hand side. Our Visitors Centre is on Leave the M62 at J12 and join the M602. At the end the right-hand side in University Place (building 37 of the M602 join Regent Road (A57) and continue on the campus map). along and join the A57M (Mancunian Way). Leave at the second exit, signposted A34 (hair-pin bend). From M67 To go to Sackville Street, keep right. To go to Oxford At the end of the motorway join Hyde Road (A57). Road, keep left and join the A34 (dual carriageway) Continue along for approximately three miles (5km), and get in the right-hand lane. Turn right at the first following signs for the city centre. set of traffic lights into Grosvenor Street. Stay in the left-hand lane and turn left at the next set of traffic Upon reaching a major roundabout (the Apollo lights onto Oxford Road (B5117). Theatre is on the left) take the second exit, Brunswick Street (signposted ‘Universities’). Continue along and go straight through the next set of traffic lights. Satnav Continue to the T-junction and turn right onto Oxford Road (B5117). Our Visitors Centre is on the • North Campus right-hand side in University Place (building 37 Sackville Street M1 3BB on the campus map). • South Campus Oxford Road M13 9PL

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COURSE INDEX

222 Key UCAS: UCAS code IB: International baccalaureate A-LEVEL: A-level typical offer Specific marks may be required in certain areas, please check: www.manchester.ac.uk/ug/courses .

223 TITLE A-Z UCAS A-LEVEL IB PAGE A Accounting (3/4 Years) [BSc] N400 AAA 35 54

Accounting and Finance (3 Years) [BAEcon] NN43 AAB 35 54/100

Actuarial Science and Mathematics (3 years) [BSc] NG31 A*AA-AAA 37 156

Aerospace Engineering (3 Years) [BEng] H400 AAB 35 56

Aerospace Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] H402 AAA 37 56

Aerospace Engineering with Industrial Experience (5 Years) [MEng] H406 AAA 37 56

Aerospace Engineering with Management (4 Years) [MEng] H4ND AAA 37 56

American Studies (3 Years) [BA] T701 ABB 33 106

Anatomical Sciences (3 Years) [BSc] B110 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Anatomical Sciences with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] B114 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Anatomical Sciences with Industrial/ Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] B111 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Ancient History (3 Years) [BA] V110 ABB-BBB 34-31 83

Ancient History and Archaeology (3 Years) [BA] VV14 ABB-BBB 34-31 58

Arabic Studies (4 Years) [BA] T624 ABB-BBC 34-29 164

Archaeology (3 Years) [BA] V400 ABB-BBB 34-31 58

Archaeology and Anthropology (3 Years) [BA] VL46 ABB-BBB 34-31 58/195

Archaeology and Art History (3 years) [BA] VV43 ABB-BBB 33-32 58

Architecture (3 Years) [BA] K100 AAA 37 62

Artificial Intelligence (3 Years) [BSc] G700 AAB 35 85

Artificial Intelligence (4 Years) [MEng] G702 A*AA 38 85

Artificial Intelligence with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BSc] G701 AAB 35 85 B

Biochemistry (3 Years) [BSc] C700 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biochemistry with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C705 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biochemistry with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C701 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biology (3 Years) [BSc] C100 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biology with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C106 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

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Biology with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C101 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biology with Science & Society (3 Years) [BSc] C1V3 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biology with Science and Society with Industrial/ Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C1L3 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering (3 Years) [BSc] J2BV AAB 35 153

Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] BJ82 AAA 37 153

Biomaterials Science and Tissue Engineering with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [MEng] J2B8 AAA 37 153

Biomedical Sciences (3 Years) [BSc] B940 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biomedical Sciences with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] B9R9 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biomedical Sciences with Industrial/ Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] B941 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biotechnology (3 Years) [BSc] C560 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Biotechnology with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C561 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Business Studies (3 Years) [BAEcon] N100 AAB 35 65/100

Business Studies and Economics (3 Years) [BAEcon] NL11 AAB 35 65/100

Business Studies and Politics (3 Years) [BAEcon] NL12 AAB 35 65/100/186

Business Studies and Sociology (3 Years) [BAEcon] NL13 AAB 35 65/100/199 C Cell Biology (3 Years) [BSc] C130 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Cell Biology with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C131 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Cell Biology with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C132 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Chemical Engineering (3 Years) [BEng] H800 AAA 37 70

