📖Program Curriculum
The module details given below are indicative they are intended to provide you with an idea of the range of subjects that are taught to our current students. The modules that will be available for you to study in future years are prone to change as we regularly review our teaching to ensure that it is up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. The information presented is therefore not intended to be construed and/or relied upon as a definitive list of the modules available in any given year.
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Year one modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Mechanics Gravity and Relativity
Nature of matter
Oscillations and Waves
Electricity and Stellar Structure
Understanding Learning
Education in Britain:past present future
OPTIONAL MODULES
Childhood Policy and Education
Back to the Future: issues in the history of schooling
Social inequalities in the contemporary world
Too Poor to Learn: Poverty Education and Social Policy
Modern Democracies
Classical Sociology
Year two modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Quantum Mechanics
Optics and Thermodynamics
Stellar Astrophysics
Statistical Mechanics and Solid State Physics
Education Matters: Contemporary Issues and Debates in Education
Research Strategies and Methods in Education
OPTIONAL MODULES
Play Power and Pedagogy
British Government and Politics
Globalisation and its Discontents
Special Education: introduction to theory and practice
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
Education placement
Year three modules
COMPULSORY MODULES
Electromagnetism
Astrophysics Group Project and Science Communication - ISP
OPTIONAL MODULES
Polymer Physics
Binary Stars and Extrasolar Planets
Computational Methods in Physics and Astrophysics
Data Analysis and Model Testing
Particle Physics and Accelerators
Two-Dimensional (2D) Materials
Cosmology
The Physics of Interstellar Medium
The Physics of Compact Objects
Quantum Physics of Atoms and Molecules
Life in the Universe
Quantum Mechanics II
Physics of Fluids
Atmospheric Physics
Plasma Physics
General Relativity Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Inclusive Education
Sociology of Parenting and Early Childhood
Moving People: Migration emotion identity
Independent Research Project - ISP
Race Politics and Education
Education Work and Identity
Higher Education: policy and the student experience
Consuming Nature