2-Semester Pathway - First Year Pathway in Engineering, Computing and Technology - Continue to Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) - Computer Networks

The first year degree is Stage 2 of the undergraduate pathway. Students may qualify to go directly into first year, depending on their qualifications. They will experience the first-year curriculum of an ARU degree plus extra academic contact hours. The teaching and learning experience will enable them to fully develop their knowledge and understanding of each module to prepare them for the second year of their undergraduate degree.

Alongside the ARU modules student entering through the first year pathway will have additional support and tuition from ARU College. These additional hours are made up of Interactive Learning Study Skills tuition and subject specific mentoring and support sessions. The Interactive Learning Study Skills module is a skills-based module designed to develop the academic skills required for successful Higher Education study such as academic writing and presentation skills. The support sessions allow students to meet with academic staff in order to tackle specific issues or questions.

Students taking a pathway in Engineering, Computing, and Technology will find it necessary to work confidently in multi-disciplinary teams throughout their careers. This foundation program is structured around projects working with others from different degree programme, enabling them to begin to develop this extremely important transferable skill. Students can develop the knowledge and skills they need to create technologies and applications that will change the world.

During their first year, learners will have opportunities for practical work and experimentation across a range of elements, including engineering design tasks centered on developing simple robots, in order to introduce the challenges and benefits of realizing theoretical ideas. There will be lectures and seminars combined with work-based learning and plenty of course options to personalize their studies.

Students can learn to design, configure, manage and support networks in organizations both big and small by progressing to a Computer Networks BEng (Hons) degree in Cambridge. With the Computer Networks degree course, students will get straight into the lab and use advanced software and virtual networks from the get-go so they can support, design, configure and manage the infrastructure of a company.