Chemical Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] H801 AAA 37 70

Chemical Engineering (Business Management) (4 Years) [MEng] HN82 AAA 37 70

Chemical Engineering with Biotechnology (4 Years) [MEng] H8C5 AAA 37 70

Chemical Engineering with Chemistry (4 Years) [MEng] H8F1 AAA 37 70

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Chemical Engineering with Energy and Environment (4 Years) [MEng] H8F4 AAA 37 70

Chemical Engineering with Environmental Technology (4 Years) [MEng] H8F8 AAA 37 70

Chemical Engineering with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [MEng] H803 AAA 37 70

Chemical Engineering with Study in Europe (4 Years) [MEng] H810 AAA 37 70

Chemistry (3 Years) [BSc] F100 ABB 33 73

Chemistry (4 Years) [MChem] F109 AAB 35 73

Chemistry with Forensic and Analytical Chemistry (4 Years) [MChem] F1F4 AAB 35 73

Chemistry with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [MChem] F101 AAB 35 73

Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry (3 Years) [BSc] F150 ABB 33 73

Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry (4 Years) [MChem] F152 AAB 35 73

Chemistry with International Study (4 Years) [MChem] F104 AAB 35 73

Chinese and Japanese (4 Years) [BA] TT12 ABB 35 131

Chinese and Japanese [IPML] TT1F AAA 37 131

Chinese and Linguistics (4 Years) [BA] TQ11 ABB 35 78/147

Chinese and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] TW16 ABB 35 78

Chinese Studies (4 Years) [BA] T100 ABB 35 78

Civil and Structural Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] H220 AAA 37 80

Civil Engineering (3 Years) [BEng] H200 AAB 35 80

Civil Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] H201 AAA 37 80

Civil Engineering (Enterprise) (4 Years) [MEng] H204 AAA 37 80

Civil Engineering with Industrial Experience (5 Years) [MEng] H207 AAA 37 80

Classical Studies (3 Years) [BA] Q810 ABB-BBB 34-31 83

Classics (3 Years) [BA] Q800 ABB-BBB 34-31 83

Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology (3 Years) [BSc] BC18 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology with Industrial/ Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] BCC8 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

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Comparative Religion and Social Anthropology (3 Years) [BA] VL66 AAB-BBB 36-31 191

Computer Science (3 Years) [BSc] G400 AAB 35 85

Computer Science (4 Years) [MEng] G401 A*AA 38 85

Computer Science and Mathematics (3 Years) [BSc] GG14 AAB 35 85

Computer Science and Mathematics with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BSc] GG41 AAB 35 85

Computer Science with Business and Management (3 Years) [BSc] G4N2 AAB 35 85

Computer Science with Business and Management with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BSc] GNK1 AAB 35 85

Computer Science with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BSc] G405 AAB 35 85

Computer Systems Engineering (3 Years) [BEng] HH66 AAB 35 85

Computer Systems Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] GH4P A*AA 38 85

Computer Systems Engineering with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BEng] HHQ6 AAB 35 85

Computing for Business Applications (3 years) [BSc] G510 AAB 35 85

Computing for Business Applications with Industrial Experience (4 years) [BSc] G511 AAB 35 85

Criminology (3 Years) [BA] M901 ABB 33 133 D Dentistry (first-year entry) (5 Year) [BDS] A206 AAA 37 91

Dentistry (including foundation year) (6 Year) [BDS] A204 AAA 36 91

Design Management for Fashion Retailing (3 Years) [BSc] W290 AAB 35 203

Development Studies (3 Years) [BAEcon] L900 AAB 35 100

Development Studies and Economics (3 Years) [BAEcon] LL91 AAB 35 100

Development Studies and Politics (3 Years) [BAEcon] LL92 AAB 35 100/186

Development Studies and Sociology (3 Years) [BAEcon] LL93 AAB 35 100/199

Developmental Biology (3 Years) [BSc] C141 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Developmental Biology with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C1R9 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

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Developmental Biology with Industrial/ Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C143 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Drama (3 Years) [BA] W400 AAB 35 93

