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UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2013 UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN | UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2013

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Principal’s Welcome 5 The University at a Glance 6 Arts & Social Sciences 76 History & Excellence 8 Investing in Your Future 12 Divinity & Theology 118 The Difference – Curriculum Reform at Aberdeen 14 Education 122 Student Support 20 Learning Resources 22 Support for Your Studies 24 Music 126 Study Abroad 25 Financial Support 26 International Students 30 Engineering 130 Careers 32

Student Life 34 Law 136 Accommodation 36 University Sport 38 Medicine & Dentistry 142 Students’ Association 40 The Hub 42 The University and the Environment 43 Sciences 150

Our Students 44 Term Dates Key to Icons Aberdeen The City 52 What’s Going On (Events Calendar) 56 Winter Term Website Address Getting to the University 58 Tuesday 24 September 2013 How to Find Us (Maps) 60 to Friday 20 December 2013 Study Abroad Opportunities Spring Term Your Studies 62 Monday 13 January 2014 Financial Information Choosing Your Degree 64 to Friday 28 March 2014 Foundation Programmes 66 Environmental or How to Apply 67 Summer Term Sustainability Content Widening Access 68 Monday 21 April 2014 Part-Time and Distance Learning 70 to Friday 13 June 2014 THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Education Programmes (BA/Part-time) 71 First Half-Session Begins Curriculum Reform Information Tuesday 24 September 2013 Course Directory 75 Take a peek at our Second Half-Session Begins  Monday 2 February 2014 3D images on pages 18, 28, 72 and see the difference! Please note these term dates may be subject to change. Follow us:

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Since 1495 the University of Aberdeen has been respected the world over for the high quality of its teaching and research but never more so than today. We are proud that our first objective is to ensure a student experience that is second to none. All the available indicators of teaching, student satisfaction and research place Aberdeen in the highest echelon of UK universities and one where both teaching and research are valued equally. The results of the 2011 National Student Survey confirmed our reputation as one of the leading universities in the UK for the student experience. Indeed, in a number of subjects we were in the top five universities in the UK. We are equally highly regarded for our excellence in research. In the most recent UK wide Research Assessment Exercise around 90% of the research conducted at Aberdeen was of international quality. At Aberdeen you will be joining a vibrant and stimulating scholarly community where teaching is informed by staff who are engaged in world leading research. The University is equally committed to providing you with the very best ‘As well as giving in support services and facilities. We have made an unprecedented multi- students a wonderful million pound investment to provide our students with some of the very best educational experience, facilities available anywhere in the UK. These include an Olympic standard the records show that sports village, one of the largest wireless campuses in Europe, a state-of-the-art medical teaching facility on Europe’s largest health campus and, just opened after leaving Aberdeen last Autumn, our fantastic new £57m library. our graduates are highly sought after As well as giving students a wonderful educational experience, the records show that after leaving Aberdeen our graduates are highly sought after by employers.’ by employers and can earn some of the best starting salaries. In the past few years we were one of the first universities in Britain to redesign our curriculum in partnership with students and employers to ensure that Aberdeen graduates are equipped to face the challenges of the 21st century. Choosing a university is a very important decision. When I made the decision to join Aberdeen as Principal I did so because I was inspired by the story of a university that for over five centuries had made an impact on the world and which had enabled people to fulfil their academic potential. There is an atmosphere here where a shared sense of pride in the University’s past achievements sits at one with an ambition to make the next chapter in its history an even more successful one. That makes Aberdeen an exciting and very special university to be part of. It’s why I chose Aberdeen. I hope you will too.

Professor Ian Diamond Principal and Vice-Chancellor Founded in 1495 16,000 students 120 nationalities Ranked in world top 1% Study abroad exchanges worldwide Libraries with over 1,050,000 volumes Over 150 sports clubs and societies Five Nobel Prizes of graduates enter directly into work, further study or 91% training within 6 months Over 600 Largest wireless first degree programmes campus in Europe Brand new curriculum to produce graduates equipped for the 21st century Libraries with over In excess of £270 million investment 90% of research activity of international quality www.abdn.ac.uk/about/facts 8 The University of Aberdeen is the UK’s fifth oldest university with an academic reputation spanning over 500 years. Forward-thinking, Aberdeen is at the cutting- edge of research.

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Leading in the 15th Century History The University of Aberdeen is Scotland’s third oldest university, founded in 1495 as Columbus was opening up the New World and the Renaissance was spreading throughout Europe. William Elphinstone, & Excellence Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of Scotland, established King’s College to train doctors, teachers and clergy for the > Established 1495 communities of northern Scotland, and lawyers and administrators to serve the > Ranked in world top 1% Scottish Crown. This fledgling university boasted, from 1497, the first chair of > 90% research activity is medicine in the English-speaking world. Picturesque and historic Old Aberdeen - of international quality home of Elphinstone’s original foundation - is now the main University site. The 15th > £28m sports facility century remains very much alive in King’s College Chapel, which is still in regular > £57m new library use, offering an oasis of peace, beauty and a sense of history in the daily life of a university now focused on the needs of the new millennium. www.abdn.ac.uk/about Leading in the 21st Century As you would expect from a university dedicated to excellence in teaching and learning, you will be taught by the people who are at the forefront of research in their particular fields. The University has made bold new changes to modernise its curriculum, inspired by major international universities like Harvard, Yale, Melbourne and Hong Kong. Our curriculum will help our graduates to leave the University even more academically excellent, intellectually flexible and as active citizens. The University of Aberdeen has been praised by the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) for the quality of relationships between students and staff at all levels and 90% of Aberdeen’s research activity is of international quality. The University of Aberdeen is investing over £270 million into the facilities and support for our students, including the opening of our £28 million Olympic standard sports facility, The Suttie Centre, a new £20 million state-of-the-art facility for teaching and learning in healthcare, and our flagship £57 million new library. As a result, the University has been ranked one of the best places in the UK to study by the National Student Survey. www.abdn.ac.uk/about 11 History & Excellence History

College of Arts and Social Sciences The College comprises six Schools: Business; Divinity, History and Philosophy; Education; Language & Literature; Law; and Social Science, and encompasses over half of the University’s student population. There is a wide range of undergraduate opportunities, with MA, BMus, BD, BTh and LLB programmes on offer, and the College is continually reviewing its portfolio of Masters programmes, many of them interdisciplinary. The College aims to promote excellent research in all of its disciplines and to provide a framework in which interdisciplinary research can flourish. The College believes in research-led teaching and as such, it has a number of thriving research groups, including the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, the Elphinstone Institute, the Centre for Scandinavian Studies, and the Northern Institute of Philosophy. These research groups provide the College’s academic staff with an opportunity to pass on cutting-edge research to students at all levels. www.abdn.ac.uk/cass Its researchers investigate the causes and Research informs all aspects of teaching, College of Life Sciences and Medicine consequences of health problems as well as providing a stimulating environment Innovative research is being pursued the content and organisation of healthcare with good links to industry and other throughout the College of Life Sciences in both primary and secondary care settings. universities. and Medicine. The Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) Science at the University is supported On the King’s College campus, the School brings together scientists and clinicians in a by well-founded laboratories with high- of Biological Sciences undertakes research state-of-the-art research laboratory facility. tech equipment and computing facilities. from the depths of the oceans to the Much of the research is clinically orientated, Research centres and facilities include tropics and poles. This work is supported aimed at improved understanding of Oceanlab, the Marine Biodiscovery Centre, by excellent analytical and molecular disease and development of better the Centre for Transport Research and the genetics laboratories within the Zoology and diagnostic methods and treatments. The Digital Economy Research Hub which was Cruickshank buildings and our field stations. IMS provides an environment in which awarded £12.4 million of funding to explore An example of the latter is Oceanlab in modern molecular and cellular technologies the contribution digital technologies can Newburgh, where biologists and engineers can be applied directly to a broad range make to enhancing key services, generating investigate the ecology and behaviour of of disease processes. Particular scientific business opportunities, boosting quality of marine animals at depths down to 6,000m. strengths lie in cell and developmental life and promoting the economic, social and biology, immunology, microbiology, environmental sustainability of rural areas In the School of Psychology, our academics neuroscience, pharmacology, cardiology across the UK. conduct research ranging from the and musculoskeletal medicine. relationship between brain regions and The College has expertise in areas such behaviour, through to the application of www.abdn.ac.uk/clsm as rural planning and surveying, psychology to industrial problems. College of Physical Sciences environmental management, petroleum geology, mathematics, bioenergy and The College offers a wide range of teaching On the Foresterhill site, where the School engineering. Exciting new additions to the and research experience across a spectrum of Medicine and Dentistry and the School College’s range of programmes include of degree programmes. The disciplines of Medical Sciences are located, research Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Applied within the College are Archaeology, excellence is centred on two research Mathematics, Business Information Systems Chemistry, Computing Science, institutes. The Institute of Applied and five year masters programmes in Engineering, Geography and Environment, Health Sciences focuses on national and Chemistry, Physics and Computing Science. Geology and Petroleum Geology, international population-based research. Mathematical Sciences and Physics. www.abdn.ac.uk/cops Investing in your Future

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The University is The University opens The University opens The first of five Nobel The University founded by William with 36 staff and all Faculties to women Prizes is awarded for launches its ambitious Elphinstone, Bishop students, having and in 1894 the first 20 work begun or carried fundraising campaign of Aberdeen and eight years earlier matriculated female out at the University. with the aim of Chancellor of Scotland, boasted the first chair students begin their Inventions include the raising £150 million with the ambition “... of medicine in the studies. Four women life-saving drug insulin to mark the start of to found a university, English-speaking graduate in arts in and the development the University’s sixth which would be open to world. The University 1898; by the following of Magnetic Resonance century of existence. all and dedicated to the embraces all the year, women make up Imaging (MRI). In 2004 this continues pursuit of truth in the known branches a quarter of the with a £9 million service of others”. The of learning - Arts, Faculty. investment programme University of Aberdeen Theology, and Canon to appoint exceptional becomes the UK’s fifth and Civil Law. academics to the oldest university. University, thereby strengthening the intellectual capital of the institution. Investing in your Future

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The Institute of The University The University’s The University’s brand The new Aquatics Medical Sciences at the celebrates 500 years first-class sports and new £57m library opens Centre will open. The Foresterhill campus of teaching and leisure facilities are to students and the centre will provide a is completed. The learning and The Old further boosted by the wider community. first class training and custom-built Institute Town House on King’s opening of the newly The library is competition venue for provides state-of-the- College campus is developed Aberdeen established as a major elite athletes and offer art facilities for medical transformed to become Sports Village, a £28 intellectual and a community facility researchers and their a visitor gateway to the million Olympic cultural learning that will encourage students. University and standard sports centre for students participation in water- Old Aberdeen. centre highlighting in the 21st century. based activities at all Six years on, the the University’s ages and abilities. Suttie Centre, the In 2006, an £8 million commitment to new training centre renovation project sees The world-class facility sustaining sporting at the heart of the the enhancement of will include a 50-metre, excellence. academic and hospital student facilities on 10 lane Olympic- campus, opens for campus. standard swimming the modern teaching pool, an international- of anatomy linked to ‘The Hub’ boasts standard diving pool other medically-related a superb range of with moveable floor sciences. services, including and a health suite, and dining, retail and will be located adjacent drop-in centres for the to Aberdeen Sports student community. Village. 14

> Unique to Aberdeen > Aligned with major international universities > More choice, opportunities, Curriculum support and flexibility > Exciting co-curricular options > Producing graduates Reform for the 21st century

Our aim is to further develop the learning When you study at Aberdeen, your degree you’ve already completed, so you can and support services that we provide will still have all the quality and depth of easily pick up where you left off when to ensure that our students are well the traditional Scottish degree, but will you decide to return supported and have the opportunities also offer you: to gain the skills to succeed in the Enhanced Study > more choice – so you can study around global market place. This includes the One thing about the 21st century is certain: your core subject to gain breadth and completion of our Olympic standard you’ll need to be more versatile and more context; add a language, a science or sports centre, the development of a adaptable than ever before to meet the business study as an extra subject flagship library for the 21st century, challenges of life and work. At Aberdeen during the first two years of your and the implementation of a new we believe this demands an appreciation degree; or choose from a range of new curriculum for students. of disciplines other than your own, and a multidisciplinary courses based on real deeper understanding of the context of your world problems Following an extensive review process, own core discipline. We call the courses that which saw engagement with top employers, > wider opportunities – so you can broaden provide for this, and for other broadening professional bodies, academics, the your experience and skills through a experiences, the Enhanced Study options. Government, and current and prospective choice of activities such as overseas All new students studying for a first degree students, parents and teachers, the University study, work placements and voluntary at Aberdeen, with the exception of Medicine has taken significant steps to modernise the work, all overseen by the University and Dentistry, will include Enhanced Study structure, content, delivery and flexibility of > better support – including more options as part of their degree. Students our degree programmes inspired by major scholarships, a new integrated taking a Joint degree, or a major-minor international universities such as Harvard, student centre that brings together programme, will not be required to take the Yale, Melbourne and Hong Kong. different support services, and new Enhanced Study as the joint nature of their This comprehensive review and resulting flexible learning spaces on campus to degree provides the necessary breadth. proposals will help Aberdeen graduates complement lecture theatres and labs We’ve taken care to restructure the degree to leave the University both academically > more flexibility – so you can fit your programmes so that this will not increase excellent and intellectually flexible, studies around other life demands and your overall workload. Enhanced Study and being critical thinkers, effective take study breaks if you need them. We’ll makes up 25% of a student’s curriculum in communicators and active citizens. award formal qualifications for the study years 1 and 2, and 12.5% over years 3 and 4. 15

symbolism and conservation. Through interconnectedness of the issues involved. In a diversity of disciplinary, historical and project work, students have the opportunity cultural perspectives, students will be to focus on Aberdeen, addressing issues such as local land use, tourism, the role of the

introduced to the complexity of relations Reform Curriculum between humans and animals, will gain fishing industry in the city’s development, a deeper understanding of the differences and the area’s current economic reliance on and similarities between humans and the energy industry and how this relates to animals, and will develop a more informed global demand. appreciation of contemporary and historical The Digital Society issues in human-animal relations. This course will provide students with a Risk in Society multi-disciplinary understanding of (1) the The principal aim of this course is to instill impact of the digital society on individuals, an understanding of risk when analysing organisations and society as a whole and (2) controversial issues encountered in every day the main issues and challenges of the digital life. The ability to understand and rationalise society. It will prepare students to be active opposing points of view and to be able to citizens in a digital society and contribute communicate a reasoned argument is critical to related debates. Examples of topics to be in today’s world. Students will gain a basic covered include: knowledge of the science and technology > Digital Divide: The growing digital divide, in certain exemplar areas together with a including the rural-urban divide, the age basic introduction to risk perception, risk divide, accessibility risks for people with assessment and the quantification of risk. disabilities, problems for developing Example themes to be discussed might include countries Nuclear Energy, Financial Investments and GM foods. The overall aim is not to change > Interpersonal Relations in the students’ minds over the rights and wrongs Digital Society: The changing nature of individual viewpoints but to broaden their of interpersonal relationships in awareness of risk and its portrayal in the light of social networking sites popular press and every day society, enabling (Facebook, Flickr, MySpace) and new them to take and be able to communicate a communication means (text messaging, more balanced view. online-messaging); The culture and Sustainability consequences of having a second life; Identity and impression management In the 21st century, issues of sustainability, environmentalism and renewable energy > Rights in the Digital Society: Freedom are becoming increasingly important. of expression and privacy; Civil rights in The vast numbers of actors involved a digital society; Ownership in a digital There are three types of Enhanced Study: include governments, policy-makers, legal world (e.g. rights to music, Flickr photos, > Sixth Century Courses systems, scientists, pressure groups and YouTube videos); Cyber-crime, cyber- > Sustained Study Programmes the general public. Moreover, it is clear that terrorism and cyber-bullying; Security for > Discipline Breadth Courses political responses involve multiple levels the digital society; Information credibility Sixth Century Courses of governmental and non-governmental and authority in a Web2.0 world (e.g. decision making, from the local to the global Wikipedia) People have been studying at Aberdeen level. for over five centuries. Now, these exciting > Impact of the Digital Society: How digital new cross-disciplinary courses place you at The broad themes addressed in this course technology has changed the way we do the cutting-edge of modern learning. They include: the rise of sustainability as an issue; business (e.g. Amazon, e-Bay, iTunes) and invite you to consider different approaches to different perspectives on the environment; the way the markets work; The potential knowledge and enquiry as you look at issues the relationship between humans and the of, and issues in, using digital technology affecting the world in which we live today. environment; sustainability science; local for health, education, entertainment, They’re designed to help you develop a deeper and global citizenship; the politics and transport, science and governance; critical understanding of your chosen area of governance of sustainability; and regulatory digital behaviour intervention: how study by setting the subject in a wider context. aspects of sustainability. Within these broad technology may encourage people to themes, substantive topics include climate live more healthily and sustainably; The These are the Sixth Century Courses that change, food systems and energy. In relation environmental impacts of a digital society are currently approved, though they may be to these topics, we will explore competing subject to change: Health and Wealth of Nations definitions of the ‘problem’ of sustainability; Why do some societies become wealthier Humans and Other Animals the impact of personal, technological and than others? Does this wealth result Relations with animals are an enormously economic actions and decisions on the in healthier populations or not? This significant part of our daily lives and they environment; the intended and unintended course will consider the processes which have played a pivotal role throughout consequences of political strategies designed determine these outcomes. We will start human history. This course will explore to improve sustainability; the emergence by considering the nature of economic the relations between humans and other of international environmental law; and growth and development. The course will animals in many different ways, examining the roles and responsibilities of world consider the origins of industrialisation, the themes such as domestication, animal citizens. Both global and local case studies role of trade and comparative advantage, rights and welfare, hunting, pets, animal will be utilised, which will illustrate the 16

of specialisation in production, and the are also perceived as a threat. We all still society. It also examines how our world role of innovation and entrepreneurship. remember the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, view is shaped by values and religion, and It will examine the history of the and estimates of sea level rise triggered by how myth, language and science interact climate change make uncomfortable news and affect our perception of the Universe.

Curriculum Reform Curriculum industrial revolution in Europe and elsewhere and consider the current state not only for low lying countries such as The Fearsome Engines of the explanations of this. It will look at Netherlands or Bangladesh. A side effect of the success of modern the demographic and epidemiological During the past century our relationship technology is our growing insulation from transitions as economies develop and the with the Oceans has reached a new level. engineering realities. The study of early link between wealth and health, systems From overfishing to melting ice caps or technology will expose the student to a of healthcare provision, the economic ocean acidification, we are now changing comprehensible, non-mathematical world burden of illness, AIDS and the diseases the structure and functioning of the marine without the benefits of modern sources of associated with affluence. ecosystems on a global scale. This has led to energy. Such a study not only reinforces the The Natural World the need for new, global means of governing fundamentals of science and engineering, This is an interdisciplinary course that will the seas, both to combat climate change and but also provides an opportunity to evaluate encourage you to engage with the natural to regulate harvesting of valuable marine a variety of evidence and reach considered world, both intellectually and experientially. resources. and logical conclusions. It is an area of It provides a forum for exploring different study, however, which poses considerable In a mixture of lectures, excursions, perceptions of the natural world, as well as problems for both historians and engineers. debates, group and project work, this the context and opportunity for reflection on Historians are frequently confronted with interdisciplinary course will explore the your personal place within it. sources, written, visual, or both, which render past, present and future relationship it hard to determine the exact nature of the Lectures will introduce key ideas associated between Society and the Oceans. engineering techniques used in the past, while with perceptions of the environment and Science and the Media modern engineers must develop a historical how different groups of people describe and The course is designed to consider the perspective to understand how engineers value nature. Each student will get to choose way in which different stakeholders in used the materials and knowledge which was three fieldtrips to attend. These are intended science present and interpret data. This has available to them. In recent years, a number of to provide experience of different natural particular relevance now because we live in productive projects have been undertaken to environments, the species within them and an “information-rich, understanding-poor” combine the skills of historians and engineers human interactions with them. They will society, where the importance of being to solve mysteries of past engineering. also enable students to meet professionals able to distinguish between “scientific fact” that work in environmental education, Sustainable International Development and “scientific fiction” is becoming more protection and interpretation. This course is being offered by the University and more relevant. Media presentations of Aberdeen Centre for Sustainable The Mind Machine can be misleading and need to be subject International Development. It aims to provide One remarkable property of human beings to scrutiny by people who understand the students with an overview of the complexity is our minds. But what is a mind? How way in which scientific facts are established. of sustainable international development and does it work? What is consciousness? Are Scientists need to be honest with the public the linkages between social development, thought and language one and the same? about what they are doing and what the economic growth and environmental Are we unique among animals because implications are for society generally. protection. This will be approached through of our mind? These questions fascinate In order to achieve this we will teach an examination of the achievement of the philosophers, psychologists, linguists and fundamentals of scientific method and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) neuroscientists alike. In the Mind Machine, enquiry and the way in which credible with a specific focus on the least developed we will explore these questions and many scientific evidence is constructed. We countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. more related to the human mind and brain. will explore the diversity of approach to Students will learn, reflect and discuss The course will begin with a historical establishing scientific consensus in the wide cutting-edge questions at the intersection perspective and look at how “development” diversity of disciplines that are covered by of science, humanities and social science has been portrayed in academic texts as the term science. We will also explore the including: Why am I conscious? Can we use well as in novels, films and music. Running way in which science can be expressed and the power of the mind to heal the body? throughout the course will be a focus on explained depending on the audience. How do psychotropic drugs affect the mind human rights, equity and social inclusion, and the brain? How can neurodegeneration Mankind in the Universe good governance and resource allocation and brain injury influence creativity? How is Have we yet made all of the great and how they are central to the sustained creativity shaped by emotional state? discoveries in science? What is next? achievement of the MDGs. Case studies What are the limits to knowledge, and the will be used to demonstrate good practice This course will look at aspects of mind and physical, intellectual and technological and different cultural, social, economic and brain function that would enable students to constraints on understanding the Universe? political barriers to progress will be identified. answer questions that lay people might ask. The course will conclude with a focus on the This course takes in a ‘quick tour’ of the Oceans and Society need for information, systems, community Universe, a summary of what we think 70% of the Earth is covered by Oceans, participation, empowerment and political we know in several key fields: physics and and over time, the seas have shaped our commitment for the realisation of the astronomy; biology, evolution, genetics societies, fostering interconnectivity and MDGs. By the end of the course students and disease; and the climate system. The exchange. Today, more than 40% of the will be expected to have developed skills course looks at these key topics in relation world’s population live within 100 km of in participatory and social networking to objectivity, uncertainty versus realism, the coast, and the oceans provide a wealth approaches and be able to engage in issues and the philosophy, morality and ethics of goods and services such as food, bulk of sustainable international development as of science, in addition to their impact on transportation or energy. But the Oceans informed citizens. 17

What Gives Us Rights The STAR Award BP Student Tutoring Scheme “Rights” is one of the most powerful yet The STAR (Students Taking Active Roles) The BP Student Tutoring Scheme is a voluntary ambiguous concepts in today’s world. So Award is organised by the University’s initiative that places students in local primary many local, national and global issues are Careers Service and Aberdeen University and secondary schools. Students work framed in terms of rights: not just our right Students’ Association (AUSA). The initiative alongside pupils in an allocated class for 10 Reform Curriculum to vote and our human rights but our rights rewards the contribution that many students weeks, gaining vital classroom experience to health and food, clean air and water. make to the wider University community and also acting as ambassadors for higher Students will be confronted by approaches by recognising the transferable skills and and further education. The scheme has been to the study of rights from across the arts, competencies that you develop and enhance running for over 10 years and last year over social and physical sciences, and will learn through your involvement in co-curricular 90 students participated, tutoring in over 50 to consider and compare the different activities. Participants include students schools across Aberdeen city and shire. The approaches, reaching their own conclusions. involved in sports, societies and volunteering, initiative provides an excellent opportunity as well as class representatives. for you to get involved in the local community The course will also consider how scientific and also enhance your employability skills. approaches are used in the implementation Employers are looking for evidence of of rights, for example in identifying and attributes and transferable skills that For more information, please visit: measuring phenomena such as disabilities, graduates can bring to their organisation, www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/co-curriculum/ maternal mortality and cognitive and the STAR Award is one way you can bpscheme stereotyping that may pose challenges to demonstrate that you have these skills Enterprise & Entrepreneurship effective rights. How important, for example, and competencies. For more information, The Careers Service works with the Scottish is evidence-based medicine to satisfying please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/ Institute for Enterprise (SIE) to promote the rights to health? Or what can we learn from co-curriculum/staraward enterprise agenda at the University through a social scientific study of social capital in events such as the Business Ideas Competition determining constraints to access to health? and ‘Lunch with an Entrepreneur’. These events Sustained Study Programmes There has never are designed to encourage students across all Sustained Study is designed to provide you disciplines in the University to become more with continual exposure, throughout the been a more enterprising and for some students to make the first two years of your degree course, to an transition into entrepreneurship by creating area of study that is separate from your core exciting time their own businesses. discipline. For example, you may benefit For more information, please visit from having a language, or perhaps some to embark on www.abdn.ac.uk/sie knowledge of business or science, alongside your main degree subject. Sustained Study studies with Study Abroad has been offered in French; German; Spanish; The University actively encourages students Gaelic; Arabic; a Scandinavian Language; the University to undertake a period of study abroad as part Mandarin Chinese; Business; Latin; Biblical of their degree programme, and a wide range Language; The Classical Tradition; Computing; of Aberdeen. of opportunities exist within our ERASMUS Fit for Life and Conservation & Environment. programme, which boasts a large number Discipline Breadth Courses of links with universities across Europe, and Work Experience Placements our International Study Abroad Programme Another Enhanced Study option are Discipline The Work Placement Team, located within where partners exist with universities in Breadth Courses. This option allows you to the University’s Careers Service, sources North America and Hong Kong. extend the scope of your study by taking just a wide range of placement opportunities about any course in the University as long For more information, see page 25 or visit for students. Work placements provide a as it is not a required course for your chosen www.abdn.ac.uk/undergraduate/ great way to use the skills and knowledge degree. You have the whole catalogue of exchanges gained during your studies, and to apply undergraduate study subjects to choose from, these in a real work setting. Placements To find out more about The Difference with the only consideration being timetabling! take place in a range of companies, and at Aberdeen, visit our website at For more information on the range previous placements have ranged from www.abdn.ac.uk/thedifference of courses available, please visit working as an intern for a political party, Call: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 or www.abdn.ac.uk/registry/courses to oilfield chemistry, law, finance and Email: [email protected] The Co-curriculum geological surveys. Students on placement are supported by the Team throughout, from Curriculum Reform at Aberdeen is about putting together their CV, to preparing for more than just academic developments. interview and having a mid-placement visit It’s about providing our students with for a chat on the progress being made. the opportunities to participate in extra- curricular activities that will help to make Placements are a really important way them more well-rounded individuals, more of demonstrating to a future graduate attractive to employers and with a greater employer that you have gained the skills and skills-set. Any activities undertaken will experience to set you apart from the crowd be recorded with a view to recognising all when applying for graduate jobs – indeed, aspects of the Co-curriculum. many of our students have impressed their placement employers so much that they The Co-curriculum complements your have been offered a graduate job at the end degree programme and includes the of their placement. following opportunities: work placements, voluntary activities, enterprise, study For more information, please visit overseas and the STAR Award initiative. www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/jobs/placement See The Difference View this page through your 3D glasses!

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New Library > a Microform Room, Multimedia Room, Documentation Centre cover law with The Library is one of the largest and best Music Resources Room, the Teaching official UK and EU publications. The Medical equipped in the UK, offering excellent Resources Collection, Assistive Technology Library on the Foresterhill Campus is for learning resources to support your studies. Booths and other facilities students of Medicine and Medical Sciences. Designed by Danish architects Schmidt > PCs on every floor We have over one million volumes in our Hammer Lassen, the £57 million building collections, from ancient papyri to electronic is an iconic architectural landmark of There are also more informal areas including journals, most of which are easily accessible North East Scotland. The Hardback Café on the Ground Floor through our online catalogue. You’ll find (which is open to all), and the ‘Break-out’ The new University Library is a 21st century an extensive range of electronic resources, Room on Floor 7, where students can enjoy space for learning and research. It houses advice via Podcast on making best use panoramic views of the city while reading, the largest of the University’s modern of our collections, and, in addition to the working on a laptop, or engaging in quiet collections on Floors 1-7 - including Arts, clusters of PCs in all libraries, you can borrow conversation. Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences. wireless laptops for use within the Taylor There are over 1,200 study spaces: from Library or use your own wi-fi laptop via the The building is open to the wider public, as traditional silent study rooms to interactive University’s wireless cloud. well as students and staff. A wide range of areas for collaborative projects, supported by facilities are available including: The Library holds books and journals that information technology. The entire building appear on your reading lists. These are > a Gallery on the Ground Floor for has comprehensive wireless network available for reference or overnight loan exhibitions and displays (which all are coverage, and there are also sockets to plug through our Heavy Demand service. You can welcome to visit) in your own laptop throughout. A further also borrow from other libraries through our 600 seats are available at the medical and > an Events Area for school visits, and inter-library loans service. law libraries. Also on the Old Aberdeen lectures and presentations campus, the Taylor Library and European www.abdn.ac.uk/library 23

Museums & Special Libraries and Archives satellite television facilities, an extensive Service Desk As an ancient university, we are proud of materials library covering up to 50 different Contact the Service Desk for advice on all our museums, archive collections and rare languages, courses for students whose computing matters, including electronic native language is not English, and all books, built up over 500 years and which resources. There is a drop-in Service Desk Resources Learning are exceptional in their richness. the language learning advice and support in the computing centre and in the Medical you need, whether you are studying for School library. Special Libraries and Archives holds an a degree in languages, preparing for an internationally-significant collection of Email us via [email protected] and exchange visit, hoping to improve over 200,000 rare books, printed mostly visit our web pages at www.abdn.ac.uk/dit/ your CV, or are simply fascinated by before 1840, and 4,000 unique archive servicedesk other cultures and languages. and manuscript collections. These are complemented by the University’s museum www.abdn.ac.uk/languagecentre collections, which include Anatomy, Student Learning Service Archaeology, Anthropology, Art, Geology, Studying at university can be challenging. Herbarium, History, Pathology, Scientific What is academic writing? How do you Instruments and Zoology. The University’s prepare for exams? The Student Learning museum collections are amongst the Service offers workshops on these and largest in the country and of national Key many other topics during term-time and importance. academic skills advice throughout the year. All these collections are used to support Specialist academic skills advice is available Facts taught courses in ways not possible in for students with dyslexia or other learning most other universities, such as being differences. The Student Learning Service involved in curating an exhibition. They also offers online resources, such as > Free wireless internet access – in are also available for individual study and Improving Your Writing. University halls and across campus enjoyment, and can provide volunteer www.abdn.ac.uk/sls opportunities to enhance your CV. The > Secure and backed-up home filespace collections are displayed in various venues Computing Services – 2GB on which to store your files on campus, including the Zoology Museum We support a variety of web and computer- > Email account for life – web-based and King’s Museum. based resources, complementing your email and calendaring service with studies and allowing you to manage and www.abdn.ac.uk/historic 25GB of storage, hosted by Microsoft review coursework at your pace and in Outlook Live Resources for Language Learning your own time. Our students enjoy free, Our Language Centre is open to all fast, wireless internet access in all Halls of > Student Portal – a secure web-based University of Aberdeen students. It offers a Residence and most administrative and portal through which you can view and broad range of audio, video, computer and academic buildings across the campus. check your personal details, course enrolments, timetable, accommodation fees, library loans and exam results > Over 1,500 high spec computers – distributed over classrooms, libraries and clusters on campus and in Halls of Residence > 24-hour access to some PC classrooms > Wide range of software and high quality printing > Classroom internet access – faster than domestic broadband > Disability provision – a range of specialist software on all classroom PCs, and five individual occupancy Assistive Technology Booths > Assistive technology advisers – providing support and training to ensure that disabled and non-disabled students access the same curriculum and learning environment > Student Liaison Officer – listening to your views and concerns, and keeping you informed about developments in IT services at Aberdeen

www.abdn.ac.uk/dit/student 24 Support for Your Studies Support for YourSupport Studies Our student support services rank with If there are particular disability-related issues Counselling the best in the UK. We aim to offer advice which have had an impact on your studies, The Counselling Service is a free, confidential and information to every member of you have the opportunity to bring these to and professional service for students and our community, and have a network of our attention on your UCAS form. Academic staff who have personal, social, emotional support in place to help you with your courses leading to professional qualifications or educational concerns. It is located in the academic, personal and social life. (e.g. for Teaching, Medicine, Law) may heart of the King’s College campus. require additional considerations but the You’ll find student life new and exciting, but Contact the University Counselling Service: University will always be proactive in making you may also find it a bit bewildering at first, Tel: +44 (0)1224 272139 adjustments to remove or reduce any barriers especially if you are living away from home Email: [email protected] as far as it is possible to do so. The University for the first time. We aim to make sure right Disability Advisers offer support and guidance Chaplaincies from the start that you have access to any and are a first point of contact for disabled The University Chaplaincy Centre provides support you might require, from people who students. You are welcome to contact the a meeting place for individuals and groups are easy to contact and who can give you Disability Advisers via e-mail or telephone to of any religious persuasion – or of friendly, expert information and advice. discuss your application. You may also choose none. A few doors away is the Roman Advice for Your Studies to visit the University, to meet academic and Catholic Chaplaincy. Most other major You will be allocated an Adviser of Studies (or, support staff and to assess for yourself the denominations have Associate Chaplains, for Medical students, a Regent; for Education facilities and support structures which are who can be contacted through the students, a Personal & Professional Adviser) available. Chaplaincy Centre. who will meet you in Freshers’ Week to help Contact the Disability Advisers: Contact the Chaplaincy Centre: you to choose your subjects; he or she can also Tel: +44 (0)1224 273935 Tel: +44 (0)1224 272137 advise on changing your subjects if you’re Email: [email protected] not enjoying them. Your Adviser will monitor Our Obligations & Yours your academic progress and will often be Our International Student Advisers provide The University has a Student Charter, which your first port of call if you encounter any specialist guidance on visa/immigration and sets out the responsibilities of the University difficulties, either academic or personal. other matters. and of students, and gives details of various University policies and procedures. As a Looking After Your Health Contact the International Student Advisers: condition of enrolment in the University, Full NHS medical services are available to Tel: +44 (0)1224 273935 all students are required to abide by the students. The Old Aberdeen Medical Practice, Email: [email protected] University’s Code of Practice on Student a comprehensive NHS health practice, has Discipline, as amended from time to time. many years of experience in providing advice The Student Support Advisers are based in Copies are available on request from: and treatment to students. The Practice is the Student Advice & Support Office and independent of the University but located can offer confidential and non-judgemental University Registry, University Office close to King’s College campus in a purpose- advice on matters ranging from personal King’s College, Aberdeen AB24 3FX built Health centre. The Old Machar Practice problems and academic issues to University More information on Student Support is also close to the King’s College campus. procedures and financial matters such as is available on our website: student funding. Childcare www.abdn.ac.uk/student-support The campus-based Rocking Horse Nursery The University can provide financial provides childcare for pre-school age children assistance to matriculated UK students, of students and staff. The nursery has three primarily from the government’s “departments” which cater for 0-2, 2-3 and Discretionary Fund, aimed at students 3-5 year-olds respectively. who meet unexpected and/or exceptional Student Support Services financial difficulties. A Childcare Fund contributes towards the costs of formal Student Support Services consists of the childcare arrangements. A fund is also Counselling Service and the Student Advice available to provide emergency assistance & Support Office, which combines a number to international students. of areas as described below. Student Advice and Support Office The Student Advice & Support Office administers applications to both funds. Staff in this office provide advice and information on three broad areas: Contact the Student Advice disabilities, international student matters & Support Office: and “general” advice and support. Tel: +44 (0)1224 273935 Email: [email protected] The University welcomes applications from disabled students and considers applications from all students on the same academic grounds. 25 Study Abroad Study Abroad Widen your horizons! Our numerous and incorporated into the student’s University another European legal system will study international connections offer of Aberdeen academic record. During the abroad in their third year. opportunities for many of our students to year abroad students pay tuition fees as If you are studying for a degree in Modern study abroad for part of their degree. normal to the University of Aberdeen, and Languages, you may also apply to work as remain eligible for the same loans, awards, a Language Assistant or undertake a work Study Abroad and bursaries as any other Aberdeen student, placement. If you study or work abroad with Many Aberdeen students complete part of making the scheme quite affordable. the ERASMUS programme you will be able to their degree study in another country. Some apply for an ERASMUS Mobility Grant to help degree programmes have a built-in period Further information is available by with extra costs while abroad. You will not of study or work abroad. Modern Languages contacting the Student Recruitment and pay tuition fees to your host university. and European Studies degrees require that Admissions Service: you spend time in the country or countries Every participating subject area has a Email: [email protected] whose languages you are studying. The Coordinator who provides academic advice www.abdn.ac.uk/undergraduate/ degrees of Law with another European legal to students interested in taking part in the exchanges system also require you to spend a period of ERASMUS programme. The ERASMUS Unit time studying abroad. Many other degree The ERASMUS Exchange Programme provides practical guidance and support programmes offer similar opportunities. We The ERASMUS exchange programme* throughout the application process and have two major schemes to help students of allows a student to study or work in another during your period of study abroad. most disciplines who wish to spend part of European/EEA country as part of their degree Further information is available by their time studying or working abroad. programme. This means that the time spent contacting the ERASMUS Unit. International Exchange Scheme abroad is not an additional period of study and the academic credits gained abroad E-mail: [email protected] We currently operate exchange programmes will count towards the student’s Aberdeen www.abdn.ac.uk/erasmus with 13 colleges/universities in the USA, degree. 5 universities in Canada, 5 universities in *The University of Aberdeen gratefully Hong Kong, and 1 university in Japan. These We have exchange links with a large number acknowledges the European Union’s support programmes offer opportunities to study in of universities across Europe. Opportunities of the ERASMUS programme. widely different academic and geographical available depend on the degree programme Non-graduating or Visiting environments. Our exchange partners and students can study abroad with most International Students include some of the most distinguished state subjects. It is possible to participate even We welcome visiting students from the universities and private colleges in their if you do not speak another language as a United States of America, Canada, Hong respective countries. Students normally number of our partner universities teach Kong, Japan, Singapore, the European Union participate in the exchange programme in through English. Others require visiting and indeed, all over the world. A wide range their second year, which means that they students to have a good command of of courses are available, with the exception apply to the programme during the first their language. of Clinical Medicine. Further information, semester of their first year. All students are Study or work placements are normally including application forms, is available eligible to apply except those in Medicine, for one semester or a full academic year. online at Law and Education. Most students apply in their first year to www.abdn.ac.uk/international/exchanges The year abroad is an integral part of the study abroad in their second year. Students student’s Aberdeen degree, not an additional undertaking a period of residence abroad year. Credits gained during the exchange year as a requirement of a degree in Modern are recognised by the University of Aberdeen Languages, European Studies or Law with

‘Study Abroad gives you the opportunity to experience living in another culture and enhance your employability by adding to your CV.’ 26 Financial Support Financial Support Our money adviser can help students per annum additional funding. For more means-tested assistance with living costs with personal budgeting and the information, please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/ available to full-time students. Part-time University offers extra help in the form undergraduate/ruk.php students on degree-qualifying courses may, of scholarships for new undergraduate however, be eligible for fee waiver if on a low For Scottish-domiciled students, the first step students. income, unemployed, or in receipt of certain to finding out more about, and applying for, state benefits. If you are a Scottish student domiciled and financial support, is to contact the Student studying full-time in Scotland, support for Awards Agency for Scotland. Scottish-domiciled students who qualify for your living costs while at university comes ‘independent’ status and are undertaking 50% Students from England should contact from a means-tested system of repayable or more of a full-time load (at least 40 credit Student Finance England, those from Wales loans and non-repayable grants. points) may apply for a means-tested non- are currently required to apply through their repayable grant of currently up to £500 per Provided that you have not had tuition fees Local Authority, and students from Northern year which is paid directly to your institution paid for a previous course, and you are not Ireland through the relevant Education and to help towards the cost of your tuition fees. repeating part of your programme, you do Library Board. For general information about Contact the SAAS, or the relevant Student not, however, have to contribute towards the finance for new students, including Student Finance partnership in England, Wales or costs of your course. Loans, contact: Northern Ireland for further details. Students from Scotland Also, the Scottish Parliament has now Scholarships for English, Welsh and passed the Graduate Endowment Abolition Students Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS) Northern Irish Students (Scotland) Act 2008. This means that current Gyleview House, 3 Redheughs Rigg, If you are a student applying from England, and future Scottish and EU students, as well Edinburgh, EH12 9HH Wales or Northern Ireland you may be as those who graduated on or after April 1 Tel: +44 (0)300 555 0505 entitled to financial support through our 2007, will no longer have to pay that charge, Web: www.saas.gov.uk Access and Merit scholarships outlined below. previously levied on students graduating Students from England from Scottish universities as a contribution The University of Aberdeen is committed to Student Finance England towards the funding of means-tested attracting the very best students, regardless PO Box 210 bursaries for poorer students. of financial circumstances, which is why Darlington, DL1 9HJ we offer a large number of scholarships to If you come to study in Scotland from Tel: +44 (0)845 300 5090 undergraduate students. These are designed elsewhere in the UK, you will be liable to pay Web: www.direct.gov.uk/studentfinance to provide assistance to help students support tuition fees; but you will be able to borrow Students from Wales themselves during their time at university this and repay it after graduation, just as Student Finance Wales Contact Centre and also aim to reward academic excellence. you would if studying in England, Wales or Tel: +44 (0)845 602 8845 Northern Ireland. Our Scholarships are available based on two Web: www.studentfinancewales.co.uk criteria “Access” and “Merit”. Scholarships The University of Aberdeen’s tuition fee for Students from Northern Ireland based on “Access” are there to support those students from England, Wales or Northern Student Finance who may otherwise struggle to meet the Ireland in 2012 is £9,000 per year for all of our NI Customer Support Office cost of studies while “Merit” scholarships full-time undergraduate degrees. However, Tel: +44 (0)845 600 0662 are designed for those who have shown no student will pay more than £27,000 for a Web: www.studentfinanceni.co.uk considerable academic potential in their A full four-year Honours degree programme Level results. Students meeting the criteria (with the exception of enhanced degrees and Non-UK Students from the European Union of both scholarships are entitled to receive Medicine and Dentistry). This means that If you are a student who comes from, and are both payments, potentially £6,000 per annum. students studying with us will pay no more a national of, a country in the European Union, These scholarships are available in addition to for their degree programme at Aberdeen and are taking a complete undergraduate applicable Government loans and grants and than they would for a three-year degree at degree course at the University of Aberdeen, are automatically awarded to those who meet universities of similar standing across the then provided you are not repeating part of the criteria, so there is no need to apply. rest of the UK. Please check our website your course, you are treated in the same way for up-to-date tuition fee information as a Scottish student and should be eligible For more information visit www.abdn.ac.uk/undergraduate/finance.php for payment of tuition fees from UK public www.abdn.ac.uk/undergraduate/ funds while you are studying. To find out scholarships Students from England, Wales and Northern more contact the Student Awards Agency for Ireland can apply to the Student Loans Entrance Scholarships Scotland (SAAS). Contact details as above. Company for a tuition fee loan. This tuition Each year, the University of Aberdeen fee loan is paid directly to the University by International Students awards Entrance Scholarships for the Government and students only need If you are a student coming from outside undergraduate study. Most scholarships are to start repaying the loan once earning of the EU, you will be classed as an worth £1,000 per year for each year of study, over £21,000 after graduation, with all International Student. For financial so if successful, you will have an additional outstanding debt written off after 30 years. information for International Students £3,000 to £5,000 - depending on the length see page 30. of your degree course - to support you. The Students from England, Wales and Northern award of a scholarship does not affect the Ireland are encouraged to apply for specific Part-time Students amount you can borrow under the loan Scholarships, allowing students from Students registered part-time do not qualify arrangements or other entitlements from the rest of the UK to receive up to £6,000 for the automatic payment of fees and public funds. Financial Support 27 ‘Knowing I was able to enjoy myself without worrying about financial the constriction have would I made faced, difference the between a good truly the and year, enjoyable year I have experienced’ The Adjutant The Adjutant Roy Strathdee Building Aberdeen UOTC, 24 1XQ Old Aberdeen, AB 152 Don Street, 1224 483861 Tel: +44 (0) Email: [email protected] www.army.mod.uk University Air Squadron Air The East of Scotland Universities’ Royal Air Force Squadron is part of the in aviation and the and fosters an interest to both male and RAF. Membership is open who normally female undergraduates, years. Members join for a period of two 10 hours per year receive approximately of charge, and are of flying training free of branches of introduced to the variety in most cases paid the RAF. Training is free, and is conducted at RAF Leuchars, near St Andrews. All students participate in general service training, and sport and social events, including adventure training and expeditions. Aspiring members should get in contact no later than the Freshers’ Fair. The Officer Commanding East of Scotland Universities’ Air Squadron RAF Leuchars, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 0JX Tel: +44 (0)1334 839471 Ext 7718 Email: [email protected] Craig Parkin Current History student

272828 by sport and an active and 1224 ) military and adventure training, AUSA Student Advice Centre AUSA Student at whilst relevant still issues money With part-time on rely students many University, themselves. support to work vacation and you Advice Centre can help Our Student other offering as well as work part-time find does work Advertised advice. employment duringnot exceed 15 hours per week, except vacations. University Aberdeen the visit more learn To atStudents’ Association website www.ausa.org.uk or phone us on Tel: +44 (0 Money Adviser in Adviser, Money independent The Association, Students’ the with conjunction including services, free of range a offers individual and budget your balance to help consultations on specific financial problems. University Service Units Aberdeen Royal Navy Unit The Universities’ Royal Naval Unit educates a wide spectrum of undergraduates in the role of, and need for, the Royal Navy. Successful applicants can join the Unit as Officer Cadets (RNR) for the duration of their degree course. Instruction in nautical subjects and leadership training is provided offering the opportunity of completing a City and Guilds ‘Leadership’ award. Theory is put into practice onboard the Unit’s dedicated Fast Patrol Boat ‘HMS ARCHER’. Training weekends are conducted at local ports and deployments further afield around the UK and abroad are during Easter/Summer vacations. Unit members are paid for all training activities. The Officer-in-Charge University of Aberdeen Royal Naval Unit, Gordon Barracks Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, AB23 8DB Tel: +44 (0)1224 822663 Email: [email protected] www.aurnu.co.uk Training Corps Officer The Universities’ Officer Training Corps provides leadership development through popular social programme. Enlistment is open to male and female undergraduates. Training occurs on Tuesday nights and at weekends. A two-week Annual Camp is held in the summer, and an optional adventure training deployment takes place during spring. At least three expeditions overseas are mounted each year, and you can also go on attachments to Army units around the world. supplemented University Scholarships available made are scholarships of number A University. the at students to year each visit information, more For www.abdn.ac.uk/undergraduate/ scholarships Entrance Scholarships are available for all all for available are Scholarships Entrance categories: two are There study. of areas are for applicantsAccess Scholarships successful for potential the have who deterred be might who but study, degree circumstancesby financial or personal Merit Aberdeen; at place a up taking from of basis the on awarded are Scholarships in performance predicted and/or achieved of evidence other or examinations, public distinction. academic Who is Eligible? eligible are who applicants UK-domiciled All applying for a full- for Home Fees, and are the at course degree undergraduate time apply. can Aberdeen, of University Applicants do not have to be UK nationals, and whatever consideration equal given be will their sex, race, religion or subject interest. those to available only are Scholarships place a accept firmly and offered are who have who those however, Aberdeen; at submitted a UCAS form but have not yet are University the from offer an received apply. to welcome updated usually is information April, Scholarship is deadline application The October. June. each in informed are applicants successful and Aberdeen of University about Information Application and Scholarships Entrance how on guidance with together Forms, to complete them, are available on the at website University www.abdn.ac.uk/undergraduate/entrance- scholarships guidelines the read should Applicants application, an submitting before carefully completing by or online, made be can which and form application paper downloaded a be only can Applications post. by it sending reference. a by supported if considered The Scholarship Panel Scholarship applications are assessed, including panel a by made, awards and Recruitment Student the of representatives University the and Service Admissions and The Trust. Development Aberdeen of panel includes members of academic and of experience with staff administrative issues. welfare and finance student See The Difference View this page through your 3D glasses!

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> Cosmopolitan student International and staff community > 120 nationalities > Active International Students Student Society > Excellent English Language Support > New Foundation Programme pathways

Aberdeen has a long tradition of Country-Specific Information The programme includes day and weekend welcoming international students from International Students can find further trips around Scotland. There are also a all over the world. We have a large country-specific information at number of other active cultural societies on international community with students www.abdn.ac.uk/international/ campus and further information is available and staff drawn from over 120 different in-my-country from the Students’ Association. countries, making Aberdeen their home Student Support away from home. www.ausa.org.uk Once you have arrived in Aberdeen, staff in Fees and Living Expenses If you are an international student, and you our Student Support Services are available Fees payable by students not entitled wish to take a full undergraduate degree to give confidential advice, information to support from UK public funds vary course you must, like all UK students, apply and support on a wide range of topics. according to the degree being taken. for entry through UCAS. Our International Our International Student Advisers are For 2012-2013, the annual fees for Office and Admissions staff within our professionally trained to provide specialist international students were: Student Recruitment and Admissions advice on visa and immigration matters. Service are happy to advise and help you > £11,000 for undergraduate Arts-based Tel: +44 (0)1224 273935 before, during and after applying to study subjects (incl. Law and Divinity) Email: [email protected] at Aberdeen. www.abdn.ac.uk/students/international > £14,000 for undergraduate Science-based Email: [email protected] Social Life courses (including Psychology) www.abdn.ac.uk/international The International Student Society organises > £24,500 for all five years of a an active programme of social events Medical degree throughout the year to give students the Tuition fees are subject to annual review, opportunity to experience Scottish life and and normally rise at least in line with traditions. International Students 31

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you develop your ability to use English in an an in English use to ability your develop you to provides The course environment. academic get in, settle to you for opportunity good a familiar become and students other know the before University the and city the with year. start of the academic www.abdn.ac.uk/languagecentre Programmes Foundation a number ofThe University has created Foundation International designed specially enter students help can which Programmes in available are Pathways University. the Computing Chemisty, Sciences, Biological Mathematics Science, Engineering, more for 66 and Psychology. See page information. www.abdn.ac.uk/international/ foundation-programmes

International Students with a Tier 4 International Students degree on study for granted visa student to up work to able be should programmes Our term-time. during week per hours 20 able be will Advisers Student International you once work to permission your check to Part-time unsure. are you if UK the in are to means a as upon relied be cannot work fund your studies. Accommodation All international students are guaranteed a single occupancy place in a University Hall of Residence for at least the first year of study as long as you apply by the deadline. If you prefer private accommodation, you should arrive in Aberdeen in plenty of time before the start of the session to look for somewhere suitable. The Students’ Association and the Accommodation Office will be able to give you details of solicitors and private letting agents. www.abdn.ac.uk/accommodation English Language The University sets minimum entry requirements for your level of English to ensure you have sufficient language skills to cope with your studies. For details of our English language requirements please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/international/english- requirements English Language Support inflation each year. Tuition fees must be be must fees Tuition year. each inflation at University the at registration on paid can Students year. academic the of start the payment full, or make an initial either pay in instalments. of number a by followed payment on information More at found be can fees tuition of www.abdn.ac.uk/registry/tuitionfees we advise on In line with UKBA advice budgeting for £800 a month on top of living expenses tuition fee costs to cover of your study in throughout the duration visit please information more For Aberdeen. www.abdn.ac.uk/international/finance.php to change Please note, this is subject UKBA and in accordance with the immigration rules. Part-Time Working The Language Centre offers English courses courses English offers Centre Language The and workshops throughout the year to quite not have you If studies. your support there requirements, entry direct the met is the possibility to study on one of our of length The programmes. school summer level your on depend will programme the of English. If you have met the direct entry come to like would you feel but requirement and language your develop further to early four-week a offers University the skills, study intensive course in English for Academic Study in August/September which aims to help 32

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Studying for a degree will enable you to Your Employability Work Experience develop yourself, your skills and ideas At the University of Aberdeen, employability According to a recent survey, more than a in many new ways. The Careers Service is at the heart of what we do. The Careers third of jobs for new graduates are taken is here to help you make the most of Service works closely with academic by people who have already had work your experience and to support you colleagues to develop bespoke programmes experience with that employer. At the in taking the next step: making your for your chosen area of study – and for every University of Aberdeen, we have worked career ideas a reality. year of your studies. Many degrees offer hard to build close links with employers Exploring Your Options integrated and assessed careers-related – ranging from small local companies to courses, including preparation for industrial multi-nationals – who recruit our graduates Whether you already have firm plans for placements. In addition, you can choose to and offer that all-important work experience your future or not, we can help you to make earn some of your academic credits through to our students. informed career decisions and give you work-related and career planning courses the practical support you need to secure a The Careers Service has a dedicated Work such as our second-year course, “Career graduate job or a place on a postgraduate Placement Team who source opportunities Development: Find your Direction”. course. Our team of professional Careers exclusively for University of Aberdeen Service staff offers you access to personal Developing Your Skills students, so you can get ahead of the careers advice and guidance right from day In this competitive market, a degree is competition. We have also developed our one, so you can explore all the opportunities not enough. Employers expect a range own work placement programme within open to you during your time at Aberdeen – of skills from graduates and there are the University, the Aberdeen Internship, and beyond. many opportunities for you to develop which was recently nominated for “Work these during your time at the University Placement of the Year” by the National But don’t just take our word for it. During of Aberdeen. You can become involved in Council for Work Experience. your time at Aberdeen, you will have the one of the many sports clubs or societies, opportunity to discuss your career plans A World of Opportunities volunteer in the local community, for directly with employers and Aberdeen At the University of Aberdeen, we want example, as part of the BP Student Tutoring graduates, our alumni, who have gone on to give you every opportunity to broaden Scheme, or even develop ideas for your own to successful and interesting careers. The your horizons and develop the skills and business. These activities are not just fun but Careers Service organises regular events, attributes you will need to build a successful also develop many valuable skills for you including careers fairs, employer-led career. Whether you want to discuss your and will contribute to your achievement of skills sessions and alumni talks for you to career ideas, find opportunities to enhance the Aberdeen Graduate Attributes. research a wide range of careers. You can your CV, need practical help with making also apply for a place on our successful Our STAR (Students Taking Active Roles) applications or would like to take part in an Career Mentoring Programme, which can Award recognises just how important your exchange to another university – the Careers give you the opportunity to network with achievements outside your studies are and, Service is here to support you throughout professionals from many different sectors, along with other activities, it will appear on your studies. all of whom have benefited from their your transcript to allow you to demonstrate To find out more about the services we offer, degree at the University of Aberdeen. your achievements to employers. visit our website or come and see us in the Hub during Open Days and visits. www.abdn.ac.uk/careers

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Accommodation

Starting university and becoming able to apply online for accommodation New Accommodation involved in academic life can be up to the application deadline. If you are The University’s accommodation strategy an exciting experience. It is a real a late applicant, you should telephone the continues to raise the quality of student opportunity to meet new people, make Accommodation Office to find out what is accommodation to a standard which will friends and for some of you to have still available. We will try to find a place for seriously compete with accommodation at your first taste of living independently, you, though we cannot guarantee that you any other British institution. The first phase away from your family. will be allocated University accommodation. of the project, opened in 2008, comprises a four-storey development with 520 en-suite Some of you might be a little apprehensive The University does not offer accommodation bedrooms, each of which shares a about leaving what you know. That is for married/family students, but the full kitchen and living room area at Hillhead where our Student Accommodation Office Students’ Association advertises private Halls. The project is in partnership with comes in. We are here to help you find a accommodation and further information Unite. Now that this phase is complete, suitable place to live and our experienced can be obtained by emailing the University plans to rebuild and staff know how important it is to help you [email protected] refurbish the remaining stock on the with the formalities involved. Living in Halls of Residence Hillhead site. accommodation with other students can We offer a wide range of accommodation give you a great start at university. You Community Liaison Team with wireless network throughout and all will make new friends during the first few If you need information or advice when have facilities for disabled students. We have weeks and these friends will stay with you you’re living in Halls of Residence, help is at Crombie-Johnston Hall at the heart of the throughout your university life and beyond. hand from our Community Liaison Officer, campus; this accommodates approximately supported by a team of Student Residents’ If you’re a new student, we guarantee 400 first-year students in single study- Assistants (SRAs). Their job is to ensure your to find you a place in our portfolio of bedrooms, with meals provided in the Hub. well-being and to help you get the most out accommodation, which includes Unite’s Hillhead Halls is the student village on the of communal life. Spring Garden and King Street Exchange bank of the River Don, with 520 en-suite and complexes, provided your application 1655 standard self-catering rooms. Student Costs reaches us by the deadline. facilities include a shop, launderettes, floodlit Up-to-date information on University all-weather tennis courts and a football accommodation, including costs, is available From late May onwards, applicants who pitch. A frequent bus service runs to the from the Accommodation Office. You can have firmly accepted an unconditional main campus and the city centre. also find out more by visiting our website at or conditional offer of admission, will be www.abdn.ac.uk/accommodation 37

FAQ’s

1. When do I apply for accommodation? From late May onwards, applicants who have firmly accepted either a conditional or an unconditional offer of admission will receive information on how to apply for halls of residence. 2. When do I get my keys? Most students move in on the Saturday before the start of the academic year. 3. What are my options if my accommodation requirements are less than a full academic year? Limited short-term lets are available, for example, 1 term, 1 semester, 2 terms. 4. Are part-time students entitled to accommodation? Full-time students are given priority but it is often possible to accommodate part-time students too. 5. How do I pay my rent? Rent is normally paid at the start of each term. Alternatively, arrangements may be made by individual agreement with the Finance Section, to pay on a monthly basis. 6. What if I am unhappy with my accommodation? If your query is about the room itself, services or utilities offered, contact the Hall Management. If your query is about the possibility of a room move, go to the Accommodation Office, complete a transfer request form and your request will be reviewed. Please note, an administration charge of £25 is payable upon acceptance of the transfer. 7. Is there a deadline for accommodation applications? Yes, usually in August, although it is recommended that you book as early as possible. Accommodation applications received after the deadline cannot be guaranteed. 38

Whether a budding sports star of the future or just an occasional exerciser, it is University the most exciting time in the University’s history for those interested in sport, exercise and health. In August 2009, phase 1 of a new £28 million flagship Sport sports facility opened, in partnership with Aberdeen City Council and supported by sportscotland. These first- class sports facilities, backed up with an array of excellent services, provide the ideal venue for a range of activities, > £28m Olympic standard available to all students, at all levels. sports village Facilities in the Sports Village include:

> Aquatics Centre opening in 2014 > Full size, 3rd Generation FIFA-approved indoor football pitch > Over 50 sports clubs > IAAF-approved indoor athletics area with 135 metre running straight, throwing and > Sports coaching jumping areas, and free-weights zone > Large multi-purpose sports hall > Extensive sports scholarships > 4 squash courts (2 glass-backed) > Large state-of-the-art fitness suite and performance gymnasium > 2 studios > IAAF-approved outdoor athletics area comprising 400 metre outdoor track, jumping and throwing areas, and stadium > Full-sized grass football pitch > Floodlit water based hockey pitch > Performance and well-being Centre, with physiotherapy clinic > Crèche, café and spectator seating

The next phase of the facility, Aberdeen Aquatics Centre, is currently in development and is expected to open in January 2014. This world-class facility will include a 50-metre, 10-lane Olympic-standard swimming pool, an international-standard diving pool with moveable floor, a land conditioning suite, and a health suite, and will be located adjacent to Aberdeen Sports Village. Services provided include: A full programme of traditional and innovative group exercise classes that cater for a wide range of tastes and levels of ability - from novice to advanced, including morning, lunchtime and evening classes such as sports conditioning, TRX, boxfit, body conditioning, gliding, step and studio cycling. Additionally, a range of specialised courses is on offer including pilates, yoga and Kettlebells training. 39

Extended services are provided by ASV’s Alongside supporting our sports clubs, of exercise classes, from fitness pilates Fitness Consultants and the University’s the Sports Union runs a series of one-off through to specialist sports conditioning, Sport & Exercise Team including personal events and competitions throughout the for all levels of participant. The team year. We start with the Ironman challenge advice on all aspects of fitness and training, also boasts a diverse range of sporting University Sport health-related fitness, nutrition and weight in October and then really get going after expertise, including Strength and management, fitness assessments, body fat Christmas with the Sports Ball, Boat Race, Conditioning (coaching for the Scottish and analysis and one-to-one fitness programming, Granite City Challenge and Superteams Local Institutes of Sport), and extensive pilates and strength and conditioning training. competitions. The annual Blues Ball hosts experience in coaching a variety of sports, around 600 guests to celebrate the year’s from recreational to elite level. The facility has enabled the North of Scotland to sporting achievements. Our showcase event play an integral part in the run up to the London Sports Scholarship and Bursary Scheme is Superteams, a multi-discipline event 2012 Olympic Games through the hosting of On an annual basis we provide support which attracts over 500 participants and Cameroon’s Pre-Games Training Camp. It will for high performance athletes through is designed for those wishing to enjoy a also facilitate the city’s involvement in the 2014 our Bursary and Scholarship Schemes. light-hearted, fun-filled day of sport with a Commonwealth Games. It is a regular training This allows us to provide strength and healthy element of competitiveness! ground for elite athletes and allows sports conditioning, physiotherapy support and stars of the future to achieve their full potential There is a friendly rivalry with The Robert a seminar programme as well as financial and compete at the highest level. Add to this a Gordon University (RGU), culminating in support for up to 20 sport bursars who will vibrant and growing Sports Union with over 50 the annual university Aberdeen Asset Boat be competing at, or close to national level, sports clubs, 3,500 members, numerous events Race and Granite City Challenge in March, in their chosen sport. We are also proud to and six intra-mural leagues. We look forward in which all University of Aberdeen teams offer the John Robertson Scholarship and to greeting students for a sporting experience compete against their RGU counterparts. the George Yule Sports Scholarship, which second to none. provide support of up to £3,000 and £1,250 We stay busy after Easter too with big one- per annum to two outstanding athletes Students and staff automatically obtain use day tournaments in Rugby 7s, Football 6s during their studies at the University. of the facility and services at a reduced rate. and Hockey. If you want to play sport, A flexible membership scheme also exists. we’ve got something for you. How do I find out more? For more information please visit our websites: www.aberdeensportsvillage.com Sport and Exercise Team Other Sports Facilities Our professional team consists of highly University Sport & Exercise Team qualified and experienced staff including www.abdn.ac.uk/sportandexercise King’s Pavilion and Playing Fields sports scientists and physical education Aberdeen Sports Village The King’s Pavilion contains the current teachers. We provide excellent sporting, www.aberdeensportsvillage.com swimming pool, a strength and conditioning and health and fitness-related services for suite, and changing facilities. The attractive students, staff and members of the public. Sports Union outdoor playing fields boast two rugby pitches, The team provides first-class instruction www.ausa.org.uk/sport a lacrosse pitch, an artificial cricket wicket, as well as a single tennis court and three additional tennis courts, which double as a floodlit training area for football during winter. Balgownie Playing Fields Situated two miles from the King’s campus in the Bridge of Don, Balgownie plays host to a number of football, rugby and shinty teams, providing extensive pitches and changing rooms. Hillhead Centre Situated approximately one mile from King’s campus next to the Hillhead Halls of Residence, the Hillhead Centre boasts a full-size grass football pitch , a full-size, sand-dressed synthetic pitch suitable for 7-a-side football and hockey, a grandstand and changing facilities. Sports Union We also have a boathouse on the banks of the river Dee which serves the thriving rowing club, as well as a climbing bothy in Royal Deeside. Aberdeen boasts the second largest number of clubs of any Scottish University and are proud to offer competitive sport aimed at beginner level all the way up to international. Most clubs compete regionally, in British University & College Sport (BUCS) and Scottish Student Sport (SSS) leagues against teams from any of 150 other Universities across the UK. 40 Students’ Association

> Over 120 societies > Advice and support > University newspaper and student radio > Students’ charities campaign > Get involved! The Aberdeen University Students’ Association (AUSA) is the organisation that represents and serves students interests on campus, and works to make your time in Aberdeen as happy, enjoyable and productive as possible. Advice & Services AUSA attempts to alleviate student hardship through the provision of its services. It has a Student Advice Centre to answer all your important questions from healthcare to bus routes and everything else in between. AUSA also provides a money advice service, which can help you manage your money and help keep you out of debt. The Centre provides a comprehensive resource of private accommodation which is also available online. AUSA is able to provide advice on contracts, landlords and living on your own for the first time. AUSA also hosts a comprehensive overnight support service called Niteline, which is a confidential listening and information service run by trained volunteers. AUSA runs a part-time job service and a Volunteering service which helps you find part-time work and volunteering opportunities to enhance your CV. Societies and Student Activities AUSA runs over 120 societies. All of them are different and have something to offer every taste. There’s no reason not to get involved! AUSA has a plethora of activities going on at all times and runs successful ‘Give it a Go’ sessions throughout the year. Students can take part in one-off activities on campus or try out the activities of a particular society before deciding to become a full member. All current societies hold regular events and socials which offer a fantastic opportunity to meet like-minded students. 41 Students’ Association

AUSA also runs a Climate Change project in key decisions. Externally, the Students’ The Rector which allows students to get involved Association works with the National Union The Rector plays an important role in in helping students reduce their carbon of Students (NUS) to fight hard on national representing and supporting students, emissions and make others aware of and international issues like welfare, working closely with the Students’ climate change issues. education funding and equality. Association. The position of Rector is Sporting Competition Student Media currently held by Maitland Mackie. The Rector is a well-respected role and sits AUSA is very proud of its sporting The University of Aberdeen has its own radio on the University Court. This ensures achievements, with many of its students station, Aberdeen Student Radio, and is one that, combined with the President of the actively participating in one of its many of the only institutions in the UK with a free Students’ Association and the Rector’s sports clubs. Successes have been achieved fortnightly newspaper. This comes in the Assessor (his representative within the in a wide variety of sports: British University form of Gaudie, totally run by students, for University), there is effective student medals have been won in rowing, boxing, students, which reports on news from the representation at Court. On a day-to-day shooting, climbing and athletics; and in team University and the wider world. level, the Rector holds regular surgeries events such as volleyball, golf, fencing, rugby Aberdeen Students’ Charities Campaign for students who would like to raise a and tennis. The University has an excellent Aberdeen Students’ Charities Campaign is a particular issue or concern. The Rector also record in the Granite City challenge, where collection of students from across Aberdeen spearheads wider campaigns, both within our students compete fiercely against our who raise huge amounts of money for local the University and nationally, to ensure local rivals: The Robert Gordon University charities through a variety of events. Two that student life at Aberdeen continues to (RGU). If you don’t want to compete, AUSA of the largest events are the Student Show, meet the needs of all students. organises a wide range of non-competitive an annual musical show put on by students clubs, intra-mural leagues and one-off Events at the famous His Majesty’s Theatre in sporting events. On a large scale, AUSA organises and host Aberdeen, and the Torcher Parade, the a variety of events each year including Representation largest torch-lit parade in Europe involving Freshers’ Week and the Graduation Ball. AUSA works at many levels to represent around 2,000 students, 45 lorries and 50,000 It also hosts smaller events and campaigns students. The AUSA Sabbatical Officers are spectators. such as the Superteams Sporting Challenge there to help you with any problems you may Getting Involved and various campaigns supporting encounter during your time at University and AUSA is directed by elected students, students rights. are your elected representatives. They work six of whom are elected “sabbatical hard to ensure the student experience is as Aberdeen University Students’ Association officers”, meaning they are paid to work good as it can be and that the student voice Butchart Centre, University Road for a year, essentially as full-time student is heard at all levels in the University. Aberdeen AB24 3UT ambassadors. It is easy to get involved with Tel: +44 (0)1224 272965 Class Representatives work with AUSA AUSA. It is incredibly rewarding, and a www.ausa.org.uk to raise any course related issues and fantastic opportunity to meet new people. student representatives sit on a wide Elections are held every year, so there are variety of committees to make sure that regular chances to make a difference and student opinion is taken into consideration get involved. The Hub

The hub is located in the heart of campus at the University of Aberdeen and is a great place for you to meet friends, eat, shop, go online or just relax.

