For the first time, in the academic year 1997/98, most undergraduate
and some postgraduate teaching at the University of Bath will
be organised in modular, semester-based units. Those of you who
read this note as the introduction to a Programme/Unit Catalogue
describing your programme of study will be seeing some of the
first stages of important developments, which are described briefly
below. You will then find more detail in the Explanatory notes.
After much careful debate, the University has chosen to make three
changes. From 1997/98, a Faculty structure will provide a new
way to enhance co-ordination and collaboration between Departments/Schools
in the University. At the same time, most of the components (Units)
within Programmes of study will be offered in a modular
framework for the first time. In addition, the academic year will
be divided into two semesters, in order to provide an appropriate
period over which to offer each unit.
This is not a system which will permit you to choose units in
a haphazard way from across the University, but one in which greater
transparency will help you to see how your programme fits together
and the choices you can make. The description of each unit will
help you to know its objectives more clearly, and the assessment
within each unit should help you to see what you have achieved.
Describing the structure of a programme, and detailing the units
which are or may be relevant, will help Directors of Studies to
identify units in other parts of the University which may be of
benefit to you individually, or to subsequent students through
the development of new programmes.
The availability of individual units to you in particular, or
in general, will depend on all the normal constraints such as
staff availability, timetabling restrictions, and minimum and
maximum group sizes. Your programme of study, and your progress
through it, will also constrain your choices. In all these areas,
you will, therefore, be guided by your Director of Studies. The
construction of a coherent programme of study, both by design
in the first place, and by your own choices where these can be
made, is something to which the University attaches much importance.
We are providing the information in this Catalogue in this way
for the first time. If you find this helpful, or have suggestions
for improvements, we would be glad to hear from you. Please send
any comments you may wish to make to:
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J A Bursey
Registrar
Programme / Unit Catalogue 1997/98
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