Drama and English Literature (3 Years) [BA] WQ4H AAB 35 93

Drama and Screen Studies (3 Years) [BA] WW46 AAB-BBB 36-31 93 E Earth Sciences (4 Years) [MEarthSci] F640 AAB 35 96

Economics and Philosophy (3 Years) [BAEcon] LV15 AAB 35 100/178

Economics (3 Years) [BAEcon] L100 AAB 35 98/100

Economics (3 Years) [BEconSc] L102 AAB 35 98

Economics and Criminology (3 Years) [BAEcon] LM19 AAB 35 100

Economics and Finance (3 Years) [BAEcon] LN13 AAB 35 54/100

Economics and Politics (3 Years) [BAEcon] LL12 AAB 35 100/186

Economics and Sociology (3 Years) [BAEcon] LL13 AAB 35 100/199

Electrical and Electronic Engineering (3 Years) [BEng] H600 AAB 35 102

Electrical and Electronic Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] H605 AAA 37 102

Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BEng] H606 AAB 35 102

Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Industrial Experience (5 Years) [MEng] H601 AAA 37 102

Electronic Engineering - with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BEng] H613 AAB 35 102

Electronic Engineering - with Industrial Experience (5 Years) [MEng] H615 AAA 37 102

Electronic Engineering (3 Years) [BEng] H610 AAB 35 102

Electronic Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] H614 AAA 37 102 Engineering with a Foundation Year (4 or 5 Years) H108 Students are accepted 105 from a wide range of backgrounds. Each application is considered individually

English Language (3 Years) [BA] Q1Q3 AAB 36 147

English Language and a Middle Eastern Language (4 Years) [BA] QT36 ABB-BBB 34-35 147/164

English Language and Chinese (4 Years) [BA] QT31 ABB 35 78/147

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English Language and French (4 Years) [BA] QR31 ABB 35 115/147

English Language and German (4 Years) [BA] QR32 ABB-BBB 34-35 119/147

English Language and Italian (4 Years) [BA] QR33 ABB-BBB 34-35 125/147

English Language and Japanese (4 Years) [BA] QT32 ABB 35 130/147

English Language and Portuguese (4 Years) [BA] RQ53 ABB 35 147/201

English Language and Russian (4 Years) [BA] QR37 ABB-BBB 34-35 147/193

English Language and Screen Studies (3 Years) [BA] QW36 ABB 35 147

English Language and Spanish (4 Years) [BA] QR34 ABB 35 147/201

English Language for Education (3 years) [BA] X3Q1 ABB-BBB 36-31 108

English Literature (3 Years) [BA] Q320 AAA-AAB 37-35 106

English Literature and a Modern Language (French) (4 Years) [BA] RQ13 AAB 36 115

English Literature and a Modern Language (German) (4 Years) [BA] RQ23 AAB-ABB 35-36 119

English Literature and a Modern Language (Italian) (4 Years) [BA] RQ33 AAB-ABB 35-36 125

English Literature and a Modern Language (Portuguese) (4 Years) [BA] QR35 ABB 35 201

English Literature and a Modern Language (Russian) (4 Years) [BA] RQ73 AAB-ABB 35-36 193

English Literature and a Modern Language (Spanish) (4 Years) [BA] RQ43 AAB 36 201

English Literature and American Studies (3 Years) [BA] QT37 AAB 35 106

English Literature and Linguistics (3 Years) [BA] QQ13 AAB 36 147

English Literature with Creative Writing (3 Years) [BA] Q3W8 AAA-AAB 37-35 106

Environmental and Resource Geology (3 Years) [BSc] F630 ABB 33 96

Environmental Management (3 Years) [BA] F851 BBB 31-32 182

Environmental Science (3 Years) [BSc] F850 ABB 33 110

Environmental Science with a Year Abroad (4 Years) [BSc] F750 AAB 35 110

Environmental Science with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BSc] F75Z AAB 35 110

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European Studies and a Modern Language (French) (4 Years) [BA] RR19 ABB 35 114

European Studies and a Modern Language (German) (4 Years) [BA] RR29 ABB-BBB 34-35 114