Thirsty? Grab a coffee. Get a vitamin and energy boost with a range of fruit smoothies. Need to Check Your Emails? Comfy chairs, funky desks, wireless internet connection - what more could you ask for? Special sofas where you can slouch in style and pop your laptop on the arm? We’ve got those too. HubGrub. Food, Glorious Food... How hungry are you? In a hurry? Fancy something a little bit spicy? Or just after some good old comfort food? Take a wander up to the first floor and discover what we are serving up today. ShopHub Indulge in some retail therapy. Shophub gives you a huge choice of snacks, magazines, stationery, gifts and clothing. Our clothing range is full of University branded clothing, ties, hoodies and sports gear - loads of stuff to get your mitts on! Infohub The Infohub is your first port of call for all student services, information and enquiries. You can drop in at any time to get key information or guidance from one of our friendly and experienced staff, or make an appointment to see a specialist adviser. As well as providing information on most student related issues, the Infohub can check your registration status, prepare student letters, provide directions, issue ID cards, help with payment queries and much more! www.abdn.ac.uk/infohub It’s Good to Talk If you need to talk to someone, head to the Student Advice & Support Office where we can offer an impartial and confidential ear. The University Careers Service is also available for advice on gap year and future career planning. There is so much more to see and do at the hub...you’ll just have to come and see for yourself. www.abdn.ac.uk/thehub The University and the Environment 43

Consider walking, cycling or taking theConsider walking, cycling fares rail most appliances unused off Switch taps leaking as such faults any Report Section Estates the to Only boil enough water in your kettle use to want you what for is sufficient lights when there Switch off daylight radiators obstruct not Do Instead of turning the heating up put jumper a on necessary is what print Only this – photocopy and print Duplex will and campus on done be can money! you save for paper scrap sided single Use taking note to Points Recycling ‘Shred-It’ the Use the waste paper you producerecycle to clothing unwanted giving Consider the textile banks andcharity through by charity to items other giving participating in end of hall clearances bus to campus. One third of all journeys journeys all of third One campus. to bus Aberdeen in mile a than less are term taking the train home when Try onfinishes. Students can save a third Follow the Follow Environment Office a top tips to becoming sustainable student: >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  >  The Environment Office has developed the Office has developed The Environment to highlight environmentalable campaign overall the Whilst initiatives. and information impact environmental our minimising of task steps is huge, we can all take on the planet the able campaign onourselves. You will see events and more.notice boards, e-bulletins, more for Check out www.abdn.ac.uk/able information.

600 %. On campus, phased-out PCs a year to NGOs, charities and and charities NGOs, to year a PCs phased-out the UK and Africa. community projects in mug thermal a runs University The you if where Mugs’ ‘SMUG called promotion campus on outlets Tiki at mug thermal a use purchase. your on discount a receive will you have initiatives, other many with along This, successfully raised the profile of sustainable waste management on our campus. Fairtrade The University of Aberdeen and the Students’ Association have been awarded Fairtrade University status. Fairtrade gives power back to consumers who can make a difference to the lives of disadvantaged producers in developing countries by choosing Fairtrade certified products. For more information, please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/fairtrade www.fairtrade.org.uk Choose products with the FAIRTRADE Mark Able Campaign Our impact is not just local but affects us nationally and internationally. It is so important that we encourage students and staff to adopt sustainable working practices which can also be adopted outside the University environment. there are Recycling Points at two locations, at at locations, two at Points Recycling are there cater which Crombie-Johnson, and Hillhead residence of halls from waste domestic for glass bottles, foodincluding plastic bottles, cardboard and textiles.and drink cans, paper, and particular in re-use waste support We charities includingactively endorse the local Creative the and Oxfam Trust, Hope New the Waste Exchange. Edinburgh with partnership a have also We between 400- based ReusingIT, donating Recycling and Waste Disposal and Waste Recycling its of 35% currently recycles The University just over 1 waste and re-uses together together 09 emissions by over over by emissions 000 tonnes p.a. compared to the old system. , Almost 20,000 people create a bigAlmost 20,000 the at Here environment. our on impact this very of Aberdeen we take University Environment the 2005 Since seriously. putting been working hard, Office has forefront the at protection environmental of policy and practice. is Office Environment the of role main The on has University the impact the reduce to give we that means This environment. the students and staff help to support and advice energy travel, on decisions informed make disposal. waste and recycling use, water use, we get up to: Here are some of the things Travel Travel The University has a Sustainable Plan which incorporates lots of projects and initiatives to help staff and students travel in environmentally sustainable ways. The University promotes many forms of sustainable transport from walking and cycling to public transport and car-sharing. The University also works closely with the local authority, bicycle groups and public transport operators to provide facilities and discounted rates to encourage sustainable travel. Energy and Water Carbon a developed has University The carbon the details this and Plan Management emissions for the base year 2008/ The University and the Environment the and University The with the target to reduce these emissions by University the where area One 20% by 2014. installing by is emissions carbon reduced has plant. (CHP) Power and Heat Combined a and electricity the of This provides over 50% over 90% of the heating for the Old Aberdeen Campus, reducing CO2 3 Additionally, where electricity is purchased off the grid, over 27% is green electricity. The Carbon Management Plan details a number of additional measures to be implemented, some of which have already been completed. The latest development is that the University now has an internal web page where users can view current electricity use in buildings and details on the cost. In addition to reducing carbon dioxide emissions we place a high priority on water conservation, fitting toilet and showering facilities with a range of water saving technology and automatic controls. 44

THE DIFFERENCE FOR Our Students 45

Eilidh LLB Law

> What attracted you to the University of Aberdeen? The main attraction was the fantastic reputation of the Law School. I came to one of the open days and met some of the staff and I instantly felt very comfortable here. > Did you enjoy Freshers’ week? It’s the best part of the year. The University organises events that everyone will enjoy, Our and it is the perfect opportunity to meet new people. It also helps you to get to know the city. > What three words would you use to describe the University of Aberdeen? Students You’ll Love It! Jonny Geology/Petroleum Geology

> What has been the best part of University so far for you? The music has been the best part of University for me, as there is such a diverse musical scene. It offers a great way to meet and interact with people not only within the University, but the city too. > How easy is it to get home? The transport links are very good from Aberdeen. I’m from London which means I can get a direct train or a flight which makes for a more relaxing journey. > What three words would you use to describe the University of Aberdeen? Historic, welcoming and interactive.

Kayleigh MA Economics

> What has been the best part of University so far for you? My favourite part of University life so far has been my involvement in the University swimming team – this has allowed me to meet lots of new people and make lots of new friends with similar interests. The swimming club also has a great social scene. I have also really enjoyed my experience in University halls, and my course which I feel gives me a great opportunity for independent learning. > What is the city like? It’s really student orientated, which I like. But it’s also quite diverse, cultured and there’s lots of history to explore. > What is the nightlife like in Aberdeen? Really good – there are lots of pubs and clubs if you want to party. But there is also plenty of culture and a good choice of cinemas if you want a quiet night. > What three words would you use to describe Aberdeen? Student-oriented, friendly, multi-cultural. Abigail Neuroscience with Psychology

> What do you enjoy most about your degree? I really enjoy the practical aspect, as it allows us to apply the knowledge taught in lectures in a more clinical context. > What has been the best part of University so far for you? It definitely has to be the friends I’ve made up here, having moved from England. University brings such a wide variety of people together that you end up having friends from all over the world which makes for interesting conversation. > What is the city like? The city is vibrant and the majority of people here, both students and locals, are friendly and welcoming. It is very much an up and coming city with development of shops and clubs and bars going on all the time. > Do you find Aberdeen expensive to live in? Although Aberdeen is considered an expensive city with the oil industry etc, as a student I don’t find it any more expensive than anywhere else within the UK and many of the shops and restaurants put on special offers for students which you should always take advantage of. > What three words would you use to describe the University of Aberdeen? Friendly, interesting, challenging. Assiya BEng Mechanical Engineering

> Why did you choose the University of Aberdeen? I chose Aberdeen because of its excellent reputation for Engineering. I was awarded a scholarship for my studies and Aberdeen was recommended as being one of the very best places in the UK to go. > What is the nightlife like in Aberdeen? I’m not much of a clubber but there are loads of great cafés and restaurants in Aberdeen. I also really enjoy shopping in the city centre, especially at the new Union Square shopping centre. > How are you finding living in Scotland? It’s been brilliant! I’ve loved being able to travel round the country so easily. Nowhere seems that far away and it’s also quite inexpensive by public transport. > What three words would you use to describe the University of Aberdeen? Memorable, historic and exciting. Benedict MA English

> Why did you choose the University of Aberdeen? After successfully completing the ‘Summer School for Access’ course I felt comfortable and familiar with my surroundings. > Do you have any top tips for coming to University? Try your best not to get too carried away with the student lifestyle! > What do you enjoy most about your degree? The reading materials in most of the modules I have undertaken would constitute, in my book (absolutely no pun intended), to the enjoyment factor. > Is it easy to make friends in Aberdeen? It depends how sociable you are. In my experience I have found most people to be warmer than the weather! Jokes aside, I can thankfully say that Aberdeen attracts a really diverse and multi-cultured selection of people, who are delightfully friendly.

Teresa BSc Biotechnology (Applied Molecular Biology)

> Do you have any top tips for coming to University? Take advantage of all University events during Freshers’ week. It’s a great chance to look around different societies, meet friends with similar interests and get prepared for your studies. Bring all your enthusiasm and a smile with you. You will be surprised how much you can enjoy your University life and even miss it while on holiday! > What’s the best thing about Aberdeen? Aberdeen is a remarkable city. Situated in a beautiful coastline area, close to amazing wildlife and landscapes, while at the same time being a cosmopolitan city full of welcoming people. > What three words would you use to describe the University of Aberdeen? Charming, challenging, exciting! Gesner Orlando BSc Human Embryology and Developmental Biology

> Do you have any top tips for coming to University? 1. Enjoy it. 2. Learn how to cook; it’s a life saver. 3. Get involved in local and University activities - they really help you to integrate. 4. Ask Ask Ask, never be afraid to ask a question. 5. Make friends and keep in contact. > Is there anything you would change about your University experience? Nothing, I enjoy every moment! I just wish I knew University would have been so much fun years ago. > What has been the best part of University so far for you? I think it’s being part of a multi-cultural community; all of my friends are from different parts of the world. I have mates from Nepal, Saudi, Kenya, Germany, Italy, Uganda, Ghana, Zimbabwe, India, and because of this we have learnt so many new things about each others respective culture. Also, as I’m a student in medical science, it’s such a privilege to be able to work in one of Scotland’s leading research facilities, the Institute of Medical Sciences, and the potential to get involved in ground-breaking research is just too good to be true. > What three words would you use to describe the University of Aberdeen? Always moving forward. Rebecca Bsc Geology – Petroleum Geology

> What attracted you to the University of Aberdeen? I came to an open day when I was looking at all my options and I fell in love with the campus! I am a competitive athlete and was impressed by the range of sports clubs offered and the brilliant facilities at Aberdeen Sports Village. I was very welcomed by everyone and felt that I would be able to fit in easily with life being a student at Aberdeen University! > Do you have any top tips for coming to University? Get involved! There are a huge range of sports clubs and societies. You don’t have to be an expert and there are so many opportunities to try something new or a bit different. > What are the sports facilities like? The sports facilities are outstanding! Aberdeen Sports Village has so much to offer with an excellent gym, outdoor and indoor running tracks, huge games hall, squash courts, hockey pitches and not to forget the full-size indoor football pitch. They are also currently in the process of building a 50m swimming pool as part of the sports village. > What three words would you use to describe the University of Aberdeen? Fun, supportive, friendly. 52 Aberdeen is an attractive city in which to live, from the buzz of a cosmopolitan city centre to the green parks, open spaces and sandy beaches.

THE DIFFERENCE IN Aberdeen the City 53 54 The City

> Population of 250,000 > Ranked best place to be student in UK > Safe and student-friendly > Cosmopolitan city and the great outdoors 55

Welcome to Scotland’s third largest to discuss their work and Café Scientifique city - a place with a lively combination which explores big questions in science. of historic charm, thriving economy and University Music offers a programme of Fast cosmopolitan community. Aberdeen, concerts throughout the academic year, home to 250,000 people, is the perfect while the University’s Music Prize is now Facts centre for work, leisure and play. an established international composition > A 15-minute walk east of the campus event. Big enough for the ‘big city’ experience, leads to the salt-tanged air of student-friendly Aberdeen is compact This year, the University of Aberdeen is Aberdeen’s miles and miles of enough to make it easy to find your way proud to host Europe’s biggest science sandy beach around and make friends. From the historic festival. The British Science Festival will take > As well as a mind-expanding stretch of 15th century University campus in Old place from 4 to 9 September 2012 with an beach, Aberdeen has its own permanent Aberdeen it’s just a short bus ride to the exciting programme of events for people of fun fair, complete with 100ft Grampian bustling city-centre of Europe’s energy all ages and interests. For more information Eye Ferris Wheel, three roller coasters capital. Local crime rates are low, and the visit www.britishscienceassociation.org/ and a log flume. Nearby you’ll also find University operates a ‘Safe Campus’ code web/britishsciencefestival a swimming pool, sauna, climbing walls, for the benefit of students. Shopping skate park, restaurants, cafés and a Aberdeen is an attractive city in which to Aberdeen has everything a city in the 10-screen cinema live, with its abundance of green parks and UK should have and more. You’ll find all > Aberdeen is full of great multi-cultural open spaces. To the east of the city lies the the major supermarket and retail chains grazing grounds. Restaurants and North Sea and a coastline of sandy beaches, here with four large city-centre shopping takeaways include Chinese, Vietnamese, while to the west stretches Royal Deeside, malls, including the piazza-style Academy Greek, Indian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, the beautiful valley of the River Dee. It’s just and new Union Square. From high street Mexican, Polish and Turkish half-an-hour from the buzz of Union Street stores and designer boutiques to quirky to the tranquillity of the nearby hills and independent outlets and thrift shops, > Aberdeen’s harbour mouth is one of the countryside in one of the most beautiful parts shopaholics will be delighted by the best locations in Scotland for watching of Scotland. Where else can you have lectures quantity and quality of places on offer. dolphins from the shore in the morning and ski in the afternoon, More for Your Money > Three of Scotland’s five main ski centres or sail, or wind surf, or hill climb, or canoe You may be surprised to hear that students are only two hours from campus. or...? From seaside to mountainside – it is all find Aberdeen a cheaper city to live in than Aviemore, the Cairngorm Mountain, on your doorstep at Aberdeen! Look on our Edinburgh or Glasgow. If you need to boost Glenshee and the Lecht provide perfect website for the huge range of sports and your budget, Aberdeen City and Shire’s pistes for board-riders and alpine skiers other activities waiting for you at Aberdeen. buoyant local economy means there is no > University events have drawn many Nightlife shortage of holiday and part-time work. Visit authors, thinkers and commentators At night Aberdeen really lights up with a www.ausa.org.uk for more information. to the city; Seamus Heaney, Louis de nightlife second to none. The huge variety More Information Bernières and Sir David Attenborough of pubs and clubs ranges from trendy For more information about what Aberdeen are just some of the names who’ve nightclubs, to cosy, old world pubs full of has to offer, take a look at some of these appeared atmosphere and everything in between. websites: > Fifteen miles south of campus the A vibrant music scene includes regular www.aberdeencityandshire.com historic fishing port of Stonehaven has major tours by the biggest names around www.aberdeencity.gov.uk an attractive cliff fringed harbour and the and an eclectic mix of venues and dance www.visitscotland.com gloriously crumbling Dunnottar Castle. floors promote the home-grown talent of You can also download the Lonely Planet It’s so picturesque Franco Zeffirelli filmed local acts and Djs. Guide to studying in Aberdeen. Simply visit Hamlet with Mel Gibson here With a student population of over 50,000, www.abdn.ac.uk/documents/lonely- > For 267 years the city of Aberdeen had Aberdeen caters for all tastes in arts, culture, planet-guide.pdf two universities when there were only leisure and entertainment. Aberdeen has lots two universities in the whole of England to offer, with the well-known His Majesty’s Theatre, Music Hall and Aberdeen Exhibition > A trace of Aberdeen’s rich history can and Conference Centre (AECC) regularly be heard in Doric, a form of Scots attracting national and international artists whose historic phrases and lyrical and companies. Four cinema multiplexes, pronunciations pepper some local’s everyday speech. Here are a couple of Art Gallery, Maritime Museum and first-class Alternatively you can download handy phrases to start you off: sports and leisure facilities means there is the free Study Aberdeen iPhone app. Fit like? – How are you? always plenty going on. Either download a QR code reader to Nae Bad – Pretty good Culture your phone and scan this code or search The University is committed to supporting a the App Store for ‘Study Aberdeen’. > “Bon Accord”. Knowing what wide range of cultural activities. Highlights Aberdeen’s motto means really helps include the Director’s Cut series that you feel at home. In case anybody asks attracts leading film-makers to Aberdeen it means: ‘happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again’ 56 going on What’s www.ausa.org.uk/granite_city_challenge www.aberdeenjazzfestival.com musical tastes. something to suit everyone’s Aberdeen JazzFestivalhas funk and Rat Pack swing, the including blues,hip-hop,soul, Bringing together all styles of jazz 14-18 March Aberdeen JazzFestival www.ausa.org.uk/boat_race they’re nottobemissed! inter-varsity events of the year, Challenge. Two ofthebiggest Boat RaceandGranite City University Aberdeen Asset (RGU) culminating in the annual The RobertGordon University There isafriendlyrivalrywith Challenge Race and Granite City Aberdeen AssetBoat March

28 April Torcher Parade 18-21 April Student Show www.ausa.org.uk/torcher lorries and50,000spectators. ing around 2,000students,45 torch-lit paradeinEurope involv- Torcher Paradeisthelargest www.ausa.org.uk/student_show Students’ CharitiesCampaigns. pounds fortheAberdeen the showraisesthousandsof and performedbystudents, Theatre everyyear. Written comedy showatHisMajesty’s an outstandingmusical running for90years,putting The StudentShowhasbeen April

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going on What’s Dates TBC The WizardFestival www.aiyf.org performingarts. in International Youth Festival offers the very best in 2012.Aberdeen International celebrates its40thanniversary celebrations of youth arts One of the world’s biggest 1-11 August Youth Festival International www.wizardfestival.com stalls andavillageshop. carefully selectedfoodandcraft family camping,fairground rides, a musicfestivalwith4stages, Aberdeenshire countryside.It’s Showground intheheartof Wizard takesplaceatNewDeer August

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Throughout the year: The Director’s Cut: Presenting a series of discussions staged at the University of Aberdeen’s King’s College campus with well- known and innovative international filmmakers and broadcasters. Previous broadcasters have included the likes of Sir David Attenborough. www.abdn.ac.uk/directorscut The Concert Season: The Music Department’s annual programme of events includes a winter and spring series and presents a series of concerts and recitals ranging from early music to first performances. www.abdn.ac.uk/events Café Scientifique: The Café Scientifique series is an informal programme of events featuring discussion and debate on the latest topics in scientific research. www.abdn.ac.uk/science/public/ cafescience Elphinstone Institute Tuesday Evening Lectures: Publicised as part of the King’s Museum Tuesday evening lecture series, these events are organised by the Elphinstone Institute and examine and celebrate the traditions of the North and the North-East of Scotland. www.abdn.ac.uk/events

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> Excellent transport links > International airport > Central rail and bus station Getting Here > Inexpensive travel options

Located within Aberdeen city at By Bus By Train the heart of a diverse and thriving First-class roads south to Edinburgh, Rail services connect Aberdeen both north regional economy, Aberdeen’s pivotal Glasgow, and onwards, carry fast coach and south. There are regular direct trains role in the international oil and gas services linking Aberdeen with the UK’s to London, and services from Edinburgh industry means that it enjoys excellent major cities. Competitive return fares, and Glasgow link with other mainline communications and travel links. using Travelcard schemes, make bus travel routes. Inverness, the scenic West Coast popular with students. The earlier you and Highlands are reached northwards. By Air book your travel, the cheaper the prices, Sample return fares using a 16-25 Rail Card, Aberdeen’s international airport is served for example: excluding Friday travel are: by a number of major carriers, providing an > Birmingham: £20.90 > Manchester: £20.90 > Birmingham: £85.45 > Manchester: £68.60 extensive network of routes throughout the UK, direct to Europe and worldwide through > Cardiff: £70.70 > Edinburgh: £3.80 > Cardiff: £115.50 > Edinburgh: £38.85 major hubs. British destinations include > Glasgow: £3.80 > Inverness: £3.80 > Glasgow: £34.70 > Inverness: £25.40 three London airports (Heathrow, Gatwick and Luton - just over an hour’s flight time > London: £20.90 > London: £86.25 at fares from around £50 return), Belfast, NUS Extra travelcards cost £11.00. Taxis 16-25 Rail Cards cost £28.00. Taxis from Birmingham, Bristol, Dublin, Durham Tees from the bus station to the University cost the railway station to the University cost Valley, Exeter, Humberside, Leeds, Bradford, around £7.00. around £7.00. Sample travel fares quoted Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, are correct as at February 2012. Nottingham, East Midlands, Southampton, Sample fares taken from: as well as the Scottish Highlands and www.megabus.com, Islands. Other destinations include www.stagecoachbus.com and Amsterdam, Bergen, Brussels, Copenhagen, www.nationalexpress.com and Esbjerg, Faroe Islands, Oslo, Paris, Stavanger are correct as at February 2012. and Tenerife. There is a frequent bus link to the city centre, and taxis from the airport to the University cost around £15. www.aberdeenairport.com 59

> Excellent transport links > International airport > Central rail and bus station > Inexpensive travel options

By Car By Local Bus Entering the city from the south or west, The number 20, from Littlejohn Street, next follow signs for the A90 (Fraserburgh and to Marischal College, links the city centre Peterhead). This leads round the ring road with the main Old Aberdeen site, and the (Anderson Drive). Exiting from a roundabout Hillhead Halls student village. The number (signed Old Aberdeen) onto Cairncry Road, 19, from Broad Street, opposite Marischal continue to follow the A90 signs through two College, passes to the west of the University further roundabouts onto St. Machar Drive. along Bedford Road. From Union Street, After a third roundabout, the road bisects Old the city’s main thoroughfare, the numbers Aberdeen and local signs will direct you to 1, 2, and 14, travelling east, all run along University sites. From the north, Old Aberdeen King Street and pass the University. Alight is signposted on the A96 (from Dyce and just after the King’s playing fields on your Inverness) and on the A90 (from Peterhead). left. Aberdeen buses require exact fare, so have 10p and 5p coins ready, or buy a bus University Postcode: AB24 3FX Farecard from local shops. GPS: Nearest stops to University: Lat:57:09:54N (57.16501) Old Aberdeen (bus no. 20) Lon: 2:05:57W (-2.09912) Bedford Road (bus no. 19) Grid Ref: NJ 941 082 King Street (bus no. 1, 2 and 14)

Detailed information on travelling to Aberdeen, including maps, can be found by visiting: www.abdn.ac.uk/maps/travel 60 Getting Here Getting Here

A King’s College F Cruickshank Botanical Gardens L Meston Building One of the most beautiful and historic A beautiful and peaceful 11 acre Garden to Houses the departments of Chemistry, buildings at the University dating back to support studies in Biological Sciences. Physics, Geology and Computing Science. 1495. King’s College houses Divinity and G St Mary’s Building M Aberdeen Sports Village the King’s College Conference Centre, and is connected to the University Chapel. St Mary’s houses Geography, Geology £ 28 million Olympic sports centre created and Planning. for sporting excellence. B University Office Student Recruitment & Admissions H The Old Town House N Butchart Building Home to the Student Recruitment and The focal point of Old Aberdeen and the New Student Centre opened in 2010, and home Admissions Service. visitor gateway to both the University to Aberdeen University Students’ Association and our charming medieval campus. (AUSA). C Regent Building I Fraser Noble Building O Taylor Building Houses the Language Centre and the Centre for Lifelong Learning. Home to Engineering and Maths. Home to Law, English and Modern D Library Languages. J Zoology Building P Edward Wright Building £57 million flagship library. An icon of the Supports students’ studies within the North East. discipline and houses the Zoology Museum Houses Social Science, Business and the and The Natural History Centre. IT Help Desk. E The Hub K MacRobert Building Q William Guild Building Student centre and home to the Infohub, Student Support, Careers Service, dining Home to the School of Education and Music. The home of Psychology. and retail outlets. R Old Brewery Contains Philosophy and Film Studies. King’s College Campus

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A The Polwarth Building The Polwarth Building houses the School of Ashgrove Rd West Cornhill Rd Medical Sciences. B Institute of Medical Sciences The Institute of Medical Sciences is home to Principal Investigators leading cutting edge molecular and cell biology research in a variety of fields. A B C The Medical School Library E Subjects covered in the Medical School C Library include hospital, laboratory, pre- clinical and community-based medicine D G and medical sciences. D Medico-Chirurgical Hall F The Medico-Chirurgical Hall is often used for conferences, and has an important collection of old books, instruments and portraits. E Institute of Applied Health Science Home to IAHS members who contribute to local, national and international research Aberdeen within Europe and development activities in both primary Shetland Islands and secondary care sectors.

F The Suttie Centre £ 20 million new state-of-the-art centre for Bergen Stornoway Kirkwall Wick Teaching and Learning in Healthcare.

Stavanger G The Dental School Aberdeen The new University of Aberdeen Dental Belfast Newcastle Bradford Durham Tees Valley School is based in a purpose-built new Dublin Esbjerg facility which was opened in January Humberside Copenhagen Liverpool Manchester 2010 by First Minister Alex Salmond. Birmingham Norwich The building is home to Students on Bristol Groningen the BDS Dentistry programme. Exeter London Amsterdam Southampton Jersey

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Located in North-east Scotland, Aberdeen is Antalya For detailed maps, visit easily reached from all major cities within Europe and throughout the world. Dalaman www.abdn.ac.uk/maps 62 With over 600 first degree programmes to choose from, and our flexible student- centred approach, we offer study opportunities for all.

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This wide variety, combined with our flexible student-centred approach, Choosing offers you many advantages, especially if you have not quite made up your mind!

We admit you to a degree (e.g. MA or BSc) rather than to a specific subject, School Your Degree or Department, so you can usually study any subjects which interest you and even change direction as your interests and ambitions develop. This means that for most degrees you do not need to worry too much about getting it absolutely right > Flexible student-centred approach on your UCAS application. A Scottish Honours degree normally takes four years > Professionally accredited degrees to complete, giving you the option to delay your final choice until the end of your > Enhanced study options second or even sometimes third year. The MA and BSc degrees are especially > Flexible entry and exit points flexible, and the LLB and BTh programmes also offer some flexibility. Other degrees like the MEng, the MBChB or our range of Education degrees - which train you for a specific profession - offer less flexibility, as the content of these courses must satisfy the relevant professional organisation. There are a number of undergraduate Masters degrees in disciplines including: Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Biological Science and Medical Science. These normally take five years to complete, although second year admission is possible if you have very good qualifications. Some language programmes take five years as they include a year of study or work abroad; there are some programmes which include a year’s industrial placement and therefore these also last for five years. The MBChB degree again takes five years. We also now offer a four year Graduate entry Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme, which is open to Home/EU students. Entry Requirements The Entry Requirements are the minimum standards and subjects required for entry into our degree programmes and achieving these does not guarantee entry. You will find them alongside each degree in the prospectus. If you are applying for a very competitive programme, such as Education, Law or Medicine, special attention will be paid to your Personal Statement and Referee’s Report, in addition to your grades. Taking a Break Before Your Studies You might be considering a ‘gap’ year to reflect on your aspirations and priorities. Make sure that you do something organised which will contribute to your personal development. You will need to explain this fully on your UCAS form, but it will not have a negative effect on your application. 65

Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework All degrees offered by the University of Aberdeen are compliant with the Scottish Choosing Your Degree Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF). The SCQF provides a single unifying framework to describe qualifications offered at all stages from school to higher education in terms of their levels and credit value. Courses and Credits Almost all of our degree programmes consist of courses (modules) at four levels (1-4, equivalent to SCQF levels 7-11). Level 4 is the Honours level, although some programmes, particularly in the MA, have a “Junior” Honours year at level 3. You will normally take eight courses in your first year. This might sound complicated - but we make it easy for you. You can access summary information on the range of courses offered in the online Catalogue of Courses which can be found at www.abdn.ac.uk/registry/courses Enhanced Study An important element of the curriculum offered at Aberdeen is the opportunity to gain a broad education rather than specialising degree, you will receive an Undergraduate degree programmes. Where appropriate, from the start. Employers and others have Certificate or Diploma in Higher Education the Scottish Baccalaureate will be used in told us of the value of students having the if you obtain 120 level 1 credit points offer making. opportunity to study subjects beyond their (for the Certificate) and 240 credit points However, for Medicine the admissions chosen subject. (including 90 at level 2, for the Diploma). process is highly selective. As such, the Exiting with such an award does not The University offers a range of Enhanced standard entry requirements as detailed prevent you from returning to study Study options from new and exciting on page 142 will remain. For the present at a later date to continue your studies Sixth Century Courses, which give you time, Scottish Baccalaureates will not form and complete a higher award (subject to the opportunity to explore topical issues part of the standard entry requirements for meeting the necessary criteria for re- from a range of disciplinary perspectives, Medicine at Aberdeen. admission). to Sustained Study Programmes which Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) allow you to focus in more closely on a Honours Scotland is reforming its curriculum for specific area of study (such as a language) in If you are taking a four-year degree, young people aged 3-18. Curriculum for addition to your main subject. Alternatively, admission to the Honours part of the Excellence (CfE) aims to make learning you may choose to pick up your Enhanced degree is conditional on performance in more relevant to the modern world and Study options through studying another the first two years (or in some cases the give young people the skills, knowledge mainstream course drawn from one of the first three), but most students who want and understanding they need to succeed wide range of courses offered. For more to progress to Honours do so. It is possible in learning, life and work. Ultimately this information see page 14 or visit: to concentrate on a single subject in your aims to help young people progress in Honours programme, but two-subject www.abdn.ac.uk/thedifference modern society and community. combinations (Joint Honours), with equal Flexible Entry and Exit weight given to each, are popular and CfE is transforming education by A Scottish Honours degree normally takes there is an increasing number of Combined providing a coherent, flexible and enriched four years, but if you have very good Honours courses involving a major subject curriculum for all young people and qualifications you can be admitted to the and a minor one. In the MA and BSc will review other aspects of Scotland’s second year of study in many of our degree programmes, it is also possible to take a education system, including qualifications, programmes, enabling you to complete General Honours degree which involves the assessment and learning and teaching an Honours degree in three years. In some study of more than two subjects within a approaches. cases it is even possible to enter the third broad disciplinary area. The University of Aberdeen is aware of the year of a degree programme. Scottish Baccalaureate new proposals and in the coming years The University acknowledges the The University of Aberdeen recognises will continue to review entry requirement importance of recognising successful the value of the Scottish Baccalaureate criteria as the Scottish Qualification study, and recognises that students can and believes the qualification is a good Authority (SQA) define the new curriculum. find themselves in the position that they preparation for entry to university. More information can be found at need to take a break from their studies for The qualification will be considered www.sqa.org.uk whatever reason. If you decide to leave alongside Advanced Highers, for direct the University before completing your entry into year two across a range of 66 Foundation Programmes Foundation Programmes In late 2011, the University of Aberdeen Reasons to Study a Foundation Unlike many foundation programmes launched seven brand new undergraduate Programme at Aberdeen: in the UK, the Aberdeen International Foundation Programmes in the following Foundation Programmes are taught entirely > Additional English language support pathways: by Aberdeen staff, and are structured in and mentoring from academic members such a way as to offer transition to the > Biological Sciences of staff second year of a huge number of Science > Chemistry > All students are taught by University of and Engineering programmes. This allows Aberdeen staff students to complete their foundation year > Computing Science and bachelor degree in 4 years, the same > All students are taught on the University > Engineering duration as other students starting studies of Aberdeen campus in first year. These programmes benefit > Mathematics > All students are fully registered, and can greatly from enhanced English language > Medical Sciences use all facilities provision, and the support and guidance of experienced and enthusiastic academic > Psychology > All programmes are integrated to first members of staff. year, and upon successful completion There are a number of options available students move directly to second year For more information please visit: to students who come from countries of their chosen degree www.abdn.ac.uk/international/ where the high school curriculum does foundation-programmes not currently allow direct entry to the Successful completion of a pathway first year of an Aberdeen undergraduate foundation programme allows students programme. The University has created a the opportunity to choose from a huge number of specially designed International number of Bachelor degree programmes Foundation Programmes which can help at Aberdeen. Each of the custom designed students gain entry to one of the oldest pathways has an assigned academic universities in the UK. mentor to help and guide students. 67 How to Apply How to Apply Applications for full-time undergraduate UCAS *In the case of an application to the MBChB, degree programmes at Aberdeen - as with Rosehill, New Barn Lane Graduate Dental Surgery, a teaching other UK universities - are made through Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 3ZA programme or to a BMus programme, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Tel: +44 (0)871 468 0468 applicants may be asked to attend an Service (UCAS). interview. It is unlikely that any offers will UCAS Code A20 be made until the end of March of the year The exceptions are for part-time courses, The University of Aberdeen of entry to allow for completion of these and non-graduating or visiting students, Short Code ABRDN interviews. who apply direct to the University (see www.ucas.com www.abdn.ac.uk/sras for further details). Ensuring Equality & Fairness Closing Dates Medical applicants (A100) and graduate 15 October 2012 for all Dental, Veterinary Admissions Policy Dental applicants (A201) must take the UK Science/Medicine applicants and anyone Every degree has an academic Admissions CAT Admissions Test. More information can including the universities of Oxford or Selector, who considers all applications be found at www.ukcat.ac.uk Cambridge among their choices. for that area of study. Selectors are most > You apply online to UCAS. Schools and 15 January 2013 for all other applicants. interested in your academic achievements, colleges can provide advice and guidance. but they’ll also take note of the subjects Late applications may be considered at the UCAS will accept applications for 2013 you’ve studied, and competence in any discretion of the University. Priority is given from September 2012. If you wish to specific subjects required. Selectors take to applications received by the normal closing contact UCAS from outside the UK, your Personal Statement and your Referee’s date of either 15 October 2012 or 15 January you can write to them at the address Report into account, as well as your 2013. Where vacancies exist at Aberdeen, provided, or you can visit their website. actual or predicted examination grades. UCAS continues to forward applications UCAS expects to receive applications For Education and Medicine application until 30 June; candidates whose applications electronically through Apply. This policies see the relevant sections. are received at UCAS after 30 June will be electronic system contains the most up- automatically entered into Clearing. Equality of Opportunity to-date course information, is quicker to Applications for admission to all use, and, as you are using the Internet, What Happens Next? programmes are considered on their you can complete your application You will receive an acknowledgement letter academic merit, without regard to any anytime from us. Your application will be considered inappropriate distinction e.g. ethnicity or by one of our Admissions Selectors and a > Your completed application should nationality, disability, sexual orientation, decision will be made as soon as possible*. be submitted (preferably via Apply) gender, religious or political beliefs, marital You will hear from UCAS and also from the to UCAS with the applicant’s fee of status or socio-economic background University. One of four things can happen: approximately £22. If you wish to apply of the applicant. Adult learners (21+ at for only one course at one institution, > You will be made an unconditional offer start of course), and students who have a reduced price of approximately £11 if you already have the qualifications to experienced educational disruption applies. For all applicants, there are full meet our requirements (including students with disabilities), instructions at www.ucas.com to make it may receive special consideration. If you > You will be made a conditional offer if as easy as possible for you to fill in your are in one of these categories, you should you don’t yet have all of the necessary online application, plus help text where tell us in your UCAS application. passes that we require appropriate Full information on our Admissions Policy > You may be invited for interview - this is > You may apply to up to five institutions and Guidance Notes, including how to part of the normal selection process for on the full-price UCAS application. make a complaint, can be found on our web Medicine, Dental Surgery, Education and You should list your choices in the pages at www.abdn.ac.uk/undergraduate/ Music only order in which they appear in UCAS admissions-policy documentation. Applicants for Medicine, > You may, if it is obvious from your Equality and Diversity Dentistry or Veterinary Science should list application that you cannot meet our The University is proud of the diversity no more than four such courses in their requirements, be advised by UCAS that of its student body and recognises the five choices we could not make an offer at this stage benefits that diversity brings to the student > Although admission at Aberdeen is to a After you have received your offer from experience. The University is committed to degree and not to a particular Department the University, you decide whether you providing a learning, working and social or subject, you should still enter your wish to accept it. UCAS provide detailed environment in which the rights and preferred degree programme title and instructions of when and how to reply. dignity of all its members are respected so UCAS code in your UCAS application. We hope that you will make Aberdeen that they can reach their full potential. However, in most cases it is easy to your firm choice. change your degree preference after you have begun your course 68 Widening Access Widening Access As part of our commitment to widening their true potential, who have suffered level three. Refer to the pages on probable access to higher education, the University setbacks in previous education or who are entry requirements for Arts & Social of Aberdeen offers, through its Access seeking a route into degree study. It provides Sciences, and Sciences for more information. Programmes, a bridge to degree level an opportunity to sample new subjects, Open Lecture Programme study. These programmes offer a range experience university life and gain self- This programme allows members of the of courses covering both Arts & Social confidence. UK students who need to do so general public to attend lectures in a wide Sciences and Science subjects. can apply for bursaries to provide assistance range of degree classes without taking the with study costs. For UK and EU students, assessments. You can use the programme The Access Programmes payment of tuition fees may not be required, to develop existing interests in particular and for UK students free accommodation > Are you considering beginning or subjects, or to explore the range and level in Halls of Residence may be available. returning to study? of study at university, with a view to deciding Students who successfully complete the whether to commit yourself to degree study. > Would you like to study part-time in the Summer School at the required level are day or evening? guaranteed entry into the University of Contact Details Aberdeen*, and may also be able to use Centre for Lifelong Learning > Do you need to top up your qualifications? the qualification for entry into other UK University of Aberdeen Our Access Programmes give direct entry to the universities. For more information about the Old Aberdeen majority of degrees offered by the University of Summer School please visit our website at Regent Building Aberdeen. The programmes can also be used, www.abdn.ac.uk/lifelonglearning/ssa or Aberdeen by agreement, for admission to HNC and HND call or email us at the contact details shown. AB24 3FX courses and degrees at other universities and *Please note that the Summer School for Tel: +44 (0)1224 273528 colleges. Alternatively, individual courses can Access does not provide an alternative Fax: +44 (0)1224 272478 be studied for interest only. entry route into Medicine. 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Aim 4 Uni is concerned with all schools and various events which are intended to give colleges in the University of Aberdeen’s You can find further information about the more information: the University Open general catchment area of Aberdeen and programme by visiting our website at Day; Information Days – when FE students Aberdeenshire. However, particular focus www.abdn.ac.uk/lifelonglearning/ can get an “initial glimpse” of university for support provision is on schools with courses/access-degree-studies life; Departmental Visits – can be arranged traditionally low rates of progression to directly with individual departments; and, We are also happy to arrange a guidance higher education. The support activities Skills for Success in HE - a three-day course appointment either face-to-face or by provided are mainly for pupils in S4, S5 and in September to provide FE students with telephone and we can be contacted on: S6 to encourage and assist those pupils with the necessary skills and knowledge to Tel: +44 (0)1224 272448 potential to succeed in higher education move smoothly into university study. The Email: [email protected] studies. The students from the target group University has a number of articulation of schools who apply for University of Summer School for Access Programme arrangements agreed with local Further Aberdeen courses, but whose marks do not This 10 week on-campus programme runs Education colleges which enable access reflect their true potential, will be given from mid-June to mid-August for entry to to degree study and also offer entry into the opportunity to gain entry through University. The programme is aimed at advanced study. Students, on completion of successful completion of the Summer those whose qualifications do not reflect a range of HNC and HND courses, can enter School for Access. appropriate degree courses at level two or 69 Widening Access What is Available for Your On-Campus Activities Reach Scotland School or College? Reach Scotland will provide information, > Campus Tours and Visits to Departments A range of activities and events are available advice and guidance on applying to high at various times throughout the year for > Open Days (University and Departmental) demand professional courses. It is managed secondary schools and colleges. Arranged and delivered by five partner universities, > Applicant Days through different University Departments, University of Aberdeen, University they include both in school/college and on- > Primary Seven French Week of Dundee, University of Edinburgh, campus activities and events. 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‘Aim 4 Uni offers a wide range of activities and events to inform and encourage pupils to make post-school and college study choices.’ 70 Part-Time and Distance Learning Part-Time and Distance Learning Many adults wishing to study at degree The archaeology courses offered by the Counselling Skills level sometimes find difficulty in fitting University use distance learning technology This programme has been designed for full-time study around work, family to enable students throughout the North the wide variety of people who wish to and other commitments. The Centre of Scotland to deepen their knowledge of know more about counselling skills and a for Lifelong Learning offers an ever the archaeology of Scotland, understand ‘counselling approach’, either for use in their expanding portfolio of evening and changes in archaeological interpretation work or for their own personal development. weekend part-time and distance courses and techniques, and carry out their own The purpose of this programme is to enable at undergraduate level to ensure people investigations. Practical work and visits to sites participants to apply counselling skills in who wish to study part-time have access are an integral part of many of the courses and order to support and empower others in a to a wide range of degree level courses. a number of summer schools are also available variety of contexts. as part of the programme. As with full-time undergraduates, part-time The Counselling Skills Programme (COSCA students are supported in their studies by a Arts and Social Sciences validated) offers the opportunity to study personal academic adviser and a programme The Flexible Arts and Social Sciences four modules which develop practical skills team. As well as being assessed by the same Programme converts current on-campus and award 60 university credits at degree standards as full-time students, part-time undergraduate courses into online courses level one and the COSCA (Counselling and students have access to all the University’s supplemented by small group evening Psychotherapy in Scotland) Certificate in facilities - academic, sporting and social. tutorials. Harnessing the latest lecture Counselling Skills. This is the first stage of Students can take several subjects at a capture technology, full-time University training to become a professional counsellor time, or concentrate on one. Whatever lectures are recorded and made available but is of interest to anyone who wishes to programme or course is chosen, all credits to part-time students via a secure website. develop advanced communication skills. can be counted towards a degree. Students attend traditional tutorials in the The Certificate in Counselling Skills Theory, evenings either face-to-face in Aberdeen or Admission and Finance offered at second and third level, offers an from home via audio or video conferencing Adult learners may enter most of the Centre opportunity for more in depth theoretical and, increasingly, by live web streaming. for Lifelong Learning’s programmes on a and reflective study. part-time basis with no prior qualifications. All courses carry transferrable undergraduate Science See the web pages of the Centre for Lifelong credits and students can study individual The Flexible Science Programme converts Learning for more details: courses or can accumulate credits in a number current on-campus undergraduate science www.abdn.ac.uk/lifelonglearning of courses to qualify for the awards of Higher courses into online courses. Subjects Education Certificate, Higher Education Fees are set at affordable levels and assistance available are: Diploma or a Master of Arts Degree. with funding may be available if you are > Archaeology a Scottish domiciled, part-time student The programme offers courses in a range of > Chemistry classified as a home student for fee purposes: subject disciplines such as: Archaeology, Art > Computing Science History, Business Studies, Education, English > Fee Waiver: Students in receipt of certain > Ecology and Environmental Science Literature, Film Studies, International benefits may be eligible for a 100% remission > Geography Relations, Linguistics, Political Science, of fees under a Government funded Fee > Geology Scottish History, Religion and Sociology. Waiver scheme. Please contact us for details. > Physics Christian, Religious and > Individual Learning Accounts (ILA): Philosophical Studies Students are not limited to the online Students registered on all courses within material, but are welcome, whenever they Theology itself is one of the oldest the Centre for Lifelong Learning are are able, to join on-campus students in intellectual disciplines. It is concerned eligible to apply for an ILA. These can be lectures, tutorials or practicals, making this with the study of Christian faith, life used to offset part-time fees, subject to an ideal study solution for those working and doctrine. Religious Studies offers the conditions of the scheme. Details can in the offshore industry. Students can the opportunity to study other cultural be found at www.ilascotland.org.uk take individual courses or can accumulate perspectives both within Europe and credits by building up passes in a number > Part-time Fee Grants: Students registered beyond. Both encourage the study and of courses to qualify for the awards of on all courses within the Centre for understanding of religion as an important Certificate and Diploma. Inclusion of Lifelong Learning are eligible to apply for aspect of human culture and history. appropriate subjects in the curriculum can a grant. These can be used to offset part- The study of philosophy lies at the heart allow direct admission to year 2 or 3 of a time fees, subject to the conditions of the of much of our culture. Almost without full-time or part-time BSc curriculum. scheme. Details can be found at: exception, whenever we put forward a www.saas.gov.uk/student_support/ firmly held personal viewpoint, we are Scottish Studies special_circumstances/part_time_dl.htm revisiting arguments which have been Do you ever wonder why we speak the debated over the last two millennia. way we do? Or why there are so many Please contact us for details of fees for different religions in Scotland? Or why the international students and non Scottish Students can take courses for interest Scottish landscape looks the way it does? Is domiciled UK/EU students. or build credit towards the award of a there something distinctive about Scottish BTh degree, both at unclassified and Archaeology/Scottish Archaeology writing? Have you ever wondered about Honours levels. Students wishing to study Archaeology is concerned with understanding the history of your family or your home Philosophy primarily can use credits human behaviour through the study, analysis area? You can explore these and many other towards a Certificate in Philosophy. and interpretation of the material remains of intriguing questions in courses offered in the past, both prehistoric and historic. this programme. 71 Education Programmes (BA/Part-Time) Education Programmes (BA/Part-Time) The School of Education offers a number Students have the option of exiting Individuals can register for single courses, of BA/part-time courses/programmes at with a Certificate, Diploma, Ordinary or ‘clusters’ of courses or the degree. Examples of undergraduate level. In the main, these Honours Degree in Curative Education, all ‘clusters’ of courses for particular professions have as a target audience; those involved of which are recognised as professional are: the Certificate in Adult and Community in professional fields of work associated qualifications for work in social care Learning; the Teaching Qualification (Further with – social pedagogy; further education; settings. Education). adult education; community education; Certificate in Adult and social care; young people and families; For further information, contact: Community Learning family therapy; out of school care; nursery Programme Secretary - BASP Programme provision; childcare and protection. Tel: +44 (0)1224 274636 This certificate is designed for the Students will, in some cases, be self- Email: [email protected] continuing professional development of funding, and in others will be sponsored BA in Childhood Practice (BACP) those working in the adult learning and community learning contexts. by their employer. The BACP is designed to meet the Q BA (Honours) in Social Pedagogy (BASP) continuing professional development (CPD) It comprises four courses at SC F level 9, needs of adults working with children from each of 15 credits selected from: Adults’ The BA in Social Pedagogy is offered in 0-16 within all sectors of provision. Learning; Designing and Implementing partnership with the Camphill School Learning for Adults; Communities Learning; in Aberdeen (CSA) and participating The BACP is structured into four levels, Community Work and Community communities and organisations. The each level being equivalent to one year Development; Understanding Literacies; programme attracts an international of a full-time undergraduate degree. Each Developing Literacies; Working with student group. Most students are volunteer level (SCQF levels 7-10) will normally Children and Young People; Therapeutic co-workers in Camphill Communities, take two years to complete. There is a Approaches to Working with Families. while a small number are employed by the range of options for entering and exiting Courses are designed to assist participants communities or other organisations. the programme at a level appropriate to balance theory and practice. to an individual’s level of education and Social Pedagogy is a multi-disciplinary experience. Distance learning is the main Teaching Qualification professional activity, integrating elements mode of delivery. (Further Education) TQ(FE) of care, education, therapeutic and creative The TQ(FE) is designed for full/part-time activities in the work with children and adults Courses are structured across four core lecturers employed in Scotland’s Colleges. with complex needs and usually taking place areas of study relevant to all childcare and The programme comprises four 15 credits in the context of community living. education settings. The themes covered courses at SCQF level 9 or level 11. by the programme are: The Child in the The Camphill context of therapeutic settings Sociocultural Context; Child Development It is available through supported open and community living provides a rich and and Learning; The Developing Professional; learning and includes learning activities varied learning environment for students Personal Research and Enquiry. presented in an online environment, undertaking the programme. The design discussions, self-evaluation, reflective of the programme enables students to be For further information, contact: practice, self-directed study and assessment, active in the work in their community/ Programme Secretary - BACP Programme as well as group workshops and assessment workplace whilst undertaking their studies. 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Guide to Our Degrees 76 Degrees in Arts & Social Sciences

MA (Designated) Arts & Social Science subjects are MA (Honours) based at the picturesque King’s College campus, originally established in 1495. There are a wide range of programmes on offer, providing students with a huge amount of choice and flexibility to tailor-make their own degree.

