International Foundation Year in Engineering and Computing

Core modules focus on your English language and university-level study skills. At the end of the programme you will feel confident in taking notes, writing essays, giving presentations, and contributing to discussions. Study areas include:

Academic English Skills*

• develop your English communication skills
• presenting and seminar preparation
• time management and organisational skills
• meeting deadlines and responding to feedback

Project and research skills

• a self-study project related to your undergraduate degree
• completed over two terms.

*Subject to approval

Subject modules that relate to Engineering and Computing give you the academic knowledge and confidence you need to progress to your chosen degree.

Study areas include:

Pure Mathematics 1, 2 & 3

• Set theory
• Geometry
• Calculus and applications
• Mathematical induction
• Number theory
• Graph theory
• Group theory

Applied Mathematics 1 & 2

• Mechanics of point masses
• Newton’s Laws of Motion
• Momentum and energy conservation
• Mathematics of vectors
• Variable acceleration
• Objects modelled as rigid bodies

Physics 1 & 2

• Sound and electromagnetic waves
• Heat and gases
• Structure of the atom and nucleus
• Radioactivity
• Energetics of nuclear reactions
• Electrical current and charge
• Storing charge and capacitors
• Electromagnetic induction
• Alternating currents
• Gravitational and electrostatic 14th
• Electromagnetic fields