Undergraduate
Undergraduate study in Computing and Information Systems (CIS):
BSc, Diploma and Work Experience Entry Route
Study
materials
Study material is included in the Initial Registration Fee
therefore when you first register as an External student your
pack of study materials will include:
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a Handbook, containing academic advice on effective
study techniques
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Subject guides
for the first units to be studied
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a Resource guide
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a booklet containing your assignments and
instructions on how to submit your coursework
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past examination papers and Examiners’ reports
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a copy of the Regulations.
Each year you continue to register as an External student, you
will receive updated
materials.
Introductory
Package
Wherever you
are, and however you study, as a registered External student
you will be provided with the following materials, the cost
of which is included in your initial and continuing registration
fees.
Studying for
a Degree in the Humanities and Social Sciences by P. Dunleavy
(Macmillan). Accounting with Law and Management with Law students
also receive Learning Legal Rules by J.A. Holland and J.S. Webb
(Blackstone Press Ltd).
A handbook
containing academic advice on effective study techniques, planning
your studies, using the materials provided and preparing for
examinations.
Subject guides
for each unit studied. These guides introduce you to topics
within the syllabus and should be used alongside the textbooks
which are recommended to you in the guides. The guides show
you how to use textbooks in an organised and productive manner.
When you register, you will get a subject guide for each of
your first year units and then, in subsequent years, a guide
for each new unit plus any revised guides for units that you
are continuing. Accounting with Law and Management with Law
students are also sent a Recent developments in Law booklet
in March each year.
IOLIS: CD-ROM
(Accounting with Law and Management with Law students only).
This Windows CD-ROM covers a number of law subjects and includes
the full text of over 2,000 cases, statutes and articles.
Past examination
papers and Examiners’ reports. The Examiners’ reports give
an indication of how individual questions should have been approached.
When you first register, you will be sent the last three years’
papers and reports, if available, and then, at the end of each
subsequent year, you will be sent the paper and report for that
year’s examinations.
Regulations
containing full details of important information such as syllabuses,
structures, fees, entering for examinations and degree classification
criteria (as appropriate).
A Resource
guide including practical information on, for instance,
bookshops, libraries and your contacts at the University, plus
a list of institutions which offer tuition.
A note about
textbooks: You will need to provide your own textbooks;
these will be the real focus of your studies. You will be advised
to buy some books, and others you will need to refer to in a
library. As far as possible, you should consider the facilities
available locally to you, and how accessible books are likely
to be before registering as an External student. If you apply and accepted onto the programme, the University will give
you an Introductory booklist. This booklist provides you with
initial reading for the subjects you are most likely to take
in your first year.
