UNDERGRADUATE 2021 OPEN DAYS UNDERGRADUATE 2021 8 APRIL • 17 JUNE 25 JANUARY • 15 FEBRUARY The highest award (Gold) for teaching 21 OCTOBER • 18 NOVEMBER excellence at UK universities 4 APRIL • 13 JUNE 17 OCTOBER • 7 NOVEMBER SWANSEA UNIVERSITY WHERE BRIGHT FUTURES BEGIN Swansea University Swansea University SWAN SWAN [email protected] #SwanseaUni
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WHERE BRIGHT FUTURES BEGIN Swansea University is an ambitious university, renowned for its academic COURSE and teaching reputation, friendliness and inclusivity. The University was founded in TOP UK 5 SATISFACTION 1920 as a place of academic excellence to complement the region’s rich industrial (Guardian University League Table 2020) connections. Since then, the University has gone from strength to strength.
Our stunning waterfront campuses and friendly welcome make Swansea University a desirable destination for students from all over the world, enabling those who join us CAREER to develop skills and knowledge that will set them on successful and enriching careers.
UK TOP TOP UK PROSPECTS Our figures speak for themselves with career prospects Top 5 in the UK*. Our student satisfaction 5 rates are reflected in the fact that we won the title of WhatUni University of the Year and are (Guardian University League Table 2020) ranked Top 10 in the UK for student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2019**).
This is a very exciting time for the University and we welcome you to be a part of it. * Guardian University League Table 2020 MOST AFFORDABLE **Based on a list of UK universities as featured in the 2019 Times Good University Guide UK UNIVERSITY TOWN UK TOP TOP UK 0 (TotallyMoney.com 2019)
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25 JAN • 15 FEB • 4 APR • 13 JUN • 17 OCT • 7 NOV TOP UK 0 UNIVERSITY (Guardian People and Planet University league 2019) BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY: swansea.ac.uk/open-days NERVOUS? SWANSEA LIFE JARGON DON’T BE Check out our Freshers’ Top 10 EXPLAINED of things to do in Swansea Check out our Students’ Union and Support and Welfare info Check out our Jargon buster
PAGES 26 + 36 PAGE 47 04 WHY RESEARCH MATTERS 06 SWANSEA AND THE REGION CAREER 08 FRESHERS’ TOP 10 LOOKING CHOICES 10 WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY Check out the Employability 12 SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MAP pages and the future careers 14 BAY CAMPUS MAP TO TRAVEL list on each course page 16 ACCOMMODATION PAGE 08 ABROAD PAGE 20 20 CAREERS, SKILLS AND EMPLOYABILITY DURING 22 STUDY AND WORK ABROAD MAKING AN TEACHERS HEALTH AND 24 WELSH-MEDIUM OPPORTUNITIES YOUR APPLICATION AND ADVISERS WELLBEING 26 STUDENTS’ UNION See our easy to use Full course details are available in is important to us, check checklist and get advice our courses section. How to Apply STUDIES? 28 SPORT out Student Services from our Admissions sections also provide detailed Keep a look out for 31 FACILITIES office on making information on our offer, including the aeroplane symbol an application our ‘guaranteed offer’ of a place throughout the 35 SUSTAINABILITY course pages 36 STUDENT SUPPORT AND WELFARE PAGES 148-151 38 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT INFORMATION DON’T JUST TAKE WORRIED YOU MAY NOT GET 42 INTEGRATED FOUNDATION YEAR OUR WORD FOR IT… PAGE 36 THE GRADES? WE CAN HELP 48 A-Z COURSES Find out more from our current Explore your options; we have a variety of Integrated Foundation Year students about living and studying 134 COURSE REFERENCE GRID programmes with a range of acceptable qualifications. See the Foundation at Swansea Uni pages and look out for the foundation symbol on each course page GETTING HERE 145 INDEX AND AROUND PAGE 42 PAGE 10 146 FEES AND FUNDING We’re closer 148 HOW TO APPLY than you think! THINKING OF MANAGING Check out travel times 152 YOUR NOTES STUDYING THROUGH to Swansea and find 153 MAP YOUR MONEY out how easy it is to THE MEDIUM OF WELSH? Find out typical living costs get from campus to Look out for the speech as a student in Swansea and campus and from bubble throughout the full details on fees, funding campus to city course pages and scholarships
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02 03 We are combatting global challenges using interdisciplinary research by encouraging RESEARCH original thinking and collaborative working. UK TOP TOP UK UNIVERSITY Our research is helping prevent, combat, and (Research30 Excellence Framework (REF 2014-2021)) reverse global challenges; making a difference We are a Top 30 Research University, RESEARCH-LED UNIVERSITY to people’s lives and industry. We are: with 90% of our research being rated as • Understanding animal behaviour. Pioneered at world-leading or internationally excellent Swansea University, the Smart Daily Diary Tag is for the impact it makes in our society. helping researchers influence conservation plans for the fortune of species across the globe. At Swansea University we have • Helping to improve the health of the population world-leading experts who actively through developing microneedles and assessing undertake research on-site and across safety levels of nanomaterials. the world through global collaborations • Making sure history is not forgotten by and with businesses and organisations preserving ancient monuments, and internationally. This research not only helps underpin courses with applied and • Encouraging fairness, ensuring the safety of individuals relevant information, but also encourages and communities across the world through influencing policy, and having a human centred approach to our students to learn and think in critical digital technologies. and original ways, seeking questions as well as answers.
Many of our researchers teach on courses here too, which means you could be working with international experts and frontiers in their fields. As EXPLORING you progress, you could become part of their research team, helping to explore, GLOBAL PROBLEMS prevent, and solve global problems.
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04 05 ARTS Swansea is a vibrant centre for art and The Glynn Vivian GET TO KNOW Art Gallery is widely recognised as the city’s premier venue for art exhibitions. All national museums and art galleries in Wales are free to enter, so you can soak up our history and join one of the many trips organised by Swansea University’s Students’ Union.
THE TALIESIN ARTS CENTRE The Taliesin Arts Centre sits at the heart of the Singleton Park Campus and hosts regular productions, mainstream and alternative cinema screenings, a restaurant, bar, and the award-winning Egypt Centre, home to a collection of over 5000 Egyptian antiquities.
I do like a good market, and I am lucky that where I live in the Uplands, we have a monthly market where local growers, producers, farmers and caterers sell their wares. This is a cute little market, so if like me you love food and trinkets ON YOUR DOORSTEP give it a visit! On the Gower Peninsula you can unwind in the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, relax on award-winning beaches and Joanna Wolton, student blogger explore unspoilt countryside, with the Brecon Beacons National Park just a 30 minute drive away. The region has some of the UK’s studentblogs.swan.ac.uk best locations for coastal path walks, surfing, cycling, watersports, rock climbing and golf; for the adventure sport enthusiast to the lazy walk on the beach, there’s something for everyone. HOME OF DYLAN THOMAS MUMBLES Swansea’s most famous son, Dylan Thomas, Birthplace of Catherine Zeta Jones, the quaint village of Mumbles said: “Swansea is still the best” and the poet’s is host to a great variety of shops, cafes, wine bars, pubs and legacy can be found throughout the city from restaurants. Take a stroll and enjoy an ice cream at one of the cafes to pubs and parks. many parlours dotted along the promenade or grab a bite to eat at one of the Oyster Wharf seafront cafes/restaurants overlooking Swansea Bay. MUSIC & FESTIVALS SHOPPING Wales is famed as the ‘land of song’ and as a student at Shop big high street names as well as independent boutiques, Swansea University you won’t be disappointed by the specialist shops and traditional arcades. You can visit designer range of music on offer across the city! Swansea boasts a boutiques in Mumbles, shop vintage outlets in Uplands or pick up huge variety of music venues and plays host to a number a bargain in Wales’ largest indoor market in the heart of the city. of music festivals and events throughout the year. Brecon Beacons, Wales
06 07 SUMMER BALL
Swansea University’s festival-style TRY JOE’S Summer Ball takes place on the ICE-CREAM meadow in front of the University’s Singleton Abbey and is a big night Whether it’s a sunny summer’s in the student calendar. The event day or the temperatures drop regularly attracts high profile acts TOP 10 – headliners have included ENJOY THE NIGHT LIFE below zero, you’ll always find a queue of people outside Pendulum, Rudimental, Pixie Lott, Wind Street is a cafe quarter by Swansea’s legendary ice Tim Minchin, Sub Focus and day and a party paradise by night cream parlour. Florence and the Machine. where twenty bars and restaurants line a 160m stretch of road. Revellers come from far and wide to experience it. Try the Uplands for an earthier vibe with live music events held in the region’s pubs and cafes.
GET ON YOUR BIKE Hire one of our Santander bikes. With 100 docking stations based at six hubs along the city’s main cycle route, you can ride at your leisure. CHAMPIONSHIP FOOTBALL WATERFRONT WINTERLAND We’re proud to share our city with Swansea City’s Championship A highlight in Swansea’s winter team, the mighty calendar. Fancy a cinnamon latte Swans. See whilst ice-skating in the middle of the them in action city? This is your place. Open from at the impressive around mid-November until the New Liberty Stadium. Year, every year.
HIT THE WELSH BEACH VARSITY TAKE IN A SHOW Get your green and white The Grand Theatre is a great, Come rain or shine there are army gear on and give it JUMP AROUND intimate venue to see some top-class over 50 bays and beaches to up for Swansea at Welsh A trip to Limitless Inflata Park is acts, while the city’s impressive choose from! Try a spot of surfing Varsity, the biggest arguably one of the most fun Liberty Stadium has previously or sea kayaking, or just a beach student event in Wales. ways to exercise. walk to get away from it all. hosted acts including Pink, Take That and the Kings of Leon.
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10 11 5 MILE STRETCH OF BEACH ON YOUR DOORSTEP
ARTS AND HUMANITIES 24HR BUS (term-time) Approximately 20 minutes to HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES Bay campus, 10 minutes to city centre
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY FULTON HOUSE Students’ Union bar, nightclub, shops, GREENEST MEDICINE supermarket, zero waste shop, Santander bank, food outlets (including vegan) UK TOP UNIVERSITY SCIENCE (Guardian People0 & Planet University league 2019) STUDENTS’ UNION SINGLETON PARK LIBRARY ACADEMI HYWEL TEIFI STUDENT ACCOMMODATION
TALIESIN ARTS SPORTS VILLAGE & EGYPT CENTRE AND NATIONAL POOL
MY UNIHUB OTHER FACILITIES: Your one-stop-shop offering information • Chaplaincy • Launderette and guidance on any aspect of student life; • Dentist/Doctors •Mosque from finances, to course-load, to housing
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BAY LIBRARY 24HR BUS (term-time) Approximately 20 minutes to COMPUTATIONAL FOUNDRY Singleton campus, 10 minutes to city centre (Computer Science and Mathematics) MY UNIHUB ENGINEERING Your one-stop-shop offering information and STUDENT ACCOMMODATION guidance on any aspect of student life; from finances, to course-load, to housing SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OTHER FACILITIES: THE COLLEGE • Coffeeopolis coffee shop • Launderette THE CORE, FOOD COURT •Faith space • Supermarket •Gym and sports facilities THE GREAT HALL BEACHFRONT
STUDENTS’ UNION, Tafarn Tawe LOCATION
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14 15 MAKE YOURSELF TYPICAL LIVING COSTS
£89 Starting university can be a bit of LIVING ON CAMPUS AVERAGE a whirlwind and, amidst it all, you Living in Singleton Park or Bay Campus WEEKLY RENT need a place where you can chill residences puts you right at the centre of university life. Self-catering accommodation out, take stock, and feel right at UK Top 10 Most Affordable comprises fully-furnished, en suite and University Town home, right away. standard rooms with a shared kitchen (totallymoney.com 2019) Whether you want to live in one of our and dining area – ideal for helping you campus residences, in our leafy student to settle into student life quickly and easily. £22 village, or in one of the nearby private LIVING IN THE properties managed by our Student MEAL OUT Accommodation Services (SAS) letting STUDENT VILLAGE* agency, our Residential Services team Approximately two miles from campus is the FOR TWO are there to ensure that you choose the Hendrefoelan Student Village. The Village (based on main meal & drink accommodation that is perfect for you. provides self-catering accommodation and at a local restaurant) shared facilities in flats for seven students. If you choose to live in the Village, you will have your own room at an affordable rate that compares favourably with private sector accommodation. £30 PER MONTH KEY POINTS Student life at the Village is sociable and STUDENT supportive, and you will benefit from: • Our rooms have free Wi-Fi BUS PASS • You will be represented by • On-site launderette ResNet, a network of live-in • Free First Group Unibus bus pass for Student Pass with unlimited travel student volunteers, who contracts over 13 weeks ensure each student has the *accommodation at Hendrefoelan Student Village best experience possible available for 2020/21 academic year £6 • Rooms are single occupancy Please check our website for only (exception being Beck up-to-date information: CAMPUS House family flats and a small number of twin rooms on the swansea.ac.uk/accommodation TO CITY Bay Campus) Singleton Park Campus • 24/7 launderette facilities FAMILY ACCOMMODATION to city centre taxi fare • Adapted rooms are available for AT BECK HOUSE students with special requirements, We have a number of family flats at our including wheelchair users. designated quiet residence, Beck House, £18.99 PER MONTH Contact the Disability Office approximately a mile from campus in the for further information popular area of Uplands. Due to the GYM • En suites available 51-week tenancies, this accommodation is mostly suitable for postgraduate and MEMBERSHIP international students. University Sports Village Look inside swansea.ac.uk/accommodation
16 17 FINDING THE PERFECT BAY SINGLETON RESIDENCE TYPE OF ROOM WEEKLY RENT* PRIVATE SECTOR HOME CAMPUS PARK If you’d prefer to live off campus, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s a good supply of quality private Student Village Standard £93 sector student houses and flats in Swansea. Our letting En suite £130 – £158 agency, Student Accommodation Services (SAS) Singleton Park Bank Bank manages 130 properties in the nearby local communities Campus Standard** £125 – £144 of; Brynmill, Uplands and Sketty which are mostly within Standard £108 – £113 two miles of Singleton Park Campus. Their residences Beck House En suite £124 – £135 in St. Thomas and Port Tennant are close to our Cafe Bar Dentist & Doctor Bay Campus. These areas are also close to local Family flat £172 – £210 shops, bars and takeaways. En suite £148 Our online, searchable database, Studentpad, is Premium en suite £154 invaluable. It allows you to locate other available housing Bay Campus Twin room £182 (£91 per person) in the area and takes the effort out of house-hunting. One-bed flat £202 Food Outlets Food Outlets Two-bed flat £256 (£128 per person) saslettings.co.uk
WHEN SHOULD I APPLY FOR ACCOMMODATION? Great Hall Health Centre The sooner the better! If you have a firm offer of a place, you can make an accommodation application in February – you will receive details about making an online application with your academic or university Launderette Launderette offer. We encourage you to apply early, particularly for the very popular en suite accommodation.
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18 19 THINKING ABOUT EMPLOYER LINKS INCLUDE:
CAREERS, SKILLS, EMPLOYABILITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
We aim to help our students The Enterprise team can help you YEAR IN INDUSTRY achieve the careers they develop your skills, gain valuable Propel your career with a year in experience and test your business deserve. The University offers a industry as part of your degree. ideas through our range of support Many of our degree programmes variety of paid work experiences services, including: workshops, include the option to work a year in and careers advice through its competitions, schemes and business industry as part of the course, dedicated employability and mentoring alongside corporate providing valuable experience and enterprise team, alongside partners with a wealth of industry the opportunity to put theory into experience. practice whilst being paid. This puts regular careers fairs, you ahead of the game when FIND OUT MORE: entrepreneurial activities and embarking on your career and looks student-led alumni networking fantastic on your CV. For full details swansea.ac.uk/sea of programmes offering a year in events to help you find work or @SwanseaUniSea Easily Eco start your own business industry please see the individual Swansea University Student Enterprise #SeaYourFuture course pages. at the end of your studies. ‘Easily Eco’, a student start-up social enterprise offering a range of environmentally-friendly products focusing swansea.ac.uk/enterprise DEDICATED SUPPORT CREATING EMPLOYABLE • G ain recognised credit through the on reducing plastic usage in our everyday lives. SwanseaEnterprise AND ENTREPRENEURIAL Swansea Employability Award; Set up by three Swansea University students; providing you opportunities to develop GRADUATES Joe Sevenoaks, Emily MacAulay and Rhiannon Our long history of working closely PLACEMENTS AND knowledge, skills, experiences, and Barriball, a friendship group with a passion for with employers ensures the degree INTERNSHIPS attributes, to prepare for professional improving the environment and the world we live in, you study at Swansea University Through our Paid Internship Network life and further enhance your graduate decided to take part in Swansea University’s £100 provides you with the knowledge we connect employers with students employability Challenge initiative organised by the University’s Found from website recreated PMS and skills for a successful career in from all disciplines for four-week • Employability bursaries to help Enterprise team. Easily Eco were one of seven employment or self-employment. graduate level placements. All roles cover the costs of internships, businesses chosen by the panel of judges from Employers are looking for much are advertised via our Employment interviews and employability industry to receive initial funding. They received more than a degree when choosing Zone and our dedicated team are opportunities £1,250 which helped them create a website graduates to employ. Gaining here to support you throughout the • Paid student employment and widen their product range. experience and developing skills placement process. Placements can opportunities through the student whilst at university will give you a run throughout the year across a huge ambassador scheme competitive edge. Our award- range of subject areas. We also run Thank you to the Enterprise Team for all • For students facing barriers to winning team, the Swansea the Santander Universities Placement the help you have given us, we couldn’t have Programme providing students and work, a work experience Employability Academy can help done it without this support! Their fantastic you explore careers ideas, get a recent graduates with paid work programmme available through events have given us the courage to turn our great CV, find part-time employment, experience within local SMEs and the Go Wales programme
volunteer, get a placement, prepare third sector organisations. passion into a business. We are excited in swansea.ac.uk/ sea/ you for interviews and your first job gowales continuing our journey further with the CAREER out of university. help of the seed funding.
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YEAR ABROAD Piers Ellison Students going on a year abroad may Piers spent a year at Colorado State study at a partner university, complete University, USA as part of his American a work placement or teaching assistantship. Studies degree and is enthusiastic about Options and destinations will vary encouraging others to study abroad. depending on your course.
CSU appealed to me as they had a variety of unique
SEMESTER ABROAD classes that I couldn’t find anywhere else. I couldn’t Some courses allow you to spend a semester have asked for a better experience. My year abroad has abroad. This is usually during the second helped me establish a topic for my final year dissertation year of a three-year degree. in Swansea and I was welcomed with open arms by You may need to meet a minimum academic every person I met. threshold in order to participate in a semester or year abroad programme. Available destinations and associated programme costs vary. For more information visit: Hermione Sanderson swansea.ac.uk/goglobal Hermione is a Biosciences student and Swansea University aims to offer all its undergraduate students completed work placements in Mexico the opportunity to gain international experience through a SUMMER PROGRAMMES and Australia. Short and summer programmes are another range of year, semester and summer abroad options. way to gain valuable international experience Spending time in another country gives you the chance to develop in addition to your degree. You can choose I was able to experience the most diverse an entirely new set of skills while building an international network from internships, volunteering, cultural and and beautiful environments, immersing myself in of friends and contacts. You will be able to: study programmes in countries such as cultures and travelling to so many different places. China, Japan, Zambia, Fiji and Europe. It has given me a new perspective on life! • Increase your confidence, self-awareness and maturity For the latest information, visit: • Develop a global perspective and intercultural awareness swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes • Become more resilient • Improve communication and language skills Emily Weaver • Develop transferable skills to help your future career FUNDING Emily is a Business Management There are a range of funding opportunities student who spent four weeks of the swansea.ac.uk/goglobal available to support students who choose summer volunteering in Fiji. to go abroad, however as these may change please refer to our website for the latest information: Volunteering in Fiji has been one of the best experiences of my life. It was rewarding in so many ways and not swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/funding something I had ever considered doing before. I lived with a Fijian family and volunteered in schools. Working with the children was fantastic and the Fijian people and lifestyle is swanseauniglobal something that will stay in my memories forever.
22 23 WELSH-MEDIUM Arwain is a bilingual mobile app for students and LOOK OUT FOR Swansea University provides a number of SWANSEA UNIVERSITY BRANCH OF prospective students who speak or are learning Welsh. THIS SYMBOL opportunities for you to both study and socialise THE COLEG CYMRAEG CENEDLAETHOL Arwain brings together the essential information needed by students who want to study and live through ON INDIVIDUAL through the medium of Welsh and you’re actively Swansea University works in partnership with the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the University’s branch is the medium of Welsh at Swansea University. COURSE PAGES encouraged to do so. Since 2011, there has been situated within Academi Hywel Teifi. Its main aim is to a 40% increase in the number of students studying provide students with assistance and support to study and through the medium of Welsh at Swansea socialise through the medium of Welsh. STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD! University and our TEF data* over the last two The branch arranges all kinds of activities during the year, The Academi Hywel Teifi Award has been created to reward students years shows that Welsh-medium students are high including events for schools, welcome events for freshers, who contribute to the Welsh-medium cultural and academic life and £3,000 achievers in regards to employability. events for Welsh-speaking students, formal meetings, activities of Swansea University. The award recognises the role, MAIN SCHOLARSHIP discussion forums, gigs and much more! contribution and achievements of supporting, promoting and ensuring The Welsh language provision is an integral part of the a greater status for the Welsh language in all aspects of university life. For students who study at least 66% gold standard on offer here and is available across a WELSH-MEDIUM SCHOLARSHIPS For more information, e-mail: [email protected] of their course (80 credits a year) through the medium of Welsh broad range of subject areas. Your academic work can In addition to the Coleg Cymraeg scholarships available be submitted and assessed through the medium of Welsh to Swansea University students who choose to study part ACCOMMODATION across all subject areas. of their degree through the medium of Welsh, Academi You have the option to live with other Welsh speakers in designated Hywel Teifi also offers additional undergraduate halls of residence on Singleton and Bay Campus. It is well worth you ACADEMI HYWEL TEIFI scholarships and bursaries for students studying through taking this opportunity in your first year as it will assist you in making The University’s Academi Hywel Teifi is a centre of the medium of Welsh. Engaging with Welsh language new friends quickly and settle into university life. Make sure to note £1,500 excellence for studying the Welsh language, its literature, provision within your degree could include taking lectures, your preference on the application form. For detailed information INCENTIVE and culture. It gives Welsh-speaking students, or those tutorials, seminars and workplace-based contact hours in about the Welsh-medium provision on offer, please pick up a Welsh SCHOLARSHIP keen to learn the language, the opportunity to study Welsh. Applications are received annually from students prospectus or visit our website. For students who study at least 33% courses through the medium of Welsh and significantly at all levels of study. For more information and guidelines of their course (40 credits a year) increase graduate employment prospects in the process. on how to apply, visit: THE WELSH SOCIETY (GYMGYM) through the medium of Welsh For detailed information about the Welsh-medium Whether you’re a fluent Welsh speaker or just looking to practice your swansea.ac.uk/scholarships provision on offer, please pick up a Welsh prospectus Welsh, the GymGym will give you a range of opportunities to socialise or visit our website. with other Welsh speakers in an informal environment. The GymGym hosts regular events including quiz nights, volunteering opportunities and socials. However, the most memorable events include their annual £5,000 international rugby trip (in recent years to Dublin or Edinburgh), the WILLIAM SALESBURY inter-college dance and the inter-college Eisteddfod. These three events SCHOLARSHIP bring together all Welsh Societies across Wales – giving you the My main role as SU Welsh Affairs Officer is to represent all opportunity to socialise with Welsh speakers from all over the country. For students who study 100% The GymGym also supports the University’s Welsh-language rugby and of their course through the students of the Welsh community within the University. I can be medium of Welsh netball club, Rygbi a Phêl-rwyd Tawe. seen as their main contact with the Students Union, ensuring that their voice is heard within it. Welsh students can come to me with *Swansea University TEF return 2017 and 2018 Megan Fflur Colbourne, any questions or suggestions that they would like to raise in terms SU Welsh Affairs Officer For a full list of eligible courses, of their university experience. In addition to this, I strive to ensure application forms and terms that life as a Welsh Swansea University student is full of fun, and conditions please visit: opportunities and has the feeling of a close community! colegcymraeg.ac.uk
24 25 SWANSEA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ UNION OFFERS: • Over 150 societies and 50+ sports clubs UNION • Union Collective, a platform for helping students with funding and resource to take their business ideas off the ground • A chance to work for the student newspaper, TV station and radio station • An Advice & Support Centre helping with everything from landlords to academic disputes • An on-campus nursery that’s flexible around students’ lectures • A voice for the students at the University, ensuring student views are heard at every level
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION SUMMER BALL SUPPORTING
Our full-time officer team run campaigns throughout the year to raise awareness of super important issues, or initiatives to support you! Here are just a few: Study Aid: free services to help you get through intense study periods (including a visit from cuddly pups from our friends swanseaunisu swanseaunisu swanseaunisu at Greyhound Rescue Wales) Donate Don’t Ditch: At the end of every year, we take your unwanted items so that Grace Hannaford they don’t go to landfill and offer them out SU President 2019 – 2020 to new students in September. Pots, pans, dishes you name it, we’ve probably got it!
Swansea University Students’ Union is We have College and Subject Reps too – these are students BloodyHell: To help beat period poverty, run by students, for students. We are who work with the Uni to handle any issues students may we have made sanitary items freely be having on their course. available to all students in our toilets here to make your time at Swansea Uni and reception areas the best it can be. Every year we elect six We also run the shops and bars on campus – JC’s, Tafarn Tawe, Rebound, Root, Root Zero, Costcutter and Fulton You can follow the team on Instagram full-time officers who represent students Outfitters. All profits go straight back into the student experience! @susuofficers to find out what else they with everything university related. are getting up to! We also organise Freshers’ Fortnight, Summer Ball, Varsity and a host of other great events for you to enjoy!
26 27 DUE TO OUR SUPERB COASTAL LOCATION, SPORTING SCHOLARSHIPS SWANSEA HAS ONE OF THE BEST WATER We are proud to have fostered some of SPORTS OFFERINGS OF ANY BRITISH UNIVERSITY the highest level of sporting talent here at THINK SPORT... Swansea University and are proud to be able to offer a range of sporting scholarships.
We look for students who have demonstrated outstanding ability in their sport and offer a:
Here at Swansea we pride ourselves SCHOLARSHIP PACKAGE WORTH on our dedication and commitment to sport and active lifestyles. We have sporting opportunities UP TO £5,500 to suit all of our students, from ACTIVE AND HEALTHY CAMPUS PROGRAMME Conditions apply elite/international athletes to In the 2020-2021 academic year we will be offering a new, complete beginners, there is great range of activities for students who would like to become swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ more active and take part in some form of exercise. So if you scholarships something for everyone. are starting out, we have fun social activities and courses to suit you, such as our hugely popular social leagues. swansea.ac.uk/sport FACILITIES Swansea is home to two of the leading sports facility sites in Wales, including the International Sports Village and the Fairwood Training Ground, providing Alun Wyn Jones the training base for Swansea City Football Club. British and Irish Lions, Both campuses also house excellent health and fitness Wales and Ospreys player facilities, including top-of-the-range equipment and and Swansea Law graduate classes. The University also offers a high-end strength and conditioning facility (The Shed) available to elite athletes. While studying at Swansea Our extensive range of sporting facilities University, the Sports Scholarship for students includes: allowed me to pursue two career • Tennis courts paths simultaneously. I fondly • Playing fields remember my time at Swansea • Athletics track and field and particularly a Varsity win. • Sports pavilion • AstroTurf pitches In the future, knowing a career • A floodlit multi-use games area and half basketball court in sport doesn’t last forever, • Cycle hire and running routes I won’t rule out returning to further my qualifications. The New Zealand All Blacks have used our International Sports Village as a Rugby World Cup training ground and our 50m National pool has been used as a training base for two international Paralympic teams. As a student, you will have access to these first-class facilities.
28 29 HIGH PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME COMPETITIVE SPORT Our High Performance Programme offers assistance We are the fastest improving University in the to elite athletes in a wide range of sports, with each British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) delivered in conjunction with a professional sport club rankings, finishing 18th in the 2018-2019 table. or national governing body sport partner. In 2018-2019, we achieved our highest ever number Our programme currently supports six sports and of BUCS points and aim to build upon this further in is growing annually. Each sport receives high 2019-2020 as our performances improve and number performance coaching, sports science services, of teams grow. With membership to over 50 different athlete lifestyle management, physiotherapy and sports clubs available, there is a vast array of strength and conditioning support. These sports are opportunities for you to competitively represent currently: men’s and women’s rugby, men’s football, the University in BUCS and key domestic competitions. swimming, men’s and women’s hockey, netball and Our clubs provide a range of coach-led training table tennis. sessions to give you the opportunity to achieve The University also offers Talented Athlete Scholarship your sporting goals. Schemes (TASS) to highly talented student athletes, with a support package worth up to £5,500, which may include; strength and conditioning training, physiotherapy, psychological aid and nutritional advice, all delivered by qualified practitioners. There are many scholarship packages available, to find out more:
swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ scholarships SPORTS
VARSITY Varsity is the biggest student event in Wales, and is the second largest of the British Varsity Scan to watch: Games, behind Oxford / Cambridge.
Varsity sees Swansea University and Cardiff University compete in over 30 different sports, from basketball, rowing, golf, hockey, fencing, squash, and ultimate frisbee.
Watch last year’s Varsity highlights here:
welshvarsity.com
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At Swansea University we are blessed with a wealth of habitats, from beaches to woodland to parks, and we are passionate about sustainable development to benefit our local community, the UK and the wider world.
As a student, there are plenty of opportunities for you to get involved with practical conservation. You can volunteer to help keep these areas special by joining our regular beach Plastics, including single-use cleans, work parties and wildlife monitoring. As well as plastic bottles, are now the helping the environment, you’ll learn new skills and meet most frequently-found type new friends along the way. of litter on UK beaches. And you don’t have to look far to THE SUSTAINABILITY AWARD find them littering our towns Whether you’re interested in recycling, biodiversity, and green spaces too. STUDENT wellbeing, or anything in between, we’ll have something for you! Swansea University is a leading sustainable Our stand out student engagement programme is the university and we are delighted to be Sustainability Award. Students of any subject, in any able to support Refill (a scheme providing year of their degree, can work towards this award water refill stations in venues across throughout their time with us at Swansea University. Swansea and the University) with our Completing the award contributes to your academic partners in Plastic Free Swansea and the record and teaches you a wide range of skills. Students’ Union. Our Students’ Union officers have been really busy supporting swansea.ac.uk/sustainability the launch of the campaign; we’ve now got at least 30 Refill stations located across our Bay and Singleton Park campuses for the whole community to use. GREENEST Teifion Maddocks
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34 35 WE’RE HERE SETTLING INTO UNI
I remember the first few months at university were the hardest to adapt to. Not only was I ill and wanting the comfort of home but I was quite shy and felt as though I couldn’t connect to You can access a range of student support services throughout Your wellbeing is important to us. To my flatmates who all wanted to go out your time at university to make not just your first few weeks at enjoy and enrich your experience at partying most of the time. I am aware university an easier transition, but your whole time spent here Swansea University, you can access that others feel or have felt similar free, impartial advice and a range of at Swansea University as stress free and easy as possible. emotions at university but it is important support services in a relaxed, friendly to know and understand that you are MYUNIHUB and confidential environment. not alone and do not have to deal with HOW CAN WE HELP things by yourself. FIND OUT MORE: MyUniHub is here to make student life at Swansea University as easy as possible. We offer information and guidance on any Sometimes, university can feel like a swansea.ac.uk/student-services aspect of student life. So whether you would like help enrolling lonely place but having people accept as a student, want to pay your fees in person, want advice on and care about your wellbeing housing, student financial aid, or help with managing your can help to off-set these feelings of course load, MyUniHub is the place to go! isolation. It is also important to note that if you are too ill, you do not have HEALTH INFORMATION DISABILITY OFFICE to soldier on and make yourself worse (and feel as though you are in a rut) University dental care offers a full Ensuring the same student experience for all. range of NHS and private treatments there are options for medical leave The Swansea University Transcription Centre to students. Dentist, Doctors’ surgery or extenuating circumstances. (SUTC) for example, is a dedicated transcription and a health centre are located on service which provides accessible learning The University offers many campus. resources to print for disabled students. services to help students who may be struggling; from in-house counselling and wellbeing services, to pastoral support from staff. There is no shame in using these services in acknowledging and WELLBEING SERVICES MONEY (CAMPUSLIFE) admitting that you may need some additional help and support A range of free student services Are always on hand to help (as hard as this may be). that cultivates and looks after you max your cash and your wellbeing, including a keep your finances in Joanna Wolton mental health support service. check. Check out the Social Policy student pre-arrival money checklist: swansea.ac.uk/ money-campuslife
36 37 ENTRY CRITERIA The College has minimum academic entry requirements, which vary depending on the education system of prior study and the subject to be studied at Swansea University.
