Faculty of Arts

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Faculty of Arts

• Welcome to new undergraduate students
• 30 September 2009
• by
• Professor Roger Middleton
• Head, School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts

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Faculties of the University

• Arts
• Engineering
• Medical Veterinary Sciences
• Medicine Dentistry
• Science
• Social Sciences Law

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Faculty of Arts

• Faculty Officers
• Professor Charles Martindale Dean
• Dr Vanda Zajko Education Director (Undergraduate)
• Ms Paula Coonerty Arts Faculty Manager

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Academic Schools/ Departments in Arts

• School of Arts
• Archaeology Anthropology Drama, Music,
  Philosophy
• School of Humanities
• English Classics Ancient History Historical
  Studies Theology Religious Studies
• School of Modern Languages
• French German Hispanic, Portuguese Latin
  American Studies Italian Russian

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Facts and figures

• Student Statistics 2008/9
• (Arts in parenthesis)
• Undergraduates 12,963 (2,774)
• Postgraduates 5,181 (536)
• Total 18,144 (3,310)
• Finance
• In 2009/10 the University has a combined current
  and capital budget approaching 400m, making it
  the largest economic unit in the city.

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How good are you?

• Average UCAS tariff score for 2008 entry
• Arts 440.5
• Engineering 465.7
• Medical and Veterinary Science 437.8
• Medicine and Dentistry 457.8
• Science 469.2
• Social Sciences and Law 436.5
• Average 451.4
• Ratio of Home applicants to places (Arts) 13.71

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How good are we (part I)?

• University of Bristol regularly appears very
  highly rated in the various league tables
• National
• The Times (2010) 10th
• Global
• QS World University rankings 32nd

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How good are we (part II)?

• Research Assessment Exercise, 2008
• 93 of research was deemed to be of international
  standard (world-leading), with UoB ranked 12th
  in the UK
• Employability of graduates
• Employers are interested in recruiting graduates
  with evidence of the following skills
  Communication Teamwork Leadership
  Interpersonal Problem solving Time management .
• A Bristol degree is highly rated by
  UK/international employers and, if you are likely
  to do further study, other British and
  international universities

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The university experience

• Academic
• Your tutors and lecturers
• Your fellow-students
• Your degree programme
• Non-academic
• Your friends, and other students
• Societies, clubs, etc.
• University bodies

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University Student Services

• Student Health Service
• Counselling
• Hall wardens and tutors
• Your academic and personal tutors
• Dean of Undergraduate Studies
• Careers Advisory Service
• Chaplaincy
• Students Union Welfare, Nightline

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Information Services

• Library tours organised by your department
• Registration for University library and computing
  facilities
• 13 libraries, near your department, with access
  to thousands of printed and electronic resources
• Photocopying, printing and scanning facilities
• 24 hour access to computing facilities across the
  campus
• Off-campus access via the internet and the Resnet
  service
• Access to other HE libraries during vacations,
  for reading
• Help in finding and using information
• A supportive study environment

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Your degree programme
- comprises units - each unit bears a credit
point rating - you normally take 120 credit
points each year - you must get 360 credit
points to graduate with an honours BA - you
must normally get 120 credit points to progress
to the next year - and you must pass almost all
your units to progress in (and get) an honours
degree.

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The academic year 2009/10

• Autumn term
• Monday 28 September - Friday 11 December
• Spring term
• Friday 8 January - Friday 19 March
• Summer term
• Monday 19 April - Friday 18 June

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Assessment

• - mixed, combining essays, project work, other
  assignments and end of unit/year examination
• - degree examinations mostly in late May and
  early June
• - resit examinations in early September

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University Finance

• You are making a big financial and time (in terms
  of earnings foregone) commitment by coming to the
  University.
• Graduate premium the extra lifetime earnings
  from being taking a first degree, and especially
  from Bristol
• Income and expenditure side of your degree (here
  for a HUMs student 2009/10)

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HUMs Student 2009/10
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What does UoB stand for?

• University of Bristol
• A passion for excellence
• Making a positive difference to the world
• Great past (2009 is our centenary year) and a
  greater future
• Investing for that greater future
• You are part of that investment

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Faculty of Arts

• Welcome to new undergraduates
• 30 September 2009