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New and emerging subjects you can study at university
Intro
Clearing 2023 is now closed.
Clearing 2024 applications will open from July 2024.
Main body
BA (Hons) Applied Theatre (Acting and Devising)
This practice-focused course aims to equip you with the skills you need to be an applied arts professional. Taught predominantly through practical activities, you will learn skills in performing, creating, facilitating and producing your own performance projects.
The modules are designed to nurture your creative potential and individual artistic identity. You will explore performing arts practices from a wide range of global and local contexts and learn inclusive and diverse approaches to theatre-making. You will learn how to use new technologies in performance as well as stage performances in unconventional places and digital spaces.
BSc (Hons) Audio Software Engineering
This degree in audio software engineering will enable you to find work in a range of industry sectors where audio software, coding and development are part of the skillset employers are looking for.
During the course, you will look at how advances in software to create, manipulate and represent audio in creative ways, have radically changed our approach to and relationship with audio.
By the end of the course, you will have a huge array of marketable skills under your belt as an audio software engineer and will be able to apply them for a range of purposes in the industry.
BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
If you want to make a difference, this Biochemistry degree provides you with the tools and knowledge to research and develop solutions for many of the sustainable development challenges that the world faces today.
Whether you focus on health, the environment, food security or the pharmaceutical industry, this sub-discipline of chemistry and biology makes for a fascinating field of study and opens up a range of future career paths.
BSc (Hons) Bioinformatics Genomics
Genomics is one of the fastest-growing areas of research and development and our Bioinformatics Genomics degree will enable you to build up comprehensive knowledge on this fascinating subject.
Using a mix of computing, biology and medicine, you will explore the wide-ranging subject matter with an emphasis on practical learning throughout, all the while supported by our highly-experienced, expert tutelage.
BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying
This course will prepare you for a career in Quantity Surveying in the construction industry - one of the largest sectors of the UK economy.
You will learn to assess the amount of materials and labour required for building operations so that you are ready to work alongside architectural technologists, building surveyors, project managers and other roles.
You will also learn to meet the contemporary challenges and opportunities in quantity surveying. These include the digitisation of design and automation of some aspects of project planning and management.
BSc (Hons) Mathematics and Computing
This BSc (Hons) Mathematics and Computing brings together subjects from mathematics, statistics, and computing to address the current and future main challenges faced in business, society, engineering, and science.
The course has been designed to be accredited by relevant professional bodies in computing and mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications and British Computer Society), to meet employers’ expectations for professional standards in the fields of mathematics, statistics, and computing.
BA (Hons) Sound and Music for Gaming
The course modules are designed to nurture your creative potential and individual artistic identity. The course has been designed from the ground up, using industry input to prepare you with the skillset (and mindset) to succeed in this industry.
You will also benefit from interaction with industry practitioners who have designed BAFTA/Cannes Lion Award/Apple Top Ten award-winning game audio.
Apply for a course
Clearing has now closed for 2023, but you can still apply for a course through our normal course application process
If you are thinking about applying for a course at UWL, you can find details about our courses using our course search or download or request a prospectus.
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