There are also English language entry requirements for swansea.ac.uk/the-college our pathways. If you do not meet the English language The College, Swansea University offers Foundation requirement for direct entry to your chosen pathway, English language training is delivered by the University’s and supported First Year programmes for English Language Training Services (ELTS) with multiple international students who require extra support, entry points throughout each year. contact hours and tuition in the early stages of For a full list of countries and entry requirements visit: their Swansea University degree programmes. swansea.ac.uk/the-college/entry As a full-time student of the University, you will be provided (where possible) with one visa to cover your entire degree studies. Students of The College will live in a new dedicated residence UNDERGRADUATE PATHWAYS close to the teaching building on the Bay Campus. ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS: FOUNDATION • Accounting and Finance The College will teach you the basics of studying your • Biochemistry, Genetics chosen degree in the UK to ensure that you are fully prepared for your degree studies and living and studying • Business Management in the UK. Students can be admitted from the age of 16 • Computer Science and Software Engineering so you may find that you can save time by going through • Criminology UNDERGRADUATE PATHWAYS the Foundation rather than taking A levels. • Economics • Education Foundation courses start in September, November, • Engineering The highest award (Gold) for teaching January and May, depending on the subject. excellence at UK universities • Human and Health Sciences • Languages, TESOL and Translation INTEGRATED FIRST YEAR As an Integrated student, you will be taught alongside • Law • Mathematics Brand new facility for students at The College opened in 2018 our UK students but with additional tutorials and a learning skills module specifically for international • Media and Communication students. Your extra classes will concentrate on study • Medical Genetics, Medical Biochemistry skills specific to your chosen degree and are taught • Osteopathy by the College’s highly experienced tutors. The • Philosophy, Politics and Economics Integrated First Year starts in September. • Psychology • Politics and International Relations INTERNATIONAL FIRST YEAR • Sciences (Biology, Earth Science, Geography, For students of Business, Economics, Accounting Marine Biology, Physics, Zoology) and Finance, we offer a First Year programme with • Social Policy, Social Sciences additional resource and support, taught in small classes. • Sports and Exercise Science The International First Year programmes in Business, Look out for this icon on the course pages Accounting and Finance start in September, November to see where a pathway is on offer and January while Economics has a September start only.
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We have a thriving international community with DEVELOPING YOUR students from all over the world. The vibrant mix LANGUAGE SKILLS of nationalities and cultures on campus greatly If you think you need to improve your English language skills before starting your studies, or if you need support enriches our learning and teaching environment. with English language while studying with us, our English We understand the type of support our international Language Training Services (ELTS) offers a range of British Council accredited programmes to help you students need to settle into student life in a new achieve your academic goals. country and strive to provide a high level of advice For further information, please contact the English and service to make sure that this happens. Language Training Services (ELTS):
INTERNATIONAL@CAMPUSLIFE swansea.ac.uk/elts International@CampusLife provides information and [email protected] advice on non-academic matters, including immigration advice and services, to all international (non-UK) students +44 (0)1792 295391 and their dependants. We support all non-UK students regardless of nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual SCHOLARSHIPS preference or health status. Advice is offered free of Swansea University offers a range of scholarships charge and without discrimination. for international students who can demonstrate For further information, please contact: academic and personal excellence. For details of all our international scholarship swansea.ac.uk/international-campuslife opportunities, please visit: [email protected] swansea.ac.uk/international-students/ +44 (0)1792 602000 my-finances
WELCOMING YOU TO THE UK TUITION FEES We run a Meet and Greet service from London’s If you are an international student, the fee you will Heathrow Airport, and provide all new international be charged depends on your home country and students with a full orientation programme to help what you choose to study. You will find the tuition them get to know the University, Swansea and the fee clearly displayed on each undergraduate region. For more information about our services course page on our website: for new students please visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/international-students HOW TO APPLY Swansea Uni Please see page 149.
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40 41 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE / BUSINESS APPLIED MEDICAL International students please refer MANAGEMENT / ECONOMICS SCIENCES BIOSCIENCES FOUNDATION YEAR to the undergraduate international BAY CAMPUS SINGLETON CAMPUS SINGLETON CAMPUS student pathways – see page 39
A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: FOUNDATION YEAR WHAT IS A FOUNDATION YEAR? Each applicant is considered on BBC-CCC to include Biology CCD to include Biology FOUNDATION YEAR If you don’t have the necessary entry requirements subject. After successful completion, you will a case-by-case basis. If you don't OR Chemistry and ideally one GCSE: English and Maths think you meet our standard entry other STEM or relevant subject to enter on to the first year of a degree, you can then go straight on to the main degree course. minimum grade C requirements please contact us to apply for a place on a degree course with an When you graduate, it will be as though you’ve GCSE: English and Maths discuss entry on to the Foundation Year. integrated foundation year. This means that you graduated from the three-year degree course minimum grade C will be studying for four years instead of three. and your qualification will be a Bachelors TYPICAL OFFER: GCSE: English and Maths Other entry requirements: degree, e.g. BSc (Hons) or BA (Hons). minimum grade C During your first year, you will be able to improve BTEC Merit to Distinction, your skills and increase your knowledge of the Other entry requirements: ideally with a good Biology OR No A level in Business, Economics, Chemistry profile Maths or Accounting/Finance required. We do not consider WILL STUDYING A FOUNDATION YEAR WHAT OTHER SKILLS CAN I LEARN General Studies MEAN I AM BEHIND OTHER STUDENTS? IN MY FOUNDATION YEAR? Not at all – many of our students who have studied Depending on your subject, you can brush up on The Integrated Foundation Year is Applied Medical Sciences The Integrated Foundation a foundation year outperform students who start on other skills that you might need. For instance, if you an excellent pathway to gaining the Integrated Foundation Year will Year gives you the chance to year 1 of the main degree. Many go on to get first want to study Physics, but your Maths at A level let required knowledge and skills before help you to develop key skills and a develop scientific and numerical class honours, are brilliant ambassadors for the you down, Integrated Foundation Year gives you a joining Year 1 students at the School solid grounding in the fundamentals understanding which is essential University and are highly valued by their department. great opportunity to get your Maths up to scratch. You of Management. The course itself of biological chemistry, metabolism to the successful completion of a will also become more confident in your own abilities. blends theory with practical and homeostasis, microbiology and Biology degree. This degree Nathan Pine, a Physics alumnus, graduated with a application, and the wide selection disease, molecular biology, data gives you the flexibility to first class honours degree and an amazing final WHAT QUALIFICATIONS DO of optional modules to choose from handling and laboratory skills. It explore natural life wherever result of 92%. Nathan was also listed as a co-author allows you to shape the degree is ideal if you are interested in I NEED TO APPLY? your interests lie. on a research paper, alongside his tutor and a PhD towards your career goals. medical sciences but don’t have We consider applicants on their own merits, so TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: student. Not bad for an undergraduate! the required entry qualifications † TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: Foundation Biology, Techniques in offers may vary, but we guarantee that we will to join our BSc programmes Business, Principles of ICT, Ecology: an Introduction, Research NATHAN SAYS: make you an offer. or are a mature student returning Statistics, Economics, Globalisation Skills for Biologists, Molecular This might be in the form of a typical grades offer. to education. I didn’t reach my full potential at sixth form and Biology and Biochemistry The typical offer is listed on the subject pages in this PROGRESSION TO THE so over my foundation and first year at Swansea TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: prospectus, but we are happy to accept a range of FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE PROGRESSION TO THE I realised my true priority was my studies, slowly HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: Biological Chemistry, Molecular FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE other qualifications, so please check the individual Biology, Microbiology and Disease, building my grades higher and higher. This gave • Accounting HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: course pages on our website for more detailed Data Handling and Analysis, me a strong work ethic going into second and third • Finance • Biology and subject specific criteria at: Applied Medical Sciences year allowing me to obtain very high percentage • Accounting and Finance • Marine Biology swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses Skills Development grades consistently across a variety of modules. • Business Management • Zoology (with optional specialisation in: PROGRESSION TO THE Business Analytics/E-Business/ FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: Enterprise and Innovation/Finance/ INTEGRATED FOUNDATION YEAR SUBJECT AREAS Human Resource Management/ • Applied Medical Sciences** • Accounting & Finance • Chemistry • Engineering • Mathematics Management Consulting/ • Medical Pharmacology** • Applied Medical Sciences • Computer Science • Geography • Science Marketing/Operations and • Population Health and Supply Management/Tourism) Medical Sciences** • Biosciences • Economics • Humanities • Physics • Economics ( **minimum 60% required to progress onto • Business Management • Economics and Business year 1 from Foundation Year) • Economics and Finance
† For full course details and individual UCAS course codes please search the A-Z course list via: Guaranteed conditional offers do not apply to professional courses, and normal selection procedures apply. Full details of our Guaranteed Offer Policy can be found at swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/how-to-apply/guaranteed-offers swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses and find the degree listed 'with a Foundation Year' *Completion of the foundation year provides progression onto the degree programmes listed 4242 43 CHEMISTRY COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING GEOGRAPHY HUMANITIES SINGLETON CAMPUS BAY CAMPUS BAY CAMPUS SINGLETON CAMPUS SINGLETON CAMPUS
A levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: FOUNDATION YEAR CCD to include Chemistry CCC-CCD BBB-BCC CCD to include Geography CDD/DDD (we make offers flexibly FOUNDATION YEAR and Maths AS/A level or or a related subject depending upon predicted grades) GCSE: English minimum grade C, GCSE: Maths and all Sciences Grade B GCSE Maths minimum grade C (5) minimum grade B, including at GCSE: English and Maths GCSE: English and Maths This Integrated Foundation Year least two other A grades minimum grade C minimum grade C is suitable if you do not have the TYPICAL OFFER: Other entry requirements: TYPICAL OFFER: necessary qualifications to directly BTEC DDD with D in all start the three year course. Maths modules
A flexibly structured degree path This Integrated Foundation Year Engineering offers an enormous This Integrated Foundation Year The Humanities Integrated PROGRESSION TO THE FOLLOWING means you have the opportunity to is suitable if you do not have the range of opportunities for is suitable if you do not have the Foundation Year offers an innovative BA SINGLE HONOURS study abroad for a year or work relevant qualifications to directly graduates. You can choose to necessary qualifications to directly and exciting introduction to higher PROGRAMMES*: in industry for a year, either start the three year BSc course. concentrate your interest in a start the three year course. You will education and is designed to • American Studies locally, nationally or overseas. It will put you on course for highly number of fields from Aerospace be given the chance to develop an provide wider access to accredited • Ancient History to Civil, Chemical, Electronic understanding which is essential to honours degrees in the College of • Classical Civilisation The Chemistry curriculum at specialised and dynamic careers and Electrical, Materials successfully completing the degree. Arts and Humanities. • Classics Swansea is informed by the in software engineering, big data Science, Mechanical and • Early Childhood Studies with needs of modern industry and is and data science, security analysis At Swansea, we place a strong We will support you in gaining the Medical Engineering. Early Years Practitioner Status constantly updated, ensuring you or emerging technologies. emphasis on fieldwork. Our essential knowledge and key skills, If you are not sure which discipline • Education will always be taught relevant TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: location offers easy access to including the broad subject of Engineering you want to study • Egyptology material which is applicable Computational Problem Solving, environments as varied as the knowledge you will need to thrive we offer a BEng Engineering • English Language in the wider world. Computers Unplugged, Gower Peninsula, Brecon Beacons, and succeed in your degree. with a Foundation Year. Upon rural west Wales and the urban • English Literature TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: Introduction to Programming, TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: completion of this year you can industrial landscapes across • English Literature with Creative Elementary Chemistry, Fundamental Fundamentals of Robotics Introduction to Being Human, choose from the degree south Wales. You will also have Writing (BA Major/Minor Honours) Mathematics for Chemists, Methods Academic Writing and Study Skills, PROGRESSION TO THE programmes below. the opportunity to undertake • History of Analysis and Detection, Synthesis FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE Introduction to Research and Social overseas field courses. • International Relations and Analysis, Reactions and HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: Inquiry, Personal Development and Electricity and Magnetism, • Media and Communication Products, The Physics of Chemistry • TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: Communication, Final Project Computer Science • Medieval Studies Mechanics, Thermofluid Mechanics, Geography Tutorial Module, PROGRESSION TO THE • Software Engineering Development of Key Skills for An Introduction to Data • Philosophy FOLLOWING BSC SINGLE Engineers, Basic Engineering • Politics (available route to HONOURS PROGRAMMES: Visualisation, Foundation Human Analysis Geography, Foundation Geography Philosophy, Politics and Economics) • Chemistry • Public Relations and Media PROGRESSION TO THE PROGRESSION TO THE • War and Society FOLLOWING BEng SINGLE FOLLOWING BA/BSc SINGLE HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: • Aerospace Engineering • Environmental Geoscience • Chemical Engineering • Geography • Civil Engineering • Geography and Geographical • Electronic and Electrical Information Science Engineering • Human Geography • Materials Science and Engineering • Physical Geography • Mechanical Engineering • Medical Engineering
For full course details and individual UCAS course codes please search the A-Z course list via: For full course details and individual UCAS course codes please search the A-Z course list via: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses and find the degree listed 'with a Foundation Year' swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses and find the degree listed 'with a Foundation Year' *Completion of the foundation year provides progression onto the degree programmes listed *Completion of the foundation year provides progression onto the degree programmes listed 4444 45 MATHEMATICS PHYSICS LOOK OUT FOR THE FOLLOWING BAY CAMPUS SINGLETON CAMPUS SYMBOLS THROUGHOUT THE
A Levels or equivalent: A Levels or equivalent: COURSE PAGES:
FOUNDATION YEAR CCD to include Maths CCD to include Maths Global and Physics There are GCSE: English and Maths Opportunities available for this course minimum grade C GCSE: English and Maths minimum grade C SINGLE HONOURS JOINT HONOURS There is a Foundation Year pathway available for this course TYPICAL OFFER: Where you have one main Where you study two There are Welsh scholarship subject, but in years 1 subjects and don't usually opportunities available for and 2 you can usually pick have the option to pick this course subsiduary modules too. subsidiary modules. For international students only This Integrated Foundation Year This Integrated Foundation Year – there is a specific International is suitable if you do not have the is suitable if you do not have the DEGREE TYPES Foundation pathway available necessary qualifications to directly necessary qualifications to directly for this course BA – Bachelor of Arts start the three year course. start the three year course. It UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT Full details of these opportunities Contemporary science and prepares you for the rigours of BSc – Bachelor of Science for each course are listed in the course reference grid business are both underpinned the BSc with a foundation year BEng – Bachelor of Engineering Someone who is studying for, (pages 134 – 144) by mathematics and our degrees developed to expand your core LLB – Bachelor of Laws but hasn’t yet completed a competencies in Physics and reflect a connection with industry. LLM – Master of Laws bachelor’s degree. As you progress, your developing Mathematics. This Integrated MEng – Master of Engineering mathematical abilities will combine Foundation Year is taught by Physics – Bachelor of Medicine with transferable skills that are vital staff in the Department of Physics. MB BCh to securing employment in the Transition to the BSc programme is MMath – Master of Mathematics seamless at the end of the year. wider industry. MPharm – Master of Pharmacy POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS STUDENT LOAN TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: TYPICAL MODULES INCLUDE: MPhys – Master of Physics Calculus, Probability, Geometry, Foundation Mathematics for MSci – Master of Science Someone who is undertaking Money that is awarded to a Money that is borrowed from Complex numbers, Programming Physicists, Electricity and further study or research, student based on academic an external organisation such and Robotics Magnetism, Mechanics, Waves, usually a Master’s degree achievement. Scholarships do as the Student Loans Company Optics and Thermal Physics having completed their not need to be paid back but or Student Finance Wales. PROGRESSION TO THE 3 or 4 year bachelor’s degree. you have to meet certain criteria. You will have to repay any FOLLOWING BSc SINGLE PROGRESSION TO THE WHERE YOU'LL STUDY loan you borrow plus interest HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: FOLLOWING BSC SINGLE HONOURS PROGRAMMES*: but not until you have finished • Mathematics • Physics or left your course. How • Theoretical Physics much you repay each month BURSARIES AND GRANTS • Physics with Particle Physics depends on your income not and Cosmology Awarded to a student to how much you borrowed. If your grades are sufficient at the enable them to study at university. These are usually end of Year 2, you will be invited to BAY CAMPUS progress onto the MPhys programme. given to students based on FOUNDATION personal circumstances, such as income. This does not A route of entry also known need to be paid back. The as ‘year 0’ onto a degree amount of money you get programme (see page 42). normally depends on your parents’ income and where For full course details and individual UCAS course codes please search the you choose to live and study. A-Z course list via: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS and find the degree listed 'with a Foundation Year' *Completion of the foundation year provides progression onto the degree programmes listed 46 47 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ACTUARIAL SCIENCE MATHS BAY CAMPUS BAY CAMPUS UK TOP UK TOP ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
10 ACTUARIAL SCIENCE GRADUATE 15 GRADUATE Are you looking for an Accounting and Finance degree to give you a PROSPECTS Our BSc Actuarial Science programme brings together mathematical, PROSPECTS competitive edge? If you want a career at one of the ‘big four’ firms (Complete University Guide statistical and financial techniques to study financial risk in areas such 2020) (Complete University (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG or PwC), or you see yourself as an as insurance, finance, and government. Guide 2020) accountant for a government body, not-for-profit organisation, or private The programme is accredited by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries so business, this degree will equip you with everything you need. Foundation Year Global Opportunities available that graduates with good degrees can obtain up to six exemptions from available Global Opportunities IFoA Core Principles examinations. Full details available on the The School of Management offers a AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available Course Reference Grid (page 134)
International Students flexible degree with a wide selection Year 1 – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Our Actuarial Science programme AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: of optional modules in later years, • Economics (Accounting foundation programme available was launched in 2019 and is the only Year 1 allowing you to shape the course and Finance) Full details available on the TYPICAL OFFER: AAA (to include Maths) Course Reference Grid (page 134) Actuarial Science degree in Wales. • Accounting and finance Detailed entry requirements and
towards your career goals. • Finance
– SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL course features available on the • F oundations of financial accounting It is based in the Mathematics • Analysis and algebra You will develop transferable skills Course Reference Grid (page 134) • F oundations of management Department and taught jointly with • Economics in areas such as communication, TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB accounting the School of Management. • Statistics problem-solving and data analysis, Detailed entry requirements and • Managing people and operations course features available on the It provides students with a Year 2 BSc Single Honours and will be able to engage with Course Reference Grid (page 134) thorough grounding in the areas of • Corporate finance ▲ Actuarial Science industry professionals at every Year 2 Mathematics, Accounting, Finance • Credibility, liability and ruin stage of your studies. • Corporate finance ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Investments: Assets; equities BSc Single Honours and Economics relevant to careers in • Investments: assets, equities Pioneering research and industry and bonds ▲ Accounting the actuarial profession. Such careers and bonds For individual UCAS course codes knowledge inform our teaching, please visit the course web page • Financial accounting ♦ Accounting are highly financially rewarding and • Probability and statistics while expert academics will help to • Financial markets and institutions (with Year in Industry/Abroad) very competitive. • Real analysis and vector calculus build the skills you will need for a ♦ Accounting (with Foundation Year) • Vector spaces You will be taught in our new successful career in the accounting Year 3 ▲ Finance FUTURE CAREERS: £32.5m Computational Foundry Year 3 and finance sector. • Auditing ♦ Finance (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • Actuary • Contemporary issues in finance ♦ Finance (with Foundation Year) Building which provides the latest • Assurance and annuity • Auditor Available to all undergraduate • Financial services ▲ Accounting and Finance teaching facilities and you will be • Complex analysis • Financial Analyst students within the School of • Forensic accounting ♦ Accounting and Finance taught by expert research • Financial mathematics • Insurance • Investment Banking Management, a Year in Industry • International financial management (with Year in Industry/Abroad) mathematicians as well as fully • Ito calculus • Management is an opportunity to gain real-world ♦ Accounting and Finance credentialed actuaries, accountants • Interest rate modelling and industry experience, making you (with Foundation Year) and management staff, many of machine learning an attractive candidate for jobs whom have years or decades of • Stochastic processes and ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR after graduating. business experience to draw upon survival models For individual UCAS course codes Want to experience an unforgettable for practical classroom examples. please visit the course web page year studying in another country, meeting new people, exploring new cultures and growing as a person; FUTURE CAREERS: professionally and personally? • Accountant or Actuary A Year Abroad is also available • Auditor with an overseas institution. • Banking Professional • Broker • Finance Analyst ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: (subject to module selection) ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Wealth Management or Investment Adviser
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 48 49 ANCIENT AND AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MEDIEVAL HISTORY ND UK SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS ND UK
AMERICAN STUDIESAMERICAN 2 2 ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY STUDENT CAREER The USA has an immediate and continuing impact on all our lives. It SATISFACTION This wide-ranging interdisciplinary degree invites you to explore more PROSPECTS influences our culture, our economy, and our political outlook, and its (Guardian University Guide than 2,000 years of history across Europe and the Mediterranean world. (The Guardian University 2020) Guide 2020) foreign policy affects our future. You will study the political and social history of Ancient Greece and Rome, To know and understand the nature of America, its historical, cultural as well as themes from the whole span of the Middle Ages. You can also Foundation Year Foundation Year and political traditions, is to appreciate more fully the real forces available study ancient and medieval languages, particularly Greek and Latin. available driving this century. Global Opportunities Global Opportunities available available
You will explore the continuities Year 2 – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries American Studies covers the culture, AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the and change from the emergence of • Writing Ancient History Course Reference Grid (page 134) available history and politics of the most Year 1 Athenian democracy to the glories of • The History and Archaeology of Roman Britain Full details available on the influential country in the world, • American Politics and Society renaissance Italy, examining topics Course Reference Grid (page 134) from colonization to the present day. • Introduction to American TYPICAL OFFER: BBB from the expansion of the Roman • Medieval Britain, 1250-1461 Literature and Culture Detailed entry requirements and Empire to the crusades of the Middle • The Roman Comic Novel: You can shape your degree to your • The American Experience course features available on the Ages, and the great epics of Homer Excrement and Sacrament Course Reference Grid (page 134) TYPICAL OFFER: BBB
own interests, whether in American HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE to the sublime poetry of Dante. • Anglo-Saxon and film, music, race, gender, migration Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and Viking-Age England course features available on the and urbanization, social, economic • America in Crisis Drawing on our wide-ranging BA Single Honours • The Crusades and the Making Course Reference Grid (page 134) • American Word/American Image expertise in ancient and medieval and military history, terrorism, or ▲5 American Studies of Latin Christendom, 1050-1300 • Ghettos, Streets and Suburbs: civil rights and political protest. ♦5 American Studies history, you will examine civilisations • Gendering the Middle Ages: Cultural Representations of the (with Year Abroad) that may appear distant but remain BA Single Honours You will develop a range of Power and Exclusion ▲ American City ♦5 American Studies influential in our own time. Ancient and Medieval History transferable skills, which are highly • Beyond Blood and Guts: Medicine • New York City: History (with Foundation Year) ♦ Ancient History from Late Antiquity to the Early valued by employers, and you have and Culture Since 1945 You will have regular trips to historic (with Foundation Year) Modern period the chance to study for a year or a • R ethinking the South BA Joint Honours American Studies and sites, and you can tailor your degree ♦ Ancient and Medieval History ▲ ♦ English Literature semester in the USA, with over 40 • Race and Ethnicity to your own interests with a variety Year 3 (with Year Abroad) ▲ ♦ History US campus options. • The Making of Transatlantic of topics to choose from. • Law and Justice in ▲ ♦ International Relations ▲ America Medieval England 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR ▲ ♦ Politics AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: • Devotion Piety & Power: The For individual UCAS course codes Year 3 All 3 year Joint Honours can be Year 1 First Crusade & the Worlds of Latin please visit the course web page • African American Literature extended to 4 years to include a • Medieval Europe: An Introduction Christendom, Byzantium & the and Culture year abroad in your third year. • M aking History (with seminar Islamic Near East • America and the Bomb options such as ‘Violence and Belief FUTURE CAREERS: ▲ • The Crucible of Defeat: Wessex • America and Terrorism 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR in the Medieval World, 1000-1300’) • Business in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries • Business and Management • Gunfighter Nation: The West in For individual UCAS course codes • Greek History and Society • The Masculine and the Monstrous • Education History, Mythology and Fiction please visit the course web page • Rome from Village to Empire: An in the Middle Ages • Heritage and Museums • Popular Music and the City Introduction to Roman History • Mapping Medieval Landscapes • Law and Public Services • Contemporary American Fiction • Of Gods and Heroes: • Monarchy: Ancient and Medieval • Media and Public Relations • The American Civil War in FUTURE CAREERS: Greek Mythology History and Memory • Civil Service • Ovid’s Metamorphoses: The • Education Transformations of Mythology • Management and Business • Politics and Government • Public Relations and Media
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ANCIENT HISTORY 4 5 SCIENCES APPLIED MEDICAL STUDENT MEDICAL SCHOOL Ancient History explores Greek and Roman civilisations to give you new EXPERIENCE Applied Medical Sciences explores the science that underpins medicine, (Complete University Guide 2020; The Guardian University insights into the cultures that have shaped our modern world. (Times Good University Guide giving you an in-depth understanding of how the human body works, Guide 2020) 2020) what happens when it goes wrong, how we treat disorders, and the You will have the chance to study Greek and Roman history and society, potential for novel therapeutics. architecture and archaeology, warfare and empire, gender, religion, politics Foundation Year Foundation Year and economics, and you can learn Ancient Greek or Latin language. available This course is ideal for future scientists, biotechnology entrepreneurs or available Global Opportunities if you want to go on to study medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine. Global Opportunities
available available – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE You will gain an overview of ancient Year 2 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Greek and Roman historical events • Writing Ancient History You will have access to available available and people, before learning how • Armies and Enemies of state-of-the-art research and LINKS TO GRADUATE Imperial Rome Full details available on the Full details available on the to dissect different sources and treat Course Reference Grid (page 134) teaching facilities at the Medical ENTRY MEDICINE: Course Reference Grid (page 134)
them using the appropriate • The Heirs of Rome: The Making of School, including whole-body SCHOOL – MEDICAL methodologies. Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam human dissection. This course is part of our Pathways to Medicine programme. If you • G ender in the Roman World TYPICAL OFFER: BBB TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-ABB (to include You will study in a research-intensive Our approach to learning encourages choose the Medical Science in • Ancient and Historic Places Detailed entry requirements and Biology and one other STEM subject) department with experts on Roman excellent research and communication Practice Pathway, perform well and (Study Trip) course features available on the Detailed entry requirements and Syria, Pompeii, ancient geography, Course Reference Grid (page 134) skills, incorporating lectures, seminars, meet the minimum entry requirements, course features available on the early Cyprus, and the saints and Year 2/3 practical laboratory sessions and you will be guaranteed an interview Course Reference Grid (page 134) rulers of late antiquity. • A lexander and the Hellenistic World independent learning. for our flagship MBBCh Medicine • A ncient Cyprus BA Single Honours (Graduate Entry) course. You will develop transferable ▲ Ancient History During your studies, you will focus BSc Single Honours • B eing Greek: Identity in the Ancient skills, which are highly valued by ♦ Ancient History (with Year Abroad) on one of three employability ▲ Applied Medical Sciences Greek World employers, and you can sign ♦ Ancient History Year 2 ♦ Applied Medical Sciences • B eyond Mainland Greece: Asia in strands: Medical Science in (with Foundation Year) • Antimicrobial resistance (with Foundation Year) up for various employability the Classical and Hellenistic Periods Research, Medical Science in and engagement placements. Practice (subject to eligibility), • Medical psychology • G reek City States BA Joint Honours ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR or Enterprise and Innovation. • Human immunology You can also take the Study Trip • S et in Stone? Inscribing and Ancient History and • Medical science in practice For individual UCAS course codes module which will bolster your Writing in Antiquity ▲ English Literature AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: • Research themes and techniques please visit the course web page in-depth study of an overseas ancient • Schools work placement: ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) ♦ Year 1 land by seeing it in real life. Teaching ancient history and French (with Year Abroad) Year 3 ♦ German (with Year Abroad) • Chemical processes and ancient languages • Cancer genetics FUTURE CAREERS: AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: ▲ Greek biological systems • Nanotoxicology • Clinical Research and Development Year 1 Year 3 ♦ Greek (with Year Abroad) • Human anatomy • Reproductive biology • Laboratory Research • Classics, Ancient History, ▲ History • Human physiology • Greek History and Society • Advances in diabetes • R egulation e.g. Medicines and Health ♦ History (with Year Abroad) • Rome from Village to Empire: Egyptology Dissertation • Molecular genetics • Independent research project Care Products Regulatory Agency ▲ Latin An Introduction to Roman History • Italy before the Romans • Microbiology under the guidance of a • Science Education, Consultancy ♦ Latin (with Year Abroad) • Introduction to Greek and Roman • Late Antiquity: the Transformation professional research scientist and Journalism ▲ Politics Art and Architecture of the Roman World AD 250-600 • Drug Development ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) • Introduction to Ancient Philosophy • P ompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius • Health Professions (after further study) e.g. Doctor, Physician’s and Rhetoric • R oman Britain ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Associate, Dentist or Veterinarian For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page
FUTURE CAREERS: • Business and Management • Heritage and Tourism • Media and Public Relations For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: • Politics and Civil Service For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: • Teaching swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 52 53 AUDIOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY ST IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS % UK
AUDIOLOGY 00 BIOCHEMISTRY GRADUATE RESEARCH Our Audiology degree will give you an expert understanding of the science EMPLOYABILITY* Biochemistry is crucial to the study and treatment of diseases, the development ENVIRONMENT (Research Excellence of hearing, balance, and the conditions that affect them. It combines academic (DLHE 2018) of pharmaceuticals, and the complex relationships with our environment. Framework 2014-2021) work with the practical clinical experience you need to become an You will learn about the chemical processes within living organisms and audiologist. You will use the latest diagnostic equipment and software in how cells work at the sub-cellular and molecular levels, gaining an in-depth NO TUITION FEES: Global Opportunities – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE our state-of-the-art facilities and build your skills in work placements at UK and EU students** understanding of the biochemical function of living organisms, from bacteria available
hospitals across Wales. – Apply for an enhanced support package to plants, animals, and humans. International Students through the NHS Wales Bursary Scheme. foundation programme available SCHOOL MEDICAL (**conditions apply) The course is accredited by the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries You will benefit from access to the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: National School of Healthcare Year 1 swansea.ac.uk/student-loans- available and-grants/nhs-funding/ state-of-the-art research facilities at the Year 1 Science and many of our academic • Anatomy and physiology for Full details available on the Medical School, including bioanalytical • Introductory biochemistry staff are practising clinicians, healthcare science Global Opportunities Course Reference Grid (page 134) available equipment such as high-performance • Biochemistry skills providing invaluable professional • Basics of mathematics and liquid chromatography, gas • Energy and metabolism insight and expertise. physics for healthcare science Full details available on the • Organic chemistry TYPICAL OFFER: • Neurosensory anatomy, Course Reference Grid (page 134) chromatography, mass spectrometry, Our excellent facilities provide physiology and pathophysiology DNA and protein analytical equipment, Year 2 BSc: AAB-BBB (to include realistic workplace simulations and Chemistry and ideally Biology) • Neurosensory science computer-based image analysers for • Amino acids, lipids and steroids you will benefit from experience in TYPICAL OFFER: BBB (to include molecular or cellular studies. • Biostatistics MSci: AAB (to include Chemistry • Neurosensory clinical and ideally Biology) our award-winning, on-site Health Biology, Chemistry or Maths) • Metabolic regulation measurement and treatment You will develop excellent project Detailed entry requirements and Detailed entry requirements and and Wellbeing Academy, which • Pathophysiology for • Techniques in molecular biology course features available on the course features available on the management skills and learn how provides health and wellbeing Course Reference Grid (page 134) healthcare science Course Reference Grid (page 134) to design experiments and plan Year 3 services for the local community, work programmes. • Biotechnology and protein including an audiology clinic in Year 2 engineering collaboration with the NHS. • Audiological science BSc Single Honours A range of optional modules gives BSc Single Honours • Bioinformatics ▲ Biochemistry • Instrumentation signal processing ▲ Healthcare Science (Audiology) you the flexibility to tailor your degree As an audiology student, you will • Independent research project and imaging to your particular interests, career under the guidance of a BSc Joint Honours Biochemistry and spend around half of your course on • Research methods and statistics ▲ 3 YEAR ambitions, or plans for further study. professional research scientist ▲ Genetics clinical work placements throughout • The developing person For individual UCAS course codes A joint honours programme is • Membranes and energy Wales, which will give you the • Vestibular assessment please visit the course web page also available with Genetics, transduction MSci Single Honours practical skills you need to and management combining two complementary ♦ Biochemistry begin your career. Year 4 (MSci only): and overlapping disciplines. Year 3 FUTURE CAREERS: • Advanced independent research MSci Joint Honours Biochemistry and • Healthcare science research project Currently the NHS starting salary MSci PROGRAMME: project under the guidance of a ♦ Genetics for healthcare scientists is £24,214 professional research scientist • Introduction to tinnitus This integrated undergraduate • Professional practice (Band 5). Typical career earnings go • Communicating ideas in science Medical Biochemistry – see page 100 master’s degree adds specialist • Sensory aids up to £43,772 however the maximum • Entrepreneurship earning potential for a consultant in the training in laboratory techniques and ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR NHS is £102,506. Salaries can vary a further research-focused year to the For individual UCAS course codes significantly in the private sector. 3-year BSc Biochemistry course. This please visit the course web page course gives you a master’s level * 100% of graduates are employed in a professional qualification while paying or managerial job 6 months after the course undergraduate fees and is ideal if FUTURE CAREERS: (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) you plan on a career in research. • Agriculture ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Biofuels • Forensic Sciences • Industrial Chemistry • Pharmaceuticals • Veterinary Science
