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This course has been developed in consultation with the aviation industry and the business community to equip you with specialist aviation knowledge. The course focuses on the management of airport, airline and ancillary businesses and provides the tools to enable you to move into a variety of careers within aviation. Optional modules provide the opportunity to learn the technical requirements for the Private Pilot Licence. The cost of any practical flying training is your sole responsibility and therefore you should ensure that you satisfy the medical requirements for the licence before you start flying.
Course structure

Three levels, each of 120 credits.
Level 1 modules include
Airline Management and Operations
Airport Design and Operations
Aviation Marketing Management
Introduction to the Aviation System
IT for Analysis and Presentation
Studying Aviation
Level 2 modules include
Airline Business Management
Airport Business Management
Aviation Financial Management
Customer Service Management for Airlines and Airports
Level 3 modules include
Aviation Honours Project
Research Methods for Contemporary Aviation Issues

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Career opportunities

The course equips you for a career in management and supervisory areas of airline and airport businesses and other transport-related areas. Graduates have found work with employers such as British Airways and Virgin Atlantic as Aviation Coordinators, Flight Attendants and Operations Assistants.
Professional accreditation/exemption

Membership of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

This course prepares you for a wide variety of careers in organisations ranging from international companies and banks operating in Asia, as well as non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the media, international institutions and educational and research bodies. Expert staff has extensive working and research experience across Asia. Students can combine a focus on their particular area of interest, including the Middle East, Far East and South Asia, with options such as finance, law and economics. Language options in Chinese, Japanese and Arabic are available and actively encouraged. Students have the possibility of completing modules in Japan. Links with universities in other Asian countries are also being explored. The University’s City location is also well placed to engage with financial and government institutions dealing with Asia Pacific.
Course structure

Three levels, each of 120 credits. If you take a Joint you study each subject for 60 credits at each level. See page 40.
Level 1 modules include
Citizenship and Ethics
Ideologies in Conflict
World and the West
State, Society and Economy in the Asia Pacific
Level 2 modules include
Employability for International and Political Studies
South East Asian Development and Change
Politics and Society in the ‘Third World’
The Political Economy of China and Japan
Level 3 modules include
Asia Pacific Studies Project
Political and Economic Development in Pacific Asia
Political Change in China and Vietnam
Politics and International Relations of South Asia

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Career opportunities

Graduates with specialist knowledge of Asia Pacific are highly sought after with many opportunities in international financial institutions and companies dealing with Asia, especially if combined with appropriate language study. Students can enter national diplomatic services such as the United Nations and Asian regional organisations, the media, NGOs in the human rights, aid and environmental fields, research and teaching. There is also the possibility to progress to postgraduate study.

This course prepares you for a management career in the arts and cultural industries. It explores how business and management issues relate to a wide range of artistic and cultural activities, such as museums, galleries, heritage attractions, visual and performing arts.
Course structure

Three levels, each of 120 credits. If you take a Joint you study each subject for 60 credits at each level. 
Level 1 modules include
Arts and Heritage Sector
Leisure and Tourism Environment
Quantitative Analysis for Leisure and Tourism
Studying Service Sector Management
Economics for the Service Sector
Introduction to Marketing
Level 2 modules include
Arts and Events: Theory and Practice
Arts and Heritage Management
Finance for Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality
Leisure and Tourism Policy
Leisure and Tourism Services Operations Management
Organisation and Management
Level 3 modules include
Arts and Heritage Marketing
Cultural Policy
Leisure and Tourism Management Project
Arts and Heritage Marketing
Cultural Tourism Management
Museums and Heritage
Research and Dissertation

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Placement

Students may elect to take a one-year paid work placement between level 2 and 3
Career opportunities

This degree equips you for business and management careers in the growing arts, heritage and cultural industries as well as in merchandising, distribution, arts promotion, agency work, and venue and artist management.

This is a flexible and diverse triple-subject course for those who wish to follow a career in the creative and cultural industries and who would prefer a broad understanding of the fields of art, media and design. The global, national and London creative industries are growing and converging at a rapid rate. This unique course offers the scope and flexibility for students to prepare for a general or management career in the creative industries or to develop as inter-disciplinary artisans and practitioners with a broad skills base. Students benefit from access to a wide range of theoretical and practical options across the fine art, design, product design and media disciplines offered by the Department.
Course structure

Three levels, each of 120 credits.
Level 1 modules include
Art, Media, Design in Context
Introductory Practice
Introduction to Digital Communications
Software
Level 2 modules include
Professional Practice
Theorising Art, Media and Design
Level 3 modules include
Final Major Project
Work Placement

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Career opportunities

Successful completion of this course offers improved creative and administrative career opportunities in the multi-disciplinary field of art, media and design within the contemporary cultural and creative industries, or as professionals in public service commerce or voluntary sectors. The programme is also excellent preparation for further research or study.

