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Activities Guide for Schools and Colleges 2018/19 Contents 4 Welcome to the schools and colleges activities guide 5 The Student Recruitment Team 6 On-campus events 8 Academic sessions - Faculty of Arts and Humanities 14 Academic sessions - Faculty of Business and Law 16 Academic sessions - Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing 22 Academic sessions - Faculty of Health and Life Sciences 26 Other on-campus events 28 Off-campus events 29 Coventry University Group 30 Terms and conditions 2 Ranked No.13 97% employed GOOD UK University or in further study UNIVERSITY Guardian University DLHE survey, UG UK, 2016/17 GUIDE Guide 2019 (published 2018) 2019 UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR FOR STUDENT 2nd in UK for Teaching Top 5 UK EXPERIENCE Excellence (TEF) Student City Times Higher Education metrics QS Best Student Cities ranking 2017 - Gold winner Index 2018 Awarded Gold for outstanding teaching and learning 2017. 3 Welcome to the schools and colleges activities guide The Recruitment and Admissions Office is delighted to share with you our latest activities guide for schools and colleges for the academic year 2018/19. This guide will highlight the events and activities we can provide for your students this year. Events are hosted by our Student Recruitment Team who have expertise in working with students of all ages. Certain sessions will be led by members of our academic staff. All of our events are held on our city-centre campus. We can also visit your school or college to deliver more general sessions. To book on to any of our events, please email your interest to: [email protected] 4 The Student Recruitment Team The Student Recruitment Team can liaise with you to inform, advise and guide your students on all aspects of going to university. They offer outreach talks and workshops to highlight the benefits and opportunities that higher education can bring to your students, as well as aspiration-raising support in school and at the University. The Team attend higher education fairs and parents’ evenings across the UK, and offer specialist sessions and events on campus. Meet the Team: Dylan Cozens UK Student Recruitment Manager Danny North Senior UK Recruitment Officer Gurj Minhas Senior UK Recruitment Officer Janice Roden Senior UK Recruitment Officer Kate Iwaniszewski Senior UK Recruitment Officer Nasrin Akhtar Senior UK Recruitment Officer To be appointed UK Events Senior Officer Hope Nightingale Recruitment Manager Faculty of Arts and Humanities Ben Tyler Recruitment Manager Faculty of Business and Law Marilyn Maddams Recruitment Manager Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing Graeme Morgan Recruitment Manager Faculty of Health and Life Sciences All enquiries: T: 024 7765 2222 E: [email protected] www.coventry.ac.uk/outreach @CovUniOutreach 5 On-campus events By bringing students from your school or college on to campus we can offer them a range of academic sessions, as well as the more general progression to HE sessions. Your students could have the opportunity to explore a subject area they are interested in, or try something new within our four Faculties: • Faculty of Arts and Humanities • Faculty of Business and Law • Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing • Faculty of Health and Life Sciences In most cases the sessions can be tailored to a specific age group, but please contact us to confirm this. We can also offer full campus tours with all of our on-campus events. Our student ambassadors will show your students around our main students’ building, TheHub, the Sports Centre and the Library. They will also show them one of our accommodation options. To book on to any of these events, please email your interest to: [email protected] 6 Feedback from recent campus visits: “Just wanted to say a huge thank you for welcoming our students. Your team have really inspired them. They came back to school discussing what they would like to study and how cool it would be to go to university. Please pass on our thanks to your team and of course the wonderful student ambassadors – they are a credit to you.” Eileen Bishop Year 11 Leader | The Coleshill School “It was extremely well organised and presented, and all the students commented on how well the event went. We look forward to seeing you again in the near future.” Matthew Gerrard Head of BTEC Sport | West Coventry Academy “We arrange visits for our pupils every year to different local universities and this one has really stood out. The range of activities on offer sets you apart from the rest. The pupils were very animated on their return.” Alec Masson | Barr Beacon School 7 On-campus academic sessions - Faculty of Arts and Humanities School of Art and Design: Subject: illustration and animation Title: Create your own characters Subject: art Description: This workshop is designed to teach students Title: Artworks in wooden type how to create their own characters for comics, animation or games. Using techniques that are used in industry, your Description: Come and get creative with our