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 54 55 BIOLOGY AND BIOSCIENCES BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES IN THE
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STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT 6UK BIOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES TEACHING A deep academic understanding of life on Earth is now more important than QUALITY ever. Studying living organisms in all their epic variety helps us to identify (Times & Sunday Times University Guide critical threats and major opportunities, from the smallest scale to the biggest. 2020) You will have flexibility to explore natural life wherever your interests lie. Foundation Year available AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Global Opportunities Local, residential and international
– available field courses allow you to work in Year 1 MEDICAL SCHOOL MEDICAL International Students varied habitats. You can explore • Animal diversity foundation programme available the spectacular marine coastal • Cellular and microbial biology Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries ecosystems, freshwater/wetland ecology and animal behaviour available environments and terrestrial • Form and function Full details available on the • Molecular and evolutionary biology habitats of the Gower Peninsula Course Reference Grid (page 134) on our doorstep. • Plants and algae – diversity, form and function You will benefit from excellent teaching
TYPICAL OFFER: facilities for ecological, physiological Year 2 – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE ABB-BBB (to include Biology • Animal physiology and molecular studies. These include or Human Biology) • Cell and immunobiology the Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Detailed entry requirements and Research, a zoology museum, • Coastal marine ecology course features available on the a custom-designed 18-metre • Ecological microbiology and Course Reference Grid (page 134) catamaran-class survey vessel, and a the cycles of life • Ichthyology I chose Swansea because of the fantastic unique visualisation suite that displays BSc Single Honours multi-dimensional information from Year 3 ▲ Biology research that’s done here at the University animal tracking data. • Biodiversity ♦ Biology and that’s what I wanted to go into. (with Year in Industry/Abroad) In your final year you will complete • Biological control of Choosing to study Biochemistry at invertebrate pests ♦ Biology (with Foundation Year) a research project which may be ▲ Swansea, you will join a small and • Epidemiology of infectious diseases Biological Sciences field-based, laboratory-based or (deferred choice of specialisation) • Physics for biologists friendly community. What I’ve enjoyed purely analytical. ♦ Biological Sciences • Plant conservation and ecology most is the practical work and engaging (with Year Abroad and deferred with the lecturers, because they’ve been so choice of specialisation)
supportive and really helpful. I love that Marine Biology – see page 94 staff will go above and beyond to support Zoology – see page 132 and help students. I’ve now got a PhD ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR lined up in Immunology so I’m continuing my studies here at the Medical School. For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page When I am not studying, I take every BSc BIOCHEMISTRY opportunity to get involved in the sports FUTURE CAREERS: Graduated 2019 and social societies, and whether winter ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Biotechnologist or summer, a trip to the Gower or the • Conservationist beach is always a winner in my book. • Environmental Management To learn more about our student stories, visit: • Postgraduate Research • Teaching swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 56 57 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY BAY CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 15UK TOP % BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 00 CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY OVERALL STUDENT GRADUATE Do you see yourself playing a key role within a successful brand? SATISFACTION Our Cardiac Physiology degree can turn your interests in human biology EMPLOYABILITY* This degree will make you stand out from the crowd with the skills (National Student and health and wellbeing into a rewarding career. (DLHE 2018) Survey 2019) to manage a global, national or local business. Studying the anatomy and physiology of the heart, together with the latest Known for producing highly skilled and commercial-thinking business diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, you will gain the scientific, clinical, Foundation Year NO TUITION FEES: managers, and with links to industry experts, we will provide an enriched available and technical knowledge needed to provide specialised care to people UK and EU students** environment for learning, opening up your career opportunities. Global Opportunities living with, or suspected of having, cardiac disease. Apply for an enhanced support package available through the NHS Wales Bursary Scheme. International Students (**conditions apply) The course is accredited by the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: This is a flexible degree with a You may wish to take a foundation programme available swansea.ac.uk/student-loans- National School of Healthcare Science Year 1 and-grants/nhs-funding/ HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE wide selection of optional modules Year Abroad exploring new cultures Full details available on the – SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL allowing you to shape the degree and meeting new people, making Course Reference Grid (page 134) and many of our academic staff are • Anatomy and physiology Global Opportunities towards your specific career goals. you an attractive candidate for practising clinicians, providing an for healthcare science available jobs after graduating. unrivalled combination of scientific • Basics of mathematics and Full details available on the Degree pathways include Business TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB rigour, professional insight and physics for healthcare science Course Reference Grid (page 134) Analytics, e-Business, Enterprise and AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Detailed entry requirements and expertise. Our excellent facilities • Introduction to cardiovascular Innovation, Finance, Human Resource course features available on the science Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 134) provide realistic workplace simulations Management, Management • Professional practice TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Accounting for business and you will benefit from experience (to include Biology) Consulting, Marketing, Operations and • Pathophysiology for • Finance for business within our award winning Health and Supply Management, and Tourism. BSc Single Honours healthcare science Detailed entry requirements and • Managing people Wellbeing Academy, which provides course features available on the ▲ ♦ Business Management • Respiratory and sleep physiology We can help you start your own • Marketing health and wellbeing services for the Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Operations management local community. business, thanks to our range of BSc Business Management Year 2 support services including business • Instrumentation signal processing Year 2 degree pathways As a Cardiac Physiology student, BSc Single Honours mentoring alongside corporate and imaging ▲ Healthcare Science • Corporate finance ▲ ♦ Business Analytics you will spend around half of your partners with a wealth of industry ▲ • Measurement of cardiovascular (Cardiac Physiology) • Corporate governance and ethics ♦ E-Business course on clinical work placements experience. ▲ ♦ Enterprise and Innovation function • Economics for business throughout Wales, which will give ▲ ▲ ♦ Finance • Pathophysiology of common 3 YEAR Available to all undergraduate • Strategic analysis you the practical skills you need ▲ ♦ Human Resource Management cardiovascular and respiratory For individual UCAS course codes students within the School of to begin your career. Year 3 ▲ ♦ Management Consulting conditions please visit the course web page Management, a Year in Industry • Data mining ▲ ♦ Marketing • Research methods and statistics is an opportunity to gain real-world • Investment banking ▲ ♦ Operations and Supply Management industry experience, making you ▲ Year 3 • Innovation management ♦ Tourism FUTURE CAREERS: an attractive candidate for jobs • Arrhythmia diagnosis and • Leadership Currently the NHS starting salary after graduating. management • Lean operations ♦ All our 3 year courses can be for healthcare scientists is £23,214 • Cardiac catheterisation (Band 5). Typical career earnings go Our graduates have gone on to extended to 4 years to include: (Foundation Year) or (Year in • Evidence-based practice up to £43,772 however the maximum work for the world’s biggest Industry/Abroad) in cardiology earning potential for a consultant brands including Marks & Spencer, • Healthcare science research project in the NHS is £102,506. Bloomberg and Tata. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR * 100% of graduates are employed in a professional For individual UCAS course codes or managerial job 6 months after the course please visit the course web page (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018)
ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: (subject to module selection) FUTURE CAREERS: • Analyst or Researcher • Business Development Manager • Entrepreneur • Financial Advisor For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: • HR Business Partner For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses • Management Consultant swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 58 59 CLASSICAL CIVILISATION CHEMISTRY IN THE TH IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS AND CLASSICS RD UK SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK
CHEMISTRY 3 4 CLASSICAL CIVILISATION AND CLASSICS STUDENT STUDENT Swansea’s Chemistry curriculum is informed by the needs of modern industry SATISFACTION The civilisations of Ancient Greece and Rome are arguably the foundation EXPERIENCE and is constantly updated, ensuring you will always be taught materials (Complete University of western society, and these two degrees each give you new insights into (Times Good University Guide Guide 2020) 2020) applicable in the wider world. the cultures which have shaped our modern world.
You will gain the breadth of knowledge you need to practise chemistry Classical Civilisation covers the literature and culture of the Greek and Roman – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Foundation Year Foundation Year professionally, and the depth to enable you to specialise through our available worlds. Classics focuses on ancient Greek and Latin languages and literature. available research expertise in natural products, materials engineering, and medicine. Global Opportunities Global Opportunities available available In Classical Civilisation, you will explore In Classics, you will learn to read Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Full details available on the Our core subjects cover not only AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: the mythology of Greece and Rome to ancient texts in their original available Course Reference Grid (page 134) organic, inorganic and physical Year 1 obtain a good grounding in the stories languages, even if you don’t know chemistry, but also instrumental • Chemical practice Full details available on the ancient people told each other, before the languages to begin with. Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Chemical reactions learning how to read texts in translation and analytical chemistry. You can introduce local school pupils TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Chemical thinking with an eye for detail. You will get the opportunity to to ancient languages and culture, and Detailed entry requirements and • Structure and bonding course features available on the engage in cutting-edge research, TYPICAL OFFER: You will explore familiar texts, such gain valuable teaching experience, Course Reference Grid (page 134) contributing to a research project Year 2 BSc: AAB-BBB as epics and tragedies, as well as in the Schools Placement module. MChem: AAA-AAB or pursuing your own ideas. • Biological and medicinal chemistry often overlooked literatures from the You could also study either Greek BA Single Honours • Computational and theoretical (to include Chemistry and one other ancient world, including the novel HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE We offer you the possibility of getting science or maths subject) or Latin in a joint honours degree ▲ Classical Civilisation chemistry and satirical invective. research skills early on, encouraging Detailed entry requirements and with Ancient History or Egyptology. ♦ Classical Civilisation • Further inorganic chemistry and facilitating ways for you to course features available on the TYPICAL CLASSICAL CIVILISATION (with Foundation Year) • Further organic chemistry Course Reference Grid (page 134) TYPICAL CLASSICS MODULES INCLUDE: MODULES INCLUDE: ♦ Classical Civilisation develop research plans and ideas, Year 1-3 • Further physical chemistry Year 1 (with Year Abroad) write proposals, conduct chemistry Latin and Greek modules at the • Gods and Heroes: Greek Mythology ▲ Classics research interacting with other Year 3 appropriate level out of Beginner’s, BSc Single Honours • Ovid's Metamorphoses: The ♦ Classics (with Foundation Year) disciplines, analyse research data • Chemistry project ▲ Chemistry Transformations of Mythology Intermediate, Further, and Advanced, ♦ Classics (with Year Abroad) and present your research results • Materials chemistry project ♦ Chemistry (with Foundation Year) • Introduction to Ancient Philosophy depending on prior experience. Further in oral and written work. • Inorganic chemistry ♦ Chemistry and Rhetoric and Advanced levels read increasing BA Joint Honours • Organic chemistry (with Year in Industry/Abroad) Classical Civilisation and Year 2 amounts of prose and verse literature in • Physical instrumental and the original languages. ▲ English Literature MChem Single Honours • Reading Classical Civilisation analytical chemistry ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) ♦ Chemistry Year 1 Year 2/3 ♦ French (with Year Abroad) Year 4 (MChem) • 2 modules’ worth of Latin and • Roman Love Poetry ♦ German (with Year Abroad) • Advanced inorganic materials ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Greek each • The Greek Romance: Sea, Sun, and Sex ▲ Greek • Advanced organic, medicinal • If you’ve done neither before, you’ll For individual UCAS course codes • Plato’s Republic ♦ Greek (with Year Abroad) and natural product chemistry please visit the course web page • The Roman Comic Novel: Excrement have to take 2 modules of either at ▲ Latin • Advanced physical, theoretical and Sacrament Beginner’s level, and start the other ♦ Latin (with Year Abroad) and instrumental chemistry • R oman Satire: Ranting and Bantering FUTURE CAREERS: in your second year • Research project • Decision and Responsibility: ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Analytical and Forensic Science Year 2 The Tragic Predicament • Discovery of new medicines For individual UCAS course codes • Schools work placement: • S chools work placement: Teaching • Environmental Sciences please visit the course web page Teaching ancient history and ancient history and ancient languages • Management • Renewable Energy ancient languages Year 3 FUTURE CAREERS: • R esearch and development Year 3 • Classics, Ancient History, Classical in academia or industry • Classics, Ancient History, Civilisation Dissertation • Archives Egyptology Dissertation • Business • Education • Marketing • Media and Public Relations • Museum and Heritage For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 60 61 COMPUTER SCIENCE IN THE CRIMINOLOGY BAY CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS TH
UK UK TOP COMPUTER SCIENCE 6 10 CRIMINOLOGY GRADUATE CRIMINOLOGY Computer Science impacts almost every aspect of modern life and we are Criminology is one of the most diverse, stimulating and challenging subjects PROSPECTS (Times & Sunday Times at the heart of technological innovation that is redefining the way we live, (The Complete University we offer at Swansea University. It draws on disciplines such as psychology, University Guide 2020) Guide 2020) learn and work. sociology, social policy, law and even biology to investigate pressing social problems: What causes crime? What should we do about it? How best can Our degrees will educate you ready for entry into a wide range of highly Foundation Year we support victims? International Students specialised careers involving software engineering, big data/data science, available foundation programme available
– HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SCHOOL OF LAW OF SCHOOL CLINTON RODHAM – HILLARY security analysis, mobile and emerging technologies. Global Opportunities Global Opportunities available As a criminology student at Swansea AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available
– COLLEGE OF SCIENCE International Students A Computer Science degree from University, you will belong to a Year 1 Full details available on the TYPICAL OFFER: foundation programme available Swansea University can help you thriving community that prioritises • An introduction to the criminal Course Reference Grid (page 134) BSc: AAB-BBB MEng/MSci: AAA-AAB Full details available on the justice system find your place in an ever-shifting your academic interests. (to include a minimum of Grade B Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Foundations in research technological landscape. Teaching is conducted in a relaxed, (6) in GCSE Mathematics) • Law, criminal justice and human rights We have just expanded Over the course of the degree you Detailed entry requirements and supportive environment, with an into a new building on the BSc Single Honours Singleton Campus, with will learn to identify the correct course features available on the emphasis on the knowledge and Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 134) ▲ A pplied Software Engineering skills needed to succeed in the • An introduction to policing all-new, sector-leading solutions to problems and measure facilities available to (degree apprenticeship) world of work. We offer career- • Applied offender management their efficiency. You will be taught in – visit our website for details our students. AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: focused modules and make good • Leadership and management in our new £32.5 million world-class ▲ Computer Science Year 1 use of our networks to arrange social justice Computational Foundry, which ♦ Computer Science • Computers and society • Media, crime and criminal justice TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB provides state-of-the-art teaching (with Year in Industry/Abroad) work placements with a range • Concepts of computer science of criminal justice organisations. • Penology and punishment Detailed entry requirements and facilities and specialist laboratories ♦ Computer Science course features available on the • Modelling computer systems including a vision and biometric lab, (with Foundation Year) To gain new skills, you may also be Year 3 Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Programming ▲ maker lab, techhealth lab, theory Software Engineering able to apply for a research internship • Criminalisation of sex • Software development ♦ Software Engineering lab, cyber security lab and with a staff member or a key partner • Dissertation (optional) Year 2 (with Year in Industry/Abroad) BSc Single Honours visualisation suite. agency and undertake your own • Serious crime and social harm ▲ Criminology and Criminal Justice • Concurrency BSc Joint Honours Computing and research. Recent participants have • Understanding & countering It will also feature world-leading • Database systems ▲ Education shared their work with policy makers, terrorism & violent extremism LLB Major/Minor Honours experimental set-ups, equipment, • Declarative programming ♦ Education (with Year Abroad) allowing them to make a real difference • Young offenders and youth justice ▲ Law with Criminology devices and prototypes to accelerate • Human-computer interaction to the ways agencies operate. innovation, which you can learn • Software engineering MEng Single Honours BSc Joint Honours about and work with. ♦ Computing Years 3 and 4: Criminology and H Computing ▲ Psychology Many of our students who take • Advanced computer graphics (with Year in Industry/Abroad) ▲ Social Policy the Year in Industry option gain • Entrepreneurship in practice MSci Single Honours invaluable work experience and • Project specification and ▲ 3 YEAR develop both their computational development ♦ Computer Science H Computer Science For individual UCAS course codes skills and commercial awareness • Project dissertation (with Year in Industry/Abroad) please visit the course web page in a work environment. • Writing mobile apps • Cryptography and IT Security ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR • Big Data and Machine Learning FUTURE CAREERS: • Software Testing For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page • Criminal Justice • Government ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Police Force FUTURE CAREERS: • Probation Service • Cyber Security Analyst • Social Work • Data Scientist • Third Sector • Machine Learning Engineer • Mobile Application Developer For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: • Software Designer/Engineer/Tester For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 62 63 EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES WITH EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDIES SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS EARLY YEARS PRACTITIONER STATUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS EARLY STUDIES CHILDHOOD EARLY WITH STATUS STUDIES EARLY PRACTITIONER YEARS CHILDHOOD
This exciting degree offers opportunities to learn about infants, toddlers and Foundation Year The Welsh Government recognises that a highly skilled Early Years Foundation Year available available young children through providing theoretical and philosophical knowledge, workforce plays a vital role in helping to develop our children’s learning Global Opportunities Global Opportunities research opportunities and practical experiences in early childhood centres, available and development, encouraging them to be able to develop the skills they available such as; Flying Start and Foundation Phase classrooms. Full details available on the need to reach their full potential in life. Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) The course’s approach is based around children’s rights and holistic learning, The Early Childhood Studies with Early Years Practitioner Status (EYPS) and our teaching is underpinned by our rigorous research. degree, accredited by Social Care Wales, has an important place in this vision as it offers opportunities for students to engage with ECS communities TYPICAL OFFER: BBB TYPICAL OFFER: BBB Early Childhood Studies has an AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Detailed entry requirements and with infants, toddlers and young children and their families, including Detailed entry requirements and increasingly high profile in Wales, Year 1 course features available on the links to required National Occupational Standards within 700 hours course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) at UK government level and in • Children’s early social worlds of placement over the 3 year programme.
– COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE international organisations. • The social construction of childhood • Exploring creativity and critical BA Single Honours BA Single Honours This new degree has a socio-cultural The growing recognition of the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: thinking ▲ Early Childhood Studies ▲ E arly Childhood Studies with approach that is based on children’s importance of the Early Years in Year 1 • Early childhood rights, policies ♦ Early Childhood Studies with Early Years Practitioner Status rights and holistic learning in a social Wales means that this is a key time • Children’s early social worlds and services Early Years Practitioner Status ♦ Early Childhood Studies with to provide specific education and • The social construction of childhood and cultural context, all underpinned • Infants, toddlers, young children (with Foundation Year) Early Years Practitioner Status • Exploring creativity and critical by our rigorous research. and technology training for those wanting to work (with Foundation Year) ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR with infants, toddlers and young thinking The course has its roots in Wales, and Year 2 children in a professional capacity. • Early childhood rights, policies ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR you will cover issues central to Welsh For individual UCAS course codes • Child development and services For individual UCAS course codes children and families in every module. please visit the course web page The Early Childhood Studies with • Children’s culture and language • Infants, toddlers, young children please visit the course web page EYPS undergraduate degree has its You will also gain international insight • Play throughout the early years and technology • ICT in early years practice roots in our Welsh context to ensure into early childhood practices FUTURE CAREERS: Year 2 • Working effectively with children issues central to Welsh children and worldwide and you will examine Students who complete the degree • Child development FUTURE CAREERS: and families (Research methods for families are considered in every social and political issues, as well can go on to further study to qualify • Children’s culture and language Students who complete the degree Childhood Studies undergraduates) module taught, supported by can go on to further study to qualify as theory and philosophy. as an: • Play throughout the early years research-informed lectures and 700 as an: Year 3 • Early Years Teacher • ICT in early years practice hours of placement in primary schools • Early Years Teacher • Dissertation (across A and B • Primary School Teacher • Working effectively with children and early childhood centres in Wales. • Primary School Teacher semesters) • Social Worker and families (Research methods for • Social Worker • Special Needs Teacher
• Educational practice in a The degree is embedded in an early Childhood Studies undergraduates) HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE • Play Therapist • Special Needs Teacher digital age childhood education philosophy • Welsh Government Worker Year 3 • Play Therapist • Professional reflective practice where the child is at the heart of the • Dissertation (across A • Welsh Government Worker • Transitions in the early years societal issues, and students learn and B semesters) about the best ways of supporting • Educational practice in children’s learning through following a digital age their interests in order to support • Professional reflective practice life-long-learning skills. • Transitions in the early years This qualification means that our graduating students will be fully qualified to immediately enter the workforce in a range of early childhood settings.
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Our Economics degree has an excellent reputation for producing high
Foundation Year – SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL performing graduates. A number of our graduates have progressed to available work for the world’s biggest brands such as Barclays, HSBC and PwC. Global Opportunities
available MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL International Students Our flagship degree gives you a You may also wish to take up a foundation programme available robust understanding of modern Year Abroad exploring new cultures Full details available on the economic principles and and meeting new people, making Course Reference Grid (page 134) contemporary issues. you an attractive candidate for jobs after graduating. Constantly updated to maintain a TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB modern, real-world relevance, these AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Detailed entry requirements and programmes are suitable if you are course features available on the Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 134) targeting a career as an economist • Finance for economics There is a big focus in schools about studying or you are open to employment • Maths for economics* STEM subjects and particularly in encouraging across different economic and • Macro-economics 1 BSc Single Honours women to choose STEM subjects at University. financial fields. • Micro-economics 1 ▲ Economics ♦ Economics (with Year However, I feel that more can be done to In your first year, you will cover a Year 2 in Industry/Abroad) encourage women to study subjects such as comprehensive base of knowledge • Econometrics ♦ Economics (with Foundation Year) Economics. The subject itself is so interesting encompassing micro- and macro- • Economic policy ▲ Economics and Business and looks at the way the world functions. It economics, finance and methodology. • Macro-economics 2 ♦ Economics and Business (with Year in Industry/Abroad) can also lead to a variety of jobs in government, In later years your module choice • Micro-economics 2 ♦ Economics and Business covers specialist areas of economic in finance or in large organisations, where you Year 3 (with Foundation Year) can play your part in shaping policies and policy, economic development and • Advanced economic analysis ▲ Economics and Finance health economics. • Economies of the Middle and ♦ Economics and Finance shaping big business decisions. Available to all undergraduate Far East (with Year in Industry/Abroad) ♦ I’ve joined the School of Management’s students within the School of • International standards Economics and Finance (with Foundation Year) mentoring scheme and it’s been the best Management, a Year in Industry • Power and organisation decision I’ve made. My mentor is an Information is an opportunity to gain real-world * Students are not required to have ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR industry experience, making Manager at Tata Steel and is fantastic at studied maths at A Level For individual UCAS course codes you an attractive candidate for please visit the course web page giving me career advice. Experiencing work jobs after graduating. at such a big, global company has helped
FUTURE CAREERS: me realise how everyone’s role within an • Analyst, Researcher or BSc ECONOMICS organisation is important in ensuring the Government Adviser ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE Graduating July 2021 successful running of a business. • Derivatives Trader (subject to module selection): • Econometrician I’ve had such a positive experience at the • Financial Analyst University. I am proud to study Economics and • Manager or Management Consultant To learn more about our student stories, visit: • Professional Economist can’t wait to see where the degree will take me. swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 66 67 EDUCATION EGYPTOLOGY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS EDUCATION EGYPTOLOGY
Education is a forward-looking, research-led discipline concerned with policy Foundation Year Egyptology covers the study of Ancient Egyptian language, Egyptian literature, Foundation Year available available and practice from a global perspective. It is a rapidly growing area of study history and culture. Global Opportunities Global Opportunities that draws on the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, history and the social available You may explore Egyptian art and architecture, Ancient Egyptian history and available International Students sciences to focus on understanding how people learn and how structures of civilisation, archaeology, religion, gender, and the Ancient Egyptian language. Full details available on the foundation programme available – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Course Reference Grid (page 134)
education operate to foster life-long learning and personal development. Full details available on the HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Course Reference Grid (page 134) AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: The course covers education in FUTURE CAREERS: We are one of the few UK universities TYPICAL OFFER: BBB different settings, including schools, • Community Development where you can study the history, Year 1 further and higher education, social language, literature, and culture of • Beginning Middle Egyptian Detailed entry requirements and • Early Years Teaching TYPICAL OFFER: BBB course features available on the services and local and national • Education Administration Detailed entry requirements and Ancient Egypt at undergraduate level. • Ancient Egyptian Language for Course Reference Grid (page 134) government. • Education Publishing course features available on the Our researchers are engaged in Archaeology Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Primary School Teaching projects related to varied aspects of • Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Employability is a key theme and you • Secondary School Teaching the archaeology, history, and religion History and Civilisation 1 and 2 BA Single Honours will have the chance to put your study (for joint honours programmes ▲ Egyptology BA Single Honours of Ancient Egypt. into practice through a range of linked to core subjects) Year 2 ♦ Egyptology (with Foundation Year) ▲ Education optional work placements that include You may interact directly with • Ancient Egyptian Literature ♦ Egyptology (with Year Abroad) ♦ Education (with Foundation Year) local schools. You will study the artefacts from the Egypt Centre, • Ancient Egyptian Religious Beliefs AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: BA Joint Honours Egyptology and theory linked to learning, teaching BA Major/Minor Honours which is our world-class museum and Practices Year 1 ▲ Ancient History and assessment and will gain an ♦ Modern Languages with Education on campus, boasting extensive • Intermediate Middle Egyptian • Child Development ♦ Ancient History (with Year Abroad) understanding of curriculum design. holdings of antiquities from the • Introduction to Egyptian • Exploring Creativity and ▲ Classical Civilisation BA Joint Honours Wellcome Collection. Archaeology You will also have the option of ♦ Classical Civilisation (with Year Abroad) Critical thinking ▲ Welsh • Egyptian Art and Architecture studying the concepts of teaching • Grammar and Meaning ♦ Welsh (with Year Abroad) A work placement module and ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR English as a foreign language which • Introduction to Teaching & Learning volunteering opportunities are Year 3 focuses on skills that can lead to • Literacy, Numeracy and the BSc Joint Honours available to you. • Ancient Egyptian Collection For individual UCAS course codes opportunities to work anywhere Digital Framework ▲ Computing* Practicum (Placement) please visit the course web page in the world. ♦ Computing* (with Year Abroad) • Egyptian Language: Reading Year 2 ▲ Maths* Advanced Texts • Additional Learning Needs ♦ Maths* (with Year Abroad) • Private Life in Ancient Egypt FUTURE CAREERS: • Curriculum and Assessment ▲ Psychology • Six Feet Under: Funerary • Archives • Business • Protecting and Promoting Culture of Ancient Egypt ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Education Wellbeing in Education • Classics, Ancient History, • Research Methods in Education • Marketing For individual UCAS course codes Egyptology Dissertation • Media and Public Relations • Teaching English as a Foreign please visit the course web page • Museum and Heritage Language: Theory and Practice
Year 3 * Teaching is split • Curriculum Studies between Singleton • Difference and Diversity in Education Campus and • E mployability Decision Making and Bay Campus Work Experience • Educational Practice in a Digital Age • Leading and Managing in Education
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ENGINEERING: AEROSPACEENGINEERING: 7 7 ENGINEERING: CHEMICAL AEROSPACE CHEMICAL Our Aerospace Engineering degree gives you expert training in the theory ENGINEERING Our Chemical Engineering degree provides expert training in modern process ENGINEERING and operation of aeronautical vehicles, from jet-powered and propeller-driven (Times and Sunday Times engineering, developing analytical and problem-solving skills critical to the (Times and Sunday Times Good University Good University Guide planes to gliders and helicopters. Guide 2020) application of engineering to industry. 2020)
You will learn about the full engineering journey, from concept on the ground Chemical engineers work closely with processes that turn raw materials into Foundation Year Foundation Year to handling in the sky. Whether your main interest concerns design, analysis, available valuable products for human use. Their skills ensure that natural resources available testing or flight, at Swansea we have it covered. Global Opportunities are used sustainably, and the disposal of by-products is conducted safely Global Opportunities available available and responsibly. International Students International Students This professionally accredited degree AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available foundation programme available and multi-disciplinary course provides Year 1 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries This professionally accredited degree AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries
a real-world insight into our planet’s • Design and Laboratory Classes available available – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING provides knowledge and skills across Year 1 – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING atmosphere and the cosmos beyond, • Engineering Design Full details available on the the full spectrum of chemical • Chemical and Environmental Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) as well as the technologies needed to • Fluid Mechanics engineering topics, allowing you Engineering Laboratory explore them. • Introduction to Aerospace to keep your career options open. • Chemical Engineering Skills Engineering As you progress, your developing • Chemical Process Principles TYPICAL OFFER: • Thermodynamics TYPICAL OFFER: As you progress, your growing analytical abilities will combine with • Fluid Mechanics BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) analytical abilities will combine with BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) • Heat Transfer hands-on experience of state-of-the-art Year 2 MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) hands-on experience, establishing MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) equipment, establishing skills which • Computer Aided Engineering Detailed entry requirements and skills which are vital to securing Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and course features available on the are vital to securing employment in • Structural Mechanics for course features available on the employment in the chemical • Reactor Design Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) the wider aerospace industry. Aerospace Engineers engineering industry. • Biochemical Engineering • Aerospace Systems In your first year you can take a flying • Fluid Flow • Aerospace Control Our advanced chemical engineering BEng Single Honours lesson, and throughout your course BEng Single Honours • Separation Processes • Aerodynamics facilities include the modern Pilot ▲ Chemical Engineering ▲ • Process and Pilot Plant Operations you will work with facilities like the Aerospace Engineering Chemical Laboratory containing ♦ Chemical Engineering ♦ Aerospace Engineering Merlin MPX521 Engineering Flight Year 3 15 pilot-scale rigs which cover a Year 3 (with Year in Industry/Abroad) (with Year in Industry/Abroad) Simulator, the JetCat P120 Engine and • Gas Dynamics wide range of unit operations. • Process Equipment Design, ♦ Chemical Engineering ♦ Aerospace Engineering multiple wind tunnels ensuring you are • Propulsion Selection & Control (with Foundation Year) (with Foundation Year) You may work with other always fully up to speed. • Satellite Systems • Energy and Low Carbon • Space Propulsion and Power state-of-the-art facilities including MEng Single Honours MEng Single Honours Technologies Systems atomic force microscopy, fermentation ♦ Chemical Engineering ♦ Aerospace Engineering • Chemical Engineering Design H • High Performance Materials rigs, surface plasmon resonance and Chemical Engineering H Aerospace Engineering Project hydrodynamic shear adhesion assays. (with Year in Industry/Abroad) and Selection (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • Particulate Systems • Safety and Loss Prevention ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page please visit the course web page
FUTURE CAREERS: FUTURE CAREERS: • Applications Engineer • Aircraft Design Engineer • Chemical Engineer • Aircraft Systems Engineer • Energy Engineer ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Defence Engineer • Petroleum Engineer • Flight Test Engineer • Product/Process Development Scientist • Rocket Scientist • Technical Plant Manager • Satellite Design Engineer
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STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT 3 CIVIL ENGINEERING: GRADUATE This degree gives you a strong grounding in the design and analysis of civil PROSPECTS engineering structures. You will develop complex problem-solving skills, (The Guardian University League Table 2020) gain the ability to sketch and model engineering solutions and prepare technical reports. Foundation Year You will develop analytical abilities combined with hands-on experience available of state-of-the-art equipment, to establish skills which are vital to securing Global Opportunities
– COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING available employment in civil engineering.
