What can I study?

These modules are intended for incoming exchange/mobility students for the academic year 2024/25.

Modules are regularly updated, and this list should be used for guidance purposes only. Modules are not guaranteed and students wishing to study at University of Staffordshire on exchange are expected to be flexible in their choice of study modules.

Education
Semester 1, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Contemporary issues 
40 credits
  • Introduction to special needs and disabilities 
  • Mental Health in context
Semester 2, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits

  • Play therapy 

  • Developing professional practice 

  • Research methods

40 credits
  • Perspectives of learning and development

International Studies and History
Semester 1, Level 4 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Introduction to international relations
Semester 2, Level 4 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • History of United States
  • Issues in global security
Semester 1, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits

  • International Society: From Westphalia to the Present

  • Intelligence & Strategy

  • Northern Ireland: Conflict & Resolution

Semester 2, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Security Studies
  • Designing Research Projects
  • The Middle East and Europe: encounters and conflicts from Napoleon to the Suez Crisis
Semester 1, Level 6 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Governments and Intelligence Agencies

Psychology
Semester 1, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Psychological interventions
40 credits
  • Childhood contexts
  • Contemporary issues in psychology
  • Psychology of crime and serious offending
Semester 2, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • People Behaving Badly (PSYC50816) 
Semester 1, Level 6 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Cyberpsychology (PSYC60001)
Semester 2, Level 6 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Psychology of oppression and empowerment
  • Children and pictures
  • Health psychology

Business
Semester 1, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Management Accounting
  • Operations Management
  • An Entrepreneurial Mindset
  • The Business of Doing Good
  • Management Accounting
  • Fintech and Digitalisation
  • Financial Reporting
  • Digital Marketing Strategy
  • Managing Global Digital Brand Responsibility
  • Data Analysis and Visualisation
Semester 2, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Managing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Sustainable Business Development
  • Enterprise in Practice
  • Governance and Climate Change
  • Business Taxation
  • Advance Management Accounting
  • Business Research Methods
  • Consumer and Organisational Behaviour

Biological Sciences
Semester 1 & 2 Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Global issues and professional development
  • Interventions and disease management
40 credits
  • Applied scientific practice (advanced skills)
Semester 1, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Health, disease (development and detection)
Semester 1, Level 6 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Cancer biology and regenerative medicine
  • Conservation biology
  • Diagnostic pathology
  • Integrated biology of disease
  • Managing the natural world
  • Medical immunology and immunotherapy
Semester 2, Level 6 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Current advances and bioethics
40 credits

  • Life science research project

Media, Performance, and Communication
Semester 2, Level 4 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Content marketing
Semester 1, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Non-fiction film production
  • Digital storytelling
  • Production cultures
  • Blogging and social media
  • Science fiction film and media
40 credits
  • Experimental filmmaking
Semester 2, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Content writing
  • Media production skills 2
40 credits
  • Professional filmmaking practice
Semester 1, Level 6 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
60 credits
  • Sports media work placement 2: professional practice
Semester 1, Level 7 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Posthumanism and technology
  • Animation culture and critique
40 credits

  • Staging plays 2: realisation

  • The mirror universe and relational ontology

Sport and Exercise
Semester 2, Level 4 modules, Stoke-on-Trent Campus
20 credits
  • Fundamentals of Exercise Psychology
Semester 1, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Coaching Pedagogy
40 credits
  • Teaching & Coaching PE National Curriculum Activities
  • Industry Project

  • Sport and Exercise Placement

Semester 2, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent campus
20 credits
  • Sport and Exercise Nutrition
40 credits
  • Teaching & Coaching PE National Curriculum Activities
  • Industry Project

  • Sport and Exercise Placement

Law
Semester 1, Level 4 modules, Stoke-on-Trent Campus
20 credits
  • English Legal System
  • Legal Skills 
  • Tort Law 
Semester 2, Level 4 modules, Stoke-on-Trent Campus
20 credits
  • Constitutional Law 
  • Contract Law 
  • Law in Practice

Policing and Investigation
Semester 1, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent Campus
20 credits
  • Law, Practice and Procedure
  • Fairness in Policing
  • Policing in a digital age
  • Professionalising Policing
Semester 2, Level 5 modules, Stoke-on-Trent Campus
20 credits
  • Risk and Vulnerability
  • Practical Methods of Criminal Cnvestigation
  • Roads Policing

 

English Literature
  • Wild Words - Level 5, 40 credits, year-long
  • The Writing Profession - Level 5, 40 credits, year-long
  • The Negotiated Project - Level 6 only, 40 credits, year-long
  • Magical Realism - Level 5, 20 credits, semester 1 only
  • The Classics - Level 5, 20 credits, semester 2 only

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