International Year One in Finance and Technology

Academic English Skills aims to provide thorough training in the language and related academic skills which will enable international students to best achieve their academic potential at university. Our Academic English programme is validated by UK ENIC, the UK government agency responsible for providing information and expert opinion on qualifications and skills worldwide.

You will develop awareness and competency in a range of language-related academic skills, including the processes of academic writing, effective and extensive reading strategies, effective participation in seminars and delivery of presentations, and listening to and recording information effectively from lectures. You will also develop the accuracy and range of written and spoken language required to use language effectively and appropriately, with clarity and confidence in an academic context.

Alongside your classes, your studies will be supported by an online learning platform, providing you with a range of tasks and activities specifically designed to develop and extend your language and academic skills outside the classroom and to give you more control over your own learning.

This module provides an introduction to object-oriented programming with the Java language. It assumes no prior programming experience but will also be useful for those who have programmed in other languages.

This is an introductory mathematics module to equip you with the fundamental mathematical concepts and skills that form the foundation for all Informatics degrees.

This module aims to provide an introduction to the techniques for developing an algorithm to solve a problem. Solving a problem involves specifying the problem precisely, using the appropriate sequence, selection and iterative structures to develop the algorithm, and finally establishing the correctness of the algorithm and analysing its efficiency in terms of the running time.

The main aim of this module is to introduce you to concepts relating to financing and investment decision making. The module also introduces you to theories relating to financing and investment decision-making and deals with how these theories might differ from what might happen in practice.

This module provides you with an opportunity to explore the innovations that are occurring in financial institutions and markets. You will learn about the various types of financial institutions and their role in society, including banks, insurance companies, and investment managers. You will also explore the ethical principles of finance.

This module introduces the basic data structures and algorithms that underpin computer science. The fundamental data structures that are introduced include arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, hash tables and graphs.

This module builds on the programming skills acquired in the Introduction to Programming module. It covers advanced object-oriented concepts of encapsulation, polymorphism, and inheritance in Java. The module introduces the fundamentals of designing graphical user interfaces in Java.