International Students foundation programme available – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Studying a modern degree with close AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries connections to the rapidly evolving Year 1 available civil engineering industry, you will • Civil Laboratory Full details available on the learn about current design practices • Engineering Sustainability Course Reference Grid (page 134) and the latest engineering standards. • Engineering Mechanics • Highway Design and Surveying We will nurture your computer TYPICAL OFFER: • Conceptual Design modelling skills by encouraging BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) you to develop your own software Year 2 MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) I'm so happy I decided to study at to analyse real-world civil • Engineering Mechanics Detailed entry requirements and Swansea Uni. I’ve met some incredible engineering problems. course features available on the • Basic Soil Mechanics Course Reference Grid (page 134) people and made awesome friends You will benefit from working with • Engineering Management from all around the world. The people advanced facilities including high • Fluid Mechanics grade laboratories for structures • Reinforced Concrete Design BEng Single Honours here are so welcoming, you feel like ▲ Civil Engineering teaching and materials testing. you’re at home. Year 3 ♦ Civil Engineering Our fluids laboratory has a • Geomechanics (with Year in Industry/Abroad) The support has been amazing, five-metre experimental flume and • Finite Element Method ♦ Civil Engineering whether it’s from my academic mentor, a geomechanics laboratory. You • Superstructure Design (with Foundation Year) can also use our sophisticated • Research Project lecturers or student support services. If MEng Single Honours high-speed cameras for strain • Coastal Processes and Engineering you find something difficult to grasp in ♦ Civil Engineering analysis and 3D imaging. class, the lecturers will talk it through H Civil Engineering (with Year in Industry/Abroad) during office hours and make sure you
have a better understanding. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR I’ve made so many memories here: from For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page all-nighters in the library to celebrating with a big night out; chilling on the beach ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: FUTURE CAREERS: between lectures or going for an evening • Building Control Surveyor walk and seeing my first shooting star! • Consulting Civil Engineer • Geotechnical Engineer Chemical Engineering is a very • Quantity Surveyor demanding course, but the University • Site Engineer • Structural Engineer BEng CHEMICAL ENGINEERING provides all the resources and support you need to follow your chosen To learn more about our student stories, visit: career path. For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit:
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Highly skilled graduates in this subject are in high demand and have This degree will prepare you for a rewarding career across engineering Foundation Year Foundation Year opportunities to work all over the world. available sectors including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, sports, and available Global Opportunities energy generation. Global Opportunities available available This degree will train and prepare you AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: International Students International Students for a career in electrical, electronic Year 1 foundation programme available As you progress, your developing AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available and nano-engineering positions • Digital Design Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries analytical abilities will combine with Year 1 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries across a wide range of sectors. • Introduction to Electromagnetics available hands-on experience of advanced • Instrumental and Analytical Chemistry available • Instrumentation and Control Full details available on the equipment, establishing skills which • Introduction to Materials Engineering Full details available on the As you progress, your developing • Microcontrollers Course Reference Grid (page 134) are vital to securing employment • Manufacturing Technology Course Reference Grid (page 134) analytical abilities will combine with • Signals and Systems in the wider industry. • Materials Resources hands-on experience of advanced • Mechanical Properties of Materials specialist equipment, establishing Year 2 TYPICAL OFFER: Our state-of-the-art facilities include TYPICAL OFFER: world-leading equipment for the Year 2 skills which are vital to securing • Control Systems BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) BEng: ABB-BBB employment in the wider industry. • Electronic Circuits MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) characterisation of mechanical • Computational Materials MEng: AAB-ABB • Electromagnetics Detailed entry requirements and properties of metallic, ceramic, • Functional and Smart Materials Detailed entry requirements and You will become familiar with a – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING course features available on the polymeric and composite materials. • Mechanical Deformation course features available on the • Practical Circuits Course Reference Grid (page 134) number of laboratories, from our own Course Reference Grid (page 134) in Structural Materials • Software Engineering We also have an extensive range electronics laboratory and the PCB • Microstructure Evolution and fabrication facility, to the Wolfson Year 3 of laboratories housing scanning BEng Single Honours Control in Metallic Materials BEng Single Honours Power Electronics and Power Systems • Design Electronics electron microscopes with full ▲ ▲ Electronic and Electrical Engineering • Polymers: Structures and Processing Materials Science and Engineering
microanalysis and electron – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING laboratory and the Smart City and • Communications ♦ Electronic and Electrical Engineering ♦ Materials Science and Engineering backscatter diffraction capabilities. Year 3 Antennas lab. • Engineering Management (with Year in Industry/Abroad) (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • Engineering Management • Microwave Circuits and Antennas ♦ Electronic and Electrical Engineering Visits to Tata Steel, Timet, Ensinger ♦ Materials Science and Engineering • Microstructure and Characterisation (with Foundation Year) • Kinematics and Programming (with Foundation Year) and Airbus will give you valuable • Physical Metallurgy of Steels for Robots insights into the industrial world. MEng Single Honours • Fracture and Fatigue MEng Single Honours ♦ Electronic and Electrical Engineering • Ceramics ♦ Materials Science and Engineering H H Electronic and Electrical Engineering Materials Science and Engineering (with Year in Industry/Abroad) (with Year in Industry/Abroad)
▲ 3 YEAR 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR ♦ For individual UCAS course codes For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page please visit the course web page
FUTURE CAREERS: FUTURE CAREERS: • Biomedical Engineer • Automotive Engineer • Manufacturing Systems Engineer • Control and Instrumentation Engineer ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Materials Engineer • Manufacturing and Defence • Metallurgist • Electronic System Design • Product Development Scientist • Robotics and Automation • Research Scientist • Systems Analyst
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skills you need for a rewarding career • Design and Laboratory Classes of sectors. You will gain core • Chemical Engineering Science
Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING in a range of engineering sectors, • Engineering Sustainability available engineering skills while learning • Human Neuromusculoskeletal available
including automotive, mechanical • Fluid Mechanics about anatomy, physiology and Systems
– COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Full details available on the Full details available on the and design engineering. • Engineering Design Course Reference Grid (page 134) communication with clinicians. • Human Physiology Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Thermodynamics • Introduction to Material Engineering As you progress, your developing As you progress, your developing • Numerical Methods for Biomedical analytical abilities will combine with Year 2 TYPICAL OFFER: analytical and problem-solving Engineers TYPICAL OFFER: hands-on experience of advanced • Dynamic Systems BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) abilities will combine with hands-on BEng: ABB-BBB (to include Maths) equipment, establishing skills which • Computer Aided Engineering MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) experience of industrial medical Year 2 MEng: AAB-ABB (to include Maths) are vital to securing employment in • Design of Machine Elements Detailed entry requirements and devices and instruments, establishing • Cell Biology and Cell Mechanics Detailed entry requirements and this fast-moving industry. • Stress Analysis course features available on the skills that are vital to employment for Engineers course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Manufacturing Technology in the wider industry. • Design of Medical Engineering You will benefit from our state-of-the- • Fluid Flow art facilities throughout your time in Year 3 Our Medical Engineering degrees • Process Modelling Swansea. These include a dynamics • Mechanical Engineering Design BEng Single Honours have three main themes: BEng Single Honours ▲ • Statistical Methods in Engineering ▲ mechanics laboratory, a fluids • Manufacturing Optimisation Mechanical Engineering Medical Engineering ♦ Mechanical Engineering Biomechanics and materials – ♦ Medical Engineering laboratory and our JetCat P120 • Fluid Mechanics Year 3 (with Year in Industry/Abroad) development and analysis of materials (with Year in Industry/Abroad) engine test room. We also have • Engineering Management • Computer Aided Product Design ♦ Mechanical Engineering for strength and biocompatibility; ♦ Medical Engineering • Kinematics and Programming • Engineering Management cutting edge units for digital (with Foundation Year) (with Foundation Year) manufacturing and robotics. for Robots Instrumentation – quantification • Implant and Prosthetic Technology • Medical Engineering Group MEng Single Honours of advanced diagnostic and MEng Single Honours ♦ Mechanical Engineering therapeutic techniques; Design Project ♦ Medical Engineering H • Tissue Engineering H Mechanical Engineering Bioprocesses – detailing important Medical Engineering (with Year in Industry/Abroad) (with Year in Industry/Abroad) physical, chemical and biological processes in the human body. ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page please visit the course web page
FUTURE CAREERS: FUTURE CAREERS: • Automotive Engineer • Biomaterials Engineer • Maintenance Engineer • Biomedical Engineer ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Mechanical Engineer ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Clinical Engineer/Scientist • Mining Engineer • Medical Research Scientist • Workshop Technician • Prosthetic Design Engineer • Rehabilitation Engineer
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 76 77 ENGLISH – CHINESE TRANSLATION ENGLISH LANGUAGE, APPLIED AND INTERPRETING LINGUISTICS AND TESOL IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS TH UK ENGLISH – CHINESE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATION – CHINESE ENGLISH 6 ENGLISH LANGUAGE, APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND TESOL CAREER Mandarin Chinese has over 950 million native speakers worldwide and is Global Opportunities On these degrees, you will explore linguistic processes and uses of language available PROSPECTS often the most common language required for professional translation services. in a variety of contexts and across time. International Students (Guardian University Guide 2020) This degree is unique in the UK and is for students with a native or near-native foundation programme available You will engage with real-world challenges, including: the language used command of Mandarin and a high level of competence in English. Full details available on the to persuade and mislead (particularly in social media); the effect of dialect Course Reference Grid (page 134) Foundation Year and accent on identity; the challenge of learning or teaching new languages; available On this unique degree, you will AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: and the impact of acquired and developmental language disorders. Global Opportunities available develop translation and interpreting Year 1 TYPICAL OFFER: BBB International Students Detailed entry requirements and skills in advanced English, and study • Advanced English for Academic Whether you choose to focus on foundation programme available course features available on the FUTURE CAREERS: specialist English-Chinese translation Purposes 1 English Language, Applied Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Broadcast Media Full details available on the workshops for: media, journalism and • Advanced English 1 – Media Linguistics, TESOL (teaching English Course Reference Grid (page 134) and Public Relations • Civil Service PR; business, administration and law; to speakers of other languages), or a • Education and Teaching • Concepts in Translation BA Single Honours economics and finance; and combination of these, you will delve • Marketing and Interpreting ▲ English-Chinese Translation engineering, science and medicine. into some of the biggest real-world • Speech and Language Therapy TYPICAL OFFER: BBB and Interpreting • Grammar and Meaning • Project Administration and Leadership Detailed entry requirements and You will have practical training challenges related to language. • The Sounds of English • Publishing course features available on the ▲ Course Reference Grid (page 134) modules in our computer labs, 3 YEAR Depending on your chosen scheme, • EFL Materials and Design Year 2 with leading software tools and For individual UCAS course codes you can explore topics such as child • Advanced English 2 – Business experience an external virtual please visit the course web page language and literacy, language BA Single Honours and Finance AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE:** learning environment through sounds and structure, language ▲ English Language • Computer-Assisted Translation Year 1 mobile apps and online videos. policy and planning, history of the ♦ English Language (with Year Abroad) • Introduction to the Theory • The Sounds of English FUTURE CAREERS: English language, software tools ♦ English Language of Translation • Language teaching methods • Business Management for applied linguistics. There will also (with Foundation Year) • Translation Project • Grammar and meaning ▲ • International Sales English Language and TESOL
– COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE be an opportunity to do a research • Vocabulary Studies • Marketing in Multinational • Language, identity and diversity ♦ English Language and TESOL –
project in order to develop expertise HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE Organisations • Genres of writing and speaking (with Year Abroad) Year 3 in a specific area. • Public Relations • Language in the mind • Advanced English Language • Translation and Interpreting You also have the opportunity to gain BSc Single Honours and Culture Year 2 the prestigious CELTA qualification* ▲ Applied Linguistics and English Language • Advanced English 3 – Science • Sociolinguistics as a teacher of English to speakers ♦ Applied Linguistics and English Language • Chinese-English Translation The programme is only available • Working with practitioners (health, of other languages. (with Year Abroad) Theory and Practice to native or near-native speakers of education, law, technology) • English-Chinese Translation Chinese Mandarin. Our preferred offer * subject to academic progression and interview • Child language and literacy BA Joint Honours English Language and Workshop 3 (Science and Health) is BBB at A level or HKDSE levels 443 • Studying dialects ▲ English Literature • Interpreting – Business Option including a minimum of 3 in English • Discourse analysis ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) and Chinese. Applicants from China • Vocabulary studies ♦ French (with Year Abroad) should have at least one year suitable ♦ German (with Year Abroad) study after their High School Certificate Year 3 ▲ Media e.g. foundation or degree, plus IELTS • Issues in current English language ♦ Media (with Year Abroad) 6.0 (minimum 5.5 in each component). teaching ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) • Forensic linguistics • Computer-assisted language BA Joint Honours TESOL and ▲ English Literature • Prehistory, history and language ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) • Language in the media ♦ French (with Year Abroad) • Atypical speech and language ♦ German (with Year Abroad) ** topics studied will depend on degree ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) pathway chosen ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page 78 79 ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE WITH CREATIVE WRITING SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS TH UK TH UK ENGLISH LITERATURE WITH CREATIVE WITH WRITING LITERATURE ENGLISH 6 6 ENGLISH LITERATURE CAREER CAREER Our degree in English Literature with Creative Writing offers an intense PROSPECTS Studying English Literature will give you the skills to read and to write critically PROSPECTS adventure in reading which fosters creativity and critical awareness. (Guardian University Guide and creatively, engaging with powerful and universal topics and ideas. (Guardian University Guide 2020) 2020) Taught by experienced and widely published writers with established You can explore over 1,000 years of literature, from Old English texts to reputations, you will gain practical experience in many forms of writing for the current works shortlisted for the prestigious Dylan Thomas Prize. You can Foundation Year Foundation Year public, including fiction, drama, screenwriting, poetry, and creative non-fiction. available study national and global literature including the medieval and Renaissance available Global Opportunities periods, Gothic fiction, 19th century literature and modern, contemporary Global Opportunities available available You will learn a range of writing skills AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: and digital texts. Full details available on the Full details available on the to equip you for a career as a writer, Year 1 HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) This dynamic course allows you including novels, plays, poetry, film • Creative Writing: Fiction Genres TYPICAL OFFER: BBB scripts, and non-fiction. • Creative Writing: Styles of Fiction to shape your degree to your own Detailed entry requirements and interests, whether in Gothic and course features available on the • English Essentials TYPICAL OFFER: BBB BA Single Honours You will also study the history, Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Monsters, Theories, Transformations genre fiction, gender and culture, ▲ English Literature traditions and theory of over 1,000 Detailed entry requirements and • The Stage Play World course features available on the Renaissance literature, national and ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) years of English literature from Old Course Reference Grid (page 134) global literatures, modernity and FUTURE CAREERS: ♦ English Literature English texts to current works. You Year 2 (with Foundation Year) contemporary writing, 19th century • Broadcasting and Journalism can study national and global • Introduction to Creative Non-Fiction ▲ English Literature with Gender BA Major/Minor Honours literature, or creative and • Communications and Media literature including the medieval and • Introduction to Writing Poetry ♦ English Literature with Gender ▲ English Literature with professional writing. • Publishing, Advertising, Public Relations Renaissance periods, Gothic fiction, • Introduction to Writing Fiction (with Year Abroad) Creative Writing • Stage and Creative Industries 19th century literature and modern, • Introduction to Writing Drama You will learn from established Management
– ♦ English Literature with Creative writers whose work has been widely BA Joint Honours English Literature and contemporary and digital texts. • Teaching and Education COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE Year 3 Writing (with Foundation Year) published, broadcast and performed. ▲ American Studies We organise visits to national • Creative Writing Personal Project ♦ English Literature with Creative ♦ American Studies (with Year Abroad) Year 2 theatres, archives and museums and • Further Creative Non-Fiction Writing (with Year Abroad) We have close links with the ▲ Ancient History you will have opportunities to be put • Further Fiction Writing creative industries, and you can get • Conflict and Gothic in the Long ♦ Ancient History (with Year Abroad) ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Nineteenth-Century in contact with agents, publishers, • Further Poetry Writing involved in projects with the Dylan ▲ Classical Civilisation • Contentious Shakespeare editors and writers. • Writing for Radio and Screen For individual UCAS course codes Thomas Centre and the National ♦ Classical Civilisation (with Year Abroad) • Exploring the Bloody Chamber: ▲ • International Dylan Thomas please visit the course web page Theatre Wales. English Language Medieval to Postmodern Prize Module ♦ English Language (with Year Abroad) You can also join visits to national • Fragments of Union: The Cultural ♦ French (with Year Abroad) FUTURE CAREERS: theatres, archives and museums to Making and Breaking of Britain ♦ German (with Year Abroad) • Education familiarise yourself with a variety • No-Man's Land: Literature of ▲ History • Journalism of professional environments. the Great War ♦ History (with Year Abroad) • Media and Public Relations ▲ Year 3 Media • Screenwriting and Creative Industries AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: ▲ Politics • Creative Writing Personal Project • Writing and Publishing Year 1 ♦ Politics (with Year Abroad) • International Dylan Thomas • Approaches to Gender in ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) Prize Module English Literature ▲ ♦ TESOL • Dissertation - English Literature • Creative Writing: Fiction Genres ▲ Welsh (1st Language) • Madness, Malady and • English Essentials ♦ Welsh (1st Language) (with Year Abroad) Melancholia: Literature and • Monsters, Theories, Transformations ▲ Welsh (2nd Language) Medicine from Genesis • The Stage Play World ♦ Welsh (2nd Language) to Genomes (with Year Abroad) • Poetry in the Twentieth Century • Stuff: Victorian Literature and ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Material Culture For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 80 81 ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE GEOGRAPHY GENETICS IN THE TH SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS ST UK
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCE 1 GENETICS 4UK RESEARCH Environmental Geoscience combines the study of landscape and natural CAREER Genetics is an exciting and fast-moving field with an enormous impact in a ENVIRONMENT environments in physical geography with aspects of geology to investigate PROSPECTS range of scientific areas, including the understanding and treatment of diseases, (Research Excellence (Guardian University Framework 2014-2021) the physical processes that shape our planet and the changes that have Guide 2020) pharmaceutical development, evolution, and the conservation of biodiversity.
affected environments over hundreds of millions of years. – You will learn techniques for analysing gene expression, protein interactions, Foundation Year Global Opportunities SCHOOL MEDICAL Our location offers unparalleled access to varied geological environments: available DNA structure and damage, image analysis of biomolecules and cells, and available Gower Peninsula, Brecon Beacons and the industrial landscapes of South Wales. Global Opportunities advanced computer analytical methods. International Students available foundation programme available International Students Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries We combine physical geography with AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available You will benefit from access to the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available aspects of geology, allowing you to Year 1 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries state-of-the-art research facilities at Year 1 Full details available on the investigate processes that have • Dynamic Earth Systems available the Medical School including DNA • Microbiology Course Reference Grid (page 134) shaped the earth for millions of years. • Earth Science in the field Full details available on the and protein analytical equipment, • Eukaryotic cell biology
• Geographical Skills Course Reference Grid (page 134) – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Alongside cutting-edge knowledge computer-based image analysers for • Fundamental genetics and evolution • Introduction to Planet Earth: an TYPICAL OFFER: and mastery of key concepts, we molecular or cellular studies, and • Skills for geneticists overview of Geology BSc: AAB-BBB (to include Biology place strong emphasis on active TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB a powerful supercomputer facility. • Natural Hazards Year 2 and ideally Chemistry) learning through fieldwork. You can (to include Geography or a related subject) • Sustainability You will develop excellent project • Biostatistics MSci: AAB (to include Biology customise your degree, including a Detailed entry requirements and and ideally Chemistry) course features available on the management skills and learn how • Human and medical genetics Detailed entry requirements and wide range of geology and human Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 134) to design experiments and plan • Molecular biology techniques or physical geography modules to • Geographical Information Systems course features available on the work programmes. • Molecular evolution Course Reference Grid (page 134) cater to your interests. • Geological Record of Environmental Change BSc Single Honours A range of optional modules gives Year 3 We will equip you with the ▲ Environmental Geoscience • Glacial Environments and Processes you the flexibility to tailor your degree • Animal development BSc Single Honours professional tools and graduate ♦ Environmental Geoscience • Reconstructing Quaternary to your particular interests, career • Bioinformatics ▲ Genetics mindset needed to help solve some (with Year in Industry) ambitions, or plans for further study. • Tissue engineering and Environmental Change ♦ Geography (with Foundation Year) of today’s ‘big issues’. Assessments A joint honours programme is also regenerative medicine BSc Joint Honours Genetics and • Remote Sensing leading to BSc Environmental are diverse and integrative, available with Biochemistry, • Independent research project ▲ Biochemistry Geoscience allowing you to confidently master Year 3 combining two complementary under the guidance of a critical thinking, problem solving, • Climate of the last 1,000 years professional research scientist MSci Single Honours ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR and overlapping disciplines. leadership, entrepreneurship • Glaciology ♦ Genetics MSci PROGRAMME: Year 4 (MSci only): and team-working skills. • Meteorology and Atmospheric For individual UCAS course codes MSci Joint Honours Genetics and Sciences please visit the course web page This integrated undergraduate master’s • Advanced independent research project under the guidance of a ♦ Biochemistry • Plate Tectonics and Global degree adds specialist training in professional research scientist Geophysics laboratory techniques and a further FUTURE CAREERS: • Communicating ideas in science Medical Genetics – see page 101 research-focused year to the 3-year • Conservation Work (local • Entrepreneurship BSc Genetics course. This course ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR authorities and NGOs) • Energy Generation Industries gives you a master’s level qualification For individual UCAS course codes and Consultancy while paying undergraduate fees please visit the course web page • Environmental and Resource and is ideal if you plan on a career Management in research. • Geological Engineering FUTURE CAREERS: • Insurance Risk Assessment • Biomedical Research Scientist • Teaching • Forensic Scientist • Genetic Toxicology • Trainee Healthcare Scientist (NHS) • Post-doctoral Research Assistant
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 82 83 GEOGRAPHY IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS TH UK GEOGRAPHY 4 PROFILESTUDENT CAREER Geography is vital in our globally interconnected world. It helps us PROSPECTS understand human-environment relationships, and how they vary across (Guardian University Guide 2020) time and space. Geography allows us to discover, record and shape the places we inhabit today and in the future.
Foundation Year – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Our location offers unparalleled access to rural, coastal and urban available environments: Gower Peninsula, Brecon Beacons, industrial and Global Opportunities available post-industrial landscapes of South Wales.