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The Foundation Year is the first year of a four-year extended programme of Undergraduate studies in the Department. It offers the opportunity to enter University twelve months earlier than by the customary route. The course provides students the chance to engage, explore and experiment with a diverse range of Art, Media and Design subjects. Students build up a portfolio of skills and experience sufficient to progress to JCAMD Undergraduate degree courses that are most appropriate to their needs and aspirations.
Course structure

You will take 4 core modules in the first semester. In the second semester you will take two core modules and select two further modules from a menu.
Year 0 modules - Autumn
Studies in 2D
Studies in 3D
Sound and Vision
Critical Practice 1
Year 0 modules - Spring
Notebook
Critical Practice 2
And two from:
Film & Video
Fine Art
Design
Music Technology
Material Science

Level 1, 2 and 3 Modules will be taken from the Undergraduate degree selected at the end of the Foundation Year.

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Career opportunities

The course is suitable for anyone planning a career in art, media or design fields or the cultural and creative industries. See the career opportunities on the various Undergraduate degree courses to which students can progress.

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There is more detail about this course at the JCAMD course page and you can discover more about the students’ work at their gallery page. Please also download the course leaflet which gives you further background.

The extended degree involves four years study in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design or Architectural Studies. The Foundation year (known as Level 0) is an intensive one-year preparatory introduction to a broad range of design skills and techniques and outlines ways of thinking about design and the ideas that inform Architecture and Interior Design.
The year helps you develop a portfolio of work suitable for direct progression into the Certificate Level of our degree courses or your application to study related subjects.
Through a wide range of projects the Foundation year establishes the basic knowledge and skills needed for design. You will not only learn relevant technical skills, but also an exciting, imaginative approach to design and culture today.
We aim to enable you to develop your own potential, drawing out your capabilities and creativity and developing your confidence in preparation for your chosen degree route.

Course structure 
You will take 4 core modules in the first semester. In the second semester you will take three core modules and select one further module from a menu.

Level 0 modules include: 
Autumn
Drawing and Model-making Skills for Design Study and Communication Skills
Contemporary Design Cultures
Communication Techniques — Knowing London

Spring 
Learning to Design
Design Project
Exhibition/Installation

Assessment
The principle means of assessment will be through design projects described through drawings, models, photography and other media in your portfolio. At the foundation level there are also essays, individual and group research projects.

Career opportunities 
In addition to providing the first level of the BA (Hons) Architecture, BA (Hons) Architectural Studies and BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design extended degrees at London Metropolitan University’s department of Architecture and Spatial Design, the course also offers progression routes onto the BA (Hons) Interior Design and Technology at the University’s Sir John Cass department of Art, Media and Design.

Our students typically go on to further study of Architecture, Interior Design or related subjects, and then once they have graduated go successfully into practice. Architecture students gain RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Part I exemption on successful graduation from our BA (Hons) Architecture undergraduate course. Further study may include Masters programmes in Architecture, Design or related subjects and Architecture graduates may complete their professional studies through a further two years full-time study (to RIBA Part II exemption), and at least two years in architectural employment (with part-time classes and an examination to gain Part III).

The Architecture degree is your first step towards a professional career in Architecture (RIBA Part I). We offer a broad-based design degree that typically leads graduates on to RIBA Part II and III within the department. Our commitment is to provide you with a dynamic, challenging and supportive environment in which to develop your architectural ability. You will work on a wide range of design projects. You are encouraged to investigate and develop your ideas through drawing, photography, film, video, CAD and computer-based explorations; model-making and workshop-based fabrications; and installations. You will explore the history, theory and technological ideas of architecture and have extensive contact with practicing architects.
Course structure

Three levels, each of 120 credits.
Level 1 modules include
Construction and Materials
Design: Context and Process
Design: Making Ideas
Design: Spatial Investigations
Design: Visual Thinking
Introduction to Architecture
Introduction to History and Theory of Architecture and Interior Design
Structures Environment and Sustainability
Level 2 modules include
Architecture Services and Sustainability
Building Study
Design Exploration
Design Proposition
Design: Participation and Realisation
Introduction to Management Practice and Law
Modern Architecture and Modernity
Level 3 modules include
Design Resolution: Comprehensive Design Project
Design: Research and Propostition (Double Module)
History and Theory (Dissertation)
Integrated Design Audit (Double Module)

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Career opportunities

Most graduates go on to take RIBA Part II (Professional Diploma in Architecture) and gain a professional qualification. The course also introduces you to wider cultural and social issues that equip you with research, design and presentation skills, which are valued in many design-related professions. Recent graduates have found work with companies such as ORMS, Tony Fretton Architects, Macreanor Lavington, Carusi St John, EPR and Sou Fujimoto Architects, Tokyo.