European Studies and a Modern Language (Italian) (4 Years) [BA] RR39 ABB-BBB 34-35 114

European Studies and a Modern Language (Portuguese) (4 Years) [BA] RR59 ABB 35 114 European Studies and a Modern Language (Russian) (4 Years) [BA] RR97 ABB-BBB 34-35 114

European Studies and a Modern Language (Spanish) (4 Years) [BA] RR49 ABB 35 114 F

Fashion and Textile Retailing (3 Years) [BSc] JN45 AAB 35 203

Finance (3 Years) [BAEcon] N300 AAB 35 54/100

French and Chinese (4 Years) [BA] RT11 ABB 35 131

French and Chinese [IPML] TR11 AAA 37 131

French and German (4 Years) [BA] RR12 ABB 35 131

French and German [IPML] RRC2 AAA 37 131

French and Italian (4 Years) [BA] RR13 ABB 35 131

French and Italian [IPML] RRC3 AAA 37 131

French and Japanese (4 Years) [BA] RT12 ABB 35 131

French and Japanese [IPML] RT1F AAA 37 131

French and Linguistics (4 Years) [BA] RQ11 ABB 35 115/147

French and Portuguese (4 Years) [BA] RR15 ABB 35 131

French and Russian (4 Years) [BA] RR17 ABB 35 131

French and Russian [IPML] RRC7 AAA 37 131

French and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] RW16 ABB 35 115

French and Spanish (4 Years) [BA] RR14 ABB 35 131

French and Spanish [IPML] RRC4 AAA 37 131

French Studies (4 Years) [BA] R110 ABB 35 115

230 TITLE A-Z UCAS A-LEVEL IB PAGE G Genetics (3 Years) [BSc] C400 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Genetics with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C402 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Genetics with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C401 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Geochemistry (3 Years) [BSc] F670 ABB 33 96

Geography (3 Years) [BA] L700 AAB 35 117

Geography (3 Years) [BSc] F802 AAB 35 117

Geography (Integrated Masters) [MGeog/GIM] F800 AAA 36 117

Geography (Integrated Masters) with Planning [MGeog/GIM] F801 AAA 36 182

Geography and Geology (3 Years) [BSc] FF68 ABB 33 96

Geography and Geology with a year abroad (4 years) [BSc] FF86 AAB 35 96

Geography with International Study (4 years) [BA] LF78 AAA 36 117

Geography with International Study (4 years) [BSc] FL87 AAA 36 117

Geology (3 Years) [BSc] F600 ABB 33 96

Geology with Planetary Science (3 Years) [BSc] F6F5 ABB 33 96

Geology with Planetary Science (4 Years) [MEarthSci] F6FM AAB 35 96

German and Chinese (4 Years) [BA] RT21 ABB 35 131

German and Chinese [IPML] TR12 AAA 37 131

German and Italian (4 Years) [BA] RR23 ABB-BBB 34-35 131

German and Italian [IPML] RRF3 AAA 37 131

German and Japanese (4 Years) [BA] RT22 ABB 35 131

German and Japanese [IPML] RT2F AAA 37 131

German and Linguistics (4 Years) [BA] RQ21 ABB-BBB 34-35 119/147

German and Portuguese (4 Years) [BA] RR25 ABB-BBB 34-35 131

German and Russian (4 Years) [BA] RR27 ABB-BBB 34-35 131

German and Russian [IPML] RRF7 AAA 37 131

German and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] RW26 ABB-BBB 34-35 119

German and Spanish (4 Years) [BA] RR24 ABB 35 131

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German and Spanish [IPML] RRF4 AAA 37 131

German Studies (4 Years) [BA] R210 ABB-BBB 34-35 119 H Healthcare Science (Audiology) (3 Years) [BSc] B611 BBB 31 123

Hebrew and Israel Studies (4 Years) [BA] Q4T6 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