International Students – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE foundation programme available Alongside cutting-edge knowledge FUTURE CAREERS: Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries and mastery of key concepts, we • Environmental Management available place a strong emphasis on active and Conservation Full details available on the learning through fieldwork. • Journalism and the Media Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Public Sector, Creative Industries You can customise your degree with and Charity Work a mixture of human and physical • Regional and Resource Planning TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB geography to cater to your interests. • Teaching and Education (to include Geography or a related subject) Each module provides training in • Urban Planning and Surveying Detailed entry requirements and either the theory or practice of a course features available on the I’ve worked for two Labour Secretaries of Course Reference Grid (page 134) different aspect of the subject (social, AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: State, focusing on energy and climate change environmental, cultural, historical, Year 1 and I currently advise Labour’s Energy and political geography). • Dynamic Earth Systems BA Single Honours ▲ Geography Climate Change Minister. My role entails a lot We will equip you with the • Geographical Skills ♦ Geography of discussion around our climate and energy • Globalisation professional tools and graduate (with Year in Industry/Abroad) • Introduction to Planet Earth: policies, trying to shape the debate on key mindset you will need to help solve ▲ Human Geography an overview of Geology some of today’s ‘grand challenges’. ♦ Human Geography sustainability issues and giving indications Assessments are diverse and • Natural Hazards (with Year in Industry) to stakeholders about our thinking. I also integrative, allowing you to confidently • Sustainability had the absolute privilege to work on the BSc Single Honours master critical thinking, problem Year 2 ▲ Geography Labour Manifesto, writing the original drafts solving, leadership, entrepreneurship • Boundaries and Connections in ♦ Geography (with Year of the climate change chapter, which was and team-working skills. Social Geography in Industry/Abroad) a real privilege. Our four-year schemes combine • Geographical Information Systems ♦ Geography (with Foundation Year) study at Swansea University with a • Glacial Environments and Processes ▲ Environmental Geoscience The degree I received from Swansea got me • Political Geographies year's work placement with a relevant ♦ Environmental Geoscience through the door to these roles, but it’s the • Remote Sensing (with Year in Industry) employer or organisation, or a love of the subject that I got from Swansea that year spent studying Geography Year 3 Geography and Geographical actually landed me the job in the interview. at an overseas institution. • Climate of the last 1,000 years Information Science – see page 86 Gaining a genuine interest in the subject is • Geographies of National Identities Environmental Geoscience – see page 82 • Meteorology and one of the things that makes Swansea so BSc GEOGRAPHY Atmospheric Sciences ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR amazing, many of the lecturers were fantastic ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: Adviser to Labour’s Energy • Violent Geographies For individual UCAS course codes and make you fall in love with the subject. and Climate Change Minister please visit the course web page So much so, that when you go for interview To learn more about our student stories, visit: the passion of the subject really comes across and makes it easier to land any job. swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 84 85 GEOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHICAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE INFORMATION SCIENCE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK TOP 99% GGEOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE 10 HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE STUDENT GRADUATE Applying new technologies to important geographical problems, SATISFACTION Our flexible degree in Health and Social Care is the ideal starting point EMPLOYABILITY* Geography and Geographical Information Science helps us understand (Guardian University for a range of rewarding careers. You will explore health and social care (DLHE 2018) Guide 2020) human-environment relationships, and how they vary across time and space. in national and international contexts, covering themes including social policy, public health, psychology, human biology and physiology, law and ethics, Land surveying and map-making have been revolutionised by advanced Foundation Year equality, and social justice while developing excellent communication, Global Opportunities digital systems which can intelligently acquire, analyse and present available available research and analytical skills. geospatial information. Global Opportunities International Students available foundation programme available If you have a passion for computing, geography or mathematics, International Students You will be immersed in a dynamic AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries foundation programme available and spatial data, this is your course. research and learning environment Year 1 available Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries with opportunities to build links with • Academic and professional Full details available on the
available Course Reference Grid (page 134) This degree will equip you with the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: students from related disciplines. development HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE Full details available on the • Equality, discrimination and expertise to become a geographical Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 134) Alongside your academic work, you information scientist with a solid • Dynamic Earth Systems oppression in society will take modules in professional TYPICAL OFFER: BBB-BBC grasp of key practical, numerical • Geographical Skills • Human anatomy, physiology development and have the option to Detailed entry requirements and TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB and pathophysiology and computational capabilities. • Globalisation complete a work placement as part course features available on the • Introduction to Planet Earth: an (to include Geography or a related subject) • Poverty and plenty Course Reference Grid (page 134) We place a strong emphasis on of your degree. overview of Geology Detailed entry requirements and • Introduction to research in health active learning through ‘hands-on’ course features available on the • Natural Hazards This is part of our collaborative and social care practice. We offer vibrant teaching Course Reference Grid (page 134) BSc Single Honours • Sustainability approach to health and social care, • Individuals and society ▲ Health and Social Care opportunities by world–leading aimed at improving integration Year 2 academics in an engaging and Year 2 BSc Single Honours between the sectors and preparing • Health law and practice ▲ 3 YEAR inspiring learning community. • Boundaries and Connections in ▲ Geography and Geographical you for a career working across Social Geography • Research and critical appraisal For individual UCAS course codes We will equip you with the Information Science traditional organisational and • Geographical Information Systems ♦ Geography (with Foundation Year) in health and social care please visit the course web page professional tools and graduate professional boundaries. • Glacial Environments and Processes leading to BSc Geography and • Safeguarding in health and mindset you will need to help solve • Remote Sensing Geographical Information Science social care – We also offer a two-year foundation some of today’s ‘grand challenges’. • Reflective practice and working FUTURE CAREERS: COLLEGE OF SCIENCE degree in Health and Social Care, Course assessments are diverse Year 3 ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Health Care Management taught at Pembrokeshire College. with people and integrative, allowing you • Climate of the last 1,000 years • Health Promotion and Public Health For individual UCAS course codes The course combines taught modules to confidently master critical • Environmental Modelling please visit the course web page Year 3 • Private Health and Social Care with work-based learning, following the Organisations thinking, problem solving, • Geographies of National Identities • Management and leadership same modules as years one and two • Social Work leadership, entrepreneurship • Meteorology and Atmospheric in health and social care of the BSc Health and Social Care at • The Civil Service Sciences FUTURE CAREERS: • Global perspectives and working and team-working skills. Swansea. On completion you have • The NHS • Violent Geographies • Conservation in a globalised world the option to progress to the final • Environmental Management • Counselling and supporting people year of the Swansea based *99% of graduates are employed in a professional • Geo-informatic • Psychology and the promotion or managerial job 6 months after the course degree programme. • Land Surveying of wellbeing (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) • Mapping and Cartography • Law and ethics in health • Remote Sensing & social care
ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE:
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 86 87 HISTORY IN THE HUMANITIES (PART-TIME) SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS / 2ND UK BAY CAMPUS / COMMUNITY VENUES HISTORY CAREER HUMANITIES (PART-TIME) On our wide-ranging History degree, you will explore almost 2,000 years PROSPECTS This dynamic and flexible part-time programme will give you a broad Global Opportunities available of past societies and cultures in Wales, Britain, Europe, the United States (Guardian University Guide knowledge and understanding of humanities subjects. 2020) Full details available on the and beyond. Course Reference Grid (page 134)
– Taught on a part-time basis during the day, evening and weekend on campus
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE You can study medieval, early modern, and modern history up to the and at other locations across Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, the degree Foundation Year HOW TO APPLY: present day, developing valuable skills while analysing historical change available will prepare you for challenging and rewarding roles in a wide variety of Please contact: Global Opportunities over the centuries. sectors or for postgraduate study. Tel: 01792 602211 available Email: [email protected] Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries You can choose from a wide range of available TYPICAL STUDY VENUES: FUTURE CAREERS: You will study a combination of modules, so you can specialise in an Full details available on the • Civil Service compulsory and optional modules, • Swansea University, Singleton TYPICAL OFFER: HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE area that already interests you or Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Education taught by expert academics in their Park Campus, Swansea You do not need formal qualifications discover new ones. • Historical Archives field through lectures, tutorials and • The Phoenix Centre, Townhill, as all applications are considered on Themes include political development, • Media seminars, and assessed using a wide Swansea their own merit. Applicants must attend • Museums and Libraries TYPICAL OFFER: BBB interview and submit a personal cultural change, gender, medical range of methods. • Neath YMCA, Neath and • Politics and Law Detailed entry requirements and statement of up to 500 words. history, heritage, and war and peace. course features available on the Port Talbot You will study broad humanities Detailed entry requirements and Course Reference Grid (page 134) You can also choose from modules AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: modules offering innovative learning course features available on the dealing with British, European, Course Reference Grid (page 134) Year 1 experiences as well as being able to American, world and Welsh history. • Early Modern World, 1500-1800 BA Single Honours choose modules in specific areas such ▲ History You will be taught by leading experts • Europe of Extremes, 1789-1989 as: English Literature; Creative BA Single Honours ♦ History (with Year Abroad) in their fields, meaning that teaching • Making History Writing; Criminology; History; Q Humanities ♦ History (with Foundation Year) is dynamic and at the cutting edge of • Medieval Europe: an Introduction Psychology; Sociology. You will gain Q • Modern British History a range of transferable skills which 6 YEAR current historical scholarship. BA Joint Honours can open doors to future employment We also offer a wide range of joint Year 2 History and and postgraduate study, and you will honours programmes, allowing you • Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age ▲ ♦ American Studies FUTURE CAREERS: be supported by our expert staff, with to pair your study of history with England ▲ ♦ Ancient History • Community Worker ▲ embedded academic writing another field. • Deformity, Deviance and Difference: ♦ English Literature • National or Regional Government Exploring Disability History ♦ French (with Year Abroad) development, critical thinking skills, • Policy Advisor in Non-Governmental • Revolutionary and Napoleonic ♦ German (with Year Abroad) and research-focused modules. Organisations for example Unicef, Europe, 1789-1815 ▲ International Relations Red Cross • Regional Institutions • The Cold War ♦ International Relations (with Year • The Welsh Century Abroad) ▲ ♦ Politics Year 3 ▲ Social Policy Whilst working in an administration role at Barnardo’s, Eligible students can apply for • History Dissertation ♦ Social Policy (with Year Abroad) I successfully gained a Policy and Research Assistant post. a Tuition Fee loan and course grants to help with costs which can • Mapping Medieval Landscapes ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) During my role, I co-authored a key research report which pay 100% of the total tuition fees. • New Deal America, 1933-1939 ▲ Welsh (first language) • Science, Magic and Medicine ♦ Welsh (first language) (with Year Abroad) was published externally. I can’t put into words how my studies Fee bursaries of up to 50% of the ▲ in Early Modern Europe Welsh (second language) total tuition fees are available to those ▲ W elsh (second language) have changed my life, they have opened so many doors for • The Long 1968: Protest students who are self-funded and are (with Year Abroad) not eligible for a Tuition Fee loan or in a Global Perspective me and I am very proud of my achievements. Learning is a part-time grant.* ♦ All our 3 year courses can be great way to change your life! extended to 4 years to include For further information visit: a Year Abroad Elaine Speyer, First Class Honours studentfinancewales.co.uk Part-time Humanities Degree graduate ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR *please note that funding is subject to change For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For individual UCAS course codes For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: please visit the course web page swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 88 89 JOURNALISM, MEDIA INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS AND COMMUNICATIONS UK TOP 0 SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS STUDENT COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA JOURNALISM, As technology, transport, and a complex international economy make our SATISFACTION Today’s graduates are not only the consumers of mass information, they Foundation Year available world smaller, the value of peaceful and cooperative relationships between (National Students Survey are also its curators and creators, and would-be journalists now need to 2019) Global Opportunities nations is increasingly important. develop their own personal brands within a congested market place. available On this degree you will look behind the headlines to the key players in The programme aim therefore is to equip students with a three way analytical, International Students Foundation Year foundation programme available world politics, exploring important ideas and how we can solve conflict available practical and employability skill set that will enable them to more easily Full details available on the or achieve cooperation. Global Opportunities enter into the graduate job market. Course Reference Grid (page 134) available International Students On our International Relations As human beings, we spend more AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: FUTURE CAREERS: foundation programme available TYPICAL OFFER: BBB programme, you will explore time consuming media than any other Year 1 • Business Full details available on the Detailed entry requirements and globalisation and global institutions, • Education Course Reference Grid (page 134) activity. Only sleeping takes up more • Introduction to Media course features available on the
– development and human rights, • Government and Politics of our time. In the digital age, Communication Course Reference Grid (page 134) COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE international and regional politics, • Humanitarian Organisations traditional news and media platforms • Introduction to Journalism • Law and Public Services TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Introduction to Media History peace and conflict, political economy, are further supplemented by a huge BA Single Honours • Media and Public Relations Detailed entry requirements and security and strategic studies, and proliferation of online platforms. • Public Relations: Strategic ▲ course features available on the J ournalism, Media and you will learn how power, institutions Communications Course Reference Grid (page 134) Choice therefore, has never been Communications and laws affect our day-to-day lives. AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: ♦ greater and quality has never been Year 2 Journalism, Media and Year 1 Communications (with Year Abroad) You will gain an understanding of so variable. In the age of “fake news” • Theorising the Media • War and Peace in the Nuclear Age BA Single Honours the patterns of behaviour between ▲ International Relations for example, the ability to differentiate • Social Media Cultures ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Introduction to International Relations –
objective fact from speculative • Investigating Text, Process
nations, their leaders and HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE • Introduction to Political Methodology ♦ International Relations For individual UCAS course codes rhetoric has never been more and Audiences corporations, focusing on the • Early Modern World, 1500-1800 (with Year Abroad) please visit the course web page interactions and inter-relationships ♦ International Relations important. • The Fundamental Questions Year 3 between philosophical, political (with Foundation Year) of Philosophy The programme will be regularly • Online Journalism FUTURE CAREERS: and economic thought. appraised by an industry panel to • Mediating the 21st Century Year 2 BA Major/Minor Honours • Journalism ensure that it remains at the cutting • Paradigms of Journalism You have the opportunity for a • Anarchy and Order: Theories in ♦ International Relations with • Media French (with Year Abroad) edge of what employers and industry • Dissertation Preparation placement with the National International Relations • Business ♦ International Relations with requires. You will have the chance Assembly for Wales as part of the • Globalisation • Public Relations and Marketing German (with Year Abroad) to attend workshops and seminars • Digital Marketing module: The National Assembly • Global Ethics ♦ International Relations with run by guest speakers as part • TV and Radio for Wales. • International Security Spanish (with Year Abroad) of the course. • Publishing Swansea University is also one of a • Business & Entrepreneurship limited number of institutions selected • Fundamental Issues in Moral BA Joint Honours to partner with the UK Parliament to and Political Philosophy International Relations and deliver an innovative Parliamentary • Contemporary Wars and Conflicts ▲ American Studies Studies module, which students will be • Social Media Cultures ♦ American Studies (with Year Abroad) ▲ History able to take in their third year. The Year 3 ♦ History (with a Year Abroad) module includes a series of sessions • Shadow Wars: US Presidents with experts and members of staff and covert action from the ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR working in the UK Parliament and Cold War to Trump For individual UCAS course codes culminates in a day-long visit to • The National Assembly for Wales please visit the course web page Westminster including talks with • Parliamentary Studies senior Members of Parliament. • Global Political Economy • Aftermaths of War • Dissertation
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– HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SCHOOL OF LAW OF SCHOOL CLINTON RODHAM – HILLARY children and young people, the law informs and influences every aspect of (National Students society. Studying law is both demanding and rewarding. Our undergraduate Survey 2019) law programmes provide opportunities to develop a range of practical and intellectual skills, equipping you for a wide variety of careers. Global Opportunities available International Students
As a law student at Swansea you foundation programme available LAW OF SCHOOL CLINTON RODHAM – HILLARY We have just expanded will study in a supportive, into a new building on Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries available student-focussed environment. Singleton Campus, with You will gain a solid foundation in all-new, sector-leading Full details available on the facilities available to Course Reference Grid (page 134) legal reasoning and analysis, as well our students. as in the substantive laws of England and Wales. You will have the TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB FUTURE CAREERS: opportunity to apply legal concepts Detailed entry requirements and • Barrister and to develop a range of skills course features available on the • Civil Service Course Reference Grid (page 134) including communication, problem- • Law Enforcement solving, research and critical thinking. • Local Government You will have the chance to study a • Policing LLB Single Honours range of subject areas giving you the • Solicitor ▲ Law opportunity to shape your degree ▲ Law (Crime and Criminal Justice) The best thing about studying at the ▲ around your personal interests. You will study: Business Law School is how inclusive it feels. You’re • Criminal Law Our degree programmes offer a LLB Major/Minor Honours encouraged to get involved and there's range of experiential learning • Public Law ▲ Law with Criminology something to suit everyone. opportunities including our acclaimed • Law of Obligations • Property Law Law Clinic and the Miscarriage of ♦ All our 3 year courses can be I’ve mooted for the university as part Justice Project. You will also have the • Equity and Trusts extended to 4 years to include a of the Bar Society, which as well as chance to get involved in mooting, You will also have the opportunity Year in Industry/Abroad being great fun, has given me unique interviewing and negotiation. to choose from a broad range of ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR advocacy experience that is invaluable We offer a wide range of local, optional areas of study, including: For individual UCAS course codes for your CV. I've also been involved national and international work and • Company Law please visit the course web page with the Law Society, which offers study placements, and the support • Criminal Evidence great networking opportunities. to help you achieve your goals • Environmental Law and ambitions. • Employment Law Swansea offers so many opportunities • Family Law All our law degrees are designed to both whilst studying and to help you once • Human Rights Law meet the requirements of the legal • Medical Law you've graduated. For prospective professional bodies for the purposes • Intellectual Property Law students, I feel this is an important thing to of going on to qualify as a solicitor or • Sports Law, and more barrister. For students entering from consider, because ultimately you need to 2021 onwards our law degree will be as prepared as possible for the world offer a sound preparation for the first after university. Swansea goes above and stage of the Solicitors’ Qualifying LLB LAW beyond to get you off to the best start! Examination. To learn more about our student stories, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit:
swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories 92 93 MARINE BIOLOGY BIOSCIENCES MARKETING IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS BAY CAMPUS TOP TH IN THE UK MARINE BIOLOGYMARINE 6UK BUSINESS MARKETING TEACHING Marine Biology at Swansea is a highly practical course. We are ideally Can you picture yourself working for a multinational marketing agency MANAGEMENT QUALITY located for marine biology field and boat work – the nearby Gower Peninsula (Times & Sunday Times or for a household name? AND MARKETING University Guide (Whatuni Awards provides a variety of study habitats, from exposed rock shores and steep 2020) This degree will distinguish you from the pack with the dynamic, creative 2019) cliffs enclosing small sheltered bays to sand dunes, salt marsh, open pelagic, skills required to manage marketing on a global, national or local level. Foundation Year deep water and estuarine mudflats. Global Opportunities MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL available available Global Opportunities In year one you will develop a core Want to experience an unforgettable available Full details available on the – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE You will receive training in a range of AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation in business management year studying in another country, Course Reference Grid (page 134) survey and sampling techniques, and Year 1 International Students foundation programme available and marketing. In the following years, meeting new people, exploring new will gain experience in identifying • Animal diversity you will specialise in marketing- cultures and growing as a person; a wide variety of seabed-dwelling • Cellular and microbial biology Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB available specific modules and have the chance professionally and personally? invertebrates and fish. • Ecology and animal behaviour Detailed entry requirements and to explore elective modules from A Year Abroad is also available • Form and function Full details available on the course features available on the Local and international field courses Course Reference Grid (page 134) other business disciplines. with an overseas institution. Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Molecular and evolutionary biology allow you to work in varied habitats. You will learn to think critically AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Recent projects have involved sea Year 2 and make well-informed strategic Year 1 BSc Single Honours turtle migration, whale behaviour • Ichthyology TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB marketing decisions with impact • Essential analytic skills for business ▲ Marketing and oil pollution. You may have • Marine biology field course (to include Biology or Human Biology) in the real world. • Finance for business ♦ Marketing the opportunity to join an (Pembrokeshire) Detailed entry requirements and (with Year in Industry/Abroad) course features available on the • Managing people international field course in • Marine ecosystems We have developed the course Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Marketing Puerto Rico or Malaysia. • Marine invertebrates structure and content in line with the ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • The global context of organisation • M arine plankton and oceanography Chartered Institute of Marketing and, There is also an option to study Our excellent teaching facilities BSc Single Honours through lectures, tutorials and Year 2 marketing under the Business include the Centre for Sustainable Year 3 ▲ Marine Biology one-to-one meetings you will absorb • Consumer behaviour Management pathway. Please Aquatic Research, zoology museum, • Diseases of aquatic animals ♦ Marine Biology (with Year the expertise of the academic staff. • Digital marketing see page 58 for further details custom-designed 18-metre • Ecology of marine animals in Industry/Abroad) You will also have access to our video • International marketing catamaran-class survey vessel, • Fisheries and aquaculture ♦ Biology (with Foundation Year) For individual UCAS course codes and digital content creation suite. • Marketing Places please visit the course web page and a unique visualisation suite that • Oceans and climate leading to BSc Marine Biology • Strategic marketing planning displays multi-dimensional animal • Polar biology Available to all undergraduate Biology – see page 57 tracking data. students within the School of Year 3 Zoology – see page 132 FUTURE CAREERS: Management, a Year in Industry • Marketing ethics • Brand Manager is an opportunity to gain real-world • Marketing communications ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Management Consultant industry experience, making • Marketing research • Marketing Manager For individual UCAS course codes you an attractive candidate for • Services marketing • Media Buyer please visit the course web page jobs after graduating. • PR Account Executive
FUTURE CAREERS: • Conservationist • Environmental Consultant • Marine Researcher • Postgraduate Research • Teaching Course structure has been developed in line with the CIM Certificate ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: in Professional Marketing and Diploma in Professional Marketing
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UNICEF UK UK TOP MATERNITY CARE MATERNITY 15 MATHEMATICS Awarded Level 1 GRADUATE If you want to move into a career in maternity care, work as a doula or Baby Friendly Mathematics is one of the most timeless and international disciplines, PROSPECTS consolidate existing skills in this sector, this flexible course is ideal. Initiative Status forming the foundations upon which the modern world is built. (Complete University Guide 2020) It focuses on empowering women and families throughout pregnancy, Contemporary science and business are underpinned by mathematics, birth and early parenting, and will enhance your professional skills, and our degrees reflect this connection with industry. Global Opportunities Foundation Year
paving the way to further career development or study opportunities. available available
As you progress, your developing mathematical abilities will combine with – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Global Opportunities Full details available on the transferable skills which are vital to securing employment in a range of industries. – Course Reference Grid (page 134) available
COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE With a strong focus on self- AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: International Students development, self-awareness and • Academic writing for health foundation programme available Our Mathematics degrees cover a holistic skills, you will gain a detailed and social care FUTURE CAREERS: TYPICAL OFFER VARIES: broad base of classical and modern Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries knowledge and understanding of key • Biological dimensions of • Actuary available There is no typical offer or mathematics. We offer a range of • Accountant aspects of physiology, family, society, pregnancy and parenting specific entry requirements for this Full details available on the modules covering pure and applied • Data Scientist communication, culture, health, and • Competencies for maternity care course. For full details please see Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) mathematics and all single honours • Management Consultant maternity care services in the UK. • Optimising health and wellbeing students complete a dissertation in an • Software Engineer in pregnancy, birth and parenting • Statistical Analyst Our Midwifery and Reproductive area of their choice in their final year. TYPICAL OFFER: • Psychosocial dimensions of HE Cert Health Team are active in maternity BSc: AAB – ABB (to include Maths) pregnancy and parenting Maternity Care In all our schemes you will learn research and are driven to try to AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: MMath: AAA (to include Maths) to use logical reasoning, construct improve knowledge and • Working as a doula Year 1 Detailed entry requirements and 1 YEAR FULL-TIME 2 YEARS PART-TIME rigorous arguments and develop understanding of women’s bodies, • Working in the maternity care team • Abstract and linear algebra course features available on the communication skills. Course Reference Grid (page 134) experiences, and needs during Apply directly to the College • Introductory analysis of Human and Health Sciences: the transition to motherhood. You will be taught in our new • Mechanics/Statistics [email protected] As a result of this course, £32.5 million Computational Foundry Our blended learning approach, Year 2 BSc Single Honours Building which provides the most ▲ Mathematics which combines taught sessions I'm able to offer a higher • Real analysis and vector calculus up-to-date and high-quality teaching ♦ Mathematics with self-directed learning, will level of counselling and FUTURE CAREERS: • Vector spaces and group theory facilities. These include a dedicated (with Year in Industry/Abroad) give you the flexibility to fit your • Doula • Probability breastfeeding support • Introduction to further studies Mathematics Reading Room, at the ♦ Mathematics (with Foundation Year) studies around your other work ▲ in health care such as Midwifery heart of the department, for students Year 3/MMath: Pure Mathematics or family commitments. for first-time mothers. ▲ Applied Mathematics • Maternity Care Support Worker to study in. • Algebraic coding theory • Nursery Nurse • Biomathematics ▲ Mathematics for Finance Zanet, Maternity Care graduate • Complex analysis ♦ Mathematics for Finance (with Year in Industry) *and St David’s Park Campus, Carmarthen • Dynamical systems ♦ Mathematics for Finance • Financial mathematics (with Year Abroad) • Functional analysis • Lie Theory BSc Joint Honours Mathematics and • Numerical methods ▲ Education • Quantum mechanics ♦ Education (with Year Abroad) • Stochastic processes ▲ Sports Science
MMath Single Honours ♦ MMath Mathematics H MMath Mathematics (with Year Abroad) ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE:
Actuarial Science – see page 49
▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: please visit the course web page swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 96 97 MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION ST IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION GRADUATE PROFILESTUDENT The media increasingly defines the way we interact with society. It shapes the PROSPECTS (Times Good University Guide, way we see ourselves and others and can be a powerful tool for social change. Guardian University Guide, Complete University Guide Study Media and Communication with us and you will learn theory and 2020) practical skills to equip you for an exciting career in the media, marketing Foundation Year or related fields. available Global Opportunities
available HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE You will have the chance to explore TYPICAL OFFER: BBB International Students radio and video production, digital Detailed entry requirements and foundation programme available and social media, journalism, course features available on the Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries public relations, media theory, Course Reference Grid (page 134) available media law, and film, learning from Year 2 Full details available on the
– COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE Course Reference Grid (page 134) experienced industry professionals • Business and Entrepreneurship and leading academics. • Creative Media Practice The flexibility of the degree means • Digital PR Practice BA Single Honours you can shape the course to match • Social Media Cultures ▲ Media and Communication ♦ Media and Communication your career goals as well as Welsh medium modules/ (with Year in Industry/Abroad) developing your own interests. Modiwlau cyfrwng Cymraeg ♦ Media and Communication A work placement will give you • Sgiliau Cyfryngau Ymarferol (with Foundation Year) first-hand experience of media and • Cyfathrebu Digidol The biggest challenge I faced when • Testunau Trawsgyfryngol BA Joint Honours Media and communication, and our on-campus ▲ Cymraeg, Cyfryngau a joining Swansea University was living facilities include Mac computer labs, Year 3 Chysylltiadau Cyhoeddus on an entirely different continent and ♦ Cymraeg, Cyfryngau a Chysylltiadau video equipment, a video editing • Dissertation moving away from my family. studio, and a TV station studio. • Media and Communication Cyhoeddus (gyda Blwyddyn Dramor) ▲ English Language However, since moving here, I have Internship You can also: ♦ English Language (with Year Abroad) felt very comfortable and happy. • Choose a year in industry • Mediating the 21st Century ▲ English Literature ♦ French (with Year Abroad) • Choose to study some modules • Strategy, Marketing and Branding The city is close-knit and the • Digital Futures ♦ German (with Year Abroad) through the medium of Welsh ♦ • Sports Public Relations Spanish (with Year Abroad) community has welcomed me, making ▲ Welsh (2nd Language) AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: me feel as settled as possible. Being Welsh medium modules/ ♦ Welsh (2nd Language) (with Year Abroad) Year 1 Modiwlau cyfrwng Cymraeg part of such a great and supportive • Introduction to Media • Paratoi Traethawd Estynedig ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR university environment has only added • Introduction to Film Studies • Cynllunio Cynhyrchiad For individual UCAS course codes to the experience and made my • Introduction to Media History Aml-blatfform please visit the course web page overall transition that much smoother. • Public Relations: Strategic • Cyfathrebu Corfforaethol Communications • Traethawd Estynedig I now feel as though I have fully • Introduction to Hollywood Cinema FUTURE CAREERS: immersed myself in the course, Welsh medium modules/ • Advertising university and city. I'm completely Modiwlau cyfrwng Cymraeg • Business happy and satisfied, and I think • Cyfathrebu Strategol: • Digital Marketing • Journalism Cysylltiadau Cyhoeddus choosing Swansea University has • PR and Marketing • Cyflwyniad i Astudiaethau Ffilm • Publishing BA MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION provided me with one of the best • Sgiliau Cyfryngau Allweddol • TV and Radio opportunities of my life.
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MEDICAL BIOCHEMISTRY 5 5 MEDICAL GENETICS MEDICAL SCHOOL MEDICAL SCHOOL Medical Biochemistry is at the heart of modern medicine. It is crucial to the (Complete University Guide 2020; Medical Genetics is an exciting and fast-moving field with an enormous (Complete University Guide 2020; The Guardian University The Guardian University way we understand the causes and effects of disease and how we develop Guide 2020) impact on medicine, helping us to understand, diagnose, and treat many Guide 2020) novel treatments. human diseases.
You will learn how cells work at the sub-cellular and molecular levels, gaining Global Opportunities You will learn techniques for analysing gene expression, protein interactions, Global Opportunities an in-depth understanding of the biochemical function of living organisms, available DNA structure and damage, image analysis of biomolecules and cells, available from bacteria to animals and humans. International Students and advanced computer analytical methods and gain an in-depth International Students foundation programme available foundation programme available
understanding of the building blocks of life. Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries – You will benefit from access to AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available available SCHOOL MEDICAL
state-of-the-art research facilities Year 1 You will benefit from access to the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: – Full details available on the Full details available on the
MEDICAL SCHOOL MEDICAL at the Medical School, including • Introductory biochemistry Course Reference Grid (page 134) state-of-the-art research facilities at Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 134) bioanalytical equipment such as high • Biochemistry skills the Medical School, including DNA • Eukaryotic cell biology performance liquid chromatography, • Energy and metabolism and protein analytical equipment, • Fundamental genetics and evolution gas chromatography, mass • Human physiology TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB and computer-based image analysers • Genetic analysis TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB (to include Chemistry and ideally Biology) (to include Biology and ideally Chemistry) spectrometry, DNA and protein for molecular and cellular studies. • Microbiology Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and Detailed entry requirements and analytical equipment, computer-based • Clinical biochemistry and physiology course features available on the You will develop excellent analytical Year 2 course features available on the image analysers for molecular or Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Human immunology and project management skills and • Biostatistics cellular studies. • Medical science in practice learn how to design experiments • Human and medical genetics You will develop excellent project • Techniques in molecular biology BSc Single Honours and plan work programmes. • Human immunology BSc Single Honours management skills and learn how ▲ Medical Biochemistry • Pharmacogenetics ▲ Medical Genetics Year 3 to design experiments and plan MSci PROGRAMME • Genetic toxicology MSci Single Honours Year 3 MSci Single Honours work programmes. This integrated undergraduate • Human immunopathology ♦ Medical Biochemistry • Biotechnology and protein ♦ master’s degree adds specialist Medical Genetics • Independent research project engineering MSci PROGRAMME training in laboratory techniques and under the guidance of a Biochemistry – see page 55 • Genetic toxicology Genetics – see page 83 This integrated undergraduate a further research-focused year to the professional research scientist • Genetics of cancer master’s degree adds specialist ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR 3-year BSc Medical Genetics course. ▲ • Membranes and energy transduction • Independent research project 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR training in laboratory techniques This course gives you a master’s For individual UCAS course codes under the guidance of a For individual UCAS course codes Year 4 (MSci only): and a further research-focused please visit the course web page level qualification while paying professional research scientist please visit the course web page year to the 3-year BSc Medical • Advanced independent research undergraduate fees and is ideal Biochemistry course. This course project under the guidance of a if you plan on a career in research. Year 4 (MSci only): professional research scientist FUTURE CAREERS: gives you a master’s level qualification FUTURE CAREERS: • Advanced independent research • Communicating ideas in science • Genetic Toxicology while paying undergraduate fees • Cancer Research project under the guidance of a • Entrepreneurship • Health Professions (after further • Health Professions (after further and is ideal if you plan on a career professional research scientist study) e.g. Doctor, Physician’s study) e.g. Doctor, Physician’s • Communicating ideas in science Associate, Dentist or Veterinarian in research. Associate, Dentist or Veterinarian • Entrepreneurship • Forensic Science • Medical Laboratories • Pharmaceuticals • Pharmaceuticals
LINKS TO GRADUATE LINKS TO GRADUATE ENTRY MEDICINE: ENTRY MEDICINE: This course is part of our Pathways This course is part of our Pathways to Medicine programme. If you to Medicine programme. If you choose the Pathways to Medicine choose the Pathways to Medicine module, perform well and meet the module, perform well and meet minimum entry requirements, the minimum entry requirements, you will be guaranteed an interview you will be guaranteed an interview For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: for our flagship MBBCh Medicine for our flagship MBBCh Medicine swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses (Graduate Entry) course. swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses (Graduate Entry) course. 100 101 MEDICAL PHARMACOLOGY ST IN THE MEDICINE: GRADUATE ENTRY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
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MEDICAL PHARMACOLOGY 5 GRADUATE ENTRYMEDICINE: RESEARCH MEDICAL SCHOOL Medical Pharmacology focuses on the science behind drugs and medicines, ENVIRONMENT Our Medicine (MBBCh) course is an innovative four-year medical degree (Complete University Guide 2020; The Guardian University their effects on living systems, and their role in treating disease. (Research Excellence open to graduates of any discipline. With an emphasis on clinical and Framework 2014-2021) Guide 2020) communication skills, our integrated curriculum is structured to reflect the You will learn about toxicology, immunology, pharmacogenomics and drug way in which patients present to doctors and how doctors approach development. Our range of optional modules also gives you scope to tailor Foundation Year patients and their symptoms. Global Opportunities your studies to your particular interests, career goals, or plans for available available postgraduate study. Global Opportunities Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries available You will study the basic biomedical the qualities needed as a doctor, as available Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries sciences in the context of clinical set out in ‘Good Medical Practice’, Medical Pharmacology has been AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the available medicine, public health, pathology, and the capacity to meet the Course Reference Grid (page 134) identified as a critical undergraduate Year 1 Full details available on the therapeutics, ethics, and psycho-social outcomes of ‘Outcomes for
degree, required to fill the current • Introduction to toxicology – Course Reference Grid (page 134) issues in patient management. Graduates’. In summary, we look for:
MEDICAL SCHOOL MEDICAL work force and skills gaps in • Human physiology
TYPICAL OFFER: 2:1 – Alongside University-based learning • Communication skills medicine and pharmaceutical • Microbiology (bachelor’s degree in any subject area) SCHOOL MEDICAL and practical sessions, you will enjoy • Problem solving skills development. This course curriculum • Organic chemistry TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB (to include Detailed entry requirements and has been developed to fill this skills • Skills for medical sciences Chemistry and one other STEM subject) a high level of clinical contact with • Ability to cope with pressure course features available on the gap, using the the British • Toxicology and dose response Detailed entry requirements and self-selected Learning Opportunities • Insight and Integrity Course Reference Grid (page 134) course features available on the Pharmacological Society's in the Clinical Setting (LOCS), specialty • Passion for medicine/resilience Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 134) undergraduate core curriculum. attachments, assistantships and to succeed • Introduction to pharmacology DEGREE PROGRAMMES AVAILABLE: community-based learning. • Antimicrobial therapy and resistance DOCTORS FOR WALES ♦ MBBCh Medicine You will benefit from access to the BSc Single Honours state-of-the-art research facilities • Human immunology You can also tailor your studies to The Medical School has a broad ▲ Medical Pharmacology ♦ 4 YEAR at the Medical School, including • The cardiovascular system focus on rural medicine in a community ongoing package of measures in context, with clinical placements in place to address significant challenges For individual UCAS course codes our research laboratories. You will • Advances in toxicology ▲ 3 YEAR develop excellent analytical and • Pharmacogenomics Primary Care in mid and west Wales. to the medical workforce in Wales, please visit the course web page For individual UCAS course codes including the recruitment and retention project management skills and learn Year 3 please visit the course web page Together with a strong focus on clinical of doctors. These measures are how to design experiments and • Advances in pharmacology and communication skills, you will plan work programmes. designed to increase the numbers • Clinical trials develop the academic, practical, and LINKS TO GRADUATE FUTURE CAREERS: of Welsh-domiciled applicants who During your studies, you will focus • Diabetes and related disorders personal qualities to practise medicine ENTRY MEDICINE: interview for medicine and the number on one of three employability • Drug development and regulation • Pharmaceuticals competently and with confidence. • Health Professions (after further of qualified doctors who choose to As part of our commitment to widening strands: Medical Science in • Independent research project APPLYING FOR MEDICINE study) e.g. Doctor, Physician’s practise in Wales. access to medicine, you could gain a Research, Medical Science in under the guidance of a Associate, Dentist or Veterinarian Prior to applying for Medicine at guaranteed interview for this Medicine Practice (subject to eligibility), professional research scientist • Industrial Research Find out more at: Swansea, you must sit the GAMSAT swansea.ac.uk/medicine/ course by studying one of our Pathway or Enterprise and Innovation. • Nanotoxicology • Drug Development selection test (International applicants doctorsforwales to Medicine degrees. Find out more at: • Regulation may alternatively sit the MCAT). swansea.ac.uk/medicine/pathways Selection for interview will be based ACCREDITED BY THE GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL (GMC) LINKS TO GRADUATE upon the results you achieve. In order to obtain registration with FUTURE CAREERS: ENTRY MEDICINE: Our interview and selection process a licence to practise in the UK from Clinic al placements is then structured to take account of incorporated as part This course is part of our Pathways 2022 onwards, all medical students of this programme to Medicine programme. If you must pass a Medical Licensing choose the Medical Science in ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: Assessment (MLA) with the General Practice Pathway, perform well and meet the minimum entry requirements, Medical Council (GMC) in addition you will be guaranteed an interview to passing your medical degree and for our flagship MBBCh Medicine demonstrating your fitness to practise. (Graduate Entry) course. For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 102 103 MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN THE MIDWIFERY TH IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS ND UK
MEDIEVAL STUDIES 2 UK MIDWIFERY CAREER 7 Medieval Studies explores almost 1,000 years of history through the lenses PROSPECTS Our Midwifery degree will help you to develop the clinical and interpersonal MIDWIFERY of literature, philosophy, law, religion, politics, and conflict. (Guardian University Guide expertise to ensure a woman’s physical and emotional wellbeing during (The Guardian University 2020) Guide 2020) pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood. This interdisciplinary approach allows you to immerse yourself in the study of
this dynamic period, as you develop research and analytical skills and learn It combines academic work with practical placements across south west Foundation Year NO TUITION FEES: –
to present your ideas effectively both in writing and verbally. available Wales, working with midwives in community-based teams, midwifery-led UK and EU students** HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE Global Opportunities birth centres and hospital maternity units. Apply for an enhanced support package available through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme.
