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MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-CHANCELLOR
Thank you for reading our undergraduate prospectus for 2020–21. I am delighted that you’re considering joining our exciting community here at the University of Greenwich. Within these pages you’ll find out why studying with us can be so rewarding and how we will help you realise your ambitions and achieve extraordinary things. Whichever degree you’re considering, our dedicated team of academics and professionals will be with you every step of the way, helping you to reach your full potential. We foster new ideas and new ways of working and instill in our students a passion for embracing challenges with creativity and confidence, as well as a limitless thirst for knowledge. It is this sort of commitment that earned us a silver rating and unveiled improved sports influential leaders in fields in the inaugural Teaching and social facilities at Avery such as business, charity, Excellence Framework. Hill and Medway. education and politics, and are committed to using their We are relentlessly ambitious As a student here, you will knowledge to improve the for our students and proud benefit from access to world around them. first-class facilities on three of their achievements. By beautiful campuses, two in the joining us, you will follow in I very much hope you find Royal Borough of Greenwich the footsteps of graduates a course that sparks your and one in Medway, Kent. who include winners of a curiosity and spurs you on to Since 2014, we have opened a Nobel Prize, an Oscar and an discover more. I look forward to new student hub, library and Olympic gold medal. Many welcoming you to the university hall of residence in Greenwich, of our former students are in the new academic year.
Professor David Maguire Vice-Chancellor
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CONTENTS Welcome to our Subjects to study 20 university 4 Course listings Our campuses 6 Greenwich 7 Architecture, landscape and Avery Hill 8 the built environment 24 Medway 9 Business 28 Your career 10 Computer science, mathematics, Our alumni 11 and games and digital media 46
Students' Union 12 Education 56
Sports and fitness 14 Engineering 64 International students 16 Health 72 Student support 18 Humanities and Open Days 19 social sciences 80
Law and criminology 88
Media and creative arts 92
Science 98 Course index 110 Apply for a course 114
3 University of Greenwich undergraduate prospectus 2020–21 Welcome to our university
THE UNIVERSITY AT A GLANCE
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