collection of students will get to design the hero, the villain, or the creature large wooden type. We will show your students how to set and under the bed. If they’ve already got a story that they’d like to print the letters to create vibrant, visually-alluring compositions. design a character for, they are more than welcome to bring it They can work formally with the letters or more loosely and along, but more important, is for them to bring their imagination. create a poster or art print. Session length: 2 hours (1pm – 3pm) Session length: 1 hour 30 mins (1pm – 2:30pm) Dates available: Dates available: Wednesday 6 February 2019 Wednesday 23 January 2019 Capacity: 20 Capacity: 10 Subject: interior architecture and design Subject: drawing Title: Diorama – collaging in 3D Title: Ways of seeing Description: In this workshop you will create a diorama, or Description: This session is designed to show your students collage model, a quick and effective way of presenting spatial different types of drawing and mark-making that can be used ideas. Dioramas may be entirely figurative, representational or for their portfolio development. It will also encourage them conceptual, even surreal. Using only paper and card, we can to expand their horizons of what they think drawing is. The create models with depth and perspective. Usually small in session will show them some simple drawing processes that size, and best viewed from one vantage point, dioramas lend will test how open-minded they are to different ways of making themselves perfectly to photography. See your interior design observational and abstract drawings. This session is useful for ideas come to life. anyone interested in a Creative Art or Design degree, from Fine Art, Fashion and Illustration through to Graphic and Industrial Session length: 2 hours (1pm – 3pm) Design (Product, Automotive and Interior). Dates available: Session length: 1 hour 30 mins (1pm – 2:30pm) Wednesday 23 January 2019 Dates available: Wednesday 6 February 2019 Wednesday 5 December 2018 Capacity: 20 Wednesday 23 January 2019 Wednesday 13 March 2019 Wednesday 19 June 2019 This session can also be delivered at your School or College on request. Capacity: 10-20 8 Subject: architecture Subject: games art Title: City trading post Title: Sculptris: making monsters Description: The workshop will capture your students’ Description: Students will take part in a workshop where they imagination through exploring architectural space and structure will create a monster using free software called ‘Sculptris’. The with model-making and sketching. Working with tutors and workshop is aimed at introducing students to working in 3D our students, we will give you a brief for a small market stall in space and creating models that could subsequently be used Coventry. Can you identify a product or service that is unique in a game engine. After initial modelling, students will then be to Coventry? What aspects do you need to consider? What are able to paint the model and also learn about other aspects of the main elements? How is the structure unique to Coventry creating what is called an ‘asset’ by looking at ‘texture maps’ and the site? We will provide you with materials, references and and ‘normals’ (rendering that goes on to models to give them a clues to introduce you to the City, our teaching methods and finished look). There is an option for students to work in pairs and course interests. they don’t have to be able to draw to take part in the workshop. Session length: 2 hours (2pm – 4pm) Session length: 2 hours (1pm – 3pm) Dates available: Dates available: Wednesday 5 December 2018 Wednesday 6 February 2019 Capacity: 12 Wednesday 19 June 2019 Capacity: 30 Subject: international fashion business Title: Celebrity branding Subject: art and design Description: Who is your favourite celebrity? Which brands Title: Introduction to texturing material do they promote and why? This workshop will look at celebrity Description: In this introduction you will learn a variety of culture and how international brands use different personalities ways of applying textures to metal sheets. The session will to promote their products. Your students will be introduced cover using a rolling mill to emboss patterns and shapes, using to how large brands select particular celebrities and how this hammers to create marks and using letter and number stamps affects business in terms of target demographic and return for text and pattern. You will also have the opportunity to make on investment. your texture samples into a simple piece of jewellery. Session length: 2 hours (1pm – 3pm) Session length: 2 hours (1pm – 3pm) Dates available: Dates available: Wednesday 14 November 2018 Wednesday 23 January 2019 Capacity: 20 Capacity: 10 Subject: fashion design Subject: art and design Title: Plastic fantastic Title: Underglaze decoration Description: This workshop will challenge your students’ Description: In this workshop you will be invited to explore perceptions about different materials and their uses in the a variety of underglaze mediums including underglaze pens, fashion industry.