In your future career you will be expected to explain the technical aspects of your work both to other professionals and to the non-specialist. A Key Skills module plays an integral part and is a compulsory module for all of our Single Honours programmes. This module will ensure that you have the communication and transferable skills necessary for the modern and changing workplace. Developments in computing, especially in the field of Computer Algebra, are making a major impact on mathematical research, and can also add interest to the teaching of mathematics. Our programmes exploit computers whenever they can be used to develop mathematical insight, and our experience is that you will find the computer practical work both enjoyable and helpful, even for the more theoretical parts of the programme.
All students have an opportunity for project work in their final year.
In all these areas you will receive help and advice from your tutors, and the skills that you will acquire as a result are highly valued by employers. Assessment Assessment for all of the degrees is by a combination of examinations and coursework. The examinations are the more important part of the process, but the assessed coursework helps students to work steadily throughout their degree. This is particularly important in Mathematics where the subject matter develops logically from fairly simple beginnings. In the third and fourth years the Key Skills and Mathematical Sciences Project modules, as well as several other mathematics modules, will allow you to undertake further assessed coursework contributing to your overall degree classification.