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Saturday 22 June Saturday 6 July Saturday 7 September Sheffield of University The Saturday 19 October www.sheffield.ac.uk Undergraduate Prospectus 2021 Prospectus Undergraduate The University of Sheffield Back to Contents Undergraduate Prospectus 2021 A World Top 100 University QS World University Rankings 2020 99% of research submitted to REF is internationally recognised, excellent or world leading Research Excellence Framework 2014 No 1 Students’ Union for three years in a row Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2017–19 2nd in the Russell Group for overall satisfaction National Student Survey 2019 6 Nobel Prize winners No 1 in the north for graduate employment The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020 Top 50 most international universities in the world Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019 500+ undergraduate scholarships in 2019 Proud of our history, 8,443 focused on the future international students from 154 different countries The University of Sheffield is a member of the 29,666 prestigious Russell Group of 24 leading UK research students in total universities. We’ve been advancing knowledge and driving social change for over one hundred years. 4 The University of Sheffield Undergraduate Prospectus 2021 5 Contents Subjects Subject index 5 Accounting and Financial Geography 116 This is who we are 6 Management 40 Health and Human Sciences 119 Teaching excellence 8 Aerospace Engineering 43 Health Professions at Sheffield 121 Innovative teaching 10 Archaeology 46 History 123 Our research 12 Architecture 49 Journalism Studies 126 Scholarships 14 Automatic Control Landscape Architecture 128 and Systems Engineering 51 Sustainable Sheffield 16 Languages at Sheffield 130 Biochemistry 54 Careers 18 Law 132 Bio-dental Science and Technology 56 Our story 20 Materials Science and Engineering 135 Bioengineering 58 Sheffield 22 Mathematics and Statistics 138 Biology 61 Accommodation 24 Mechanical Engineering 141 Biomedical Science 64 Student support 26 Medicine 144 Biosciences at Sheffield 67 Global opportunities 28 Microbiology 147 Business Management 69 Sport 30 Modern Languages and Cultures 149 Chemical Engineering 72 Students’ Union 32 Molecular Biology 152 Chemistry 75 Explore your options 34 Music 155 Civil and Structural Engineering 78 Open days 36 Nursing 158 Computer Science 81 How to find a course 38 Orthoptics 160 Dental Hygiene and Dental Therapy 84 Education for all 196 Philosophy 162 Dental Surgery 87 Disability information 196 Physics and Astronomy 165 East Asian Studies 90 Foundation courses for Plant Sciences 168 Ecology and Conservation Biology 93 international students 197 Politics and International Relations 171 Economics 96 Mature students 198 Politics, Philosophy and Economics 174 Education Culture and Childhood 99 Fees and financial support 200 Psychology 176 Electronic and Applying 204 Social Sciences 178 Electrical Engineering 101 Admissions requirements 208 Sociological Studies 181 Engineering at Sheffield 104 Qualifications 208 Software Engineering 184 English 106 Campus map 212 Speech and Language Therapy 186 Environmental Science 109 Getting here 214 Urban Studies and Planning 188 General Engineering 112 Key facts 216 Zoology 191 Genetics 114 6 The University of Sheffield Back to Contents Undergraduate Prospectus 2021 7 This is who we are Students harvesting plants grown in our controlled environment facility. Sheffield is a leading research Our international community and global Our way of doing things attracts the Change is what we do. university with a global reputation for connections are part of what makes us a best minds in the world. Our staff excellence. We’re socially responsible, world-leading university. We celebrate advise governments and multinational This is a university with a strong sense of environmentally aware, and committed diversity and we’re proud of our companies. They write books and create purpose. Take advantage of everything it to sustainability in everything we do. welcoming, progressive, friendly city. new technologies. Their work influences has to offer and you won’t just graduate The knowledge we generate helps to policy and changes lives. We want you with honours – you’ll graduate with insight, make the world a better place. We believe that our teaching should to change things too. We want you to skills and experience that set you apart. reflect the world we live in. University understand how knowledge is generated Choosing Sheffield means choosing to should prepare you for life. This ethos and how it helps people. That’s why we live and study in a truly international drives everything we do. give you opportunities to engage with and environment. contribute to the latest research. 