– Our Medieval Studies courses allow AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: (**conditions apply) Full details available on the COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: you to study the Middle Ages in a way Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 134) Many of our academic staff are swansea.ac.uk/student-loans- that blends different methodological • Literature and Society in registered midwives and active Year 1 and-grants/nhs-funding/ Medieval Europe and critical approaches. in practice and research, • Bioscience for midwifery Global Opportunities • Medieval Europe: An Introduction TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Building the foundations for You can pursue themes and topics providing professional insight available • Making History Detailed entry requirements and and practical expertise. midwifery practice including: the transition of Late Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries course features available on the • Introduction to the profession Antique history to the Early Middle Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 134) Our excellent facilities include a available of midwifery Ages, the crusades, the literature of • The Practice of History realistic clinical suite, so you can Full details available on the • Midwifery and public health Anglo-Saxon England, Medieval • A History of the French Language put your theoretical knowledge Course Reference Grid (page 134) BA Single Honours landscapes, Chaucer, and the • Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age into practice. Year 2 ▲ Medieval Studies monstrous in medieval literature. England • Developing my midwifery practice ♦ Medieval Studies (with Year Abroad) You can also gain experience in You can also study; History, Ancient • Gendering the Middle Ages: • Complex and urgent maternity care TYPICAL OFFER: BBB ♦ Medieval Studies antenatal education, postnatal and History, Classical Civilisation and Power and Exclusion (with Foundation Year) • Complex needs in pregnancy Detailed entry requirements and breastfeeding support by taking part course features available on the English Literature modules. • The Heirs of Rome: The Making of • Psychosocial and cultural context in activities offered through our on-site Course Reference Grid (page 134) Christendom, Byzantium, and Islam ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR of childbearing Health and Wellbeing Academy. As in the Early Middle Ages 400-800 For individual UCAS course codes a midwifery student, around half of Year 3 • The Crusades and the Making of please visit the course web page BMid Single Honours your course will be spent on clinical • Becoming a midwife – the final push Latin Christendom, 1050-1300 ▲ Midwifery • Consolidating my midwifery practice • Medieval Encounters work placements, which will give you • Preparing for professional practice • Beyond Blood and Guts: Medicine FUTURE CAREERS: the practical skills you need to begin ▲ 3 YEAR your career as a midwife. • Using research to inform practice from Late Antiquity to the Early • Civil Service For individual UCAS course codes Modern period • Heritage and Tourism When applying for this course, you please visit the course web page • Historical Archivists should show that you understand the Year 3 • Law • Law and Justice in Medieval • Teaching role of the midwife and demonstrate FUTURE CAREERS: England your knowledge of some of the issues in current midwifery practice. Your Currently the NHS starting salary for • The Crucible of Defeat: Wessex midwives is £24,214 (Band 5). Typical application should explain why you in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries career earnings go up to £43,772. • The Masculine and the Monstrous think you'd be a good midwife and in the Middle Ages show your commitment to midwifery • Mapping Medieval Landscapes as your future career. NMC REGISTERED • Devotion Piety & Power: The First ADULT NURSES Crusade & the Worlds of Latin May be eligible to apply for our Christendom, Byzantium & the short pre-registration Midwifery Islamic Near East ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: course (20 months). Please contact • Monarchy: Ancient and Medieval us for further information: [email protected]
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 104 105 MODERN LANGUAGES, MODERN LANGUAGES TH IN THE TH IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING UK SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK MODERN LANGUAGES MODERN
1 1 MODERN LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING NATIONAL NATIONAL Our Modern Languages programme allows you to study up to three STUDENT The demand for translation and interpreting is growing rapidly as more STUDENT languages, helping you to become part of a global community and SATISFACTION companies, institutions and people do business globally but expect to use SATISFACTION (The Guardian University (The Guardian University opening doors to a wide range of careers. Guide 2020) services in their own language. Guide 2020) As well as developing your language skills in French, German, Italian or As well as developing your language skills, you will gain knowledge and Global Opportunities Global Opportunities Spanish, you will also select modules from specialist vocational pathways with available practical skills to prepare you for a career in translation or interpreting. available a focus on cultural studies, language pedagogy, translation and interpreting. Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries available available You can choose one or two languages Year 2
Full details available on the • Computer-Assisted Translation Full details available on the – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE You will have intensive language from French, German, Italian or Spanish FUTURE CAREERS: Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Introduction to the Theory tuition and study optional modules • Global Business in addition to your native language. of Translation relating to various aspects of society, • International Sales You will explore concepts of translation TYPICAL OFFER: BBB • Translation Project culture, education, translation and • Marketing in Multinational and interpreting, translation theory, TYPICAL OFFER: BBB Organisations Detailed entry requirements and • Vocabulary Studies interpreting. You can also study computer-assisted translation and Detailed entry requirements and both Mandarin and Arabic via • Teaching course features available on the • The appropriate general course features available on the • Translation Course Reference Grid (page 134) interpreting for business, health or law. Course Reference Grid (page 134) our Languages for All programme. language modules To support your studies, we have PC Students of Spanish also have the Year 3 Year 2 labs equipped with the latest industry opportunity to learn Catalan. BA Single Honours During your third year, you will BA Single Honours • Intermediate and/or Advanced ♦ Modern Languages (French/ translation software, a new Televic be given the opportunity to take ♦ Modern Languages, Translation All students benefit from our dedicated Language modules German/Italian/Spanish) conference interpreting suite, access advantage of the agreements we have and Interpreting (with Year Abroad) language labs with access to language • Translation Theory and to the College’s state-of-the-art channels and an extensive archive of BA Major/Minor Honours in place with some of Europe’s most Computer-Assisted Translation eye-tracker, as well as excellent print ♦ 4 YEAR ♦ International Relations renowned translation schools. We foreign language films. • War and Conflict in European Film and online library resources. (French/German/Spanish) currently have partners in Alcalá de For individual UCAS course codes • Teaching Modern Foreign In addition, language cafés take place ♦ Modern Languages with Education You will also study abroad for a year Henares, Barcelona, Bologna (Forli), please visit the course web page Languages to Young Learners outside formal class time and bring you to further develop your language Brussels, Cologne, Granada, Geneva,
together with exchange students who Year 3 BA Joint Honours and translation techniques and boost Innsbruck, Mainz (Germersheim), –
FUTURE CAREERS: HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE are native speakers ready to talk to You will spend the third year abroad, ♦ Ancient History (French/ your career prospects. Mons, Sevilla, Valencia, Valladolid, • Business and Legal Organisations you in the languages you are studying. working as a paid British Council German/Spanish) Vienna and Zurich. ♦ Classical Civilisation (French/German) This degree can open doors to exciting • Government and Politics All four European languages are language assistant or studying at ♦ English Language careers in the UK or around the world, We have a dedicated year abroad • Interpreting a partner university. Some students • Translation available to study post-A level. They (French/German/Spanish) as a home-based freelancer, in-house tutor to help you every step of the also take paid work placements or • International Sales and can also be studied via our beginner's ♦ English Literature translator with an agency, or in the way in the organisation of this work as volunteers on approved Marketing Recruitment pathways for students without any (French/German/Spanish) translation department of a large important year. programmes. There are ♦ prior knowledge of that language. History (French/German/Spanish) company or organisation. opportunities in Latin America ♦ Media (French/German/Spanish) Year 4: AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: for students of Spanish. • Interpreting – Health Option or ♦ Politics (French/German/Spanish) AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: ♦ TESOL (French/German/Spanish) Business Option or Law Option Year 1 Year 4: Year 1 ♦ Welsh (First Language) • The appropriate general • Beginner and/or Advanced • Language for Professional Purposes • Concepts in Translation (French/German/Spanish) language modules Language modules • Translation Workshops and Public and Interpreting ♦ Welsh (Second Language) • Translation Work Experience • Concepts in Translation and Service Interpreting • Grammar and Meaning Interpreting (French/German/Spanish) for BA Students • From Page to Screen: Adapting • Language Teaching Methodology • Introduction to Culture (French, • Translation Workshop and the European Classics ♦ 4 YEAR • Studying the English Language German, Italian, Spanish) Professional Purposes modules • Modern Languages Classroom • The appropriate general For individual UCAS course codes • Terminology Management • Modern European Fiction and Film Practice language modules please visit the course web page • Modern Languages: Introduction • Modern Languages Dissertation to Language Teaching
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 106 107 NUCLEAR MEDICINE, RADIOTHERAPY
NEUROPHYSIOLOGY NUCLEAR MEDICINE, RADIOTHERAPY PHYSICS, RADIATION PHYSICS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS PHYSICS, RADIATION PHYSICS % SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS % NEUROPHYSIOLOGY GRADUATE GRADUATE Our Neurophysiology degree will give you the expert training you need EMPLOYABILITY* These degrees will give you the expert training you need to begin a EMPLOYABILITY* to diagnose and treat people with neurological disorders such as stroke, rewarding, responsible and highly skilled career working as a medical physics (DLHE 2018) (DLHE 2018) epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and dementia. It combines academic work with technologist, a dosimetrist in radiotherapy physics or a radiation physicist. clinical experience. You will use the latest diagnostic equipment and software Each of these courses combine in-depth academic work with practical, clinical applications in our state-of-the-art facilities and build your skills on work NO TUITION FEES: NO TUITION FEES: UK and EU students** and technological skills in a range of specialised healthcare settings. UK and EU students** placements at hospitals across Wales. Apply for an enhanced support package Apply for an enhanced support package through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme.
(**conditions apply) On our Nuclear Medicine course, Our excellent on-campus facilities (**conditions apply)
– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE The course is accredited by the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: you will learn about using isotopes provide realistic workplace National School of Healthcare Year 1 swansea.ac.uk/student-loans- swansea.ac.uk/student-loans- and-grants/nhs-funding/ and radiation to diagnose and treat simulations, and you will spend and-grants/nhs-funding/ Science and many of our academic • Anatomy and physiology for diseases. As a medical physics around half of your course on clinical staff are practising clinicians, healthcare science Global Opportunities Global Opportunities technologist, you will be operating, work placements throughout Wales, providing invaluable professional • Basics of mathematics and available available maintaining, and monitoring which will give you the practical skills insight and expertise. physics for healthcare science Full details available on the Full details available on the • Neurosensory anatomy, physiology Course Reference Grid (page 134) equipment used in the diagnosis you need to begin your career. Course Reference Grid (page 134) Our excellent facilities include a and pathophysiology and treatment of patients. AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: realistic clinical suite so you can • Neurosensory clinical measurement Radiotherapy Physics teaches you put your theoretical knowledge Year 1 TYPICAL OFFER: BBB and treatment TYPICAL OFFER: BBB (to include how to use radiotherapy to treat into practice in an environment • Neurosensory science Biology, Chemistry, Maths or Physics) • Anatomy and physiology for (to include Maths or Physics) various cancers. As a radiotherapy healthcare science that reflects the conditions that • Pathophysiology for healthcare Detailed entry requirements and Detailed entry requirements and physicist, you will work as part of a course features available on the you will experience when you science course features available on the • Basics of mathematics and physics Course Reference Grid (page 134) team to develop treatment plans and for healthcare science Course Reference Grid (page 134) go on placement. • Professional practice be responsible for the use of • Pathophysiology for healthcare As a neurophysiology student, around Year 2 BSc Single Honours sophisticated radiotherapy equipment. science BSc Single Honours half of your course will be spent on • Applied neurophysiology ▲ • Scientific basis of medical physics Healthcare Science On our Radiation Physics course, ▲ Healthcare Science clinical work placements throughout and instrumentation (Neurophysiology) you will learn about the clinical Year 2† (Nuclear Medicine) Wales, which will give you the • Clinical neurophysiology ▲ Healthcare Science uses of x-rays, radioactive materials, • Instrumentation signal processing – practical skills you need to begin • Evoked potentials ▲ 3 YEAR
(Radiotherapy Physics) HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE lasers, and ultraviolet radiation in and imaging your career. • Instrumentation signal processing ▲ Healthcare Science For individual UCAS course codes imaging patients and diagnosing • Medical equipment lifecycle and imaging (Radiation Physics) please visit the course web page • Medical imaging • Neuroanatomy and physiology and treating disease. As a radiation physicist, you will use sophisticated • Non-ionising radiation and ▲ 3 YEAR Year 3 physiological measurements FUTURE CAREERS: equipment to measure and calculate • Abnormal EEG and interpretation • Practice of radiation protection For individual UCAS course codes Currently the NHS starting salary the doses of radiation received by please visit the course web page • Healthcare science research project for Healthcare Scientists is £24,214 patients during treatment. Year 3† • Neuropathology (Band 5). Typical career earnings go Many of our academic staff are • Clinical indication, pathology up to £43,772, however the maximum FUTURE CAREERS: practising clinicians, providing and patient care earning potential for a consultant in the Currently the NHS starting salary • Healthcare science research project NHS is £102,506. Salaries can vary invaluable professional insight for Healthcare Scientists is £24,214 • Physics and instrumentation significantly in the private sector. and expertise. (Band 5). Typical career earnings go • Practice of radiotherapy physics up to £43,772 however the maximum * 100% of Healthcare Science graduates are employed in a ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Radiobiology and clinical earning potential for a consultant in the professional or managerial job 6 months after the course radiotherapy physics NHS is £102,506. Salaries can vary (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: significantly in the private sector. † Modules in years 2 and 3 are subject
specific and vary by degree programme * 100% of Healthcare Science graduates are employed in a professional or managerial job 6 months after the course (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018)
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 108 109 OSTEOPATHY NURSING TH IN THE OSTEOPATHY ST IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
NURSING 7UK UK OSTEOPATHY COMPLEMENTARY Our internationally recognised Nursing degrees will give you the skills NURSING This Osteopathy degree will give you the knowledge and skills to become a (The Guardian University MEDICINE and experience to launch a rewarding career. Guide 2020) registered osteopath, qualified to diagnose and treat a wide range of health (The Complete University issues through manual and physical therapy, tailored exercises, rehabilitation Guide 2020) On our adult nursing course you will learn about the holistic needs of people
– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE and advice. You will gain an understanding of anatomy, physiology and from early adulthood until old age, while our child nursing course teaches NO TUITION FEES: Global Opportunities pathology together with clinical examination techniques, combining in-depth you about the holistic health and wellbeing needs of children, young people, UK and EU students** available –
academic work with extensive practical clinical skills. HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE and their families. Our mental health nursing course will give you the skills you Apply for an enhanced support package International Students through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. foundation programme available need to provide high quality, compassionate nursing care to people dealing (**conditions apply) AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the with mental ill-health as well as support to their families. The course is approved by the s wansea.ac.uk/student-loans- Course Reference Grid (page 134) and-grants/nhs-funding/ General Osteopathic Council, Year 1 enabling you to register to apply • Anatomy and physiology Global Opportunities Half of your teaching takes place in AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: for practice upon graduation. • Osteopathic skills available TYPICAL OFFER: BBB the University and half in healthcare Year 1 • Personal and professional Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Our state-of-the-art facilities include (to include a Biological Science) settings across south west Wales, • Developing nursing knowledge development available a fully functioning osteopathic clinic Detailed entry requirements and including placements in the NHS • Introduction to professional practice course features available on the Full details available on the at the award-winning Health and Year 2 and independent sector in hospitals • Introduction to the fundamentals Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) Wellbeing Academy, which is staffed • Applied psychology and sociology and community settings. of nursing practice by associate staff members who are for health care • Learning to learn in higher DEGREE PROGRAMMES AVAILABLE: You will develop the professional practising osteopaths. • Developing evidence based practice education and clinical practice TYPICAL OFFER: BBB skills to provide high quality, • Osteopathic skills M.Ost Single Honours • What is nursing? Detailed entry requirements and This gives you a safe environment ♦ Osteopathy evidence-based nursing care, often • Pathophysiology and therapeutics course features available on the to build your skills and confidence working as part of a multi-disciplinary Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 134) as you put your theoretical knowledge Year 3 ♦ 4 YEAR team across the health and social • Acute care • Developing business management • Developing the practice of nursing into practice. We also have a unique For individual UCAS course codes care sectors. skills • Health promotion and public health BSc Single Honours agreement with the local health board please visit the course web page Our academic staff are qualified ▲ • Osteopathic skills • Long-term conditions and Nursing (Adult) (Swansea Singleton that gives you the opportunity to work • Violence and aggression passport nurses, doctors, and allied health palliative care Campus or Carmarthen) in an integrated NHS setting in your professionals, many of whom are ▲ Nursing (Child) FUTURE CAREERS: final year. Year 4: also practising clinicians, providing Year 3 ▲ Nursing (Mental Health) Most registered osteopaths work in • Autonomous osteopathic practice an exceptional combination of • Advancing professional nursing the private sector. Qualified Osteopaths ▲ 3 YEARS Full-Time • Chronic pain management can expect an average starting salary theoretical rigour, professional insight, practice • Consolidating the practice ♦ 4 YEARS Part-Time • Health psychology of long term of £25,000. and practical expertise, and our and chronic conditions of nursing For individual UCAS course codes excellent facilities include a realistic • Manual handling • Leadership and management please visit the course web page clinical suite so you can put your • Managing complex care in theoretical knowledge into practice. rapidly changing situations FUTURE CAREERS: Job prospects are excellent, with 100% of our nursing graduates employed in a professional or managerial job within six months (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018). Currently the NHS starting salary for Nurses is £24,214 ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: (Band 5). Typical career earnings go up to 43,772.
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 110 111 PARAMEDIC SCIENCE PHARMACY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
95 % UK TOP STUDENTS SAID THE COURSE IS
PARAMEDIC SCIENCE PARAMEDIC 5 PHARMACY MEDICAL SCHOOL INTELLECTUALLY This course will give you the essential skills to begin an exciting and rewarding Modern healthcare is delivered by a multidisciplinary team and increasingly (Complete University Guide 2020; career as a paramedic, combining academic work with practical clinical STIMULATING pharmacists are delivering enhanced and new clinical services across The Guardian University (National Student Guide 2020) experience. You will learn about anatomy and physiology, the major body Survey 2019) healthcare settings. Our Pharmacy degree recognises these new and systems and the conditions that affect them, how to assess patients and identify advanced roles and, building on the strengths of the Medical School, Global Opportunities NO TUITION FEES: –
life-threatening conditions and how to administer life support. integrates science and practice to prepare students to meet the challenges available UK and EU students** SCHOOL MEDICAL of the changing face of pharmacy. Apply for an enhanced support package Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Many of our teaching staff are AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. available (**conditions apply)
registered paramedics who still work Year 1 During your four-year integrated Full details available on the – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE APPLYING FOR PHARMACY in practice, providing invaluable • Personal & Professional Attributes swansea.ac.uk/student-loans- Master’s degree (MPharm) in Course Reference Grid (page 134) and-grants/nhs-funding/ professional insight and expertise. • Anatomy & Physiology Pharmacy, you will follow a Suitable eligible applicants will be invited to attend a multiple mini- • Medical Conditions in the Global Opportunities curriculum designed to reflect the Our state-of-the-art facilities include available interview. You will spend a few TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB Emergency & Unscheduled Care way pharmacists advise patients a realistic clinical suite which allows minutes at a variety of different to include Chemistry and one other Setting Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries you to build your skills before using and how science underpins “stations” that will focus on areas STEM subject • Trauma conditions in the Emergency available them in real-life situations, on pharmaceutical care. of competency which we feel make Detailed entry requirements and & Unscheduled Care Setting Full details available on the course features available on the placement with the NHS and the You will benefit from our experience a good pharmacist, e.g. ethics, • Care across the Lifespan Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) Welsh Ambulance Service. and expertise in clinical practice, life communication, professionalism. Year 2 Half of your course will be spent on science, research and training. • Clinical Leadership in Practice MPharm Single Honours placements throughout Wales, which TYPICAL OFFER: BB OR CCC Together with a strong focus on ♦ Pharmacy • Mental Health & Social Exclusion AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: will give you the practical skills you Detailed entry requirements and clinical decision-making and • Anatomy & Physiology: Community Year 1 need to begin your career. course features available on the communication skills, you will develop ♦ 4 YEAR Based Care Management Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Drugs and medicines the academic, practical, and personal • Managing Time critical Patients • Health, disease and patients For individual UCAS course codes qualities to practise pharmacy • Evidence Informed Practice • Pharmacy practice please visit the course web page The course is challenging, BSc Single Honours competently and with confidence. Year 3 ▲ Paramedic Science Year 2 Throughout your course, you will have as it should be, as the • Enhanced decision making • Integrated study units: body FUTURE CAREERS: a high level of structured clinical responsibilities of a • Transition into professional practice ▲ 3 YEAR SCHEME systems, diseases and patients • Primary Care, e.g. exposure, lecture-and lab-based • Education & Learning in Practice For individual UCAS course codes GP Practice Pharmacist paramedic are great. teaching. You will learn across seven Year 3 • Professional practice development please visit the course web page • Community Pharmacy I enjoyed the fact that the broad themes, all underpinned by • Patient-centred learning • Hospital Pharmacy professionalism and a 'digital thread' • Extended research project • Pharmaceutical Industry course pushed me, developed • Optional modules • Academia FUTURE CAREERS: drawing together advances such as • Medicines Regulation me and provided the core Currently the NHS starting salary for AI, robotics and big data: Year 4: skills needed for the job. Paramedics is £24,214 (Band 5). For • Pharmaceutics • Patients and the population team leaders or senior paramedics • Pharmaceutical Chemistry • Preparation for advanced PRE-REGISTRATION who have undertaken extended • Pharmacology practice and leadership Anthony, Paramedic skills training, salaries can go up Following completion of an MPharm Science graduate t o £ 3 7, 2 6 7. • Biology and Biochemistry degree, graduates must undertake • Anatomy and Physiology further steps before being able to • Clinical Pharmacy register as a Pharmacist. These steps • Pharmacy Practice include a 1-year period of pre- ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: registration training. Further details ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: about registration are available at Swansea University is working towards accreditation with the pharmacyregulation.org/registration Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). The BSc (Hons) Swansea University is working towards accreditation with the General Paramedic Science is currently subject to approval. Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). The course is provisionally accredited until the programme receives full accreditation. For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 112 113 PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS PHILOSOPHY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS AND ECONOMICS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK TOP 0
PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY OVERALL PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS Our Philosophy degree examines what it means to be human, how we Foundation Year We are the only university in Wales, and one of the few in the UK, to offer STUDENT available should live, and the nature of reality itself. It addresses these issues from Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) - long regarded as the ideal SATISFACTION Global Opportunities (National Students Survey a range of historical and contemporary perspectives. available preparation for a wide range of careers in public life. 2019) It has a strong practical focus, which encourages students not only to Full details available on the You will learn about the complex interactions between philosophical, Course Reference Grid (page 134) Foundation Year – understand the world around them, but also to work out how to change political and economic thought and how they influence our society. available
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE it for the better. Global Opportunities available Our PPE programme highlights the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: TYPICAL OFFER: BBB International Students As a Philosophy student, you will AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Detailed entry requirements and ways political and economic thought Year 1 foundation programme available explore fundamental questions Year 1 course features available on the emerged out of philosophical thought, • Ethics, Justice, and Society Course Reference Grid (page 134) Full details available on the concerning knowledge, reality, truth, • Introduction to Ethics and the continuing interactions • Macro-economics 1 Course Reference Grid (page 134) morality, politics, human nature and • Introduction to Logic between disciplines. • Micro-economics 1 logic. You will learn about thinkers • Knowledge and Reality BA Single Honours • Politics and the People You will study moral and political and theories from the ancient Greek • Political Philosophy ▲ Philosophy • Knowledge and Reality TYPICAL OFFER: BBB philosophy, ethics, justice and society, world through to the present day. • Ancient Philosophy ♦ Philosophy (with Year Abroad) • Mathematics 1 for Economics Detailed entry requirements and history of political thought, history The degree programme encourages ♦ Politics (with Foundation Year) course features available on the Year 2 of economic thought, European Course Reference Grid (page 134) students to apply philosophical ideas • Philosophy of Mind and Emotion ▲ 3 YEAR 4 YEAR integration, British politics and Year 2 to contemporary issues and debates, ♦ HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE • Philosophy and the Enlightenment public policy, political economy, • Fundamental Issues in Moral and demonstrating the importance of For individual UCAS course codes BA Single Honours • History of Political Thought globalisation, micro- and Social Philosophy philosophy to our daily lives and please visit the course web page ▲ Philosophy, Politics and Economics • Contemporary Moral Controversies macro-economics, econometrics, • History of Political Thought society in general. You will also ♦ Philosophy, Politics and Economics • Continental Philosophy • Global Political Economy: From develop key transferable skills and and environmental and (with Year Abroad) FUTURE CAREERS: resource economics. Mercantilism to Neoliberalism open up a wide range of career Year 3 ♦ Politics (with Foundation Year) • Business • Macro-economics 2 opportunities. • Twentieth Century Philosophy You have the opportunity to • Education • Micro-economics 2 ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Philosophy and Literature • Government and Politics undertake a placement with the • Feminist Philosophy • Finance National Assembly for Wales as Year 3 For individual UCAS course codes • Plato’s Republic • Marketing part of the Year 3 module. • Contemporary Political Economy please visit the course web page • Dissertation • Public Relations and Media • Econometrics • Feminist Philosophy FUTURE CAREERS: • The National Assembly for Wales • Business • Dissertation • Government and Politics • Twentieth-Century Philosophy • Humanitarian Organisations • Law • Media and Public Relations • Public Services
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PHYSICS 0 POLITICS STUDENT STUDENT From quantum information to high energy particle physics; astrophysics SATISFACTION Our Politics degree explores how power, institutions and laws affect our SATISFACTION to string theory; dark matter to quantum gravity; anti-matter to ultra-fast lasers; (Guardian University day-to-day lives. You will examine and discuss different visions for a more (National Students Survey 2019) Guide 2020)
quantum biology to next generation semiconductors; medical physics just society, while asking where problems for society come from and whether