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Accountancy 80 German 96 Natural Philosophy 108 Anthropology 81 Hispanic Studies 97 Philosophical Studies 70 Archaeology 82 - Latin American Philosophy 109 Behavioural Studies 83 - Spanish Physics Celtic Civilisation 84 History 98 (see Natural Philosophy) 108 Celtic Studies 85 History (Part-time) 70 Politics & Christian Studies 70 History of Art 99 International Relations 110 Computing 86 Information Systems Psychology 111 Counselling Skills 70 & Management 100 Real Estate 112 Divinity 87 International Relations Religious Studies 113 Economics 88 (see Politics & IR) 110 Scandinavian Studies 114 English 89 Language & Linguistics 101 Scottish Studies 115 English & Scottish Languages and Scottish Studies Literature (see English) 89 Literature of Scotland 102 (Part-time) 70 European Studies 90 Legal Studies 103 Sociology 116 Film and Visual Culture 91 Literature in a Spanish Finance 92 World Context 104 see Hispanic Studies) 97 French 93 Management Studies 105 Gaelic Studies 94 Mathematics 106 Geography 95 Music Studies 107

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The MA in Arts & Social Sciences Changing Your Subject In most cases, you do not need a prior Most first year classes are open to you even The tradition in Scotland is to admit students qualification in the subject to enter a first year if you have not studied the subjects before, to a degree programme rather than to a course, even if the subject in question is one that is on the school curriculum. There are

Degrees in Arts & Social Sciences Degrees in Arts and you can usually go on to Honours in particular subject or course. You do have to any subject that particularly interests you, put specific subjects and course codes on your some exceptions, but they are rare. even if it is not the subject you applied for UCAS application, but essentially we admit When you apply, do not worry too much about via UCAS. You can graduate with an Honours you to the MA degree programme rather getting your subject choice absolutely right degree in a modern language having started than specifically to an MA in Anthropology or on your application. If you find your interests as a beginner in your first year and all Single History or Philosophy, for example. As a result, changing, you will usually be able to change Honours MA degrees are available with it is possible in most cases to change your your degree intention accordingly. options in a European language. All degrees Honours preference after you have begun have core courses, but your freedom to your course. Advanced Entry combine subjects is generally limited only Employment Prospects The traditional four-year MA Honours by the timetable. The MA can be taken as an degree with its ‘two-plus-two’ structure ‘Arts’ degrees are often thought of as Honours (four year), or a Designated (three (two pre-Honours years followed by a educationally attractive but not strongly job- year) degree. two-year Honours programme), allows you related. In fact, some degrees within the Arts to experiment with new subjects in your A Historic Campus & Social Science area are strongly vocational: pre-Honours years, and perhaps change your Students taking Arts & Social Science subjects most graduates in Accountancy, Computing, Honours intention, while still completing your are based at the picturesque King’s College Mathematics and Economics, for instance, degree in the normal time. However, if you are campus, the site where the University was will have no difficulty in finding a job, and clear about what you want to study, and have originally established in 1495. Its historic will be employed because of the knowledge (or are likely to get) good qualifications in the character is reflected in the variety of places and skills they have learned at university. subject or subject area you have applied for, used in teaching: you may find yourself As with most science graduates, however, it is possible to complete an Honours degree looking out towards the North Sea from a the majority of graduates in Arts & Social in three years. In your first year, you would room in the seventeenth century Cromwell Science subjects go into careers in which take a combination of first and second year Tower, taking part in a seminar in the Old they do not use their subject knowledge courses, and then proceed to third year in Brewery, or listening to a lecture in ivy-clad directly. They nevertheless have access to your second year of study. Direct entry to the New King’s - ‘new’ because it was built as a wide range of career openings, because second year of study is possible in most subject recently as 1870. Of course, you will also have more than 40% of the vacancies notified to areas covered by the MA degree. To qualify for classes in up-to-date lecture theatres and university careers services, or advertised advanced entry, prospective Single Honours seminar rooms fully equipped with the latest in the broadsheet press, are for holders of students must hold an A-grade pass at A Level, technology. degrees in any subject. Employers are looking or an A-grade pass at Advanced Higher, in the What Kind of Degree? for the qualities that any good graduate will subject they wish to study for their degree. Honours degrees in Scotland normally take have - intelligence and energy; research, Prospective Joint Honours students may be four years to complete, though if you have retrieval and presentation skills; adaptability admitted directly to second year courses if appropriate qualifications you can enter at and the capacity to learn quickly; good they hold an A and B-grade pass at A Level, second or even at third year level. Honours time-management; IT competence, and the or one A-grade pass and one B-grade pass at students can specialise in their third and ability to take responsibility and to work Advanced Higher in the subjects concerned. fourth years in one particular subject (Single reliably without supervision. Your studies See table on page 79 for more information. Honours), in two (Joint Honours) or in the case - whatever the subject - are only part of the of Scottish Studies, three (General Honours). story: employers will be just as interested Curriculum Reform You can also take an Honours degree in which in how much you gained from the informal You may have the opportunity to take you add a ‘minor’ in a subject like Music to opportunities universities offer to extend your Enhanced Study options as part of your degree your ‘major’ subject. Honours degrees are experience, take risks, and show enterprise, and participate in co-curricular activities. classified, that is to say you will be awarded whether in the Debating Chamber, on a See page 14 for more information. a first-class, upper-second, lower-second, or university expedition, performing in a concert third-class degree. or working for Amnesty International. If you decide against an Honours degree, a Entry Requirements three-year degree is available. The Designated With the very wide range of Arts & Social MA is available in most subjects. It allows Science degrees offered, some in subjects some subject specialisation, but is not available at school level, but many not, it classified. In addition, there is a general degree is appropriate that these degrees should of MA which focuses on subject breadth have a very flexible entrance policy. Entry rather than discipline specialisation. requirements are rarely subject-specific: we are more interested in your overall ability than in the precise content of your pre- university studies. 79 Probable Entry Requirements for 2013 – MA/MA (Honours)

Type of Qualification General Requirements First Year Entry Second Year Entry Subject Requirements Probable Entry Requirements for 2013 – MA/MA (Honours) Probable Entry

SQA - Scottish S at levels 1, 2 or 3 in Minimum of 4H at BBBB Is possible in most school For some degrees a specific Qualifications English obtained at a single sitting based subjects. Adv H at subject is required, see of Hs or 5H at BBBBB A in the subject selected subject section for details obtained over two sittings, for Single Honours, or AB or 3AH at BBC in the subjects selected for Group Awards will be Joint Honours taken into consideration for entry purposes although additional H or AH passes may be required. S Grade Maths needed for entry to Accountancy, Economics, Finance

GCE - General GCSE in English or English Minimum of 3 A Levels at A Level at A in the subject For some degrees a specific Certificate of Language BBB or 4AS at AABB selected for Single Honours subject is required, see Education GCSE Maths needed for plus BB, or AB in the subject section for details entry to Accountancy, subjects selected for Joint Economics, Finance Honours plus a further B ILC - Irish Leaving O in English or in English Minimum of 4H at BBBB For some degrees a specific

Certificate/ Language obtained at a single sitting subject is required, see Ardteistimeireacht of Hs or 5H at BBBBB subject section for details obtained over two sittings. The grading within band B must be at B2 or above IB - International SL in English Minimum of 30 points Minimum of 34 points Baccalaureate with at least 15 points (including 6 at Higher in at HL subject(s) selected) EB - European Pass First Foreign Language Minimum of 75% overall Baccalaureate - English

National Diplomas Minimum of DDM Higher National Pass with B grade in Articulation agreements Certificates assessment unit exist for some subjects with local FE Colleges, see below Higher National Pass in Related Subject Articulation agreements Diplomas (restrictions apply) exist for some subjects with local FE Colleges, see below

Offers of Admission Scottish Baccalaureate Applicants should note that achieving the minimum entrance This qualification will be considered alongside Advanced Highers, requirement will not guarantee an offer of admission. We have many for direct entry into year two across a range of degree programmes. more applicants than places, and most of them meet our minimum Articulation Agreements entrance requirements, consequently we may need to ask for more Aberdeen College / Banff & Buchan College than the minimum. This might take the form of further academic HND students who have successfully completed their studies in qualifications or better grades, and an applicant’s academic profile Accounting, Administration & Information Technology and Social will normally be the most significant factor in our decision making. Sciences may be able to gain advanced entry to certain University Additionally, certain features of the personal statement may help to of Aberdeen degree programmes in related subjects. strengthen an applicant’s case. Partnership Agreements New 14-19 Diploma Qualification Sabhal Mòr Ostaig We have considered the acceptability of the new 14-19 Diploma for Direct entry to Year 2 of MA in Gaelic Studies on successful completion our undergraduate degree courses and our entry requirements have of HNC Gaelic/Gaelic and Communication (with Enhancement Exam) been modified to accommodate the new qualification. or CertHE from An Cùrsa Comais. Please visit www.ucas.com for more information. 80

Accountancy students will acquire a What You Need SQA Highers BBBB thorough understanding of the theory and A Levels BBB S Grade/GCSE Maths Accountancy practice of accountancy, and gain business IB 30 points, 15 points at HL skills that will prepare them for employment See table on page 79 for more information. in positions of responsibility. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? By the end of the year, students will be able Available only with experiential or other > The University of Aberdeen is the first to appreciate (1) social and political roles qualifications at post A Level or Advanced academic institution to subscribe to of accounting and how accounting helps Higher Standard. See page 78 for more Thomson Reuters Eikon in the UK and businesses to meet a set of professional and information. Ireland. This flagship trading floor legal requirements, and (2) how accounting Can We Help? integrates real activity in financial markets information is processed in small and Email us: [email protected] directly into your courses. The platform is medium sized businesses. Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 used by major financial services companies Students are also introduced to financial across the world. You gain experience valuation, investment appraisal and financial Your Study Options of sophisticated financial management markets in the first level Finance course and to Single Honours Programme in technology placing you at the leading edge fundamentals of economics and management. Accountancy with skills that employers are seeking Students will also be able to choose other Joint Honours Programmes with > You will develop intellectual skills options from both within the Business School Anthropology, Divinity, Economics, Finance, through analysing and evaluating and in the rest of the University. French, Geography, German, Hispanic accounting information, and through Second Year Studies, Legal Studies, Management Studies, critically evaluating the role of accounting There are four core level 2 courses: Financial Philosophy, Real Estate, Sociology information in a modern economy Accounting 2, Management Accounting Major-Minor Honours Programmes with > You will be introduced to central 2, Understanding Statistics and Business Computing, French, German accounting and business topics by active Finance. In addition, students take a Business researchers in these fields Law course and may take various optional Related Honours Programmes in Economics, Finance, Management Studies, Degree Programme Structure and Content courses including Personal Finance and Market Regulations. Real Estate Accounting and accountants come in many different shapes. Some have trained with Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Professional Accreditation a professional firm of accountants after Students studying Single or Joint Honours A significant benefit of having studied university and specialise in assessing the Accountancy take Auditing, Management Accountancy and/or Finance is that degrees accounts of companies. Others work for Accounting 3, Financial Accounting 3 in third in these subjects can form part of a direct one company producing their accounts and year, and Accounting Theory in fourth year. path to being granted exemptions given by providing information for managers. Still Other accounting, finance, and non-accounting professional institutes from the examinations others work in public organisations. The vast options are available to supplement these necessary to get professional qualification majority of these accountants will have done core courses. Examples are: Taxation; status. For example, at the University of a degree and then undertaken the exams of International Financial Management; Aberdeen, courses are accredited by the one of the accounting institutes. One of the Corporate Finance; Derivatives & Treasury Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland advantages of doing an accounting degree Management; Empirical Methods in Finance; (ICAS) so that you would receive credit for may be exemption from some of the exams of Integrative Studies in Accountancy; Critical courses that you would otherwise need to the professional bodies, although this should Perspectives on Accounting; International undertake, while working full-time. In the job not override all other considerations. The Financial Statement Analysis and Business market, these exemptions can make you professional bodies also have an experience Information Systems. Honours students will particularly attractive to employers. requirement that needs to be fulfilled. complete a dissertation in Accountancy (or in Course Information their other Joint Honours subject). A Research The University of Aberdeen Business School www.abdn.ac.uk/business Methodology course, in the first semester is aware that we need to prepare you for the General Information of fourth year, will help prepare you for this future. The four years of the course provide a www.abdn.ac.uk/sras capstone project. background for the career possibilities ahead, facebook.com/universityofaberdeen with flexibility for you to build on your Teaching and Assessment strengths and tailor your degree. We employ a range of teaching methods, @aberdeenuni First Year emphasising transferable skills such as group work, presentation techniques and IT skills, See page 25 for information There are two Accounting courses in the in order to produce highly skilled graduates first year. Accounting and Accountability, See page 26 for information for the accountancy and related professions.  which is offered in the first half-session, Teaching methods include lectures, will introduce the social, political, legal seminars, tutorials, workshops and student THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE and professional context of accounting presentations. See page 14 for more information. and accountability. 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Anthropology is the study of human societies What You Need SQA Highers BBBB and cultural differences, at all places and in all A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL times. Its approach is comparative, holistic and Anthropology See table on page 79 for more information. gives a view of social life ‘from the inside’. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) See page 78 for more information. > At Aberdeen we have one of the youngest In third year, students take courses in and fastest growing programmes in Anthropological Research, Society and Can We Help? Anthropology in the UK Nature, Anthropological Theory and Writing Email us: [email protected] Anthropology. Students are introduced to Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > We offer innovative ideas and a fresh the major concepts and theoretical debates of vision of the subject, with an emphasis the discipline, gain insight into the practice, Your Study Options throughout on work at the cutting-edge of politics and ethics of doing and writing Single Honours Programme in the discipline, and on problems of pressing ethnography, and learn about qualitative Anthropology concern for people throughout the world methods of research and analysis. Students Designated Degree in > The opportunity to work with staff and also begin work on their individual research Anthropology postgraduate students who are actively projects. engaged in internationally recognised Joint Honours Programmes with In fourth year, students complete their research Accountancy, Archaeology, Behavioural Studies, individual research projects and choose Celtic Civilisation, Divinity, Economics, English, > Unrivalled strengths in the fields of the courses on a range of special topics. These Film & Visual Culture, Finance, French, Gaelic anthropology of the North and the study include: Indigenous Media; Aboriginal Rights Studies, Geography, German, Hispanic Studies, of art, creativity, visual representation and in a Global Context; Language in Culture History, History of Art, International Relations, material culture are reflected in teaching and Society; Material Culture and Museums; Language and Linguistics, Legal Studies, Anthropology of the North; Knowledge, > Benefit from our close links with Literature in a World Context, Management Creativity and Ownership; and Indigenous programmes such as Sociology and Politics, Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Rights and Technology. and from the resources of the University’s Religious Studies, Sociology Teaching and Assessment Museums and Elphinstone Institute, with Related Honours Programmes in their extensive anthropological Most courses are taught through lectures Archaeology, Celtic Civilisation, Divinity, and ethnological collections and small-group seminars and are assessed Sociology Degree Programme Structure and Content by a combination of essays and formal examinations. Course Information Anthropology is available as a Designated www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology degree which can be obtained after three years Your Future General Information of study. It takes four years of undergraduate Anthropology challenges students to think www.abdn.ac.uk/sras study to obtain an Honours degree. critically and equips them with practical skills facebook.com/universityofaberdeen First Year in working with people in a variety of cultural contexts. Graduates work in research and There are two introductory courses, teaching, in television, radio and journalism, @aberdeenuni Introduction to Anthropology: Peoples with overseas development agencies and of the World in the first half-session, and See page 25 for information non-governmental organisations, as well Introduction to Anthropology: Questions as many other fields and professions. See page 26 for information of Diversity in the second. These courses introduce key theories and approaches, as well as issues of contemporary THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE anthropological debate. See page 14 for more information. Second Year Perceiving Cultural Difference focuses on Need more Info? issues of symbolism, kinship and relatedness, Scan the QR code identity, language and culture. The course also provides basic training in anthropological writing and bibliographic research. Understanding Social Relations explores key social, cultural and political issues in an anthropological and historical framework. 82

Archaeology is a diverse and wide-ranging What You Need SQA Highers BBBB discipline that spans the humanities and physical A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Archaeology sciences and is unique in exploring the human See table on page 79 for more information. past in its entirety. In seeking to understand how UCAS Code see page 198 ancient people lived their lives and engaged with Advanced Entry their environment, archaeologists ask the questions See page 78 for more information. that can provide us with the tools to tackle global Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] challenges in the present. Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91

Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Senior Honours) Your Study Options > Archaeology at Aberdeen has a northern > Archaeological Research Project Part 2 Single Honours Programme in focus unique in the UK, covering the > Current Issues in Archaeology Archaeology heritage of Scotland, Scandinavia, northern Plus four advanced course options chosen Designated Degree in Europe, the North Atlantic and the northern from a range available. Archaeology latitudes of Asia and North America Please note that a BSc in Archaeology is also Joint Honours Programmes with > Strong inter-disciplinary approach, available for those students who would Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, History, drawing on the strengths of related enjoy taking science options (e.g. Geography, History of Art, Philosophy, Scandinavian Studies academic subjects across the University Geology) alongside Archaeology in first and of Aberdeen within both humanities and second year. Please see page 191 for more Related Honours Programmes in the physical sciences information. Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, Geography, Geology, History, History of Art, Scottish Teaching and Assessment > Aberdeen is at the heart of a region that Archaeology is among the richest in the UK in terms of All students attend lectures, seminars, Course Information sites of outstanding archaeological interest tutorials, and laboratory-based practicals, and is in close proximity to the World and make a number of excursions to ancient www.abdn.ac.uk/archaeology Heritage sites in Orkney monuments and museums in Scotland. In the General Information Honours years there is an emphasis on field www.abdn.ac.uk/sras > Excellent laboratory facilities and library and research skills, with a required fieldwork holdings. Research active staff among the facebook.com/universityofaberdeen component. A dissertation provides students world leaders in their fields with the opportunity to tackle an original @aberdeenuni Degree Programme Structure and Content piece of research. See page 25 for information First Year Honours students will participate on The Human Past: An Introduction to departmental field projects in Scotland and See page 26 for information World Prehistory: elsewhere in the northern world, where > Being and becoming human they will receive practical training in survey, THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE > Transformations in human society excavation and documentation methods. See page 14 for more information. > Perceptions of the past There are also opportunities for places on our field schools in Iceland and Alaska. Beyond the Archaeology in Action: formal training projects, students are strongly Need more Info? > The study of the past encouraged to improve their practical skills by Scan the QR code > Doing archaeology seeking additional field and placement work. > The study of material culture Staff are happy to advise and help with such Plus six courses chosen from other disciplines. opportunities, which include projects based Second Year overseas. > Interpreting the Past Assessment is by means of written exams > Archaeologies of Social Life and different types of continuous assessment, > Archaeology of the North: Colonisation depending on the course. In the first year, and Culture Contact continuous assessment takes the form of > Archaeology of the North: Lifeways essays, but in upper years it also includes critical and World-Views reviews, posters, laboratory assignments, field Plus four courses chosen from other disciplines. notebooks and oral presentations. Third Year (Junior Honours) Your Future > Advanced Archaeological Practice The curriculum is designed to equip graduates > Archaeological Fieldwork Portfolio with the practical and research skills required > Archaeological Research Project Part 1 to work as professional archaeologists. > The Archaeological Workplace Plus three course options chosen from a The broad-based nature of the discipline enables range available: Scottish Archaeology, North graduates to compete strongly in the market American Archaeology, Archaeological place. The analytical and communications skills Science, Archaeologies of Landscape, acquired by Archaeology graduates make them Hunter-Gatherers, Viking Archaeology, sought-after in a wide variety of fields including Geoarchaeology, Human Palaeoecology, industry, commerce, research and a range of or courses from related disciplines. professions.

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Behavioural Studies at Aberdeen brings What You Need SQA Highers BBBB together internationally recognised researchers in A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL social cognition, health cognition and occupational/ Behavioural Studies See table on page 79 for more information. industrial psychology in a supportive and stimulating UCAS Code see page 198 teaching environment. Advanced Entry See page 78 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Can We Help? > There are a range of specialised laboratories At level 3, there are lectures, tutorials, Email us: [email protected] including those for brain imaging analysis, and practicals on: Biological Psychology; Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 eye movement recording, movement Developmental Psychology; Human Memory analysis and visual neuroscience and Language; Perception; Psychological Your Study Options Assessment; Social Psychology. > The School is the oldest in the UK, being Single Honours Programme in founded over 100 years ago, and maintains At level 4, students carry out and report a Behavioural Studies a strong commitment to providing a library-based review project. They also select Joint Honours Programmes with supportive and stimulating environment six options, currently from the following Anthropology, Economics, Legal Studies, for undergraduate studies list: Evolutionary Psychology; Human Management Studies, Philosophy, Sociology Degree Programme Structure and Content Neuropsychology; Applications of Cognitive Neuroscience; Abnormal Psychology; The Major-Minor Programmes with Courses are available at levels 1 to 4. There is Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception; French, German, Gaelic a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited Cognition and Learning; Neuropsychology Honours degree and a Designated degree in Related Honours Programme in of Visual Awareness; Perspectives on Social Psychology. Application for entry to Honours Psychology Attribution; Brain and Body; Human Factors. occurs at the end of second year, and is based Course Information on academic performance achieved during Variations www.abdn.ac.uk/psychology that year. Students not continuing to Honours Students doing the Joint Honours General Information Psychology may complete the Designated programmes (all Psychology programmes www.abdn.ac.uk/sras degree or the Behavioural Studies Honours are BPS accredited) take a full prescribed degree. curriculum of level 3 Psychology courses split facebook.com/universityofaberdeen First Year across third and fourth year, and complete a smaller empirical project in their final year. @aberdeenuni The Concepts and Theory course includes The Major-Minor degrees include language lectures and workshops on: Biological Students intending to do a Behavioural courses at levels 1, 2 and 4. At level 4, students Psychology; Lifespan Development; Studies degree can study abroad as part select four of the Psychology options instead Animal Learning and Behaviour; Cognitive of their degree programme in second of six. Psychology; Perceptual Psychology; Social year, subject to approval of the overseas Psychology. The Methods and Applications It is also possible to study Behavioural Studies curriculum by the Head of School. course includes lectures and practical classes as a BSc degree. See page 157 for details. See page 26 for information on all aspects of research methodology and Teaching and Assessment descriptive data analysis in psychological Teaching is by means of lectures, laboratory research. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE practicals, workshops and tutorials, and See page 14 for more information. Second Year individual supervision of a thesis topic in There are lectures on: Developmental fourth year. Assessment is by means of Psychology; Behavioural Neuroscience; examination and continuous assessment. Need more Info? Language and Cognition; Organisational Your Future Scan the QR code Psychology; Perception; Social Psychology; Behavioural Studies graduates have many Clinical Psychology. The Methods and employment opportunities (occasionally after Applications course builds on the research further postgraduate training) in psychology- methodology gained at level 1 to examine related fields. Further areas benefiting from more complex experimental designs and an understanding of the human mind and statistical methods. behaviour include careers in education, business, marketing and advertising. Further details of opportunities for graduates can be obtained from the BPS website: www.bps.org.uk/careers 84

Celtic Civilisation (as distinct from the What You Need SQA Highers BBBB more language-oriented degree programme A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Celtic Civilisation in Celtic Studies) concentrates on all aspects See table on page 79 for more information. of the history, literature, and culture of the UCAS Code see page 198 Celtic-speaking peoples from antiquity to the Advanced Entry present through the medium of translations. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Why Choose Aberdeen? Second Year Email us: [email protected] To study Celtic Civilisation is to study one Second year students are offered a range of Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 of the most fascinating strands in European courses focusing on particular facets of the civilisation, which has influenced the medieval and modern history, literatures Your Study Options political history, literature and history and cultures of the Celtic-speaking peoples. Joint Honours Programmes with of ideas from classical antiquity right Topics covered at levels 1 and 2 include Celtic Anthropology, Archaeology, Divinity, English, up to the present. The self-image of the Archaeology, Traditional Celtic Religion, French, Gaelic Studies, German, Hispanic ancient Greeks and Romans, the medieval Contacts with the Roman World, the Spread Studies, History, History of Art, Language political history of Britain and Ireland, of Christianity and the Impact of Vikings. & Linguistics, Literature in a World Context, the development of medieval courtly In the second semester of the second year Philosophy, Religious Studies, Scandinavian and romance literature, the awareness of there is a course on The History of the Celtic Studies, Sociology national identities in the age of humanism, Languages for students who want to broaden Related Honours Programmes in the growth of nationalist ideas in the their knowledge of the historical background Anthropology, Archaeology, Celtic Studies, nineteenth century and the recent upsurge to Gaelic, or to consider going for the more Divinity, Gaelic Studies, History of interest in what are widely taken to be language-oriented degree programme in Course Information Celtic pre-Christian religious ideas can Celtic Studies in their third and fourth years. www.abdn.ac.uk/celtic only be fully understood by reference to Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Celtic Civilisation. To study it is to study the General Information From third and fourth year, students make development of our modern world-view. www.abdn.ac.uk/sras their own selection from a range of optional > Enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff courses which changes from year to year, facebook.com/universityofaberdeen with a wealth of teaching experience covering various aspects of the political, social, literary and cultural history of the Celtic- @aberdeenuni > A wide range of courses speaking peoples and the ways in which the See page 25 for information > Geographical proximity to numerous culture of the ancient and medieval Celts has sites of interest been viewed in the modern period. Students See page 26 for information

Degree Programme Structure and Content may choose to write a dissertation in Celtic Civilisation or in their other Honours subject. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE First Year Your Future See page 14 for more information. In first year, all students in Celtic Civilisation Graduates in Celtic Civilisation have received are given an introduction to the early history a thorough grounding in writing, research, and culture of the Celtic peoples, with courses Need more Info? computational and presentation skills. The Scan the QR code in Celts, Romans, Druids and Warriors and study of Celtic Civilisation equips students Celtic Scotland. with a sound knowledge of the cultural, historical, archaeological and linguistic heritage of Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, which they may use in a wide variety of careers or in postgraduate research work. 85

Celtic Studies (as distinct from the degree What You Need SQA Highers BBBB programme in Celtic Civilisation) concentrates A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL on the study of the history and culture of the Celtic Studies See table on page 79 for more information. Celtic-speaking peoples through the medium of UCAS Code see page 198 texts written in ancient, medieval and modern Advanced Entry varieties of Celtic. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Why Choose Aberdeen? First Year Email us: [email protected] These texts comprise ancient Celtic In first year, all students in Celtic Studies are Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 inscriptions carved during the pre-Roman given an introduction to the early history and and Roman periods, but above all a wide culture of the Celtic peoples. Your Study Options Single Honours Programme in variety of poetry and prose attested Second Year in Britain and Ireland from the early Celtic Studies Second year students are offered a range of Middle Ages onwards. The subject-matter courses focusing on particular facets of the Joint Honours Programmes with ranges from early medieval imaginative medieval and modern history, literatures Divinity, English, French, Gaelic Studies, History, recreations of the pre-Christian past and cultures of the Celtic-speaking peoples. Scandinavian Studies right up to contemporary narrative and Topics covered from first and second year poetic reflections of political, social and Related Honours Programmes in include Celtic Archaeology, Traditional Celtic philosophical issues. Celtic Civilisation, Gaelic Studies Religion, Contacts with the Roman World, Course Information Bound up with, and supplementary to, the the spread of Christianity and the Impact of study of the vernacular texts is the study of Vikings. In the second semester of the second www.abdn.ac.uk/celtic the archaeological record, of the writings of year there is a course on The History of the General Information Greek and Roman authors and of the many Celtic Languages for students taking Celtic www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Studies in their third and fourth years. different ways in which the ancient and facebook.com/universityofaberdeen medieval Celts have been looked at from Third and Fourth Year (Honours) the early modern period onwards. In all From third and fourth year, students can learn @aberdeenuni these ways, Celtic Studies offers a unique both Irish and Welsh, concentrating on the and fascinating approach to European See page 25 for information medieval or modern forms of these languages. cultural history. Breton, Manx and Cornish may be offered See page 26 for information > Enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff from time to time, and students who have with a wealth of teaching experience done Scottish Gaelic in first and second year THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE may broaden their knowledge of it and relate > A wide range of courses See page 14 for more information. it to the other Celtic languages. In addition, > Geographical proximity to numerous sites there are relevant courses on the historical of historical and archaeological interest and cultural background of the medieval and Need more Info? Scan the QR code Degree Programme Structure and Content modern Insular Celtic literatures offered in the degree programmes in Celtic Civilisation, Celtic Studies courses are available from History and History of Art. third and fourth year. For first and second year, students will attend courses in Celtic Your Future Civilisation. In addition, they may also Like the students in Celtic Civilisation, attend courses in Scottish Gaelic (highly graduates in Celtic Studies will have received recommended) which will equip them with a thorough grounding in writing, research, a thorough grounding in one of the four computational and educational skills. They modern Celtic languages with a continuous will leave the University with a thorough history from the Middle Ages. In view of the knowledge of the cultural, historical, linguistic dimension of Celtic Studies, it is archaeological and linguistic heritage of essential that students who have done no Britain, Ireland and continental Europe, which Scottish Gaelic in their first or second year they may use in a wide variety of careers or in attend the Celtic Civilisation course on The postgraduate research work. History of the Celtic Languages or show in some other appropriate way that they have acquired appropriate linguistic skills (e.g. first or second year Latin, Greek, Hebrew or other languages). 86

Computing degree programmes at Aberdeen What You Need SQA Highers BBBB are influenced by our internationally recognised A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Computing research in Artificial Intelligence, Bio and Medical See table on page 79 for more information. Informatics, and Advanced Web Technologies. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) See page 78 for more information. > Special emphasis is given to Distributed The third year includes a year-long Software Information Systems and Knowledge Engineering Project. Working in teams, Can We Help? Technologies students develop a major software system, Email us: [email protected] from an initial analysis to the final delivery. Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > Study provides a breadth of coverage The course emphasises interpersonal which encompasses both the theory as teamwork skills as strongly as technical Your Study Options well as the practice of Computing topics. Taught courses cover essential Single Honours Programme in > Students are given the opportunity to computing topics relevant to the chosen Computing develop their transferable skills and degree, with all Single Honours (Computing) Joint Honours Programmes with abilities as independent learners students studying Knowledge-Based Mathematics*, Philosophy Systems, Distributed Systems and Security, > Strong links with industry at local, Operating Systems, Adaptive Interactive *Joint Honours Computing and Mathematics national and multi-national levels lead Systems, Languages and Computability - SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent to industrial placements (in certain and Enterprise Computing. qualification in Mathematics is required. programmes) and ensure relevance of the curriculum The fourth year also involves a substantial Major-Minor Programmes with project, but this time students work Accountancy, Economics, Finance, > Prizes for academic excellence are awarded individually on a specific topic of interest to Mathematics, Management Studies in each year of study. These are sponsored them; most projects are research-related and by O’Reilly, the British Computer Society, Related Honours Programmes in some involve working with local companies. LogicaCMG, EDS and Amazon. Projects are BSc Artificial Intelligence, BSc Computing Many of the taught courses are also related often successfully entered for national Science, BSc Information Systems, BSc to research activity, including Semantic Web competition Geographical Information Systems, MA Engineering, Peer-to-Peer and Agent-Based Information Systems and Management Degree Programme Structure and Content Computing, eScience and Natural Language Courses are available from first to fourth year. Processing. Professional Accreditation The British Computer Society (BCS) recognises There is an Honours degree and a Designated Industrial Placement degree in Computing. our Single Honours degrees for professional Industrial Placements are taken between membership without additional examinations. First Year third and fourth year, or after fourth year. Course Information First year students focus on the foundations Teaching and Assessment of Computing Science, including: how to www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/computing All courses are supported by web-based design and implement programs; relevant General Information material, usually including full course notes. mathematical concepts and some of the www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Lectures in the first two years commonly grand challenges of Computing. They also include live computer demonstrations. In facebook.com/universityofaberdeen study two other subjects, depending on their third and fourth year, as well as completing degree choice. a project, students enjoy a variety of lectures @aberdeenuni Second Year and practicals. Assessment is by a mixture of See page 25 for information In second year, students are introduced coursework and examination. to core topics in modern computing, Your Future See page 26 for information with courses in Algorithmic Problem The employment record of our graduates is Solving, Data Management and Human excellent with the vast majority entering THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Computer Interaction. Students develop occupations of their choice within three See page 14 for more information. significant programming skills in a number months of graduation in sectors as diverse of languages, and also gain a deeper as banking, pharmaceuticals and computer understanding of related issues. Need more Info? game development. Recent employers include Scan the QR code IBM, Amazon, BP, Conoco, Hewlett Packard, EDS, LogicaCMG, SAIC, Scottish Hydro Electric, Scottish & Newcastle Breweries, British Telecom, QinetiQ, the Health Service and local councils. 87

Divinity concentrates on the study of Christian What You Need SQA Highers BBBB faith, life and doctrine in a historical, cross-cultural A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL and contemporary context. Divinity See table on page 79 for more information UCAS Code see page 198 Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) > A tradition of theological study Church History (Luther, Calvin and the Advanced Entry and excellence going back to 1495 Shaping of Protestantism; Reformation See page 78 for more information. and Revolutions; The Theology of the Early > Courses for a vast range of interests: Can We Help? Church; Scottish Theology); Hebrew Bible III from the languages of early Christianity, Email us: [email protected] & IV; Practical Theology (Spirituality, Health to the historical struggles of Reformation Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 and Healing; Christian Ethics; Transforming Scotland Mission; Theological & Pastoral Perspectives Your Study Options > An international community of scholars, on the Contemporary Family; Theological Single Honours Programme in studying all aspects of theology, ministry Explorations in Disability, Community, Divinity and religious studies and Humanness); Systematic Theology (Contemporary Issues in Christian Doctrine); Joint Honours Programmes with > Excellent library facilities, beautiful New Testament (Set Texts; Advanced Greek; Accountancy, Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, surroundings and a warm welcome! The Historical Background of the New Celtic Studies, Economics, English, Film and Degree Programme Structure and Content Testament; New Testament Theology). Visual Culture, Finance, French, Gaelic Studies, The Master of Arts (MA) in Divinity may German, Hispanic Studies, History, History In all years students also have access to a be taken as a Designated or as an Honours of Art, International Relations, Language & wide range of courses in Religious Studies, degree, and may be studied part-time (in this Linguistics, Legal Studies, Literature in a World which may be incorporated into their degree. case applications are made directly to the Context, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology Applicants to the MA in Divinity may also be University, not through UCAS). interested in the Bachelor of Divinity Bachelor Major-Minor Programme with These are the courses currently running. of Theology and MA in Religious Studies Music Studies However, please note that they may be degrees. Related Honours Programmes in subject to change: The Bachelor of Divinity (BD) is a degree with Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, Sociology First Year a specific focus on a future in the Church of Course Information Church History (The Rise of Christianity); Scotland. www.abdn.ac.uk/divinity Old Testament (Introducing the Hebrew The Bachelor of Theology (BTh) is specifically General Information Bible); Practical Theology (Religion at Ground directed at people who are interested in a www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Zero); Systematic Theology (Basic Christian future as a teacher. Doctrine); New Testament (Jesus and the facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Gospels). See page 118 for more information. @aberdeenuni Sustained Studies courses of particular Teaching and Assessment interest to Divinity students are: Biblical The School has a flexible approach to teaching See page 25 for information

Hebrew I and II; New Testament Greek I & II; and assessment, utilising a combination Latin 1 and 2. of small and large group teaching assessed See page 26 for information

Second Year through examinations, essays and personal dissertation. The acquisition of communication, THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Old Testament Theology; The Pilgrim City IT and team working skills is emphasised. (Medieval Church); Christian Doctrine and See page 14 for more information. Practice; What is Truth? John’s Gospel and Your Future Letters (English or Greek texts); Paul of Tarsus Our graduates have gone on to enjoy Need more Info? (English or Greek Texts); History and Religion careers in a wide range of fields including Scan the QR code of Ancient Israel; The Mission and Message the ministry, media, journalism, teaching, of Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles; Power administration, government and publishing. and Piety; The Pilgrim City; Major Christian Thinkers; What Does it Mean to be Human: Learning from the Margins. Sustained Studies: Hebrew Language III and IV; Reading New Testament Greek 1 and 2; Intermediate Latin 1 and 2. 88

Economics at Aberdeen provides a range of skills What You Need SQA Highers BBBB that will help you understand business and financial A Levels BBB S Grade/GCSE Maths Economics decisions, political processes, social reforms and IB 30 points, 15 points at HL international relations. See table on page 79 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Degree Programme Structure and Content Why Choose Aberdeen? Courses are available from first to fourth year. Advanced Entry The best reason to study Economics is to gain There are Honours and Designated degrees in See page 78 for more information. a greater understanding of the world around Economics. you. In addition, an Economics degree offers Can We Help? excellent employment opportunities or First and Second Year Email us: [email protected] serves as a first rate foundation from which The first two years of study comprise an Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 to pursue postgraduate study. introduction to the essential framework of economic theory. Your Study Options > The University of Aberdeen is the first Single Honours Programme in academic institution to subscribe to Microeconomics (The Economics of Business Economics Thomson Reuters Eikon in the UK and and Society and Microeconomics 2) studies Ireland. This flagship trading floor the behaviour of the individual unit in the Joint Honours Programmes with integrates real activity in financial markets economy such as the consumer, worker or Accountancy, Anthropology, Divinity, English, directly into your courses. The platform is firm. It tackles the fundamental economic Finance, French, Gaelic Studies, Geography, used by major financial services companies problem that resources are scarce, which German, Hispanic Studies, History, History across the world. You gain experience forces choices regarding what goods to of Art, International Relations, Legal Studies, of sophisticated financial management produce and consume. Literature in a World Context, Management technology placing you at the leading edge Studies, Mathematics*, Philosophy, Politics, Macroeconomics (The Global Economy and with skills that employers are seeking Psychology, Real Estate, Sociology Macroeconomics 2) analyses the behaviour > Study in a strong, internationally of the economy as a whole in order to explain *Joint Honours Economics and Mathematics recognised research environment in areas the level and growth of national income, - SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent such as labour and energy economics unemployment and of inflation in both a qualification in Mathematics is required. domestic and international setting. > Benefit from an excellent teaching Major-Minor Honours Programme with environment, which is committed to the Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Computing needs of industry - developing general The Honours years in Economics offer a high Related Honours Programmes in transferable skills and an integration of quality, technical programme that is suitable Accountancy, Finance, Management Studies, research into teaching as a preparation for postgraduate study. The Real Estate, Sociology programme also follows the long established > Develop intellectual skills by analysing Scottish tradition of investigating economic Course Information and evaluating a range of contemporary problems within a variety of political, social www.abdn.ac.uk/business economic problems and historical contexts. General Information www.abdn.ac.uk/sras > Gain analytical skills that are important Teaching and Assessment in a wide variety of careers in business, Course delivery is via a mixture of lectures, facebook.com/universityofaberdeen government, education, or private research seminars and small group tutorials. and consulting Increasing use is made of web-based @aberdeenuni > St udy a subject that is both interesting and learning. Assessment is by coursework and See page 25 for information which offers considerable scope for career examinations. advancement (new Economics graduates Your Future See page 26 for information can gain relatively high earnings) Economics graduates have a large range of > There is an active Economics Society which employment opportunities open to them. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE organises annual trips to various economic Recent graduates have found employment as See page 14 for more information. institutions including the European Union petroleum economists with the Alberta State (Brussels), the European Central Bank Government (Canada) and ConocoPhillips; Need more Info? 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English at Aberdeen is a dynamic subject What You Need SQA Highers BBBB embracing both literature and language. Our flexible, A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL modular degree programmes allow you to develop English See table on page 79 for more information. your own interests and enthusiasms while acquiring UCAS Code see page 198 advanced critical and communicative skills that will Advanced Entry prepare you for a wide range of careers. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Why Choose Aberdeen? Teaching and Assessment Email us: [email protected] > Attractive courses covering all periods For each course, you will typically be Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 of English literature plus Scottish, Irish studying one literary text per week. You will and American literature, and creative be encouraged to read relevant critical and Your Study Options writing with our prize-winning Writer-in- contextual material on the texts you are Single Honours Programmes in Residence, Alan Spence studying, and also be introduced to some English, English and Scottish Literature important theoretical approaches to literature. > Friendly and committed teaching staff at Joint Honours Programmes with From first through to third year you will the forefront of research in their field Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, Celtic Studies, follow a programme of lectures supported Divinity, Economics, Film and Visual Culture, > Excellent library resources built up over with a weekly small group tutorial or seminar. Finance, French, Gaelic Studies, German, 500 years, combined with state-of-the-art You will produce essays and other forms of Hispanic Studies, History, History of Art, IT facilities coursework that will count towards your International Relations, Language & Linguistics, assessment, and in most courses you will > A range of teaching methods, from lectures Legal Studies, Literature in a World Context, also have an end-of-course examination. In and seminars to small-group tutorials and Management Studies, Philosophy, Politics, tutorials and seminars you will participate individual supervision Religious Studies, Scandinavian Studies, in group projects and have the opportunity Sociology Degree Programme Structure and Content to give individual presentations on some Major-Minor Programme with First and Second Year courses; these will also be assessed along with your performance in class. Music Studies The first year will introduce you to the critical study of literature in two consecutive courses. Overall you follow a structured programme Related Honours Programmes in In Reading Writing, you will study both in first and second year, with a wide range Film and Visual Culture, Gaelic Studies, History, poetry and prose through a consideration of choice available to you when you reach Language & Linguistics, Languages and of the author, the reader and the literary Honours level, enabling you to choose the Literature of Scotland, Literature in a World text. You will follow this with Controversial areas you wish to study. Context, Scottish Studies Classics, a course focused upon the study of Your Future Course Information modern literary classics that have provoked Graduates in English have received a www.abdn.ac.uk/english strong cultural reactions. The second year will thorough grounding in the sorts of writing, General Information build on these foundations, offering courses research, computational and presentation www.abdn.ac.uk/sras such as Encounters with Shakespeare and skills that are vital to many careers. Students The Tragedy of Knowledge. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen graduating with a degree in English can Third and Fourth Year (Honours) feel part of a thriving field that can lead @aberdeenuni At Honours level there are over 60 courses on them into careers as diverse as publishing, offer, ranging from medieval and Renaissance teaching, research, journalism, banking, arts The Department encourages students literature to Romanticism, Victorianism and and research funding, speech therapy and to study abroad and attempts to be Modernism, contemporary Scottish and Irish television and radio broadcasting. as flexible as possible in facilitating writing, American literature and aspects of their arrangements. At present European literature in translation. student exchanges are available with the universities of Bonn, Karlsruhe, Third year courses are broad-based, covering Regensburg, Freiburg, Naples, Vienna, periods or themes, and are taught through Trieste, Liege, Oslo, Dublin and Venice. lectures and seminars. Fourth year courses It is also possible to study on an promote deeper understanding and more international exchange. See page 25 for focussed discussion, and are taught in seminar information. groups of up to 15 students. The Honours programme concludes with a supervised See page 26 for information. dissertation on a topic of your choice. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE See page 14 for more information.

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European Studies allows students to take a What You Need SQA Highers BBBB combination of languages and ‘Europe’ related A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL European Studies areas in Politics and International Relations, History, See table on page 79 for more information. Law, Sociology, Economics and more. Whilst the UCAS Code see page 198 first two and the final year are spent in Aberdeen, Advanced Entry the third year is spent abroad. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Email us: [email protected] > The Aberdeen degree is a well established The third year is spent abroad: one semester Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 programme in the country of one of the selected languages, another semester in that of the Your Study Options > It is taught by leading experts in the field other language. Students who take only one Single Honours Programme in > The University of Aberdeen Library is a language or who have decided that they European Studies European Documentation Centre with a wish to take only one language in fourth Related Honours Programmes in reference collection of official documents year, spend a full year in the country of that French, Gaelic Studies, German, and other materials from the European language. Hispanic Studies Union Institutions and Agencies While abroad, students will normally attend Course Information

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Film and Visual Culture at Aberdeen is in What You Need SQA Highers BBBB a period of exciting expansion, and the focus is A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL now on global cinema in respect to other art forms Film and Visual Culture See table on page 79 for more information. and visual culture, and film production courses at UCAS Code see page 198 Honours level. Advanced Entry See page 78 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? With an emphasis upon making both Can We Help? > The study of cinema explores the most vital connections and disconnections between Email us: [email protected] medium of the twentieth century, taking cinemas and film theory, these courses Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 account both the nature of film as an art- encourage students to understand and form, and of the cultural contexts in which appreciate how film is a peculiarly modern Your Study Options films are produced. By making connections art form. Single Honours Programme in between global communications, new Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Film and Visual Culture technologies, international politics and Students select from a variety of Honours aesthetic practices, Film and Visual Joint Honours Programmes with course options. Depending on the particular Culture aims to develop an awareness of Anthropology, Divinity, English, French, Gaelic year offerings, which draw on staff research how media affect pressing questions of Studies, German, Hispanic Studies, History, expertise, these may include modules on such contemporary life History of Art, International Relations, Literature areas as Minor Cinemas, Cinematic Cities, in a World Context, Philosophy, Politics, > What distinguishes this programme is God at the Movies, Transport Technologies, Religious Studies, Sociology its interdisciplinary focus. Rather than Creaturely Cinematics, The Politicization of compartmentalise the study of media and the Aesthetic and Bodies on Screen. Courses Related Honours Programmes in film in terms of form, genre, history, theory are also offered on French, Hispanic and English, History of Art, Sociology or area studies, we believe it is essential German cinema. In addition, different types Course Information to engage all of these issues in a way that of courses integrating theory and practice are www.abdn.ac.uk/film fosters an awareness of the historical available on Documentary Film, and Panoptic General Information culture and aesthetic politics Digital Culture, and students may write their www.abdn.ac.uk/sras dissertation in some area of Film and Visual > Aberdeen has excellent library facilities Culture, and include a practical element. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen and collections, well-equipped screening facilities, and lecture and seminar rooms Teaching and Assessment @aberdeenuni adapted for specialist film teaching. Our Film is a popular subject, and first and second See page 25 for information new Media Lab contains video editing year courses therefore involve large lecture suites and a range of new high definition classes. However, weekly tutorials enable See page 26 for information cameras and other production equipment closer work with the tutor and with other Degree Programme Structure and Content students. Marks for the course are normally based in part on participation in these THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE First Year tutorials, and involve research, essays, exams See page 14 for more information. Introduction to Film and the Cinematic and Web CT written submissions, depending Experience provides an introduction to the on individual course requirements. Need more Info? analysis of film form. The course introduces Honours courses are based on seminars which Scan the QR code students to the primary visual, sound and encourage active participation. narrative conventions of visual media. We discuss issues of framing, mise-en-scène, Your Future montage, sound, narrative structure, The Film and Visual Culture degree is cinematography, cinematic style and designed to specialise your knowledge in ideology. Introduction to Visual Culture the academic study of cinema, placing an introduces students to the key concepts and emphasis on enhancing your analytical skills theories that shape the fluid field of visual in research and critical writing. In addition, culture in an era when the visual landscape students have an opportunity to develop has become digital, virtual, viral and global. skills in digital video production and web Second Year design. This focus should provide a useful platform for further study or for a career The second year core courses Cinema and in film industry broadcasting, new media, Modernity, and Cinema and Revolution journalism, teaching and other related fields. examine an exceptionally rich and diverse New opportunities in Scottish broadcasting choice of films from around the world. are available through our Joint degree in Film Students are introduced to various national and Visual Culture and Gaelic Studies. cinemas and movements covering the last 100 years of cinema history; and consider the principal aesthetic, cultural and institutional factors influencing their distinguishing features. 92

Finance students will gain a powerful What You Need SQA Highers BBBB understanding of the principles of finance A Levels BBB S Grade/GCSE Maths Finance and acquire business skills that prepare them IB 30 points, 15 points at HL for employment in positions of responsibility. See table on page 79 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Advanced Entry > The University of Aberdeen is the first Specialised finance courses for Honours See page 78 for more information. academic institution to subscribe to students include: Corporate Finance, Thomson Reuters Eikon in the UK and Derivatives and Treasury Management, Can We Help? Ireland. This flagship trading floor International Financial Management and Email us: [email protected] integrates real activity in financial markets Empirical Methods in Finance. Students Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 directly into your courses. The platform is may also take Finance related courses such used by major financial services companies as Property Investment, International Your Study Options across the world. You gain experience Management and Organisational Change. Single Honours Programme in of sophisticated financial management Additionally, students write a dissertation on Finance technology placing you at the leading edge an aspect of Finance. Joint Honours Programmes with with skills that employers are seeking Accountancy, Anthropology, Divinity, Economics, Teaching and Assessment > You will study in a dynamic teaching and English, French, Geography, German, Hispanic We employ a wide range of teaching research environment and benefit from Studies, History, History of Art, International methods, and we emphasise the development the latest ideas that are important in Relations, Legal Studies, Literature in a World of transferable skills through group work and Finance Context, Management Studies, Philosophy, presentation techniques. Politics, Real Estate, Sociology > You will learn about crucial areas such as We also encourage the development of financial management, corporate finance, Major-Minor Programme with information technology skills. Teaching personal finance, financial institutions, Computing methods include lectures, seminars, tutorials, derivatives and the stock market workshops and student-led presentations. Related Honours Programmes in > You will develop intellectual skills by Accountancy, Economics, Management Web-based learning is increasingly used analysing and evaluating financial Studies, Real Estate as a teaching resource. The Scottish Higher problems Course Information Education Funding Council rated the teaching > You will gain practical skills, helping you programmes in the Department as ‘Highly www.abdn.ac.uk/business to read and extract information from Satisfactory’. General Information www.abdn.ac.uk/sras financial newspapers and documents Your Future > You will be in the main European centre You will develop the analytical skills and facebook.com/universityofaberdeen for the offshore oil and gas industry, applied techniques required for a wide range @aberdeenuni where many multinationals and financial of careers in the financial sector. Finance services firms have offices in the city students are highly sought after in the See page 25 for information

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French at Aberdeen has an outstanding What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* reputation, having been rated ‘Excellent’ (the A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 15 points at HL* highest possible rating) in the most recent national French *No previous qualification in French is required Teaching Quality Assessment, and ranked in the for entry to the beginners’ course. For other top 5 UK French departments in terms of research level 1 courses (see below), a pass in French at Higher or A Level is required. classified as ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally See table on page 79 for more information. excellent’ in the most recent RAE exercise. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Second Year See page 78 for more information. > We offer language courses both for Language work includes written and spoken Can We Help? students with qualifications in French and language classes, reading and listening Email us: [email protected] for beginners or near beginners comprehension. Ex-beginners have an extra Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 language class. Literature, Culture and > The Department has an international Society courses study the theme of French reputation for research, covering not Your Study Options national identity at different periods; French just France, but Francophone Africa Single Honours Programme in Linguistics may also be studied. Again, and Caribbean, and the wide range of French students not wishing to proceed to Honours in our research interests is reflected in the French may study language alone. Joint Honours Programmes with Honours options courses we offer Accountancy, Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, Third and Fourth Year (Honours) > We are a medium-sized, friendly Celtic Studies, Divinity, Economics, English, French language courses are available in third department, and the student-run French Film and Visual Culture, Finance, Gaelic Studies, and fourth year for students not wishing to Society organises a range of social events Geography, German, Hispanic Studies, History, proceed to Honours, as well as for Honours History of Art, International Relations, Language Degree Programme Structure and Content students. They include written and spoken & Linguistics, Legal Studies, Literature in a World Courses are available from first to fourth year. language classes. In addition, third and fourth Context, Management Studies, Mathematics*, There is an Honours degree and a Designated year students study cultural, social and Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies, Sociology degree in French. literary topics. *Joint Honours French and Mathematics - SQA Single Honours in French Studies, and most The two-year Honours programme gives Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent qualification Joint Honours involving French, are available considerable emphasis to the development of in Mathematics is required. either as Mode A degrees (5 years) including a language skills. As well as classes in written full academic year spent in a French-speaking and spoken language, all students develop Major-Minor Programmes with country, or as Mode B degrees (4 years) their communication skills through practical Accountancy, Behavioural Studies, including half an academic year spent in a application of French in different contexts. Music Studies, Psychology French-speaking country. For both degrees Additionally, students in both Honours years Course Information the programme for first and second year is make their own selection from a wide range www.abdn.ac.uk/french identical, so no final decision need be made of options covering literature, film, linguistics General Information before December of second year. Candidates and the study of French society and culture www.abdn.ac.uk/sras are strongly recommended to apply initially from the Middle Ages to the present day. for the Mode A degree. For Joint Honours in Single Honours students write a dissertation facebook.com/universityofaberdeen French-German and French-Hispanic Studies, on a topic of their choice, and Joint Honours one half-session is spent in a French-speaking students write a dissertation for one or other @aberdeenuni country, and one half-session in a country in of their two Honours subjects. See page 25 for information which the other language is spoken. Teaching and Assessment First Year See page 26 for information Language courses are taught in small groups, One set of courses is for beginners or while literature and culture courses are near beginners. These provide intensive taught by a combination of lectures and THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE tuition in written and spoken language, tutorials. Courses in first and second year are See page 14 for more information. including classes with native speakers, and assessed by end-of-course examination. Good an introduction to modern French culture, coursework can lead to exemption from the Need more Info? literature and society. Another set is for examination with the exception of the new Scan the QR code students with SQA Higher grade or GCE A beginners’ language course. Honours options Level or equivalent. 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Gaelic Studies is a wide-ranging discipline What You Need SQA Highers BBBB covering Gaelic language, literature and culture, A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Gaelic Studies with an emphasis on the modern world. Links See table on page 79 for more information. with other Celtic languages, especially Modern UCAS Code see page 198 Irish, are explored. Advanced Entry See page 78 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Can We Help? > The Department has a strong reputation Students in third and fourth year have a Email us: [email protected] for its teaching of Gaelic to students with core of language work, and make their own Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 no previous knowledge of the language, selection from a range of optional courses and also welcomes students who have which changes from year to year. They cover Your Study Options already studied Gaelic, or who are native aspects of the literature, culture and history Single Honours Programme in speakers of the Gaelic-speaking community, and Gaelic Studies sometimes branching out into other Celtic > The Department is pioneering a specially Designated Degree in languages. Single Honours students write designed short residential language course Gaelic Studies a dissertation on a specialised topic of their to bring students to fluency and continues choice, and Joint Honours students may also Joint Honours Programmes with to be one of the best places in the world choose to do so instead of one of their options. Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, Divinity, to learn Gaelic. Students can progress to Economics, English, Film and Visual Culture, Teaching and Assessment Honours level whatever their standard French, Geography, German, Hispanic Studies, on entry Teaching is generally in small groups, History, History of Art, Language & Linguistics, with an emphasis on seminars and > Enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff Literature in a World Context, Management tutorials. Assessment is by a mixture of with a wealth of teaching experience Studies, Politics, Religious Studies, Scandinavian continuous assessment and oral and written Studies, Sociology > A range of entry levels (from absolute examinations. Students will have around five beginner to native speaker) hours of classes per week in first year, rising to Major-Minor Programme with around 10 hours per week for Single Honours Gaelic Studies as the Minor with: > A range of degree options are available students in third and fourth year. Mathematics*, Psychology > The student-run Celtic Society is famous Your Future *Mathematics with Gaelic Studies - SQA Higher for its musical events, ceilidhs and trips, Employment opportunities for graduates or GCE A Level or equivalent qualification in and it provides an opportunity to use fluent in Scottish Gaelic are very good. Mathematics is required. Gaelic in an informal, social context Broadcasting, teaching, lecturing, the Related Honours Programmes in > A unique summer school giving students print media and librarianship are among Celtic Civilisation, Celtic Studies, English, the chance to practice their Gaelic in a the careers on which our students have English and Scottish Literature, European natural environment successfully embarked. With the launch of a Studies, French, German, Hispanic Studies, Degree Programme Structure and Content new digital Gaelic TV channel there is a high Scottish Studies increase in demand for Gaelic graduates to Courses are available from first to fourth year. work in the media. Other careers make use of Course Information There are Single and Joint Honours degrees the excellent communicative, analytical and www.abdn.ac.uk/celtic and a Designated degree in Gaelic Studies. organisational skills of our Gaelic graduates General Information It is possible to combine Gaelic Studies with in a range of business and creative contexts. www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Celtic Civilisation as a Joint Honours degree. Some of our graduates go on to postgraduate facebook.com/universityofaberdeen First and Second Year research. Students in Gaelic Studies join one of three @aberdeenuni Scottish Gaelic language streams: beginners, See page 25 for information learners (Higher at ‘B’ or above), or native speakers (Higher at ‘Pass’ or above). Classes See page 26 for information concentrate equally on the four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. In addition, students are given THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE an introduction to Gaelic culture and See page 14 for more information. literature. Native speakers follow a specially tailored course throughout their four years. Need more Info? Scan the QR code 95

Geography is the study of the earth’s surface, What You Need SQA Highers BBBB with particular emphasis on the relationships A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL between people and their environment. Few other Geography See table on page 79 for more information. subjects cover such a diversity of phenomena, UCAS Code see page 198 combining elements of the natural sciences, the Advanced Entry social sciences and the humanities. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Why Choose Aberdeen? Although compulsory, all of these courses Email us: [email protected] > Aberdeen is a great place to study offer a choice of lectures and coursework Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Geography. The department ranks highly assessments that cover the full range of in student satisfaction surveys and the geography, so students are free to pursue Your Study Options region’s spectacular mountain and coastal their favourite aspects of the subject. 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All courses are international relations or environmental science supported by course websites. The assessment – that complement their geographical interests. for most courses combines exams with Second Year coursework, such as one or more of an essay, an oral presentation, a project report or a ‘real- Four option courses are offered, of which world’ simulation exercise. students must choose at least three: Physical Environments; Perspectives in Human Your Future Geography; Mapping & Monitoring the Studying Geography develops a range of Environment; Environment & Society. All transferable skills such as: critical thinking, students must also take Skills & Techniques research, design and data analysis skills, in Geosciences, which includes a residential proficiency in IT and communication field trip. skills. Geographers also acquire specialist Third and Fourth Year (Honours) knowledge of cultural, political, economic and environmental issues. Aberdeen graduates Core courses on Approaches to Geography, enter a wide range of careers including: Research Design and Geographical environmental management, conservation, Issues examine the subject’s history, its planning, government agencies, business and key perspectives and techniques and its commerce, and work involving technical skills contemporary relevance. such as surveying, GIS and remote sensing.

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German at Aberdeen has an outstanding What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* reputation, having been rated ‘Excellent’ A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 15 points at HL* German (the highest possible rating) in the most *There is no formal requirement for entry to recent national Teaching Quality Assessment. the German beginners’ course. A pass in German at SQA Higher, GCE A Level Why Choose Aberdeen? For students with a Higher or A-Level or equivalent is necessary for entry to the > The University Library has extensive qualification in German, German Language German non-beginners course. German holdings, and a range of resources courses deal with advanced aspects of See table on page 79 for more information. of the Language Centre German grammar and vocabulary, designed UCAS Code see page 198 to improve students’ command of both > The Department takes a multi-disciplinary Advanced Entry written and spoken German. Courses on approach with courses covering German See page 78 for more information. Modern German Culture provide lectures on film and visual culture, gender studies, political, social, and cultural matters of the Can We Help? literature and history German-speaking countries in the twentieth Email us: [email protected] > Courses focus on Austria and Switzerland century, together with the study of modern Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 as well as Germany German texts. Your Study Options Third and Fourth Year (Honours) > A small, friendly department with a Single Honours Programme in flourishing German Club and a Drama Level 3 and 4 courses offer students German Group that puts on an annual play in considerable flexibility in choosing a German programme from a variety of modules. Joint Honours Programmes with Accountancy, Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, Degree Programme Structure and Content Courses currently on offer include: Berlin, City of the Twentieth Century; Images of Divinity, Economics, English, Film and Visual Courses are available from first to fourth Childhood in German Literature; The 20th Culture, Finance, French, Gaelic Studies, year. There is an Honours degree and a Century German Novel; National Socialism; Geography, Hispanic Studies, History, History Designated degree in German. The length of Film and Text; VIENNA 1900; Travel and of Art, International Relations, Language & the programme is normally 5 years, which Tourism in German Literature; and many Linguistics, Legal Studies, Literature in a World includes spending up to a year in a German- more. Context, Management Studies, Mathematics*, speaking country. Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies, Teaching and Assessment All students taking an Honours course in Scandinavian Studies, Sociology Teaching is generally in small groups German are required to spend at least half (seminars/tutorials), especially for language *Joint Honours German and Mathematics - an academic session in a German-speaking classes. Assessment is by a mixture of SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent country. Aberdeen has official exchange continuous assessment and oral and written qualification in Mathematics is required. scholarships with the Universities of Zurich, examination. Students have approximately Kiel and Greifswald, and also participates Major-Minor Programmes with four hours of taught classes per week in first in ERASMUS networks. The German Accountancy, Behavioural Studies, year. This rises to approximately 10-12 hours Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) awards Music Studies, Psychology per week for Single Honours students in third scholarships on a competitive basis. and fourth year. Other Options First and Second Year The LLB degree can be taken with options in Your Future German for Beginners provides an intensive German or can include the study of German The Department produces graduates valued introduction to the German language for Law. In the BSc degree, German can be for their subject knowledge, including an students with no previous knowledge of taken with Chemistry, Computing Science, excellent command of spoken and written German, or with qualifications beneath Mathematics, Physics, Psychology. The BTh German and also for the transferable skills Higher or A Level standard. This course degree can also be taken with German. that a degree in German from Aberdeen may be taken alone or in combination with offers. Aberdeen German graduates have an Course Information courses on social, political and cultural excellent employment record. www.abdn.ac.uk/german aspects of the German-speaking countries. General Information Students who successfully complete this www.abdn.ac.uk/sras course may proceed to level 2 courses and thereafter to Honours. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen

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Hispanic Studies focuses not only on the What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* Spanish language but also on the cultures A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 15 points at HL* of Spain and Latin America. Hispanic Studies *There is no formal requirement for entry to the Spanish beginners’ course. Students who Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) already have a qualification in Spanish sit a Spanish is the second most widely spoken Students who reach a satisfactory level or placement test to determine the language language after English in the western performance in Hispanic Studies in first and course appropriate to them. All students, hemisphere. It is currently spoken by 350 second year, and who fulfil the residence whether beginners or with a qualification such as million people in 19 Latin-American states, abroad requirements, are admitted into Higher grade, can proceed to Honours, subject the Spanish Peninsula, and increasingly in Honours. The Honours programme offers to satisfactory performance at levels 1 and 2. the USA. advanced language study coupled with a See table on page 79 for more information. range of courses from the Hispanic Studies UCAS Code see page 198 > Hispanic Studies at Aberdeen is a dynamic Honours programme. Students can choose to and successful department. Its national Advanced Entry specialise in either Latin-American Studies research rating is ‘good’, and its national See page 78 for more information. or Spanish Studies, and a wide range of teaching rating is ‘excellent’ option courses, covering Spanish and Latin- Can We Help? > Courses give equal weight to the study of American Literature, Visual Culture, Society, Email us: [email protected] Spanish and Latin-American cultures Politics, Anthropology, Cultural History and Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Translation are available. > The Department’s programmes are multi- Your Study Options Teaching and Assessment disciplinary; students have the opportunity Single Honours Programmes in to study visual culture, literature, history, Teaching quality in Hispanic Studies has been Hispanic Studies (Latin America), politics and anthropology in relation to rated as ‘excellent’. All courses use up-to- Hispanic Studies (Spain) Spain and/or Latin America date resources and teaching and assessment Joint Honours Programmes with Degree Programme Structure and Content methods. Assessment takes the form of a combination of continuous assessment and Accountancy, Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, Courses are available from first to fourth year. examination. Continuous assessment forms a Divinity, Economics, English, Film and Visual There is an Honours degree, and a Designated particularly important component of work at Culture, Finance, French, Gaelic Studies, degree in Hispanic Studies. Honours level. Geography, German, History, History of Art, First Year International Relations, Language & Linguistics, Your Future In addition to two language courses (to be Legal Studies, Literature in a World Context, Graduates go on to a wide range of determined by an initial placement test), Management Studies, Mathematics*, careers some of which, such as teaching students take either Latin America: A Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies, Sociology and translating, draw directly on their Cultural History or Spain: A Cultural History, university studies. Others such as journalism, *Joint Honours Hispanic Studies and which focus on history, literature, visual marketing and business draw on the more Mathematics - SQA Higher or GCE A Level culture, politics, society and anthropology. general academic and personal skills that the or equivalent qualification in Mathematics is Second Year degree fosters. required. In addition to two language courses, students Major-Minor Programme with take Latin America: Texts and Contexts, and Music Studies Spain: Texts and Contexts. These courses build further on the multidisciplinary level 1 Other Options courses. Students may substitute one of these The LLB degree can be taken with options in with the School cross-disciplinary courses Spanish, or can include the study of Spanish - Literature, History and Thought: 1848 to Law. In the BSc degree, Spanish can be 9/11, Modes of Reading or Ethnography for taken with Chemistry, Computing Science, Language Learners. Students not intending Mathematics, or Physics. The BTh degree to proceed to an Honours programme in can be taken with Hispanic Studies. Hispanic Studies may study the language Course Information courses alone. www.abdn.ac.uk/spanish General Information www.abdn.ac.uk/sras facebook.com/universityofaberdeen

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History is one of the broadest disciplines that What You Need SQA Highers BBBB one can study. The subject involves examining A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL History History all aspects of human activity in the past. Political, See table on page 79 for more information. social, economic and cultural contexts may be UCAS Code see page 198 studied at the level of the individual, the locality, Advanced Entry the nation, the continent or the world. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Why Choose Aberdeen? and Deviance in Early Modern Europe, Email us: [email protected] > In the most recent Research Assessment 1550-1790; Soviet Russia, 1917-1991; The Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Exercise (RAE), the Aberdeen History Third Reich; World War I: International Department came top in Scotland with Perspectives; Aztecs, Mayas and Incas; Your Study Options the highest percentage of research rated Sex and Violence in Cold Climates; Barack Single Honours Programme in ‘internationally excellent’ Obama and Race in the US; Late Medieval History England, 1272-1509; The Enlightenment > Geographically, course offerings spread out Joint Honours Programmes with in France, Britain and Ireland; Empire in from Scotland and Europe to encompass Anthropology, Archaeology, Celtic Civilisation, the ‘Orient’: The British in Asia, 1600-1858; America, Asia and Africa. Chronologically, Celtic Studies, Divinity, Economics, English, Germany, 1516-1806; Plague, Poison and students are offered a coherent series of Film and Visual Culture, Finance, French, Gaelic Persecution, c.1348-1700; American Slavery, courses ranging from the Ancient World to Studies, Geography, German, Hispanic Studies, American Freedom, US History, 1800-1870. the present day History of Art, International Relations, Language In Senior Honours, Single Honours students & Linguistics, Legal Studies, Literature in a World > Excellent printed and electronic facilities take a further optional course, a Special Context, Management Studies, Mathematics*, for History students Subject and a course on General Historical Philosophy, Politics, Religious Studies, > The Department was rated ‘Highly Problems. Students must also write a Scandinavian Studies, Sociology Satisfactory’, the second highest ranking, dissertation. Joint Honours students take a *Joint Honours History and Mathematics - SQA in the last teaching quality assessment and Special Subject and either the dissertation Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent qualification highly commended in an EU sponsored or General Historical Problems. The Special in Mathematics is required. review of teaching Subject involves intensive study, based Major-Minor Programme with Degree Programme Structure and Content upon primary sources, of a limited period or problem. Music Studies Courses are available from first to fourth year. There is an Honours degree and a Designated In fourth year, General Historical Problems Related Honours Programmes in degree in History. students may undertake a work placement Archaeology, Celtic Civilisation, English, History of Art, Scottish Studies First Year during the Easter vacation and produce a short report. There is the chance for a limited Courses include: Vikings; Europe in the Course Information number of students to fulfil this placement 20th Century; An Introduction to Scottish www.abdn.ac.uk/history at the Naval Historical Centre in Washington History; Renaissances and Reformations, General Information DC. Students only have to pay for their flight c.1450-c.1750. www.abdn.ac.uk/sras and spending money as accommodation with Second Year ‘host’ families is organised for them. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Courses include: Power and Piety: Medieval Teaching and Assessment Europe, 1100-1500; Birth of Modernity: @aberdeenuni In first and second year, teaching involves Politics, Culture and Science in Europe, three one-hour lectures per week and a See page 25 for information 1700-1870; Men, Women & Inbetween: weekly hour-long tutorial. At Honours level Constructions of Gender from 1000 to the See page 26 for information classes are either seminar-based or a mixture  Present; Global Empire in the Long 19th of lectures and seminars. Courses are assessed Century; History and Philosophy of Science by examination alone; by continuous THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE I & II. assessment alone; or by a combination of See page 14 for more information. Third and Fourth Year (Honours) examination and continuous assessment. All In Junior Honours, the History Department courses are supported by web-based material. Need more Info? Scan the QR code offers a range of options and varies year to Your Future year. An indicative list of courses include Graduate historians are recruited into a the following: Conflict and Its Legacies: broad range of professions which require the France, 1900-2007; Cultural History of critical analysis of diverse kinds of evidence Medicine; ‘World City’: London in the Long and the understanding of different aspects of Eighteenth-Century, 1688-1832; Germany, human society and culture, which historical 1806-1914; The Holocaust; Imperial Russia, education develops. 1801-1914; Men, Women & Eunuchs: Gender and Identity in Late Antiquity; Power and Traditions: France, 1799-1900; Science & Religion: From Galileo to Creationism; The Scottish Highlands and Islands; Sexuality 99

History of Art examines the art of all periods. What You Need SQA Highers BBBB This includes buildings, sculptures, drawings, A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL paintings, prints, and the products of the of Art History See table on page 79 for more information. decorative and industrial arts. At Aberdeen we UCAS Code see page 198 focus on the Western European tradition, with Advanced Entry options in Latin-American art. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Why Choose Aberdeen? Renaissance and Baroque: from Michelangelo Email us: [email protected] > Aberdeen is an excellent location in to Rembrandt examines in detail European art Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 which to study History of Art, with the of the 16th to 18th centuries. city possessing a wide range of galleries Your Study Options Making Masterpieces: Ten Works in Context and museums Single Honours Programme in will analyse the creation and context of ten History of Art > The Department believes in first-hand major works and critically consider their experience, so fieldtrips take place at status as ‘masterpieces’. Joint Honours Programmes with Anthropology, Archaeology, Celtic Civilisation, each level to visit major galleries and Third and Fourth Year (Honours) architecture. Subsidised tours are led Divinity, English, Film and Visual Culture, Finance, Topics currently available include: Scottish to Edinburgh, London and Paris. Third French, Gaelic Studies, German, Hispanic Painting; American Modernism; Early year students attend a Reading Party Studies, History, Language & Linguistics, to mid- 19th Century Art; Late 19th and at a country house in Kincardineshire Literature in a World Context, Philosophy, early 20th Century French Art; Caravaggio; where they are coached in visual and Politics, Religious Studies Netherlandish and Venetian Painting; presentation skills Italian and Northern Renaissance; Major-Minor Programme with > The Department is small, friendly and Michelangelo; Romanesque and Country Music Studies accessible to students House Architecture; Garden Design; Early Related Honours Programmes in Insular Art (British 600-900); Modern Russian Film and Visual Culture, History Degree Programme Structure and Content Art; Performance Art; Postmodernism. Courses are available from first to fourth year. Course Information All single Honours students take a third year There is an Honours degree and a Designated www.abdn.ac.uk/hoart course entitled Critical Perspectives in Art degree in History of Art. General Information History and submit a dissertation on a topic www.abdn.ac.uk/sras First Year of their own choice in fourth year. Honours Students aiming for an Honours degree students also follow an assessed programme facebook.com/universityofaberdeen normally take two of our three first year of fieldwork which includes tutor-led visits to courses. London and Paris. @aberdeenuni Teaching and Assessment See page 25 for information Introduction to Art History offers an introduction to the history of art from In first year, students attend lectures and See page 26 for information prehistoric cave paintings to nineteenth- tutorials and make a series of tutor-led visits century photography. Focusing on key to see art ‘in the flesh’. Students take image- moments and locations, this course introduces based tests, write essays and undertake online THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE many ‘landmark’ works to new students. assessments for each course. See page 14 for more information. Modern and Contemporary Art is concerned In second year, students attend lectures and with the period 1850 to the present day. tutorials as well as working in small groups Need more Info? Through an examination of themes such to give group presentations. There is also a Scan the QR code as the changing role of the artist, and the tutor-led fieldtrip to Edinburgh. Students relationship(s) between the artist and society are assessed by a combination of essay and in a time of great change, the emergence and image-based examinations and continuous development of Modernism in Western art is assessment. discussed. Honours courses are generally taught in In the Flesh: Art on Location takes students seminars held twice a week. Students to a range of locations to view art ‘in the are assessed by a combination of written flesh’. The course is based on a series of visits examinations and continuous assessment. to see original works (including architecture, In addition, all single Honours students sculpture and painting) in Aberdeen and submit a dissertation. Edinburgh. Your Future Second Year A good number of our graduates have obtained Goths to Gothic: Roman to Renaissance covers work in museums and galleries, art publishing, painting, sculpture and architecture from the the art trade, art tours, conservation of wall period 200-1600, with a special emphasis on paintings and historic buildings, theatre the Mediterranean and Northern Europe. design, libraries and universities. 100

Information Systems & Management What You Need SQA Highers BBBB provides a breadth of coverage which encompasses A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Information Systems & Management Information contemporary aspects of both management and See table on page 79 for more information. computing. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Teaching and Assessment See page 78 for more information. > The programme builds on the The majority of courses are supported by web- international reputation of the based material, usually including full course Can We Help? University’s Business School and notes. In third and fourth year, as well as Email us: [email protected] Computing Science Department completing a project, students enjoy a variety Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 of lectures and practicals. Assessment is by a > Students are given the opportunity to mixture of coursework and examination. Your Study Options develop their transferable skills and Joint Honours Programme in Your Future abilities as independent learners Information Systems & Management The employment record of our graduates is > Honours pathways allow students excellent with the vast majority entering Related Honours Programmes in to specialise in either Distributed occupations of their choice within three BSc Information Systems, BSc Computing Information Systems or Knowledge months of graduation. Our graduates have Science, BSc Artificial Intelligence (all also Technologies taken up posts in sectors as diverse as available as MSci with Industrial Placement), > Considerable flexibility is offered in the banking, pharmaceuticals and consultancy. MA Computing choice of management topics to study Recent employers include IBM, BP, Conoco, Course Information

during the Honours part of the curriculum SAIC, Hydro Electric, Scottish & Newcastle www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/computing Breweries, British Telecom, the Health Service > The Department is equipped with a General Information and local councils. dedicated network of UNIX-based www.abdn.ac.uk/sras computers and PCs running Linux facebook.com/universityofaberdeen and Windows connected to the wider campus network and the internet @aberdeenuni Degree Programme Structure and Content See page 25 for information Courses are available from first to fourth year. Information Systems & Management is a See page 26 for information Joint Honours degree. First and Second Year THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE In first year, students take appropriate See page 14 for more information. courses in Computing, Management and Accountancy; in second year, the emphasis Need more Info? is on Computing and Management. Scan the QR code Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Honours students divide their time equally between Computing and Management courses. 101

Language & Linguistics will introduce you to, What You Need SQA Highers BBBB among other things, how human language and A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL speech may have evolved, the complex functions and Language & Linguistics See table on page 79 for more information. structures of language in its role as a bridge between UCAS Code see page 198 sound and meaning, the ways in which we acquire Advanced Entry languages as children and adults, the ways in which See page 78 for more information. languages vary, and the mechanisms by which they Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] change over time. Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91

Why Choose Aberdeen? Second Year Your Study Options > Language is a defining human trait that In second year, all Language & Linguistics Single Honours Programme in sets us apart from all other species students must normally take 45 credits Language & Linguistics from the following courses: Sounds of > Language is at the heart of human Designated Degree in English, History of Language in the British interaction Language & Linguistics Isles, Introduction to French Linguistics > Linguistics teaches us how to analyse, or Philosophy of Language, Words and Joint Honours Programmes with discuss and model this singularly human Meanings: Lexis and Semantics, Constructing Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, Divinity, English, attribute Words and Meaning: Morphology (all French, Gaelic Studies, German, Hispanic 15 credits). You will need to have studied Studies, History, History of Art, International > In studying Linguistics you will understand prerequisite courses in French and Philosophy Relations, Literature in a World Context, yourself and human societies more fully in first year to study these last two courses. Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology > At Aberdeen, you will be at the heart of a Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Related Honours Programmes in vibrant linguistics research and teaching At Honours level there are a number of English, Languages and Literature of Scotland, community with excellent learning Language & Linguistics courses available Literature in a World Context facilities dealing with topics such as Language Course Information > The analytical and practical skills you gain Variation and Change; The Development www.abdn.ac.uk/langling will be of immediate benefit in a wide of Language in the 19th Century; Discourse General Information variety of careers Analysis; Sociolinguistic Methodology; www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Degree Programme Structure and Content Applied Linguistics; Language and Identity; and Language and the Professions. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Language & Linguistics can be studied as a Joint element in a number of Honours degrees Your Future @aberdeenuni and is also a Single Honours Option. Language & Linguistics at Aberdeen is an See page 25 for information First Year avenue to a wide variety of careers. The analytical, practical, oral and written skills Entry to second year Language & Linguistics See page 26 for information you develop during your studies are highly  is normally dependent on you having esteemed by prospective employers. Students achieved a pass in either Communication who choose to specialise in Language & THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE and Language in Contemporary Society or Linguistics at undergraduate level will be See page 14 for more information. English Structure and Use (you are actively well qualified to apply for postgraduate encouraged to take both courses). If you do degrees in, for example, speech and language not have a Higher or A Level (or equivalent) in Need more Info? pathology and therapy; English and foreign a foreign language you are encouraged to take Scan the QR code language teaching; publishing; journalism one at Aberdeen. and broadcasting; and areas relating to information and communication technology. Linguistics at Aberdeen itself offers two Masters programmes: Sociolinguistics and English Linguistics for Advanced Teachers of English (ELATE). Each of these can stand alone or lead to advanced doctoral research. 102

Languages and Literature of Scotland allows What You Need SQA Highers BBBB students to combine courses from the disciplines A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Languages and Literature of Scotland of Celtic and English to gain a knowledge and See table on page 79 for more information. appreciation of the main linguistic and cultural UCAS Code see page 198 traditions of Scotland, and of their inter-relations. Advanced Entry See page 78 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? Teaching and Assessment Can We Help? The linguistic and cultural history of In Gaelic language courses, classwork in the Email us: [email protected] Scotland is complex. A nation created form of practical use of the written language Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 from diverse elements - Celtic, Germanic always forms a considerable part of the and Norse - Scotland has always been assessment. In most other courses in Celtic, Your Study Options multicultural, and even today has three essays (or in some literature classes, textual Honours Programme in main literary languages: Gaelic, Scots exercises) also contribute to your overall mark. Languages and Literature of Scotland and English. In tutorial groups, credit is given for regular attendance and for active participation, while Related Honours Programmes in > An exciting combination of Gaelic, in language-learning classes, conversational English, Language and Linguistics, Literature in English and Scottish courses practice is assessed. There are a small number a World Context, Scottish Studies > Strong teaching and research interests in of advanced language courses in which Course Information Scottish literature in English and Scots examination marks count for over half of www.abdn.ac.uk/celtic the assessment. > Distinguished academic staff with a www.abdn.ac.uk/english long history of excellence in research In English, regular subject discussions and General Information on Scottish literature argument in tutorial help to develop self- www.abdn.ac.uk/sras confidence and powers of expression. All > Opportunity to gain knowledge and facebook.com/universityofaberdeen classwork counts towards your assessment. appreciation of the language and linguistic It is marked and returned with comments, @aberdeenuni traditions of Scotland so that you know how you are getting on at Degree Programme Structure and Content See page 25 for information every stage. The rest of assessment comes Courses are available from first to fourth year. from end-of-course examinations and from See page 26 for information Languages and Literature of Scotland is a performance in tutorials and seminars. Joint Honours degree. Your Future THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE First Year Graduates in Languages and Literature See page 14 for more information. Students aiming for Honours in Languages of Scotland have received a thorough and Literature of Scotland join one of three grounding in the sorts of writing, research, Need more Info? Scottish Gaelic language streams: beginners, computational and presentation skills that are Scan the QR code learners (Higher at ‘B’ or above), or native vital to many careers. Students can feel part of speakers (Higher at ‘Pass’ or above). In a thriving field that can lead them into careers addition, students are given an introduction as diverse as publishing, teaching, research, to Gaelic culture and literature at the journalism, banking, arts and research appropriate level. Students must also take funding, speech therapy and television first year English courses. and radio broadcasting. Second Year In Celtic, students continue to follow the Scottish Gaelic language courses and in English take 60 credits from the available second year literature and language courses. Third and Fourth Year (Honours) In their Honours years, students divide their time equally between Celtic and English. The Honours dissertation can be submitted in either subject. 103

Legal Studies is a Joint degree which allows What You Need SQA Highers BBBB students to combine Legal Studies with a wide A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL range of other subjects and is an attractive degree Legal Studies See table on page 79 for more information. for students who wish to combine a study of the UCAS Code see page 198 Law with another subject. Advanced Entry See page 78 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? Teaching and Assessment Can We Help? Law is concerned with the legal rules by Most non-Honours law subjects are taught Email us: [email protected] which society is regulated, and the legal by a combination of hour-long lectures and Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 system(s) in which these rules operate. It tutorials. Each subject generally has two is often seen as a purely vocational subject to four lectures per week and three to five Your Study Options for those who wish to become lawyers, tutorial cycles. Lectures are designed to give Joint Honours Programmes with but law is interesting in its own right: a students a basic grounding in the subject Accountancy, Anthropology, Divinity, Economics, society’s laws and legal system are a product matter of the particular course. Lecture English, Finance, French, German, Hispanic of historical, social, political and economic classes are generally large. In contrast, tutorial Studies, History, International Relations, forces and, accordingly, the study of law groups are small (in most first-year courses, Management Studies, Philosophy, Politics, gives an insight into the nature of society generally no more than 10 per group) and Psychology, Sociology itself. The study of law also fosters important student-centred. Tutorials allow selected Course Information academic qualities including clear, careful aspects of a course to be examined in more and independent thought. Taking Legal depth; they also encourage the development www.abdn.ac.uk/law Studies at Aberdeen allows you to study a of transferable skills. Honours law subjects General Information range of law subjects alongside students are generally taught in weekly or fortnightly www.abdn.ac.uk/sras seminars (normally with no more than taking the LLB (Honours) degree. Note that facebook.com/universityofaberdeen the MA in Legal Studies does not qualify 16 students). Seminars, like tutorials, are students to enter the legal profession in student-centred, and allow selected aspects of @aberdeenuni Scotland (or England). a subject to be studied in greater depth than is possible at non-Honours level. See page 25 for information > Excellent academic reputation Your Future See page 26 for information > Law School ranked 11th in the UK out of 95  An increasing number of Law students Law Schools in The Times Good University (currently over 40%) do not intend to qualify Guide 2012 THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE as legal practitioners after graduation. Instead See page 14 for more information. > High student satisfaction - 95% in National both they and Legal Studies students find that Student Survey 2011 the intellectual qualities and broad education Need more Info? fostered by a legal education equip them well > Choice of 14 degree programmes Scan the QR code for employment in such areas as chartered > Over 40 Honours options accountancy, journalism, management, the civil service, the police force, marketing, > Student-led Law Clinic administration and postgraduate research. > Student Law Review > Opportunities to study in continental Europe > Ranked highest UK Law School for graduate prospects (93%), The Times Good University Guide 2012 Degree Programme Structure and Content Legal Studies is half of a Joint Honours degree. Courses are available from first to fourth year. Students can tailor their selection of courses to match the other half of their degree, taking courses mainly in the areas of e.g. Commercial Law, Government and Law, European and International Law or Criminology and Criminal Justice. Subjects range from Criminal Law or Civil Liberties and Human Rights in first year, through European Union Law or Business Law in second year, to Criminology or European Institutions Law or Environmental Law or Tax Law or Scottish Legal History in third and fourth year. 104

Literature in a World Context is a unique What You Need SQA Highers BBBB undergraduate programme, unlike any offered A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Literature in a World Context by other universities in the UK. It is based on See table on page 79 for more information. an innovative conception of literary studies that UCAS Code see page 198 incorporates cross-disciplinary reflection at its core, Advanced Entry focusing on the study of literature in the age of See page 78 for more information. globalization and new media. Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Why Choose Aberdeen? Teaching and Assessment > You will study literary works of Teaching takes place in lectures, in small- Your Study Options world renown in the context of new groups (seminars and tutorials) and in the Single Honours Programme in developments in visual culture form of one-to-one supervision. At all levels, Literature in a World Context and information technologies, new there is an emphasis on seminar-based Joint Honours Programmes with understandings of the political at the teaching and active participation. This is Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, Divinity, national and international levels, and reflected in the assessment methods; these Economics, English, Finance, Film & Visual within the framework of intellectual include group projects, such as the production Culture, French, Gaelic Studies, Geography, history of an internet publication, as well as essays German, Hispanic Studies, History, History and formal examinations. > If you are interested in thinking about of Art, International Relations, Language & how literature shapes and challenges our Your Future Linguistics, Management Studies, Philosophy, understanding of world historical events, Literature in a World Context will provide Politics, Religious Studies, Sociology then this is the ideal programme for you you with an excellent basis for further study Related Honours Programmes in Degree Programme Structure and Content leading to a career in academia, but the English, Language & Linguistics, Languages combination of critical thinking and creativity and Literature of Scotland First and Second Year that lies at the core of the programme will Course Information There are two core courses in first year: also open the way to careers in areas such as Encountering Global Change: Literature in journalism, publishing, research, television www.abdn.ac.uk/lwc a World Context I and Creative Practices: and radio broadcasting. Studying a language General Information Literature in a World Context II. These as part of your programme will further www.abdn.ac.uk/sras courses provide an introduction to the enhance your employment opportunities. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen programme, showing how literature takes a vital place in efforts to come to grips with @aberdeenuni significant global events and developments. Study abroad is an integral part of the The second year courses, Literature, History third year for single Honours students, and Thought: 1848 to 9/11 and Modes and opportunities also exist for other of Reading, build on this foundation, students to spend time abroad. Currently, introducing you to literary texts and thinkers student exchanges are available in a of world renown. You will also have the number of European countries – Austria, opportunity to study a language as part France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, of your programme. Spain, Switzerland - as well as Canada, Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Hong Kong, Japan and the USA. You will take two of three core courses: See page 25 for more information. Literature and the Political, Technologies See page 26 for information of Transmission, and Literature and Art in Intellectual History. In addition, you will have the opportunity to tailor your THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE programme to your own interests, choosing See page 14 for more information. from a selection of courses offered in the School of Language and Literature, including Need more Info? language courses. The Honours programme Scan the QR code concludes with a supervised dissertation on a topic of your choice. 105

Management Studies at Aberdeen provides What You Need SQA Highers BBBB an opportunity to study Management on its own A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL or alongside one of a large number of the other Management Studies See table on page 79 for more information. disciplines taught at the University. The degree UCAS Code see page 198 integrates models and theories of managing Advanced Entry people and organisations within the context See page 78 for more information. of the external environment. Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) > A high proportion of research-active staff Specialised management courses for Your Study Options honours students include Human Resource Single Honours Programme in > An emphasis on evidence-based Management, Business Research Methods, Management Studies management Business Strategy, Gender, Work and Joint Honours Programmes with > Programmes that ensure choice and Organisation, International Business, Accountancy, Anthropology, Economics, flexibility Innovation and topics in Marketing. Courses English, Finance, French, Gaelic Studies, Degree Programme Structure and Content are offered in staff research specialisms. Geography, German, Hispanic Studies, History, Courses are available from first to fourth year. Teaching and Assessment Information Systems, International Relations, There is an Honours degree and a Designated Course delivery is by means of lectures, Legal Studies, Literature in a World Context, degree in Management Studies. seminars and small group tutorials. On Mathematics*, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, specific courses, these will be supplemented Real Estate, Sociology To meet the increasing demand for by external speakers. Assessment is by a management skills in the modern world, the *Joint Honours Management Studies and mixture of coursework and exams. University of Aberdeen provides a wide range Mathematics – SQA Higher or GCE A Level of degrees involving Management Studies. Your Future or equivalent qualification in Mathematics is Students wishing to enter Honours will need A degree in Management Studies generates required. to obtain passes in first and second year in opportunities across a wide spectrum Major-Minor Programme with Management-related courses. In addition to of employment possibilities from large Computing Management itself, these include specified multinational blue-chips to small and courses in Accountancy and Economics. medium-sized enterprises in any number Related Honours Programmes in Accountancy, Economics, Finance, Real Estate First Year of private and public sector industries. Graduates have entered employment with, Managing Organisations provides Course Information amongst others, Ernst and Young, Royal Bank an understanding of the key roles of www.abdn.ac.uk/business of Scotland, Bank of Scotland and British management and the organisational context. General Information Airways. The Context of Business studies the political, www.abdn.ac.uk/sras economic and technological context within facebook.com/universityofaberdeen which organisations operate, creating threats to existing operations and opportunities for @aberdeenuni new activity. Students also study Economics See page 25 for information for Business and Society, and Accounting and Entrepreneurship. Students take additional See page 26 for information courses to make up the 120 credits required for the year. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Second Year See page 14 for more information. In the second year students are required to take core courses that will include Need more Info? Marketing, Operations Management Scan the QR code and Understanding Statistics. 106

Mathematics at Aberdeen is highly rated What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* for research in both Pure and Applied areas. A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Mathematics The Department is internationally recognised *SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent for its research expertise. qualification in Mathematics is required. See table on page 79 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Why Choose Aberdeen? The Linear Algebra course focuses on systems > Students can choose between focusing of linear equations and the associated matrix Advanced Entry their attention on Mathematics or algebra. The Probability Theory course See page 78 for more information. spreading their interests to combine it provides an introduction to the mathematical Can We Help? with other subjects framework needed to handle events involving Email us: [email protected] a certain amount of randomness. > Mathematics is a powerful international Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Third Year (Junior Honours) language used to describe situations in Your Study Options precise but abstract terms. Our graduates In third and fourth Year, Mathematics Single Honours Programmes in find their skills highly valued by students take a total of 14 courses (plus 2 Mathematics, Applied Mathematics employers both for their rigorous thinking courses of enhanced study). In third Year, and their versatility most of these are compulsory and cover Joint Honours Programmes with topics which are essential for any further Computing, Economics, French, German, > We offer a challenging syllabus which study, for example Complex Analysis, Group Hispanic Studies, History, Management Studies, emphasises reasoning, discussion and Theory, Ring Theory and Topology of Metric Philosophy, Physics*, Sociology the argumentative side of mathematics. Spaces. There are further courses, some of Our ambition is to give you a sound *Joint Honours Mathematics and Physics - SQA which are optional, covering a variety of preparation for a career in which Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent qualification topics from Pure and Applied Mathematics, mathematics plays a role, whether it in Mathematics and Physics are required. such as Mechanics, Mathematical Methods be in research or through applications of Physics, Stochastic Processes and Linear Major-Minor Programmes with Degree Programme Structure and Content Optimisation. Computing, Gaelic First Year Fourth Year (Senior Honours) Course Information

Students take up to four mathematics In fourth year there are even more options, www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/mathematics courses. Three of these are compulsory: two and they depend to some extent on whether General Information introductory courses in Analysis (Calculus a student wishes to obtain a degree in www.abdn.ac.uk/sras and a course in . The fourth Mathematics or in Applied Mathematics. I and II) Algebra facebook.com/universityofaberdeen course, which is optional, covers a range of The programme includes courses on Measure mathematical topics. Theory, Galois Theory, Mathematical @aberdeenuni Modelling and Nonlinear Dynamics, along The Analysis courses begin with with a range of optional courses (which may See page 25 for information fundamental ideas concerning sets, functions vary from year to year) from Pure and Applied and methods of proof. Then they discuss See page 26 for information Mathematics, reflecting the research interests  limits, differentiation and integration of in the Department. There is a major project functions in one variable. The Algebra which involves presenting an individual THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE course includes such topics as vectors, report. See page 14 for more information. matrices, complex numbers and methods of counting. The optional course includes It is also possible to study Mathematics topics like symmetry, elementary number as a BSc degree. See page 160 for more Need more Info? theory, functions and relations, elementary information. Scan the QR code probability and elementary astronomy. Teaching and Assessment Second Year In first year, the Mathematics courses have Students take up to five mathematics courses. three lectures and one tutorial per week. At Four of the courses are compulsory. Of these, higher levels, all courses have tutorials, and two are Analysis courses, one is in Set Theory some have regular computer-based practicals. and Algebraic Structures and one is in Linear The majority of courses have an element of Algebra. The optional course is in Probability continuous assessment, as well as a final Theory. examination. The two Analysis courses consolidate Your Future students’ knowledge in differentiation and A degree in Mathematics is the gateway integration of functions in one variable, and to a wide variety of challenging careers. lead on to the differentiation of functions of Employers are keen to recruit mathematicians several variables and to ordinary differential because of their ability to think logically equations. The course on Set Theory and and analyse new developments whether in Algebraic Structures includes an introduction business, commerce or technology. Many to elementary set theory and an introduction of our graduates are finding employment to the mathematics of symmetry. opportunities in the financial sector; in banking, insurance and actuarial work, and in accountancy. 107

Music Studies staff at Aberdeen include What You Need SQA Highers BBBB world renowned composers and musicologists. A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Music Studies Music Studies There are opportunities to take courses in See table on page 79 for more information. performance, composition and music history. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year See page 78 for more information. > The University of Aberdeen offers the Students write a dissertation either in their Can We Help? flexibility to study music alongside a wide main subject or in music. They have the Email us: [email protected] range of other subjects at Honours level opportunity to choose from a wide range of Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 options, including performance, composition > Specialist facilities include state-of-the-art and courses reflecting the research expertise Your Study Options studio facilities for electroacoustic music as of staff. Major-Minor Programme with well as a collection of historic instruments, Music as the Minor with: Divinity, English, including a 1771 Kirkman harpsichord The University also offers courses in Music in French, German, Hispanic Studies, History, and two violins by Joseph Ruddiman of its BMus Honours programme. See page 126 History of Art, Philosophy, Religious Studies the same period, as well as an early piano for more information. by Clementi and consorts of viols and Teaching and Assessment Course Information recorders Teaching is by a mixture of lectures, seminar www.abdn.ac.uk/music > Graduates in music pursue all kinds of groups, tutorials and individual instrumental General Information careers, both in the world of music and the and vocal tuition. Methods of assessment www.abdn.ac.uk/sras include submitted coursework (essays and arts, and outside it facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Degree Programme Structure and Content compositions), formal written examinations and practical examinations (performance @aberdeenuni First Year recitals and keyboard skills). See page 25 for information Students can choose one or more courses in Your Future music, including Performance, Composition The study of music equips students for a wide See page 26 for information and Theory, and a broad survey of Music  variety of careers not only in music but also History which serves as the foundation in the media and business worlds. Graduates for future study. Please note that entry to THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE have been employed in music agencies and performance courses is by audition on arrival. See page 14 for more information. in the management of London and Scottish Second Year orchestras. Students wishing to study music at Honours Need more Info? level take courses in Harmony and Music Scan the QR code History of the 18th and 19th Centuries; they may also choose to take other music courses. Third Year All MA music students take New Directions: Evolution and Revolution in Music, which examines the hypothesis that 1600 and 1900 both mark turning points in the history of music. They also take an optional course in music. 108

Natural Philosophy (Physics) at Aberdeen What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* consists of both Physics and Philosophy courses, A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Natural Philosophy (Physics) with Physics the major component of the degree. *SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent qualification in Mathematics and Physics are Why Choose Aberdeen? Second Year required. See table on page 79 for more > A modern modular degree structure Physics concentrates on the following information. areas: Dynamical Phenomena, including UCAS Code see page 198 > Balance of physics and philosophy courses oscillations and waves, and an introduction Advanced Entry for the thoughtful student Q to uantum Mechanics and Relativity. An See page 78 for more information. > Long tradition of teaching natural extended course on Advanced Philosophy philosophy, combined with superb textual is taken along with an independent course Can We Help? resources in the history of science on the History and Philosophy of Science, Email us: [email protected] covering science from the 18th to 20th Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > Good balance between understanding centuries. You have two optional subject basic areas and showing how physics courses, which can be chosen from a wide Your Study Options principles can be applied to other subjects range of subjects, but it is common to take Single Honours Programme in > Emphasis on generic skills useful in a wide two additional physics courses from the Natural Philosophy range of careers selection Light Science, Space Science and Related Honours Programmes in Degree Programme Structure and Content Remote Sensing or Practical Optics and BSc Physics with Philosophy, Philosophy, Electronics. Courses are available at levels 1 to 4. Physics Physics – Maths Third and Fourth Year (Honours) is the major component of the degree, and Professional Accreditation you will acquire a knowledge of its theory The Honours years are 75% Physics and 25% Our Natural Philosophy and related degrees are and practice, sufficient to equip you for a Philosophy and related subjects. A balanced fully accredited by the physicists’ professional physics career if you choose. If you would like selection of pure and applied physics topics body, The Institute of Physics. to emphasise the philosophical side of the are chosen from those available for Honours Course Information subject, you can tailor your syllabus at levels physics students. There is less emphasis on 1 and 2 to give yourself the choice at the end laboratory work than in the Science degree. www.abdn.ac.uk/physics of the second year of Philosophy-Physics or A choice of Philosophy courses includes General Information Single Honours Philosophy. Alternatively, if further study of either Logic or The Theory of www.abdn.ac.uk/sras you have a stronger interest in Mathematics . Everyone undertakes a final year Knowledge facebook.com/universityofaberdeen you can take options that allow you to choose project from a choice of subjects that usually Mathematics - Physics at the end of level 2. covers the History of Physics, the Philosophy @aberdeenuni First Year of Physics or, simply, Physics. See page 25 for information The Physical Universe gives an overview Teaching and Assessment of some of the aims and achievements of All topics involve some continuous See page 26 for information physics, including 24 lectures on Astronomy. assessment. The proportion of continuous You are also introduced to the fundamental assessment and project work increases THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE subjects of Mechanics and Electricity and through the four year Honours programme. See page 14 for more information. Magnetism, and practical work covering Your Future Experimental Physics and Physical Natural Philosophy graduates have become Need more Info? Computing. The mathematics component professional scientists in industry, research Scan the QR code includes Calculus and Algebra and the institutes and universities. You can command philosophical component includes Formal high salaries in the computing and financial Logic 1 and 2, a study of the logical relations sectors. In addition, there is a shortage of that underlie the concept of proof, and physics teachers in schools throughout the UK. Truth and Reason. In some specialist areas (e.g. medical physics, meteorology, space science) it is usual to study for an MSc degree to obtain further knowledge. Continuing academic study in your chosen field to the level of PhD is an option taken by graduates with a good degree. 109

Philosophy is the study of argument and What You Need SQA Highers BBBB its application to a wide variety of questions A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL of fundamental importance to human life and Philosophy See table on page 79 for more information. intellectual activity. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) See page 78 for more information. Philosophers attempt to answer questions Single Honours Mental Philosophy such as: What is knowledge? What is the involves independent study at level 3 and a Can We Help? nature of truth? Could the existence of God (compulsory) dissertation at level 4. There is Email us: [email protected] be proved? Why should we act morally? a wide range of options at both level 3 and Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 4. Options offered reflect the interests of Philosophy is as much the study of what members of staff and have recently included Your Study Options constitutes a ‘good’ or ‘valid’ argument as Political and Social Philosophy, Scientific Single Honours Programme in it is the application of thought to specific Methodology, Philosophy of Mathematics, Mental Philosophy problems. Philosophy of Humour, Modal Logic, The Joint Honours Programmes with > Two key features make Philosophy at Ontology of Existence, Philosophy of Physics, Accountancy, Anthropology, Archaeology, Aberdeen especially attractive: the breadth Continental Rationalism, Kant, Identity and Behavioural Studies, Celtic Civilisation, of the courses on offer, and the user- Persistence, Information and Philosophy, Computing, Divinity, Economics, English, Film friendly character of course materials and Philosophy of Biology, Kripke’s Naming & Visual Culture, Finance, French, German, the staff who deliver them and Necessity, Death, Philosophy of Time, Hispanic Studies, History, History of Art, Scepticism, Metaphilosophy, Feminist > New students can choose from a varied International Relations, Language & Linguistics, Philosophy, Wittgenstein and Philosophy menu including Moral Philosophy, Legal Studies, Literature in a World Context, of Religion, Leibniz, and Berkeley. Knowledge and Mind, and Reason and Management Studies, Mathematics*, Physics*, Argument Teaching and Assessment Politics, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology Teaching in philosophy comes in three > The History of Philosophy also constitutes *Joint Honours Mathematics and Philosophy principal forms: lectures, tutorials and a key component of the undergraduate - SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent seminars. In tutorials students are part of curriculum qualification in Mathematics is required. a relatively small group of perhaps 10 or Degree Programme Structure and Content 15 which meets for focussed discussion of *Joint Honours Philosophy and Physics - SQA Courses are available at levels 1 to 4. There are particular philosophical topics. At level 4 Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent qualification various Honours degrees and a Designated (Senior Honours), classes take the form of in Mathematics and Physics are required. degree in Philosophy. seminars which may be student rather than Major-Minor Programme with First Year staff-led. Assessment within the Department Music Studies is usually conducted through class essays Level 1 courses are An Introduction to Moral and a degree examination at the end of each Related Honours Programme in Philosophy; Knowledge and Mind and half-session. Natural Philosophy Reason and Argument. Your Future Course Information Second Year While the subject matter of philosophy is www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy The Philosophy curriculum at level 2 is challenging in distinctive ways, the study of General Information devoted to more advanced courses in philosophy produces articulate individuals www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, who are able to think critically and to argue and The History of Philosophy. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen persuasively. Thus what one learns in a philosophy course is of value to the student @aberdeenuni of any academic subject. Moreover, these See page 25 for information skills are also highly prized in the business community and beyond. Hence Philosophy See page 26 for information graduates gain entry to a wide variety of career paths. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE See page 14 for more information.

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Politics & International Relations at Aberdeen What You Need SQA Highers BBBB is unique in Scotland in bringing together these two A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Politics & International Relations Politics & International cognate, but distinct, subjects as equal components. See table on page 79 for more information. Teaching and research are both enhanced by this UCAS Code see page 198 framework and there is a great benefit in being able Advanced Entry to study the two side-by-side. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] Why Choose Aberdeen? INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > Politics and International Relations at Theories of IR is an introduction to the Aberdeen continues to excel in the annual major perspectives that have evolved in the Your Study Options National Student Survey discipline of International Relations within a Single Honours Programme in framework emphasising the importance of > The Department brings active research Politics and International Relations methodological issues to our understanding culture into its teaching, helping to take of the subject. Designated degree in students to the forefront of contemporary Political Studies debates and knowledge in the field International Political Economy introduces the study of the global distribution of wealth Joint Honours Programmes with > Areas of special expertise include Interest and power and how this shapes the conduct Politics and: Anthropology, Divinity, Economics, Groups, Public Policy, Comparative Political of international relations. English, Film and Visual Culture, Finance, French, Parties and Elections, European Integration Gaelic Studies, German, Hispanic Studies, Third and Fourth Year (Honours) and Regionalism, Security Studies, History, History of Art, International Relations, Cross National Surveys, Scottish Politics, Honours courses taken in the third and fourth Legal Studies, Literature in a World Context, Regional IR, Modernity and Religion, year vary widely and are chosen from a menu Management Studies, Philosophy, Religious Human Rights and Development Issues, of over thirty options, drawing on the research Studies, Sociology Political Communication, Democracy and expertise of staff. Democratisation and European Politics International Relations and: Anthropology, HONOURS OPTIONS IN POLITICS Divinity, Economics, English, Film and Visual > The Department encourages students to CURRENTLY INCLUDE: Culture, Finance, French, Geography, German, spend their second year of study abroad. Political Parties in the UK; Scottish Politics; Hispanic Studies, History, Language and The University offers support centrally The Extreme Right in Western Europe; Linguistics, Legal Studies, Literature in a World for taking a year abroad in Europe, Japan, Political Communication; Democratisation; Context, Management Studies, Philosophy, Hong Kong or North America Human Rights; Nationalism; Understanding Politics, Religious Studies, Sociology Degree Programme Structure and Content Public Policy; Nordic Politics; Core Concepts in Political Science. Course Information Courses in both Politics and International www.abdn.ac.uk/pir Relations are available at levels 1 to 4. There HONOURS OPTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL General Information is a four year Honours degree in Politics and RELATIONS CURRENTLY INCLUDE: www.abdn.ac.uk/sras International Relations and a Designated International Security; War and the Degree in Political Studies which can be International System; Middle Eastern facebook.com/universityofaberdeen obtained after three years of study. Politics; Japan and the World; Human @aberdeenuni First Year Security; Modern Day Latin America; Modernity and Islam; International Peace. See page 25 for information POLITICS Introduction to Political Science considers key Teaching and Assessment See page 26 for information themes in the discipline, including democracy, Teaching at levels 1 and 2 is by a participation, institutions and policymaking. combination of formal lectures and small group tutorials. Honours teaching varies THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS in style, although many courses are based See page 14 for more information. 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Psychology is the study of mental life and What You Need SQA Highers BBBB behaviour, and covers a wide range of activities A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL including memory, mental illness, psychological Psychology See table on page 79 for more information. development, the effects of brain damage, the UCAS Code see page 198 dynamics of social groups and the measurement Advanced Entry of personality and abilities. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > The School has internationally recognised At level 3, there are lectures, tutorials, researchers in social cognition, and practicals on: Biological Psychology; Your Study Options neuroscience, lifespan development, Developmental Psychology; Human Memory Single Honours Programme in perception, language and cognition and and Language; Research Methodology; Psychology occupational/industrial psychology Perception; Psychological Assessment; Social Psychology. Joint Honours Programmes with > There are a range of specialised Anthropology, Economics, Legal Studies, laboratories including those for brain At level 4, students carry out and report an Management Studies, Philosophy, Sociology imaging analysis, eye movement empirical investigation. They also select recording, movement analysis and visual six options, currently from the following Major-Minor Programmes with neuroscience list: Evolutionary Psychology; Human French, Gaelic, German Neuropsychology; Applications of Cognitive > The School is the oldest in the UK, being Related Honours Programme in Neuroscience; Abnormal Psychology; The founded over 100 years ago, and maintains Behavioural Studies Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception; a strong commitment to providing a Cognition and Learning; Neuropsychology Professional Accreditation supportive and stimulating environment of Visual Awareness; Perspectives on Social The British Psychological Society for undergraduate studies Attribution; Brain and Body and Human Course Information Degree Programme Structure and Content Factors. www.abdn.ac.uk/psychology Courses are available at levels 1 to 4. There is Variations General Information a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited Students doing the Joint Honours www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Honours degree and a Designated degree in programmes (all Psychology programmes Psychology. Application for entry to Honours facebook.com/universityofaberdeen are BPS accredited) take a full prescribed occurs at the end of second year, and is curriculum of level 3 Psychology courses split based on academic performance achieved @aberdeenuni across third and fourth year, and complete a during second year. Students not continuing smaller empirical project in their final year. Students intending to read any Honours to Honours Psychology may complete the The Major-Minor degrees include language Psychology programme can study Designated degree or the Behavioural Studies courses at levels 1, 2 and 4. At level 4, students abroad at undergraduate level, but this is Honours degree. select four of the Psychology options instead restricted to second year and is subject to First Year of six. School approval of the overseas degree The Concepts and Theory course includes programme. See page 25 for more It is also possible to study Psychology and lectures and workshops on: Biological information. Behavioural Studies as BSc degrees. See pages Psychology; Lifespan Development; 157 and 161 for more information. See page 26 for information Animal Learning and Behaviour; Cognitive Psychology; Perceptual Psychology; Social Teaching and Assessment THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Psychology. The Methods and Applications Teaching is by means of lectures, laboratory course includes lectures and practical classes practicals, workshops and tutorials, with See page 14 for more information. on all aspects of research methodology and more extensive experimental projects at descriptive data analysis in psychological levels 3 and 4. Assessment is by means of Need more Info? research. examination and continuous assessment. Scan the QR code Second Year Your Future There are lectures on: Developmental Psychology graduates have many Psychology; Behavioural Neuroscience; employment opportunities (usually after Language and Cognition; Organisational postgraduate training) including clinical Psychology; Perception; Social Psychology; psychology, counselling, educational Clinical Psychology. The Methods and psychology, ergonomics, forensic psychology, Applications course builds on the research health psychology and occupational methodology gained in first year to examine psychology. 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Real Estate at Aberdeen examines real estate What You Need SQA Highers BBBB markets from the perspectives of economics, A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Real Estate investment and business. All real estate See table on page 79 for more information. programmes prepare students for a career in UCAS Code see page 198 surveying, with a focus on commercial real Advanced Entry estate, investment, management, valuation See page 78 for more information. and development. Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Why Choose Aberdeen? Second Year > The University of Aberdeen is the first There are four core courses in Land and Your Study Options academic institution to subscribe to Property Economics, Statistics, Property Single Honours Programme in Thomson Reuters Eikon in the UK and Valuation and Land and Property Law. Real Estate Ireland. This flagship trading floor Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Joint Honours Programmes with integrates real activity in financial markets There are four core courses in Applied Accountancy, Economics, Finance, directly into your courses. The platform is Valuation, Real Estate Portfolio Investment, Management Studies used by major financial services companies Property Finance and Development and across the world. You gain experience Related Honours Programmes in Business Research Methods. Students are of sophisticated financial management Accountancy, Economics, Finance, also required to complete a dissertation. technology placing you at the leading edge Management Studies Further options include Housing Economics, with skills that employers are seeking International Real Estate Market Analysis, Professional Accreditation > Aberdeen is a centre of excellence at the and Regional and Urban Economics. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors cutting edge of real estate teaching and Teaching and Assessment Course Information research – leading in the UK and recognised Courses usually involve two or three lectures www.abdn.ac.uk/business as world class and one small group tutorial/seminar per General Information > Single and Joint Honours programmes lead week. Students will also be required to www.abdn.ac.uk/sras undertake project work. Practical courses to professional accreditation facebook.com/universityofaberdeen include field trips, projects and computer > Courses allow an exciting range of choice, modelling. All courses are assessed by a @aberdeenuni leading to a variety of degree programmes combination of coursework and written Degree Programme Structure and Content examination. Students may participate in a Student Exchange Programme with the National Both Single and Joint Honours Real Estate Your Future programmes are accredited by the Royal University of Singapore (during year 2). Students graduating in Real Estate have Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). The See page 25 for more information. a wide range of professional career Joint degree with Accountancy is accredited opportunities such as with major firms of See page 26 for information by the Board of Accreditation of Accountancy property consultants, real estate departments Educational Courses (BAAEC) on behalf of of financial institutions, property investment THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE professional accountancy bodies. or development companies, specialist See page 14 for more information. First Year research companies, or research departments Courses introduce students to the principles of large organisations. of investment and finance and the nature of Need more Info? real estate markets. Students are also required Scan the QR code to study two first year Economics courses. In addition to the core courses, students may take options in business related areas or choose courses related to planning and environmental issues. 113

Religious Studies at Aberdeen is distinct from What You Need SQA Highers BBBB Divinity or Theology and is committed to no one A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL religion and is, rather, the comparative study Religious Studies See table on page 79 for more information. of the major and local religious traditions of the UCAS Code see page 198 world. The kinds of issues raised are not of the Advanced Entry truth of religion but of the origin, function and See page 78 for more information. meaning of religion. Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Why Choose Aberdeen? Second Year Understanding the many religious Sociological and Anthropological Theories of Your Study Options traditions of the world is as important today Religion; Psychological Theories of Religion; Single Honours Programme in as understanding the great political and Islam; Buddhism. Religious Studies economic movements of the age. Whether Third Year and Fourth Year Joint Honours Programmes with it be the Islamic, Jewish and Christian Social Anthropology of Religions; Atheism; Anthropology, Celtic Civilisation, English, Film traditions of the Middle East and the Critical Theories of Religion: The Frankfurt and Visual Culture, French, Gaelic Studies, Americas, the Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and School; Quran; The Life of Muhammad; German, Hispanic Studies, History, History Jain movements of Asia and Europe, or the Understanding Confucianism; Reading of Art, International Relations, Language & evangelical, shamanic and ancestral cults of Confucian and Daoist Sacred Texts; Linguistics, Literature in a World Context, Africa, Siberia and the Caribbean, Religious Understanding New Religious Movements. Philosophy, Politics, Sociology Studies provides a mirror on the world in which we live now and a memory of our Students interested in Religious Studies Major-Minor Programme with collective pasts. may also be interested in the undergraduate Music Studies programmes in Divinity and Theology. > The approaches used are social scientific- Course Information See page 118 for more information. anthropological, sociological, political www.abdn.ac.uk/religious_studies and psychological as well as literary, Teaching and Assessment General Information philosophical and historical The School has a flexible approach to teaching www.abdn.ac.uk/sras and assessment utilising a combination of > The aim of religious studies is to introduce facebook.com/universityofaberdeen small and large group teaching, assessed students to both the variety of religions through examinations, essays and personal @aberdeenuni worldwide and the variety of ways of dissertation. The acquisition of communication, studying them See page 25 for information IT, and team-working skills is emphasised. Degree Programme Structure and Content Your Future See page 26 for information As with all programmes, courses available in  Religious Studies graduates go on to a variety Religious Studies change from year to year, of careers from education to journalism, and individual courses may not be available THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE development and research. in subsequent years. See page 14 for more information. First Year Introduction to Religions of the World I; Need more Info? Introduction to Religions of the World II. Scan the QR code 114

Scandinavian Studies at Aberdeen boasts What You Need SQA Highers BBBB internationally-known experts and specialises A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Scandinavian Studies in a range of literature and historical periods See table on page 79 for more information. in Scandinavia. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? > Back in the Viking Homelands See page 78 for more information. For a number of years the University of > Sex and Violence in Cold Climates Aberdeen has been attracting international > Legendary Scandinavia Can We Help? experts in Scandinavian studies. Founded > Scandinavia since 1800: Email us: [email protected] in 2007, the Centre for Scandinavian Studies War, Peace and Independence Call us: +44 (0)1224 272627 at Aberdeen is a leading centre for the study > The Sagas of Icelanders of the languages, literature and history of > Beowulf and Old English Your Study Options Scandinavia. Joint Honours Programmes with You will be encouraged to participate in Archaeology, Celtic Studies, English, > The Centre offers a wide range of courses Erasmus exchanges and/or summer courses in Gaelic Studies, German, History and joint degree programmes, including Scandinavia during your degree. Some funding Course Information joint degrees with History, Archaeology, is available for exchanges and courses. www.abdn.ac.uk/cfss English, German and Celtic Studies Teaching and Assessment General Information > You will have the opportunity to work with In the first two years of study, you will be www.abdn.ac.uk/sras some of the main researchers in the field learning a Scandinavian language alongside of Scandinavian Studies in small group your other subjects. Language classes are facebook.com/universityofaberdeen environments. Scandinavia itself provides generally small and occupy 3-4 hours per week. @aberdeenuni a fascinating area of study, with a unique There are a number of other courses available and often advanced literature and history: through History and Celtic Studies. These See page 25 for information from the proto-democracy of Viking-Age involve a combination of large lectures and Iceland, to the social democratic experiment small tutorial groups. Regular subject discussion See page 26 for information of post-war Sweden; from the Norse sagas to and argument in tutorials will help to develop the contemporary crime fiction of modern your self-confidence and powers of expression. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Scandinavia All your classwork counts towards your See page 14 for more information. > Our staff are committed to teaching and assessment. The rest of your assessment research in the field and are dedicated to comes from an end-of-course examination Need more Info? bringing knowledge of Scandinavia and and performance in tutorials. Scan the QR code engagement with it to our students At Honours level, most teaching is seminar- Degree Programme Structure and Content based, and students take greater responsibility First and Second Year for introducing ideas and shaping discussion. You may be asked, individually or in a small The core of the degree involves Scandinavian group, to research a topic and prepare a class language (most likely Swedish) for the first two presentation, so you will learn not just from years, in addition to your other subjects. You your tutor but from all the other members will have classes on language and conversation, of the seminar as well. Seminars vary in developing an increasingly fluent grasp of the size according to the number of students language, including reading, writing and oral who enrol. In Junior Honours you may find communication. There are a number of other yourself in a group of 10-20, depending on relevant courses in English, Celtic Studies and what you have decided to study. In Senior History, including Vikings (History) and The Honours classes are 5-15 students. Vikings in Scotland (Celtic). Students are also encouraged to study these subjects. Depending on the particular joint degree, you may be able to do a dissertation of 12,000 In the course of the degree, you will be words on a subject of your choice as part of encouraged to spend some time in Scandinavia, your final year assessment, in addition to either on exchange programmes or doing course assessment. summer schools or work. This will improve your language skills and give you first-hand Your Future experience of Scandinavian society and culture. Thinking further ahead you will find Third & Fourth Year (Honours) Scandinavian Studies at Aberdeen an excellent preparation for a wide variety of careers, The Honours years provide advanced and ranging from teaching and the media to any specialised courses on a variety of topics in area with a Scandinavian connection, including Scandinavian Studies. We offer a wide range the oil industry. What these jobs all have in of options through various departments. To common is the need for advanced analytical a large extent you can shape your degree and language skills, which means, amongst programme to suit your particular interests other things, the perspective given by an and enthusiasms. understanding of the past, a firm grasp of the Honours courses offered include: power of language, the ability to develop and > Old Norse Language and Literature present an argument lucidly and confidently, > Viking Archaeology plus oral and written communication skills. 115

Scottish Studies allows students to learn about What You Need SQA Highers BBBB the linguistic and literary heritage of Scotland in A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 at HL its broadest sweep by drawing on the expertise of Scottish Studies See table on page 79 for more information. the English Department and the Celtic Department, UCAS Code see page 198 while also setting Scottish culture in its historical Advanced Entry context through the study of Scottish History. See page 78 for more information. Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] Why Choose Aberdeen? > Power and Prejudice: Gaelic in Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > The University has lively teaching and Modern Society research departments of Celtic and Gaelic, > Scotland into the Modern World: Your Study Options English and History, all of which offer Scottish Literature 1785-1935 General Honours Programme in courses relating to the study of Scotland Scottish Studies Teaching and Assessment > This multi-disciplinary degree In Gaelic language courses, classwork in the Related Honours Programmes in programme allows students to learn from form of practical use of the written language English, Gaelic Studies, History, Languages distinguished specialists in the distinct always forms a considerable part of the and Literature of Scotland departments, and contextualise their assessment. In most other courses in Celtic, Course Information studies in an overarching framework essays (or in some literature classes, textual www.abdn.ac.uk/celtic > The University of Aberdeen is home to two exercises) also contribute to your overall mark. www.abdn.ac.uk/english/undergraduate major research institutes with Scottish In tutorial groups, credit is given for regular General Information culture at their core: the Research Institute attendance and for active participation, while www.abdn.ac.uk/sras of Irish and Scottish Studies and the in language-learning classes, conversational Elphinstone Institute practice is assessed. There are a small number facebook.com/universityofaberdeen of advanced language courses in which > Situated in the north of Scotland, examination marks count for over half of the @aberdeenuni Aberdeen’s cultural identity is vibrant: assessment. See page 25 for information celebrating the traditional and embracing the modern. Studying here offers an In English, regular subject discussions and See page 26 for information excellent opportunity to study Scotland’s argument in tutorial help to develop self- diverse heritage in an exciting location confidence and powers of expression. All THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Degree Programme Structure and Content classwork counts towards your assessment. It is marked and returned with comments, See page 14 for more information. Courses are available from levels 1 to 4. so that you know how you are getting on at Scottish Studies is a General Honours degree every stage. The rest of assessment comes Need more Info? taught jointly by the Departments of Celtic from end-of-course examinations and from Scan the QR code and Gaelic, English and History. performance in tutorials and seminars. First and Second Year In History courses, first and second year, To qualify for entry to Honours in Scottish teaching involves three one-hour lectures Studies, students must take at least one level per week and a weekly hour-long tutorial. 1 and one level 2 course in each of the three At Honours level classes are either seminar- departments. based or a mixture of lectures and seminars. Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Courses are assessed by examination alone; In the third and fourth years, students must by continuous assessment alone; or by a gain at least three-quarters of the credits combination of examination and continuous needed for the degree equally from studies assessment. in Gaelic, English and History. The remainder Your Future will normally come from one or more of these A degree in Scottish Studies generates disciplines, and a dissertation will normally opportunities across a range of employment be written for one of them. possibilities and those fluent in Scottish Courses on offer typically include: Gaelic may find employment opportunities > Gaelic language particularly good. Broadcasting, journalism, > Scottish Detective Fiction teaching and librarianship are among the > Class, Identity and Nationalism in career options open to Scottish Studies Scotland, 1832-1914 graduates. The analytical, oral and written > Gaelic Renaissance Poetry skills you develop during your studies > Burns are highly sought after by all prospective > The Scottish Highlands and Islands, employers. c.1850-1950 > Gaelic Language and Identity > Local Horror: The New Scottish Gothic > Stewart Scotland, 1406-1603 116

Sociology is concerned with how people What You Need SQA Highers BBBB create and sustain society, and how society A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 15 points at HL Sociology shapes people. Students learn to adopt the See table on page 79 for more information. ‘sociological imagination’, which illuminates UCAS Code see page 198 the interplay of individual biographies with Advanced Entry historical and social circumstances. Sociology See page 78 for more information. at Aberdeen is recognised for its excellence Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] in both research and teaching. Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91

Your Study Options Why Choose Aberdeen? Second Year Single Honours Programme in > The Department has an international The second year extends the analysis of the Sociology reputation for its research and was ranked ‘sociological imagination’ and looks at a range joint 6th in the UK in the most recent of contemporary social issues and themes Designated Degree in Research Assessment Exercise. It was also that exemplify sociology’s attention on people Sociology one of the top two Sociology departments acting in social settings and the structures Joint Honours Programmes with in Scotland they inhabit, and which comprise what we Accountancy, Anthropology, Behavioural call society. Topics will be approached in > It is recognised by the UK Government’s Studies, Celtic Civilisation, Divinity, Economics, order to illustrate how sociology combines Economic and Social Research Council English, Film and Visual Culture, Finance, both theory and empirical investigation. (ESRC) as an outlet for research training French, Gaelic Studies, Geography, German, Substantive topics covered include issues and supervision for Masters and PhD Hispanic Studies, History, Language & such as consumerism, tourism, food and students Linguistics, Legal Studies, Literature in a World risk society. Context, Management Studies, Mathematics*, > Sociology at Aberdeen is consistently rated Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Philosophy, Politics and International Relations, very highly in all the main rankings for In the third year students take courses in Psychology, Religious Studies undergraduate degrees. It has also year- the core areas of sociology, namely Research on-year achieved extremely high student *Joint Honours Sociology and Mathematics Methods and Sociological Theory. In the satisfaction ratings in the National Student - SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent fourth year, students begin their individual Survey (NSS): in 2011 the overall student qualification in Mathematics is required. research projects and choose from a range of satisfaction rate for the department was option courses such as Sociology of Modern Related Honours Programmes in 97%, placing it 5th out of 86 universities Scotland, Sociology of Art and Culture, Body Anthropology, Politics and International Relations, teaching sociology across the UK Work, Political Sociology, European Societies, Divinity, Economics, Film and Visual Culture > The Scottish Higher Education Funding Sociology of the City, Religion and Culture, Course Information

Council judged the department to be the Sociology of Peace Processes, Animals www.abdn.ac.uk/sociology “excellent” in its most recent Teaching and Society and Sociology of Contemporary General Information Q uality Assessment exercise: the highest European Social Movements. www.abdn.ac.uk/sras grade possible Teaching and Assessment facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Degree Programme Structure and Content Most courses are taught using a combination Courses are available at levels 1 through 4. of lectures and small-group seminars, and @aberdeenuni There is an Honours degree and a Designated are assessed by both essays and formal See page 25 for information degree in Sociology. examinations. For Honours students, the year- long research project forms a major element First Year See page 26 for information in the final assessment.  Introduction to Sociology 1 answers the Your Future question of what sociology is. It addresses the THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE relationship between individuals and society Recently qualified Sociology graduates from See page 14 for more information. and looks at how society is reproduced over Aberdeen have found careers in such diverse time. Introduction to Sociology 2 examines areas of work as journalism, local and national Need more Info? the key sociological notion of ‘social structure’ government, social research institutions, Scan the QR code by means of a range of contemporary teaching English as a foreign language, the social themes and issues, such as religion, health service, social work, human resources, surveillance and the media. market research and university and college lecturing.

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BD/BD (Honours) Theological study and learning go BTh/BTh (Honours) back beyond the foundation of the MA/MA (Honours) University in 1495. The school is situated in the beautiful and historic buildings of King’s College.

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Divinity and Theology degrees at Aberdeen concentrate on the study of Christian faith, life and doctrine in its historical, institutional

Divinity and Theology and contemporary contexts. Emerging principally from within the Christian tradition, its means of study are theological, exegetical and historical, incorporating research and teaching in the following fields: Church History, Old Testament, New Testament, Practical Theology and Systematic Theology.

Why Choose Aberdeen? Bachelor of Theology (BTh) Second Year Whether you have a personal, vocational or The BTh is designed to be more flexibly History and Religion of Ancient Israel; intellectual interest in a deeper knowledge structured than the BD. It provides greater Earliest Portraits of Jesus; The Mission of the Christian faith, its sources and its opportunities to take courses in Religious and Message of Paul the Apostle to the history, or are interested in exploring the Studies and to combine the study of Theology Gentiles; The Pilgrim City (Mediaeval historical, social and political development and Religion with subjects outwith Divinity Church); Christian Doctrine and Practice: of the world’s religions, Aberdeen is the and Religious Studies (e.g. French, English, Major Christian Thinkers; Exploring the place for you. History, Sociology, Chemistry, Computing). It Tradition of Christian Ethics; Economic is particularly suited to the educational needs and Psychological Theories of Religion; > A tradition of theological study and of those considering teaching Religious and Sociological and Anthropological Theories of excellence going back to 1495 Moral Education in secondary schools. Religion; Islam; Buddhism. Sustained Studies: > A vast array of courses including biblical Master of Arts in Divinity Hebrew Language III and IV; Reading New languages, the history of the church in the Testament Greek 1 and 2; Intermediate Latin The MA in Divinity offers more flexibility west, the Reformation in Scotland, classical 1 and 2. than the BD or BTh. Within the Divinity and contemporary Christian doctrine, courses students have the option to specialise Third & Fourth Year (Honours) the role of religion in ethical and political in individual sub-disciplines. See page 87 for Old Testament Theology; Comparative debates, and religious aspects of disability entry requirements and further information. Semitic Linguistics; Contemporary Issues > An international community of scholars, Master of Arts in Religious Studies in the Study of the Hebrew Bible, Luke Acts studying all aspects of theology, ministry, in Context; The Gospel and Letters of John; An MA in Religious Studies at Aberdeen gives and close links to religious studies New Testament Theology; Heavens, Seers students a cutting-edge understanding of specialists and the End: Apocalypticism and the New the world’s major religious traditions, their Testament; Recovering the Historical Jesus; > Excellent library facilities, beautiful historical development and importance in the The Graeco-Roman Environment of the surroundings, and a warm welcome! contemporary world. The degree also gives New Testament; The Jewish Environment students the opportunity to explore a wide Degrees of the New Testament; The Reformation in diversity of courses in the Arts and Social The School offers four degrees at the Scotland; Luther, Calvin and the Shaping Sciences. It may be taken as a Designated undergraduate level: Bachelor of Divinity of Protestantism; Reformation Reason degree in three years, or as part of a Joint (BD), Bachelor of Theology (BTh), Master of and Revolt; The Followers of Lady Poverty: Honours degree in four years. See page 113 for Arts (MA) in Divinity and Master of Arts (MA) St Francis and His Disciples; These Three entry requirements and further information. in Religious Studies. Each may be taken as a are One: Introduction to The Christian non-Honours or as an Honours degree. Divinity Degree Programme (BD) Doctrine of God; Theology of Karl Barth; Bachelor of Divinity (BD) These are the courses currently running, Justice and Reconciliation; Christian Ethics however they may be subject to change: and Creation; New Directions in Natural The BD is designed for students who wish Theology; Religion, Secularism and Public specialised and comprehensive study of the First Year Life; Spirituality, Health and Healing; Christian tradition. The study of the biblical Introduction to the Hebrew Bible; The Social Anthropology of Religions; Atheism; languages (Hebrew and Greek) by candidates Founders of Christianity: Introduction to Critical Theories of Religion: The Frankfurt for this degree is encouraged, but not the New Testament; The Rise of Christianity School; Quran; The Life of Muhammad; compulsory. The course leading to the non- (0-600); Basic Christian Doctrine; What Does Understanding Confucianism; Reading Honours degree of BD normally takes three it Mean to be Human: Learning from the Confucian and Daoist Sacred Texts; years and the Honours degree four years. Margins; Religion at Ground Zero; Christian Understanding New Religious Movements. Belief: Its Critics and Defenders; Introduction to Religions of the World I and II. Sustained Students will also be expected to complete an Studies: Hebrew 1 and 2; New Testament Honours Dissertation. Greek 1 and 2; Latin 1 and 2. 121

What You Need Theology Degree Programme (BTh) Teaching & Assessment Scottish Qualifications (SQA) These are the courses currently running, The School of Divinity, History & Philosophy 4H at BBBB, 3AH at BCC however they may be subject to change: emphasises a flexible approach to teaching S at levels 1, 2 or 3 in English Divinity and Theology First Year and assessment, utilising a combination of small and large group teaching assessed Church History (The Rise of Christianity Advanced Entry through examinations, essays and 0-600); Hebrew Language I; Introduction For those seeking entry into second year presentations. Honours students write a to the Hebrew Bible; Systematic Theology classes, with a view to taking an accelerated dissertation on a subject of their choice (Christian Belief: Its Critics and Defenders); Honours degree, the normal requirement will approved by a supervisor. New Testament (Earliest Portraits of Jesus: be BC at H plus A at AH or 2AH at AB. This Introduction to the Gospels; Elementary Your Future must include AH at A in Religious Studies. Greek I & II); Basics of World Religions. Our graduates have found employment in a Where a combination of H and AH has been studied, individual subjects will be counted at Second Year wide range of areas, including the churches, media and journalism, teaching, public one level only. Church History & Systematic Theology (The service and administration, the NGO sector, European Reformation); Practical Theology business, government and publishing. General Certificate of Education (GCE) (Christian Doctrine and Practice); New 3 A Levels at BBB Testament What is Truth? John’s Gospel GCSE in English or English Language and Letters - English or Greek texts; Paul of Tarsus - English or Greek texts; Encountering Advanced Entry Buddhism; Critical Methods of Old For those seeking entry into second year Testament Study (English or Hebrew texts); classes, with a view to taking an accelerated Old Testament Theology (English or Hebrew Honours degree, the normal requirement must texts); Medieval Christianity 500-1500. include A Level at A in Religious Studies. Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Church History (Luther, Calvin and the Irish Leaving Certificate/ Shaping of Protestantism; Reformation Ardteistimeireacht (ILC) and Revolutions; The Theology of the Early 4H at BBBB Church; Scottish Theology); Hebrew Bible O in English III & IV; Practical Theology (Spirituality, Health and Healing; Exploring the Tradition International Baccalaureate (IB) of Christian Ethics; Theological and Pastoral SL in English Perspectives on the Family); Systematic 30 points including an average of 5 at HL Theology (Contemporary Issues in Christian Can We Help? Doctrine; The Nature of Theology); New Email us: [email protected] Testament (Set Texts; Advanced Greek; Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 The Historical Background of the New Testament); Gospels and Acts - Selected Texts Your Study Options (Greek or English); New Testament Epistles Professional Accreditation (Greek or English); The World of the New The Bachelor of Divinity and Bachelor of Testament. Theology degrees have been accredited by the Church of Scotland. Students studying for the BTh in Theology Course Information also have access to a wide range of Religious Studies courses. www.abdn.ac.uk/divinity General Information www.abdn.ac.uk/sras

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Full-time Degrees The School of Education has a long Primary Education and distinguished record in the training BMus with Honours (Education) of teachers. Staff are recognised see page 126 nationally and internationally for their research and development work in particular fields. BA / Part-time Degrees see page 71 BA Childhood Practice (BACP) BA Professional Development BA Social Pedagogy (BASP) Certificate in Adult and Community Learning Teaching Qualification (Further Education) TQ(FE)

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Primary Education will be made to the Education degrees offered What You Need by the University of Aberdeen. These changes Primary Education are as yet unconfirmed at the time of print. Scottish Qualifications SQA 4H at BBBB

Education Students should ensure that they visit Why Choose Aberdeen? the Education website for up-to-date English and Mathematics as below. Teaching is an exciting and demanding programme information. General Certificate of Education (GCE) job, requiring a variety of personal and Selection professional qualities and characteristics. A Levels at BBB An interview forms part of the selection Teachers must be able to relate well to others, GCSE in English or English Language process and a Protection of Vulnerable Groups conveying empathy and understanding in English and Mathematics as below. (PVG) check will be conducted prior to final their interactions with learners. They must acceptance. enjoy learning and share this enthusiasm Irish Leaving Certificate/ by providing an exciting and stimulating Teaching and Assessment Ardteistimeireacht environment for young learners. The Primary Education degree comprises Minimum 4 at Higher Level BBBB including credit rated courses. Our learner-centred English, and 2 at Ordinary Level, including Our programmes aim to produce creative, approach is characterised by workshops, Maths which must be at Grade B or above. motivated primary teachers who are tutorials, seminars, self study and lectures, confident to work with children aged supported by an online learning environment. English Minimum between 3 and 12 in any educational setting. SQA Higher Grade award in English/ESOL Courses are assessed through a variety of > The School of Education has a long and at Grade B or above; or National Course approaches, including presentation, written distinguished record in the education of award (Higher Still) in English and assignment, portfolio and examinations. teachers. It is a large school with over 50 Communication at Grade B or above; or academic staff, all of whom are highly School experience is assessed in partnership GCSE/O Level English Language AND English qualified, experienced professionals with with primary school teachers, Head Teachers Literature at Grade B or above in both; or a wide range of expertise in learning and and University tutors. As the programme A Level English Grade C or above; or ILC teaching. Many are recognised locally, develops, students will be expected to take English at Higher Grade B or above. nationally and internationally for their increasing responsibility for determining and Mathematics research and development work in their organising their own learning as part of their SQA Standard Grade (credit level) award in particular specialist fields continuing professional development. Mathematics at Grade 1 or 2; or SCE ordinary > High quality student learning and Professional Accreditation grade award in Mathematics at Grade A or achievement supported by strongly Degrees are accredited by the General B or C or pass; or National Course award committed professional staff Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) and Intermediate Level 2 Mathematics at Grade C allow graduates to apply for provisional or above; or GCSE/O Level Mathematics at > Strong, well established partnerships registration as primary teachers. Grade B or above; or Irish Leaving Certificate with schools and communities, education Mathematics at Ordinary Grade B or above; or Your Future authorities and other professionals, Open University Course - MU123 Discovering jointly developing innovative courses and Graduates of the programmes are eligible Mathematics pass. programmes for a one year induction training post after graduation. Eligibility for the Teacher Can We Help? > Students choose to study at Aberdeen to Induction Scheme is determined by Scottish Email us: [email protected] benefit from the opportunity of periods of Government and full details can be found on Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 placement in city, small town, suburban, www.gtcs.org.uk/home/students/teacher- rural and island settings. This provides induction-scheme-faq.aspx Course Information the widest possible preparation for future www.abdn.ac.uk/education employment Aberdeen graduates are highly valued by General Information Degree Programme Structure and Content employers throughout Scotland and across www.abdn.ac.uk/sras the world. The programme leads to a qualification to teach facebook.com/universityofaberdeen children in the 3–12 age range with registration Gaelic Medium Education with the General Teaching Council for Scotland. The University actively seeks to promote @aberdeenuni Over four years, it combines academic study Gaelic Medium Education through Initial See page 25 for information. with practical inquiry in a variety of school Teacher Education. Within the programme settings and their communities. Following there is an opportunity for candidates who See page 26 for information. graduation, the new teacher network provides are fluent and literate in Gaelic to study continued opportunity for academic and and professionally develop in Gaelic THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE professional development. Medium teaching. See page 14 for more information. This programme will prepare teachers for the PGDE Courses for Graduates challenges and changes facing the profession An alternative route into teaching is through Need more Info? in the twenty-first Century. Students will have the one year Professional Graduate Diploma Scan the QR code the opportunity to develop the knowledge, in Education (PGDE). PGDE courses in both understanding, skills and values required in primary and secondary education are primary teaching. intended for successful graduates wishing to Proposed Changes to Degrees teach. Further information about these one- in Education year courses, both of which are professionally accredited by the General Teaching Council In the light of proposed changes to Education for Scotland (GTCS) is available in the Degrees following the recent Donaldson postgraduate prospectus. Review, it is likely that significant changes 125 Education 126 Degrees in Music

BMus with Honours Our music staff possess a wide range BMus with Honours of research expertise encompassing (Education) aspects of performance, composition BMus with Honours and musicology. Facilities for music (Music and Communities) students are first-class, including MA Music Studies electroacoustic music studios, a (See page 107) collection of historical instruments and a world music centre.

