Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Music Technology with Foundation Year

at University of West London United Kingdom

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 takes people with an existing passion for electronic music and through a systematic programme of artist development, equips them with the skills and confidence to achieve their creative goals. Each artist on the programme will be exposed to the huge range of opportunities that exist in the music industry, to exploit the commercial potential of their talents.

The University of West London provides a unique approach to the field of electronic music education by allowing space for individual talent to flourish. The course is carefully structured to recognise and nurture your unique artistic identity, allowing you to develop and grow over three distinct years of study as a composer, performer and freelance producer.

The BSc (Hons) Finance and Management has been designed to combine the essential and practical skills of finance, accounting and management needed in the modern business world.

The purpose of the course is to open the doors for you to explore both finance and management paths. The course is ideally suited to those who want a career in business management, but also want some financial knowledge.

The hospitality industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years, showing it to be a sector resilient to economic turbulence. As demand for highly skilled employees in the industry continues to increase, this food business management course will equip you with the ability to design, manage and lead developments in the food business.

Your studies will focus on the role of the manager and the issues they may face within the international food, food service and hospitality sectors. You will also explore new findings in food research.

In addition, you will become part of a strong professional network that can support you with coaching and mentoring as you develop your career plans. 

This MSc Information Systems course aims to give you a full understanding of how information systems (IS) are designed, constructed and integrated within organisations. Your studies will take into account the large, varied and distributed structures of IS today, with multiple devices in different locations being used to access systems.

We welcome students from different educational and professional backgrounds who have an interest in IS, and you will benefit from our highly supportive culture and extensive industry experience.

This course is designed to enhance your knowledge of biological and medical sciences to enable understanding and to analyse the basis of human disease.

It will involve the study and knowledge of the human body, to conduct medical research on a variety of common health conditions.

There are various areas to specialise in for example, genetics, microbiology, and immunology.

The course will prepare you for the required skills needed to become a biomedical scientist, such as practical skills for performing the research to make a breakthrough.

These include:

• Technical skills for maintaining high tech machines and equipment
• Communications skills to report on the results of the patient’s samples
• Analytical skills for reviewing test results
• Numeracy skills for analysing statistics and data
• Organisational skills, providing a methodical approach to prioritise workloads based on urgency.

Do you have a keen eye for design, a practical mind and an active imagination? Our interior design degree can help you build on these assets and develop into a professional ready for a creative career.  

On this course you will build core skills in interior design, learning how to use contemporary design tools and gaining essential consumer insight. By exploring different media and approaches, you will also sharpen your understanding of design and visual communications.

By the time you graduate, you will be an imaginative, original creator, able to design innovative spaces that people dream of living in.

If you are naturally curious and thrive in dynamic situations, this journalism studies course is for you. On this course, we will teach you the skills you need to keep pace with the industry in the digital era.

You will learn established conventions, as well as how to create multimedia content that is in high demand. Whether you see yourself working on the newsdesk for a national institution or creating content for a specialist publication in sport, fashion or music, this journalism degree can help get you there.

Our early years education course prepares you to become an exceptional educational professional working with the youngest learners. This course is guided by current policy and legislation including the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework (2012), Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) and The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).

You will be introduced to historical and contemporary constructions of childhood, investigate theories of child development and develop an underpinning knowledge of play-based approaches. You will examine different theoretical and practice-based perspectives, and you will begin to make links between different concepts. For example, learning through play, and the relationship between attachment behaviours and brain development.

You will consider the different domains of learning and development, including personal, social and emotional development, communication and language, physical development and literacy skills. You will have the opportunity to think about the characteristics of effective learning, and the ways in which they support children to flourish and become lifelong learners.

Our degree programme is committed to supporting reflective practice, and you will have an ongoing opportunity to develop a sound pedagogical approach to early education. You will consider your role as an advocate, caregiver and teacher of young children, to ensure that every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Electrical and electronic engineering touches on almost every aspect of modern life, from communications to electrical power distribution and health care. If you want to maintain and develop new technologies for our ever-changing world, this course will prepare you to do so.

Demand for engineers is high, and this course combines academic studies with practical applications of engineering design to give you the technical and personal skills you will need to succeed as a professional engineer.

This three-year course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) with Partial Chartered Engineering status (Partial CEng).  However, please bear in mind that our 1-year top-up course is not accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology.