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Derby Street A6053 School of THE TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES Farnworth GOOD UNIVERSITY Central Park Creative GUIDE 2019 +44 (0)1204 903 903 /UniversityofBolton Welcome to Gas St #UniAsItShouldBe [email protected] @BoltonUni Technologies www.bolton.ac.uk @BoltonUni Cross St 4th Deane Rd, Bolton, BL3 5AB /UniversityofBolton Wellington St Barncroft Rd Queen St A575 Come It’s simple... and explore in the UK for Teaching We pride ourselves on Quality | The Times & Open Days/Access All Areas our teaching quality The opportunity to research th Sunday Times These provide a great opportunity to discover more 4 and explore anything we can about life at the University of Bolton and how we can help your career ambitions. You’ll get to speak think of, and the freedom to to our passionate lecturers, and hear first-hand from We focus on providing a in the North West for Student work specific to my our students about the wonderful courses we offer. 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Our highly experienced staff bring personal experience from their specific fields of expertise, which combines with practical hands-on training in our purpose-built multi-million pound facilities, including @UoBvfx dedicated studio spaces. The university works closely with leading creative businesses, providing work experience, placements and interactions, to give our @sfx_bolton students a competitive edge in their dream career. @Make_up_fx_bolton_university Courses: Computing 3 Special Effects for Film & TV 11 Computing (Cyber Security) 4 Special Effects Modelmaking for Film & TV 12 Computer Networks & Security 5 Special Make-up Effects Software Engineering 6 for Film & TV 13 Games Art 7 Visual Effects & Animation 14 Games Design 8 MA Games Development 15 Games Programming 9 Apprenticeships 16 2 Computing (Cyber Security) Computing Cyber security focuses on protecting Our computing course gives you data and information systems from cyber a grounding in essential computing breaches. 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We deliver the industry standard Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) curriculum in our networking modules. BEng (Hons) Software Engineering BSc (Hons) Computing Networks & Security We are the first UK university to become a RedHat Software Engineering with Foundation Academy, incorporating RedHat Linux certification training Computing Networks & Security with BEng (Hons) BSc (Hons) (4 years) into our modules. Foundation (4 years) For more detailed course information, including UCAS codes and entry 5 For more detailed course information, including UCAS codes and entry requirements visit www.uob.ac/ct requirements visit www.uob.ac/ct 6 Games Art Develop your artistic talents and Academic Partner % technical knowledge to enter a career Student93 Satisfaction in the exciting games industry. 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