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Music Music Why Choose Aberdeen? Degree Programme Structure and Content BMus with Honours (Education) > We are an expanding area with a vibrant The structure of the innovative BMus degree Third and Fourth Year (Honours) and friendly atmosphere is flexible and has a 2+2 format. After the first two years of core study, in which students Performance Studies > Instrumental/vocal tuition takes place are able to develop skills in performance, Students continue performance in the third throughout the programme composition musicianship and music year, and can offer a performance recital as > The University runs a full Symphony history, one of three Honours programmes is part of the fourth year curriculum. Orchestra, Choral Society, Chapel Choir, chosen in third and fourth year. BMus with Composition Studies String Ensemble, Viol Consort, Recorder Honours is a music degree. The BMus with Students work on developing their own Consort, New Music Group, Baroque Honours (Education) programme leads to a personal voices. For students choosing Ensemble, Concert Band, Big Band, qualification to teach in secondary schools. composition in fourth year, this culminates in chamber groups and many more BMus with Honours (Music and the submission of a composition portfolio. > Instrumental resources include a full Communities) is a new programme involving Music History Balinese Gamelan, Steel Pans and Samba/ students applying musical skills while Music Education students take New Salsa instruments and there is a collection working in a range of communities. Directions: Revolution and Evolution in of historic instruments based around a First and Second Year Core Study Music, a course which examines a hypothesis 1771 Kirkman harpsichord and violins Students study a range of courses including that 1600 and 1900 both mark turning points by the eighteenth-century maker Joseph performance (involving weekly lessons), in the history of music. Ruddiman musicianship, composition, theory and music Dissertation > The University of Aberdeen offers excellent history. The first year provides a foundation All Music Education students write a performance opportunities with the early for further study, and includes a survey of dissertation in their fourth year on some sixteenth-century Chapel often used for Western music. There is also the opportunity aspect of music. services and performances of sacred and to take courses outside the discipline. Music concert music. The Chapel has a new Education students have the opportunity Professional Studies (2004) all-mechanical pipe organ built by to gain experience in school whilst Single Professional Studies involves the study the French builder Aubertin - the first by Honours music students choose from a of music teaching and pedagogy, and is this builder in the UK number of optional courses. closely related to School Experience where the knowledge can be applied in practice. > There are three state-of-the-art BMus with Honours Professional competencies are developed in Electroacoustic Composition studios as Third and Fourth Year (Honours) continuity with the progressive acquisition well as a number of Music Technology In third year, students continue with and application of subject and content workstations performance and composition. Other courses skills provided by the students’ Core Studies > Aberdeen city is known as being a lively include New Directions: Revolution and programme. centre for music. Links with the BBC Evolution in Music which examines a In first and second year, experiences related Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Aberdeen hypothesis that 1600 and 1900 both mark to the subject and content of music generate City Music School, North East of Scotland turning points in the history of music. Students consideration and appraisal of curricular Music School, the Sound Festival and other are introduced to methods of musical analysis resources, and of different approaches to organisations continue to develop, and in third year. Students also choose from a range presenting these resources in school. students take part in performance and of optional courses reflecting the research workshops led by visiting musicians interests of staff. Practical Skills Students develop a range of practical skills In fourth year, students write a dissertation necessary for classroom teaching, such as on a musical topic and choose from a range keyboard skills. of options, which include a performance recital and the submission of a portfolio of compositions. 129

What You Need Scottish Qualifications SQA Minimum 3H at BBB including Music at Higher minimum Grade B. Music School Experience Your Future Music Education students are sent into Students entering the BMus might have General Certificate of Education (GCE) schools to gain practical experience in specific career aspirations from the start. Minimum of 2 A Levels or 4 AS Levels classroom music teaching. However, the programmes are specifically Music – A Level minimum Grade B or AS Level minimum Grade A. Minimum of 3 BMus with Honours designed so that those who wish to pursue additional GCSE passes. (Music and Communities) a career in music, but don’t want to tie themselves down to one particular career Third and Fourth Year (Honours) path, are able to benefit from a two year Irish Leaving Certificate/ Ardteistimeireacht Performance Studies experience in music, before choosing a specific programme. For students following the Minimum 3 at Higher Level – BBB Students continue with performance and BMus with Honours (Education) programme, composition in the third year. the main career prospects are in teaching, International Baccalaureate Understanding Communities and those graduating with the BMus with 30 points including at least a Grade 6 Students follow courses during their honours Honours (Music and Communities) are well at Music at HL English Minimum years in which they explore the nature of placed to take opportunities for working in communities of various types to prepare community music. For those following the Music Qualifications themselves for working within them. BMus with Honours programme, the main Candidates should demonstrate musical attainment and potential. Candidates Communities Placements career prospects embrace editing, writing and presenting music, composing and should have Grade VIII Associated Board The department has established links with performing. The degree can also be used as (or equivalent) in their main instrument/ a variety of external organisations to give an entry to other professions, as is the case voice. Those with Grade VII (or equivalent) students the opportunity to work within of other degrees, where subject specialism who show great potential may be accepted. communities in a variety of different is not important. Musical skills are assessed at interview, at contexts. which competence on piano will need to be Teaching and Assessment demonstrated. Further information about Teaching is by a mixture of lectures, seminar the interview process is available on the groups, tutorials and individual instrumental Music Department web site. Applicants from and vocal tuition. Methods of assessment outside the UK must also meet the above include submitted coursework (essays and performance requirement. compositions), formal written examinations and practical examinations (performance Can We Help? recitals and keyboard skills). Email us: [email protected] Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Entry to Honours Programmes Students apply for entry to Honours Course Information programmes at the end of the second year of www.abdn.ac.uk/music study. Entry to BMus with Honours depends General Information on satisfactory progress in the first two years www.abdn.ac.uk/sras of study; entry to the BMus with Honours (Education) programme involves an interview facebook.com/universityofaberdeen and assessment of keyboard skills, and candidates must meet the GTCS requirements @aberdeenuni Q which include S A Higher/ESOL grade award See page 25 for information. at band C or above in English, or a National Course award at Higher Level at C or above in See page 26 for information. English and Communications (or equivalent). A Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE check will be conducted for those students See page 14 for more information. choosing the BMus (Education) programme midway through their second year. Need more Info? Entry to the BMus with Honours (Music and Scan the QR code Communities) takes place after an interview and assessment of musicianship. Music can also be studied as Minor Honours in the MA. See page 107 for more information. 130 Degrees in Engineering

MEng Our philosophy is one of world-class BEng teaching in an atmosphere of research. Staff in the School have won national awards and strong links with industry ensure teaching is in line with today’s requirements.

MEng BEng Engineering Engineering Chemical Engineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Engineering (Civil) Civil and Structural Engineering Engineering (Civil with European Studies) Civil and Structural Engineering with European Studies Engineering (Civil and Structural) Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering (Civil Civil and Environmental Engineering and Environmental) with European Studies Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Engineering (Electrical Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic with with European Studies European Studies) Mechanical Engineering Engineering (Mechanical) Mechanical Engineering Engineering (Mechanical with European with Management Studies) Mechanical Engineering Engineering (Mechanical with European Studies and Electrical) Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Engineering (Mechanical with Oil and Petroleum Engineering Gas Studies) Petroleum Engineering

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MEng BEng Engineering Engineering Chemical Engineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Engineering (Civil) Civil and Structural Engineering Engineering (Civil with European Studies) Civil and Structural Engineering with European Studies Engineering (Civil and Structural) Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering (Civil Civil and Environmental Engineering and Environmental) with European Studies Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Engineering (Electrical Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic with with European Studies European Studies) Mechanical Engineering Engineering (Mechanical) Mechanical Engineering Engineering (Mechanical with European with Management Studies) Mechanical Engineering Engineering (Mechanical with European Studies and Electrical) Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Engineering (Mechanical with Oil and Petroleum Engineering Gas Studies) Petroleum Engineering 132

Probable Entry Requirements for 2013 Probable Entry Requirements for 2013 Probable Entry

Degree

Type of Qualification MEng BEng † First Year Entry * First Year Entry * SQA – 4H at ABBB 4H at BBBB Scottish Qualifications B in Mathematics and B in Physics B in Mathematics and B in Physics or Technological Studies at B. or Technological Studies at B. S at levels 1, 2, or 3 in English. S at levels 1, 2, or 3 in English.

Engineering Diploma – The Engineering Diploma, with some additional The Engineering Diploma, with some additional General Certificate of qualifications, will provide appropriate preparation qualifications, will provide appropriate preparation Education for our MEng degrees. Please visit www.ucas.com for for our BEng degrees. Please visit www.ucas.com for more information. more information.

GCE – General 3 A Levels at BBB, B in Mathematics and B in Physics 3 A Levels at BBB, B in Mathematics and B in Physics or Certificate or a B in Design and Technology or a B in Engineering. a B in Design and Technology or a B in Engineering. of Education GCSE English at C. GCSE English at C.

ILC- Irish Leaving 4H at ABBB including Mathematics and either 4H at BBBB including Mathematics and either Physics Certificate/ Physics or Engineering. or Engineering. Ardteistimeireacht O in English. O in English.

IB - International 32 points including Mathematics and Physics at HL 30 points including Mathematics and Physics at HL Baccalaureate (5 or above) and English at Standard Level. (5 or above) and English at Standard Level.

Note – Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering also require Chemistry. See programme details for more information.

*  Offers of Admission Advanced Entry to the MEng or BEng Can We Help? programmes is arranged through the Applicants should note that achieving the Email us: [email protected] Admission Selector at the University of minimum entrance requirement will not Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Aberdeen. guarantee an offer of admission. We have many more applicants than places, and † Transfer to MEng: Selected BEng students Course Information most of them meet our minimum entrance may transfer to the MEng at the end of the www.abdn.ac.uk/engineering requirements. Consequently, we may need first or second year. General Information to ask for more than the minimum. An www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Articulation Agreements applicant’s academic profile will normally This exists with Aberdeen College. Students be the most significant factor in our decision facebook.com/universityofaberdeen with HND qualifications in Engineering may making. Additionally, certain features of the be able to gain advanced entry. personal statement may help to strengthen @aberdeenuni an applicant’s case. See page 25 for information For further information, contact the University of Aberdeen Student Foundation Programme See page 26 for information Recruitment and Admissions Service Some international students may be eligible on +44 (0)1224 272090/91 to apply for a Foundation Programme in Engineering. Please See page 31 for further THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE information. See page 14 for more information.

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Engineering is one of the most satisfying professions. You get results. You make things happen. You generate new solutions to other people’s

problems and at the end of the day, you have the job satisfaction of being Engineering able to see your work in action.

Why Choose Aberdeen? Honours Years Following specialisation in third year Engineering is an intellectually demanding You do not need to finalise your choice of Honours studies will include: Engineering profession, mainly because of the wide range specialisation until you begin third year. This Analysis & Methods, Fluid Mechanics, Stress of skills you need to deploy. You are expected is also the point at which a final decision Analysis, Engineering Design, Geotechnics, to be good at mathematics, to have a sound between MEng and BEng must be made. Mechanics of Structures, Design of Structural grasp of basic sciences, to be inventive and Successful BEng candidates will be offered the Elements, Professional Development in the creative, to be able to sell your ideas to chance to change to the MEng programme. Construction Industry, Economics, Resource clients and colleagues and, in due course, A wide range of both MEng and BEng & Safety Management, Safety & Reliability to organise and lead fellow professionals. programmes are available across the entire Engineering, Field Survey & Engineering engineering spectrum reflecting the multi- Hydrology (field course), Engineering Project > Integrated Engineering School, containing disciplinary nature of the School. & Manufacturing Management. award-winning staff and modern, well- equipped laboratories In your third year you have the opportunity MEng only - Solid Mechanics & Materials to study from a range of courses leading Modelling, Civil Engineering Hydraulics, > Common core in years 1 and 2 for all to specialisation in your chosen discipline. Engineering Management, Mathematical engineering students The major feature of the fourth year is the Optimisation. > Programmes reflect ‘systems engineering’ undertaking of an individual project in the area Chemical Engineering approach in modern industry of your specialisation. The project occupies half Chemical Engineering is concerned with the of your study time and can be undertaken in > Final choice of specialisation can be made creative and imaginative use of engineering Aberdeen or abroad. The opportunity exists at start of year 3 principles and science to develop processes in to study a European language to support this which materials undergo chemical or physical > Philosophy of world-class teaching in an study. Formal courses continue to develop your transformation into useful products for atmosphere of research specialist interests. society to use. Today, chemical engineers are Degree Programme Structure and Content If you are studying for the MEng degree then involved in a much wider range of processing Honours Degrees of MEng and BEng in fifth year you undertake a group design activities than traditional “chemical” project in addition to courses in Engineering production. The types of processes chemical The MEng is a five-year Honours programme Analysis & Methods and Engineering & engineers help design include Energy and the BEng is a four-year Honours Project Management. The study of Advanced production; Oil and Gas processing; Waste programme, both of which are fully Special Topics further deepens your specialist water and effluent treatment; Food processing accredited by the Engineering Institutions knowledge. and manufacturing; Pharmaceuticals and (see Professional Accreditation section). For medical products; Carbon dioxide capture and the first two years you study a common The specialisations come under five main storage and many more. core covering the basic principles of all disciplines. More information on each of these branches of engineering. In these two years is detailed below. Virtually every product in modern life has you will follow courses which will give you Civil Engineering probably been created using the input of a the choice of at least three of the School’s chemical engineer at some point and you will Civil Engineering is concerned with creative main disciplines to specialise in. In the later find chemical engineers working across the use of engineering principles and science years you specialise, following your chosen globe in a wide range of industries. to shape and improve our lives and our discipline in greater depth including design environment. If you have an aptitude and fascination for applications. how the physical world works, are interested The work of the Civil Engineer centres on Pre-Honours Years in how chemical reactions and the physical sustainable design for the built and natural In the first year you can study topics such properties of matter can be harnessed to environment. Civil Engineers design, build, as Engineering Mathematics, Electronics, create world changing technologies, and maintain and manage roads, railways, dams, Engineering Chemistry, Mechanics, want to contribute positively to making buildings, airports, hospitals, schools, harbours Fundamentals of Engineering Materials and the life of the human race better and to the and sports stadia. They design water supply Computer Aided Design and Communication. development of a sustainable environment, and water treatment systems and river then you should consider chemical In the second year the topics covered management, flood and coastal protection engineering as a career choice. can include Engineering Mathematics, schemes. Engineering Chemistry, Transport Processes, Aberdeen is at the heart of the energy Civil Engineers are involved in seeing major Fluids and Thermodynamics, Solids and industry in Europe and of international infrastructure projects through from design to Structures, Electronic Systems, Geology, importance as a centre of excellence in construction and completion. Electrical and Mechanical Systems and exploration and production of oil and gas. Design & Computing. 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The degrees of MEng/BEng in Chemical Mechanical Engineering Aberdeen is at the heart of the energy Engineering are the result of discussions with Mechanical Engineering is concerned with industry in Europe and is in an international the oil and gas industry in the North East creative and imaginative use of engineering centre of excellence in exploration and production of oil and gas, both in the North

Engineering of Scotland, and are unique in being geared principles and science to shape the world towards the growing need for highly skilled around us, through the development of Sea and in many other overseas provinces chemical engineers to work in the sector in new materials, technologies, processes and using resources based in Aberdeen. years to come. products. Mechanical engineers design and The distinctiveness of this programme is develop everything that moves or has moving The programmes include a large element provided by its combination of excellence parts, ranging from spacecraft and aeroplanes of practical and laboratory work as well as in both Engineering and in Petroleum to racing cars; from household goods like opportunities for an industrial placement Geoscience. With Engineering at its heart, refrigerators to the small motors that turn (in year 4). the programme also draws upon excellent a CD in a CD player; from robotic control teaching and research in Exploration and Following specialisation in third year Honours of machinery to nanotechnologies; from Production Geoscience, and in physical studies will include: Engineering Analysis mechanical hearts and artificial limbs to fitness and organic Chemistry, thereby providing & Methods, Engineering Design, Fluid machines, and from oil and gas exploration students with a clear understanding of the Mechanics, Process Modelling & Control, and production technologies to wind turbines. challenges faced by a petroleum engineer at Chemical Engineering & Transport Processes, Virtually every product in modern life has an inter-disciplinary level. The programme is Thermodynamics, Separation Processes, probably been touched in some way by a also focussed towards enabling graduates to Economics, Resource & Safety Management, mechanical engineer. It is not surprising confront the cutting-edge challenges of the Chemical Plant Operations, Safety & therefore that mechanical engineering is future as the industry extends its reach into Reliability Engineering, Chemical Reaction regarded as one of the most diverse of all ever more complex problems. Engineering, Advanced Process Control, engineering disciplines. Environmental Remediation. Following specialisation in third year Honours If you are interested in the mechanics and studies will include: Reservoir Geology MEng only - Offshore Engineering, Advanced dynamics of movement, have aptitude and (field and project-based), Engineering Chemical Plant Operations, Engineering fascination in how things work, want to Analysis and Methods, Engineering Design, Management. contribute positively to making the life of the Engineering Materials, Process Modelling Note: An SQA Higher or GCE A Level or human race better and to the development & Control Principles of Petroleum Geology, equivalent qualification in Chemistry is of a sustainable environment, then you Drilling Engineering, Economics, Resource required for entry to year 1, in addition to should consider mechanical engineering and Safety Management, Petroleum Fluid the general engineering requirements. as a career choice. Properties, Multi-phase Flow, Safety & Reliability Engineering, Well Engineering & Electrical and Electronic Engineering Following specialisation in third year Honours Completion, Reservoir Modelling, Advanced Electrical and Electronic engineering is one studies will include: Engineering Analysis & Petroleum Process Control. of the most satisfying subjects that you can Methods, Fluid Mechanics, Stress Analysis study. If your interests are science, technology Engineering, Materials Engineering, Design MEng only - Gas Production Engineering, or mathematics, then consider electrical and Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Economics, Subsea Control Systems, Separation and electronic engineering as your career. You Resource & Safety Management, Safety & Production Engineering, Fracturing in will use your imagination, your creativity and Reliability Engineering, Fluid Dynamics, Reservoirs, Engineering Management, knowledge to provide society with the complex Engineering Project & Manufacturing Stimulation and Enhanced Production. systems it needs. In your future career you may Management. Note: An SQA Higher or GCE A Level or design the machines that supply our energy MEng only - Solid Mechanics & Materials equivalent qualification in Chemistry is needs, or you may design complete computer Modelling, Engineering Management, required for entry to year 1 in addition to systems on a silicon chip. Working with Mathematical Optimisation. the general engineering requirements. photonics you may be instrumenting the ocean depths, or creating stunning electronic displays. Petroleum Engineering Further Information Whatever path you take, it will be interesting, it Petroleum Engineering is concerned with the For more detailed information on all of our will contribute to society’s needs and it will be extraction of oil and gas from the ground and programmes please refer to the Engineering rewarding! its processing to provide a useful fuel and Brochure available from the Student feed-stock for further chemical processing. Recruitment and Admissions Service. Following specialisation in third year, Virtually every product in modern life has Alternatively, from our website at Honours studies may include: Engineering probably been touched in some way by oil or www.abdn.ac.uk/engineering/students Analysis & Methods, Control Systems, C/ gas - from baking a pie in an oven to building where you can follow the ‘Course C++ Programming, Signals & Systems, a composite fuselage for an aircraft. It is not Information’ link to find full details of the Engineering Design, Electrical Power surprising therefore, that as the oil starts to syllabus and a book list for all of the courses Engineering, Digital Electronic Systems, run out, petroleum engineering will become we offer. Communications Engineering, Safety more demanding; requiring an ever more Management, Electrical Machines and diverse range of skills. Drives, Computer & Software Engineering, Systems Analysis & Design, Signal If you have a fascination in how the Processing, Optical Engineering, Safety & chemistry and mechanics of oil and gas Reliability Engineering, Engineering Project production work together to support our & Manufacturing Management. world, then you should consider petroleum engineering as a career choice. MEng Only - VLSI & Digital Architectures, Engineering Management, Mathematical Optimisation. 135

Teaching and Assessment Your Future The main methods of teaching are lectures, A degree in Engineering is fundamental to a tutorials, laboratory and design classes. You career as an engineer today. At the moment there is a shortage of good engineers, which can expect an average of 20 hours of lectures, Engineering labs and tutorials per week, which you are means that there are many and varied expected to supplement with private study. employment opportunities throughout the Self-study is vital as it develops the confidence country and, indeed, the world. It will also to enable you to tackle unfamiliar problems; hold you in good stead for more specific an essential skill for the professional engineer. careers such as accountancy or management consultancy. The School of Engineering at Laboratories and design classes are used to Aberdeen is justifiably proud of its students develop practical and communication skills. and graduates, believing them to be the best They are also valuable for giving practical advert for the work of the School. With their demonstrations of the concepts covered in the excellent reputation, our graduates are in high lecture courses. demand from employers. A number of coursework exercises are An Engineering degree at the University of carried out each year, aimed at developing Aberdeen can also lead to the opportunity and improving communication skills. of further study. Every year many of our These include written laboratory reports, students come back for postgraduate study dissertations and presentations. The main either on one of our taught programmes or to method of assessment is examinations in gain higher degrees by research. January and May. Presentations, laboratory reports and other coursework are submitted The University’s Careers Service helps and marked individually throughout the year. undergraduates find employment by Professional Accreditation providing a range of training opportunities and information on prospective employers. Most engineers achieve professional status in the UK through membership of one of the Engineering Institutions and register as Chartered Engineers. Chartered Engineers can practice in Europe and our Honours degrees are recognised by the European Federation of National Engineering Associations. The Engineering Institutions regularly review degree programmes and accredit those they find suitable on behalf of the Engineering Council (UK) and Engineering and Technology Board. According to your choice of curriculum, our MEng Honours degree is accredited by the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Structural Engineers, the Institution of Engineering and Technology or by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The BEng Honours degree is also accredited, but to complete the academic requirements for professional membership, you would need to follow your degree studies with advanced study equivalent to the final year of an MEng programme. For the Chemical Engineering programmes accreditation by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) is planned. The Petroleum Engineering programmes will be accredited as part of the portfolio of programmes offered by the School of Engineering to the Engineering Council. Our degrees are also recognised world- wide as an accredited route to professional engineering status. 136 Degrees in Law

LLB/LLB (Honours) Law has been taught at the University LLB/LLB (Honours) of Aberdeen since its foundation in 1495; with options in today the Law School continues to build Accountancy on this strong traditional foundation to Economics offer a modern, flexible degree, which French provides an excellent academic training. Gaelic German Management Studies Music Spanish

LLB/LLB (Honours) and Belgian Law French Law German Law Spanish Law European Legal Studies

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Law is concerned with the legal rules by which society is regulated and the legal system(s) in which these rules operate. All legal systems are a product of

Law historical, social, political and economic forces and the study of law therefore gives an insight into the nature of society itself.

What You Need Law students have their own Law Society, Graduate Entry: Where a student has SQA Highers AABB which organises a busy and varied already obtained another degree, for 4H at AABB or 5H at ABBBB obtained programme of social and educational example, a BSc or MA degree, it is normally at a single sitting of Hs or 3AH at BBB. events including ‘family ties’ whereby new possible to obtain the LLB in a minimum Those seeking to qualify over two sittings of students are introduced, if they wish, to a period of two years (or five years part-time). Highers must normally get H at BBBB at first family of senior law students who can be Admission to this programme is dependent sitting and over the two sittings must normally contacted to give advice and information on on satisfactory performance in the student’s aggregate not less than AABBB or ABBBBB. aspects of university life generally and the first degree. Graduate applicants must study of law particularly. normally possess a First-class or Upper- Higher English is highly desirable. second Honours degree, or a meritorious There is also a Student Mooting Society, Higher ESOL is also recognised in lieu Ordinary degree. It should be noted that which arranges moots (legal debates) during of Higher English where the mother student maintenance awards are not the year. These enable students to develop tongue is not English. normally available for students who take particular legal skills, but are also good the LLB as a second degree and tuition fees Where a combination of H and AH is social events. There is a dedicated moot for graduates taking the LLB are likely to be offered, individual subjects are counted courtroom. Each year there is an internal approximately £11,000 per year (pro rata for at one level only. mooting competition, which is generously part-time study) . Standard Grade in English. sponsored by local legal associations, and teams have competed successfully in Where a graduate student elects to follow General Certificate Of Education (GCE) national competitions. the four/five year LLB, tuition fees for 3 A Levels at ABB obtained at a single sitting each year of study will reflect the fees for Student input into the Law School: The of A Levels; English is highly desirable. graduate study, approximately £11,000 per Law School is committed to fostering More will be required of those qualifying annum. over two sittings. strong staff-student relations and is concerned to take account of student views For further information see the Law School GCSE in English or English Language in the running of the School. There are a web pages: www.abdn.ac.uk/law/gradllb Irish Leaving Certificate number of elected student representatives Can We Help? Ardteistimeireacht (ILC) who participate in Law School meetings Email us: [email protected] 5H at BBBBB obtained at a single sitting of Hs; generally and who sit on the School’s Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 English is highly desirable. Learning and Teaching Committee, the Course Information More will be required of those qualifying Staff Student Committee and the Employer www.abdn.ac.uk/law over two sittings. Liaison Committee. General Information O in English. Entry Routes: Most but not all students www.abdn.ac.uk/sras International Baccalaureate (IB) enter the Law School straight from school, facebook.com/universityofaberdeen 34 points including an average of 5 at HL; but the Law School has a flexible approach English is highly desirable. to entry. Each year a number of students are admitted following participation in @aberdeenuni Advanced Entry the University’s Access programmes, or See page 25 for information Direct entry to second year classes after having completed another suitable is not possible. qualification. See page 26 for information

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Why Choose Aberdeen? Optional Courses: Family Law, Commercial A Typical Curriculum for the LLB Degree Law involves not only the study of legal rules, Organisations and Insolvency, Consumer The curriculum below contains all the courses but the development of intellectual qualities and Commercial and Commercial Contracts, currently necessary to enable a student to keep open the option of becoming a solicitor. such as clear, careful and independent Succession and Trusts, Evidence and Law thought; precise use of language; the capacity Advocacy, Revenue Law, European Union First Year to analyse and solve complex problems; Institutions and Law, Private International the ability to present arguments in a clear, Law, Forensic Medicine, Public International First Half-Session Courses reasoned and logical manner; the power to Law, Introduction to French Law, Introduction Legal System shows the new student how distinguish the relevant from the irrelevant; to German Law, Alternative Methods of to handle legal materials like legislation and and, generally, thoroughness of inquiry. Dispute Settlement, Competitive Mooting, case reports, and explains the organisation Introduction to European Legal Systems, of Scottish courts, tribunals and the legal > Excellent academic reputation Introduction to Spanish Law, Scottish Legal profession. > Law School ranked 11th in the UK out of 95 History, Pro Bono Legal Studies. Criminal Law studies Human Rights, criminal Law Schools in The Times Good University Provided students satisfy the subject evidence, what constitutes crimes such as Guide 2012 requirements above, in order to reach the murder and assault, and the scope of defences > High student satisfaction - 95% in National 360 or 480 requirement, the student may like provocation and self-defence. Student Survey 2011 additionally take any course offered in the Foundations of Private Law gives an University for any degree, law or non-law. > Choice of 14 degree programmes overview of the main institutions of private Honours Courses law, with an emphasis on the law of > Over 40 Honours options These include: Administrative Law, American property and obligations, and a survey of the > Student-led Law Clinic Constitutional Law, Animal Welfare development of private law in Europe and Law, Civil Liberties, Comparative Law, Scotland’s position within that tradition. > Student Law Review Comparative Constitutional Law, Company An Enhanced Study option from one of the > Opportunities to study in continental Law, Contract Law, Conveyancing, Copyright categories mentioned in one of (a), (b) or (c) Europe and Allied Rights, Criminal Justice, Criminal above. Law, Criminology, Delict, Employment > Ranked highest UK Law School for Law, Environmental Law, European Second Half-Session Courses graduate prospects (93%), The Times Economic Law, European Competition Law, Contract looks at how legal agreements are Good University Guide 2012 European Institutions and Law, European constituted and enforced, and how they may Degree Programme Structure and Content Legal History, Evidence, Family Law, be set aside, e.g. on the basis of fraud. The LLB degree is based on three years of Government and Law, Industrial Property Public Law and Human Rights gives an study and requires a student to gain at least Law, Individual Rights in European Union overview of the basic structures of the state 360 credits; the LLB (Honours) degree is based Law, International Economic Law: The in terms of its constitution and regulation, on four years of study and requires a student World Trade Organisation, International including parliamentary sovereignty, rule of to gain at least 480 credits. LLB courses usually Law in a World of Crises, International law, separation of powers and parliament, have 15 credits; Honours courses, 25. Criminal Law, Law and Modernity, Law and and Human Rights issues. Medical Ethics, Legal Issues Involving Art Every student must gain at least 240 credits and Antiquities, Legal Issues in Corporate Legal Method is concerned with developing from law courses of which several noted Management, Maritime Law, Media Law, skills in legal research and writing, problem below are compulsory. Moveable Property, Oil and Gas Law, Peoples solving, critical judgement and handling legal Every student must also pass Enhanced & Indigenous Peoples and Minorities in materials. Study options amounting to 90 credits (i.e. International Law, Planning Law, Private A second Enhanced Study Option from the six courses) drawn from one of the following International Law, Renewable Energy appropriate category, as previously described. three categories:- Law, Roman Law, Rural Law, Scottish Legal History, Succession, Taxation Law, Use of Second Year (a) Discipline Breadth courses, which Force in International Law and Unjustified can include options from other degree First Half-Session Courses Enrichment. programmes (eg. the MA) or a number of law Property Law studies the nature of the legal options, covering e.g. Public International Law, Curriculum for the Degree of LLB and LLB rights, duties and powers which individuals Alternative Dispute Resolution, Scottish Legal, (Honours) may have in respect of different types of History Resolution, etc. These law courses can Both the LLB and LLB (Honours) degrees offer a property and examines how one acquires a contribute to the 240 law credits required to wide choice of courses and a flexibility which legal title to property, the restrictions on how graduate with the LLB. enables students to construct a curriculum an owner can use his or her property, and how in keeping with personal interests and career one disposes of property. (b) Sustained Study courses by which students intentions. Some students are unsure about are exposed to a linked series of courses e.g. a Delicit and Unjustified Enrichment involves their career intentions when they commence language, alongside their law courses. consideration of the circumstances in which their degree. In order to keep their options a person who suffers loss, injury or damage (c) Sixth Century courses, which are cross open, these students, together with those as a result of wrongful conduct on the part of disciplinary. firmly intending to practise law, will be another is entitled to claim compensation. Law courses advised to include in their curricula all the courses necessary to allow them to enter the European Union Institutions and Law Compulsory Courses: Foundations of Private legal profession. Students who have firmly considers the institutions that make law for the Law, Legal System, Criminal Law, Contract, decided not to enter the legal profession have European Union e.g. the Commission, Council, Delicit and Unjustified Enrichment, Property a greater choice in constructing their curricula Parliament and the European Court of Justice, Law, Introduction to Jurisprudence, Legal because they will not have to take certain and the legal effects for the United Kingdom; Method, Foundations of Public Law and professional subjects. Principles of EU Law; and Human Rights. Human Rights. A third Enhanced Study Option from the appropriate category, as previously described. 140

Second Half-Session Courses Tulane (New Orleans), McGill (Montreal), or Marburg University; for the degree with Family Law looks at parental rights and British Columbia (Vancouver), Toronto, Belgian Law, at Brussels University and for responsibilities, creation of marriage and Brussels, Lyon, Berlin, Regensburg, Utrecht, the the degree with Spanish Law, at Deusto College of Europe in Bruges and the European University in Bilbao or Seville University.

Law civil partnerships, and cohabitation. University Institute in Florence. It also has Students must have passed all their Commercial Organisations and Insolvency a wider value, however, and the range of compulsory first and second year Law deals with agency and partnership, company Honours subjects and the opportunity to courses and the relevant language courses law and the law of insolvency and study them in depth allows those wishing to undertake the year abroad. intellectual property. to carry forward specialist interests before LLB or LLB (Honours) and European Studies. Succession and Trusts looks at how trusts, entering the profession to do so. These degrees extend over four and five including charitable ones, are constituted and An Honours student will generally take one years respectively. In both cases, students administered. The law of succession deals Honours course in each half-session in third spend their third year studying abroad at with the rules which regulate inheritance. year in addition to the third year non-Honours the University of Maastricht in Holland, Introduction to Jurisprudence introduces courses described above. In fourth year, the University of Aarhus in Denmark, students to ways of thinking about law he or she will generally take two Honours the University of Helsinki in Finland, and legal notions. It looks at the nature and courses in each half-session, and complete the the University of Leuven in Belgium, philosophy of law and analyses concepts like compulsory dissertation. the University of Bergen in Oslo, Vienna rule, right and justice. University of Economics and Business LLB or LLB (Honours) with options in in Austria, or the University of Deusto in A fourth Enhanced Study option from the Accountancy, Economics or Management Spain, where law classes are taught in appropriate category, as previously described. Studies. These Sustained Study degrees are English. Students must have passed all their particularly attractive to students wishing Third Year compulsory first and second year Law courses to embark on legal or non-legal careers in and the course in European Union Institutions First Half-Session Courses business and commerce. In each case, six and Law to undertake the year abroad. Evidence and Advocacy is of special courses in Accountancy etc are studied along importance to the court practitioner. It with the normal law programme in the first LLB or LLB (Honours) with Options in Music. considers such matters as types of evidence three years. This Sustained Study degree provides law which a party is permitted to bring forward students with an opportunity to pursue LLB or LLB (Honours) with options in French, in a court case, and advocacy skills. law as their major University subject and to German, Spanish or Gaelic. These Sustained maintain and develop their interest in Music Consumer and Commercial Contracts Study degrees are designed for students who Performance. Students take six courses in considers how specific business contracts are wish to develop their interests in French, Performance Studies in the first three years of regulated eg. contracts for the sale of goods, German, Spanish or Gaelic language while this degree. Entry to the music components of insurance contracts and consumer contracts. obtaining their law degree. the programme is by successful audition. A fifth Enhanced Study option from the Students study six relevant language courses As a guide to the expected standard, appropriate category, as previously described. with the normal law courses over first, applicants should normally: second and third year, and aim to develop Second Half-Session Courses students’ oral, written and reading skills > have achieved at least ABRSM Grade IV A sixth Enhanced Study option from the in the relevant language and extend their or equivalent on piano appropriate category, as previously described. knowledge of France, Germany or Spain. > be working at no lower than ABRSM In addition to the above, students pursuing a These degrees allow students to study their Grade V standard or equivalent on non-Honours curriculum will require to pass selected language and all the ‘professional’ additional study instrument or an additional five optional courses, at least LLB courses necessary for entry into the voice three of which must ordinarily come from legal profession without extending the law options. Those pursuing an Honours normal length of time for an LLB or LLB > have achieved at least ABRSM Grade VIII curriculum (discussed in greater detail below) (Honours) degree, and help in the study or equivalent on main study instrument will usually take one Honours option in each of law subjects such as International Law or voice half-session of third year, and will in addition and European Law. In terms of careers, the Teaching and Assessment require to take two ordinary law options. combination of law and French, German Most non-Honours subjects are taught by and Spanish language is particularly useful Fourth Year a combination of hour-long lectures and to those seeking employment in Europe, in tutorials. Lectures are designed to give Honours international agencies such as the United students a basic grounding in the subject To be eligible to enter Honours, students Nations, and in companies and legal firms matter of the particular course; the size of must have gained 240 credits by the end with international connections. Note: these lecture classes depends on the number of of the second year. The Honours degree degrees do not involve any study abroad. students taking the particular course, but allows students the opportunity to explore LLB or LLB (Honours) with Belgian, French, will generally be large. In contrast, tutorial selected subjects more deeply through German or Spanish Law. These Sustained groups are small (normally no more than 10 personal research and extended essay Study degrees extend over four and five years students per group) and student-centred. work; a particularly strong feature is the respectively. In both cases, students study Tutorials are designed to allow selected independently researched dissertation of the relevant language courses along with aspects of a course covered in lectures to around 10,000 words written on an approved their normal law courses, and spend their be examined in more depth, or subjects topic chosen by the student. It offers an ideal third year studying abroad: for the degree not covered in lectures to be explored; training for students wishing to proceed to with French Law, at Grenoble University, they also encourage the development of postgraduate legal research: in the recent Lyon University 2, Reims, Strasbourg or transferable skills. Depending on the exact past Aberdeen graduates have gone on Clermont Ferrand 1 University; for the degree programme chosen, a new law student will to research studies in such Universities as with German Law, at Regensburg, Freiburg normally attend a total of 12 lectures and Harvard, Amsterdam, Cambridge, Virginia, 141 two tutorials each week. Honours subjects Professional Legal Practice (DPLP) and then are generally taught by seminar only, in enter a two-year training contract with a firm small groups (normally a maximum of 16 of solicitors.

students per seminar group). Seminars, Law Solicitors may be employed in private like tutorials, are student-centred and practice, local authorities, commercial allow selected aspects of a subject to be organisations, the Procurator Fiscal Service or studied in greater depth than is possible at the Civil Service, and may undertake a wide non-Honours level. In addition to formal variety of work, including private classes, students will also spend time client, commercial and litigation work. in private study, preparing for lectures, tutorials, seminars, coursework and An intending advocate must also exams. At both non-Honours and Honours complete an LLB or LLB (Honours) degree level, the emphasis is on students taking to the standard required by the Faculty responsibility for their own learning of Advocates, the DPLP and a period of within the framework provided by the training in a solicitor’s office, followed by formal classes. further practical training as a pupil to an experienced advocate and sitting the Faculty Assessment in non-Honours courses is of Advocates’ written examination in generally by way of essays and exams Evidence, Pleading, Practice and Professional which take place at the end of the course. Conduct. The DPLP need not be undertaken Assessment in Honours courses is by way at the same University as the student’s of a combination of continuous assessment law degree. during the course and exams which take place at the end of the course. It should be noted, however, that Part-time Law Studies possession of an LLB or LLB (Honours) degree does not guarantee a place on It is possible to study for the LLB degree on any DPLP course: decisions are based on a part-time basis over a minimum of five academic criteria. SAAS student loans and a maximum of six years. Students will are available to all eligible candidates study a maximum of five courses per year. admitted to the Diploma. It should also Further information is available on the be noted that possession of an LLB or LLB Law School web pages or from the Student (Honours) degree and a DPLP does not Recruitment and Admissions Service office. guarantee the holder a training contract It is also possible to study a maximum of with a solicitor. four law courses on an individual subject study basis either for interest or as a prelude Converting to English Law: Instruction at to undertaking the full-time LLB or LLB the University of Aberdeen is based on Scots Honours degrees. For the structure of the Law not English Law. However it is possible degree visit www.abdn.ac.uk/law. after graduating from the University to take Your Future a conversion course in order to qualify as a solicitor in England. This may be done in two Aberdeen graduates continue to enjoy high ways. The first is to qualify as a solicitor in employability and a law degree may be used Scotland as described above and then take as a springboard for entry into a wide range the Qualified Lawyer’s Transfer Test, which of careers. Although many students still involves a three hour examination in English study law with a view to entering the legal property law; the alternative route is to take profession, more than a third of Aberdeen law the Postgraduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at graduates now choose to use their law degree an English law school after graduating with as a passport for entry into a wide range a Scottish law degree, then complete the of alternative careers including chartered year long postgraduate Legal Practice Course accountancy, the media, merchant banking, (LPC) and a two-year training contract with stockbroking, human resources and financial an English solicitor. An Aberdeen graduate management, the Civil Service, social work, could gain exemption from most of the GDL teaching, the inspectorate of taxes and the examinations on the basis of equivalent police force. Both graduates and employers courses studied and passed in their Scottish recognise that the valuable skills gained in law degree, leaving only two or three courses, the course of a law degree can be put to many which can normally be studied on a part-time uses other than the practice of law itself. For basis. those who do choose to practise law, there is a wide variety of career options within the Careers Talks: Under the auspices of its law itself. Employer Liaison Committee, the Law School runs a series of career talks each year for The legal profession in Scotland is divided its students given by those working in the into two main branches, solicitors and various fields, and which aim at providing advocates. The normal route to become a information about a variety of law careers, solicitor, involves a student completing an as well as alternatives to law careers. LLB or LLB (Honours) degree which includes the necessary professional subjects, then complete the postgraduate Diploma in 142 Degrees in Medicine & Dentistry

MBChB (Medicine) From 1497 the University boasted the first BSc (Honours) MedSci chair of medicine in the English-speaking BDS (Bachelor of Dental Surgery) world. Learning modern concepts of healthcare in ideal surroundings against a backdrop of long medical traditions and a brand new School of Dentistry – that is what the University of Aberdeen can offer you.

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Medicine UCAS applications that offer suitable at BB, or two new Hs predicted at AA plus one academic standards of qualifications are AH predicted at B. Alternative studies could be three AH at ABB, when Chemistry would be

Medicine processed in four stages. Firstly, an academic What You Need score is given for attained or predicted required with one from Biology, Mathematics or Prospective medical students must qualifications, the second score is given Physics plus one other subject. Higher ESOL is demonstrate a clear commitment to for attainment in the UK CAT. Thirdly, the also recognised in lieu of Higher English where medicine and have an understanding of UCAS personal statement and reference are the mother tongue is not English. what a doctor’s job entails. Candidates carefully evaluated and objectively scored. * Please refer to our medicine website should display an understanding of the A summary of these scores determines for full details. core qualities required of a doctor and show which candidates are then selected for General Certificate of Education (GCE) evidence of teamwork and involvement in interview. Interviews take place between 3 A Levels at AAA. Chemistry is required other non-academic pursuits. Although not November and March and achieve the plus at least one from Biology, Mathematics essential, medically related work experience fourth objective score. Some overseas or Physics plus one other subject. is useful as a means of researching a career applicants are interviewed overseas. in medicine, but unfortunately, not always Irish Leaving Certificate Ultimately, offers will be made to candidates available. However, it is essential that every Ardteistimeireacht (ILC) who achieve an overall score that is greater candidate explores the realities of a career in 6H at AAAAAA obtained at a single sitting than the designated threshold. Offers are medicine by as many means as possible. of Hs. Chemistry is required, plus two from made in late March each year. Biology, Mathematics and Physics. In common with other British medical schools, Minimum Academic Requirements Aberdeen has a quota for both home (152) International Baccalaureate (IB) Competition for places to study Medicine and international students (12). All applicants 3 subjects at HL at grade 6 or better, each year is extremely high. We strongly are judged on their merits, in particular their (including Chemistry), plus 3 other subjects advise you to find out more about the potential benefit to the medical profession. at an average of 6 (including two additional academic and non-academic requirements There is no fixed upper age limit. All applicants sciences - Maths, Biology or Physics, with at for Aberdeen by visiting our website at are expected to have completed a normal least one at HL) – i.e. at least 36 points overall, www.abdn.ac.uk/medicine/prospective/ programme of school studies. Scottish to exclude points for TOK & bonus points. admissions/requirements. applicants are encouraged to participate UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UK CAT) and experience S6, even if they achieve the Achievement of the minimum academic The University of Aberdeen Medical School, minimum entry requirements at the end of S5. requirements allows an application to along with most other UK medical schools, be considered for selection - it offers no The University is mindful of its overriding uses the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UK CAT) to guarantee of success. duty of care to the public with whom medical help select applicants for the undergraduate students are in close contact and has a duty The majority of successful candidates achieve medical programme. All candidates must to ensure potential applicants meet the the minimum academic requirements or complete the UK CAT by the appropriate requirements of the General Medical Council better at the first sitting. We do not normally closing date for that year’s entry. For more (GMC) for fitness to practise. To this end, consider applicants who are re-sitting their information, visit www.ukcat.ac.uk screening, by means of a questionnaire, is examinations to upgrade results unless very Our departmental (medicine) website contains undertaken for all entrants to the School. exceptional extenuating circumstances at the much more, extremely useful information for time of the first sitting have been immediately A health questionnaire, completed at the time all potential medicine applicants, their parents disclosed and subsequently verified. of interview, will be reviewed by Occupational and teachers. Health, prior to entry to the MBChB programme. All applicants must hold a Standard Transfers From Other This process will identify students with any Grade pass at 3 or GCSE level pass at C Degree Programmes disabilities or health conditions that may affect (or equivalent) in the following subjects: Transfer of students from another degree them in their training, so that the School can English Language and Mathematics. course into medicine is not normally be advised of any support required. In addition, Candidates whose first language is not considered. Undergraduates enrolled in other the School would ensure that patients are not English, must also achieve either an IELTS degree programmes are advised to complete put at risk, for example, by identifying students overall score of 7.0 with a minimum of 7.0 their current degrees and apply as graduates. who will be unable to perform “exposure prone in the speaking section, or TOEFL iBT score of procedures” because they are a potential source Can We Help? 100+, to include 28+ in a speaking test of blood borne virus infection. Email us: [email protected] Scottish Qualifications (SQA) Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 In the exceptional situation where any serious 5H at AAAAB obtained at a single sitting Course Information issues of health or disability which may not of Hs. Chemistry is required, plus two from www.abdn.ac.uk/medicine/prospective be compatible with achieving the outcomes Biology/Human Biology, Mathematics and General Information set out by the GMC in ‘Tomorrow’s Doctors’ are Physics plus two other subjects. Applicants www.abdn.ac.uk/sras identified, the relevant Occupational Health only attempting four Hs owing to school policy Report would be considered by a Panel of or personal difficulties are normally required to There is an opportunity for spending at Advisors to the School. All applicants who achieve AAAA at the first sitting. least a limited time abroad during the have been accepted for study are required to project-based medical elective module provide a certificate of an enhanced criminal Candidates who do not meet the H in Year 5. records check. 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Why Choose Aberdeen? Aberdeen allows Anatomy and Clinical Skills Student Pairing Scheme. Every first year > Over 500 years of medical tradition with teaching to be co-located. This gives students student is paired with a ‘Mum and Dad’ - a new, thoroughly modern medical the opportunity to integrate and consolidate second year students, who provide support anatomical structure and function with and advice based upon their own experiences. programme, systems-based and fully Medicine integrated clinical knowledge as they progress through The GMC quality assurance assessment noted the MBChB curriculum. Both centres allow the excellent experience at Aberdeen and the > Much of the MBChB is now delivered students to learn in the same environment students’ own high regard for the course and from two new state-of-the-art Teaching as healthcare staff and to continue to develop the School. and Learning Centres with unrivalled their knowledge and skills after graduation. educational, simulation and social facilities The Medical School also has a very active on the Medical School/Hospital campus in Within the clinical skills areas, students student-managed Medical Society (MEDSOC) Aberdeen and later in the curriculum, in practise communication skills, medical which organises many educational and social Inverness, when students are on rotation consultations and learn basic examination events, including a medical electives’ evening, there techniques in the Centre. Volunteer ‘simulated the MEDSOC Ball and the Medical School patients’ from the community take part in Annual Revue. > Ideal surroundings and one of the these sessions, allowing beginners to practise largest combined teaching and clinical Teaching in a Research the skills in a non-threatening environment. campuses in Europe. As a Centre of Active Environment A sophisticated digital video recording system Excellence, Aberdeen offers superb clinical Teaching in an atmosphere of research is an allows students to review their skills with their opportunities and facilities for students important part of our University’s philosophy. teachers. The facility also allows students to The Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS) brings > Clinical teaching and patient contact from learn techniques using a variety of mechanical over 250 scientists and clinicians together in a Year 1 and computerised models – e.g. to take blood high quality research laboratory environment. from an artificial arm, listen to the heart > Excellent student support schemes The Institute of Applied Health Sciences sounds of ‘Harvey’ (the computerised heart (IAHS) brings together groups with interests > Major opportunity to experience remote patient) and resuscitate ‘Annie’ after a heart in health and health services research. & rural medicine, explore medical attack, or deal with medical emergencies with humanities and carry out an elective Hal, SimMan or SimBaby. Research at Aberdeen includes internationally project in a centre of your own choice Remote and Rural Option recognised expertise in immunity worldwide and infection, microbiology, bone and The Remote and Rural Option is based at the musculoskeletal medicine, neuroscience and What does the Medical Programme Offer? Inverness campus at Raigmore Hospital. The health services research. Magnetic Resonance Option has been developed to be undertaken Outstanding Clinical Facilities Imaging (MRI) was developed as a result of a by students in Years 4 and 5 who have a You will find an exciting range of clinical crucial innovation by Aberdeen scientists and special interest in undertaking their clinical attachments on offer at Aberdeen, both highly acclaimed research that makes use of attachments or even future careers in remote locally and across the Highlands and advanced imaging technologies is ongoing. or country areas. Other students just wish to Islands. Most clinical teaching takes place gain this experience to enhance whatever There are opportunities for undergraduates at the Medical School and its main teaching future career path they choose. Rather than to gain research experience and work hospitals (Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, undertaking the usual one or two out of the towards an academic career path. For more Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, Royal Aberdeen nine clinical blocks outwith Aberdeen in information see www.abdn.ac.uk/acat Children’s Hospital, Royal Cornhill Hospital Year 4, students who have elected to take and Woodend Hospital), all situated on or Degree Programme Structure and Content the Remote and Rural Option will undertake near the magnificent Foresterhill site, which The MBChB curriculum has been recently all their hospital placements at Raigmore is one of the largest clinical and teaching revised to ensure that it remains up-to-date Hospital and attend one of the Highland or hospital campuses in Europe. The hospitals and the introduction of the new course Skye General Practices. incorporate the full range of clinical facilities coincided with the opening of the new required for the population of the North-east In Year 5, students who have elected to Suttie Centre. The main features of the new of Scotland. The Medical School has very close continue the Remote and Rural theme programme are increased integration of basic links with other clinical units in Grampian will undertake all their attachments in science and clinical teaching in the early and the Highlands and Islands, in particular Dr the Remote and Rural areas. The hospital years and the introduction of a Personal and Gray’s Hospital, Elgin and Raigmore Hospital, placements can be in Elgin, Inverness, Wick, Professional Development thread (PPD) that Inverness, and all students undertake hospital- Shetland, Stornoway or Fort William. The runs through all five years. Years 1, 2 and 3 of based clinical placements outside Aberdeen. GP placements can be anywhere in the the programme offer close integration of basic The Inverness campus at Raigmore Hospital Highlands, Western Isles, Argyll, Orkney, science and clinical teaching and the use of is the gateway to healthcare delivery in the Shetland and Skye. clinical cases (case-based learning) to allow Highlands and Islands of Scotland where Superb Student Support Services students to apply their scientific knowledge in our students are able to utilise the splendid a clinical context. As well as the University’s comprehensive facilities of the clinical skills centre in the range of student support services, there are Teaching is systems based, with the final new Centre for Health Science. In addition, also specific support schemes for medical integration of the examination of all body our extensive network of teaching general students. systems coming in third year. practices around Scotland, also gives students opportunities to experience patient care in The Regent Scheme. Each medical student is The length of the programme is five years and many different community settings. assigned to an experienced member of staff is designed around the concept of incremental Fully Equipped Clinical Skills Centres who, for the next five years, is that student’s learning. After mastering the basic principles Regent. They meet regularly. A student’s of medicine in years 1 to 3, much of it learned The new Suttie Centre for Teaching and Regent has two main tasks; to provide in the “safe” environment of the Clinical Skills Learning in Healthcare in Aberdeen and the support and guidance on any matter and to Centre, students progress to a comprehensive Centre for Health Science in Inverness provide act as a mentor to help with the student’s series of clinical attachments in Years 4 and superb new facilities. The Suttie Centre in professional development. 5 which allow them to participate in the 146

practical application of everything they have Elderly and Child Health, and will provide of each patient. Students gain extensive learned. Thus there is a step-by-step approach an opportunity to learn about the effects of clinical experience during three eight-week to the development of knowledge, skills and social, economic and environmental factors attachments over a wide range of locations in: on humans, and will integrate with the

Medicine professional attitudes, whilst undertaking > A medical specialty (student choices from a systems-based approach to learning. In Systems teaching. an adult medical specialty, paediatrics and addition, there is an option to undertake a Towards the end of the year, the first four- medicine for the elderly) one-year intercalated BSc degree between week Student Selected Component will be Years 3 and 4 and to undertake the Remote & > A surgical specialty (student choices undertaken involving project-based small Rural Option for Years 4 and 5. from a surgical specialty, obstetrics group work. Student Selected Components and gynaecology and anaesthetics and Year 2 intensive care) The MBChB programme is based on a The systems-based courses and the structure of core material and Student > General practice or psychiatry Community Course continue to develop Selected Components (SSCs). The core throughout second year, with students Some students may wish to continue to material accounts for approximately 80% building on their basic knowledge of clinical undertake Remote and Rural attachments for of all teaching and covers topics which are skills acquired in Year 1. A second four-week a second year for some, or all of Year 5. essential for all doctors. The SSCs make up Student Selected Component with the theme, the remaining 20% of the programme and World-wide locations are commonly arranged “Molecular Medicine” is undertaken halfway allow students to follow up areas of personal by students during the eight-week project- through Year 2. interest for more detailed study. SSCs appear based elective. in all five years of the programme and a Year 3 Prior to qualification, the Professional considerable range of choices are available. In The study of the Systems and the Community Practice Block provides teaching and learning Years 1 to 4 the SSCs predominantly involve Course will be completed in third year. opportunities to help bridge the gap between group projects but in Year 5 students will Students by now are able to perform a life as a student and the practicalities of life as undertake individual projects. Ultimately, complete history and examination and have a junior doctor. students must successfully complete both the basic knowledge of common diseases in all core and SSC parts of the course to graduate. the major body systems. Special Features Include > New state-of-the-art teaching centres on Year 1 A six-week SSC just before Christmas provides the main hospital campuses in Aberdeen The first term sets the scene for the whole of students with a unique opportunity to study and Inverness undergraduate study. This begins with the a topic outwith the mainstream of medicine, student gaining an understanding of the with a wide variety of topics within Medical > 5 -year, systems-based and fully integrated medical sciences and the disease processes Humanities offered e.g. History of Medicine, MBChB programme that underpin medicine. The foundations of Literature and Medicine, History of Art etc. > Patient contact and clinical skills training clinical method and communication skills Year 4 from Year 1 are explored with an introduction to clinical Year 4 begins with a four-week SSC on a practice and patient care. > Opportunities in all years to study in depth, topic within a general theme of “General topics of particular interest to you The systems-based course will then Effectiveness”. This includes project choices commence with the study of two in global medicine, evidence based medicine > Opportunity to take an intercalated BSc major systems, the Respiratory and the and population health. This SSC provides Medical Sciences degree Cardiovascular Systems. This systems-based a gentle start to an intense year of clinical > Opportunity for all students to undertake course will use clinical cases to act as a focus experience. Students undertake nine five- a six-week Medical Humanities module for learning. Thus, the appropriate anatomy, week blocks when they experience at first in third year and an optional intercalated physiology and biochemistry of each of the hand in clinics, operating theatres and wards degree in humanities body systems will be explored, as will the the delivery of healthcare – the practical disease processes that affect normal structure application of the knowledge and skills they > Excellent student support systems and function within each system. The clinical have gained in Years 1 to 3. These clinical > Exciting range of clinical attachments cases will illustrate the use of appropriate opportunities are based in hospitals and the locally and across Highlands & Islands investigations (tests) and treatments that community, in and around Aberdeen and at are undertaken. least one clinical block will be undertaken > Opportunity to study medicine in Remote in Inverness. and Rural areas for up to two years Students will learn how to explore patients’ symptoms and perform clinical Year 4 may be undertaken as described above > Project-based elective with the opportunity examination (clinical method) for each of along with most of the year group, with the to study abroad the systems studied and thereafter will have main base in Aberdeen. Alternately, students Teaching and Assessment opportunities to practise these skills in a may choose to undertake the Remote & Rural During the first three years of the curriculum, variety of clinical settings. Option for all the blocks in Year 4 and these students receive teaching through a variety of students will have Inverness as their main The integrated teaching of communication methods including lectures, tutorials, practical base. There are up to 18 places available for skills with clinical method will commence anatomy and clinical sessions and small students who wish to undertake this option with the start of the systems-based course. group Community Course sessions. The rest in Year 4. of the time is set aside for self-study and self- During Year 1 students will also undertake Year 5 directed learning, often computer-based. a parallel Community Course which uses Year 5 is very much an apprentice year where a network of local general practices. This Clinical expertise is initially acquired both in students prepare for the competent, safe, course will include contributions from the Clinical Skills Centre as well as in hospital effective and professional practice of medicine disciplines such as General Practice, Public and other clinical areas. Teaching sessions as a pre-registration Foundation Doctor. This Health, Mental Health, Environmental may involve practical demonstrations Year is not systems-based, but instead focuses and Occupational Medicine, Care of the with real or simulated patients, with many on professional practice and the holistic care 147 opportunities for supervised or self-directed Intercalated Degree Successful completion of Foundation Year practice. Simulation plays an important (BSc Medical Sciences) 2 results in the granting of the Foundation part of clinical learning in the Clinical Skills At the end of third year or alternately, Achievement of Competency Document between fourth and fifth year, there is the (FACD) which is a requirement for application