History (3 Years) [BA] V100 AAA-AAB 37 121

History and American Studies (3 Years) [BA] VT17 AAB 35 106

History and French (4 Years) [BA] VR11 AAB 36 115

History and German (4 Years) [BA] VR12 ABB 35 119

History and Italian (4 Years) [BA] RV31 ABB 35 125

History and Portuguese (4 Years) [BA] RV51 ABB 35 201

History and Russian (4 Years) [BA] RV71 ABB 35 193

History and Sociology (3 Years) [BA] VL13 ABB 33 121

History and Spanish (4 Years) [BA] VR14 AAB 35 201

History of Art (3 Years) [BA] V360 ABB 36-33 63

History of Art and a Modern Language (French) (4 Years) [BA] RV13 ABB 35 63/115

History of Art and a Modern Language (German) (4 Years) [BA] RV23 ABB-BBB 34-35 63/119

History of Art and a Modern Language (Italian) (4 Years) [BA] RV33 ABB-BBB 34-35 63/125

History of Art and a Modern Language (Portuguese) (4 Years) [BA] RV53 ABB 35 63/201

History of Art and a Modern Language (Russian) (4 Years) [BA] RV73 ABB-BBB 34-35 63/193

History of Art and a Modern Language (Spanish) (4 Years) [BA] RV43 ABB 35 63/201

History with Integrated Masters (4 Years) [MHist] V101 AAA-AAB 37-35 121 I Information Technology Management for Business (3 Years) [BSc] GN51 AAB 35 65

Information Technology Management for Business with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BSc] GN5C AAB 35 65

International Business, Finance and Economics (3 Years) [BSc] N1N3 AAB 35 65

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International Management (4 Years) [BSc] N247 AAB 35 65

International Management with American Business Studies (4 Years) [BSc] N2T7 AAB 35 65

Internet Computing (3 years) [BSc] G450 AAB 35 85

Internet Computing with Industrial Experience (4 years) [BSc] G451 AAB 35 85

Italian and Chinese (4 Years) [BA] RT31 ABB 35 131

Italian and Chinese [IPML] TR13 AAA 37 131

Italian and Japanese (4 Years) [BA] RT32 ABB 35 131

Italian and Japanese [IPML] RT3F AAA 37 131

Italian and Linguistics (4 Years) [BA] RQ31 ABB-BBB 34-35 125/147

Italian and Portuguese (4 Years) [BA] RR35 ABB-BBB 34-35 131

Italian and Russian (4 Years) [BA] RR37 ABB-BBB 34-35 131

Italian and Russian [IPML] RRH7 AAA 37 131

Italian and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] RW36 ABB-BBB 34-35 125

Italian and Spanish (4 Years) [BA] RR34 ABB-BBB 34-35 131

Italian and Spanish [IPML] RRH4 AAA 37 131

Italian Studies (4 Years) [BA] R300 ABB-BBB 34-35 125 J

Japanese and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] TW26 ABB 35 130

Japanese Studies (4 Years) [BA] T200 ABB 35 130 L

Latin American Studies and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] TW76 ABB 35 201

Latin and English Literature (3 Years) [BA] QQ36 ABB 33 83

Latin and Italian (4 Years) [BA] QR63 ABB-BBB 33-31 83

Latin and Linguistics (3 Years) [BA] QQ61 ABB-BBB 34-31 83

Latin and Spanish (4 Years) [BA] QR64 ABB 33-32 83

Latin with French (4 Years) [BA] Q6R1 ABB 33-32 83

Law (3 Years) [LLB] M100 AAA 37 133

Law with Criminology (3 Years) [LLB] M1M9 AAB 35 133

Law with Politics (3 Years) [BA] M1L2 AAB 35 133

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Law with Politics (3 Years) [LLB] LM21 AAB 35 133

Learning Disability Studies (3 Years) [BA] B760 ABB-BBB 31-34 135

Life Sciences (3 Years) [BSc] C102 AAA-ABB 37-33 136 Life Sciences with a Foundation Year C900 Students are accepted 145 (4 or 5 Years) from a wide range of backgrounds. Each application is considered individually

Life Sciences with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C103 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Life Sciences with Industrial/ Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C105 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Linguistics (3 Years) [BA] Q100 ABB 35 147

Linguistics and Japanese (4 Years) [BA] QT12 ABB 35 130/147

Linguistics and a Middle Eastern Language (4 Years) [BA] QT16 ABB-BBB 34-35 147/164