Architectural Studies is aimed at students who are interested in architecture, urbanism and spatial design but who do not intend to become practicing architects, spatial artists or interior designers. It combines an introduction to architectural design education with the exploration of related subjects both academically and creatively. This includes a range of optional modules that allow you to build your own course, culminating in a design and environment-related project. Currently the department supports four key areas: Architectural and urban history, theory and culture; contemporary architectural technologies; spatial arts and urban regeneration; architectural and design practice.
Course structure

Three levels, each of 120 credits.
Level 1 modules include
Construction and Materials
Design: Context and Process
Design: Making Ideas
Design: Spatial Investigations
Design: Visual Thinking
Introduction to Architecture
Introduction to History and Theory of Architecture and Interior Design
Structures Environment and Sustainability
Level 2 modules include
Architecture, Services and Sustainability
Building Study
Design Exploration
Design Proposition
Introduction to Management Practice and Law
Modern Architecture and Modernity
Level 3 modules include
Architectural Studies: Comprehensive Thesis Project
Architectural Studies: Research and Proposition
Extended Dissertation
History and Theory

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Career opportunities

Typical professional and academic careers include design-related journalism, criticism and historical studies, project management, planning, construction technology, environmental consultancy, facilities and arts management, space planning and urban regeneration.

This course aims to develop professional translation skills between English and either Arabic (native speakers only), French, German (entry into third year only subject to interview), Greek (entry into third year only subject to interview), Italian, Polish (native speakers only), Russian (entry into third year only subject to interview) and Spanish.

Language students benefit from a brand new interpreting suite, with soundproof booths that are on a par with those used in Brussels for the European Commission.
Course structure

The focus is on the practice of translation and the development of professional skills. You are allocated to appropriate language classes. You can specialise in a translation-related area or learn another language.

For Single Honours you take eight modules per level. Joint Honours involves four modules from each level in Applied Translation, plus four from your other subject. After level 1 you can continue on Joint Honours or take a Major.

Level 1 
Prepares you for higher education level study, including key topics and an overview of your subject.

Modules
The Translator and Cultural Knowledge
Typical Translation Problems

Optional modules include
Introduction to Intercultural Studies
Information and Terminology Management

Level 2
Takes a more in-depth study of translation principles and practice, whilst developing a range of professional skills.

Modules 
Applied Translation
Applied Translation and Text Typology

Optional modules include
The Translation Process and Procedures
The Translator and the Text
Electronic Translation Tools
Introduction to Language Transfer Techniques

Level 3
Develops skills in problem identification and analysis through translation projects and a portfolio.

Modules
The Translator’s Professional Environment
Translation Portfolio
Work/Study Placement Project 

Optional modules include
Text Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
The Translator and Theory
Translation Research Project
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Placement

Single Honours/Major students take a one-semester placement (level 3) at a translation agency or at a specialised university abroad.
Teaching, learning and assessment

Seminars, commentaries, lectures, translations, presentations and essays are typical methods used.
Career opportunities

Graduates typically find work in national and international government and non-governmental organisations, such as the European Union, banks, translation agencies and multinational corporations.
Professional accreditation/exemption

Students of a high standard are awarded a certificate from the Institute of Linguists, and are exempted from Paper 1 of the Institute’s Postgraduate Diploma in Translation.

Psychology is central to understanding ourselves, other people and our behaviour and in predicting the behaviour of groups and individuals. Increasingly, psychologists play an important role in applying psychological knowledge to business, criminal behaviour, health, selection, training and counselling. The course provides an in-depth analysis of psychological understanding relating specifically to applied areas and integrates theory and experimental studies. The course is designed to meet the requirements of accreditation by the British Psychological Society, which is the first step towards training as a professional psychologist.
Course structure 

Three levels, each of 120 credits. If you take a Joint you study each subject for 60 credits at each level.

Level 1 modules include
Cognitive Psychology 1
Personality and Social Psychology
Psychological Perspectives and HE Orientation
Psychological Research Methods 1 (Inc IT)
Biological Bases of Behaviour
Developmental Psychology 1

Level 2 modules include 
Individual Differences
Social Psychology
Career and Professional Development
Psychological Research Methods 2
Applied Psychology Work Placement
Applied Psychological Measurement

Level 3 modules include 
Applied Psychology Project
Forensic psychology
Psychobiology
Health Psychology
Introduction to Counselling
Work Psychology

Career opportunities 
Some graduates progress to further study in clinical, health, counselling, forensic, educational or occupational psychology, leading to Chartered Psychologist status. Others find careers in advertising, management, business, human resources, social work and related professions.

Professional accreditation 
Single Honours: the course is designed to meet the requirements of accreditation with the British Psychological Society (BPS) and provide the Graduate Basis for Registration (GBR) with the BPS. This is essential if you wish to progress to postgraduate training and become a Chartered Psychologist. The School of Psychology will be seeking accreditation with the BPS in 2009/10.
Joint Honours: you must first complete a Conversion Diploma in Psychology.