Centre and students are encouraged to take Medicine the opportunity to ‘book’ the rooms and opportunity to be involved in cutting-edge to Specialty Training. equipment and practice their skills further. research, by undertaking an intercalated one- Foundation Programmes allow a wider taste Later clinical attachments consolidate early year Honours BSc in the School of Medicine of different aspects of medical practice than practice when students may be placed within and Dentistry or in the School of Medical was formerly the case. In addition, careers Aberdeen. All students undertake hospital- Sciences. Currently around 20% of the year advice and counselling will be available based clinical placements outside Aberdeen. does this. part way through Foundation Year 2 (FY2). This variety of placements offered, both The degree programme consists of Detailed information about careers in within and outwith Aberdeen, allows our interlocking taught courses specifically medicine can be obtained by accessing our students to experience not only inner-city tailored to medical students, providing website: medicine, but also gives a unique opportunity structured teaching and building up to a www.abdn.ac.uk/medicine/prospective/ to see how healthcare is delivered in areas far detailed self-directed learning project. This is students/aberdeen/careers removed from large teaching centres. followed by an extended individual 20-week Specialist Training research project, with projects available The curriculum is supported by an e-learning Doctors who have successfully completed a in a range of departments and disciplines. platform – My MBChB. This is a web-based Foundation Programme will compete for a The programme aims to give students the intranet resource for students to support their place on a specialty training programme of opportunity to study in greater depth an area learning throughout their undergraduate their choice. There are 65 specialty streams of biomedical or clinical science. At the end years and can be accessed by students from including General Practice. If successful of the programme students will be able to all clinical and university campuses as well as a doctor is awarded a National Training undertake and critically evaluate research from outside these areas. Material available Number (NTN) and commences training. On and understand basic principles of research includes administrative information such as successful completion the doctor is awarded methodology. lectures and timetables, educational resources a Certificate on Completion of Training such as teaching videos and podcasts and A recent innovation is the opportunity to (CCT). This then allows a doctor to be on the bulletin boards for students to exchange take the intercalated degree in Medical Specialty Register and work as a consultant. information and post notices. Humanities, a unique opportunity for Academic Medicine students whose interest has been stimulated The Medical School has a duty to ensure A proportion of graduates with an aptitude by the Humanities SSC in third year. that its graduates have achieved a safe for research and teaching follow a career and satisfactory standard of performance Curriculum Review in academic medicine. They will almost in all the elements of medical practice. The MBChB programme is based on the invariably proceed on to a degree by thesis Assessment is built in throughout the five educational outcomes of Tomorrow’s Doctors e.g. MD ChM or PhD. Individuals who wish years of the course, to ensure that basic skills 2009 (GMC). The programme is constantly to pursue a Consultant appointment in a are mastered before moving on to more updated in response to GMC guidance, to teaching hospital may also find this form advanced topics. Since medicine is not simply scientific and medical advances, to changes of higher degree invaluable. Potential a theoretical subject, teaching and learning in healthcare delivery and changes in academics of the future are mentored in covers knowledge, skills and attitudes, and educational theory and practice. Aberdeen Aberdeen and encouraged to apply for the assessment must therefore do the same. has always been at the forefront of medical Academic Foundation Programme A variety of assessment methods are used. education and therefore the current (www.abdn.ac.uk/acat). curriculum has been modernised to ensure Formative assessments are widely distributed that it produces doctors fit for practice in the within the course and their purpose is to 21st century! “Tasters” of arts and humanities provide feedback to students on how well have been introduced throughout the course, they are performing. There is no sanction or whilst teaching using the state-of-the-art penalty for failing these ‘practice’ exams – facilities based in the new Suttie Centre, they are intended to provide an early warning allows for close integration of basic science to students that they are not reaching the and clinical teaching. required standard. There are extensive support mechanisms within the Medical Your Future School and formative exams often help staff Foundation Programmes to identify students who need help for one On successful completion of the reason or another – e.g. because of illness or undergraduate curriculum and graduation personal or financial difficulties. you will apply for a two year Foundation Summative assessments are degree exams, Programme rotation. All newly qualified usually at the end of a year. These are the doctors are matched to the Foundation ‘official’ assessments that determine whether Training Programme. On satisfactory a student is good enough to proceed to the completion of Foundation Year 1 you will next year of the course, or to graduate at the be awarded full registration by the General end of the course. Students normally have Medical Council with a licence to practise two opportunities to pass such assessments. subject to demonstrating to the GMC that your fitness to practise is not impaired. 148

Dentistry Dentistry What You Need All applicants who have been accepted for study Why Choose Aberdeen? This programme is only available for are required to complete a criminal records check The School is based in a purpose built Graduate Entry. prior to commencement of studies. new facility which is co-located on the Foresterhill site with two other dental The new University of Aberdeen Dental School Minimum Academic Requirements facilities; the Aberdeen Dental Institute, offers the first graduate entry, four year, BDS The entry requirement for admission is which is a new centre for postgraduate programme in Scotland. As is common with a good Honours Degree (First or Upper dental training with associated outreach all new professional degree programmes, the Second-Class) in a medical science or a clinics, and Argyll House, which houses General Dental Council (GDC) has begun the health-related degree (such as Pharmacy other NHS Grampian dental facilities and process of assessment of our programme, but or Physiotherapy for example). Candidates staff offices. The new School, opened by it will not complete this approval process until with a first degree in Medicine will also Rt Hon Alex Salmond, MP, MSP and First the first cohort of students graduate in 2012. be considered. Undergraduates who are Minister of Scotland in January 2010, in their final year of study on an Honours Gaining a place is competitive and we have provides an opportunity to develop a centre degree programme must ensure that their many more highly qualified applicants of excellence for dentistry which will benefit academic reference includes a prediction than our 20 places, which are for Home/EU Aberdeen, Grampian and Scotland as a of their expected degree classification. We students only. We are looking for candidates whole. The purpose built complex features cannot consider an undergraduate whose who are enthusiastic about becoming facilities for oral surgery, dental accident and application form lacks this information. dentists and who display commitment and emergency, restorative dentistry, integrated have good interpersonal and practical skills. UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UK CAT) oral care, orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, Ideally, candidates should have undertaken The admissions process also involves suitably dental imaging as well as dental laboratories some work shadowing and have a good qualified applicants sitting an entrance test and office accommodation. understanding of what being a dentist (UK CAT) and the scores obtained are used > The course is facilitated jointly by the involves. Selection is on the basis of academic with other criteria to select for interview. All University of Aberdeen School of Medicine qualifications, UK CAT score, personal applicants must complete this test the year & Dentistry and the University of Dundee statement, referee’s report and an interview. prior to entry. For more information on the UK Dental School CAT test, including registration dates, please The University is mindful of its overriding refer to their website www.ukcat.ac.uk > The new course is based around a series of duty of care to the public with whom dental You should ensure that you register early for themes which are integrated horizontally students are in close contact. Potential a test as being unable to gain a test sitting and vertically throughout the course applicants must meet the requirements of will not be accepted as an extenuating and has been designed to meet the the GDC for fitness to practice. To this end, circumstance. requirements of the General Dental Council screening by means of a health questionnaire, as outlined in “The First Five Years” Third is undertaken for all entrants by NHS All applications should be made through Edition (Interim) 2008, and cognisance Grampian Occupational Health. Admission UCAS and the closing date for applications will also be taken to meet any future GDC is not possible for those who may pose a risk is normally 15 October in the year prior to requirements for the BDS programme. of blood borne virus infection to patients. entry to the programme. The necessary procedure for gaining GDC Successful applicants will be required to Applicants without a medical science or approval of our course has commenced undertake Occupational Health screening for health-related degree may be considered. hepatitis B, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and HIV > The course has been designed specifically These applicants must hold a first class degree infection before starting the course. for graduates and encompasses a variety of as well as a minimum of a B grade in Human modern educational methods for teaching The BDS Programme is long and demanding, Biology and Chemistry at Higher or A-Level. and learning. There is a focus on more both physically and mentally. Can We Help? independent and reflective learning, and You will, for example, require sufficient bi- Email us: [email protected] clinical work is introduced from first year manual dexterity to handle, simultaneously, Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 to maximise clinical experience the necessary equipment to treat patients > You will be part of a wider community of and a dental mirror to allow you to see what Course Information students who study on the Foresterhill site, you are doing. Dentistry can involve very www.abdn.ac.uk/dentistry/prospective including Medical and Science students; detailed work, so you need a steady hand General Information undergraduates and postgraduates. and good vision (with spectacles if needed). www.abdn.ac.uk/sras You will have excellent student support If you have a disability which you feel might systems and access to other shared For information on University fees and impact on your ability to meet these demands, facilities such as the library and the bursaries please see our website at: you are urged to consult the School as soon Suttie Centre for Teaching and Learning www.abdn.ac.uk/undergraduate/ as possible in the application process so that in Healthcare. This is another exciting finance For information on the NHS we can discuss the implications with you, new building, a shared facility for NHS Bursary please visit: www.saas.gov.uk including any adjustments that can be made staff and students, and demonstrates the where there is a dedicated Dental to meet your needs. Further information commitment of the University and NHS Bursary Section on the University’s provision for disabled Grampian to the training and education students is available at: of healthcare professionals www.abdn.ac.uk/disability Need more Info? Scan the QR code 149 Dentistry Degree Programme Structure and Content Throughout this theme, there will be an The application of infection control/ The teaching of the BDS curriculum has been emphasis on working as part of the dental decontamination in the clinical setting planned around a series of six themes: team, with the roles of the other dental care will also be assessed throughout clinical General Health and Disease professionals being explored. attachments as part of the assessment of professionalism. This course runs throughout the four year Behavioural Science and BDS programme and begins in first year Dental Public Health Teaching and Assessment with discussion of the basic sciences that This will cover strategies for communicating Teaching and learning strategies have been underpin clinical practice. Topics covered effectively with patients and will be introduced designed to meet the needs of a more mature include microbiology, systems physiology in semester 1 of year 1 to support students’ first student group with previous experience and anatomy, with particular emphasis on contact with patients. Modification of these of university education. There is a focus on head and neck regions in the latter. This will strategies for communicating with different more independent and reflective learning, involve studying the normal structure and patient groups will be introduced later in the supported by the use of e-learning. Students function of the body before moving on to curriculum as these particular groups are develop an extensive e-portfolio to collect consider abnormal aspects of function and considered. Behavioural techniques for the evidence of their learning and experience, disease. Pharmacology will also be introduced management of dental anxiety and those and this forms part of the assessment. during first year before being revisited in with special needs will also be covered. A range of assessment methods is used with later years. The physiological, psychological Dental public health will be introduced in year a pattern of class exams during semester 1 and pharmacological nature of pain will be 1, continuing throughout the remainder of the and 2a and professional exams at the end of discussed towards the end of the first year curriculum, and will cover the scope of dental the year. Assessment methods may include and will support material covered in Dental public health, exploring both the interventions short essay questions, practical exams and Health and Disease at this time. During the with individual patients and population multiple short answer questions. Objective three following years, the course will expand groups, epidemiology, statistics, critical clinical assessment of your skills will be carried to encompass major and common medical appraisal of the literature and evaluating the out by means of Objective Structured Clinical conditions dentists are likely to encounter in evidence base, the role of the dental public Examinations (OSCEs) and Structured Clinical general practice. health consultant, links between dental health/ Objective Testing (SCOTs) at appropriate stages. Dental Health and Disease disease and social deprivation etc. Your Future This covers the basic dental sciences, Law, Ethics and Professionalism Our new programme, subject to the necessary including dental anatomy, oral biology and Dental professionals are united in their approval, will lead to full GDC registration. physiology, oral pathology, oral microbiology occupation, their learning, and the legal and Following mandatory vocational training a etc, and the aetiology, presentation, ethical standards by which they conduct dentist may set up as an associate partner prevention and management of the full range their work and live their lives. The profession or principal in general practice, join the of dental/oral disease. The most common is regulated by the General Dental Council. community dental service, work in a hospital endemic oral diseases (caries and periodontal The first year of this course aims to raise with a view to becoming a consultant, or disease) are covered throughout year 1, with awareness of the issues relevant to Law, become a clinical academic and contribute other topics covering the full range of disease Ethics and Professionalism for dentists, and to the training of the next generation of introduced in the subsequent years. to provide an appropriate environment dental graduates. Patient Care within which an ethical and professional This course covers the clinical care of attitude to dentistry will be developed. As the patients. The introductory clinical skills programme progresses, the particular aspects course will commence in semester 1 of year of the Law and ethical and professional issues 1 and will cover the treatment of simple associated with the different patient groups periodontal disease and caries management will be explored. This learning experience in a simulated clinical environment using will be brought together in year 4 with the phantom heads. Integrated clinically related consideration of more complex teaching activities (ICRAs) take place in semester scenarios. A key aspect is to instil a caring 2a to introduce the student to the clinical attitude into the developing dental care environment. Healthcare of your own professional and the need for continuing patients will commence in semester 2b personal development throughout their career. with preventative treatment and simple Decontamination and Infection Control restorative procedures. The clinical experience Using a series of lectures, practical classes will then continue throughout the remainder and e-learning, the students will be able to of the curriculum with further clinical skills understand, and have the knowledge of, the courses to advance appropriate patient care, need for decontamination procedures and and with attachments to clinics in the full infection control. The student will then be able range of dental disciplines. In semester 2b of to arrange the working practice environment year 3, the focus will be on holistic patient in the most safe and efficient manner for care, when students will be responsible all patients and staff, taking into account for all aspects of their patients’ dental care. the decontamination process and infection control procedures. 150 Degrees in Sciences

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Computing Sciences, Medical Sciences Physical Sciences Mathematics and Biochemistry 177 Archaeology 191 Psychology Biomedical Science 178 Chemistry 192 Artificial Intelligence 156 Biotechnology 179 Chemistry (MChem) 193 Behavioural Studies 157 Genetics 180 Geographical Computing Science 158 Human Embryology and Information Systems 194 Information Systems 159 Developmental Biology 181 Geography 195 - Business Information Immunology 182 Geology & Systems Microbiology 183 Petroleum Geology 196 Mathematics 160 Molecular Biology 184 Physics 197 - Applied Mathematics - Physics with Complex Neuroscience with Psychology 161 Systems Modelling (MPhys) Psychology 185 Physical Science Life Sciences Pharmacology 186 see Physics 197 Animal Ecology 173 Physiology 187 see Zoology Sports & Exercise Science 188 Biological Sciences 163 Sports Studies Biology 164 (Exercise and Health) 189 Conservation Biology 165 Ecology 166 Environmental Science 167 Forestry 168 Forest Sciences 169 Marine Biology 170 Plant & Soil Science 171 Wildlife Management 172 Zoology 173 151 152 153

Sciences Qualifications Entrance Requirements An excellent reputation, insistence on the Students are normally admitted to a four Our flexible curriculum allows students to highest standards, a strong commitment year Honours degree programme. However, change degree intention within the overall to the best teaching practices, an up-to-the- students who opt to complete their studies science programme on commencement minute curriculum designed by experts in the after one, two or three years can also receive an of study or later. As a consequence of this field, a strong underpinning of internationally appropriate qualification. flexibility, our entrance requirements are acclaimed research and development - all of expressed in very general terms. We look for a The BSc can be awarded after successful these and more are strong reasons why the good level of proven academic ability overall, completion of three full years of study. The BSc University of Aberdeen should be your first and strength in Science or Mathematics Designated degree is a named variant of the choice for science study. The University is a subjects. Beyond this we do not usually insist BSc, reflecting the fact that the curriculum major international centre for teaching and on specific subjects. has concentrated on a particular discipline research in all divisions of scientific study. in third year. In some cases, such as Chemistry and It also has the advantage of close connections Mathematics, previous study of the subject is with local research institutes and the The Honours BSc requires four years of full- usually desirable in order to cope with the first Royal Infirmary, advancing the frontiers of time study. The degree classification is based year material. A student applying for one of knowledge in areas such as environmental on the student’s performance in the final year, these degrees who does not have the required science, human nutrition, fisheries research and in some cases the third year as well. background may still be offered a place, but and medically related sciences. There are also a number of integrated Masters in this case may be directed towards one Unique Facilities programmes (e.g. MChem, MPhys and MSci) of the other science degrees for which their Aberdeen has an unparalleled provision of which require five years of full-time study. background provides a better preparation. buildings and equipment for science teaching These degrees often include an integral Advanced Entry and research. From the Zoology building, industrial placement. The four year length of the degree programme over-looking the University’s Botanical A student who leaves the University after one, provides the opportunity for the breadth and Garden, the impressive Fraser Noble building two or three years of study can be re-admitted flexibility that is such a significant feature of housing Engineering and Physics, to the to study for a more advanced qualification. the Aberdeen Honours degree. However, for striking Institute of Medical Science located those who are well-qualified, and who are clear at the Foresterhill site, the University has Study and Assessment about their degree intention, it is possible to outstanding resources to sustain its teaching Generally, teaching is via lectures, tutorials, complete an Honours degree in three years and research programmes. and laboratory classes. Depending on the rather than four. Such students effectively join subject there may also be opportunities for Flexibility and Breadth the second year of the degree programme, e-learning, field trips and group or individual The University of Aberdeen BSc degree and during this year they study the required projects. structure is extremely flexible. When students second year modules for their nominated apply, they are asked to nominate a specific Course assessment is usually a mixture degree subject, alongside a selection of other degree title. However, admittance is actually of continuous assessment and written first and second year modules. Good entry to the general BSc Pure Science programme. examinations. Continuous assessment qualifications are needed, at least up to the Within this programme, students are free to may be based on laboratory reports, project level of GCE A Level or SQA Advanced Higher, change their degree intention to any of those dissertations, essays and other types of particularly in subjects that are essential for listed in the BSc section of the Prospectus. assignment. Written examinations are held the intended degree and that would otherwise There are a few exceptions: the Biomedical at the end of each half-session of teaching. have been studied in first year. Opportunities Sciences, MChem, MPhys and some MSci In the fourth year, a considerable period of for third year entry also exist for those with degrees have higher entry requirements time is spent on an individual research or qualifications up to the level of a good HND, than other science degrees, and consequently investigative project. provided the core content of the first two years formal approval is required before changing Employment Prospects of the degree curriculum has been covered degree intention to one of these degrees. adequately. See tables on pages 154 and 155 Most science graduates, regardless of their for more information. In the first year of study, students typically university, are able to find employment. The take at least three subjects. One of these is important question is not “Will I get a job after Curriculum Reform continued in second year for half of the time, graduating?” but “What kind of job can I get?” You may have the opportunity to take alongside either one of the other subjects As a science graduate from Aberdeen you will Enhanced Study options as part of your degree studied in first year, or a selection of subjects, be well equipped for a wide range of high- and participate in co-curricular activities. some of which may be new. At the end quality employment opportunities. With a See page 14 for more information. of second year the final choice of degree good Honours classification you will also be intention is made, based on the subjects qualified for study towards a higher degree or studied so far, and the results obtained. PhD study. In third and fourth year, students follow the Good Aberdeen graduates are highly regarded, specified curriculum for their final choice of and consequently many major employers degree subject. in industry and commerce target the Each student has an Adviser of Studies to University in their annual recruiting exercises. guide them in their subject choices and to An extremely high percentage of science ensure that these choices comply with the graduates secure good jobs or further study/ degree regulations. training opportunities within six months of graduation. 154 Probable Entry Requirements for 2013 – BSc/BSc (Honours)

Type of General First Year Entry First Year Subject Second Year Second Year Subject Qualification Requirements Requirements Entry Requirements Probable Entry Requirements for 2013 Probable Entry SQA - Scottish S at levels 1, 2 or 3 A minimum of 4H at BB from two science A minimum of 3AH 2AH at AB from Qualifications or Int 2 in English, BBBB (C at AH may or Mathematics at ABB two science or Mathematics and in substitute for B at H) subjects Mathematics subjects either Chemistry or (including the Physics subject(s) nominated for Honours)*

GCE - General GCSE at C or A minimum of 3 BB from two science A minimum of 3 AB from two science Certificate of above in English or A Levels at BBB or Mathematics A Levels at ABB or Mathematics Education English Language, subjects subjects (including the Mathematics and in subject(s) nominated either Chemistry, or for Honours)* Physics or Dual Award Science

ILC - Irish Leaving O in English, A minimum of 4H BB from two science Certificate/ Mathematics and in at BBBB (B1 or B2 or Mathematics Ardteistimeireacht either Chemistry or required) subjects Physics IB - International SL or HL in English A minimum of 5 points at HL A minimum of 6 at HL in the Baccalaureate 30 points required from 34 points subject(s) nominated two science or for Honours Mathematics subjects EB - European Pass First Foreign A minimum of Baccalaureate Language 70% overall

National Diplomas GCSE at C or Distinction overall Main subjects above in English or to be science or English Language, Mathematics Mathematics and in either Chemistry, or Physics or Dual Award Science Higher National See SQA Scottish Pass with Merit or Main subjects Certificates Qualifications or GCE B grade to be science or General Certificate of Mathematics Education Higher National See SQA Scottish Pass with Merit or Good performance in Diplomas Qualifications or GCE B grade subject(s) nominated General Certificate of for Honours Education

*Please refer to individual course entries for specific subject requirements. Computing, Geography, Geology, Information Systems, Psychology and Technology are acceptable as Science subjects for entry purposes.

Offers of Admission However, for Medicine the admissions process is highly selective. For Applicants should note that achieving the minimum entrance the present time, Scottish Baccalaureates will not form part of the requirement will not guarantee an offer of admission. We have many standard entry requirements for Medicine at Aberdeen. more applicants than places and most of them meet our minimum Articulation Agreements entrance requirements. Consequently, we may need to ask for more Aberdeen College / Banff & Buchan College than the minimum. This might take the form of further academic HND students who have successfully completed their studies in qualifications or better grades, and an applicant’s academic profile Science may be able to gain advanced entry to certain University will normally be the most significant factor in our decision making. of Aberdeen degree programmes in related science subjects. Contact Additionally, certain features of the personal statement (community your college or the University of Aberdeen Admissions team on involvement, sport/music/drama, etc., practised at a high level of 01224 272090/91. commitment, appropriate work experience, or some similar feature) may help to strengthen an applicant’s case. New 14-19 Diploma Qualification Scottish Baccalaureate We have considered the acceptability of the new 14-19 Diploma for our undergraduate degree courses and our entry requirements have The Scottish Baccalaureate qualification is a good preparation for entry been modified to accommodate the new qualification. Please visit to university. The qualification will be considered alongside Advanced www.ucas.com for more information. Highers, for direct entry into year two across a range of degree programmes. 155

BSc Biomedical Science Type of General First Year Entry First Year Subject Second Year Second Year Subject Qualification Requirements Requirements Entry Requirements

SQA - Scottish S at levels 1, 2 or 3 A minimum of AB from Chemistry A minimum of 3AH 2AH at AB from Requirements for 2013 Probable Entry Qualifications or Int 2 in English, 4H at AABB (C or B at and another science or at AAB Chemistry and Mathematics and in AH may substitute Mathematics subject Biology either Chemistry or for B or A at H Physics respectively)

GCE - General GCSE at C or above A minimum of AB from Chemistry A minimum of 3 AB from Chemistry Certificate of in English or 3 A Levels at ABB and another science or A Levels at AAB and Biology Education English Language, Mathematics subject A Level subjects Mathematics and should include in either Chemistry, Chemistry, Biology or Physics or Dual and (normally) Award Science Physics ILC - Irish Leaving O in English, A minimum of 4H at AB from Chemistry Certificate/ Mathematics and in AABB (B2 or above and another science or Ardteistimeireacht either Chemistry or required) Mathematics subject Physics

IB - International SL or HL in English A minimum 5 points at HL required A minimum of 6 points minimum Baccalaureate of 32 points from Chemistry and 36 points at HL required from another science or Chemistry and Mathematics subject Biology

MChem, MPhys and MSci in Biological/Medical Sciences Type of General First Year Entry First Year Subject Second Year Second Year Subject Qualification Requirements Requirements Entry Requirements SQA - Scottish S at levels 1, 2 or 3 A minimum of AB from Chemistry A minimum of 3AH 2AH at AB from Qualifications or Int 2 in English, 4H at AABB (C or B at and another at AAB Chemistry and Mathematics and in AH may substitute science (MChem) or another science either Chemistry or for B or A at H from Physics and (MChem) or Physics respectively) Mathematics (MPhys) from Physics and or from Chemistry Mathematics (MPhys) and Biology (MSci) or from Chemistry and Biology (MSci) GCE - General GCSE at C or above A minimum of AB from Chemistry A minimum of 3 AB from Chemistry Certificate of in English or 3 A Levels at ABB and another A Levels at AAB and another Education English Language, science (MChem) or science (MChem) Mathematics and from Physics and or from Physics in either Chemistry, Mathematics (MPhys) and Mathematics or Physics or Dual or from Chemistry (MPhys) or from Award Science and Biology (MSci) Chemistry and Biology (MSci) ILC - Irish Leaving O in English, A minimum of 4H at AB from Chemistry Certificate/ Mathematics and in AABB (B2 or above and another Ardteistimeireacht either Chemistry or required) science (MChem) or Physics from Physics and Mathematics (MPhys) or from Chemistry and Biology (MSci) IB - International SL or HL in English A minimum of 5 points at HL required A minimum of 6 points minimum Baccalaureate 32 points from Chemistry 36 points at HL required from and another science Chemistry and (MChem) or from another science Physics and (MChem) or Mathematics (MPhys) from Physics and or from Chemistry and Mathematics (MPhys) Biology (MSci) or from Chemistry and Biology (MSci) 156

Artificial Intelligence allows you to study the What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* nature of intelligence by building smart computer A Levels BBB IB 30 points, 5 at HL*

Artificial Intelligence Intelligence Artificial systems, and applying these insights in solving *Including good performance in at least two real-world problems, whilst gaining a good Mathematics/Science subjects. grounding in core computing topics. See table on page 154 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198

Why Choose Aberdeen? The fourth year also involves a substantial Advanced Entry > This degree programme is influenced by project, but this time students work Advanced Highers ABB or A Levels ABB, or our internationally recognised research in individually on a specific AI topic of interest IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence to them; most projects are research-related. and preferably Computing. Many of the taught courses are also related > It covers core computing subjects as well as Can We Help? to our AI research activities, including advanced AI topics Email us: [email protected] Semantic Web Engineering, Peer-to-Peer and Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > Study provides a breadth of coverage Agent-Based Computing, eScience, Natural which encompasses both the theory as Language Processing and Neural Networks Your Study Options well as the application of AI to areas such and Genetic Algorithms. Single Honours Programme in as computer games, robotics and the web The optional Industrial Placement happens Artificial Intelligence (also available as MSci > Students are given the opportunity to between levels 3 and 4, or after level 4. with Industrial Placement, see page 175 for information). develop their transferable skills and Teaching and Assessment abilities as independent learners All courses are supported by web-based Related Honours Programmes in > Strong links with industry at local, material, usually including full course notes. MA Computing national and multi-national levels lead Lectures in the first two years commonly BSc Computing Science to industrial placements (in certain include live computer demonstrations. BSc Information Systems programmes) and ensure relevance of the Assessment is by a mixture of course-work MA Information Systems and Management curriculum and examination. BSc Behavioural Studies - Computing Science BSc Computing Science - Psychology Degree Programme Structure and Content Prizes for academic excellence are awarded Professional Accreditation First Year in each year of study; these are sponsored by O’Reilly, the British Computer Society, The British Computer Society (BCS) First year students focus on the foundations LogicaCMG, EDS and Amazon. recognises our Single Honours degrees for of Computing Science, including: how to professional membership without additional design and implement programs; relevant The Department is equipped with a dedicated examinations. mathematical concepts, and the grand network of UNIX-based computers and PCs Course Information challenges of Artificial Intelligence. They running Linux and Windows connected to the also study relevant Philosophy and/or wider campus network and internet. www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/computing General Information Psychology topics. Your Future www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Second Year The employment record of our graduates In the second year, students are introduced is excellent; the vast majority entering facebook.com/universityofaberdeen to core topics in modern computing, with occupations of their choice within three courses in Algorithmic Problem Solving, months of graduation. Our graduates have @aberdeenuni Data Management and Human Computer taken up posts in sectors as diverse as See page 25 for information Interaction. Students develop significant banking, pharmaceuticals and computer programming skills in a number of game development. Recent employers include See page 26 for information languages, and gain a deeper understanding IBM, Amazon, BP, Conoco, Hewlett Packard, of related issues. EDS, LogicaCMG, SAIC, Scottish Hydro Electric, THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Scottish & Newcastle Breweries, British Third and Fourth Year (Honours) See page 14 for more information. Telecom, QinetiQ and the Health Service. The third year includes a year-long Software Engineering Project. Working in teams, Need more Info? students develop a major AI system, from Scan the QR code an initial analysis to the final delivery. The course emphasises interpersonal teamwork skills as well as technical topics. Taught courses focus more deeply on AI topics including Robotics, Knowledge-based Systems, Adaptive Interactive Systems and AI for Computer Games, as well as further core computing subjects Distributed Systems and Security and Languages and Computability. 157

Behavioural Studies at Aberdeen brings What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* together internationally recognised researchers A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL

in social cognition, neuroscience, lifespan Behavioural Studies *Including good performance in at least two development, perception, language and Mathematics/Science subjects. cognition, and occupational/industrial See table on page 154 for more information. psychology in a supportive and stimulating UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry teaching environment. Advanced Highers ABB or A Levels ABB or IB 34 points (6 at HL) including Psychology at A. Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) Can We Help? > There are a range of specialised laboratories At level 3, there are lectures and tutorials Email us: [email protected] including those for brain imaging analysis, on: Biological Psychology; Developmental Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 eye movement recording, movement Psychology; Human Memory; Perception; analysis, visual neuroscience and face Psychological Assessment and Social Your Study Options recognition Psychology. Students also study an additional Single Honours Programme in 30 credits of courses from other subjects. > The School is the oldest in the UK, being Behavioural Studies founded over 100 years ago, and maintains At level 4, students carry out a library- Joint Honours Programme with a strong commitment to providing a based thesis project. They also select six Computing Science supportive and stimulating environment options, currently from the following for undergraduate studies list: Evolutionary Psychology; Human Major-Minor Programmes with French, Gaelic, German Degree Programme Structure and Content Neuropsychology; Abnormal Psychology; The Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Courses are available from first to fourth Related Honours Programme in Perception; Human Factors; Cognition and year. Behavioural Studies can be studied as Psychology Learning, Visual Awareness; Applications a four year Honours degree or a three year of Cognitive Neuroscience; Perspectives on Course Information Designated degree. Progression to Honours is Social Attributions and Brain and Body. www.abdn.ac.uk/psychology based on passes in all level 1 and level 2 pre- General Information Variations requisite courses. www.abdn.ac.uk/sras First Year Students doing the Joint Honours programme take a fully prescribed curriculum of level 3 facebook.com/universityofaberdeen In the Concepts and Theory course there Psychology courses spread across third and are lectures and workshops on: Biological fourth year, and complete a smaller empirical @aberdeenuni Psychology; Developmental Psychology project in their final year. The Major-Minor (human development from infancy to old Students intending to do an Honours degrees include language courses at levels 1, age); Animal Learning and Behaviour; degree in Behavioural Studies can 2 and 4. At level 4, students select four of the Cognitive Psychology; Perceptual Psychology study abroad in second year of their option courses instead of six. and Social Psychology. In the Methods and undergraduate degree, subject to Applications course there are lectures and It is also possible to study Behavioural approval of the overseas curriculum practical classes that aim to give you a basic Studies as an MA degree. See page 83 by the Head of School. understanding of research methodology and for more information. See page 26 for information descriptive statistics used in psychological Teaching and Assessment research. Teaching is by means of lectures, laboratory THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Second Year practicals, workshops and tutorials, with See page 14 for more information. In the Concepts and Theory course there individual thesis supervision at level 4. are lectures on: Developmental Psychology; Assessment is by means of examination Need more Info? Behavioural Neuroscience; Language and and continuous assessment. Scan the QR code Cognition; Organisational Psychology; Your Future Perception; Social Psychology; Clinical Behavioural Studies graduates have many Psychology. The Methods and Applications employment opportunities (occasionally after course builds on your research methodology further postgraduate training) in psychology- skills acquired in first year to examine related fields. Further areas benefiting from alternative and more complex methodologies an understanding of the human mind and and statistics used in psychological research. behaviour include careers in education, business, marketing and advertising. Further details of opportunities for graduates can be obtained from the BPS website: www.bps.org.uk/careers 158

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Computing Science with special emphasis given to Distributed *Including good performance in at least two Information Systems and Knowledge Technologies. Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) UCAS Code see page 198 > Degree programmes are influenced by The third year includes a year-long Software Advanced Entry our internationally recognised research Engineering Project. Working in teams, Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or in Artificial Intelligence, Bio- and students develop a major software system, IB 34 points (6 at HL), including a science Medical Informatics and Advanced from an initial analysis to the final delivery. subject and preferably Computing. Web Technologies The project emphasises interpersonal teamwork skills as strongly as technical Can We Help? > Study provides a breadth of coverage topics. Taught courses cover essential Email us: [email protected] which encompasses both the principles computing topics relevant to the chosen Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 and practice of Computing degree, with all Single Honours (Computing > Students are given the opportunity to Science) students studying Knowledge-based Your Study Options develop their transferable skills and Systems, Distributed Systems and Security, Single Honours Programme in abilities as independent learners Operating Systems, Adaptive Interactive Computing Science (all Single Honours Systems, Languages and Computability degrees are also available as MSci with > Strong links with industry at local, and Enterprise Computing. Industrial Placement, See page 175 for national and multi-national levels information). lead to industrial placements (in certain The fourth year also involves a substantial programmes) and ensure relevance of project, but this time students work Joint Honours Programmes with the curriculum individually on a specific topic of interest Mathematics*, Psychology, Philosophy, E-Business, Behavioural Studies. Degree Programme Structure and Content to them; most projects are research-related. Many of the taught courses are also related *Joint Honours Computing Science and First Year to research activity, including advanced Mathematics - SQA Higher or GCE A Level First year students focus on the foundations knowledge and internet technologies. or equivalent qualification in Mathematics is of Computing Science, including: how to The optional Industrial Placement happens required. design and implement programs; relevant between third and fourth year, or after mathematical concepts and some of the Major-Minor Programmes with fourth year. grand challenges of Computing Science. French, Spanish (both available as MSci They also study two other subjects, Teaching and Assessment with Industrial Placement). depending on their degree choice. All courses are supported by web-based Related Honours Programmes in Second Year material, usually including full course notes. MA Computing; BSc Artificial Intelligence; Lectures in the first two years commonly In the second year, students are introduced BSc Information Systems; BSc Business include live computer demonstrations. to core topics in modern computing, with Information Systems; BSc Geographical Assessment is by a mixture of course work courses in Algorithmic Problem Solving, Information Systems; MA Information and examination. Data Management and Human Computer Systems and Management Your Future Interaction. Students further develop Professional Accreditation significant programming skills in a number The employment record of our graduates is The British Computer Society (BCS) of languages, and also gain a deeper excellent with the vast majority entering recognises our Single Honours degrees for understanding of related issues. occupations of their choice within three professional membership without additional months of graduation. Our graduates have examinations. taken up posts in sectors as diverse as Course Information banking, pharmaceuticals and computer game development. Recent employers include www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/computing IBM, Amazon, BP, Conoco, Hewlett Packard, General Information EDS, LogicaCMG, SAIC, Scottish Hydro Electric, www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Scottish & Newcastle Breweries, British facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Telecom, QinetiQ and the Health Service. @aberdeenuni

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research in Personalisation and Advanced Web Information Systems *Including good performance in at least two Technologies. Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? The fourth year also involves a substantial UCAS Code see page 198 > Study provides a breadth of coverage which project, but this time students work Advanced Entry encompasses both the theory as well as the individually on a specific topic of interest Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or practice of Information Systems to them; most projects are industry or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including a science research-related. Taught courses include > Students are given the opportunity to subject and preferably Computing. Natural Language Processing, Data Mining develop their transferable skills and and Visualisation and Semantic Web- Can We Help? abilities as independent learners Engineering. Email us: [email protected] > Strong links with industry at local, national Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 The optional Industrial Placement is taken and multi-national levels lead to industrial between third and fourth year or after fourth placements (in certain programmes) and Your Study Options year. ensure relevance of the curriculum Single Honours Programmes in Teaching and Assessment Information Systems, Business Information Degree Programme Structure and Content All courses are supported by web-based Systems (both also available as MSci with First Year material, usually including full course notes. Industrial Placement, see page 175 for First year students focus on the foundations Lectures in the first two years commonly information). of Computing Science, including: how to include live computer demonstrations. Related Honours Programmes in design and implement programs (using Assessment is by a mixture of coursework BSc Artificial Intelligence a web scripting language); a few relevant and examination. BSc Computing and E-Business mathematical concepts, and some of the Prizes for academic excellence are awarded BSc Computing Science grand challenges of Computing Science. They in each year of study; these are sponsored MA Computing also study two other subjects, depending on by O’Reilly, The British Computer Society, MA Information Systems and Management their degree choice. LogicaCMG, EDS and Amazon. Professional Accreditation Second Year Your Future The British Computer Society (BCS) In second year, students are introduced to The employment record of our graduates is recognises our Single Honours degrees core topics in modern information systems, excellent with the vast majority entering in Computing Science for professional with courses in E-Society, Data Management, occupations of their choice within three membership without additional examinations. Human Computer Interaction and Advanced months of graduation. Our graduates have We are seeking to extend this recognition to Web Application Development. Business taken up posts in sectors as diverse as include these new degree programmes. Information Systems students study Business banking, pharmaceuticals and computer topics as well. Course Information game development. Recent employers include www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/computing Third and Fourth Year (Honours) IBM, Amazon, BP, Conoco, Hewlett Packard, General Information Third year includes a year-long Software EDS, LogicaCMG, SAIC, Scottish Hydro Electric, www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Engineering Project. Working in teams, Scottish & Newcastle Breweries, British students develop a major information Telecom, QinetiQ and the Health Service. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen system, from an initial analysis to the final delivery. The project emphasises @aberdeenuni interpersonal teamwork skills as strongly See page 25 for information. as technical topics. Taught courses cover essential information systems’ topics, See page 26 for information with all Single Honours students studying Adaptive Interactive Systems, Enterprise THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Computing and Security, Languages and Computability and E-Business Strategies. See page 14 for more information. Business Information Systems students study entrepreneurial courses as well, while IIS Need more Info? students study Knowledge-Based Systems Scan the QR code and Geographical Information Systems. 160

Mathematics at Aberdeen is highly rated What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* for research in both Pure and Applied areas. A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL*

Mathematics The Department is internationally recognised *SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent for its research expertise. All staff are active qualification in Mathematics is required and and enthusiastic about their subject and one other Mathematics/Science subject. See table on page 154 for more information. student:staff ratio is low. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? The Linear Algebra course focuses on systems Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB > Students can choose between focusing of linear equations and the associated matrix or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including A in their attention on Mathematics or algebra. The Probability Theory course Mathematics. spreading their interests to combine it provides an introduction to the mathematical with other subjects Can We Help? framework needed to handle events involving Email us: [email protected] > Mathematics is a powerful international a certain amount of randomness. Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 language used to describe situations in Third Year (Junior Honours) precise but abstract terms. Our graduates In third and fourth year, Mathematics Your Study Options find their skills highly valued by students take a total of 14 courses (plus 2 Single Honours Programmes in employers both for their rigorous thinking courses of enhanced study). In third year, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and their versatility most of these are compulsory and cover Mathematics and Engineering Mathematics > We offer a challenging syllabus which topics which are essential for any further Joint Honours Programmes with emphasises reasoning, discussion and study, for example Complex Analysis, Group Computing, Physics* the argumentative side of mathematics. Theory, Ring Theory and Topology of Metric Our ambition is to give you a sound Spaces. There are further courses, some of *Joint Honours Mathematics and Physics preparation for a career in which which are optional, covering a variety of - SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent mathematics plays a role, whether it topics from Pure and Applied Mathematics, qualification in Mathematics and Physics be in research or through applications such as Mechanics, Mathematical Methods are required. Degree Programme Structure and Content of Physics, Stochastic Processes and Linear Major-Minor Programmes with Optimisation. French, Gaelic Studies, German, First Year Fourth Year (Senior Honours) Hispanic Studies Students take up to four mathematics There are now even more options, and they courses. Three of these are compulsory: two Course Information depend to some extent on whether a student introductory courses in Analysis (Calculus www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/mathematics wishes to obtain a degree in Mathematics I and II) and a course in Algebra. The fourth General Information or in Applied Mathematics. The programme course is optional and covers a range of www.abdn.ac.uk/sras includes courses on Measure Theory, Galois mathematical topics. Theory, Mathematical Modelling and facebook.com/universityofaberdeen The Analysis courses begin with Nonlinear Dynamics, along with a range of fundamental ideas concerning sets, functions optional courses (which may vary from year @aberdeenuni and methods of proof. Then they discuss to year) from Pure and Applied Mathematics, See page 25 for information limits, differentiation and integration of reflecting the research interests in the functions in one variable. The Algebra Department. There is a major project which See page 26 for information course includes such topics as vectors, involves presenting an individual report. matrices, complex numbers and methods Teaching and Assessment THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE of counting. The optional course includes In first year, the mathematics courses See page 14 for more information. topics like symmetry, elementary number have three lectures and one tutorial per theory, functions and relations, elementary week. Tutorials are small group classes in probability and elementary astronomy. Need more Info? which students discuss problems with staff Scan the QR code Second Year members. At higher levels, all courses have Students take up to five mathematics courses. tutorials and some have regular computer- Four of the courses are compulsory. Of these, based practicals. The majority of courses have two are Analysis courses, one is in Set Theory an element of continuous assessment as well and Algebraic Structures and one is in Linear as a final examination. Algebra. The optional course is in Probability It is also possible to study Mathematics Theory. as an MA degree. See page 106 for more The two Analysis courses consolidate information. students’ knowledge in differentiation and Your Future integration of functions in one variable, and A degree in Mathematics is the gateway lead on to the differentiation of functions of to a wide variety of challenging careers. several variables and to ordinary differential Employers are keen to recruit mathematicians equations. The course on Set Theory and for their ability to think logically and analyse Algebraic Structures includes an introduction new developments whether in technology, to elementary set theory and an introduction business or commerce. to the mathematics of symmetry. 161

Psychology is the study of mental life and What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* behaviour, and covers a wide range of activities A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL

including memory, mental illness, psychological Psychology *Including good performance in at least development, the effects of brain damage, the two Mathematics/Science subjects. dynamics of social groups and the measurement See table on page 154 for more information. of personality and abilities. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or IB Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) 34 points (6 at HL), including Psychology at A. > Internationally recognised researchers in At level 3, there are lectures, tutorials social cognition, neuroscience, lifespan and practicals on: Biological Psychology; Can We Help? development, perception, language and Developmental Psychology; Human Memory Email us: [email protected] cognition and occupational/industrial and Language; Research Methodology; Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 psychology Perception; Psychological Assessment and Social Psychology. Your Study Options > There are a range of specialised laboratories Single Honours Programme in including those for brain imaging analysis, At level 4, students carry out and report an Psychology eye movement recording, movement empirical investigation. They also select analysis, visual neuroscience and face six options, currently from the following Joint Honours Programme with recognition list: Evolutionary Psychology; Human Computing Science Neuropsychology; Applications of Cognitive > The School is the oldest in the UK, being Major-Minor Programmes with Neuroscience; Abnormal Psychology; The founded over 100 years ago, and maintains French, Gaelic, German Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Perception; a strong commitment to providing a Cognition and Learning; Neuropsychology Related Honours Programme in supportive and stimulating environment of Visual Awareness; Perspectives on Social Behavioural Studies for undergraduate studies Attribution; Brain and Body; and Human Professional Accreditation Degree Programme Structure and Content Factors. British Psychological Society Courses are available from first to fourth year. Variations There is a British Psychological Society (BPS) Course Information Students doing the Joint Honours accredited Honours degree and a Designated www.abdn.ac.uk/psychology programmes (all Psychology programmes degree in Psychology. Application for entry to General Information are BPS accredited) take a full prescribed Honours occurs at the end of second year, and www.abdn.ac.uk/sras curriculum of level 3 Psychology courses split is based on academic performance achieved across third and fourth year, and complete a facebook.com/universityofaberdeen during second year. Students not continuing smaller empirical project in their final year. to Honours Psychology may complete the The Major-Minor degrees include language @aberdeenuni Designated degree or the Behavioural Studies courses at levels 1, 2 and 4. At level 4, students Honours degree. Students intending to do an Honours select four of the Psychology options instead degree in Psychology can study abroad First Year of six. in second year of their undergraduate The Concepts and Theory course includes It is also possible to study Psychology as an degree, subject to approval of the lectures and workshops on: Biological MA degree. See page 111 for information. overseas curriculum by the Head of Psychology; Lifespan Development; School. Animal Learning and Behaviour; Cognitive Teaching and Assessment Psychology; Perceptual Psychology; Social Teaching is by means of lectures, laboratory See page 26 for information Psychology. The Methods and Applications practicals, workshops and tutorials, with course includes lectures and practical classes more extensive experimental projects at THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE on all aspects of research methodology and levels 3 and 4. Assessment is by means of See page 14 for more information. descriptive data analysis in psychological examination and continuous assessment. research. Your Future Need more Info? Second Year Psychology graduates have many Scan the QR code There are lectures on: Developmental employment opportunities (usually after Psychology; Behavioural Neuroscience; further postgraduate training), including Language and Cognition; Organisational clinical psychology, counselling, educational Psychology; Perception; Social Psychology; psychology, ergonomics, forensic psychology, Clinical Psychology. The Methods and health psychology and occupational Applications course build on the research psychology. Additional areas benefiting methodology gained in first year to examine from an understanding of the human mind more complex experimental designs and and behaviour include careers in teaching, statistical methods. business, marketing and advertising. Further details of opportunities for graduates can be obtained from the BPS website: www.bps.org.uk/careers 162 Degrees in Life Sciences

Animal Ecology (see Zoology) The University has one of the Biology largest groupings of biological and Conservation Biology environmental scientists in Europe. Ecology Strong industrial links and first-class Environmental Science teaching provide students with training that matches the needs of industry. Forestry Forest Sciences Marine Biology Plant & Soil Science Wildlife Management Zoology 163

Biological Sciences (MSci) is open to students What You Need SQA Advanced Highers AAB* wishing to study any of the degree programmes A Levels AAB* IB 36 points, 6 at HL*

within the School of Biological Sciences. Biological Sciences (MSci) *Including Biology and Chemistry, one of which must be at A-grade. Why Choose Aberdeen? developments and current thinking in See table on page 155 for more information. > Great strength in biological sciences biology, from exploring the genome to the UCAS Code see page 198 represented by over 120 academic staff ethics of modern biology. The extended in many disciplines, based in two Schools research project will be linked to an employer Can We Help? within a single College and based either within the University or at Email us: [email protected] an outside agency. Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > Considerable flexibility of course choice - a Teaching and Assessment personalised designer degree programme Your Study Options Courses use a wide variety of teaching > Government bioscience research institutes Single Honours Programme in methods including lectures, peer discussion, located in Aberdeen with senior student Biological Sciences (MSci) laboratory practicals, fieldwork, seminars access and tutorials. Most courses are assessed by > Career preparation given high priority both continuous assessment and a written examination. Continuous assessment takes Course Information > A recent internal teaching review panel many forms including essays, practical reports www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci commended the School of Biological or group projects. General Information Sciences for its committed, professional www.abdn.ac.uk/sras and enthusiastic teaching across a wide Several biological science departments offer range of degree programmes. The panel residential field courses which all biology facebook.com/universityofaberdeen was also impressed with the course choice students are encouraged to attend, usually @aberdeenuni within degrees and by the emphasis on in their first and second years. field courses and field-based teaching, Your Future There will be opportunities for expeditions, including opportunities and support for Many career possibilities are open to graduate voluntary work overseas and ‘year-out’ expeditions, which were clearly valued biologists. MSci graduates would be well placements. International exchanges by students prepared for PhD degrees or employment in may also be possible. Similarly, it may be Degree Programme Structure and Content many areas of biological sciences. Biologists possible to study for part of the degree Students will graduate with an MSci (an find employment in ecology, environmental in another European university under the undergraduate Masters degree) instead of a impact, healthcare, molecular biology, climate ERASMUS programme. See page 25 for BSc. The MSci is aimed at applicants who wish change, biological modelling, scientific information. to graduate with a qualification that goes publishing, TV, support to government, See page 26 for information beyond the traditional Honours degree. The teaching in colleges, universities and first three years (levels 1, 2 and 3) are the same schools, public education (zoos, museums, as the traditional Honours degree; but during nature reserves, scientific societies etc) and THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE level 4 (Honours year) additional skills courses biomedical sciences. See page 14 for more information. are offered to enhance the scientific expertise Employers now expect an impressive list of the students. This enables them to fulfil the of skills, knowledge and experience in their requirement for the advanced courses and graduate recruits. They welcome transferable project during the level 5 year. skills acquired during a work placement Need more Info? Level 5 (MSci year) such as communication, numeracy, use of Scan the QR code Level 5 is the unique year in this programme, IT, group work and time management. In during which students will develop as addition to allowing you to develop a link independent researchers, with enhanced with a potential employer, the extended practical and scientific writing skills. The year is project makes you a more effective employee split between project, tutorials and workshop- following graduation. based teaching with an emphasis on the latest developments in biological sciences. Progress will be gauged on the basis of genuine critical analysis of literature and concepts. Generic teaching includes: scientific writing of research articles, presenting scientific information, preparation of grant applications, data analysis, bioinformatics, applied statistics and intellectual property concepts. The teaching will be based on a modular system addressing up-to-the-minute 164

Biology is a natural science concerned with all What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* lifeforms, from the cell, to plants, animal and man. A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL*

Biology Biology at Aberdeen benefits from an emphasis on *Including good performance in at least field-based teaching. two Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? All students normally take eight courses, UCAS Code see page 198 > Great strength in biology represented including a further skills course in Life Advanced Entry by over 120 academic staff in many Sciences. Other courses are selected to include Advanced Highers ABB or A Levels ABB, disciplines, based in two Schools within a at least two of the following disciplines: IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology and single College Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Chemistry, one of which must be at A-grade. & Cell Biology, Plant & Soil Science and > Considerable flexibility of course choice - a Zoology. Can We Help? personalised designer degree programme Email us: [email protected] Fourth Year (Senior Honours) > Government bioscience research institutes Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 All students carry out a research project located in Aberdeen with senior student or library dissertation as well as writing access Your Study Options an extended essay. The research project Single Honours Programme in > Career preparation given high priority can be undertaken in any of the biological Biology disciplines. Projects can be carried out using > A recent internal teaching review panel facilities within the School of Biological commended the School of Biological Sciences, at local research institutes or Sciences for its committed, professional elsewhere. A further four courses are Course Information and enthusiastic teaching across a wide normally chosen to include at least two of www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci range of degree programmes. The panel the following disciplines: Biology, Biomedical General Information was also impressed with the course choice Sciences, Molecular & Cell Biology, Plant www.abdn.ac.uk/sras within degrees and by the emphasis on & Soil Science and Zoology. A residential field courses and field-based teaching, facebook.com/universityofaberdeen team-building course and careers sessions including opportunities and support for are included in the programme. @aberdeenuni expeditions, which were clearly valued by Teaching and Assessment students There will be opportunities for expeditions,

Degree Programme Structure and Content Courses use a wide variety of teaching voluntary work overseas and ‘year-out’ methods including lectures, laboratory In accordance with degree requirements, four placements. International exchanges are practicals, fieldwork, seminars and tutorials. courses at levels 1 and 2 combined and two also possible, normally in the second year Most courses are assessed by both continuous courses at levels 3 and 4 combined must meet of a four year programme. Similarly, it is assessment and a written examination. the requirements of enhanced study. These possible to study for part of the degree Continuous assessment takes many forms courses provide an opportunity for sustained in another European university under the including essays, practical reports, or group study in other disciplines, disciplinary ERASMUS programme. See page 25 projects. Final year students also attend a breadth and cross-discipline study (Sixth for information. residential team-building course. Century Courses). See page 26 for information First Year The School of Biological Sciences offers residential field courses which biology All biologists take eight courses, including THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE students may wish to attend, usually in four foundation biology courses (Organismal their first and second years. See page 14 for more information. Biology, The Cell, Ecology & Environmental Science and a tutorial course in Biological Your Future

Sciences). In addition, a course in Chemistry Many career possibilities are open to graduate Need more Info? Scan the QR code is also studied. This leaves a choice of three biologists. Each year several graduates further courses which would normally continue to develop their expertise in contribute towards enhanced study. specialist topics through MSc taught courses or Second Year postgraduate research leading to MSc, MPhil or PhD degrees. Biologists find employment All students take eight courses including in ecology, healthcare, molecular biology, a skills course in Life Sciences. Options are climate change, biological modelling, scientific selected from a wide range of courses from publishing, TV, support to government, within at least three of the disciplines of teaching in colleges, universities and schools, Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Molecular public education (zoos, museums, nature & Cell Biology, Plant & Soil Science and reserves, scientific societies etc), environmental Zoology. management and biomedical sciences. Third Year (Junior Honours) At level 3, students have the opportunity of following a more focused curriculum or maintaining breadth in their programme. 165

Conservation Biology encompasses the What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* disciplines of Zoology and Plant and Soil Science, A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL

as well as Agriculture, Forestry, Geography and Biology Conservation *Including good performance in at least Land Economy. two Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? Third Year (Junior Honours) UCAS Code see page 198 > The University of Aberdeen is uniquely All students take a course in Experimental placed to teach conservation biology Design and Analysis. Other core elements of Advanced Entry and is closely linked to local government the third year include Population Ecology, Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB institutes concerned with biological and Plant Biogeography and Ecosystem Processes. or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology environmental conservation These are followed by a wide choice of courses and Chemistry, one of which must be at in Tropical Ecology and Conservation, A-grade. > In the School of Biological Sciences the Marine and Aquatic Ecology and other more strong disciplines of Zoology and Plant & Can We Help? applied subjects. Soil Science teach Ecology, which forms Email us: [email protected] the basis of the course. Additionally, Fourth Year (Senior Honours) Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Agriculture, Forestry, Geography and Land A semi-independent project takes up a Economy contribute with information on substantial part of the Honours year. This Your Study Options environmental usage is often carried out in conjunction with a Single Honours Programme in conservation agency. Students also attend Conservation Biology > Staff in these disciplines are active in courses on Nature Conservation in Britain conservation research and on Environmental Pollution, prepare > Many staff actively contribute to the an extended essay and contribute to a Course Information development of national and international discussion programme on Topics in Nature www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci policies on practical conservation work Conservation. One further course is chosen General Information Degree Programme Structure and Content from a list of options. A residential team- www.abdn.ac.uk/sras building course and a careers programme First Year form part of a graduate skills module. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen All Conservation Biology students take Teaching and Assessment @aberdeenuni eight courses normally including Ecology Assessment is typically a mixture of and Environmental Science, Organismal continuous assessment and formal exams. There will be opportunities for expeditions, Biology, Sustainable Land Management, The continuous assessment includes formal voluntary work overseas and ‘year-out’ and a tutorial course in Biological Sciences. practical reports, brief essays, worksheets and placements. International exchanges are This leaves a choice of four further courses posters, seminar presentations and group also possible, normally in the second year which contribute to enhanced study; projects. of a four year programme. Similarly, it is options include subjects such as Global possible to study for part of the degree Worlds, Global Challenges, The Natural Field courses in Plant Ecology and Taxonomy in another European university under the Environment Through Geological Time and and in Zoology are compulsory for ERASMUS programme. See page 25 new interdisciplinary courses. Students take Conservation Biologists. for information. a one-week field course on Plant Ecology at Your Future Bettyhill, Sutherland. See page 26 for information There are career opportunities in Britain Second Year and all over the world for Conservation All students study Skills for Life Sciences. Biologists. Conservation work has expanded THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE There is a dedicated Conservation Biology greatly in recent years and many of our See page 14 for more information. course in second year, as well as compulsory graduates are already placed as conservation courses on Community Ecology and Plant and education staff in wildlife trusts and Need more Info? Diversity and a field course run by the zoos, pollution control officers, countryside Scan the QR code Zoology Department. Options include courses rangers, government conservation officials, in Plant Science, Soil Science, Zoology, Ocean land managers and a host of related jobs. Biology and Geography. As a conservation biologist you will be in increasing demand in similar posts with an edge over more traditionally qualified graduates. With your scientific training you will also be in demand for jobs requiring general graduate abilities. 166

Ecology teaching is underpinned by our What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* research in both theoretical and applied ecology A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL*

Ecology in many different environments, natural and *Including good performance in at least two managed, from the Tropics to the Arctic, and Mathematics/Science subjects. from estuaries to mountain tops. See table on page 154 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Students can also choose from Plant Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or > A recent internal teaching review panel Biogeography and Conservation; Animal IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology and commended the School of Biological Evolution and Biodiversity; Animal Chemistry, one of which must be at A-grade. Sciences for its committed, professional Behaviour; Plant/Animal Interactions; and enthusiastic teaching. The panel was Plant/Environment Interactions; Aquatic Can We Help? also impressed with the course choice Biology and Conservation; Tropical Ecology; Email us: [email protected] within degrees and by the emphasis on Tropical Conservation; Marine Ecology and Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 field courses and field-based teaching, Ecosystems and Environmental Analysis. Your Study Options including opportunities and support for Students have the opportunity to go on an Single Honours Programme in expeditions overseas ecology field trip during the summer Ecology before or after their third year. > Students benefit from participating in field work in many diverse environments, Fourth Year (Senior Honours) and particularly in the vicinities of our Students carry out an independent research Course Information

field stations, on the Ythan Estuary, on the project in Ecology, often in collaboration www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci Black Isle, and at Bettyhill, on the North with an external organisation or as part of General Information coast of Sutherland an overseas expedition and undertake an www.abdn.ac.uk/sras extended essay on a subject of their choice. > Students also benefit from contact with Alongside these we provide core scientific facebook.com/universityofaberdeen practising ecologists from a number of skills training including a team building ecological and conservation organisations course and careers workshops. There is then @aberdeenuni based in and around Aberdeen a choice of advanced courses in Behavioural There will be opportunities for expeditions, Degree Programme Structure and Content Ecology; Wildlife Management; Nature voluntary work overseas and ‘year-out’ The Ecology degree combines a broad based Conservation; Conservation and Global placements. International exchanges are training in Biology in first year, progressing Change; Ecological & Environmental also possible, normally in the second year to an increasingly specialised training in Modelling; Marine Ecology; Tropical Forest of a four year programme. Similarly, it is Ecology in the following years, with options Management; Molecular Ecology and possible to study for part of the degree to take enhanced study courses which Bioethics. in another European university under the provide the opportunity to study other Teaching and Assessment ERASMUS programme. See page 25 disciplines and to take interdisciplinary Teaching includes lectures, laboratory for information. courses. practicals, fieldwork, seminars and tutorials. See page 26 for information First Year Most courses are assessed by both continuous All Ecologists take eight courses normally assessment and a written examination. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE including Ecology and Environmental Continuous assessment takes many forms Science, Organismal Biology, Cell and including essays, practical reports and group See page 14 for more information. Molecular Biology, and a tutorial course projects. Throughout all years students in Biological Sciences. This leaves a choice improve their transferable skills, for example Need more Info? of four further courses which contribute to through presentations and group activities. Scan the QR code enhanced study; options include subjects Your Future such as Chemistry, Land Management, Ecologists are employed in a wide range Geography and new interdisciplinary of interesting jobs by government and courses. Students take a one-week field non-government nature conservation course on Plant Ecology at Bettyhill, organisations, local government, Sutherland. environmental protection agencies, Second Year environmental consultancies and research Core courses in second year cover agencies. There are also opportunities in Community Ecology, Animal and Plant environmental education in field centres and Diversity and Function, and Scientific Skills schools, and in the communications sector. for biologists. Additional optional courses Information about a range of exciting include Conservation Biology, Ocean ecological careers can be found in the Biology, Genes and Evolution, Microbiology booklet ‘Rooting for a Career in Ecology and and a wide range of interdisciplinary courses. Environmental Management?’ published by Students take an Animal Ecology field trip in the British Ecological Society and Institute of Yorkshire or on the North-east Scottish coast. Ecology and Environmental Management, Third Year (Junior Honours) available from careers centres and as a PDF Third year courses are in Animal Population file from the website: Ecology; Plant Ecology; Ecosystem Processes www.britishecologicalsociety.org/ and in Core Skills for Biologists. career_paths 167

