The course has been developed to meet the nursing needs of the increasing population of people with mental health problems. It aims to prepare graduates to become dynamic, reflective and highly skilled professionals able to work as fully integrated members of the psychiatric multi-disciplinary team. The main focus of mental health nursing’s responsibilities is working with people and the course offers opportunities for personal growth, interpersonal skills development and the foundations of evidence based interventions to enable them to do so as self directed practitioners.
The programme is aimed to prepare graduates to take up the M.Pharm programme whereby the latter leads to a degree in pharmacy. The course provides the entry requirements to join the M.Pharm programme.
The programme is intended to provide: a) An understanding of underlying scientific basis of current and future operations and processes involved in the development, manufacture and handling of medicines and medical devices. b) Training in an approach to trouble-shoot product and process technologies that are used in the development and use of medicines. c) Skills in dispensing and compounding of medicines.
The first three years of the course are mainly academic, while the final year is dedicated solely to supervised clinical practice. During the first semester of the final year, students are encouraged to obtain clinical practice overseas utilising one of the several Erasmus agreements that the Physiotherapy Division has with major universities throughout Europe. On completion of the course the graduate will have the skills necessary to prevent, diagnose and treat any condition that influences the physical function and performance of the body.
This course aims to prepare professional podiatrists to meet the requirements of a population with regards to foot treatments and foot health promotion and foot care education. The course design follows internationally recognized criteria for teaching and training in the classroom and in the clinical field. The podiatry course is tailored to fit current practices in the field with the aim of providing evidence based practice.
This three-year program will provide students with: a sound background in scientific knowledge; familiarity with the current debate and discourse in science; an opportunity to experience interdisciplinary approaches to science in the community; experiences of inquiry-based methodologies; communication skills to facilitate community engagement in science; and practical experiences in the organisation and evaluation of non-formal and informal science education initiatives.
This B.Sc (Hons) in Sport and Physical Activity will surpass disciplinary limits in order to adopt a holistic approach to sport as a tool for development. Various components will be emphasized throughout the course with an emphasis on the development of the different personnel involved in sporting and physical activities. A particular emphasis on coaching and sport development responsibilities within the physical activity, sport and leisure sector will be made.
This programme is true to the nature of technology because although it relates significantly with areas such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and art to name but a few, it also creates new combinations and boundaries of such technologically related domains. Within this course there are study-units that are intended to enable technological capability that is to 'do' technology as opposed to just learning about it. However, there are other study-units which are then targeted towards developing a reflective perspective on technology and its interaction with the human being, that is, how technology may be used or misused, learnt and taught.
The Computing and Business Degree programme actually provides the ideal skill-set for those students who wish to orientate their IT knowledge towards understanding and supporting business structures and processes. It should be stressed that this is not a business or management degree.
The Software Development Degree programme provides skills of fundamental and practical importance to the creation of software solutions that satisfy the demands and expectations of users and the efficacy of real-world processes, as well as the management of solution development processes themselves. Professional software development and project management skills are amongst the most widely sought-after skills in today’s modern commercial software production business that places ever-increasing quality and cost expectations on software solutions.