Linguistics and Portuguese (4 Years) [BA] QR15 ABB 35 147/201

Linguistics and Russian (4 Years) [BA] QR17 ABB-BBB 34-35 147/193

Linguistics and Screen Studies (3 Years) [BA] QW16 ABB 35 147

Linguistics and Social Anthropology (3 years) [BA] QL16 ABB 35 147

Linguistics and Sociology (3 years) [BA] QL13 ABB 35 147

Linguistics and Spanish (4 Years) [BA] QR14 ABB 35 147/201 M Management and Leisure (3 Years) [BA] N870 AAB-BBB 31-36 152

Management and Marketing of Fashion Textiles (3 Years) [BSc] JN42 AAB 35 203

Management (3 Years) [BSc] N201 AAB 35 65

Management (Accounting and Finance) (3 Years) [BSc] NN24 AAB 35 65

Management (Human Resources) (3 Years) [BSc] N600 AAB 35 65

Management (Innovation, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship) (3 Years) [BSc] N200 AAB 35 65

Management (International Business Economics) (3 Years) [BSc] N246 AAB 35 65

Management (International Studies) (3 Years) [BSc] N120 AAB 35 65

Management (Marketing) (3 Years) [BSc] N2N5 AAB 35 65

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Materials Science and Engineering (3 Years) [BSc] J500 AAB 35 153

Materials Science and Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] J501 AAA 37 153

Materials Science and Engineering with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [MEng] J503 AAA 37 153

Mathematics (3 Years) [BSc] G100 A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mathematics (4 Years) [MMath] G104 A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mathematics and Philosophy (3 Years) [BSc] GV15 A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mathematics and Physics (3 Years) [BSc] FG31 A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Mathematics and Physics (4 Years) [MMath&Phys] FG3C A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Mathematics and Statistics (3 Years) [BSc] GGC3 A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mathematics and Statistics (4 Years) [MMath] GG13 A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mathematics with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] G1R9 A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mathematics with Business & Management (3 Years) [BSc] G1N2 A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mathematics with Finance (3 Years) [BSc] G1N3 A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mathematics with Financial Mathematics (3 Years) [BSc] G1NH A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mathematics with Financial Mathematics (4 Years) [MMath] G1NJ A*AA-AAA 37 156

Mechanical Engineering (3 Years) [BEng] H300 AAB 35 158

Mechanical Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] H303 AAA 37 158

Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Experience (5 Years) [MEng] H301 AAA 37 158

Mechanical Engineering with Management (3 Years) [BEng] H3N1 AAB 35 158

Mechanical Engineering with Management (4 Years) [MEng] H3ND AAA 37 158

Mechatronic Engineering (3 Years) [BEng] HH36 AAB 35 102

Mechatronic Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] HHH6 AAA 37 102

Mechatronic Engineering with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BEng] HH63 AAB 35 102

Mechatronic Engineering with Industrial Experience (5 Years) [MEng] HHP3 AAA 37 102

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Medical Biochemistry (3 Years) [BSc] C724 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Medical Biochemistry with Industrial/ Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C741 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Medicine (MBChB) (5 years) A106 AAA 37 160

Medicine (MBChB) (6 years including foundation year) A104 AAB 35 160

Microbiology (3 Years) [BSc] C500 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Microbiology with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C502 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Microbiology with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C501 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Middle Eastern Language and a Modern European Language (4 Years) [BA] TR69 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

Middle Eastern Languages (4 Years) [BA] T608 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

Middle Eastern Studies and a Middle Eastern Language (Arabic) (4 Years) [BA] T610 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

Middle Eastern Studies and a Middle Eastern Language (Hebrew) (4 Years) [BA] T6Q4 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

Middle Eastern Studies and a Middle Eastern Language (Persian) (4 Years) [BA] T613 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

Middle Eastern Studies and a Middle Eastern Language (Turkish) (4 Years) [BA] VT61 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

Middle Eastern Studies (3 Years) [BA] T601 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

Middle Eastern Studies and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] TW66 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

Midwifery (3 Years) [Bmidwif] B720 ABB 33-34 171

Modern History with Economics (3 Years) [BA] V136 ABB 33 121

Modern Language and Business & Management (Chinese) (4 Years) [BA] NT11 ABB 35 78

