Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Civil and Environmental Engineering

at University of West London United Kingdom

Love to promote, share and shout it out from the rooftops? With the development of new technologies, creative opportunities for publicity are growing with companies needing multi-skilled professionals talented in the areas of advertising and public relations.

This advertising course is designed to prepare you for this exciting, fast-paced world of communications. It will help you to develop core skills in communications strategy, creative development, marketing analysis and digital media.

The course has an entrepreneurial ethos, and you will be encouraged to learn through initiative, experimentation and teamwork. On any given day, you may start the morning discussing the psychology of advertising and end the day working with fellow students to make a video for a social media platform.

The foundation year course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to continue onto your Honours degree. You will study a range of subjects that will underpin your future study and also gain valuable experience of university life, with full access to campus facilities. Successful completion of the year allows you to progress straight onto Level 4 of this course.

This course provides excellent teaching in all of key areas of biological sciences including biostatistics, programming in R and data modelling, helping you learn how to design biological research, analyse and model data, and present your results, preparing you for a career where your skills can be applied.

You will do a year-long project as part of a team in the second year, and another year-long project individually, in your third and final year, as well as present your research at the course research conference.

This Biological Sciences degree offers you the flexibility to choose certain modules in your second and third years depending on your interest, allowing you to specialise - from the second year - by taking one of four specialist pathways:

• Developmental biology
• Genomics and computational biology
• Ecology and conservation
• Animal behaviour and artificial intelligence.

Are you passionate about food and drink? Whether you want to manage a restaurant, become a private chef or develop new food products, on this course you will learn the technical and professional skills you need for a career in culinary arts management.

While studying, you will benefit from valuable hands-on experience, working with leading industry professionals. You will learn a range of kitchen and patisserie techniques as well as studying areas such as food microbiology, diet, nutrition and gastronomy.

In addition, we will help you to develop the business and people skills needed to become a successful manager within the food industry.

Our courses offer opportunities to discuss issues arising from the Covid crisis and examine solutions from a sector perspective. Our course content is developed with support from a wide network of sector professionals to include changes in the industry.

This course will provide you with an opportunity to develop your perspective on business and digital marketing that will enhance and expand your future careers.

The course is delivered in a series of cycles integrating theory, skills and practical elements. Each cycle will introduce you to important foundational frameworks and will help you to put theory into practice across a range of real-world scenarios and contexts.

The course content reflects the latest professional insights and academic research on business and digital marketing. To meet your personal development and employability needs, a substantial number of completely new modules have been developed which are aligned to current theory, skills and practice demands.

By the end of your studies, you would also have gained knowledge of consulting on digital-marketing and business issues in a real-world context.

The MA Criminology is a dynamic course with flexible study options, allowing you to focus on your area of interest, whether that's global crime, terrorism or criminal investigations.

You will be encouraged to develop a critical understanding of the key concepts, ideas, and theories that underpin contemporary issues and political debates concerning the wider criminological discipline.

You will learn from a dedicated and diverse team of scholars who are internationally renowned experts within their subject. All teaching staff on this course have doctorates or extensive professional experience in the criminology/criminal justice sector.

In addition to gaining subject-specific knowledge and understanding, this course aims to equip you with strong transferable skills in research, communication, analysis and creative problem solving, so you will graduate prepared for the next stage of your career.

If you are looking for a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering that provides a pathway for you to become a professional engineer in various fields of contemporary civil engineering, this course is for you.

The course will advance your analytical skills, research knowledge and technical understanding and focus on the use of industrially relevant applications and IT skills in the main subject areas of civil engineering including:

• Structures
• Materials
• Geotechnics
• Hydraulics
• Transport infrastructure engineering
• Construction management.

Our MSc Civil Engineering is based at the School of Computing and Engineering. You will be taught by staff with both industrial and academic experience, who will help you to develop your technical understanding and skills in both traditional and contemporary analysis and design as well as improve your knowledge in practical skills and current affairs in Civil Engineering.

With the IT sector expanding rapidly around the world, there has never been a better time to take a software engineering course. We will help you develop the knowledge and practical skills you need to further your career or research activities.

This course will introduce you to the latest industrial standard technologies and provide the opportunity to specialise in topics ranging from software architecture to implementation techniques, building on necessary skills to tackle modern software systems in an industrial context.

Furthermore, you will become familiar with a broad range of current scholarship work in software engineering and learn how to research and review published work.

With these new skills you will be prepared for a professional career in software systems and lead to rewarding work in the software industry such as software architect, solution architect, project manager, senior software developer etc.

Do you have a degree or professional background in construction? Are you keen to develop and expand your career with a Masters in construction management?

Our MSc Construction Project Management course is designed to support your professional development and provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in today’s globalised and ever-changing construction industry.

The world of work is increasingly reliant on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills and this Mathematics and Statistics degree is a trusted and relevant qualification designed to meet employers’ needs for skilled STEM graduates.

On the course, you will learn to use a range of computing and analytical skills to solve scientific, engineering and finance problems.

Your studies will combine fundamental mathematical and statistical methods with highly sought-after skills in logic, problem-solving, numeracy and more.

Our BSc Mathematics and Statistics degree is fully accredited by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and you will graduate with the knowledge and technical ability required for a successful career within a diverse range of sectors, from finance to government.

On this Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, you will develop both as a person and a professional. You will learn to apply your consultancy expertise as you translate problems into innovative solutions. This course aims to take you from the classroom through to securing boardroom impact in an end-to-end process of learning consultancy and scale value. You will leave with a completed portfolio of high-impact projects.

The MBA degree has been designed to give you the leadership skills needed to design and implement innovation and change at the strategic level of major corporations, start-ups or SMEs.  It is project based and is founded on a broad base of management and business thinking that is both strategic and interdisciplinary.  

Your learning will be structured around real-life scenarios, the emphasis being on building your skills and ability to create innovation and influence others.  The MBA is closely modelled on real workplaces and the underlying purpose of the course is to develop you into successful business leaders who can initiate, drive and implement innovation and change within organisations.

This MBA degree offers high impact learning, that is:

• Challenge-based: your assessments will be based on real-world problems and business needs
• Leadership focused: you will gain valuable skills in problem-solving, consultancy and leading change
• Innovation centred: through projects you will learn to create value, impact and sustainable change
• High-impact: you will deepen your knowledge through client-facing consultancy projects
• Inclusive: on this diverse and socially inclusive course you will learn to stimulate new thinking through teamwork.