Explore the forces that shape our world by studying the structures, actors, and policy-making processes of international relations. This module equips students with the knowledge and skills to assess and apply competing theories of world politics, and to discuss great matters of international concern. Learning activities are designed to encourage students to propose and debate solutions to real-world problems related to security, human rights, global political economy, international development, the environment, war and peace, and migration. The module provides an opportunity for students to strengthen their research skills, to become critical thinkers, and to evaluate and advocate big ideas for changing the world.
This module is designed to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of theoretical aspects of interpreting, along with an introduction to practical aspects including interpreting technology and devices. Through active engagement in various exercises, students are expected to enhance their skills in adapting interpreting techniques and strategies for effectively navigating the challenges found in professional settings. Throughout the semester, students will be able to analyse their practice in relation to professional standards, reflect on challenges, and develop solutions.
This module will introduce you to the study of language, culture and communication, and the ways in which they are connected. Language is understood as a form of social action that allows us to carry out everyday activities through our communicative practices (construct images of ourselves, make friends, ask for information, convince others, etc.). Communicative practices shape our world, but at the same time are shaped by the different instances that form that world (cultural knowledge, institutions, society, social groups, norms, etc).
Machine Learning advances are revolutionising our world. At a fundamental level, Machine Learning deals with the extraction of useful information from large and complex datasets. There are now many applications, from the automatic understanding and processing of written text, the automatic detection of obstacles in stereo camera images in self driving cars or the recognition of human speech as in virtual digital assistants. Machine learning is a broad discipline, requiring a basic understanding of many areas of science, from mathematical and statistical concepts to computational techniques. This module focusses on the fundamental concepts of modern Machine Learning for students studying engineering disciplines other than computer science and electronic engineering. The module will cover a range of fundamental principles, introduce state of the art techniques and will allow you to develop the practical skills to implement these techniques to analyses real world data to solve realistic engineering challenges.
This module provides you with a broad view on key management related topics. It also provides a chance for you to gain hands-on experience on teamwork through preparation and delivery of a group presentation as part of the module assessment. The lectures are supplemented with a number of interactive classes, which give you in depth understanding of the important subjects discussed in the lectures.
This course will cover the formation of ocean basins; the role of mid-ocean ridges in basin scale processes; structure and geological processes at continental margins; sedimentary processes within and on the boundaries of ocean basins; and the past history and impact of sea level change. In addition, methodologies will be covered including the principles and survey design considerations behind bathymetric, echo-sounder, side-scan sonar and seismic methods. Emphasis will be placed on the use of these techniques in both research-led and commercially-led environments. Experience collecting data at sea and practical analysis of example datasets will be included.
This module introduces you to the scope and role of marketing within an organisation and the dynamic business environment in which it operates. Key components of the macro and micro environment are identified giving students the knowledge and skills required to analyse and interpret key stakeholders, e.g. customers and competitors. This lays the foundation for how value is created for shareholders and customers using the marketing mix.
The module introduces you to the basic concepts of marketing and explains its function in today’s business environment. You will discuss principal theory and practice of marketing and how marketing builds value to the firm and the customer with examples and assessment work. The outcomes from the module is to provide students with a grounding of the role and importance of marketing and provide basic skills enabling the student to analyse and consider marketing problems and opportunities.
This module provides a bridge between school mathematics and university mathematics. It provides a good grounding and in-depth understanding of the theory and application of differential calculus, and other techniques widely used in Economics and Finance. It is aimed at students who do not hold an A level in Mathematics at Grade B or above. It is compulsory for Joint-Honours courses with Economics for students who are not taking ECON1008. The module can also be taken as an optional module by students outside Economics who wish to follow a basic quantitative mathematics course. Topics of study include functions, univariate optimisation, elasticity, financial mathematics, multivariate optimisation, constrained optimization, matrices, integration and difference and differential equations. The module is designed to prepare students for further quantitative modules in 2nd and 3rd year. It also complements the teaching of first year microeconomics and macroeconomics modules.
Medical Engineering (or Biomedical Engineering) is an exciting and multidisciplinary field that combines expertise in a wide range of engineering techniques, anatomy and physiology, medicine, healthcare and the personal and societal context in which patients and their carers live, and in which health-services and the healthcare industry operates. This module aims to provide an overview of technologies, and provide an awareness of the diverse challenges that form the background to research, development and use of Healthcare Technologies.
This introductory module will orientate and support your induction to the programme and learning environment. The module is focused on presentational teaching skills at the level of the individual learning session. You will be given an overview of the process of planning, delivering, and assessing learning sessions. You will have an opportunity to explore a range of teaching and learning techniques you can implement in your own practice. The diverse demographic of our students on this programme will provide you with opportunities to learn with and from other peoples’ experience. The model will assess an online micro-teaching learning session that you produce and deliver, a short video / audio presentation with assessment activity. You will be given an opportunity to critically evaluate your own practice and link your teaching to theory and research in the field.
Operational Research (OR) uses mathematical modelling and optimisation to solve complex, real-life problems. This module will introduce some key OR techniques that are widely used to support important decisions in a wide range of applications including transportation, healthcare, finance, manufacturing and telecommunication. The emphasis of the lectures will be on introducing the mathematics of OR techniques but with careful consideration of where and how they could be implemented in practice. Workshops are used to develop skills in using specialist computer modelling software. The module is assessed via coursework and an exam.
The module will provide trainee audiologists as firm background in the issues involved in paediatric audiology, including child, speech and language development, childhood hearing impairment and it’s multifaceted impact, paediatric hearing assessment and the important of early intervention. The module runs across Semester 1 of Year 3 and will involved lectures, self-directed individual work, online resources, quizzes and, building on your experiences during the summer placements, some practical introductions to paediatric hearing assessment related to the Individual Record of Clinical Practice.