Modern Language and Business & Management (French) (4 Years) [BA] NR11 ABB 35 115

Modern Language and Business & Management (German) (4 Years) [BA] NR12 AAB-BBB 34-36 119

Modern Language and Business & Management (Italian) (4 Years) [BA] NR13 AAB-BBB 34-36 125

Modern Language and Business & Management (Japanese) (4 Years) [BA] TN92 ABB 35 130

Modern Language and Business & Management Portuguese) (4 Years) [BA] NR15 ABB 35 201

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Modern Language and Business & Management (Russian) (4 Years) [BA] NR17 AAB-BBB 34-36 193

Modern Language and Business & Management (Spanish) (4 Years) [BA] NR14 ABB 35 201

Modern Language and Business and Management (Arabic) (4 Years) [BA] TN61 ABB-BBC 33-35 164

Modern Middle Eastern History & a Middle Eastern Language (Arabic) (4 Years) [BA] V2T1 ABB-BBB 34-35 164

Modern Middle Eastern History & a Middle Eastern Language (Hebrew) (4 Years) [BA] V2T6 ABB-BBB 34-35 164

Modern Middle Eastern History & a Middle Eastern Language (Persian) (4 Years) [BA] V2T3 ABB-BBB 34-35 164

Modern Middle Eastern History & a Middle Eastern Language (Turkish) (4 Years) [BA] V2T0 ABB-BBB 34-35 164

Modern Middle Eastern History (3 Years) [BA] V140 ABB-BBB 34-35 164

Molecular Biology (3 Years) [BSc] C720 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Molecular Biology with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C722 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Molecular Biology with Industrial/ Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C702 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Music (3 Years) [MusB] W302 AAB 36-35 169

MusB and PgDip RNCM (4 Years) NA AAA 36-35 169

Music and Drama (3 Years) [BA] WW34 AAB 36-35 169 N

Neuroscience (3 Years) [BSc] B140 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Neuroscience (4 Years) [MNeuroSci] B141 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Neuroscience with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] B144 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Neuroscience with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] B143 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Nursing: Adult Nursing (3 Years) [BNurs] B740 BBC 30 171

Nursing: Child Nursing (3 Years) [BNurs] B730 BBB 31 171

Nursing: Mental Health Nursing (3 Years) [BNurs] B762 BCC 29 171

237 TITLE A-Z UCAS A-LEVEL IB PAGE O Optometry (3 Years) [BSc] B510 AAB 35 173

Optometry (4 Years) [MOptom] B511 AAB 35 173

Oral Health Sciences [BSc] B840 BBB 30 91 P Petroleum Engineering (3 Years) [BEng] H850 AAB 35 175

Petroleum Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] H851 AAB 35 175

Pharmacology (3 Years) [BSc] B210 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Pharmacology and Physiology (3 Years) [BSc] BB12 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Pharmacology and Physiology with Industrial/ Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] BBC2 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Pharmacology with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] B212 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Pharmacology with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] B211 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Pharmacy (4 Years) [MPharm] B230 AAA-ABB 36-33 176

Pharmacy with Foundation Year (5 Years) B231 ABB 35-33 176

Philosophy (3 Years) [BA] V500 ABB 34 178

Philosophy and Criminology (3 Years) [BASS] VL53 ABB 34 178/197

Philosophy and Politics (3 years) [BASS] VL52 ABB 34 178/186/197

Physics (3 Years) [BSc] F300 A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Physics (4 Years) [MPhys] F305 A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Physics with Astrophysics (3 Years) [BSc] F3F5 A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Physics with Astrophysics (4 Years) [MPhys] F3FA A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Physics with Philosophy (3 Years) [BSc] F3V5 A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Physics with Philosophy (4 Years) [MPhys] F3VM A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Physics with Study in Europe (4 Years) [MPhys] F301 A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Physics with Theoretical Physics (3 Years) [BSc] F345 A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Physics with Theoretical Physics (4 Years) [MPhys] F346 A*A*A-A*AA 39-38 180

Physiology (3 Years) [BSc] B120 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Physiology with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] B122 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