Environmental Science at Aberdeen benefits from What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* interdisciplinary courses including environmental A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL

biology, chemistry and soils, representing the wide Environmental Science *Including good performance in at least two range of staff expertise. Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Senior Honours) > A recent internal teaching review panel Honours students undertake a supervised Advanced Entry commended the School of Biological research project and a range of intensive Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB Sciences for its committed, professional courses relevant to their specialisation. Thus, or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology and enthusiastic teaching across a wide students doing the Physical Sciences option and Chemistry, one of which must be at range of degree programmes. The panel will have a stronger emphasis on Chemistry A-grade. was also impressed with the course choice than those studying the main Environmental within degrees and by the emphasis on Science programme. Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] field courses and field-based teaching, Teaching and Assessment including opportunities and support for Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Teaching methods include lectures, laboratory expeditions, which were clearly valued by practicals, fieldwork, seminars and tutorials. Your Study Options students Most courses are assessed by both continuous Single Honours Programmes in > Active local research environment includes assessment and a written examination. Environmental Science, Environmental Science (Physical Sciences) the Macaulay Institute (one of the UK’s Your Future top environmental research institutes) Both of the Environmental Science options and the new NERC Aberdeen Centre for are well-suited to employment in nature Environmental Sustainability Course Information conservation, in government or non- > Taught in top rated (5) research department government conservation organisations www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci and also in countryside departments of local General Information > Students benefit from field course teaching government. Those who have taken the www.abdn.ac.uk/sras throughout the programme Physical Sciences option will have the training facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Degree Programme Structure and Content required to carry out analysis for certain First Year types of pollutant monitoring and control. @aberdeenuni Generally opportunities are available within First year students take core courses environmental organisations such as the There will be opportunities for expeditions, in Organismal Biology, Ecology and environmental protection agencies, or within voluntary work overseas and ‘year-out’ Environmental Science and Fundamentals industries such as water companies or waste placements. International exchanges are and Applications of Chemistry. management. also possible, normally in the second year Second Year of a four year programme. Similarly, it is Environmental legislation and regulations There are core courses in Community Ecology possible to study for part of the degree increasingly require more rigorous and Chemistry. Further courses can be chosen in another European university under the environmental audit and monitoring. from a wide range of subjects including ERASMUS programme. See page 25 Such changes continue to provide further Chemistry, Geology, Biology and Geography. for information. opportunities for environmental scientists in Third Year (Junior Honours) environmental consultancies, local authorities See page 26 for information Courses are allocated to subject groups and environmental protection agencies. There representing Physiochemical, Biological/ are also many opportunities in environmental THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Ecological, and Land-use and Related education and in the communications sector. See page 14 for more information. Subjects. Depending on which degree option students take, courses are selected from these Need more Info? subject groups to reflect the emphasis of the Scan the QR code degree. 168

Forestry has been taught at Aberdeen since What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* 1907, and brings together the disciplines of A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL

Forestry Forestry, Ecology, Zoology, and Plant Science. *Including good performance in at least two The Department has an excellent reputation Mathematics/Science subjects. both nationally and internationally. See table on page 154 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Third Year Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB Forests are one of the most important Third year courses cover many of the subjects or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology terrestrial ecosystems on earth covering central to forestry. These include Silviculture: and Chemistry, one of which must be at about one quarter of the land surface. Forests Applied Forest Ecology, Forest Measurement, A-grade. are diverse in nature ranging from conifer- Forest Resource Management, Wood: dominated cool temperate forests to tropical Properties to Products, Experimental Design, Can We Help? rain forests where the greatest species Analysis & Presentation. Other choices Email us: [email protected] richness on earth can be found. Forests are include Plant/Environment Interactions and Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 vital to the future of our planet. Plant Ecology. These courses are supported by site visits to study forest ecology, dendrology, Your Study Options > Easy access to large areas of forest, silviculture, and timber processing. Single Honours Programme in including remnants of the internationally Forestry important native Caledonian pine forest, Fourth Year enhances the learning environment The final year involves the preparation of a Related Honours Programme in forest management plan and an individual Forest Sciences > Forest visits form an important part of the research project. Students choose three degree programme, including a trip to the Professional Accreditation specialist subjects, and a trip to the forests Black Forest in Germany The degree programme is accredited by the of southern Germany completes the Institute of Chartered Foresters and gives full > The students’ Forestry Society was founded programme. Three specific courses are chosen exemption from the Part I examinations. in 1919 and is one of the oldest student from Biology & Ecology of Forest Health, societies in the University. It runs a wide Tropical Forest Ecology & Management, range of social events. These include Trees in the Urban Environment, Special Course Information activities during Freshers’ Week, raising Topics in Forest Science, Plant Biogeography money for charity, arranging recreational & Conservation, Plant/Animal Interactions, www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci pursuits and social evenings culminating Nature Conservation in Britain, and Wildlife General Information in the Forestry Society Annual Dinner Conservation & Management. www.abdn.ac.uk/sras > Career prospects are extremely good with Variations facebook.com/universityofaberdeen opportunities in forest management and Students have an opportunity to take a gap @aberdeenuni research both at home and overseas year within the forestry industry, forestry organisation or research institution between Degree Programme Structure and Content There will be opportunities for expeditions, third and fourth year. There is also the In accordance with degree requirements, voluntary work overseas and ‘year-out’ possibility of spending a year on an overseas four courses at levels 1 and 2 combined placements. International exchanges are aid project. and two courses at levels 3 and 4 combined also possible, normally in the second year must meet the requirements of enhanced Teaching and Assessment of a four year programme. Similarly, it is study. These courses provide an opportunity Teaching is by a combination of lectures, possible to study for part of the degree for sustained study in other disciplines, laboratory practicals, tutorials and field visits. in another European university under the disciplinary breadth and cross-discipline Opportunities are provided for verbal and ERASMUS programme. See page 25 study (Sixth Century Courses). written presentations and reports, which are for information. related to topics covered. Assessment is by First Year See page 26 for information examinations and continuous assessment. Students take eight courses that may include Forestry students are required to attend field Biology and Chemistry, and foundation courses, which are also assessed. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE courses including Plant Ecology and See page 14 for more information. Taxonomy, Geology, and Sustainable Land Your Future Management. This leaves a choice of three The importance of forests to the global further courses which would normally environment and economy has been Need more Info? contribute towards enhanced study. There increasingly highlighted at international Scan the QR code are two field courses on Plant Ecology and the environment conferences, maintaining Forest Environment. Some choice of courses is a strong demand for well-motivated and available at first year depending on entrance educated individuals in all aspects of forestry. qualifications. BSc Forestry is a requirement to becoming Second Year a professional forester. Presently, about half of our graduates become foresters within Courses provide an essential grounding in the state and private sectors in Britain. The many fundamental concepts of forestry. remainder have gone to urban, environmental Subjects include Soil Science, Ecology, Plant or social forestry, timber processing, forest Physiology and Diversity, Research Skills management overseas and research. and a field course on Forest Ecology and Management. 169

Forest Sciences has been taught at Aberdeen What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* since 1907, and brings together the disciplines A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL

of Forestry, Ecology, Zoology, and Plant Science. Forest Sciences *Including good performance in at least The Department has an excellent reputation both two Mathematics/Science subjects. nationally and internationally. See table on page 154 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Third Year Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB Forest Sciences is about the application of Third year is a combination of pure and or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology ideas and scientific skills to the understanding applied sciences where the subjects of and Chemistry, one of which must be at of this diverse natural resource for a wide forest ecology and stand dynamics are A-grade. range of purposes including: the sustainable developed. These include Silviculture, production of timber and other products; Applied Forest Ecology, Forest Measurement, Can We Help? environmental protection; the maintenance Plant Biogeography and Conservation, Email us: [email protected] and enhancement of animal and plant Behavioural Ecology, and Experimental Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 habitats and in mitigating the effects of Design, Analysis and Skills. Other choices global warming. are available depending on the particular Your Study Options interests of the students. Single Honours Programme in > There is easy access to large areas of forest, Forest Sciences including remnants of the once extensive Fourth Year native Caledonian pine forest The final year involves the preparation of an Related Honours Programme in individual research project. Students also have Forestry > Field visits form an important part of the the option of preparing a forest management degree programme, including a trip to the plan; with three weeks spent studying a 500 Black Forest in Germany hectare forest where the soils, vegetation and Course Information

> The Department has close links with local the forest stands are studied. Observations www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci and national research institutes and measurements made are used to prepare General Information a five-year plan that ensures the sustainable > The students’ Forestry Society was founded www.abdn.ac.uk/sras management of the forest. Students have to in 1919 and is one of the oldest student choose four specialist subjects from a wide facebook.com/universityofaberdeen societies in the University. It runs a wide range of available options that include Biology range of social events. These include & Ecology of Forest Health, Tropical Forest @aberdeenuni activities during Freshers’ Week, raising Ecology & Management, Trees in the Urban money for charity, arranging recreational There will be opportunities for expeditions, Environment, Special Topics in Forestry, Plant pursuits and social evenings culminating voluntary work overseas and ‘year-out’ Biogeography & Conservation, Plant/Animal in the Forestry Society Annual Dinner. placements. International exchanges are Interactions, Nature Conservation in Britain, also possible, normally in the second year Degree Programme Structure and Content and Wildlife Conservation & Management. of a four year programme. Similarly, it is In accordance with degree requirements, four A trip to study forestry in southern Germany possible to study for part of the degree courses at levels 1 and 2 combined and two completes the programme. in another European university under the courses at levels 3 and 4 combined must meet Teaching and Assessment ERASMUS programme. See page 25 for the requirements of enhanced study. These Teaching is by a combination of lectures, information. courses provide an opportunity for sustained laboratory practicals, tutorials and field visits. study in other disciplines, disciplinary breadth and See page 26 for information Opportunities are provided for verbal and cross-discipline study (Sixth Century Courses). written presentations and reports, which THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE First Year are related to topics covered. Assessment is Students cover the basic sciences in Biology and by an appropriate balance of examinations See page 14 for more information. Chemistry, and foundation courses including and continuous assessment for each course. Ecology and Environmental Science, Geology, Students are required to attend field courses, Need more Info? Plant Ecology and Taxonomy and Sustainable which are assessed as part of the degree. Scan the QR code Land Management and two field courses on Your Future Plant Ecology and the Forest Environment. There is a demand for well-motivated and Some choice of courses is available in first year educated individuals to improve the level depending on entrance qualifications. This leaves of knowledge and understanding of forest a choice of three further courses which would ecosystems. This knowledge becomes the normally contribute towards enhanced study. basis of sustainable forest management. This Second Year degree will give you an opportunity to develop These courses provide an essential grounding a career in forest conservation, environmental in many fundamental concepts of Forest management and research. As a Forest Scientist Science. Subjects include Soil Science, with a knowledge of forest management you Ecology, Plant Physiology and Diversity, will be in increasing demand, but with an and Research Skills. A field course on Forest advantage over other graduates, in the wider Ecology and Management supports what is environmental sciences, due to the range of learned in the classroom. Other course choices subjects and skills acquired. are available depending on the particular interests of the students. 170

Marine Biology at Aberdeen is a major What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* international research strength. Students A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL*

Marine Biology benefit from contact with practising marine *Including good performance in at least biologists and field work opportunities. two Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? Third Year (Junior Honours) UCAS Code see page 198 > A recent internal teaching review panel Third year courses are in Marine Ecology and Advanced Entry commended the School of Biological Ecosystems, Aquatic Biology, Conservation Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB Sciences for its committed, professional and and Exploitation, Environmental Physiology, or IB 34 points (6 at HL) including Biology enthusiastic teaching. The panel was also Animal Population Ecology, Animal and Chemistry, one of which must be at impressed with the course choice within Evolution and Biodiversity and Experimental A-grade. degrees and by the emphasis on field Design, Analysis and Presentation. courses and field-based teaching, including Students also choose from a range of courses Can We Help? opportunities and support for expeditions covering Animal Behaviour, Plant/Animal Email us: [email protected] Interactions, Biology and Control of Infectious Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > Marine Biology is an internationally Diseases and many other specialist topics. recognised research strength with staff Your Study Options Fourth Year (Senior Honours) research expertise ranging from the deep Single Honours Programmes in sea to the inter-tidal zones, including work Students carry out an independent Marine Biology, Zoology on fish & fisheries, dolphins, whales, seals, research project in Marine Biology, often in seabirds, octopus and sharks collaboration with an external organisation or occasionally as part of a deep sea > Marine Biology staff undertake applied research cruise. Students also undertake Course Information research on issues related to fisheries an extended essay. There is a choice of www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci management, marine spatial planning advanced courses in Sustainable Marine General Information and impacts of marine renewables Resource Management, Abyssal and Hadal www.abdn.ac.uk/sras and > Students benefit from participating Environments, Marine Benthic Ecology facebook.com/universityofaberdeen in field work in the vicinities of our Sustainable Aquaculture. The breadth of Ocean Laboratory on the Ythan Estuary, options is extended by courses in Biological @aberdeenuni Lighthouse Field station on the Black Isle Timing, Bioethics, Wildlife Conservation An optional week-long field course has near Inverness, and around Shetland. and Management, Community Ecology, Advanced Immunology and Advances been introduced for third year students > Students benefit from contact with in Vector Biology. Students improve their titled Sub-tropical Marine & Freshwater practising marine biologists from Marine transferable skills through presentations, Habitats. The course is conducted during Scotland - Science in Aberdeen, The groupwork, problem-based learning exercises the Easter vacation at the Florida State Scottish Association for Marine Science and team building activities. University Coastal and Marine Laboratory. in Oban and The North Atlantic Fisheries There will be additional opportunities for College Marine Centre in Shetland Teaching and Assessment expeditions, voluntary work overseas Degree Programme Structure and Content Teaching methods include lectures, laboratory and ‘year-out’ placements. International practicals, fieldwork, field courses, seminars, exchanges are also possible, normally First Year and tutorials. Most courses are marked in the second year of a four year Marine Biology is represented in the first by continuous assessment and a written programme. Similarly, it is possible to year by a tutorial course which focuses on examination. study for part of the degree in another topics in Marine Biology and substantial Your Future European university under the ERASMUS marine content in Organismal Biology. The Marine Biology course is designed to programme. See page 25 for information. There is also an optional interdisciplinary provide a broad based set of generic and course titled Oceans and Society. First year See page 26 for information specialist skills for future employment. Marine normally includes foundation Biology and Biology graduates find full-time employment Chemistry courses with optional courses THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE in a wide range of exciting careers. Employers covering a wide range of complementary include fisheries laboratories, government and See page 14 for more information. subjects, including Tools for Science, Land non-government conservation organisations, Management, Environmental Science, and local government, environmental protection Need more Info? Computing Science. agencies and research bodies. There is a Scan the QR code Second Year growing demand for marine specialists and Second year courses progress studies a variety of companies have arisen as marine in Ocean Biology, Vertebrate Zoology, legislation and regulations increasingly require Invertebrate Life and a Marine Field Course. rigorous environmental audit and monitoring. Courses in Genes and Evolution, Community There are also opportunities in environmental Ecology and Microbiology are recommended, education. A considerable number of graduates but alternative courses can be selected from a continue their education by undertaking wide range of subjects. higher degrees (e.g. MSc or PhD) or by taking a postgraduate Diploma to enter biology or general science teaching. Recent graduates have also been taken on as interns with non-governmental organisations. 171

Plant & Soil Science at Aberdeen is the What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* only Plant & Soil Science degree in the UK. A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL*

The interaction between plants and soils is Plant & Soil Science *Including good performance in at least the basis for sustainability in all natural and two Mathematics/Science subjects. managed terrestrial ecosystems. See table on page 154 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Why Choose Aberdeen? Interactions, Global Soil Geography, Advanced Entry > A recent internal teaching review panel Ecosystem Processes, Environmental Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB commended the School of Biological Analysis, Conservation and Global Change, or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology Sciences for its committed, professional Biology and Ecology of Plant Disease and and Chemistry, one of which must be at and enthusiastic teaching across a wide Tropical Forest and Savannah Ecology. A-grade. range of degree programmes. The panel There is a strong element of practical was also impressed with the course choice laboratory training and fieldwork, plus Can We Help? within degrees and by the emphasis on visits to research institutes, conservation Email us: [email protected] field courses and field-based teaching, and environmental protection agencies Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 including opportunities and support for and commercial companies. Your Study Options expeditions Fourth Year (Senior Honours) Single Honours Programme in > Plenty of opportunities for field courses An independent research project is an Plant & Soil Science and expeditions important part of the final year. Students join established research groups or follow Related Honours Programme in > Opportunities to interact with end-users, their own approved interests in the field Plant Biology such as Scottish Natural Heritage or or laboratory. Many use data collected on bioremediation companies expeditions undertaken between levels 3 > Close integration with the Macaulay and 4; others work in the laboratories of local Course Information Institute, one of the UK’s foremost institutes. Other discipline courses are chosen www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci environmental research centres from Environmental Pollution, Nature General Information Degree Programme Structure and Content Conservation in Britain, Current Issues in www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Biological and Environmental Sciences, In accordance with degree requirements, four Plant-Animal Interactions, Tropical Forest facebook.com/universityofaberdeen courses at levels 1 and 2 combined and two and Ecology Management and Ecological courses at levels 3 and 4 combined must meet and Environmental Modelling. @aberdeenuni the requirements of enhanced study. These courses provide an opportunity for sustained As students progress with their studies they There will be opportunities for expeditions, study in other disciplines, disciplinary breadth will spend an increasing amount of time in voluntary work overseas and ‘year-out’ and cross-discipline study (Sixth Century the Cruickshank Building. This is situated in placements. International exchanges are Courses). an 11 acre Botanic Garden containing over also possible, normally in the second year of a four year programme. Similarly, it is First Year 2,500 different plant species or cultivars. There are extensive greenhouses and controlled possible to study for part of the degree All students of Plant and Soil Science take environment facilities for growing plants and in another European university under the eight courses, including four foundation an important international herbarium. Staff at ERASMUS programme. See page 25 biology courses (Organismal Biology, The Cruickshank have strong links with the British for information. Cell, Ecology and Environmental Science Society for Soil Science, British Ecological and a tutorial course in Biological Sciences). THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Society and the nearby Macaulay Institute. In addition, a course in Chemistry is also See page 14 for more information. studied. This leaves a choice of three further Teaching and Assessment courses which would normally contribute Teaching methods include lectures, laboratory Need more Info? towards enhanced study. In addition to the practicals, fieldwork, seminars and tutorials. Scan the QR code eight courses, students will attend a summer Courses are assessed by both continuous field trip to Bettyhill in the north of Scotland. assessment and a written examination. Second Year Your Future All students take eight courses including a Our graduates have a good record of skills course in Life Sciences. Other courses employment in environmental protection normally include Community Ecology, Plant agencies or in the private sector in Diversity, Introduction to Soils and Plants, environmental consultancy, bioremediation Man and the Environment. In addition to or biotechnology companies. There are also the eight courses, students will attend a opportunities in environmental education summer field trip to France (alternatively and communications. Many work for taken in third year). overseas development agencies drawing on Third Year (Junior Honours) the tropical experience in their degree. A high proportion go on to a higher degree and then Students study eight courses, including into posts in the agricultural, horticultural a further skills course in Life Sciences. and food industries, research institutes, Other recommended courses are taken universities or nature conservation bodies. from Plant Ecology, Plant Biogeography and Conservation, Plant-Environment 172

Wildlife Management provides students with the What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* necessary education, training and experience to fulfil A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL*

Wildlife Management the role of professional wildlife manager. *Including good performance in at least Third Year (Junior Honours) two Mathematics/Science subjects. Why Choose Aberdeen? All students normally take eight courses, See table on page 154 for more information. > The University has strong research including a further skills course in Life UCAS Code see page 198 programmes contributing to the study and Sciences. Other core elements of the third management of wildlife all over the world year include Population Ecology, Plant/ Advanced Entry > Projects have helped conserve turtles in Animal Interactions, Biology and Control Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB the Mediterranean, dolphins in the Moray of Infectious Diseases, Animal Behaviour, or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology Firth, and wild dogs in South Africa a special topic essay and work experience. and Chemistry, one of which must be at A-grade. > In Scotland, work has assessed the costs Fourth Year (Senior Honours) and benefits of managing red deer, wild A semi-independent project takes up Can We Help? geese and re-introducing the wolf and a substantial part of the Honours year. Email us: [email protected] beaver Students also attend courses on Bioethics, Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Degree Programme Structure and Content Wildlife Conservation & Management and Conservation & Global Change and prepare Your Study Options In accordance with degree requirements, four an extended essay. A further optional course Single Honours Programme in courses at levels 1 and 2 combined and two may be selected. A residential team-building Wildlife Management courses at levels 3 and 4 combined must meet course and careers sessions are included in the requirements of enhanced study. These the programme. courses provide an opportunity for sustained Course Information study in other disciplines, disciplinary breadth Field courses in land use and in zoology and cross-discipline study (Sixth Century are compulsory for students of Wildlife www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci Courses). Management. All students also carry out General Information www.abdn.ac.uk/sras First Year a period of work experience. All Wildlife Management Students take eight Teaching and Assessment facebook.com/universityofaberdeen courses, including three foundation biology Courses use a wide variety of teaching @aberdeenuni courses (Organismal Biology, Ecology & methods including lectures, laboratory Environmental Science and a tutorial course practicals, fieldwork, seminars and tutorials. There will be opportunities for expeditions, in Biological Sciences), Sustainable Land Most courses are assessed by both continuous voluntary work overseas and ‘year-out’ Management, a Global Challenges course assessment and a written examination. placements. International exchanges are from Geography and a Management course. Continuous assessment takes many forms also possible, normally in the second year This leaves a choice of two further courses including essays, a series of practical reports, of a four year programme. Similarly, it is which would normally contribute towards or a group project. Final year students also possible to study for part of the degree enhanced study. attend a residential teamwork course. in another European university under the Second Year Your Future ERASMUS programme. See page 25 All students take eight courses including Graduates find employment in a range of for information. three Biology courses (Skills for Life Sciences, private and public sector activities such See page 26 for information Community Ecology and Conservation as game reserve management, estate Biology), and from Geography, Environment management, wildlife farming, eco-tourism and Society. Four options are selected from and population control. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE a wide range of courses from within and out See page 14 for more information. with the School of Biological Sciences. Need more Info? Scan the QR code 173

Zoology is the science of animal life. It is a wide- What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* ranging subject, focusing down from the whole A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL*

animal and its interactions with the environment to Zoology *Including good performance in at least the molecular level. Zoologists are at the forefront two Mathematics/Science subjects. in understanding climate change, managing natural See table on page 154 for more information. resources and in our fight against human and UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry animal diseases. Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology Why Choose Aberdeen? for Biologists. Other choices are made and Chemistry, one of which must be at > One of the few universities in Britain from Animal Behaviour, Marine Ecology A-grade. offering a Zoology degree and Ecosystems, Biology and Control of Can We Help? Infectious Diseases and Aquatic Biology - > A recent internal teaching review panel Email us: [email protected] Conservation and Exploitation. commended the School of Biological Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Sciences for its committed, professional and Fourth Year (Senior Honours) enthusiastic teaching across a wide range An independent research project (either field Your Study Options of degree programmes. The panel was also or laboratory based with staff supervision), Single Honours Programme in impressed with the course choice within and a major review essay, together with four Zoology degrees and by the emphasis on field six-week taught courses provides the basis Related Honours Programmes in courses and field-based teaching for the final Honours year. The taught courses Animal Ecology, Marine Biology develop insights into specialised topics and, > Zoology is provided with well-equipped where appropriate, include visits to research laboratories which house the Scottish Fish establishments and commercial organisations. Immunology Research Centre, the Institute These incorporate other skills-oriented activities, Course Information of Biological and Environmental Sciences, including statistical analysis, computing, www.abdn.ac.uk/biologicalsci the Aberdeen Centre for Environmental literature summaries, oral communication, General Information Sustainability and the Aberdeen Centre study of biodiversity, and career development. www.abdn.ac.uk/sras for Energy Regulation and Obesity Furthermore, every Honours student attends a facebook.com/universityofaberdeen > The School has close links with local team-building course. research institutes and maintains an Teaching and Assessment @aberdeenuni ecological field station which is home to Courses use a wide variety of teaching Ocean Labs 1 and 2, which are deep sea and See page 25 for information. methods: lectures, laboratory practicals, marine research facilities. Another field fieldwork, seminars and tutorials. Most courses See page 26 for information. station at Cromarty on the Black Isle is a  are assessed by both continuous assessment centre for the study of marine mammals and a written examination, taken at the end THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE > Research on a wide range of animals and of the semester. Continuous assessment See page 14 for more information. environments including deep-sea fish, takes many forms including essays, a series of salmon and trout, geese, dolphins, seals, practical reports, or a group project which may Need more Info? rodents, protozoans, cephalopods and other be presented to fellow students. Scan the QR code molluscs, crustaceans, insects and ticks In third year, a typical six-week course is likely Degree Programme Structure and Content to involve four to five hours of lectures and First Year a three-hour practical or field excursion per week; seminars or tutorials are held where Core courses include Organismal Biology, appropriate to the course content. Teamwork Ecology and Environmental Science, The Cell, by students engaged on projects and field Chemistry and a tutorial course in Biology. work is encouraged. Three other courses are chosen from a wide range of options within the University. Your Future Second Year Zoology courses are designed to provide a broad based set of specialist and generic Core courses include Diversity of Life, skills for future employment. A considerable Community Ecology, Principles of Animal number of Zoology graduates continue their Physiology, Zoology Field Course and a skills education by reading for higher degrees either course for Biologists. Other popular options in the UK or abroad. Graduates may also enter are taken from Conservation Biology, Ocean teaching biology or general science by taking Biology, Genes & Evolution, Microbes - a postgraduate diploma. Graduates often Infection and Immunity or courses relating find full-time employment in a wide range of to Biomedical Science, Plant Science or careers. Typical employers include universities, Geography. research institutes, government agencies (e.g. Third Year (Junior Honours) SEPA, SNH), environmental consultancies, A core programme of zoological subjects environmental charities including WWF & includes Animal Evolution & Biodiversity, RSPB, National Health Service, libraries and Animal Population Ecology, Animal commercial enterprises in aquaculture and Physiology and an advanced skills course animal nutrition. 174 Degrees in Medical Sciences

Biochemistry Working within a culture of excellence, Biomedical Science the medical sciences are committed to Biotechnology promoting the dynamic link between Genetics teaching and research, alongside a Human Embryology supportive environment that works and Developmental Biology to the highest standards. Immunology Microbiology Molecular Biology Neuroscience with Psychology Pharmacology Physiology Sports & Exercise Science Sports Studies (Exercise and Health) 175

Industrial Placements – Five Year MSci Degrees offer students the opportunity to spend the fourth year of their degree in an industrial,

commercial or research environment where they will obtain a breadth Industrial Placements – Five Year MSci Degrees of practical experience to complement their degree programme.

Background Why Undertake a Year’s Finding a Placement Degree programmes with an integral Industrial Placement? The application process for placements starts industrial placement offer students the Employers now expect an impressive list at the end of September of the year prior to opportunity to spend the fourth year of of skills, knowledge and experience in their the placement commencing. Throughout their degree in paid employment and graduate recruits. They welcome ‘transferable the application process students receive graduate after five years with an MSci (an skills’ acquired during a work placement, such the full support of the Industrial Placement undergraduate Masters Degree) instead as communication, numeracy, use of IT, group Co-ordinator and the University Careers of a BSc. Placements vary considerably, work and time management. In addition to Service. Students remain registered with the but in general terms students are placed allowing you to experience workplace culture, University during their placement year and in an industrial, commercial or research completing an industrial placement makes continue to receive guidance and advice from environment where they will obtain you a more effective employee following a University tutor for the duration of the year a breadth of practical experience to graduation. Increasingly, placements or in industry. At the end of their placement year complement their degree programme. All periods of work experience are being used students return to the University to complete degree programmes offered by the School of as a tool by employers for pre-selecting the their final year of study – their Honours year. Medical Sciences, offer the opportunity for best students for graduate roles. An industrial The Complete Package! students to undertake a year’s placement. placement year may therefore become a For students wishing to maximise their passport to employment where employers We currently have links with a number of career opportunities we offer the complete consider a work placement as a central part of different companies and have recently placed package of Life Science degrees with Industrial their graduate recruitment process. students in companies such as Novartis, Placement and Biobusiness (See page 175 and GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth and NIMR, as well Who Can Undertake an 176). These five year MSci degrees will prepare as a number of smaller companies both in the Industrial Placement? the student for either a career in industry or UK and abroad. All students who are studying for a degree a further postgraduate qualification e.g. PhD within the School of Medical Sciences, and or MBA. who successfully complete their first three Further Information years at a level which will allow them entry www.abdn.ac.uk/sms/ugradteaching/ into Honours year, are eligible to apply to placements undertake a year’s industrial placement. 176

Biobusiness Options introduce students to the basic concepts of business and how these can be used in conjunction with their

Biobusiness Options scientific training.

Why Choose Aberdeen? What is Biobusiness? Experts from Biobusiness, Intellectual The Biobusiness options here at the This exciting programme aims to introduce Property, Law and Finance will be brought in University of Aberdeen are a unique undergraduate students to the basic concepts specifically to teach our Biobusiness students. opportunity for you as a life scientist to of business and how these can be used in Students will even be given the chance to run also learn about the commercialisation conjunction with their scientific training. The their own virtual biotechnology company, of scientific ideas. You will be given the courses will give students an unprecedented see if they have what it takes to be a director chance to learn about the biotechnology insight into the rapidly expanding life of a business in this burgeoning sector, and and pharmaceutical industries and help sciences industry – a sector where Scotland’s develop the skills required when pitching for in understanding the language of the excellence is acknowledged around the funding. Biobusiness sector. The Biobusiness Options world. We will challenge students to think Who to Contact are for scientists who want to become about the nature of research when driven by Students undertaking any degree in Medical business “savvy” while maintaining the commercial outcomes. Sciences who are interested in the Biobusiness quality of their science. Why Take Biobusiness Options? options should contact the Programme Background The Biobusiness programme will produce Co-ordinator, Dr Heather Wallace at The Biotechnology Industry is one of graduates who are first-class scientists but [email protected] for details. the fastest growing areas in the UK and with the potential to be the next generation Further information is also available at at the University of Aberdeen we want of bio-entrepreneurs. Many of the future www.abdn.ac.uk/sms/biobusiness to be the first in the higher education recruitment opportunities for students A Complete Package! sector to train our graduates for these with Life Science skills will involve roles in For students wishing to maximise their career emerging opportunities. Scotland is biobusiness rather than exclusively research opportunities, the University of Aberdeen now often at the forefront of groundbreaking at the bench. Biobusiness options will broaden offers a complete package of a Life Science scientific achievements. Indeed, science career opportunities, allowing successful degree with Biobusiness and Industrial in Scotland by GDP is amongst the best students to pursue postgraduate training for a Placement (see pages 175/176). This is a five in the world. However, when it comes to PhD or our MBA in Biotechnology. year MSci degree in any discipline of Medical commercialisation of our science – making Course Structure Science and will prepare the student for either that critical journey from the lab to the The Biobusiness components will concentrate a career in industry or a further postgraduate marketplace – we could be better. In October on models that relate directly to the qualification such as a PhD or MBA. 2009, the University of Aberdeen launched commercialisation of science and technology. Scotland’s first programme to create the next There are three courses studied as part of generation of “business savvy” scientists the Biobusiness option: Introduction to and entrepreneurs enabled to bridge the gap Biobusiness can be taken in either first or between scientific excellence and commercial second year; Biobusiness and Advanced success. Biobusiness are taken in third and fourth year respectively. The teaching is in the form of lectures, tutorials and seminars with assessment by presentation, essays, reports and written examinations. 177

Biochemistry is central to the study of all of What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* biology. All living cells consist of many different A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* Biochemistry types of molecule, each playing a role in determining *Including good performance in at least two the properties of the living organism – the study of Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. these molecules is Biochemistry. UCAS Code see page 198

Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Honours) Advanced Entry > Excellent staff and teaching facilities The year aims to extend and explore in depth Advanced Highers ABB or A Levels ABB, or specific aspects of Biochemistry. All students IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology and > Innovative and flexible teaching allowing begin their Honours year by attending a Chemistry, one of which must be at A-grade. the student to follow special interests three-day reading party. An important Can We Help? > Opportunities for gaining (paid) experience feature is a ten-week research project, carried Email us: [email protected] in industry out in research laboratories in the School of Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Medical Sciences, other schools, or in local > Teaching programme has a strong core research institutes. This project provides the of fundamental Biochemistry but equips Your Study Options opportunity to carry out original research, students with understanding of such Single Honours Programmes in using state-of-the-art technology in busy diseases as diabetes, cancer and heart Biochemistry, Biochemistry (Immunology) laboratories. disease (both also available as MSci with Industrial The fourth year curriculum is divided into a Placement and with options in Biobusiness. > Training provided in both specialist and core course and two options courses in the See pages 175/176 for more information). employment-related skills first semester, with the research project and Course Information Degree Programme Structure and Content research tutorials in the second semester. www.abdn.ac.uk/sms First Year Variations General Information Students take first year courses in For degrees with an Industrial Placement, www.abdn.ac.uk/sras and plus the year in industry is taken between third Chemistry Medical Sciences facebook.com/universityofaberdeen additional courses selected from science and and fourth year, in an appropriate industrial other areas. A special course is available for laboratory. @aberdeenuni those needing to strengthen their background Teaching and Assessment in the essential skills required for study in See page 25 for information Teaching involves attendance at lectures, science. practicals and tutorials. In the later years a See page 26 for information Second Year greater proportion is private study, involving There are two second year Biochemistry writing essays and reports, and also in THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE courses: Molecular Biology of the Gene laboratory or library work relating to specific See page 14 for more information. and Energy for Life. These courses cover the projects and student symposia. organisation of genes, the mechanisms that Your Future allow their expression and how metabolic Need more Info? Graduates may move directly into positions reactions transfer energy from light or Scan the QR code in hospital research, diagnostic laboratories foodstuffs. Molecular aspects of biotechnology and research institutes. Other major are also included. The second year curriculum employers include the pharmaceutical, food, includes two courses devoted to development fermentation and related biotechnology of Foundation and Research Skills in the Life industries. Sciences. Third Year Courses on the Molecular Control of Cell Function explore the mechanisms involved in controlling cell function, such as protein- protein interactions. Students gain a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which biological systems function and interact, including gene expression analysis, studies of the functions of genes and their protein products, and how the component biological processes within the cell interact and link. In addition, students take courses in Genetics or Microbiology. 178

Biomedical Science provides an integrated What You Need SQA Highers AABB* study of the structure and function of the entire A Levels ABB* IB 32 points, 5 at HL* Biomedical Science Biomedical Science human body. This degree programme has two *Chemistry or Biology at Grade A and another unique aspects: the scientific content of pre-clinical Mathematics/Science subject required. medicine, plus the opportunity to study cellular See table on page 155 for more information. processes from this whole-body perspective. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Advanced Highers AAB or A Levels AAB, or Why Choose Aberdeen? Third Year IB 36 points (6 at HL) including Biology and > Provides a thorough grounding in the A compulsory Molecules, Membranes Chemistry, one of which must be at A-grade. core medical sciences of human structure and Cells course plus specialised courses and function, and a topic chosen from in Physiology, Pharmacology, Molecular Can We Help? Physiology, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology or Anatomy. Email us: [email protected] Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Biology, Developmental Biology or Fourth Year (Honours) Anatomy One half of the year explores Biomedical Your Study Options > Biomedical scientists in Aberdeen have topics of the chosen specialist topic. The Single Honours Programmes in made major medical advances, including other half comprises a full-time, ten-week Biomedical Science (Anatomy) co-discovery of insulin (receiving a research project within a research institution, Biomedical Science (Developmental Biology) Nobel Prize) and discovery of the brain’s experiencing original research work in an Biomedical Science (Molecular Biology) morphine-like chemicals active environment. Biomedical Science (Pharmacology) > The integrated course is taught by a School Teaching and Assessment Biomedical Science (Physiology) awarded a maximum ‘Excellent’ in the In the early years, teaching involves (all also available as MSci with Industrial Teaching Quality Assessment Exercise attendance at lectures, practicals and Placement and with options in Biobusiness. tutorials. In the later years a rather greater See pages 175/176 for more information). > The final year ten-week, full-time project proportion of the students’ time is taken in research-active laboratories provides a Professional Accreditation up with private study involving writing valuable insight into academic research The Biomedical Sciences degree offered by essays and reports, and also in laboratory or the University of Aberdeen is NOT accredited > Graduates acquire core skills and library work relating to specific projects. The by the Institute of Biomedical Sciences (IBMS). knowledge vital to the modern workplace, final year incorporates the preparation and IBMS accredited courses must focus on and an ideal training for progress to presentation of a research-based thesis. the specific vocational training required to graduate programmes in medical research, Your Future pursue a career as a biomedical scientist in a medicine and physiotherapy This degree primarily prepares graduates pathology or biomedical laboratory within (or Degree Programme Structure and Content to follow careers in science relating to serving) the NHS. The Biomedical Sciences degree programme in Aberdeen aims to First Year medicine. The degree can also be a basis for an application to enter graduate Medicine underpin a much greater range of potential The Biomedical Science programme has its or Dentistry. However, the number of places career choices to our graduates. These would own degree regulations and higher entry available for graduate entry to Medicine include future individual IBMS accreditation requirements but students may transfer and Dentistry is unpredictable and the following a further one year conversion course. to other schemes at any stage, provided competition extremely fierce. Thus students Course Information progress requirements are met. should read a BSc in Biomedical Sciences www.abdn.ac.uk/sms In first year there are courses in Chemistry for its own sake and not as a possible entry General Information and Medical Sciences, plus optional courses route into Medicine or Dentistry. In addition, www.abdn.ac.uk/sras from the normal science programme and transfer after commencing a Biomedical other areas. Science degree is not a route into Medicine facebook.com/universityofaberdeen that can be considered. Second year @aberdeenuni Second year covers: Human Gross Anatomy See page 25 for information (dissection of human cadaver), Human Physiology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry See page 26 for information combined with courses delivering key skills applicable to Biomedical Sciences. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE See page 14 for more information.

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Biotechnology is the application of biology What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* to improve the quality of human life. It is a A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* technology based on the unique properties of Biotechnology *Including good performance in at least biological molecules, cells and organisms and two Mathematics/Science subjects. provides new ways of diagnosing disease, See table on page 154 for more information. producing antibiotics and other chemicals, UCAS Code see page 198 reducing industrial contamination of the Advanced Entry Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB, environment and improving food safety. or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology and Chemistry, one of which must be at Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Honours) A-grade. > Excellent staff and teaching facilities All students begin their Honours year by Can We Help? attending a two-day reading party. An > Innovative and flexible teaching allowing Email us: [email protected] important feature of the Honours course is the student to follow special interests Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 a ten-week research project, carried out in > Opportunities for gaining (paid) experience research laboratories within the Institute of Your Study Options in industry Medical Sciences. This project provides the Single Honours Programme in opportunity to carry out original research, > First-class courses in Biochemistry, Biotechnology (Applied Molecular Biology) using state-of-the-art technology alongside Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology (also available as MSci with Industrial postgraduate and postdoctoral staff. The Placement and with options in Biobusiness. > Training provided in both specialist and fourth year curriculum is divided into a core See pages 175/176 for more information). employment-related skills course and two options courses in the first Degree Programme Structure and Content semester, with the research project and research tutorials in the second semester. First Year Course Information Variations Students take courses in Chemistry and www.abdn.ac.uk/sms Students may undertake a one-year period Medical Sciences plus additional courses General Information of research in an appropriate industrial selected from the wide range available from www.abdn.ac.uk/sras laboratory between third and fourth year, science and other areas. which, taken in addition to the BSc (Honours) facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Second Year programme, qualifies a student for the award Students take core courses drawn from of an MSci degree. The student is paid a salary @aberdeenuni Biochemistry (Molecular Biology of the Gene, while working with the industrial partner. See page 25 for information

Energy for Life), Genetics (Genes & Evolution) Teaching and Assessment and Microbiology and Immunology See page 26 for information In the early years, teaching involves  (Microbes, Infection and Immunity) attendance at lectures, practicals and tutorials. programmes. The second year curriculum also In the later years a greater proportion of the THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE includes two courses devoted to development students’ time is taken up in private study. See page 14 for more information. of Foundation and Research Skills in the Life Sciences. Your Future Need more Info? Third Year Many of our graduates follow their undergraduate degree with PhD research Scan the QR code The third year curriculum is interdisciplinary. in a wide range of research laboratories Courses consider both the fundamental both in the UK and overseas. Others science that has enabled the biotechnology move directly into positions in hospital industry to develop, and the applications of research, diagnostic laboratories and different biological systems. Students gain a research institutes. Other major employers comprehensive understanding of the ways of Biotechnology graduates include the in which biological systems function and scientific civil service, pharmaceutical, food, interact, including gene expression analysis, fermentation and related biotechnology studies of the functions of genes and their industries. protein products, and how the component biological processes within the cell interact. 180

Genetics is the study of the inherited What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* differences between individuals. An understanding A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* Genetics of inheritance is central to biology, medicine and *Including good performance in at least biotechnology. two Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Honours) UCAS Code see page 198 Genetics allows us to understand normal All students begin their Honours year by Advanced Entry events such as development, growth and attending a three-day reading party. An Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB ageing in terms of the underlying molecular important feature of the Honours course is or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology machinery of the cell and helps explain why a ten-week research project, carried out in and Chemistry, one of which must be at these processes go wrong in disease. research laboratories within the School of A-grade. Medical Sciences or in local research institutes. > Excellent staff and teaching facilities This project provides the opportunity to carry Can We Help? > Innovative and flexible teaching allowing out original research, using state-of-the-art Email us: [email protected] the student to follow special interests technology alongside postgraduate and Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 postdoctoral staff. > Opportunities for gaining (paid) Your Study Options Variations experience in industry Single Honours Programmes in For degrees with Industrial Placement the > Strong emphasis on medical and human Genetics, Genetics (Immunology) (both also year in industry is taken between third and genetics available as MSci with Industrial Placement fourth year in an appropriate industrial and with options in Biobusiness. See pages > Training provided in both specialist and laboratory. 175/176 for more information). employment-related skills Teaching and Assessment Course Information Degree Programme Structure and Content In the early years, teaching involves www.abdn.ac.uk/sms First Year attendance at lectures, practicals and General Information tutorials. In the later years a rather greater Students take courses in Chemistry and www.abdn.ac.uk/sras proportion of the students’ time is taken up in Biology plus additional courses selected from private study, laboratory or library work. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen the wide range available from science and other areas. Your Future @aberdeenuni Second Year Many of our graduates follow their degree with PhD research. Others move into positions See page 25 for information Courses introduce Animal, Plant and in hospital research, diagnostic laboratories Microbial Genetics. The basic principles of See page 26 for information and research institutes. Major employers of  gene action and expression are dealt with Genetics graduates include the scientific civil at the molecular, cellular and population service, pharmaceutical, food, fermentation THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE levels, including Population Genetics and and related industries. A Genetics degree See page 14 for more information. Evolution. The study of Human Genetics is is also a starting point for a career outside included, together with the Genetic Basis science, including management, intellectual Need more Info? of Modern Biotechnology. The second year property or a wide range of other professions. Scan the QR code curriculum also includes two courses devoted to development of Foundation and Research Skills in the Life Sciences. Students have a choice of other science courses, and are encouraged to include Biochemistry and Cell Biology courses among them. Third Year Topics covered include the Mechanisms of Gene and Chromosome Mutation and the Origins of Spontaneous Mutations; Molecular and Microscopic Study of Chromosomes; The Behaviour of Genes in Populations; Developmental Genetics; Molecular Genetics in Bacteria, Viruses and Eukaryotes; Molecular Biology of Plants; Modern DNA-Based Genetic Analysis, Diagnosis, Therapy and Ecological Genetics; Environmental Impacts on Genetic Stability and Health and The Evolution of Immune and Defence Mechanisms Against Environmental Insult. 181

Human Embryology and Developmental What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* Biology is the modern synthesis of biological A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* and medical sciences that looks at how our bodies Human Embryology and Developmental Biology *Including good performance in at least are built. It investigates the remarkable process in two Mathematics/Science subjects. humans and animals that turns a single fertilised See table on page 154 for more information. egg into a whole new individual with many UCAS Code see page 198 specialised cell types. Advanced Entry Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology Why Choose Aberdeen? Third Year and Chemistry, one of which must be at You will receive a broad and multifaceted Students are provided with an in-depth A-grade. training in modern biomedical sciences, study of Embryology, Birth Defects and ranging from traditional morphology and Developmental Biology in courses that Can We Help? embryology to the latest molecular and focus on the Principles of Developmental Email us: [email protected] bioinformatics approaches in genetics, cell Biology, on Early Embryogenesis (Patterning Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 biology and biotechnology. Research in the Embryo), on the Development of Human Embryology and Developmental Organ Systems, Reproductive Biology and Your Study Options Biology is central to the search for cures for Developmental Genetics. Additionally, Single Honours Programme in many human genetic diseases, including they will be trained in the Core Molecular Human Embryology and Developmental cancer, and is at the forefront of recent Technologies for Biologists for the modern Biology (also available as MSci with Industrial advances in modern medicine. You will be research laboratory. Placement and with options in Biobusiness. See pages 175/176 for more information). trained in embryology, reproductive biology Fourth Year (Honours) (including fertility/IVF science), stem cell The focus of taught courses is on special Course Information technology, tissue regeneration, and the aspects of Developmental Biology, such as www.abdn.ac.uk/sms causes of, and cures for, human birth defects. Stem Cell Technology and Regeneration General Information > Excellent facilities and expert staff teaching (including IVF), the relationship between www.abdn.ac.uk/sras and a broad spectrum of subjects in modern Evolution and Developmental Biology facebook.com/universityofaberdeen biology the Development of the Nervous System alongside an advanced training in cell and @aberdeenuni > Emphasis on medically-relevant molecular biology. The Honours course developmental genetics and stem cell features a ten-week, full-time research project, See page 25 for information technology which provides the opportunity to carry See page 26 for information > Hands-on laboratory training at out original research, using state-of-the-art the forefront of current research in technology alongside postgraduate and developmental biology and stem cell postdoctoral staff. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE technology Teaching and Assessment See page 14 for more information. > Training provided in both specialist and In the early years, teaching involves transferable employment-related skills attendance at lectures, practicals and tutorials. Need more Info? Scan the QR code Degree Programme Structure and Content In the later years, a rather greater proportion of students’ time is taken up in private First Year study, laboratory or library work relating to Students take courses in Chemistry and particular projects. Medical Sciences (including a first taster of Your Future Developmental Biology and a closer look at The Human Embryology and Developmental the cell), plus additional courses selected from Biology degree offers particularly good the wide range available. prospects for research careers in academia, Second Year industry and hospitals because of its broad Courses introduce the broad foundation for training in medically-relevant modern Human Embryology and Developmental biology with many transferable skills. Many Biology, from the Biology of Molecules and of our graduates follow their degree with Genes to the Biology of Cells and Whole PhD research in a wide range of laboratories. Organisms. Core research skills are taught, Others move into positions in hospital and students complete a project on a research, fertility sciences, diagnostic developmental disease or embryological topic laboratories, research institutes and in of their choice. Students have a choice of other administrative capacities in the civil service or science courses ranging from Biochemistry in the pharmaceutical and related industries. and Anatomy & Physiology to Zoology and Alternatively, the degree may lead on to Environmental Biology. careers such as teaching, publishing and even marketing. 182

Immunology is the study of how the body What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* defends itself against pathogens. The courses A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* Immunology explore the cells and molecules involved in *Including good performance in at least defence, the nature of disease and pathogens, two Mathematics/Science subjects. the use of the components of the immune See table on page 154 for more information. system in therapeutics and diagnostics, and UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry the evolutionary lessons from the development Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB of immune systems in different organisms. or IB 34 points (6 at HL) including Biology and Chemistry, one of which must be at A-grade. Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Honours) Can We Help? > Excellent staff and teaching facilities The Honours year extends and explores Email us: [email protected] molecular and cellular aspects of Immunology > Innovative and flexible teaching allowing Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 and the advanced concepts linking immunity, the student to follow special interests infection and disease. There are three series Your Study Options > Opportunities for gaining (paid) of tutorials and workshops for the discussion Single Honours Programme in experience in industry and exploration of the latest topics and Immunology (also available as MSci with technologies in the field using primary > Our teaching programme integrates Industrial Placement and with options in literature. Lecturers and tutors at this stage immunology from fish to man Biobusiness. See pages 175/176 for are all actively involved in internationally more information). > Training provided in both specialist and recognised research. All students begin their employment-related skills Honours year by attending a two-day reading Joint Honours Programme with Pharmacology (also available as MSci with Degree Programme Structure and Content party. Industrial Placement and with options in First Year An important feature of the Honours course Biobusiness. See pages 175/176 for is a ten-week research project, carried out in Students take first year courses in Chemistry more information). research laboratories in the School of Medical and Medical Sciences plus additional courses Sciences or in local research institutes. This Related Honours Programmes in selected from the wide range available from provides the opportunity to carry out original Genetics (Immunology), Biochemistry science and other areas. A special course is research, using state-of-the-art technology (Immunology) (both also available as MSci available for those needing to strengthen alongside postgraduate and postdoctoral staff. with Industrial Placement. See pages 175/176 their background in the essential skills for more information). required for study in science. Variations Second Year For degrees with an Industrial Placement the year in industry is taken between third Second year courses introduce Immunity, and fourth year in an appropriate industrial Course Information Infectious Diseases, the Biology of laboratory. www.abdn.ac.uk/sms Pathogenic Viruses, Bacteria and Parasites General Information Teaching and Assessment and Cell Biology. Other courses introduce www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Fundamental Microbiology, Biochemistry, In the early years, teaching involves Genetics and Physiology. The second year attendance at lectures, practicals and tutorials. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen curriculum includes two courses devoted to In the later years a greater proportion of the development of Foundation and Research students’ time is taken up in private study @aberdeenuni Skills in the Life Sciences. involving writing essays and reports, and also See page 25 for information

Third Year in the laboratory or library work relating to specific projects and student symposia. The See page 26 for information A core course covers the fundamentals of  final year incorporates the preparation and Immunology, including Immune Regulation, presentation of a research-based thesis. Tolerance and an introduction to new ideas THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE and advances in our understanding of the Your Future See page 14 for more information. immune system. Other courses cover Applied Many of our graduates follow their Immunology in human disease including undergraduate degree with a postgraduate Need more Info? Autoimmunity, Asthma and Allergies, course or with PhD research in a wide range Scan the QR code Transplants and Parasite Immunology, as of research laboratories. Others move directly well as the biology and control of infectious into positions in hospital research, diagnostic diseases and therapeutic advances. The latest laboratories and research institutes. technologies available for immunological Other major employers of Immunology analysis both in clinical and research graduates include the scientific civil service, settings will also be covered theoretically pharmaceutical, food, fermentation and and in practical classes. A core course in related biotechnology industries. An Molecular Biology complements this degree Immunology degree is also a starting point programme. for a career outside science in management, intellectual property, publishing, teaching or a wide range of other professions. 183

Microbiology is the study of bacteria, yeasts and What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* viruses at the level of protein and gene (molecular A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* biology), at the level of the cell (cell biology and Microbiology *Including good performance in at least physiology), and at the level of the microbial two Mathematics/Science subjects. community. In the Medical Microbiology degree, See table on page 154 for more information. the focus is on pathogenic micro-organisms, their UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry interaction with the immune system, and their Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB therapeutic treatment. or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology and Chemistry, one of which must be at A-grade. Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Honours) Can We Help? > Excellent staff, passionate about high The Honours year explores molecular and Email us: [email protected] quality teaching, using modern, up-to-date population aspects of Microbiology and Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 teaching facilities Medical Microbiology in depth. All students begin their Honours year by attending a > Opportunities for gaining (paid) Your Study Options two-day reading party. A feature of the experience in industry Single Honours Programmes in Honours course is a ten-week research project, Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology (all also > Integrated teaching provision in the allied carried out in research laboratories within available as MSci with Industrial Placement subject areas of Biochemistry, Genetics and the Institute of Medical Sciences. This project and with options in Biobusiness. See pages Immunology provides the opportunity to carry out original 175/176 for more information). research, using state-of-the-art technology in > Training provided in both specialist and busy laboratories and alongside postgraduate Course Information employment-related skills and postdoctoral staff. The fourth year www.abdn.ac.uk/sms General Information Degree Programme Structure and Content curriculum is divided into a core course and two options courses in the first semester, with www.abdn.ac.uk/sras First Year the research project and research tutorials facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Students take courses in Chemistry and in the second semester. Options courses Medical Sciences plus additional courses focus on Medical Microbiology or Molecular @aberdeenuni selected from science and other areas. Microbiology. See page 25 for information Second Year Variations The core second year course is Microbes, For the degrees with an Industrial Placement See page 26 for information Infection and Immunity. Focusing on (qualifying a student for the award of an MSci medical aspects of microbiology, it introduces degree), the year in industry is taken between THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE aspects of structure, physiology, growth and third and fourth year, in an appropriate See page 14 for more information. ecology of micro-organisms. It goes on to biotechnology or pharmaceutical company describe the role that micro-organisms play industrial laboratory. Need more Info? in causing disease and the ways that the Teaching and Assessment Scan the QR code body uses to counter this attack. Students In the early years, teaching involves also take foundation courses in Genetics and attendance at lectures, practicals and Biochemistry. The second year curriculum tutorials. In the later years of the degree, includes two courses devoted to development a greater proportion of study is student- of Foundation and Research Skills in the Life directed, allowing a student to follow their Sciences. own particular interests within the subject Third Year area. The later years also involve an increased The Microbiology course covers the participation in practical microbiology and a interactions between the microbial cell and nine-week research project. its biological environment, with particular Your Future emphasis on the molecular and cell biology of Many of our graduates pursue research in a pathogenic bacteria, fungi and protozoa. The wide range of research laboratories both in focus on molecular medical microbiology is the UK and overseas. Others move directly supported by an intensive hands-on practical, into positions in hospital research, diagnostic studying a human microbial pathogen. laboratories and research institutes. There is also a course in Immunology that Other major employers of Microbiology is highly recommended for those with an graduates include biotechnology companies, interest in a career in Medical Microbiology. pharmaceutical, food, fermentation and related industries. 184

Molecular Biology is the investigation at the What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* molecular level of all aspects of cells and tissues A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* Molecular Biology from simple systems in bacteria to more complex *Including good performance in at least systems in plants and mammals. Molecular Biology two Mathematics/Science subjects. has been responsible for spectacular successes in See table on page 154 for more information. the treatment of disease caused either by bacteria UCAS Code see page 198 and viruses on the one hand, or inborn genetic Advanced Entry Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB errors on the other. or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology and Chemistry, one of which must be at Why Choose Aberdeen? This project provides the opportunity to A-grade. > Excellent staff and teaching facilities carry out original research, using state-of- Can We Help? the-art technology in busy laboratories and > Innovative and flexible teaching allowing Email us: [email protected] alongside postgraduate and postdoctoral staff. the student to follow special interests Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 The fourth year curriculum is divided into a > Opportunities for gaining (paid) experience core course and two options courses in the Your Study Options in industry first semester, with the research project and Single Honours Programme in research tutorials in the second semester. > An integrated programme covering Molecular Biology (also available as MSci Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology and Variations with Industrial Placement and with options in Immunology For the degree with an Industrial Placement Biobusiness. See pages 175/176 for more the year in industry is taken between third information). > Training provided in both specialist and and fourth year, in an appropriate industrial Course Information employment-related skills laboratory. www.abdn.ac.uk/sms Degree Programme Structure and Content Teaching and Assessment General Information First Year In the early years, teaching involves www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Students take courses in and attendance at lectures, practicals and tutorials. Chemistry facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Biology plus additional courses selected from In the later years a rather greater proportion the wide range available from science and of students’ time is taken up in private study @aberdeenuni other areas. involving writing essays and reports, and See page 25 for information Second Year also in laboratory or library work relating to specific projects and student symposia. In second year students take a selection of See page 26 for information courses that offer a training in fundamental Your Future aspects of Biochemistry, Genetics and A wide variety of career opportunities are THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Microbiology (see entries for these available to molecular biologists. Many of our See page 14 for more information. disciplines). The curriculum includes graduates follow their undergraduate degree two courses devoted to development of with PhD research in a range of research Foundation and Research Skills in the Life laboratories both in the UK and overseas. Need more Info? Sciences. Others move directly into positions in hospital Scan the QR code Third Year research, diagnostic laboratories and research institutes (supported by the research councils The third year courses advance students’ and other agencies). Other major employers understanding of the molecular biology of of Molecular Biology graduates include the the cell. In addition, students take courses in pharmaceutical, food, fermentation and Genetics and Biochemistry. related biotechnology industries. Fourth Year (Honours) The Honours year aims to extend and explore in depth specific aspects of Molecular Biology. All students begin their Honours year by attending a three-day reading party. An important feature of the Honours course is a ten-week research project, carried out in research laboratories within the School of Medical Sciences, other schools, or in local research institutes. 185

Neuroscience with Psychology is the study of What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* nerve cells and how they work together in the brain. A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* The degree aims to instil a broad base of knowledge Neuroscience with Psychology *Including good performance in at least regarding the functioning of the nervous system. two Mathematics/Science subjects. This is done via a bottom-up approach through an See table on page 154 for more information. understanding of the nervous system at a molecular UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry and cellular level, but also via a top-down approach Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or through behavioural neuropsychology. IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology, Chemistry and Psychology. Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Honours) Can We Help? > The University has a strong research base In the first half-session, selected areas which Email us: [email protected] in Neuroscience where the behaviour were dealt with in a broad context in third Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 of nerve cells is studied primarily at the year are now considered in depth. These molecular and cellular level include Advanced Molecules, Membranes Your Study Options & Cells, Neuroanatomy and Developmental Single Honours Programme in > Neuroscientists at Aberdeen discovered Neuroscience. The second half-session is Neuroscience with Psychology (also available that the brain produces its own occupied fully with a laboratory-based as MSci with Industrial Placement and with morphine-like substances (enkephalins) research project or a library research project, options in Biobusiness. See pages 175/176 and made the first chemical and selected by students from a list which reflects for more information). neuropharmacological characterisation of local expertise. Course Information these substances Teaching and Assessment www.abdn.ac.uk/sms > The degree programme combines this In the early years, teaching involves General Information expertise with courses in human and attendance at lectures, practicals and tutorials. www.abdn.ac.uk/sras animal neuropsychology In the later years a rather greater proportion facebook.com/universityofaberdeen > The degree scheme includes a ten-week, of students’ time is taken up in private study full-time research project in the Honours involving writing essays and reports, and @aberdeenuni year that gives a good insight into the also in laboratory or library work relating to See page 25 for information realities of top quality research specific projects. The final year incorporates the preparation and presentation of a > The degree was graded as ‘Excellent’ in the See page 26 for information research-based thesis.  Teaching Quality Assessment Exercise Your Future > The Department provides attractive THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Neuroscience as a distinct discipline has only and up-to-date laboratories both on the See page 14 for more information. emerged within recent years and there is a King’s College Campus and the University strong demand for graduates with a broader Medical School background in Neuroscience than has been Need more Info? Degree Programme Structure and Content available in traditional single subject degree Scan the QR code First Year schemes. Most of our previous students have gone into academic laboratory research as Students take first year courses in Chemistry, postgraduate students or research assistants. Medical Sciences and Psychology, plus additional courses selected from the science Alternatively, some students use the programme and other areas. communication and analytical skills Second Year embedded in the course to apply for jobs that are not specifically science related. Second year courses are taken in Physiology and Psychology combined with courses delivering key skills applicable to Neuroscience. Third Year A series of courses - Molecules, Membranes and Cells, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology and Integrative Neuroscience - provide a systematic study of nerve cell communication at ascending levels of integration. These are accompanied by parallel courses in Biopsychology, Memory and Cognition and Animal Behaviour. A key skill developed at this level is the use of computer-based technology for the analysis and presentation of scientific data. 186

Pharmacology is concerned with the discovery What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* and characterisation of drugs that are used either A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* Pharmacology as medicines or as experimental tools for advancing *Including good performance in at least our understanding of the body in health and disease. two Mathematics/Science subjects. It is also concerned with drug toxicity and with the See table on page 154 for more information. processes by which drugs are absorbed, distributed UCAS Code see page 198 in the body, metabolised and excreted. Advanced Entry Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Honours) and Chemistry, one of which must be at > Pharmacologists at the University Third year options are continued with A-grade. of Aberdeen have been involved in advanced studies in Pharmacology. The outstanding scientific discoveries such taught courses are Molecular Toxicology, Can We Help? as morphine-like and cannabis-like Molecular Pharmacology and Advanced Email us: [email protected] substances in the brain Molecules, Membranes and Cells. A large part Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 of the Honours year is taken up with a full- > The pharmacology teaching was graded Your Study Options Q time research project. ‘Excellent’ in the last Teaching uality Single Honours Programme in Teaching and Assessment Assessment Pharmacology (also available as MSci with In the early years, teaching involves > Provides training and practical experience Industrial Placement and with options in attendance at lectures, practicals and tutorials. in classical pharmacology, toxicology and Biobusiness. See pages 175/176 for more In the later years a rather greater proportion cell and molecular pharmacology information). of time is taken up in private study involving > Gain core skills critical for employment writing essays and reports, and also in Joint Honours Programme with laboratory or library work relating to specific Immunology (also available as MSci with > The Department provides attractive projects. The final year incorporates the Industrial Placement and with options in and up-to-date laboratories both on the preparation and presentation of a research- Biobusiness. See pages 175/176 for more King’s College Campus and the University based thesis. information). Medical School Your Future Course Information Degree Programme Structure and Content The degree offers good prospects for research www.abdn.ac.uk/sms First Year careers in academia, industry, the scientific General Information Students take first year courses in Chemistry civil service and hospitals. It can be used as an www.abdn.ac.uk/sras and plus additional courses selected entry qualification for certain postgraduate Biology facebook.com/universityofaberdeen from the science programme. courses including MSc Courses in Clinical Second Year Pharmacology, Toxicology, Endocrinology, @aberdeenuni Nutrition or IT. Alternatively, it may lead Human Physiology courses commence. onto careers such as marketing, publishing See page 25 for information Two courses cover the Physiology of Human or teaching. The degree does NOT directly Cells and Human Organ Systems. Parallel See page 26 for information lead to a career in Pharmacy.  recommended courses include Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Chemistry combined THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE with courses delivering key skills applicable to See page 14 for more information. Pharmacology. Third Year Need more Info? Third year is designed to give students a broad Scan the QR code introduction to pharmacology. Laboratory work is carried out largely in groups and also provides extensive experience of computer-based techniques for acquisition, manipulation and presentation of scientific material. A series of core courses - Molecules, Membranes and Cells, Neurophysiology and Neuropharmacology, Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology and Integrative Neuroscience - are accompanied by specialised courses in Biochemical Pharmacology and Mechanisms of Disease and Principles of Chemotherapy. 187