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COLLEGE OF SCIENCE to machine learning. Studying Physics at Swansea you’ll discover the exciting we can prevent them. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF COLLEGE breadth of the subject and change your future. Foundation Year Foundation Year available You will have the opportunity to engage in complex research that explores available Global Opportunities where power lies and how it is used. Global Opportunities The Physics Department was one of FUTURE CAREERS*: available available the four founding departments of the International Students International Students • Aerospace and Defence You will explore British and European AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: University and on our centenary year foundation programme available foundation programme available • Financial Modeller politics, public policy, political theory Year 1 warmly welcomes you to study your • Medical Physics Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Full details available on the and philosophy, electoral issues, • Introduction to Politics physics degree with us. • Meteorologist available Course Reference Grid (page 134) democracy and international • Introduction to Political You will learn and understand how • Nuclear Scientist Full details available on the • Research Scientist Course Reference Grid (page 134) peace and conflict. At the same Methodology fundamental physics underpins the Our graduate physicists are sought-after time, you will develop a range of • Politics and the People TYPICAL OFFER: BBB latest advances of the discipline in a range of diverse industries due to transferable skills, which are highly • Political Philosophy Detailed entry requirements and and how applying physics, leads to their outstanding analytical, mathematical TYPICAL OFFER: valued by employers and open up • Ethics, Justice, and Society course features available on the and critical thinking abilities* Course Reference Grid (page 134) innovations in; engineering, medicine BSc: AAB-BBB (to include Maths exciting career possibilities. • American Politics and Society and technology. and Physics) MPhys: AAA-AAB (to include Maths You have the opportunity for a Year 2 Our teaching is informed by the latest AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: BA Single Honours and Physics) placement with the National • Approaches to Politics research, e.g. the anti-matter ALPHA Year 1 ▲ Politics Detailed entry requirements and Assembly for Wales as part of the • British Politics and Public Policy • Astronomy and cosmology ♦ Politics (with Year Abroad) Collaboration at CERN. Our broad course features available on the module; The National Assembly • The State and Political Institutions • Dynamics, oscillations and waves Course Reference Grid (page 134) ♦ Politics (with Foundation Year) range of BSc and Master's projects • America in Crisis: Political Culture • Mathematics for physicists for Wales. reflect the research interests of the and Society from the Tet Offensive Swansea University is also one of a BA Joint Honours Politics and department and include the possibility Year 2 BSc Single Honours to Trump ▲ American Studies limited number of institutions selected of a Master's project at CERN in Geneva. • Group projects ▲ Physics • Business & Entrepreneurship ♦ American Studies (with Year Abroad) to partner with the UK Parliament to Through our state-of-the-art facilities you • Laboratory physics II ♦ Physics (with Year in Industry/Abroad) ▲ Ancient History ♦ deliver an innovative Parliamentary Year 3 ▲ will be introduced to research. Whether • Nanotechnology Physics (with Foundation Year) English Literature ▲ Physics with Particle Physics Studies module, which students will be • Researching Politics 1 ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) it is designing the next-generation • Particle physics and Cosmology able to take in their third year. The • Researching Politics 2 ♦ French (with Year Abroad) photovoltaics, observing ultra-fast • Quantum mechanics ▲ Theoretical Physics module includes a series of sessions • The National Assembly for Wales ♦ German (with Year Abroad) processes using lasers or using Year 3 ♦ Theoretical Physics with experts and members of staff • Elections, Campaigns, and Voting ▲ History high-performance computing to • Frontiers of nuclear physics (with Year in Industry) working in the UK Parliament and • Parliamentary Studies ♦ History (with Year Abroad) model dense quark matter. ▲ • Teaching physics via a school culminates in a day-long visit to • Philosophy and the Social Sciences Social Policy MPhys Single Honours MPhys students have the opportunity placement Westminster including talks with • Dissertation ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) ♦ Physics ▲ Welsh (First Language) to spend a semester abroad at the • Theoretical, experimental and senior Members of Parliament. computational projects ♦ Physics (with Semester Abroad) ▲ Welsh (Second Language) University of Houston, USA in the H Physics (with Year in Industry/Abroad) first semester of Year 3. Year 4 (MPhys): ♦ Theoretical Physics ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Advanced research project H Theoretical Physics Physics at Swansea offers many For individual UCAS course codes (with Year in Industry) possibilities alongside consistently • Magnetic resonance physics please visit the course web page high student satisfaction rates and • NMR spectroscopy and MRI ▲ • Quantum field theory 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR H 5 YEAR an inclusive learning environment. FUTURE CAREERS: • Quantum information processing For individual UCAS course codes • Business ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: please visit the course web page • Education In recognition of the Department of • Government and Politics Physics for its ongoing commitment • Humanitarian Organisations to gender equality and inclusivity. • Law For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: • Media and Public Relations swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 116 117 POPULATION HEALTH IN THE PSYCHOLOGY IN THE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS ND 2UK ND UK POPULATION HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES 2 PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH GRADUATE Population health covers the wide range of factors that can determine QUALITY This British Psychological Society (BPS) validated degree will give you expert PROSPECTS the health outcomes of individuals, groups and populations. (Research Excellence scientific training in the relationship between the mind, brain, and behaviour. (Times and Sunday Times Good Framework 2014-2021) University Guide 2020) You will study the psychological and neuro-scientific processes that underpin This course brings together a diverse range of subjects to give you a holistic activities such as thinking, reasoning, memory and language, learn about the understanding of the social, economic, medical and demographic factors Foundation Year effects of brain injury, and explore ways to improve health-related behaviour. Global Opportunities available that shape population health; from prevention and promotion, to health available HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE protection, diagnosis, treatment and care. Global Opportunities International Students available Our approach to teaching, which AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries includes lectures, personal tutorials, Year 1 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries Scientific advances are improving AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: available academic seminars, workshops, and • Biological psychology available health for more people, but Year 1 Full details available on the practical research classes, encourages • Cognition Full details available on the inequalities in the healthcare they • Community medicine Course Reference Grid (page 134) effective team-working and high- • Individual and abnormal psychology Course Reference Grid (page 134) receive based on where they are • Health information technology quality oral communication skills. • Social and developmental born, live and work are prevalent. • Medical psychology psychology • Population Health systems TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB During your degree, you will TYPICAL OFFER: Population health addresses these and organisation (to include Biology) develop excellent research, written, Year 2 Single Honours: AAB-ABB inequalities, by working to better • Fundamental genetics and evolution Detailed entry requirements and and critical analysis skills, as well • Brain and behaviour Joint Honours: ABB-BBB understand healthcare needs, course features available on the as a high degree of numeracy • Development across the lifespan Detailed entry requirements and improving healthcare models and Year 2 Course Reference Grid (page 134) and ICT ability. • From individuals to society course features available on the • Biostatistics Course Reference Grid (page 134) providing innovative solutions. • Research and experimental methods • Healthy mind and healthy body The degree is flexible, with an BSc Single Honours
– You will have access to the state-of- • Health service research ▲ Population Health and extensive range of final year optional Year 3 MEDICAL SCHOOL MEDICAL the-art research and data science • Human immunology Medical Sciences modules, giving you the scope to • Final year independent BSc Single Honours facilities at the Medical School. You ▲ Psychology • Population health management tailor your studies to your particular research project will develop the knowledge needed to ▲ 3 YEAR • Epidemiology interests, career goals, or ambitions • Forensic developmental determine systematic variations in the BSc Joint Honours Psychology and For individual UCAS course codes for postgraduate study. psychopathology ▲ Criminology health of individuals and populations, Year 3 please visit the course web page • Nutrition and behaviour ▲ Education and the skills and experience to apply • Global population health • Psychopathology: anxiety disorders ▲ Sociology this knowledge to practical solutions • Advanced epidemiology • Sleep and dreaming to improve health, wellbeing, and the • Human biology and the environment FUTURE CAREERS: • Understanding and managing ▲ 3 YEAR delivery of health services. • Capstone project • Health Informatics criminal behaviour • Health, Medical and Life Science For individual UCAS course codes • Being a medical scientist • Face perception and social During your studies, you will focus Research please visit the course web page cognitive neuroscience on one of three employability strands: BSc Population Health and Medical • Health Professions (after further • Psychology of sport and exercise Medical Science in Research, Medical Sciences provides students with a study) e.g. Doctor, Physician’s Associate, Dentist) FUTURE CAREERS: Science in Practice (subject to eligibility), unique opportunity to access the • P opulation Health Analysis Many of our graduates have gone or Enterprise and Innovation. National Centre for Population Health • Patient Advocacy on to further study or work in and Wellbeing Research, based at • Telehealth and Telemedicine specialist psychology fields. The the Medical School. You will gain typical starting salary for an NHS an insight into how Centre research trainee clinical psychologist is is used to inform policy, practice £25,783. As your career progresses LINKS TO GRADUATE you could earn between £47,088 and provision that aims to improve ENTRY MEDICINE: and £81,000 or higher. the health and wellbeing of the ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: population of Wales. This course is part of our Pathways Other career pathways include: to Medicine programme. If you ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Human Resources choose the Medical Science in • Management Practice Pathway, perform well and • Marketing meet the minimum entry requirements, • Public Services you will be guaranteed an interview • Research For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: for our flagship MBBCh Medicine For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: • The Civil Service swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses (Graduate Entry) course. swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 118 119 PUBLIC RELATIONS ST IN THE AND MEDIA SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK
STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT GRADUATE PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MEDIA Studying a Public Relations and Media degree with us will give you the skills PROSPECTS (Times Good University Guide, to equip you for a successful career in this exciting field. Guardian University Guide, Complete University Our degree is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and Guide 2020) is taught by experienced industry professionals and leading academics. Foundation Year available Global Opportunities
You will develop creative skills to Welsh medium modules/Modiwlau
– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE available cyfrwng Cymraeg: manage digital media campaigns International Students and direct strategic, international • Cyfathrebu Strategol: Cysylltiadau foundation programme available Cyhoeddus communications. You can also study Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries distinct pathways in digital and • Cyflwyniad i Astudiaethau Ffilm available • Sgiliau Cyfryngau Allweddol practical media, film and journalism. Full details available on the
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Year 2 HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE You can discover how public relations • Digital Public Relations Practice is important for the success of all • Introduction to Journalism companies, and learn about the • Introduction to Video Production TYPICAL OFFER: BBB benefits of developing lasting • Public Relations Theory Detailed entry requirements and relationships with other companies course features available on the • Theorising the Media and professionals, including news Course Reference Grid (page 134) reporters, advertisers and marketers, Welsh medium modules/ Modiwlau media practitioners and politicians. cyfrwng Cymraeg BA Single Honours • Sgiliau Cyfryngau Ymarferol ▲ A work placement will give you Public Relations and Media • Cyfathrebu Digidol first-hand experience of PR and ♦ Public Relations and Media • Testunau Trawsgyfryngol (with Year Abroad) media, and you can also spend I’ve always had an insatiable curiosity – ♦ Public Relations and Media a year in industry. Year 3 whether it’s about our world or the human (with Year in Industry) • Dissertation mind. And thanks to Swansea University, AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: ♦ Public Relations and Media • Media & Communication Internship Year 1 (with Foundation Year) I’ve had the opportunity to pursue both • Online Journalism • Introduction to Ancient these passions by studying a subject as • Strategy, Marketing and Branding ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR Philosophy and Rhetoric • Writing for Radio and Screen diverse as psychology. • Introduction to Film Studies For individual UCAS course codes • Introduction to Media please visit the course web page Of all the great opportunities presented to Welsh medium modules/ Modiwlau Communication cyfrwng Cymraeg me, one stood out – a five-week mental • Language of Everyday Life • Paratoi Traethawd Estynedig FUTURE CAREERS: health placement in Sri Lanka. From • Public Relations: Strategic • Cynllunio Cynhyrchiad • Advertising volunteering in hospitals to teaching in Communications Aml-blatfform • Business primary schools, temples and orphanages • Cyfathrebu Corfforaethol • Digital Marketing • Traethawd Estynedig • Journalism – this was an adventure like no other. • PR and Marketing • Publishing Back in Swansea, I volunteer twice a week • TV and Radio with the University’s student volunteering ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: BSc PSYCHOLOGY service, Discovery, and I’ve become social secretary for the kickboxing society. To learn more about our student stories, visit: I really appreciate how much Swansea offers its students. swansea.ac.uk/study/our-student-stories For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 120 121 RESPIRATORY AND SOCIAL POLICY SLEEP PHYSIOLOGY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
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RESPIRATORY AND SLEEP PHYSIOLOGY 0 SOCIAL POLICY GRADUATE SOCIAL POLICY This degree will give you the expert training you need to begin a EMPLOYABILITY* What human beings need and how societies meet those needs is at the heart rewarding career diagnosing and treating people with respiratory disease of social policy. Our nationally recognised degree explores how a society (The Guardian University (DLHE 2018) Guide 2020) and sleep-related breathing disorders. promotes the wellbeing of its members, examining themes and values such as social justice, equality, fairness, and citizenship, alongside specific policy Studying the structure and functions of the respiratory system, together NO TUITION FEES: focal points such as health, education, housing, disability, crime, poverty, Global Opportunities with the latest diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, you will combine UK and EU students** available
and the family. in-depth academic work with practical clinical skills in a range of specialised Apply for an enhanced support package International Students –
foundation programme available HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE healthcare settings. through the NHS Wales Bursary scheme. (**conditions apply) As a Social Policy student, you will be AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134) swansea.ac.uk/student-loans- immersed in a dynamic research and Year 1 The course is accredited by the AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: and-grants/nhs-funding/ learning environment. • Environments of social policy National School of Healthcare and Year 1 Global Opportunities • The economics of social policy Science, the Registration Council • Anatomy and physiology available There will be opportunities to build TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB • The history of social policy for Clinical Physiology, and the for healthcare science links with students from related Detailed entry requirements and Full details available on the • The philosophy of social policy: course features available on the Association for Respiratory • Basics of mathematics and Course Reference Grid (page 134) disciplines throughout the course, an introduction to concepts, Course Reference Grid (page 134) physics for healthcare science and you will develop excellent Technology and Physiology. ideas and ideologies • Introduction to cardiovascular science research and analytical skills, learning
– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE Many of our academic staff are • The politics of social policy • Pathophysiology for healthcare TYPICAL OFFER: BBB to communicate your ideas effectively BSc Single Honours practising healthcare scientists, • Individual and Society ▲ science (to include Biology, Physics or Maths) in a range of formats. Social Policy providing an unrivalled combination • Professional practice Detailed entry requirements and Year 2 course features available on the Optional modules give you the scope BA Joint Honours Social Policy and of scientific rigour and professional • Respiratory and sleep physiology • Education, policy and society Course Reference Grid (page 134) to tailor your studies to your particular ▲ Politics expertise. Our excellent facilities • Disability policy Year 2 interests or career goals and ▲ History provide realistic workplace • Health policy • Diagnostic interventions alongside your academic work, you ♦ History (with Year Aborad) simulations and you will gain BSc Single Honours • Social security, poverty and • Instrumentation signal processing experience within our award-winning ▲ Healthcare Science have the option to complete a work social exclusion and imaging BSc Joint Honours Social Policy and Health and Wellbeing Academy (Respiratory and Sleep Physiology) placement as part of your degree. • Using evidence for research, ▲ • Pathophysiology of common Criminology as well as on work placements at Recent placements have included policy and practice ▲ cardiovascular and respiratory Sociology hospitals across Wales. ▲ 3 YEAR voluntary organisations, social conditions Year 3 For individual UCAS course codes housing providers, and charities. ▲ 3 YEAR Around half of your course will be • Respiratory and sleep physiology • Advocacy, rights and representation please visit the course web page spent on clinical work placements – physiology • Management and leadership For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page throughout Wales, which will give Year 3 in health and social care you the practical skills to begin • Healthcare science research project FUTURE CAREERS: • Social policy in an ageing world your career. • The family and children: ethics • Sleep diagnostics and therapy Currently the NHS starting salary for FUTURE CAREERS: Healthcare Scientists is £24,214 and policy • Pathophysiology, diagnosis and • Professional education and training (Band 5). Typical career earnings go clinical management of asthma such as law, social work or teaching up to £43,772 however the maximum & respiratory failure • Private sector employment in retail, earning potential for a consultant in marketing and personnel management the NHS is £102,506. • Public Services • The Civil Service *100% of Healthcare Science graduates are employed in a • The NHS professional or managerial job 6 months after the course (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2018) • Voluntary/Third Sector Organisations ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE:
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SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIAL 0 SOCIAL WORK PLACEMENT GRADUATE PROSPECTS If you are curious about what makes societies tick, this multi-disciplinary If you want a career where you can make a positive difference to the lives AND RESEARCH THAT'S PART OF QUALITY Social Sciences degree is for you. You will explore factors that influence YOUR COURSE of vulnerable people and communities, this degree is the ideal springboard. (The Complete University major social issues such as poverty, access to education and healthcare, Guide 2020) You will spend half of your time on placement, learning through observation climate change and migration, learning to critically evaluate current and practice, and the other half being taught on campus, developing research practice and policy, and gaining an excellent grounding in the theories Global Opportunities Global Opportunities available available
and analytical skills and learning to communicate your ideas effectively. underpinning contemporary social science. International Students – Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF COLLEGE foundation programme available – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE available Our course is accredited by Social AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: As a Social Sciences student, you AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134) Care Cymru and recognised by the Year 1 will be immersed in a dynamic Course Reference Grid (page 134) Year 1 regulatory bodies in the other UK • Introduction to social work research and learning environment. • Equality, discrimination nations, so on completion, you can • Introduction to social work law and oppression in society There will be opportunities to build TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-ABB register as a qualified social worker. • Social work in practice TYPICAL OFFER: BCC • Poverty and plenty links with students from related Detailed entry requirements and • Social work practice learning Detailed entry requirements and • Power and politics We have very good links with social disciplines. Throughout the course, course features available on the • Human growth and development course features available on the • Social inquiry in practice Course Reference Grid (page 134) services agencies in south and west Course Reference Grid (page 134) you will develop the exceptional Wales, and in local authority and Year 2 Year 2 research and analytical skills needed voluntary sectors, offering placements • Legal issues in social work • Family policy BSc Single Honours BSc Single Honours to understand and address societal in a range of settings. and social care ▲ Social Sciences ▲ Social Work issues in a rapidly changing social • From individuals to society • Social work in practice When applying for the course you and political environment. • Safeguarding children and • Social work practice learning young people ▲ 3 YEAR should tell us about your motivation, ▲ 3 YEAR • Theories and perspectives in You can study a language module experience and commitment to • Research and critical appraisal For individual UCAS course codes social work For individual UCAS course codes in your second year, with a choice in health and social care please visit the course web page pursuing a career in social work and please visit the course web page of Welsh, French, Italian, Spanish, or • Social security, poverty and do some background reading about Year 3 Arabic, and alongside your academic social exclusion social work in Wales, should you be • Applying knowledge to FUTURE CAREERS: FUTURE CAREERS: work, you have the option to complete • Sociology of health and illness invited to interview. enhance practice a work placement as • Professional Education and Training • Critical practice in child care • Approved Mental Health Practitioner Year 3 part of your degree. such as Law, Journalism or Teaching • Critical practice in adult • Consultant Social Worker • Public Services • Independent Reviewing Officer • Advocacy, rights and representation community care • Social Science Research in Public or • Registered Social Worker • Doing social science • Social work practice learning • Global perspectives and working Private Bodies • Youth and Community Worker • The Civil Service in a globalised world • The Criminal Justice System As a newly qualified social worker, • Principles of social policy • Voluntary/Third Sector Organisations you can expect a starting salary of • Social policy in an ageing world – Leadership and Management around £28,000. Salaries for senior practitioners and team managers range from £33,000 to £45,000.
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SOCIOLOGY 7 SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE PLACEMENT GRADUATE Studying a Sociology degree will equip you with the theoretical foundation THAT'S PART OF Sport and Exercise Science explores how the human body performs under PROSPECTS to understand people's behaviour as social beings, as well as the social, YOUR COURSE different levels of pressure, and also covers the broader issues at play, (The Guardian University League Table 2020) cultural, political and economic factors influencing society. You will learn from wider participation in sports and exercise, to ethics, sports how to use social research tools, develop the ability to analyse and critically psychology and nutrition.
Global Opportunities Global Opportunities – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES AND HUMAN OF – COLLEGE evaluate evidence and construct arguments around the complex societal available This degree provides a solid core of modern and relevant learning, preparing available issues that affect us all. International Students you for a fulfilling career in the field, whatever speciality you choose. International Students foundation programme available foundation programme available You will be taught by an academic AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the Full details available on the Our Sport and Exercise Science AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: team who are research active and Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 134) Course Reference Grid (page 134) degree has a strong reputation and Year 1 widely published, and the degree’s • Individuals and society attracts students from far and wide. • Biomechanics & Technology A flexible structure gives you the scope • Social inquiry in practice TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-ABB • Foundations of Sport Psychology TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB to tailor your studies to your particular • Sociology: contemporary As you progress, your developing Detailed entry requirements and Detailed entry requirements and • Human Anatomy – COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING interests and career ambitions. controversies interests and abilities will combine course features available on the • Human Physiology course features available on the • Sociology: the classics Course Reference Grid (page 134) with hands-on experience of Course Reference Grid (page 134) You will also have the opportunity • Research Methods & Ethics • Economics in society advanced equipment, establishing to take part in work placements to skills which will be vital in your career. Year 2 build on your skills, experience, and Year 2 BSc Single Honours BSc Single Honours • Biomechanics & Technology B enhance your career prospects. • Education, policy and society ▲ Sociology Located on the new Bay Campus, ▲ Sport and Exercise Science • Developing Research Methods These placements could include local • Interrogating quantitative and our high-grade facilities are based ♦ Sport and Exercise Science for Sports Science authorities, businesses, healthcare qualitative social science methods BSc Joint Honours within the Engineering Quarter, which (with Year Abroad) ▲ Psychology • Exercise Physiology settings, education settings and • Investigating gender overlooks coastline on the edge of ▲ Social Policy • Contemporary Themes in ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Social problems the Gower Peninsula. charities, depending on your interests Sport Psychology • Social problems: Media, For individual UCAS course codes and career goals. ▲ 3 YEAR myths and moral panics You will make extensive use of our • Strength & Conditioning please visit the course web page dedicated Biomechanics Laboratory, For individual UCAS course codes Year 3 Year 3 please visit the course web page which is home to a state-of-the-art • Exercise, Growth and Development • Disability policy motion analysis system. FUTURE CAREERS: • Sport, Diet and Disease • Humans and other animals • Cardiac Physiologist Throughout your time at Swansea • Health Related Exercise • Sociology of childhood FUTURE CAREERS: • Health Promotion Officer you will also work closely in the • Application of Sport Psychology and parenting • Postgraduate Study • Performance Analyst • The sociology of sex • Professional Education and Training Exercise Physiology Laboratory. • Sport Integrity, Ethics and Policy • Public Health Scientist • The state, politics and power such as Law, Journalism or Teaching This contains a range of exercise • Sports and Performance Scientist • Public Services ergometers, lung function assessment, • Strength and Conditioning Practitioner • Research in Public or Private Bodies blood analysis and muscle function • The Civil Service testing equipment. • Voluntary/Third Sector Organisations
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Course Reference Grid (page 134) of health and exercise and Sport Policy. which are vital in a variety of environments, including the management of a MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL Global Opportunities tourism organisation? available Contrary to a medicalised AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the TYPICAL OFFER: : ABB-BBB understanding of individuals and their Year 1 Course Reference Grid (page 134) As one of the largest and most rapidly Want to experience an unforgettable Detailed entry requirements and experiences, this programme aims to • Psychological Dimensions of growing industries in the world, year studying in another country, course features available on the enable students to gain an Sport 1: Considerations for Youth Course Reference Grid (page 134) tourism is influenced by – and has meeting new people, exploring new • Sport TYPICAL OFFER: AAB-BBB understanding of sport and exercise considerable impact on – a range cultures and growing as a person; subjects through a social scientific • Introduction to Critical Reasoning Detailed entry requirements and of economic, political, technological, professionally and personally? A BSc Single Honours course features available on the
– COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING • Research Methods for Social and humanistic lens, and to develop Course Reference Grid (page 134) social, cultural and environmental Year Abroad is also available with ▲ Business Management (Tourism) Science critical thinking and analytical skills factors. Your course will delve into an overseas institution. ♦ Business Management (Tourism) • Introduction to Ethics & Sport Policy that can be applied across the these issues and help you develop (with Year in Industry / Abroad) • Introduction to Sport & Society AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: spectrum of academic and real world BSc Single Honours the essential knowledge and ♦ Business Management (Tourism) • Foundations in Exercise Science ▲ challenges. This approach will Sport and Social Science transferable skills to make an Year 1 (with Foundation Year) encompass conceptual, explanatory, • Marketing ▲ International Tourism Management Year 2 ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR impact in this industry, both • Operations Management ♦ International Tourism Management and normative dimensions. The • Psychological Dimensions locally and across the world. For individual UCAS course codes • The Business of Tourism (with Year in Industry/ Abroad) meaning of central values and of Sport 2: Understanding and please visit the course web page With marketing, management and • Tourism and Society concepts within sport will be analysed Developing Adolescent Athletes ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR impacts at the heart of the course, philosophically. Sporting cultures, • Critical Issues in Sport Sociology you will undertake real-life cases that Year 2 For individual UCAS course codes practices, and experiences will be for Sport & Social Science FUTURE CAREERS: bring destinations to life. You will • Entrepreneurship for Tourism please visit the course web page explored using sociological and • Employability, Innovation & • Education also experience local and overseas Experiences psychological methods. Policy Engagement for Sport • Sports Policy destinations through a variety of • Tourism in Practice questions and principles of right & Social Science • Sports Development • Tourism Organisations FUTURE CAREERS: • Exercise Referral field-trips, designed to help you conduct within sport will be examined • Developing Research Methods • Visitor Experience Design • Event Planner • Rehabilitation Contexts understand the complexities and ethically. Consequently, students will for Sport & Social Science • Destination Marketer • Community Wellbeing requirements of managing a tourism and Management cultivate a deep and multi-disciplinary • The Ethics of Anti-Doping: • Tourism Manager • Social Prescribing Initiatives destination or enterprise. Year 3 • Visitor Experience Manager understanding of the meaning, value, Health, Sport & Society • Final Year Project and social role of sport. • Exercise Science: Interventions Available to all undergraduate • Marketing Places and Applications students within the School of Management, a Year in Industry • Sustainable Tourism Year 3 is an opportunity to gain real-world • Tourism Planning • Health Related Exercise industry experience, making you • Sports Psychology 3 an attractive candidate for jobs • Sport & Social Science Research after graduating. Dissertation • Contemporary Issues in Sport & Social Science • Sport Integrity, Ethics and Policy
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WAR AND SOCIETY 2 WELSH RESEARCH War has always been a violent catalyst for change, inflicting terrible suffering Foundation Year The Welsh language opens doors to a wide variety of exciting opportunities EXCELLENCE available yet also inspiring courage and providing opportunities for innovation. It can in fields such as trade, industry, education, the media and local authorities. (Research Excellence Framework 2014–2021) Global Opportunities change the way we think about others, shape prejudices or right injustices. HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE available These degree courses will ensure you have the understanding, knowledge You will explore how wars start, how they are fought, how they have Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries and skills that are relevant in today’s Wales, and you will be studying in a available Global Opportunities changed, how they end, and how they shape society. department that is acknowledged nationally and internationally for its available Full details available on the research and teaching quality. Course Reference Grid (page 134) Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries available – COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND ARTS OF – COLLEGE The degree takes war as a social AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Full details available on the activity as its starting point and Year 1 You will gain a solid foundation FUTURE CAREERS: Course Reference Grid (page 134) explores the connections between • Medieval Europe: An Introduction TYPICAL OFFER: BBB in language and literature with an • Civil Service war, history, politics, international • Rome from Village to Empire: Detailed entry requirements and opportunity to specialize in areas • Education relations, morality and ethics, and An Introduction to Roman History course features available on the such as translation, creative writing, Course Reference Grid (page 134) • Media and PR TYPICAL OFFER: BBB cultural representation. • Theories of War language laws and policy, • Publishing Detailed entry requirements and • War and Society in the Modern Age course features available on the You will develop your understanding sociolinguistics and Welsh literature. • Translation • War and Peace in the Nuclear Age BA Single Honours Course Reference Grid (page 134) of war and its connection to society You will also have the opportunity to ▲ War and Society AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: by considering how the experience Year 2 ♦ War and Society go on various work placements as a Year 1 (First Language) BA Single Honours of war has shaped cultures. • Ancient and Historic Places (with Year Abroad) part of your course. • Creative Welsh ▲ Welsh (first language pathway) (Study-Trip/Field project: History) ♦ War and Society This is an inter-disciplinary As a graduate of Welsh at • Professional Welsh ▲ Welsh (second language pathway) • Contemporary Wars and Conflicts (with Foundation Year) programme giving you access to a Swansea, you will have a thorough ♦ Welsh (first/second language • Conflict & Memory: Europe in the • The Status of the Welsh language wide range of modules offered across understanding of the Welsh language, pathway) (with Year in Industry/Abroad) Twentieth Century ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • The Welsh language today ▲ Welsh: Language, Law and Policy the College of Arts and Humanities, • The Crusades and the Making of its culture, literature and its legal and yesterday For individual UCAS course codes ♦ Welsh: Language, Law and Policy so you have the scope and flexibility Latin Christendom, 1050-1300 context. You will be able to think please visit the course web page Year 1 (Second Language) (with Year in Industry/Abroad) to shape your own degree. • The First World War: Politics, critically and creatively – invaluable • Presenting and Communicating Skills Society, and Culture in Europe skills when venturing into the FUTURE CAREERS: • Use of Language BA Joint Honours Welsh 1870 -1933 competitive world of work. (First/Second Language Pathway) • Armed Forces • Translanguaging ▲ English Literature Year 3 • Civil and Intelligence Services Year 2 ♦ English Literature (with Year Abroad) • Aftermaths of War • Journalism and Public Relations • Welsh and Education ♦ French (with Year Abroad) • Overlord: war, societies and the • Local and National Government • From Dafydd ap to Mererid ♦ German (with Year Abroad) Battle for Normandy 1944 • Management and Finance • Teaching and Education Hopwood ▲ History • Research Portfolio; Dissertation • Introduction to Creative Writing ♦ History (with Year Abroad) • Russian Civil War • Language Rights in the ▲ Media • Spanish Civil War International Context ♦ Media (with Year Abroad) • Multiculturalism and Welsh ▲ Politics ♦ Spanish (with Year Abroad) Year 3 ▲ Education and Welsh • A Taste of Research (first language pathway) • Translation ♦ Education and Welsh (first language • Welsh Drama: Saunders Lewis pathway) (with Year Abroad) and Gwenlyn Parry • The Welsh Language and Devolution ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses 130 131 ZOOLOGY IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS RD UK ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY 3 SATISFACTION Zoology is dedicated to academic understanding of animal evolution, WITH TEACHING physiology and behaviour and effective methods of enhancing animal welfare (National Student Survey 2019) and conservation. This spans everything from animal anatomy to ecology.
