UK
UK
Advertising and Marketing
Course overview
You will have the opportunity to work across a wide range of digital platforms as well as traditional media as you develop and execute real campaigns as part of your course. The course culminates in a pitch to clients of a top global agency, providing practical preparation for work in advertising and digital marketing roles.
Whatever your ambitions, we’re here to help you to achieve them.
Art and Design
Course overview
You will build confidence with various media, informed by historical and contemporary references, cultural and social contexts and the professional requirements you will need to meet when you graduate. We encourage our students to engage in live projects, competitions and exhibitions throughout the course.
You will learn through studio practice, specialist media workshops, professional study components and a programme of lectures and seminars. The course will give you an informed and critical understanding of contemporary practices and debates, encouraging the development of your creative and critical intelligence and showing you how to integrate innovative thinking with practical ability
Biological Sciences
Course overview
This Undergraduate and postgraduate course in Biological Sciences offers the hands-on practical learning required to give you true insight into life as a scientist.
You’ll learn in industry-standard laboratories designed to equip you with the practical knowledge and experience needed for a career in science.
Business Studies & Entrepreneurship
Course overview
This course allows students with a HND (or equivalent level 5 qualification) in business-related subjects to top-up to a full degree award.
You will gain a grounding in business management and build your competence in management functions such as basic accounting and business modelling.
Computing
Course overview
This Computing degree gives you the opportunity to explore different ideas, developing innovate solutions of improvements to current issues in the computing industry.
Throughout your degree you will cover software engineering methods, database implementation and system design, with multiple users and multiple platforms in mind. You will also study the background theory, including practical implications of knowledge based systems, neural networks and evolutionary algorithms on the development of artificial intelligence systems.
Economics, Accounting and Finance
Course Overview
The programme will build your understanding of contemporary economics both in the UK and overseas whilst providing you with practical skills and knowledge that will enhance your future employability. Upon completion of the Economics and Accounting Joint Honours programme you will be able to progress your career in business, government or politics or financial organisations stretching across any sector or industry.
Education
Course Overview
This course allows managers and leaders from a variety of educational settings to explore the nature of leadership and management in schools, government offices and NGOs. You will be given structured advice about your assignments and practical help with organising your work, undertaking research and managing your reading.
Engineering
Course Overview
Engineering is an evolving sector that needs engineers with a wide variety of knowledge and skills. Our Engineering course will give you the foundations, key principles and professional skills you need in modern engineering and related industries. Our staff have significant industrial experience and use the latest learning and teaching technology.
English
Course Overview
The course aims to provide you with a comprehensive and thorough understanding of English Literature from the earliest English literature and the Renaissance to the Victorians and the most contemporary literature. Through this course, you will develop your ability to understand and analyse literary texts and to have a true understanding of historical context and the theoretical framework in which they are set. You will engage with texts through extensive reading and consolidate your own responses by studying intellectual and historical contexts
Environmental Sciences
Course Overview
This interdisciplinary degree provides you with the opportunity to develop your knowledge of environmental science and to recognise its relevance to society at national and global levels. You will learn how environmental science can be used to help understand both natural and human-caused environmental change and the role that individuals, organisations, and governments play in addressing such issues.
Events, Tourism and Hospitality
Course Overview
The course provides a practical approach to the successful management of a wide range of events and activities in the tourism industry. It will be delivered to you around a variety of core subjects and option choices. Upon completion of the International Tourism Management and Events Management Joint Honours course you will be able to progress your career in the thriving and dynamic tourism and events industries.
Fashion
Course Overview
Fashion starts with textiles, and during this exciting course you will learn how to develop a wide range of textile applications to enhance your fashion collections. You will also use applique and embroidery to embellish and enhance your garments, dyeing your own fabrics and yarns to create personalised colour combinations. Live projects and competitions provide you with real time industry experience, and the range of careers available include the textile, accessories and garment design sectors for high street and high-end markets.
Health CPD
Course Overview
This module will enable students to develop knowledge and skills in relation to key mental health related practice. The module will support transference of knowledge into enhancing the student’s professional practice and promoting the development of others.
You will select and attend 5 study days, all of which can be accessed as CPD stand alone days. In addition, the following content will also be provided:
- Action planning
- Critical thinking
- Identifying an evidence base
- Development of self and others.
History, International Relations and Politics
Course Overview
International relations deals with the nature of the changing relations between states and with non-state actors. It studies the functioning of the international system – the forces, factors and interests, the customs, rules, norms, institutions and organisations from which the theory and history of its development are formed.
Human Resource Management
Course Overview
Human Resource Management covers extant theory to bear on the topic as well as typical practices, which will be followed by a class that analyse specific case. Students will read one or two academic articles on the topic and one case before each day’s lecture and class.