Physiology is the study of how the body works. What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* More than any other of the biological sciences, it A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* involves using an understanding of biological process Physiology *Including good performance in at least at the most basic level to explain how a whole organ two Mathematics/Science subjects. or an entire body functions. It is this integrated See table on page 154 for more information. aspect that puts Physiology at the centre of the UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry biological and medical sciences. Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology Why Choose Aberdeen? A series of core Biomedical Science courses and Chemistry, one of which must be at > Physiology has been taught at Aberdeen - Molecules, Membranes and Cells, A-grade. since 1593 and is now based within state- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology, and Can We Help? of-the-art Institute of Medical Sciences. Integrative Neuroscience - are accompanied Email us: [email protected] This allows a high degree of integration by specialised courses in Physiology Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 both in research and teaching between the which concentrate on the response of the medically related sciences human body to extreme environments, Your Study Options cardiovascular physiology and epithelial > Scientists at the University of Aberdeen Single Honours Programme in physiology. have made major advances in Physiology (also available as MSci with physiological sciences. These include the Fourth Year (Honours) Industrial Placement and with options in co-discovery of insulin and the discovery The options selected at level 3 are continued Biobusiness. See pages 175/176 for more that the brain produces its own morphine- with advanced studies in Physiology. A large information). like substances part of the Honours year is taken up with Course Information a full-time research project which may be > The degree scheme includes a ten-week, www.abdn.ac.uk/sms laboratory or library based. This is where full-time research project in the Honours General Information students get a feel for what a career in research year that gives a good insight into the www.abdn.ac.uk/sras is like and whether they are suited to it. realities of top quality research facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Teaching and Assessment Degree Programme Structure and Content The Department provides attractive and @aberdeenuni First Year up-to-date laboratories both on the King’s See page 25 for information Students take level 1 courses in Chemistry College Campus and the University Medical and Medical Sciences, plus additional courses School. See page 26 for information selected from the science programme and  In the early years, teaching involves other areas. attendance at lectures, practicals and tutorials. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Second Year In the later years a rather greater proportion See page 14 for more information. Human Physiology courses commence. Two of students’ time is taken up with private courses cover the Physiology of Human study involving writing essays and reports Cells and Human Organ Systems. Parallel and also in laboratory or library work relating Need more Info? recommended courses include Biochemistry to specific projects. The final year incorporates Scan the QR code and Molecular Biology, combined with the preparation and presentation of a courses delivering key skills applicable to research-based thesis. Physiology. Your Future Third Year A degree in Physiology has wide applications. Modules taken in the first half-session of the Many students will continue in research third year in Physiology build on the modules posts where the intensive project work taken at level 2 by enhancing students’ in the Honours year provides particularly understanding of the major physiological valuable experience. Others will go onto systems within the mammalian body. a more vocational medical related MSc, in Modules taken in the second half-session will for example, physiotherapy or dietetics. provide detailed insights into specific areas Alternatively, some students use the of mainstream physiology, a theme that is communication and analytical skills continued into the first half-session of the embedded in the course to apply for Physiology fourth year. non-science jobs in the industry. 188

Sports & Exercise Science includes the What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* study of the body’s responses to exercise and A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* Sports & Exercise Science Sports of the adaptations that occur in response to *Including good performance in at least two regular exercise. Sports & Exercise Science also Mathematics/Science subjects. includes the role that regular modest levels of See table on page 154 for more information. physical activity can play in maintaining health. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Honours) or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Biology > The course at the University of Aberdeen Students continue with advanced studies in and Chemistry, one of which must be at is based on a strong curriculum in Exercise and Sport Physiology and complete A-grade. physiology, biochemistry and nutrition the year by undertaking a laboratory or library based research project. Can We Help? > The degree scheme covers the scientific Email us: [email protected] Teaching and Assessment basis that underpins athletic performance, Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 and the role of scientific support in In the early years, teaching involves preparing the athlete for competition attendance at lectures, practicals and tutorials. Your Study Options In the later years a rather greater proportion > Sports science courses complement those Single Honours Programme in of students’ time is taken up with private in the basic sciences and allow students to Sports & Exercise Science (also available study involving writing essays and reports place their knowledge in the context of the as MSci with Industrial Placement and with and also in laboratory or library work relating sports performance and physical activity options in Biobusiness. See pages 175/176 to specific projects. The final year incorporates for health for information). the preparation and presentation of a > Many scientific disciplines contribute to research-based thesis. Professional Accreditation the sports and exercise sciences, including A number of organisations, including the The Department provides attractive and physiology, biochemistry, nutrition, British Association of Sport and Exercise up-to-date laboratories both on the King’s psychology, anatomy and biomechanics Sciences, offer professional accreditation College Campus and the University Medical in this field. Accreditation for those offering > The final year includes a ten-week, full- School. sports science support to athletes requires a time research project that gives a good Your Future period of supervised postgraduate experience, insight into the realities of academic Sports and Exercise Science is a fast-growing while research accreditation requires a research. Opportunities occur from time discipline that offers an opportunity to demonstration of competence. Graduates to time to undertake projects in applied combine an interest in the biological are eligible to apply for accreditation in either research activities sciences with a career in a field related to category. Degree Programme Structure and Content sport or physical activity. Many students Course Information will continue in research posts where the First Year www.abdn.ac.uk/sms intensive project work in the Honours year Students take level 1 courses in Chemistry, General Information provides particularly valuable experience. Medical Sciences and Sports Science plus www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Others will go on to a more vocational medical additional courses selected from the science related MSc, in for example, physiotherapy facebook.com/universityofaberdeen programme and other areas. or dietetics; or a postgraduate qualification Second Year in teaching PE or biology. Additionally, @aberdeenuni Further expansion of Sport and Exercise exercise and sport scientists are able to apply See page 25 for information. Science courses develop the degree area and knowledge of biological sciences to the cover issues relating to the elite athlete, the design and evaluation of exercise and health See page 26 for information recreational exerciser and exercise for health. programmes for participants, ranging through Additionally, courses are taken in Physiology cardiac rehabilitation patients, recreational THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE and Biochemistry, combined with courses exercisers and Olympic athletes. delivering key skills applicable to Sports See page 14 for more information. Graduates find employment in many Science. areas of Biomedical and human-based Need more Info? Third Year sciences subjects allied to medicine and Scan the QR code Students study Integrative Physiology, also in the sport and leisure sectors where Exercise Physiology, Nutrition & their understanding of the basis of human Biochemistry of Exercise and also continue performance adds to their other skills. their studies in Sports Science. 189

Sports Studies (Exercise and Health) What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* is an inter-disciplinary degree delivered by A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* specialists in psychology, exercise sciences, Studies (Exercise and Health) Sports *Including good performance in at least basic biomedical sciences and public health. two Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Honours) Sport and exercise have a powerful role The Honours year comprises focused studies Advanced Entry in shaping our society and influencing on Sports Studies research topics and a Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB public awareness of health-related issues. specialised project course covering aspects or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Psychology Increasing leisure time and lifestyle choices of physical conditioning. A comprehensive at A-grade. along with an increasingly sophisticated course promoting the physiological and Can We Help? sporting infrastructure, has led to an psychological aspects of exercise and health Email us: [email protected] expansion of the sectors providing sport, completes the syllabus. Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 health and leisure. This offers extensive Teaching and Assessment employment opportunities for graduates In the early years, teaching involves Your Study Options of this programme. attendance at lectures, practicals and Single Honours Programme in > Obtain a unique insight into the key tutorials. In the later years a rather greater Sports Studies (Exercise and Health) (also inter-relationships between science, sport, proportion of students’ time is taken up with available as MSci with Industrial Placement health and leisure private study involving writing essays and and with options in Biobusiness. See pages reports, and also in laboratory or library work 175/176 for information). > Develop a practical knowledge of research relating to specific projects. Course Information skills and methods related to the basic science underpinning the use of exercise in The Department provides attractive www.abdn.ac.uk/sms health and fitness and up-to-date laboratories both on the General Information King’s College Campus and teaching www.abdn.ac.uk/sras > Gain core skills important for employment accommodation at Foresterhill. in the sport, health and leisure industries facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Your Future Degree Programme Structure and Content Graduates in Sport Studies (Exercise @aberdeenuni First Year and Health) will be strongly placed for See page 25 for information Studies of basic disciplines occupy the employment in a wide range of sport and first year of study. An introduction to both leisure industries and institutions such as See page 26 for information Psychology and Medical Sciences is coupled professional sports clubs, leisure centres and with Sports Science and Exercise Physiology tourism. Some will go on to a more vocational THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE courses. Additional courses are selected from medical related MSc in, for example, See page 14 for more information. the science programme and other areas. physiotherapy or dietetics; or a postgraduate qualification in teaching PE, biology or Second Year Need more Info? primary education. Graduates may also begin Further expansion of Sport Science and Scan the QR code careers in public health, occupational health development of Exercise & Health studies and therapy, mass media and marketing. are provided at this level. These are combined with more advanced studies in Psychology, Physiology and courses delivering key skills applicable to Sports Studies. Third Year Sports Science, Exercise Physiology and Sports Psychology form an important component of third year together with more specific studies on Anatomy, together with health-related issues including Nutrition, Health and Illness. 190 Degrees in Physical Sciences

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Archaeology is a diverse and wide-ranging What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* discipline that spans the humanities and physical A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* sciences and is unique in exploring the human past Archaeology *Including good performance in at least two in its entirety. In seeking to understand how ancient Mathematics/Science subjects. people lived their lives, structured their world, and See table on page 154 for more information. engaged with their environment, archaeologists ask UCAS Code see page 198 the big questions that can provide us with the tools Advanced Entry to tackle global challenges in the present. See page 153 for more information. Can We Help? Email us: [email protected] Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Senior Honours) Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > Archaeology at Aberdeen has a northern Archaeological Research Project Part 2; focus unique in the UK, covering the Current Issues in Archaeology. Plus four Your Study Options heritage of Scotland, Scandinavia, advanced course options chosen from a range Single Honours Programme in northern Europe, the North Atlantic and available (see above), which must include Archaeology the northern latitudes of Asia and North Geoarchaeology and Human Palaeoecology America if these were not taken in third year. Joint Honours Programmes with Geography, Geoscience > Strong inter-disciplinary approach, Teaching & Assessment drawing on the strengths of related All students attend lectures, seminars, Major-Minor Programme with academic subjects across the University tutorials and laboratory-based practicals, Chemistry within both humanities and the physical and make a number of excursions to ancient Related Honours Programmes in sciences monuments and museums in Scotland. In the Anthropology, Celtic, Chemistry, Geography, Honours years there is an emphasis on field > Aberdeen is at the heart of a region that Geology, History, History of Art and research skills, with a required fieldwork is among the richest in the UK in terms of component. A dissertation provides students Course Information sites of outstanding archaeological interest with the opportunity to tackle an original www.abdn.ac.uk/archaeology and is in close proximity to the World piece of research. General Information Heritage sites in Orkney www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Honours students will participate on > Excellent laboratory facilities and library departmental field projects in Scotland and facebook.com/universityofaberdeen holdings, inter-disciplinary expertise across elsewhere in the northern world, where the full spectrum of the subject, research they will receive practical training in survey, @aberdeenuni active staff among the world leaders in excavation and documentation methods. their fields See page 25 for information There are also opportunities for places on our Degree Programme Structure and Content field schools in Iceland and Alaska. Beyond the See page 26 for information

First Year formal training projects, students are strongly encouraged to improve their practical skills by The Human Past: An Introduction to World THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE seeking additional field and placement work. Prehistory: Being and Becoming Human; See page 14 for more information. Staff are happy to advise and help with such Transformations in Human Society; opportunities, which include projects based Perceptions of the Past. overseas. Need more Info? Archaeology in Action: The study of the Past; Scan the QR code Assessment is by means of written Doing Archaeology; The study of Material exams and different types of continuous Culture. Plus six courses chosen from other assessment, depending on the course. In disciplines. the first year continuous assessment takes Second Year the form of essays, but in upper years it also Interpreting the Past; Archaeologies of Social includes critical reviews, posters, laboratory Life; Archaeology of the North: Colonisation assignments, field notebooks and oral and Culture Contact; Archaeology of the presentations. North: Lifeways and World-Views. Plus four Your Future courses chosen from other disciplines. The curriculum is designed to equip graduates Third Year (Junior Honours) with the practical and research skills required Advanced Archaeological Practice; to work as professional archaeologists. The Archaeological Science; Archaeological broad-based nature of the discipline enables Fieldwork Portfolio; Archaeological Research graduates to compete strongly in the market Project Part 1; The Archaeological Workplace. place. The analytical and communications skills acquired by Archaeology graduates Plus three course options chosen from a make them sought-after in a wide variety of range available: Scottish Archaeology, fields including industry, commerce, research North American Archaeology, Archaeologies and a range of professions. of Landscape, Hunter-Gatherers, Viking Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Human Palaeoecology, or courses from related disciplines. 192

Chemistry students perform practical work with What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* state-of-the-art instrumentation and staff include A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* Chemistry internationally recognised researchers in Material *Including good performance in Chemistry Chemistry, Biomolecular and Medicinal Chemistry, and another Mathematics/Science subject. and in Environmental Chemistry. See table on page 154 for more information. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year (Senior Honours) Advanced Highers ABB or A Levels ABB or IB > The Department is friendly, with helpful All students choose from a range of topics in 34 points (6 at HL), including Chemistry at A and approachable staff specialised areas of chemistry, and receive and another Mathematics/Science subject. training in methods of research. BSc students > Our flexible range of courses offers both undertake a personal research project in Can We Help? general and specialised degrees fourth year. Email us: [email protected] Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > All lecturing staff are active researchers Variations in one or more of the areas of research MChem students have group-based practicals strength of the Department: Materials Your Study Options on advanced instrumental techniques and Chemistry, Biomolecular and Medicinal BSc Honours Programmes In a mini-project in fourth year. The MChem Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry Chemistry, Biomedical Materials Chemistry, personal research project is in fifth year, and Chemistry for the Offshore Industry, > Innovative methods for learning and usually involves a placement in Europe. For Environmental Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry teaching ensure that students develop specialised degrees, some courses are replaced skills in computing and IT, problem by specified courses in other departments. Major-Minor Programmes With Accountancy, Archaeology, Management, solving and personal skills, in addition to Teaching and Assessment the core theoretical and practical principles Mathematics*, Physics*, Chemistry with In first year, traditional lectures and practical of chemistry Modern Languages classes are now integrated with the support Degree Programme Structure and Content provided by the University’s Virtual Learning *Major-Minor Chemistry with Mathematics - SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent First Year Environment, MyAberdeen. At higher levels, tutorials, individual and group project work, qualification in Mathematics is required. Students study introductory courses in and essay and oral presentations, together Chemistry, alongside other courses which *Major-Minor Chemistry with Physics - with a rapidly increasing range of computer- need not necessarily be science related. There SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent based learning aids, also form part of the is plenty of choice at this level. qualification in Mathematics and Physics programme. are required. Second Year Your Future The four chemistry courses cover all the Professional Accreditation Chemistry graduates are very employable main areas of chemistry, including Forensic Our MChem degrees are accredited by because a degree in chemistry opens many Analytical Chemistry, and take up half the the Royal Society of Chemistry to fulfil the opportunities for employment in areas workload. Four more courses are selected academic requirements for AMRSC and such as drug development, environmental from other departments, usually in science. eventual progression to Chartered Chemist protection, food chemistry, petroleum (CChem) status. Our BSc degrees are Third Year (Junior Honours) chemistry, forensic science and materials recognised by the Royal Society of Chemistry Students spend all their time studying development. It is also considered to be an and fulfil the academic requirements for chemistry, including a course on excellent preparation for a career in business admission to AMRSC. Communicating Chemistry targeted at in particular because of the skills developed in transferable skills including computing, IT problem solving and numeracy. and presentation skills. Course Information

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Chemistry (MChem) is an enhanced version What You Need SQA Highers AABB* of the BSc, lasting five years rather than four. A Levels ABB* IB 32 points, 5 at HL* The additional year includes material that is Chemistry (MChem) *Chemistry at Grade A and another more advanced than that included in the BSc. Mathematics/Science subject required. It is designed to prepare students for direct See table on page 155 for more information. entry into professional practice or provide a UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry basis for progression to a research degree. Advanced Highers AAB, A Levels AAB or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including a minimum of AB from Chemistry and another Science, Why Choose Aberdeen? Fourth Year or Mathematics subject. > Chemistry is a core science that is the In the fourth year, students have lectures very essence of life, but is also concerned on a range of specialised topics, and receive Can We Help? with the quality of life and its continuing training in methods of research. Students Email us: [email protected] improvement have group-based practicals on advanced Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 instrumental techniques, problem-solving > The Department is friendly, with classes and a personal mini-project. For Your Study Options helpful and approachable staff who are specialised degrees, some courses are replaced MChem Programmes In enthusiastic about teaching by specified courses in other departments. Chemistry, Biomedical Materials Chemistry, Chemistry for the Offshore Industry, > Our flexible range of courses offers both Fifth Year general and specialised degrees Environmental Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Advanced lectures and practicals make up Chemistry with Modern Languages > All lecturing staff are active researchers the first half of the fifth year. The MChem in one or more of the areas of research personal research project takes a full half Professional Accreditation strength of the Department: materials year, and is usually undertaken at a partner Our MChem degrees are accredited by chemistry, biomolecular and medicinal university in Europe in an industrial the Royal Society of Chemistry to fulfil the chemistry and environmental chemistry laboratory, or with a research group in the academic requirements for AMRSC and Department. eventual progression to Chartered Chemist > Innovative methods for learning and (CChem) status. teaching ensure that students develop Teaching and Assessment skills in computer and information In first year, traditional lectures and practical The Chartered Chemist designation (CChem) technology, problem solving and personal classes are now integrated with the support recognises the experienced practising skills in addition to the core theoretical provided by the University’s Virtual Learning chemist who has demonstrated an in- and practical principles of chemistry Environment, MyAberdeen. At higher levels, depth knowledge of chemistry, significant personal achievements based upon Degree Programme Structure and Content tutorials, individual and group project work, and essay and oral presentations, together chemistry, professionalism in the workplace First Year with a rapidly increasing range of computer- and a commitment to maintaining technical Students study introductory courses in based learning aids, also form part of the expertise through continuing professional Chemistry alongside other courses which programme. development. The RSC accredits degree courses in chemistry of a high standard in need not necessarily be science related. Your Future There is plenty of choice at this level. terms of both their intellectual challenge and A degree in Chemistry opens many the competence they are designed to impart Second Year opportunities for employment in areas to graduates. Only MChem (or MSci) degrees In second year, there are four chemistry such as drug development, environmental are accredited. courses covering all the main areas of protection, food chemistry, petroleum chemistry, including Forensic Analytical chemistry, forensic science and materials Chemistry, that make up half the workload development. It is also considered to be an Course Information for the year. Four more courses are selected excellent preparation for a career in business. from other departments, usually in science. www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/chemistry General Information Third Year www.abdn.ac.uk/sras In third year, students normally spend all their time studying chemistry, but also attend facebook.com/universityofaberdeen a course on Communicating Chemistry targeted at transferable skills including @aberdeenuni computing and information technology and See page 25 for information presentation skills. At the end of this year, students may, if they wish, opt to change to See page 26 for information the BSc Honours degree. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE See page 14 for more information.

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Geographical Information Systems What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* encompasses both the theory and practice A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* Geographical Information Systems Systems Geographical Information of Geographical Information Systems and *Including good performance in at least is influenced by Aberdeen’s internationally two Mathematics/Science subjects. recognised research in Information Systems See table on page 154 for more information. (Personalisation, Data to Text) and Geography UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry and the Environment. Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Geography Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) and Computing. > Students are given the opportunity to In third year, taught courses cover essential Can We Help? develop their transferable skills and information systems and geography topics, Email us: [email protected] abilities as independent learners including Adaptive Interactive Systems, Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 Enterprise Computing and Security, > Strong links with industry at local, Geographical Information Systems, national and multi-national levels Your Study Options Approaches to Geography and Research ensure relevance of the curriculum Joint Honours Programme Design and Methods. Geographical Information Systems Degree Programme Structure and Content The fourth year involves a substantial Related Honours Programmes in First Year project, in which students work individually BSc Business Information Systems, BSc First year students focus on the foundations on a geographical information system Information Systems (both also available of Information Systems, including: how to of interest to them; most projects are as MSci with Industrial Placement, see design and implement programs (using Java industry or research-related. Students also pages 175/176 for more information), BSc and a web scripting language); a few relevant do a substantial geography dissertation. Geography, MA Information Systems mathematical concepts and how to design Taught courses include Data Mining and and Management websites. They also study contemporary Visualisation and Geographical Issues. geographical issues of global scale and Teaching and Assessment significance. All courses are supported by web-based Course Information Second Year material, usually including full course notes. www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/computing In the second year, students are introduced to Lectures in the first two years commonly General Information core topics in modern information systems, include live computer demonstrations. www.abdn.ac.uk/sras with courses in E-Society, Data Management, Assessment is by a mixture of course work Human Computer Interaction and Advanced and examination. facebook.com/universityofaberdeen Web Application Development. They also Your Future study core geography topics, with courses @aberdeenuni The employment record of our graduates in Environmental Systems, Mapping and is excellent, the vast majority entering See page 25 for information Monitoring in the Environment, Space, occupations of their choice within three Economy and Society and Skills and See page 26 for information months of graduation.  Techniques in Geosciences. THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE See page 14 for more information.

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Geography is the study of the earth’s surface, What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* with particular emphasis on the relationships A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* between people and their environment. Few other Geography *Including good performance in at least subjects cover such a diversity of phenomena, two Mathematics/Science subjects. combining elements of the natural sciences, the See table on page 154 for more information. social sciences and the humanities. UCAS Code see page 198 Advanced Entry Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or IB Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) 34 points (6 at HL), including Geography at A. > Aberdeen is a great place to study Core courses on Approaches to Geography, Geography. The department ranks highly Research Design & Methods and Geographical Can We Help? in student satisfaction surveys and the Issues examine the subject’s history, its Email us: [email protected] region’s spectacular mountain and coastal key perspectives and techniques, and its Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 areas provide perfect field sites for the study contemporary relevance. Although compulsory, of geography. We have recently introduced all of these courses offer a choice of lectures Your Study Options a new geography curriculum designed and coursework assessments that cover the Single Honours Programme in to provide students with key skills and full range of geography, so students are free to Geography knowledge required by employers pursue their favourite aspects of the subject. Joint Honours Programmes with Option courses at level 3 provide further training > The curriculum enables students to study Archaeology, Geoscience in practical aspects of physical and human across the full range of the discipline, or geography (e.g., use of remote sensing and Related Honours Programme in to specialise in aspects of environmental, geographical information systems; statistical Geographical Information Systems human or physical geography, according to analysis of sediments, vegetation or census their preferences data) and associated concepts and topics (e.g. > Many courses in physical geography, environmental change; places, regions and Course Information

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Geology/Geology & Petroleum Geology provides What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* a knowledge of the way the Earth works and is vital A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* Geology/Geology & Petroleum Geology to the understanding of the nature and origin of *Including good performance in at least Earth Resources. two Mathematics/Science subjects. See table on page 154 for more information. Why Choose Aberdeen? A number of elective courses can be chosen UCAS Code see page 198 > Aberdeen is the Energy Capital of Europe from a menu, depending on the interests of Advanced Entry the student and programme for which they > Understanding geology is fundamental to Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or are studying. the exploration for hydrocarbon resources IB 34 points (6 at HL), including Geology. Teaching and Assessment and this is why we offer a Petroleum Can We Help? Geology degree at Aberdeen. However, Courses are taught by a combination of Email us: [email protected] before such specialism can be made, a lectures, practical and field work tailored to Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 basic knowledge of the way the Earth the subject matter. All courses are supported works is vital to the understanding of the by various online resources including online Your Study Options nature and origin of Earth Resources multiple choice tests at level 1 which give Single Honours Programmes in instant feedback. > Aberdeen is ideally geographically located Geology, Geology and Petroleum Geology for the study of geology, having some Workshops on advanced research techniques MGeol Programme in world-class field sites close at hand which and one-on-one discussions with staff help Geology can be conveniently visited on day courses students to design and carry out Honours project work. The assessment for most courses Joint Honours Programmes with > Many past graduates continue to work combines exams with in-course assessment. Archaeology (Geoscience only), Geography in the city and links with industry are In-course assessments are most commonly (Geoscience only), Physics* therefore very strong and employability built around “real world” geological data second to none *Joint Honours Geology and Physics - sets which need to be manipulated and SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent Degree Programme Structure and Content interpreted in order to solve geological qualification in Mathematics and Physics First Year problems. are required. Two core courses: The Natural Environment Field courses are a particularly valuable Major-Minor Programme with through Geological Time and The Materials forum for teaching and learning and form a Physics* Forming our Dynamic Earth. The first course compulsory part of the degree programmes considers the key themes relating to the at all levels including level 1. *Physics with Geology - SQA Higher or evolution of the Earth over the past 4,500 GCE A Level or equivalent qualification in The Department provides an attractive million years, including: the Earth in the Mathematics and Physics are required. teaching and learning environment at solar system; Internal structure and chemical the heart of the King’s College Campus. composition of the Earth; Continents, oceans The Department has a Registered Museum, and plate tectonics; Formation and fill of comprising a large collection of rocks minerals sedimentary basins; Absolute and relative Course Information and fossils, many of which are on public geological time (the fossil record and absolute www.abdn.ac.uk/geology display. dating); Geological maps and structures; General Information Volcanism. 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Studying Geology also develops to Field Geology which is a six-day residential a range of transferable skills such as: critical THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE course on the Isle of Arran. thinking, research design and data analysis See page 14 for more information. Third and Fourth Year (Honours) skills, proficiency in IT and the ability to Core courses relating to Plate Tectonics, communicate effectively in various formats Need more Info? Earth Structure and Stratigraphy, Igneous which all enhance graduate employability. Scan the QR code and Metamorphic Petrology are included along with Petroleum Geology which are core courses for the Geology and Petroleum Geology and Geoscience Single Honours degree programmes. Over the two Honours years, a total of three residential field courses (28 days), a number of day-long field exercises and an independent field-based project (28 days) emphasise the hands-on nature of the subject. 197

Physics at Aberdeen offers a thoughtful balance What You Need SQA Highers BBBB* between understanding basic principles of Physics A Levels BBB* IB 30 points, 5 at HL* and showing how physics can be applied to other Physics *SQA Higher or GCE A Level or equivalent areas of science. qualification in Mathematics and Physics are required. Why Choose Aberdeen? Third and Fourth Year (Honours) See table on page 154 for more information. > A modern modular degree structure with a You will cover a mixture of fundamental UCAS Code see page 198 broad syllabus and a wide range of degree topics, applied subjects and general interest Advanced Entry choices areas such as Astrophysics and Particle Advanced Highers ABB, A Levels ABB or Physics. We place particular emphasis on > Long tradition of teaching physical sciences IB 34 points (6 at HL) with AB in Maths learning skills that professional scientists combined with modern facilities and Physics. need to apply their knowledge. Students > Emphasis on generic skills useful in a wide spend 25% of their final year on a supervised Can We Help? range of careers research and scholarship project involving Email us: [email protected] physics or an area of application in health Call us: +44 (0)1224 272090/91 > We also offer a broad-based, less science, mathematics, geology, materials mathematical degree in Physical Science science, computation or another appropriate Your Study Options that allows the combination of Physics discipline. Single Honours Programmes in courses with a wide choice of other subjects Physics, Physical Science Teaching and Assessment Degree Programme Structure and Content Most topics involve some continuous MPhys Programme in First Year assessment. The proportion of continuous Physics with Complex Systems Modelling The Physical Universe gives an overview of assessment and project work increases (MPhys). See page 155 for entry requirements. some of the general aims and achievements through the four year Honours programme. Joint Honours Programme with of physics. You are also introduced to the Your Future Geology, Philosophy, Mathematics power of the fundamental subjects of Many graduates become professional Mechanics and Electricity & Magnetism, and Major-Minor Programmes with scientists in industry, research institutes have practical work covering Experimental Chemistry, French, Gaelic Studies, Geology, and universities. Physics graduates also use Physics and Physical Computing. The German, Philosophy, Spanish their quantitative and data analysis skills Mathematics component includes Calculus in a variety of different ways in industry Related Honours Programmes in and Algebra. There is an option to do a course and commerce. Many physics graduates MA Natural Philosophy covering the fundamentals of Astronomy command high salaries in the computing and Meteorology. You also have the Professional Accreditation and financial sectors. In addition, there is option of taking one of the sixth century All of the above Honours degree programmes a shortage of physics teachers in schools interdisciplinary courses recently developed have either full accreditation or recognition throughout the UK. In some specialist areas under curriculum reform. If you’re taking from the physicists’ professional body, the such as Meteorology, Biomedical Physics, a combined degree such as Physics with Institute of Physics. Space Science, Remote Sensing, Geophysics Geology, Chemistry, Philosophy or a language, and other physics related subjects, it is usual then you will take courses from these to study for an MSc degree to obtain further disciplines. Course Information knowledge. Honours Physical Science students do not www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/physics Many physics graduates may wish to obtain a need to take the Mathematics component. General Information PhD degree either in physics or a related area www.abdn.ac.uk/sras Second Year to provide additional skills that are valued Our main programme concentrates by academic, industrial and commercial facebook.com/universityofaberdeen on: Dynamical Phenomena, including organisations. oscillations and waves, Light Science, @aberdeenuni Practical Optics and Digital Electronics and See page 25 for information an introduction to Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. You should take one advanced See page 26 for information Mathematics course and have three courses on subjects of your own choice. Again, THE ABERDEEN DIFFERENCE Honours Physical Science students have a See page 14 for more information. wider choice, with no Mathematics.

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Scan the QR code 198 UCAS Course Codes UCAS Course Codes Arts and Social Sciences UCAS Code Celtic Civilisation and Sociology LQ35 Film and Visual Culture W690 Accountancy N400 Celtic Studies Q500 Film & Visual Culture and French (5 yrs) WR6C Accountancy and Anthropology LN64 Celtic Studies and English QQ5H Film & Visual Culture and French (4 yrs) WR61 Accountancy and Divinity NV46 Celtic Studies and French (5 yrs) QR5D Film & Visual Culture and Gaelic Studies QW56 Accountancy and Economics NL41 Celtic Studies and French (4 yrs) QRN1 Film & Visual Culture and German (5 yrs) WR6F Accountancy and Finance NN34 Celtic Studies and Gaelic Studies Q591 Film & Visual Culture and German (4 yrs) WR62 Accountancy and French NR41 Celtic Studies and Scandinavian Studies QR57 Film & Visual Culture and Hispanic Studies (5 yrs) WR6K Accountancy and Geography NL47 Computing G402 Film & Visual Culture and Hispanic Studies (4 yrs) WR64 Accountancy and German NR42 Computing and Mathematics GG41 Film & 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Economics and German (4 yrs) RL21 French and German RR12 Anthropology and Legal Studies LM69 Economics and Hispanic Studies (5 yrs) LR14 French and Hispanic Studies RR14 Anthropology and Literature in a World Context LQ62 Economics and Hispanic Studies (4 yrs) RL41 French and History (5 yrs) RV11 Anthropology and Management Studies LN62 Economics and History LV11 French and History (4 yrs) VR11 Anthropology and Philosophy LV65 Economics and International Relations LLC2 French and History of Art (5 yrs) RV13 Anthropology and Politics LL62 Economics and Legal Studies LM19 French and History of Art (4 yrs) VR31 Anthropology and Psychology LC68 Economics and Literature in a World Context LQ12 French and International Relations (5 yrs) RLC2 Anthropology and Religious Studies LV66 Economics and Management Studies LNC2 French and International Relations (4 yrs) LRF1 Anthropology and Sociology LL63 Economics and Mathematics LG11 French and Language & Linguistics (5 yrs) RQ11 Applied 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(4 yrs) VR51 Behavioural Studies and Sociology CL13 English and French (4 yrs) RQ13 French and Politics (5 yrs) RL12 Behavioural Studies with French C1R1 English and Gaelic Studies QQ53 French and Politics (4 yrs) LR21 Behavioural Studies with Gaelic CCQ5 English and German (5 yrs) QR32 French and Religious Studies (5 yrs) VR61 Behavioural Studies with German CCR2 English and German (4 yrs) RQ23 French and Religious Studies (4 yrs) RV16 Celtic Civilisation (3 yrs Non-Honours) Q501 English and Hispanic Studies (5 yrs) QR34 French and Sociology (5 yrs) RL13 Celtic Civilisation and Divinity QV5P English and Hispanic Studies (4 yrs) RQ43 French and Sociology (4 yrs) RLC3 Celtic Civilisation and English QQM3 English and History QV31 French Studies 5( yrs) R120 Celtic Civilisation and French (5 yrs) QR5C English and History of Art QV33 French Studies (4 yrs) R101 Celtic Civilisation and French (4 yrs) QRM1 English and International Relations QL32 French with Music Studies 5( yrs) R1W3 Celtic Civilisation and Gaelic Studies Q590 English and Language & Linguistics QQ31 French with Music Studies (4 yrs) R1WH Celtic Civilisation and German (5 yrs) QRM2 English and Legal Studies MQ93 Gaelic Studies Q530 Celtic Civilisation and German (4 yrs) RQF5 English and Literature in a World Context QQ32 Gaelic Studies and Geography QL57 Celtic Civilisation and Hispanic Studies (5 yrs) QRM4 English and Management Studies QN32 Gaelic Studies and German QR52 Celtic Civilisation and Hispanic Studies (4 yrs) QRN4 English and Philosophy QV35 Gaelic Studies and Hispanic Studies QR54 Celtic Civilisation and History QVM1 English and Politics QL3F Gaelic Studies and History QV51 Celtic Civilisation and History of Art QVM3 English and Religious Studies QV36 Gaelic Studies and History of Art QV53 Celtic Civilisation and Language & Linguistics LQ6C English and Scandinavian Studies QR36 Gaelic Studies and Language & Linguistics QQ51 Celtic Civilisation and Literature in a World Context VQ22 English and Scottish Literature Q314 Gaelic Studies and Literature in a World Context QQ5F Celtic Civilisation and Philosophy QV55 English and Sociology QL33 Gaelic Studies and Management Studies QN52 Celtic Civilisation and Religious Studies QVM6 English with Music Studies Q3W3 Gaelic Studies and Politics QL52 Celtic Civilisation and Scandinavian Studies QR56 European Studies R900 Gaelic Studies and Religious Studies VQ65 199 UCAS Course Codes Gaelic Studies and Scandinavian Studies QR58 History and Religious Studies VV16 Divinity & Theology UCAS Code Gaelic Studies and Sociology QL53 History and Sociology VL13 Divinity V600 Geography L700 History of Art V350 Theology V612 Geography and German LR72 History of Art and Language & Linguistics VQ31 For MA Divinity & MA Religious Studies, see Arts and Social Geography and Hispanic Studies LR74 History of Art and Literature in a World Context VQ32 Sciences UCAS codes. Geography and History LV71 History of Art and Philosophy VV35 Education UCAS Code Geography and International Relations LL72 History of Art and Politics VL32 Geography and Literature in a World Context LQ72 History of Art and Religious Studies VV36 Primary Education X120 Geography and Management Studies LN72 History of Art with Music Studies V3W3 Music UCAS Code Geography and Sociology LL73 History with Music Studies V1W3 Music W300 German and Hispanic Studies RR24 Information Systems and Management GN52 Music and Communities W390 German and History (5 yrs) RV21 International Relations and Language and Linguistics LQ21 Music Education XW13 German and History (4 yrs) VR12 International Relations and Legal Studies MLC2 German and History of Art (5 yrs) RV23 International Relations and Literature Engineering UCAS Code German and History of Art (4 yrs) VR32 in a World Context LQ22 BEng International Foundation (Engineering) H101 German and International Relations (5 yrs) RLF2 International Relations and Management Studies LNF2 German and International Relations (4 yrs) LRF2 International Relations and Philosophy VLM2 MEng International Relations and Religious Studies VL62 German and Language & Linguistics (5 yrs) RQ21 Chemical Engineering H810 International Relations and Sociology LLF3 German and Language & Linguistics (4 yrs) RQF1 Civil and Environmental Engineering German and Legal Studies (5 yrs) MR92 Language & Linguistics Q190 with European Studies H256 German and Legal Studies (4 yrs) MRX2 Language & Linguistics and Literature Civil and Structural Engineering in a World Context QQ12 German and Literature in a World Context (5 yrs) RQ22 with European Studies H226 Language & Linguistics and Philosophy QV15 German and Literature in a World Context (4 yrs) RQ2F Civil and Environmental Engineering H255 Language & Linguistics and Religious Studies QV16 German and Management Studies 5( yrs) RN22 Civil and Structural Engineering H225 Language & Linguistics and Sociology QL13 German and Management Studies (4 yrs) NR22 Civil Engineering (5 yrs) H205 Languages and Literature of Scotland QQ52 German and Mathematics RG21 Electrical and Electronic Engineering H605 Legal Studies and Management Studies MN92 German and Philosophy (5 yrs) RV25 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Legal Studies and Philosophy VM51 with European Studies H606 German and Philosophy (4 yrs) VR52 Legal Studies and Politics ML12 Engineering (5 yrs) H104 German and Politics 5( yrs) RL22 Legal Studies and Psychology CM89 Mechanical and Electrical Engineering HHH6 German and Politics (4yrs) LR22 Legal Studies and Sociology ML13 Mechanical Engineering H305 German and Religious Studies (5 yrs) VR62 Literature in a World Context Q200 Mechanical Engineering with European Studies H306 German and Religious Studies (4 yrs) RV26 Literature in a World Context and Mechanical Engineering with Management H3N2 German and Sociology (5 yrs) RL23 Management Studies QN22 Petroleum Engineering H850 German and Sociology (4 yrs) RLF3 Literature in a World Context and Philosophy QV25 German Studies 5( yrs) R220 Literature in a World Context and Politics QL22 BEng German Studies (4 yrs) R201 Literature in a World Context and Religious Studies QV26 Chemical Engineering H813 German with Music Studies (5 yrs) R2W3 Literature in a World Context and Sociology QL23 Engineering H100 German with Music Studies (4 yrs) R2WH MA (Ordinary Degree Non-Honours) Y001 Engineering (Civil and Environmental) H220 Hispanic Studies (Latin America) (5 yrs) T711 Management and Real Estate K438 Engineering (Civil and Structural) H221 Hispanic Studies (Latin America) (4 yrs) T701 Management Studies N200 Engineering (Civil with European Studies) H202 Hispanic Studies (Spain) (5 yrs) R410 Management Studies and Mathematics GN12 Engineering (Civil) H200 Hispanic Studies (Spain) (4 yrs) R401 Management Studies and Philosophy NV25 Engineering (Electrical and Electronic with European Studies) H602 Hispanic Studies and History (5 yrs) RV41 Management Studies and Politics LN22 Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) H620 Hispanic Studies and History (4 yrs) VR14 Management Studies and Psychology CN28 Engineering (Mechanical and Electrical) HH36 Hispanic Studies and History of Art (5 yrs) RV43 Management Studies and Sociology LN32 Engineering (Mechanical with European Studies) H302 Hispanic Studies and History of Art (4 yrs) VR34 Management Studies with Computing N2G4 Engineering (Mechanical with Oil and Gas Studies) H3H8 Hispanic Studies and International Relations (5 yrs) RLK2 Mathematics G102 Engineering (Mechanical) H300 Hispanic Studies and International Relations (4 yrs) LRF4 Mathematics and Philosophy GV15 Petroleum Engineering H851 Hispanic Studies and Language & Linguistics (5 yrs) RQ41 Mathematics and Physics GF13 Hispanic Studies and Language & Linguistics (4 yrs) RQK1 Mathematics and Sociology GL13 BSc Eng Hispanic Studies and Legal Studies (5 yrs) MR94 Mathematics with Computing G1G4 Engineering (Civil) H201 Hispanic Studies and Legal Studies (4 yrs) MRX4 Mathematics with Gaelic G1Q8 Engineering (Electrical) H601 Hispanic Studies and Literature Mental Philosophy V500 in a World Context (5 yrs) RQ42 Engineering (Electronic) H604 Natural Philosophy F301 Hispanic Studies and Literature Engineering (General) H102 in a World Context (4 yrs) RQ4F Philosophy and Physics VF53 Engineering (Mechanical) H301 Hispanic Studies and Management Studies (5 yrs) RN42 Philosophy and Politics VL52 Hispanic Studies and Management Studies (4 yrs) NR24 Philosophy and Psychology VC58 Law UCAS Code Hispanic Studies and Mathematics RG41 Philosophy and Religious Studies VV56 Law M114 Hispanic Studies and Philosophy (5 yrs) RV45 Philosophy and Sociology VL53 Law - Accelerated (Graduates only) M115 Hispanic Studies and Philosophy (4 yrs) VR54 Philosophy with Music Studies V5W3 Law with Belgian Law M120 Hispanic Studies and Politics (5 yrs) RL42 Politics and International Relations L240 Law with European Legal Studies M127 Hispanic Studies and Politics (4 yrs) LR24 Politics and Religious Studies LV26 Law with French Law M121 Hispanic Studies and Religious Studies (5 yrs) VR64 Politics and Sociology LL23 Law with German Law M123 Hispanic Studies and Religious Studies (4 yrs) RV46 Psychology C802 Law with Spanish Law M126 Hispanic Studies and Sociology (5 yrs) RL43 Psychology and Sociology LC38 Law with options in Accountancy M1N4 Hispanic Studies and Sociology (4 yrs) RLK3 Psychology with French C8RC Law with options in Economics M1L1 Hispanic Studies with Music Studies (5 yrs) R4W3 Psychology with Gaelic C8QM Law with options in French M125 Hispanic Studies with Music Studies (4 yrs) R4WH Psychology with German C8RF Law with options in Gaelic Language M128 History V100 Real Estate K437 Law with options in German M124 History and History of Art VV13 Religious Studies V601 Law with options in Management Studies M1N2 History and International Relations VLC2 Religious Studies and Sociology LV36 Law with options in Music M1W3 History and Language & Linguistics VQ11 Religious Studies with Music Studies V6WH Law with options in Spanish M122 History and Legal Studies VM12 Scottish Archaeology V405 History and Literature in a World Context VQ12 Scottish Cultural Studies V2L3 Medicine UCAS Code History and Management Studies NV21 Scottish Studies V210 Dental Surgery (Graduates only) A201 History and Mathematics VG11 Sociology L300 Medicine A100 History and Philosophy VV15 History and Politics VL12 200 UCAS Course Codes

UCAS Course Codes Sciences UCAS Code Biomedical Science (Physiology) International Foundation Programmes (Science) International Foundation (Biological Sciences) C990 with Industrial Placement B9BA International Foundation (Biological Sciences) C990 International Foundation (Chemistry) F10G Biotechnology (Applied Molecular Biology) J700 International Foundation (Chemistry) F10G International Foundation (Computing Science) I100 Biotechnology (Applied Molecular Biology) International Foundation (Computing Science) I100 with Industrial Placement J701 International Foundation (Mathematics) G101 International Foundation (Mathematics) G101 Genetics C400 International Foundation (Medical Sciences) B90A International Foundation (Medical Sciences) B90A Genetics (Immunology) C450 International Foundation (Psychology) C80A International Foundation (Psychology) C80A Genetics (Immunology) with Industrial Placement C451 Applied Mathematics G120 Genetics with Industrial Placement C401 Artificial Intelligence G700 International Foundation Programmes Human Embryology and Developmental Biology CC71 Artificial Intelligence with Industrial Placement G701 (Engineering) Human Embryology and Developmental Biology BEng International Foundation (Engineering) H101 Behavioural Studies C803 with Industrial Placement CC7C Behavioural Studies and Computing Science CG84 Immunology C552 Behavioural Studies with French CCR1 Immunology and Pharmacology BC25 Behavioural Studies with Gaelic C1Q5 Immunology and Pharmacology Behavioural Studies with German C1R2 with Industrial Placement BC2M Business Information Systems G501 Immunology with Industrial Placement C550 Business Information Systems Microbiology C500 with Industrial Placement G502 Microbiology with Industrial Placement C501 Computing and E-Business GN41 Molecular Biology CC74 Computing Science G400 Molecular Biology with Industrial Placement CC47 Computing Science and Mathematics GGK1 Molecular Microbiology C530 Computing Science and Philosophy GV4M Molecular Microbiology with Industrial Placement C551 Computing Science and Psychology GC48 Neuroscience with Psychology B170 Computing Science with French G4R1 Neuroscience with Psychology Computing Science with French with Industrial Placement B1C8 with Industrial Placement G4RC Pharmacology B210 Computing Science with Industrial Placement G401 Pharmacology with Industrial Placement B211 Computing Science with Spanish G4R4 Physiology B120 Computing Science with Spanish with Physiology with Industrial Placement B121 Industrial Placement G4RK Sports and Exercise Science C600 Information Systems G503 Sports and Exercise Science with Industrial Placement C602 Information Systems with Industrial Placement G504 Sports Studies (Exercise and Health) C603 Mathematics G100 Sports Studies (Exercise and Health) Mathematics and Engineering Mathematics G190 with Industrial Placement C601 Mathematics and Physics FG31 Mathematics with French G1R1 Physical Sciences Mathematics with Gaelic G1Q5 Archaeology F420 Mathematics with German G1R2 Archaeology and Geography FF4V Mathematics with Spanish G1R4 Archaeology and Geoscience FF46 Psychology C800 Archaeology with Chemistry F4F1 Psychology with French C8R1 Biomedical Materials Chemistry C721 Psychology with Gaelic C8QN Biomedical Materials Chemistry (MChem) C720 Psychology with German C8R2 Chemistry F100 Chemistry (MChem) F105 Life Sciences Chemistry for Offshore Industry F111 Animal Ecology C302 Chemistry for Offshore Industry (MChem) F110 Biological Sciences C900 Chemistry with Accountancy F1N4 Biology C100 Chemistry with Management Studies F1N2 Conservation Biology C161 Chemistry with Mathematics F1G1 Ecology D430 Chemistry with Modern Languages (MChem) F1R9 Environmental Science F900 Chemistry with Physics F1F3 Environmental Science (Physical Science) F902 Environmental Chemistry F142 Forest Sciences D520 Environmental Chemistry (MChem) F143 Forestry D500 Geographical Information Systems F846 Marine Biology C350 Geography F800 Plant and Soil Science CD27 Geography and Geoscience FF68 Wildlife Management D446 Geology and Petroleum Geology F602 Zoology C300 Geology and Physics FF63 Geology F610 Medical Sciences Geology (MGeol) F600 Biochemistry C700 Medicinal Chemistry F150 Biochemistry (Immunology) C7C9 Medicinal Chemistry (MChem) F152 Biochemistry (Immunology) Physical Sciences F302 with Industrial Placement C7CX Physics F300 Biochemistry with Industrial Placement C701 Physics with Chemistry F3F1 Biomedical Science (Anatomy) B9BC Physics with Complex Systems Modelling (MPhys) F390 Biomedical Science (Anatomy) Physics with French F3R1 with Industrial Placement B9BD Physics with Gaelic F3Q5 Biomedical Science (Developmental Biology) B9C1 Physics with Geology F3F6 Biomedical Science (Developmental Biology) with Industrial Placement B9CC Physics with German F3R2 Biomedical Science (Molecular Biology) B9C7 Physics with Philosophy F3V5 Biomedical Science (Molecular Biology) Physics with Spanish F3R4 with Industrial Placement B9CR Biomedical Science (Pharmacology) B9B2 Biomedical Science (Pharmacology) with Industrial Placement B9BF Biomedical Science (Physiology) B9B1 General Information Index Course & Subject Index

Aberdeen, Location Map 60, 61 Distance Learning 70 Nursery 24 > Accountancy 80 > Environmental Science 167 > Music 126 Aberdeen the City 52 Doctor 24 Open Day 205 > Adult and Community Learning 71 > European Legal Studies 136 > Natural Philosophy (Physics) 108 Aberdeen Students’ Charities Campaign 41 Employment (part-time & vacation) 32 Open Lecture Programme 68 > Animal Ecology 173 > European Studies 90 > Neuroscience with Psychology 185 Accelerated Degree 64 English Language 31 Our Degrees 75 > Anthropology 81 > Film and Visual Culture 91 > Oil, see Geology 196 Access, Summer School 68 Enhanced Study 14 Part-Time Study 70 > Applied Mathematics (BSc) 160 > Finance 92 > Petroleum Engineering 130 Access, to Degree Study 68 Entrance Scholarships 26 Part-Time Education Programmes 71 > Archaeology (BSc) 191 > Forestry 168 > Petroleum Geology 196 Accommodation 36 Enterprise and Entrepreneurship 17 Principal’s Welcome 4, 5 > Archaeology (MA) 82 > Forest Sciences 169 > Pharmacology 186 Acknowledgements 204 Entry Criteria and Conditions 64 Qualifications for Entrance 64 > Artificial Intelligence 156 > French Law 136 > Philosophical Studies 70 Admissions 67, 68 Entry Requirements 64 Reach Scotland 69 > Arts, degrees 76 > French 93 > Philosophy 109 Advanced Entry 64 Environment and our University 43 Rector 41 > BA, degrees 71 > Gaelic Studies 94 > Physical Sciences, degree list 190 Advisers of Study 24 Equal Opportunities 67 Representation 41 > BD, the degree 120 > Genetics 180 > Physics 197 Advisory and Support Services 24 ERASMUS, Programmes 25 Scholarships 26, 27 > Behavioural Studies (BSc) 157 > Geographical Information Systems 194 > Physics with Complex Aim 4 Uni 68 Events Calendar 56 Scottish Credit & > Behavioural Studies (MA) 83 > Geography (BSc) 195 Systems Modelling (MPhys) 197 Air Force, University Air Squadron 27 Fees 26, 27 Qualifications Framework 65 > Belgian Law 136 > Geography (MA) 95 > Physiology 187 Alumni Relations 204 Financial Information 26, 27 Sixth Century Courses 15 > BEng, the degree 130 > Geology/Geology and > Plant & Soil Science 171 Alternative Admission Routes 68 Financial Information Sport 38, 39 > Biobusiness Options 176 Petroleum Geology 196 > Politics 110 Application Dates 67 (Part-time and Distance Study) 70 STAR Award 17 > Biochemistry 177 > German 96 > Politics & International Relations 110 Application Details 67 Foresterhill Campus (Medical School) 61 Student Accommodation 36, 37 > Biological Sciences 163 > German Law 136 > Primary Education 124 Army, Officer Training Corps 27 Foundation Programmes 66 Student Accommodation, Maps 60 > Biology 164 > Hispanic Studies 97 > Professional Development (BAPD) 71 BP Student Tutoring Scheme 17 Gap Years 64 Student Advice & Support Office 24 > Biomedical Science 178 > History 98 > Psychology (BSc) 161 Bursaries 26 Getting to the University 58 Student Centre, The Hub 42 > Biotechnology 179 > History (Part-time) 70 > Psychology (MA) 111 Campus Maps 60, 61 Halls of Residence 36 Student Exchanges 25 > BMus, the degree 126 > History of Art 99 > Real Estate 112 Careers 32 Halls of Residence, Maps 60 Student Finance 26, 27 > BSc (Science), the degree 150 > Human Embryology and > Religious Studies 113 Centre for Lifelong Learning 68, 69, 70 Health and Support Services 24 Student Learning Service 23 > BSc Med Sci, the degree 142 Developmental Biology 181 > Scandinavian Studies 114 Chaplaincies 24 History & Excellence 8 Student Media 41 > BSc, degree list 150 > Immunology 182 > Science, degree courses 150 Charter, Students 24 How to Apply 67 Student Profiles 44 - 51 > BTh, the degree 118 > Industrial Placements/MSci degrees 175 > Science Programme (Part-time) 70 Childcare 24 Hub, Student Centre 42 Students’ Association 40, 41 > Business Information Systems 159 > Information Systems 159 > Scottish Studies 115 Choosing your Degree 64 International Exchange Scheme 25 Study Abroad 25 > Business Law, see Law 136 > Information Systems & Management 100 > Social Pedagogy (BASP) 71 City of Aberdeen 52 International Student Advisers 24, 30 Summer School for Access 68 > Celtic Civilisation 84 > International Relations 110 > Social Sciences, degrees 76 Clubs and Societies 40 International Student Fees 31 Support for Your Studies 24 > Celtic Studies 85 > Language & Linguistics 101 > Sociology 116 College of Arts and Social Sciences 11 International Students 30 Sustained Study Programme 17 > Chemical Engineering 130 > Languages and Literature of Scotland 102 > Spanish, see Hispanic Studies 97 College of Life Sciences and Medicine 11 Investing in Your Future 12, 13 Term Dates 3 > Chemistry 192 > Latin-American Studies, > Spanish Law 136 College of Physical Sciences 11 King’s College Campus 60 Travel to Aberdeen 58, 59 > Chemistry (MChem) 193 see Hispanic Studies 97 > Sports & Exercise Science 188 College Transfer 68 Key to Symbols 3 Tuition Fees 26, 27 > Childhood Practice (BACP) 71 > Law, degree list 136 > Sports Studies (Exercise and Health) 189 Computing Services 22 Language Centre 23 UCAS Address and University’s Code 67 > Christian and Religious Studies 70 > Legal Studies 103 > Teaching Qualification TQ(FE) 71 Contents 3 Learning Resources 22 UCAS Course Codes 198 > Civil Engineering 130 > Life Sciences, degree list 162 > Theology 118 Continuous Professional Library Services 23 University at a Glance 6, 7 > Computing (MA) 86 > Literature in a World Context 104 > Wildlife Management 172 Development (CPD) 32 Lifelong Learning, Centre for 68, 69, 70 University Timeline 12, 13 > Computing Science (BSc) 158 > LLB, the degree 136 > Zoology 173 Counselling Service 24 Maps 60, 61 Visiting the University 205 > Conservation Biology 165 > MA, degree list 76 Courses and Credits 64 Mature Students 67, 68, 70 Welfare 24 > Counselling Skills 70 > Management Studies 105 Curriculum Reform 14 Medical Practice 24 What’s Going On 56 > Dentistry 148 > Marine Biology 170 Deferred Entry 64 Money Adviser 27 Who’s Who 204 > Divinity and Theology 118 > Mathematics (BSc) 160 Disabilities, Students with 24 Museums and Collections 23 Widening Access Initiative 68 > Divinity (MA) 87 > Mathematics (MA) 106 Discipline Breadth Courses 16 Navy, Royal Navy Unit 27 Work Experience 17, 32 > Ecology 166 > MBChB, the degree 142 > Economics 88 > Mechanical Engineering 130 > Education, degree list 122 > Medical Sciences, degree list 174 > Education (Primary) 124 > Medicine 144 > Electrical Engineering 130 > MEng, the degree 130 > Electronic Engineering 130 > Microbiology 183 > Engineering, degree list 130 > Molecular Biology 184 > English 89 > Molecular Microbiology 183 > English and Scottish Literature 89 > Music Studies (MA) 107 General Information Index Course & Subject Index

Aberdeen, Location Map 60, 61 Distance Learning 70 Nursery 24 > Accountancy 80 > Environmental Science 167 > Music 126 Aberdeen the City 52 Doctor 24 Open Day 205 > Adult and Community Learning 71 > European Legal Studies 136 > Natural Philosophy (Physics) 108 Aberdeen Students’ Charities Campaign 41 Employment (part-time & vacation) 32 Open Lecture Programme 68 > Animal Ecology 173 > European Studies 90 > Neuroscience with Psychology 185 Accelerated Degree 64 English Language 31 Our Degrees 75 > Anthropology 81 > Film and Visual Culture 91 > Oil, see Geology 196 Access, Summer School 68 Enhanced Study 14 Part-Time Study 70 > Applied Mathematics (BSc) 160 > Finance 92 > Petroleum Engineering 130 Access, to Degree Study 68 Entrance Scholarships 26 Part-Time Education Programmes 71 > Archaeology (BSc) 191 > Forestry 168 > Petroleum Geology 196 Accommodation 36 Enterprise and Entrepreneurship 17 Principal’s Welcome 4, 5 > Archaeology (MA) 82 > Forest Sciences 169 > Pharmacology 186 Acknowledgements 204 Entry Criteria and Conditions 64 Qualifications for Entrance 64 > Artificial Intelligence 156 > French Law 136 > Philosophical Studies 70 Admissions 67, 68 Entry Requirements 64 Reach Scotland 69 > Arts, degrees 76 > French 93 > Philosophy 109 Advanced Entry 64 Environment and our University 43 Rector 41 > BA, degrees 71 > Gaelic Studies 94 > Physical Sciences, degree list 190 Advisers of Study 24 Equal Opportunities 67 Representation 41 > BD, the degree 120 > Genetics 180 > Physics 197 Advisory and Support Services 24 ERASMUS, Programmes 25 Scholarships 26, 27 > Behavioural Studies (BSc) 157 > Geographical Information Systems 194 > Physics with Complex Aim 4 Uni 68 Events Calendar 56 Scottish Credit & > Behavioural Studies (MA) 83 > Geography (BSc) 195 Systems Modelling (MPhys) 197 Air Force, University Air Squadron 27 Fees 26, 27 Qualifications Framework 65 > Belgian Law 136 > Geography (MA) 95 > Physiology 187 Alumni Relations 204 Financial Information 26, 27 Sixth Century Courses 15 > BEng, the degree 130 > Geology/Geology and > Plant & Soil Science 171 Alternative Admission Routes 68 Financial Information Sport 38, 39 > Biobusiness Options 176 Petroleum Geology 196 > Politics 110 Application Dates 67 (Part-time and Distance Study) 70 STAR Award 17 > Biochemistry 177 > German 96 > Politics & International Relations 110 Application Details 67 Foresterhill Campus (Medical School) 61 Student Accommodation 36, 37 > Biological Sciences 163 > German Law 136 > Primary Education 124 Army, Officer Training Corps 27 Foundation Programmes 66 Student Accommodation, Maps 60 > Biology 164 > Hispanic Studies 97 > Professional Development (BAPD) 71 BP Student Tutoring Scheme 17 Gap Years 64 Student Advice & Support Office 24 > Biomedical Science 178 > History 98 > Psychology (BSc) 161 Bursaries 26 Getting to the University 58 Student Centre, The Hub 42 > Biotechnology 179 > History (Part-time) 70 > Psychology (MA) 111 Campus Maps 60, 61 Halls of Residence 36 Student Exchanges 25 > BMus, the degree 126 > History of Art 99 > Real Estate 112 Careers 32 Halls of Residence, Maps 60 Student Finance 26, 27 > BSc (Science), the degree 150 > Human Embryology and > Religious Studies 113 Centre for Lifelong Learning 68, 69, 70 Health and Support Services 24 Student Learning Service 23 > BSc Med Sci, the degree 142 Developmental Biology 181 > Scandinavian Studies 114 Chaplaincies 24 History & Excellence 8 Student Media 41 > BSc, degree list 150 > Immunology 182 > Science, degree courses 150 Charter, Students 24 How to Apply 67 Student Profiles 44 - 51 > BTh, the degree 118 > Industrial Placements/MSci degrees 175 > Science Programme (Part-time) 70 Childcare 24 Hub, Student Centre 42 Students’ Association 40, 41 > Business Information Systems 159 > Information Systems 159 > Scottish Studies 115 Choosing your Degree 64 International Exchange Scheme 25 Study Abroad 25 > Business Law, see Law 136 > Information Systems & Management 100 > Social Pedagogy (BASP) 71 City of Aberdeen 52 International Student Advisers 24, 30 Summer School for Access 68 > Celtic Civilisation 84 > International Relations 110 > Social Sciences, degrees 76 Clubs and Societies 40 International Student Fees 31 Support for Your Studies 24 > Celtic Studies 85 > Language & Linguistics 101 > Sociology 116 College of Arts and Social Sciences 11 International Students 30 Sustained Study Programme 17 > Chemical Engineering 130 > Languages and Literature of Scotland 102 > Spanish, see Hispanic Studies 97 College of Life Sciences and Medicine 11 Investing in Your Future 12, 13 Term Dates 3 > Chemistry 192 > Latin-American Studies, > Spanish Law 136 College of Physical Sciences 11 King’s College Campus 60 Travel to Aberdeen 58, 59 > Chemistry (MChem) 193 see Hispanic Studies 97 > Sports & Exercise Science 188 College Transfer 68 Key to Symbols 3 Tuition Fees 26, 27 > Childhood Practice (BACP) 71 > Law, degree list 136 > Sports Studies (Exercise and Health) 189 Computing Services 22 Language Centre 23 UCAS Address and University’s Code 67 > Christian and Religious Studies 70 > Legal Studies 103 > Teaching Qualification TQ(FE) 71 Contents 3 Learning Resources 22 UCAS Course Codes 198 > Civil Engineering 130 > Life Sciences, degree list 162 > Theology 118 Continuous Professional Library Services 23 University at a Glance 6, 7 > Computing (MA) 86 > Literature in a World Context 104 > Wildlife Management 172 Development (CPD) 32 Lifelong Learning, Centre for 68, 69, 70 University Timeline 12, 13 > Computing Science (BSc) 158 > LLB, the degree 136 > Zoology 173 Counselling Service 24 Maps 60, 61 Visiting the University 205 > Conservation Biology 165 > MA, degree list 76 Courses and Credits 64 Mature Students 67, 68, 70 Welfare 24 > Counselling Skills 70 > Management Studies 105 Curriculum Reform 14 Medical Practice 24 What’s Going On 56 > Dentistry 148 > Marine Biology 170 Deferred Entry 64 Money Adviser 27 Who’s Who 204 > Divinity and Theology 118 > Mathematics (BSc) 160 Disabilities, Students with 24 Museums and Collections 23 Widening Access Initiative 68 > Divinity (MA) 87 > Mathematics (MA) 106 Discipline Breadth Courses 16 Navy, Royal Navy Unit 27 Work Experience 17, 32 > Ecology 166 > MBChB, the degree 142 > Economics 88 > Mechanical Engineering 130 > Education, degree list 122 > Medical Sciences, degree list 174 > Education (Primary) 124 > Medicine 144 > Electrical Engineering 130 > MEng, the degree 130 > Electronic Engineering 130 > Microbiology 183 > Engineering, degree list 130 > Molecular Biology 184 > English 89 > Molecular Microbiology 183 > English and Scottish Literature 89 > Music Studies (MA) 107 204 The University of Aberdeen offers over Who’s Who & 600 programmes allowing you to mix, Acknowledgements match and switch subjects en route to Who’s Who & Acknowledgements Who’s Who Alumni Relations The University is grateful to the following your tailor-made degree. 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