The Year Abroad gives you an exciting and structured opportunity to combine multicultural experiences and travel with your academic study.
In your Year Abroad you will experience higher education and daily life in another culture and will be able to integrate this with the study of the main subject(s) of your degree course. You will develop resilience and flexibility to adapt to different teaching styles, ways of life and, in some cases, a different language.
You will use your experiences to enrich your university studies and gain a wide range of cross- cultural literacy skills, which underpin the central tenets of politics and international relations and enhance your employability.
The particular combination of your degree course and choice of modules at the partner institution, together with the great variety of Year Abroad destinations, make the “curriculum” of the Year Abroad unique.
Whole Year
In order to pass this module and be awarded 120 Kent credits, students must achieve a pass mark (documented by the transcript issued by the partner institution) in at least two-thirds of the credits of their agreed modules.
Reassessment methods
Reassessment opportunities may be provided by the partner institution during the year abroad in accordance with its own rules and regulations.
Where, subsequent to any reassessment opportunities offered by the partner institution, a student fails to obtain two-thirds of the necessary credits, but achieves at least one-third, they will be required to undertake further written work to achieve the remaining credits. The pass mark for this assessment will be 40%, however, no numerical mark will be formally recorded (pass/fail only).
Students who fail to achieve at least one-third of the necessary credits will not be offered a reassessment opportunity at Kent, and will fail this module (and their year abroad). See Annex 14 for more information.
Students who ultimately fail their year abroad will be transferred to the three-year version of the respective course of study.
On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
1. Explain physical laws and principles, and their application to diverse areas of physics in both theory and practice, including core physics topics and relevant course-specific areas of specialism.
2. Confidently analyse complex problems in physics by identifying relevant principles and laws, making suitable approximations as appropriate to the context of the problem, and using mathematical techniques to determine solutions.
3. Apply analytical and computational skills to model the behaviour of physical systems, using suitable strategies for problem reduction, implementing models in computer code or selected software applications, and critically evaluating and interpreting outputs.
4. Plan and execute physics experiments or investigations, including the design and implementation of an open-ended investigation with elements of independent work, systematically and reliably record data, critically assess results, draw valid conclusions, and communicate findings clearly in a manner suited to their intended audience.
5. Source, select, and use a wide range of appropriate physics texts, including reports and research-based materials, as part of managing independent learning.
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