8 The University of Sheffield Back to Contents Undergraduate Prospectus 2021 9 The most talented students choose Sheffield because they want to be challenged. They don’t expect to be given all the answers. The Sheffield experience is about learning how to find the answers yourself. Sometimes there is no right answer. Sharing ideas and debating different points of view is part of the learning process. Exciting, energising discussions are part of everyday student life. We want to hear what you think. We expect you to challenge us too. We listen When it comes to what you learn, and how you learn it, we aim for the right balance. We want you to get the knowledge and skills you’ll need on your path through life. That’s why we listen to our partners in the professions, in industry, the public Teaching excellence sector and the arts when putting our courses together. It’s also why we listen to you. We work with you This is a community where the atmosphere is supportive and collegial. So we don’t see teaching as a one-way process. We see it as students and academics working together at the highest level. We’re here to help you find your own path just as we are finding ours. We give you the resources you need Study spaces and computers are available around the clock to offer you choice and flexibility for your study. Our five library sites give you access to over 1.3 million books and periodicals. You can You have a say We use feedback from student surveys to make the access your library account and our rich digital University a better place to study. Our students said they’d collections from anywhere on or off campus. like access to lecture content so they can use it to revise later Other library services include study skills training on. We now record the majority of lectures and make them available on our online learning environment. to improve your grades, and tailored advice from experts in your subject. 10 The University of Sheffield Back to Contents Undergraduate Prospectus 2021 11 At Sheffield you’ll have the chance to Whatever you do, you’ll do it under the Some things can’t be work with students from different subject supervision of passionate teachers and areas, as well as external organisations world class researchers. They teach learned from books and local communities where you could this way because it makes you a more really make a difference. You might be active citizen and because it’s the best involved in something directly linked to preparation for a truly rewarding career. Our academics use innovative methods your subject, like an engineering challenge to give you the best learning experience, or an architecture project. The most employable graduates inside and outside the classroom. understand their subject from every perspective. The most effective professionals know how to work with people from other fields. Our students make things happen We challenged a group of engineering students to come up with solutions to problems that people with disabilities face everyday. The project, Hackcessible, has seen them work alongside disabled co-designers to try and break down barriers to current technology. If you have an idea for a project of your own, or you want to start a business, we can support you in that too. 12 The University of Sheffield Back to Contents Undergraduate Prospectus 2021 13 Research at the University of Sheffield changes lives, influences policy and feeds directly into what you’re taught. Our four flagship research institutes bring together our key strengths to tackle some of the worlds most important social, Our research economic and health challenges. Energy Institute Developing fuel alternatives Sheffield engineers are tackling climate change by removing barriers to low carbon transport in the UK. Working with industry and other academic institutes, they’re developing new, low-carbon liquid fuels as well as electric and hybrid aircraft technologies that are crucial to the future of the aviation industry. Neuroscience Institute Repairing nerves with 3D printing Institute for Sustainable Food The nerve that connects the brain to parts of the face and Feeding the world with foam mouth can sometimes become damaged during dental Experts at Sheffield are tackling the crisis of soil fertility Healthy Lifespan Institute surgery. Previous methods of repairing this nerve have by developing a system of growing crops in foam. Using Delaying the onset of age related diseases left many patients with permanent life-altering injuries. foam instead of soil could take a lot of pressure off existing Geroprotectors are a class of drug with the potential to Researchers from the University’s School of Clinical Dentistry agricultural systems, enabling us to feed our growing boost resilience to age related diseases. Researchers from have developed pioneering new ways to repair this nerve population using fewer resources. This low-cost system has the University of Sheffield are investigating these drugs using 3D printing. The school is now a world-leader in this already been used to install hydroponics systems made from and developing treatments for patients that target multiple field and the only known institute in the country capable of used mattresses at a refugee camp in Jordan.