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Brunel University London Pathway College
Full Time
May 2027
2 Semester
The aim of this Information and Computing course is to provide a theoretical and applied knowledge and skills required to succeed in your desired degree at Brunel University London. Students will examine a range of research approaches, techniques, and methodologies, and manage their personal development, as well as intellectual and practical skills. Brunel Pathway College (BPC) will help build a set of transferable skills, supporting you through your undergraduate journey and setting you up for success.Students can enter Foundation or First Year depending on current academic and English language level.
This module has been designed to present some of the fundamental aspects of critical thinking to students seeking to progress to one of the prescribed undergraduate degree pathways at Brunel University. It will develop students’ critical thinking skills and enhance their ability to differentiate between fact and opinion, and evaluate arguments in academic texts for credibility, reliability, consistency and identify problems based on a logical line of reasoning when reading in their discipline. It will also develop their ability to formulate and deliver both verbally and in writing well-structured and critically reasoned arguments and opinions.
This module has been designed to help students develop their academic literacy and communication skills in preparation for undergraduate study and to understand the institutional culture, practices, norms and expectations of UK higher education in an international academic context and community; to enable students to develop basic academic research and communication skills and to raise students’ English language levels to the required entry point for undergraduate entry.
The main aim of the module is to provide a sound foundation in the way that computers operate and can be used to facilitate employability skills in a variety of tasks and operations to solve various types of problems.
Introduction to programming module provides students with a basic level of programming competence. Students will learn how to write programs instructing the computer to perform various tasks. This module is an essential foundation for many of the modules the student will pursue in the subsequent years.
This module has been designed to prepare students with an underpinning knowledge and skills in research methods to students seeking to progress to one of the prescribed undergraduate degree pathways at Brunel University.
The module aims to provide students with an introduction of the principles and practices related to management in the modern world. The focus of the unit will be on how management ideas have developed, the environment in which the managers operate, and basic managerial principles and practices.
The module introduces to the interesting challenges that ICT presents today and covers many anchor points that may serve as a bridge to students’ interests and lifestyles from the viewpoint of the user. These bridges include the technology in their mobile phones, computing equipment, home appliances, shopping, movies and entertainment software. The module also includes an emphasis on benchmarking data collation/presentation skills using the main aspects of Microsoft Windows (Excel, PowerPoint and Project) as a platform to further study. By encouraging students to use a questioning approach to learning material, it is hoped that the transition towards true critical analysis from a variety of learning backgrounds will be aided through this module as a common skill and applied successfully throughout their undergraduate study in the prescribed degree schemes at Brunel University London.
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