Journalism and Media
Course Overview
The course is designed to introduce students to professional broadcast news writing. The Students are taken through the principles and techniques of broadcast journalism as well as some practical skills in Radio and Television production.
Law
Course Overview
This Course is primarily concerned with English law, there are opportunities to study other legal systems, including civil (Roman) law, EU law and international law. You can also study theoretical and sociological aspects of law such as jurisprudence or parts of criminology.
Leather Making
Course Overview
This leather course provides a good understanding of all aspects of leather making. It will enhance your knowledge of leather and cover the basic fundamentals of leather and the leather production process. The improved understanding you will gain from this leather course will help you to avoid problems when sourcing and specifying leather products as well as providing confidence when dealing with suppliers, manufacturers and tanners.
Management and Logistics
Course Overview
This course provides a practical, management perspective of the following areas of logistics: distribution, transportation, international logistics, inventory control, sustainable logistics practices, key performance indicators, supply chain finance, leadership in a supply chain role, and an introduction to logistics technology including RFID and ERP systems. The course is designed for students who have had little or no previous coursework or professional experience in logistics.
MBA
Course Overview
Students in MBA programs learn to apply planning skills and strategies to everyday business operations. Electives can be used to complete concentration options, which are available in a broad range of areas, including finance, supply chain management, marketing and leadership. Students in these graduate degree programs often participate in hands-on experiences such as internships, workshops and group presentations.
Some programs provide integrative real-world workshops that help students develop their skills in international business, negotiations, networking and decision-making. Some common courses may include:
- Economics and International Business
- Marketing
- Accounting and Finance
- Managerial strategies
- Operations and organizational management
- IT management and strategy
Nursing and Midwifery
Course Overview
Nursing and Midwifery course will develop you into a highly employable, first-class midwife. You will follow a woman-centred approach to midwifery care thanks to a curriculum that has been highly commended by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
This course also includes themes such as applying bioscience knowledge to practice, tackling health inequalities and evidence-based practice.
Performing Arts
Course Overview
Performing arts courses provide artistic and dramatic instruction for prospective entertainers in the acting, music or dance industries. These degrees are commonly offered at the associate’s, bachelors and master’s degree levels.
Policing and Criminology
Course Overview
Policing and Criminology course gives you the opportunity to study a subject which is applied, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to become a reflective police officer or take on a broader criminal justice role. The course draws on social sciences, law, computing and business modules, and aims to give you an understanding of a discipline that is evolving theoretically and methodologically. It links theory to practice and seeks to apply learning in the field. You will also have a range of inputs from practitioners throughout the course.
Psychology, Counselling and Sociology
Course Overview
Sociology with Psychology allows you to focus predominantly on Sociology while broadening your understanding of social life through the study of Psychology.
Sociology is the systematic study of institutions, organisations and power and is concerned with the ways in which social relations between people emerge, are sustained and change. It also explores the opportunities and structural inequalities that define our everyday lives, including those related to: gender, class, race and migration.
Public and Professional Healthcare
Course Overview
This healthcare programme promotes advanced knowledge of public and professional health in areas of Occupational Therapy, Podiatry, Paramedic Science, Health Study, Health Sciences and Professional Practice. Paramedic Science, Podiatry, and Occupational Therapy programmes equip you with the knowledge and skills that you will require for professional practice through combining the theoretical study with hands-on learning in the University’s specialist labs and practical settings across public, private and independent sectors.
Social Work and Social Care
Course Overview
The course work of an undergraduate social work program covers human behavior, research methods, psychology and social work policy and practice. Since master’s programs are focused on clinical work, students in such programs take additional courses in clinical practice, behavioral treatment, drug and alcohol abuse intervention and adult psychopathology. Doctoral programs include significant coursework in research, statistics and social work theory.
Sport and Exercise
Course Overview
Sport and Exercise Science degree offers you the opportunity to study Sport and Exercise Science at one of the UK’s leading universities. You will develop your knowledge and understanding of the Sport and Exercise Sciences that will be underpinned by a thorough scientific appreciation of the disciplines of physiology, biochemistry, biomechanics, motor control and psychology.
Teacher Training
Course Overview
These courses will help you to reach qualified teacher status (QTS), a position that you must attain in order to launch your career in the teaching profession. They are internationally recognised teaching programs, which are ideal for both inexperienced students as well as experienced teachers who are currently employed. As a first step they will fully prepare you for any future teaching role, and will leave you more than ready to face students.
One of the main benefits of enrolling on this course is that it can lead to an immediate paid position in a field that has superb long term employment prospects.