UNDERGRADUATE 2021 UNDERGRADUATE OPEN DAYS 2021 UNDERGRADUATE 8 APRIL • 17 JUNE 25 JANUARY • 15 FEBRUARY The highest award (Gold) for teaching 21 OCTOBER • 18 NOVEMBER excellence at UK universities 4 APRIL • 13 JUNE 17 OCTOBER • 7 NOVEMBER SWANSEA UNIVERSITY WHERE BRIGHT FUTURES BEGIN Swansea University Swansea University SWAN SWAN [email protected] #SwanseaUni +4 4 (0)179 2 2 95111 S93 S93 swansea.ac.uk UNDERGRADUATE 2021 WELCOME TO The highest award (Gold) for teaching excellence at UK universities based on 41,000+ student reviews collected overall STUDENT UK TOP TOP UK 0 SATISFACTION (National Student Survey 2019) WHERE BRIGHT FUTURES BEGIN Swansea University is an ambitious university, renowned for its academic COURSE and teaching reputation, friendliness and inclusivity. The University was founded in TOP UK 5 SATISFACTION 1920 as a place of academic excellence to complement the region’s rich industrial (Guardian University League Table 2020) connections. Since then, the University has gone from strength to strength. Our stunning waterfront campuses and friendly welcome make Swansea University a desirable destination for students from all over the world, enabling those who join us CAREER to develop skills and knowledge that will set them on successful and enriching careers. UK TOP TOP UK PROSPECTS Our figures speak for themselves with career prospects Top 5 in the UK*. Our student satisfaction 5 rates are reflected in the fact that we won the title of WhatUni University of the Year and are (Guardian University League Table 2020) ranked Top 10 in the UK for student satisfaction (National Student Survey 2019**). This is a very exciting time for the University and we welcome you to be a part of it. * Guardian University League Table 2020 MOST AFFORDABLE **Based on a list of UK universities as featured in the 2019 Times Good University Guide UK UNIVERSITY TOWN UK TOP TOP UK 0 (TotallyMoney.com 2019) OPEN DAYS 2020 GREENEST 25 JAN • 15 FEB • 4 APR • 13 JUN • 17 OCT • 7 NOV TOP UK 0 UNIVERSITY (Guardian People and Planet University league 2019) BOOK YOUR PLACE TODAY: swansea.ac.uk/open-days NERVOUS? 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How to Apply STUDIES? 28 SPORT out Student Services from our Admissions sections also provide detailed Keep a look out for 31 FACILITIES office on making information on our offer, including the aeroplane symbol an application our ‘guaranteed offer’ of a place throughout the 35 SUSTAINABILITY course pages 36 STUDENT SUPPORT AND WELFARE PAGES 148-151 38 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT INFORMATION DON’T JUST TAKE WORRIED YOU MAY NOT GET 42 INTEGRATED FOUNDATION YEAR OUR WORD FOR IT… PAGE 36 THE GRADES? WE CAN HELP 48 A-Z COURSES Find out more from our current Explore your options; we have a variety of Integrated Foundation Year students about living and studying 134 COURSE REFERENCE GRID programmes with a range of acceptable qualifications. See the Foundation at Swansea Uni pages and look out for the foundation symbol on each course page GETTING HERE 145 INDEX AND AROUND PAGE 42 PAGE 10 146 FEES AND FUNDING We’re closer 148 HOW TO APPLY than you think! THINKING OF MANAGING Check out travel times 152 YOUR NOTES STUDYING THROUGH to Swansea and find 153 MAP YOUR MONEY out how easy it is to THE MEDIUM OF WELSH? Find out typical living costs get from campus to Look out for the speech as a student in Swansea and campus and from bubble throughout the full details on fees, funding campus to city course pages and scholarships PAGES 17 + 146 PAGES 12-15 + 153 02 03 We are combatting global challenges using interdisciplinary research by encouraging RESEARCH original thinking and collaborative working. UK TOP TOP UK UNIVERSITY Our research is helping prevent, combat, and (Research30 Excellence Framework (REF 2014-2021)) reverse global challenges; making a difference We are a Top 30 Research University, RESEARCH-LED UNIVERSITY to people’s lives and industry. We are: with 90% of our research being rated as • Understanding animal behaviour. Pioneered at world-leading or internationally excellent Swansea University, the Smart Daily Diary Tag is for the impact it makes in our society. helping researchers influence conservation plans for the fortune of species across the globe. At Swansea University we have • Helping to improve the health of the population world-leading experts who actively through developing microneedles