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Physiology with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] B121 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Plant Science (3 Years) [BSc] C200 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Plant Science with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C201 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Plant Science with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C202 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Politics (3 Years) [BAEcon] L244 AAB 35 100/186

Politics and Criminology (3 Years) [BASS] LM29 ABB 34 186/197

Politics and International Relations (3 Years) [BSocSc] L200 AAB 35 186

Politics and Modern History (3 Years) [BA] VL12 AAB-ABB 36-33 121

Politics and Sociology (3 Years) [BASS] LL23 ABB 34 186/197/199

Politics and Social Anthropology (3 Years) [BASS] LL26 ABB 34 186/195/197

Politics, Philosophy and Economics (3 Years) [BA] LV25 AAB 35 178/188

Portuguese and Chinese (4 Years) [BA] RT51 ABB 35 131

Portuguese and Japanese (4 Years) [BA] TR25 ABB 35 131

Portuguese and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] RW56 ABB 35 201

Psychology (3 Years) [BSc] C800 AAB 35 189 R

Religions & Theology (3 Years) [BA] V600 AAB-BBB 36-31 191

Russian and Chinese (4 Years) [BA] RT71 ABB 35 131

Russian and Chinese [IPML] TR17 AAA 37 131

Russian and Japanese (4 Years) [BA] RT72 ABB 35 131

Russian and Japanese [IPML] RT7F AAA 37 131

Russian and Portuguese (4 Years) [BA] RR57 ABB-BBB 34-35 131

Russian and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] RW76 ABB-BBB 34-35 193

Russian and Spanish (4 Years) [BA] RR74 ABB 35 131

Russian and Spanish [IPML] RR47 AAA 37 131

Russian Studies (4 Years) [BA] R700 ABB-BBB 34-35 193

239 TITLE A-Z UCAS A-LEVEL IB PAGE S Science with an Integrated Foundation F008 Students are accepted 105 Year (4 or 5 Years) from a wide range of backgrounds. Each application is considered individually

Social Anthropology (3/4 Years) [BSocSc] L600 ABB 34 195

Social Anthropology and Criminology (3 Years) [BASS] LM69 ABB 34 133/195

Social Anthropology and Philosophy (3 Years) [BASS] LV65 ABB 34 178/195

Social Anthropology and Sociology (3 years) [BASS] LL63 ABB 34 195/199

Sociology (3 Years) [B SocSc] L300 BBB 32 199

Sociology and Criminology (3 Years) [BASS] LM39 ABB 34 133/199

Sociology and Philosophy (3 Years) [BASS] LV35 ABB 34 178/199

Software Engineering (4 Years) [MEng] GG64 A*AA 38 85

Software Engineering (3 Years) [BSc] GG6K AAB 35 85

Software Engineering with Industrial Experience (4 Years) [BSc] G603 AAB 35 85

Spanish and Chinese (4 Years) [BA] RT41 ABB 35 131

Spanish and Chinese (4 Years) [IPML] TR14 AAA 37 131

Spanish and Japanese (4 Years) [BA] RT42 ABB 35 131

Spanish and Japanese (4 Years) [IPML] RT4F AAA 37 131

Spanish and Portuguese (4 Years) [BA] RRK5 ABB 35 131

Spanish and Screen Studies (4 Years) [BA] RW46 ABB 35 201

Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (4 Years) [BA] RR45 ABB 35 201

Speech and Language Therapy (4 Years) [BSc] B620 AAB 35 123 T Textile Design and Design Management (3 Years) [BSc] J4W2 AAB 35 203

Textile Science and Technology (3 Years) [BSc] JJ49 ABB 33 203

Theological Studies in Philosophy and Ethics (3 Years) [BA] V610 AAB 35 191

Town and Country Planning (3 Years) [BA] K402 BBB 32-31 182

Town and Country Planning (4 Years) [MTCP] K400 BBB 31-32 182

240 TITLE A-Z UCAS A-LEVEL IB PAGE U Urban Studies (3 Years) [BSc] K421 BBB 31-32 182 Z Zoology (3 Years) [BSc] C300 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Zoology with a Modern Language (4 Years) [BSc] C303 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

Zoology with Industrial/Professional Experience (4 Years) [BSc] C301 AAA-ABB 37-33 136

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