We also offer an additional foundation year should your qualifications not be sufficient for direct entry into the first year. The academic year comprises two semesters, each made up of twelve teaching weeks and an assessment period. You will take six module equivalents each semester, making twelve in a full year, and thirty-six over the three academic years of the course. Your first year concentrates on the development of skills necessary for group project work in the second and third years.
Core modules introduce the important themes of computing, control and information, and electronics.
Common modules are taught in all courses, in your first year you will study modules along with students on the other Cybernetics courses. In subsequent years, though, our courses diverge, and you will choose from a number of different options and electives. During the second and third years, you will follow programmed project work, assessed by individual and group reports,and oral presentations, examination and formal courses assessed by examination and or coursework. Computing, control and information and electronics are important themes covered in the first year. Whatever your qualifications, we are prepared to be flexbile, as we genuinely believe that real enthusiasm for the subject and the course can be as important as formal qualifications.