Professor Mike Ewing Dean of Students Academic

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Professor Mike EwingDean of Students (Academic)

• UCL Degree Programmes
• an Overview

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• UCL has more than 70 departments and divisions
  grouped into eight faculties

• Arts Humanities
• Social Historical Sciences
• Laws
• Bartlett School of Architecture
• Engineering Sciences
• Mathematical Physical Sciences
• Biomedical Sciences
• Life Sciences

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Three Years or Four Years?

• Typical degrees are for three years and can
  include a term studying abroad usually in the
  final year, e.g. Anthropology or Geography.
• Increasingly UCL is offering four-year degrees
  with a year studying abroad, usually in the third
  year, in addition to Language degrees, e.g.
  Chemistry with a Year Abroad, Classics with a
  Year Abroad, History with a Year Abroad.
• Four-year degrees awarding a MEng or MSci for
  Engineering or Science programmes provide
  significant elements of Masters level training in
  their final year.

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Modular Degrees

• Vast majority of UCL degree programmes are
  modular based on course units - typically whole
  or half unit modules with students taking the
  equivalent of four course units per year and
  examinations every year.
• Compulsory core courses feature in all degree
  programmes, but options chosen by the student can
  include courses from other departments and even
  other universities within the University of
  London family which share the course-unit
  format.
• Thus students can build their own individual
  programme around their own interests.

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Non-modular Degrees

• English students take four courses per year but
  are examined at the end of the first year and the
  end of the third and final year only.
• Fine Art is normally a four-year programme in
  which the final year exhibition of work is the
  key element.
• Law students take five courses per year, are
  examined each year and must pass all exams to
  progress to the next year of study.
• Medicine is a six-year programme, again all exams
  must be passed each year and in the third or
  fourth year the students take a intercalated
  Science degree, e.g. Biology or Medical
  Anthropology.

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Generic Degrees

• Broad-based science degrees in which students can
  develop their interests as they progress.
• Biomedical Sciences
• Human Sciences
• Natural Sciences

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Combined Degrees

• A and B the student spends equal amount of time
  studying both subjects, e.g. Archaeology and
  Anthropology.
• A with B the students spends 75 on the first
  subject and only 25 on the second, e.g. BSc
  Mathematics with Economics.
• BA Modern Languages any two languages from a
  total of 21 to be studied together.
• BA Modern Language Plus allows a combination of a
  Language with an ever growing list of other
  subjects.

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Some Case Studies .

• BA Modern Languages
• MSci in Natural Sciences

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BA Modern Languages

• Chose any TWO of the following languages
• Dutch Russian
• French Scandinavian (choice of 4)
• German Spanish
• Hebrew East European (choice of 10)
• Italian Yiddish

A total of 45 degree combinations
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Modern Language Plus BA

• Languages Combined with Other Disciplines
• Dutch and English Italian and History of Art
  and History of Art and Jewish Studies and
  Management Studies and Management Studies
• with Management Studies Russian with Management
  Studies French and English Scandinavian Studies
  and English
• and History of Art and History of ArtGerman
  and English with Management Studies and
  History of Art Spanish and History of Art and
  Jewish Studies Spanish with Management Studies
  with Management Studies

Additionally, all the modern languages (as well
as Hebrew) may be studied together as 'and'
combinations with Latin History and Philosophy
of Science Science Communication and Policyand
as a with combination with Film Studies
A total of 55 degree programmes
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Natural Sciences Programme

• Combines courses from the Faculties of
• Mathematical and Physical Sciences
• and
• Life Sciences
• Students choose 2 streams from 15 streams in 6
  subject areas.
• The programme enables students who wish to
  maintain a breadth of science subjects to design
  a unique degree which is suited to their personal
  interests.

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Natural Sciences Streams
Physical Chemistry Inorganic and Materials
Chemistry Synthetic Organic Chemistry

• Chemistry
• Earth Sciences
• Life Sciences
• Mathematics Statistics
• Physics Astronomy
• Science Technology Studies

Earth Life and Surface Evolution Geophysical
Sciences
Biomedical Sciences Brain, Behaviour and
Cognition Environmental Biology Molecular and
Cell Biology
Astrophysics Atomic and Particle
Physics Condensed Matter Physics Medical Physics
History and Philosophy of Science
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Academic Structure of Natural Sciences

• Students choose two (compatible) streams. For
  example
• Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Biomedical
  Sciences
• Astrophysics and Geophysical Sciences

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And finally

• Any Questions?