and assessing undertake research on-site and across safety levels of nanomaterials. the world through global collaborations • Making sure history is not forgotten by and with businesses and organisations preserving ancient monuments, and internationally. This research not only helps underpin courses with applied and • Encouraging fairness, ensuring the safety of individuals relevant information, but also encourages and communities across the world through influencing policy, and having a human centred approach to our students to learn and think in critical digital technologies. and original ways, seeking questions as well as answers. Many of our researchers teach on courses here too, which means you could be working with international experts and frontiers in their fields. As EXPLORING you progress, you could become part of their research team, helping to explore, GLOBAL PROBLEMS prevent, and solve global problems. You can help change the world and overcome global challenges, LISTEN TO OUR by working with world-renowned EXPLORING academics, using leading research GLOBAL PROBLEMS facilities, and collaborating with PODCAST global connections with us. FIND OUT MORE: swansea.ac.uk/research Download it now from SWANSEA.AC.UK/PODCASTS 04 05 ARTS Swansea is a vibrant centre for art and The Glynn Vivian GET TO KNOW Art Gallery is widely recognised as the city’s premier venue for art exhibitions. All national museums and art galleries in Wales are free to enter, so you can soak up our history and join one of the many trips organised by Swansea University’s Students’ Union. THE TALIESIN ARTS CENTRE The Taliesin Arts Centre sits at the heart of the Singleton Park Campus and hosts regular productions, mainstream and alternative cinema screenings, a restaurant, bar, and the award-winning Egypt Centre, home to a collection of over 5000 Egyptian antiquities. I do like a good market, and I am lucky that where I live in the Uplands, we have a monthly market where local growers, producers, farmers and caterers sell their wares. This is a cute little market, so if like me you love food and trinkets ON YOUR DOORSTEP give it a visit! On the Gower Peninsula you can unwind in the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, relax on award-winning beaches and Joanna Wolton, student blogger explore unspoilt countryside, with the Brecon Beacons National Park just a 30 minute drive away. The region has some of the UK’s studentblogs.swan.ac.uk best locations for coastal path walks, surfing, cycling, watersports, rock climbing and golf; for the adventure sport enthusiast to the lazy walk on the beach, there’s something for everyone. HOME OF DYLAN THOMAS MUMBLES Swansea’s most famous son, Dylan Thomas, Birthplace of Catherine Zeta Jones, the quaint village of Mumbles said: “Swansea is still the best” and the poet’s is host to a great variety of shops, cafes, wine bars, pubs and legacy can be found throughout the city from restaurants. Take a stroll and enjoy an ice cream at one of the cafes to pubs and parks. many parlours dotted along the promenade or grab a bite to eat at one of the Oyster Wharf seafront cafes/restaurants overlooking Swansea Bay. MUSIC & FESTIVALS SHOPPING Wales is famed as the ‘land of song’ and as a student at Shop big high street names as well as independent boutiques, Swansea University you won’t be disappointed by the specialist shops and traditional arcades. You can visit designer range of music on offer across the city! Swansea boasts a boutiques in Mumbles, shop vintage outlets in Uplands or pick up huge variety of music venues and plays host to a number a bargain in Wales’ largest indoor market in the heart of the city. of music festivals and events throughout the year. Brecon Beacons, Wales 06 07 SUMMER BALL Swansea University’s festival-style TRY JOE’S Summer Ball takes place on the ICE-CREAM meadow in front of the University’s Singleton Abbey and is a big night Whether it’s a sunny summer’s in the student calendar. The event day or the temperatures drop regularly attracts high profile acts TOP 10 – headliners have included ENJOY THE NIGHT LIFE below zero, you’ll always find a queue of people outside Pendulum, Rudimental, Pixie Lott, Wind Street is a cafe quarter by Swansea’s legendary ice Tim Minchin, Sub Focus and day and a party paradise by night cream parlour. Florence and the Machine. where twenty bars and restaurants line a 160m stretch of road.