– COLLEGE OF SCIENCE – COLLEGE OF SCIENCE Zoologists have a major role to play in conservation but are also likely to Foundation Year influence developments in other sectors, such as agriculture, marine biology, available medicine, public health and veterinary science. Global Opportunities available International Students You will have an unrivalled AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: foundation programme available opportunity to study animal Year 1 Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries behaviour, ecology and conservation • Animal diversity, form and function available in a range of natural environments • Cellular and microbial biology Full details available on the including the Gower Peninsula which • Ecology and animal behaviour Course Reference Grid (page 134) is rich in coastal, freshwater and • Molecular and evolutionary biology terrestrial habitats. • Plant and algae – diversity, form and function TYPICAL OFFER: ABB-BBB You will be able to gain a detailed (to include Biology or Human Biology) and unique understanding of major Year 2 Detailed entry requirements and zoological themes and will also • Animal behaviour in conservation course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134) undertake a residential field course and welfare and either a professional skills in • Animal physiology ecology module or an international • Cell and immunobiology BSc Single Honours field course. • Entomology ▲ Zoology • Ichthyology ♦ Zoology (with Year in Industry/Abroad) Our excellent teaching facilities ♦ Biology (with Foundation Year) Year 3 include the Centre for Sustainable leading to BSc Zoology Aquatic Research, zoology museum, • Animal personality: physiology, a custom-designed 18-metre behaviour and evolution Biology – see page 57 catamaran-class survey vessel, and a • Biodiversity Marine Biology – see page 94 unique visualisation suite that displays • Biological control of multi-dimensional information from invertebrate pests ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR • Collective animal behaviour animal tracking data. For individual UCAS course codes • Ecology of marine animals please visit the course web page
FUTURE CAREERS: • Biotechnologist • Environmental Consultancy • Local, National and International Statutory Nature Conservation Organisations • Public and Animal Health Expert • Veterinary Care ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Wildlife Conservationist
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REFERENCE GRID A level Global Opportunities** (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE Pathway Foundation International Scholarships Provision and Welsh-medium Year Foundation BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 BSc: BTEC English A variety of global summer Yes see At least Distinction to and Maths programmes available – page 39 40 credits MSci: AAB MSci: 34 Double Distinction Minimum swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page Biochemistry to include Chemistry to include plus A level grade B grade C 24 and ideally Biology HL 6 in Chemistry A level Global Opportunities** (page 55) (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or Chemistry typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent and ideally Biology ABB-BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see Business, Economics, ABB-BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM plus at English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see Some or higher and Maths Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/som page 43 page 39 Maths, Accounting/ Non-native English Minimum to include Biology or to include 5 least one GCSE and Maths page 43 page 39 provision Accounting for further information Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos Finance NOT speakers must grade C Human Biology in HL Biology grade B in Science Minimum for further information see page and Finance A variety of global summer required achieve 6.0 overall or Human Only science-based grade C 24 (page 48) programmes available – Biology and Biology Field courses in the Indian We do not consider with no component BTECs will be less than 5.5 in swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Biological Himalayas (Sikkim) and Borneo General Studies considered also available IELTS or equivalent Sciences (excluding Animal (page 57) Management and A variety of global summer AAA 36 English A variety of global summer programmes available – Actuarial Health Science) to include Maths to include and Maths programmes available – swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Science 6 HL Maths Minimum swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes (page 49) grade C
BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see ABB-BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM or English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see higher Minimum page 45 Business, and Maths Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/som page 43 page 39 3-year degree: Minimum grade C Semester Abroad option Economics, Maths, Non-native English for further information American Accounting/Finance speakers must grade C Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah Business A variety of global summer Studies Management NOT required achieve 6.0 overall programmes available – (page 50) for further information with no component (page 58) We do not consider swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes A variety of global summer General Studies less than 5.5 in programmes available – IELTS or equivalent swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes
BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Some Minimum provision 3-year degree: Semester page 45 BBB 32 Typical Access to Minimum five A variety of global summer grade C see page to include Biology Science offer: grade A*- C / programmes available – Ancient and abroad option 24 Distinction and 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Medieval Disclosure and Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah Merit profile against including History Barring Service for further information the rules of English, Maths (page 51) (DBS) check and an A variety of global summer occupational health combination. We and Science Cardiac programmes available – check required do not accept swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Physiology Access to (page 59) Healthcare or BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Some Access to Minimum provision Healthcare 3-year degree: page 45 and Nursing grade C Semester Abroad option see page Ancient 24 BTEC: DDD History Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah (page 52) for further information A variety of global summer BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 English 4-year degree: Yes see programmes available – Minimum Year Abroad option page 44 swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes MChem: AAA-AAB MChem: grade C Visit to include Chemistry 34-36 swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos Chemistry AAB-ABB 33 BTEC: D* D* D English and A variety of global summer Yes see At least and one other to include 6 HL Maths for further information Applied (page 60) to include Biology to include with a strong Maths programmes available – page 43 40 credits Science or Chemistry Minimum A variety of global summer Medical plus at least one HL 6 in Biology Biology profile Minimum swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page grade B (6) Science Maths subject programmes available – other STEM subject † and one other grade C 24 swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes (page 53) STEM subject †
BBB 32 Typical Access to Minimum five A variety of global summer BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Yes see to include one Science offer: grade A*- C / programmes available – Minimum Year Abroad option page 45 A Level in Maths, Distinction and Merit grade C 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes 3-year degree: Biology or Chemistry profile against the including Semester Abroad option rules of combination. English, Maths Classics and Audiology Disclosure and We do not accept and Science Classical Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah (page 54) Barring Service Access to Healthcare Civilisation for further information (DBS) check and an or Access to (page 61) A variety of global summer occupational health Healthcare programmes available – check required and Nursing swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes BTEC: DDD
† STEM subjects accepted include Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Psychology 134 135 Pathway Foundation International Scholarships Provision and Welsh-medium Pathway Foundation International Scholarships Provision and Welsh-medium Year Foundation Year Foundation
A level Global Opportunities** A level Global Opportunities** (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 BTEC in either English 5-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see BBB 32-33 Only available to native or A variety of global summer Yes see Minimum near-native speakers of Chinese programmes available – Computing or 4-year degree: Year Abroad option page 44 page 39 page 39 MEng/MSci: MEng/MSci: Information grade C Mandarin swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes AAA-AAB 34-36 Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos Computer Technology: DDD Maths English – BBB at A level or HKDSE levels 443 Science to include at for destinations and options least 5 HL or 6 See course web Minimum Chinese (including a minimum of 3 in English (page 62) page for more grade B (6) A variety of global summer Translation and and Chinese) SL Maths programmes available – details Interpreting Applicants from China should have at swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes (page 78) least one year suitable study after their High School Certificate e.g. foundation or degree, plus IELTS 6.0 (minimum Single and Joint 32 BTEC: DDM in a A variety of global summer Yes see 5.5 in each component) Honours: ABB-BBB related subject programmes available – page 39 Criminology swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see English (page 63) Minimum page 45 page 39 Language, 3-year degree: grade C Applied Semester Abroad option (English (for English linguistics Language, Literature Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah and TESOL Applied Early Childhood BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM - DMM English and A variety of global summer Yes see degrees) for further information Studies Maths programmes available – page 45 linguistics Disclosure and CACHE extended English A variety of global summer Early Childhood Minimum swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes and TESOL Barring Service diploma 120 points Literature programmes available – Studies with grade C only) (DBS) check with Creative swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes EYPS Writing (page 64-65) English Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see ABB-BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM English 4-year degree: Literature Business, or higher and Maths Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/som page 43 page 39 (page 79-81) Economics, Maths, Non-native English Minimum for further information Accounting/Finance speakers must grade C Economics NOT required achieve 6.0 overall A variety of global summer AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 BTEC: DDD-DDM English Field courses to the Austrian Alps, Yes see Yes see At least (page 66) programmes available – Geography or a to include plus A level grade B and Maths Vancouver, Mallorca, Malaysian page 45 page 39 40 credits We do not consider with no component swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes related subject is 5 HL in Geography or a Minimum Borneo and the Indian Himalaya see page General Studies less than 5.5 in IELTS or equivalent highly desirable Geography related subject grade C available** 24 e.g. Sociology or Environmental A variety of global summer World Development; programmes available – Geoscience Geology or BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM - DMM Minimum five A variety of global summer Yes see Yes see At least swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes (page 82) Environmental grade A*- C / programmes available – page 45 page 39 40 credits Joint Honours: CACHE extended Science; or an 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes in some Entry requirements diploma 120 points additional science including joint Education and required subjects subject English honours (page 68) may differ and Maths see page See course web 24 BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 BSc: BTEC English A variety of global summer Yes see At least page for full details include Biology and Distinction plus A programmes available – 40 credits MSci: 34 and Maths page 39 Genetics ideally Chemistry to include HL 6 level grade B Minimum swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page Biology grade C (page 83) MSci: AAB to in Biology and 24 BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see include Biology and ideally Minimum page 45 3-year degree: ideally Chemistry Chemistry grade C Semester Abroad option Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah AAB-BBB 32-34 BTEC: DDD-DDM English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see At least Egyptology Geography or a to include plus A level grade B and Maths page 45 page 39 80 credits (page 69) for further information Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos related subject is 5 HL in in Geography or a Minimum for further information see page A variety of global summer highly desirable Geography related subject grade C 24 programmes available – (e.g. Sociology or Field courses in the Austrian Alps, swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Geography World Development; Vancouver, New York, Berlin, (page 84) Geology or Mallorca, Malaysian Borneo Environmental and the Indian Himalayas also All Courses (except BEng: 32 If you do not Variable offers 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see Some Science; or available** Materials Science qualify, please made Semester Abroad option to Texas page 44 page 39 provision an additional A variety of global summer MEng: 34 Engineering): consider the dependent on see page science subject) programmes available – to include 5 at for Aerospace/Chemical/Medical BEng: ABB-BBB Integrated subjects 24 swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes HL or 6 at SL Foundation studied. Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coe Maths and 4 at for further information MEng: AAB-ABB Year, see page 44 Applications AAB-BBB 32-34 BTEC: DDD-DDM English Field courses in the Austrian Alps, Yes see Yes see At least HL or 5 at SL Engineering (to include Maths) are considered A variety of global summer Geography or a to include plus A level grade B and Maths Vancouver, New York, Berlin, page 45 page 39 40 credits (all degree English on an Materials Science programmes available – related subject is 5 HL in in Geography or a Minimum Mallorca, Malaysian Borneo and the see page programmes) Language individual and Engineering swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Geography and highly desirable Geography related subject grade C Indian Himalayas** 24 (page 70-77) basis, with Geographical (e.g. Sociology or BEng: ABB-BBB GCSE grades, A variety of global summer Information World Development; programmes available – AS Level Geology or MEng: AAB-ABB Science swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes subjects and (page 86) Environmental grades taken Science; or an into account. additional science subject) † STEM subjects accepted include Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Psychology 136 137 Pathway Foundation International Scholarships Provision and Welsh-medium Pathway Foundation International Scholarships Provision and Welsh-medium Year Foundation Year Foundation
A level Global Opportunities** A level Global Opportunities** (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE BBB-BBC 30-32 Typical Access Minimum five A variety of global summer Yes see Some ABB-BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM or English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option programmes available – provision from any subject higher offer: grade A*- C / page 39 and Maths Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/som Health and 21 Distinctions, 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page (excluding General Minimum Social Care Non-native English for further information 18 Merits, 6 passes including 24 Studies) speakers must grade C (page 87) English Marketing A variety of global summer BTEC: DDM-DMM (page 95) achieve 6.0 overall programmes available – and Maths with no component swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes less than 5.5 in BBB 32-33 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see At least IELTS or equivalent 40 credits 3-year degree: page 45 see page Semester Abroad option Although there are no specific entry You must be 18 or over and should A variety of global summer 24 requirements, you will need to apply directly to the College of programmes available – History Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah demonstrate an understanding of Human and Health Sciences. You swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes (page 88) for further information maternity care and your ability and must complete an application form A variety of global summer Maternity Care commitment to study at this level and submit it alongside a 500-word programmes available – (page 96) supporting statement. Apply directly swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes to the College of Human and Health Sciences: chhsadmissions@swansea. ac.uk You do not need formal qualifications You may be able to use previous A variety of global summer as all applications are considered undergraduate level credits or prior programmes available – Humanities on their own merit learning which we consider swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes BSc: AAB-ABB BSc: 32-34 BSc: BTEC DDM plus English Single honours Mathematics Yes see Yes see At least (Part-time) appropriate and relevant. Applicants to include Maths MMath: 36 A level grade Minimum students have the option to choose a page 46 page 39 40 credits (page 89) must attend interview and submit a to include HL B in Mathematics grade C 4-year degree with year abroad at see page personal statement of up to 500 MMath: AAA 6 in Maths MMath: BTEC DDD one of our partner universities 24 words to include Maths plus A level grade Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos B in Mathematics Maths for further information BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see (page 97) A variety of global summer Minimum page 45 page 39 programmes available – 3-year degree: grade C swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Semester Abroad option International Relations Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah (page 90) for further information A variety of global summer Yes see Yes see At least programmes available – BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM - DMM English 4-year degree with Year in Industry: Minimum Semester Abroad option page 45 page 39 80 credits swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes grade C see 4-year degree: Year Abroad option page 24 BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM - DMM English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see 3-year degree: Minimum page 45 page 39 Media and Semester Abroad option grade C 3-year degree: Communication Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah Semester Abroad option Journalism, (page 98) for further information Media and Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah A variety of global summer Communications for further information programmes available – (page 91) swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes A variety of global summer programmes available – swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 BSc: BTEC English A variety of global summer Yes see At least AAB-BBB 32 BTEC: DDM in All our qualifying law degrees Yes see At least to include Chemistry Distinction to and Maths programmes available – page 39 40 credits MSci: 34 or equivalent a related subject include the option to study at one page 39 40 credits Medical and ideally Biology Double Distinction Minimum swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page to include HL of our partner institutions between see page Biochemistry plus A level grade B grade C 24 6 in Chemistry Law your second and final year 24 (page 100) MSci: AAB Chemistry (page 92) to include Chemistry and ideally Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/sol and ideally Biology Biology for further information BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 BSc: BTEC English A variety of global summer Yes see At least to include Chemistry Distinction to and Maths programmes available – page 39 40 credits ABB-BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDD plus at English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see Some MSci:34 Medical and ideally Biology Double Distinction Minimum swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page to include Biology to include least one GCSE and Maths page 43 page 39 provision to include HL 6 Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos Genetics plus A level grade B grade C 24 or Human Biology 5 HL Biology grade B in Science. Minimum see page in Biology and for further information (page 101) Biology and or Human Only science-based grade C 24 MSci: AAB Chemistry Chemistry Biology BTECs will be Field courses in Puerto Rico to include Biology Marine Biology considered or Malaysia are also available (page 94) and Chemistry (excluding Animal A variety of global summer Management and programmes available – AAB-BBB 32-34 BTEC Typically English A variety of global summer Yes see At least Health Science) to include Chemistry to include HL 6 programmes available – 40 credits swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Medical Double Distinction and Maths page 43 and one other in Chemistry with a strong Minimum see Pharmacology swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes page (page 102) STEM subject † and one other Chemistry profile grade C 24 STEM subject †
† STEM subjects accepted include Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Psychology 138 139 Pathway Foundation International Scholarships Provision and Welsh-medium Pathway Foundation International Scholarships Provision and Welsh-medium Year Foundation Year Foundation
A level Global Opportunities** A level Global Opportunities** (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE 2:1 (Bachelor’s Merit or distinction English Limited placement opportunities At least BBB 32 Typical Access to Minimum five A variety of global summer degree in any subject (equivalent to 2:1 and Maths available through the programme 40 credits to include Maths Science offer: grade A*- C / programmes available – area) or first) in an Minimum curriculum including the see page or Physics Distinction and 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes integrated grade C Swansea-Gambia link Merit profile against including GAMSAT: All 24 Disclosure and undergraduate the rules of English, Maths Medicine – candidates must IELTS 7.0 with A variety of global summer Barring Service Master’s degree Nuclear combination. We and Science Graduate sit the GAMSAT no less than programmes available – (DBS) check and an Medicine, do not accept Entry Medicine before applying. Lower second (2:2) 7.0 in swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Radiotherapy occupational health MB BCh (GAMSAT and PLUS a speaking and check required Access to Physics, Healthcare or (page 103) MCAT considered Postgraduate 6.5 in Radiation for international) Master’s or PhD listening, Access to Physics Healthcare reading and (page 109) See course web See course web and Nursing page for full details page for full details writing (before applying) BTEC: DDD
BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Minimum 3-year degree: page 45 grade C Semester Abroad option BBB 32 Typical Access Minimum five Option: 2 – 3 month exchange At least Medieval offer: 24 grade A*- C / programme available at one of our 40 credits Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah Disclosure and Studies Distinctions, 9-4 GCSEs partner universities see page for further information Barring Service (page 104) 18 Merits, 3 Passes including (DBS) check and an Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/chhs 24 A variety of global summer English, Maths occupational health BTEC: DDM for further information programmes available – Nursing – check required and Double swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Adult, Child Science (or a A variety of global summer and Mental traditional programmes available – BBB 32 Typical Access Minimum five A variety of global summer At least Health science subject swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes 30 programmes available – 40 credits (page 110) Disclosure and offer: grade A*- C / such as Biology, Distinctions, see Barring Service 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes page Chemistry or 15 Merits including (DBS) check and an 24 Physics) English, Maths occupational health BTEC: DDD check required A combination of and Double Midwifery Science (or (page 105) BTEC Distinction and grade B a traditional BBB 32 Typical Access Minimum five A variety of global summer Yes see A levels may be science subject to include a offer: 27 grade A*- C / programmes available – page 39 accepted such as Biological Science Distinctions, 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Biology, 15 Merits, 3 Passes including See course web Chemistry or English, Maths page for full details BTEC: DDD Physics) Osteopathy and a (page 111) Biological or BBB 32-33 English 4 year degree: 3rd year spent abroad, working as a At least Double Award Minimum paid British Council language assistant or studying at a 80 credits Science grade C. partner university. Work placements and volunteering see page Modern A GCSE in a opportunities are also possible. There are opportunities in 24 Languages modern Latin America for students of Spanish ** foreign (page 106) Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah for further information BBB 26 Typical Access Minimum five A variety of global summer Some language is Science subjects offer: 24 grade A*- C / programmes available – provision A variety of global summer programmes available – preferable but would be an Distinctions, 18 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page not essential swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes advantage Merits and 3 Passes including 24 English, Maths Disclosure and BTEC: DDM and a Physical BBB 32-33 English 4 year degree: 3rd year spent abroad, studying at some of At least Barring Service Must have full Science or Modern to include at least Minimum Europe’s most renowned translation schools in Alcalá de 80 credits (DBS) check and an Paramedic driving licence Double Award languages, one modern foreign grade C Henares, Barcelona, Bologna (Forli), Brussels, Cologne, see page occupational health Science category B with a Science Translation and language A-level Granada, Geneva, Innsbruck, Mainz (Germersheim), 24 check required Mons, Sevilla, Valencia, Valladolid, Vienna and Zurich. ** (page 112) max 3 penalty Interpreting points. Provisional (page 107) A variety of global summer programmes available – C1 licence will be swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes required when starting the course BBB 32 Typical Access to Minimum five A variety of global summer to include Biology, Science offer: grade A*- C / programmes available – Chemistry, Maths Distinction and 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes or Physics Merit profile against including the rules of English, Maths ABB-BBB to include 32-34 must BTEC qualifications English A variety of global summer Some Disclosure and combination. We and a Physical Chemistry and one include HL 6 with a strong and Maths programmes available – provision Barring Service do not accept Science or other STEM subject in Chemistry Chemistry profile Minimum swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page Neurophysiology (DBS) check and an Access to Double Award †. and HL 5 considered grade C 24 (page 108) occupational health in one other Healthcare or Science Pharmacy Welsh Baccalaureate check required STEM subject Access to (page 113) will be considered in Healthcare lieu of a 3rd A-level and Nursing BTEC: DDD
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A level Global Opportunities** A level Global Opportunities** (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see BBB 32 Typical Access to Minimum five A variety of global summer Philosophy Minimum A variety of global summer page 45 to include Biology, Science offer: grade A*- C / programmes available – (page 114) grade C programmes available – Physics or Maths Distinction and Merit 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes profile against the including swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Disclosure and rules of combination. English, Maths Respiratory and Barring Service We do not accept and Science Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see Sleep (DBS) check and an BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree: Access to Healthcare Minimum Physiology occupational health 3-year degree: page 45 page 39 or Access to grade C (page 122) check required Philosophy, Semester Abroad option Healthcare Politics and Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah and Nursing Economics (PPE) for further information BTEC: DDD (page 115) A variety of global summer programmes available – swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes ABB-BBB 32-33 Typical Access Minimum five A variety of global summer Yes see offer: 27 grade A*- C / programmes available – page 39 BSc: AAB-BBB BSc: 32-34 English BSc 4-year degree: Year in Yes see Yes see Some Social Policy Distinctions, 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes to include Maths to include at and Maths Industry or Year Abroad option page 46 page 39 provision (page 123) 15 Merits, 3 Passes including English and Physics least 6 in HL Minimum see page BTEC: DDM MPhys: Option to spend a and Maths Maths and 5 in grade C semester at University of Houston 24 Physics MPhys: AAA-AAB HL Physics to include Maths Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos (page 116) MPhys: 34-36 AAB-ABB 33-34 Typical Access Minimum five A variety of global summer Yes see and Physics for further information to include at If you studied A level offer: 33 grade A*- C / programmes available – page 39 least 6 in HL A variety of global summer Social Sciences Sociology, Politics, Distinctions, 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Maths and 6 in programmes available – (page 124) Psychology, typical 9 Merits, 5 Passes including English HL Physics swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes offer: ABB BTEC: DDM and Maths BBB 32-33 English 4-year degree/joint honours Yes see Yes see Minimum degree: Year Abroad option page 45 page 39 BCC 30-32 Access Diploma: Minimum A variety of global summer At least grade C For Distinction and programmes available – 40 credits 3-year degree: grade A*- C / Semester Abroad option Merit profile contact 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page study@swansea. including 24 Politics Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah (page 117) ac.uk English and for further information Maths or the BTEC: DDM A variety of global summer equivalent Social Work Minimum 455 Key Skills 2 programmes available – (page 125) swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes hours direct social qualifications care work or voluntary AAB-BBB 32-34 BTEC: Distinction to English A variety of global summer Yes see At least experience required Population to include Biology to include HL 6 Double Distinction and Maths programmes available – page 43 40 credits at the point of Health and and relevant in Biology in relevant subject Minimum swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes see page application Medical subject areas area grade C 24 Sciences (page 118) AAB-ABB 33-34 Typical Access Minimum five A variety of global summer Yes see If you studied A level offer: 33 grade A*- C / programmes available – page 39 Single Honours: Single Typical Access Minimum five 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see At least Sociology, Politics, Distinctions, 9-4 GCSEs swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes AAB-ABB Honours: offer: 27 grade A*- C / page 39 40 credits and 9 Merits and including Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/chhs Sociology Psychology, typical 33-34 distinctions and 9-4 GCSEs see page 5 Passes from level English and Joint Honours: for further information (page 126) offer: ABB 15 merits including 24 3 subjects Maths ABB-BBB Joint Honours: A variety of global summer Psychology English If you studied A level 32-33 programmes available – BTEC: DDM (page 119) and Maths Biology, Chemistry, BTEC: DDD - DDM swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Maths, Physics or Psychology, typical AAB-BBB 32 Recommended 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see offer: ABB to include 4 subjects: Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coe page 39 at HL or 5 Sciences, Sport and for further information at SL English Maths, PE BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM - DMM English 4-year degree with Year in Industry: Yes see Yes see At least Exercise Science A variety of global summer Minimum Semester Abroad option Language and page 45 page 39 80 credits (page 127) programmes available – grade C see Psychology 4-year degree: Year Abroad option page swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes 24 3-year degree: Public Relations Semester Abroad option and Media AAB-BBB 32 Recommended A variety of global summer Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah (page 121) to include 4 subjects: PE, programmes available – for further information Sport and at HL or 5 Sociology, swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes A variety of global summer Social Science at SL English Psychology, programmes available – (page 128) Language Philosophy/ swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes Ethics
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A level Global Opportunities** (or equivalent) International Alternative GCSE or INDEX typical offer Baccalaureate typical offer Equivalent COURSE REFERENCE GRID COURSE ABB-BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM or English and 4-year degree: Year Abroad option
Business, Economics, higher Maths Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/som Maths, Accounting/ Non-native English Minimum for further information grade C Tourism Finance NOT speakers must A variety of global summer (page 129) required achieve 6.0 overall programmes available – with no component We do not consider swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes General Studies less than 5.5 in ACCOMMODATION 16 ON-CAMPUS FACILITIES 14-15, 19, 24, IELTS or equivalent 31-34, 36 A-Z COURSES 48-144 BBB 32-33 BTEC: DDM-DMM English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Some OPEN DAYS 152 Minimum provision 3-year degree: page 45 BIKE HIRE SCHEME 09 grade C Semester Abroad option see page 24 RESEARCH 04 War and Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah Society for further information CAMPUS MAPS 12,14 (page 130) SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES 146 A variety of global summer programmes available – CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY 20 swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes SPORT 28 COST OF LIVING 17, 14 6 BBB 32-33 English/Welsh 4-year degree with joint honours language: 120 STUDENT SUPPORT AND WELFARE 36 Minimum Year Abroad option credits grade C see FEES AND FUNDING 146 4-year degree: Year Abroad option page Welsh 24 STUDENTS’ UNION 26 (page 131) Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/coah for further information HEALTH SERVICES 37 A variety of global summer programmes available – STUDY AND WORK ABROAD 22, 134-144 swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes HOW TO APPLY 148 -151 ABB-BBB 32-33 If you do not English 4-year degree: Year Abroad option Yes see Yes see Some SUSTAINABILITY 35 to include Biology to include qualify, please provision and Maths Visit swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/cos page 43 page 39 HOW WE SELECT STUDENTS 148 or Human Biology 5 HL Biology consider the Minimum for further information see page SWANSEA AND THE REGION 06 or Human Integrated grade C 24 Biology Foundation Year Field courses in Sikkim, Indian INDUSTRY, PLACEMENTS scheme, see Himalayas and Borneo TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT 12, 14, 153 page 43 are also available AND INTERNSHIPS 20 A variety of global summer Zoology BTEC: DDD plus at programmes available – VOLUNTEERING 35 least one GCSE INTEGRATED FOUNDATION (page 132) swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes grade B in Science. Only science-based YEAR PROGRAMMES 42-46 WELSH-MEDIUM OPPORTUNITIES 24 BTECs will be considered INTERNATIONAL STUDENT INFORMATION 38- 41 WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY (excluding Animal 10 Management and Health Science)
PLEASE NOTE The following message contains some very important information. This prospectus was printed in the spring of 2020. It contains information on the undergraduate programmes that Swansea University intends to run for students who are planning to start GCSE Welsh first language is accepted as an equivalent to For applicants whose first language is not English, please check the university in the autumn of 2021. We have made every reasonable effort to ensure that the information provided is both helpful and English GCSE for all programmes. English language requirement. International students, please visit: accurate as at the date of publication. However, some changes, for example to programmes, study location, international Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Diploma accepted. Requirements are swansea.ac.uk/international-students/ opportunities and destinations, facilities or fees may become necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and as for A levels where you can substitute the same non-subject specific international-student-courses/how-to-apply academic reasons. We will endeavour at all times to keep any changes to a minimum and to keep prospective students informed grade for the Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Level Core grade. appropriately. Any changes to the information contained in this prospectus will be updated on our website swansea.ac.uk Please check the individual course pages on our website for more up to date, This prospectus is printed on paper from sustainable sources using vegetable-based inks and has chain of custody certification. ** Study and Work Abroad options available to you may depend detailed and subject-specific criteria, including recommended subjects: on the details of the Brexit settlement negotiated by the UK swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses Produced by the Marketing, Recruitment and International department, Swansea University
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£2,000 £27,000 £2,250 £15 MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS STUDENTS FROM ENGLAND Swansea University will charge tuition fees of £9,000* £30,000 £2,500 £37 for AAB at A Level* per year. However, if you live in England, and are studying for your first degree you will not have to £33,000 £2,750 £60 pay the tuition fees upfront. FOR TYPICAL LIVING AND ACCOMMODATION COSTS SEE PAGES 17-19 £35,000 £2,916 £75 UP TO £3,000 You will be eligible for: • A repayable tuition fee loan of £9,000* COLEG CYMRAEG To help with your living costs you will be eligible for: * All figures shown are the 2019/20 rates and are intended as a guide only. Tuition fees are subject to annual increases in line with inflation and CENEDLAETHOL the new rates will be published on our website as soon as they become available: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-funding • A maintenance loan up to a maximum of £8,944* For students who study at least 66% of their course (80 credits a year) The amount of maintenance loan you receive will depend through the medium of Welsh* upon your household income. For further information visit: thestudentroom.co.uk/student-finance FIND OUT MORE MOST Funding your degree and financial support available to you: AFFORDABLE STUDENTS FROM THE EU UNIVERSITY UP TO £5,500 swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ At the time of going to print Swansea University is not fees-and-funding TOP UK TOWN SPORTING able to confirm the tuition fee level for students from 0 (totallymoney.com 2019) scholarship package* the EU. We will publish details on our website as soon General funding queries: as they become available. Please check our Fees and Student Finance Wales 0300 200 4050 Funding web page before making an application to study at Swansea University: Student Finance England 0300 100 0607 £1,000 swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ MUSICAL EXCELLENCE fees-and-funding/tuition-fees Specific financial information, advice or guidance: scholarships* [email protected] INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS *Terms and conditions apply, please visit: See page 41. 01792 606699 swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/scholarships
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? NOTES FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS When we receive your application Admissions staff will We welcome applications by prospective students from check that you meet our entry requirements; and assess around the world. If you are an international student, your personal statement and reference to ensure that you you can apply to study at Swansea via UCAS, through have the experience and skills necessary to study the one of our overseas agents or by using our online subject. We will look for evidence of your commitment application form. Full details of how to apply can and motivation, and pay attention to your achievements. be found at: The easiest way to apply is online at: ucas.com The Swansea University code is S93. Please check our course listings for up-to-date availability We’re interested in people who will seize the opportunity swansea.ac.uk/international-students to gain new skills and knowledge, and who will benefit and UCAS course codes: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses We are happy to advise you on whether your most from the Swansea experience. We’re also interested qualifications are suitable for entry to the course in people who will add value to the sporting, cultural, you would like to study. Please email us at: and social life of our community. WHAT DO YOU NEED? ADVANCED WELSH BACCALAUREATE [email protected] for further details. Applicants are considered on their own merits and We welcome the graded Advanced Welsh UCAS will let you know if we make you an offer and If English is not your first language you will be asked to offers may vary, however we guarantee that you will Baccalaureate qualification and applicants will if there are any specific conditions. Occasionally, a pass an approved English Language qualification. We be made a conditional offer for a course at Swansea be able to meet our requirements from three A levels member of staff from the Academic College or School consider the Swansea University English Test, the IELTS University.* The typical offer is listed on the subject or two A levels and the Skills Challenge Certificate. you are interested in may suggest that you will receive test (with a minimum score of at least 6.0 overall with pages in this prospectus as three A levels, but we are A selection of Individual Project Proposals relating to an offer, but this is not a binding commitment at least 5.5 in each component – see individual course happy to accept a range of other qualifications so a variety of Swansea University subject areas can also – please wait for a formal offer from UCAS. webpages for information), plus a wide range of please check the individual course pages on our website be found on the WJEC website. After reviewing your application, we may invite you other qualifications. A full list of acceptable English for more detailed and subject specific criteria at: EPQ* to visit to get to know you better. Meeting prospective Language tests can be found at: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses We recognise the Extended Project Qualification as an students at interviews and open days often allows swansea.ac.uk/admissions/ excellent indicator of success on our schemes of study. us some flexibility to tailor our offers to each Applicants should normally hold GCSE English or english-language-requirements Applicants predicted grade B or above in EPQ will receive individual’s strengths. Welsh at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent). The University also has its own English Language an offer with a one grade reduction. eg, a offer of AAB If our offer is conditional upon how you get on in your Training Service – visit: We also welcome a wide range of other qualifications, would become ABB plus EPQ B. We encourage applicants examinations, we won’t give you a final acceptance of plus we are constantly reviewing the acceptability of to describe EPQ research within the UCAS personal swansea.ac.uk/elts your application until the results are published. If you new qualifications, so if you are taking exams not listed statement, particularly when relevant to their intended firmly accept our conditional offer but do not get the please contact the Admissions Office. course and/or career. exam results you need, considering your overall Students who are able to extend their three A levels Changes to qualifications in schools and colleges in performance may give us the flexibility to confirm by undertaking additional study, such as any additional England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland: your offer. A level(s), or AS levels, are encouraged to do so, as we We recognise the changes to GCSEs, AS and A levels For further information about our admissions believe that additional study, in a variety of forms, can in England, alongside different qualifications frameworks policies and procedures please visit: Have your application help you prepare for the demands of university, but in Wales and Northern Ireland. Please see our full swansea.ac.uk/admissions questions answered by a because different schools and colleges offer a different statement regarding Qualification Reform at: range and number of subjects those not able to do so member of our admissions will not be disadvantaged. swansea.ac.uk/media/ team using our live chat: Qualification-Reform-Statement.pdf swansea.ac.uk/admissions/ask-us-live
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02 START PLANNING JANUARY – JUNE GET READY What subjects do you enjoy and what Now is the time courses interest you? Start thinking about to apply for your the degree schemes you’d like to apply accommodation TO UNIVERSITY for and what the entry requirements are. and student finance. 07 Your university accommodation is guaranteed if 01 you accept your 06 UCAS offer. ALL YEAR ROUND 03 BEFORE 1ST MAY OPEN DAYS ACCEPT OFFER MARCH – JUNE Visiting Swansea University’s campuses is You can accept your offer ATTEND YOUR NEAREST the best way to experience student life! by logging in to UCAS Track. This is your opportunity to learn more about UCAS EXHIBITION your course, how you’ll be taught and what Meet Swansea University staff; 09 opportunities are available to you. Swansea a great opportunity to ask any SEPTEMBER University offers great study and work abroad questions you have about the courses ENROL programmes, where will your degree take you? on offer or life as a Swansea student. You’ll receive your enrolment pack and start your life as a Swansea student! Freshers’ week is a great way to make new friends and join the clubs, societies and sports teams that interest you!
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SEPTEMBER Your exam results will be released APPLY 04 in the summer and if you meet the You can apply to Swansea University terms of your offer your place to through UCAS using the code S93. study at Swansea University will be Remember to check the deadline and submit confirmed. You will also find out if your application as early as possible. The you are eligible for an academic deadline for most courses is 15 January. scholarship worth up to £3,000.
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