The academic year 1998/99 will therefore be the second year in
which most undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at the University
of Bath will be organised in modular, semester-based units. Those
of you who read this as the introduction to an undergraduate Programme/Unit
Catalogue describing your programme of study should note what
is said below. You will find more detail in the Explanatory
notes.
The modular system is not one 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 second 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:
| EMail: | stusys-support@bath.ac.uk |
| Internal mail: | Catalogue comments Student Records & Examinations Office Wessex House - 2.12c |
J A Bursey
Registrar