12.30pm - 1pm

Arrival and Registration

Registration of applicants for Birmingham City Business School will take place at Level 0, Curzon Building, City Centre Campus.

1.15pm - 1.35pm

Introduction to Black Studies

This welcome talk will give you with the opportunity to learn more about the Black Studies team and your course, and to get an insight into what studying Black Studies with us will be like.

1.35pm - 2.15pm

Black Studies Taster Lecture

This session offers you:

• A brief presentation on a Black Studies topic
• A brief taste of being in a Black Studies lecture
• The opportunity to meet and talk with one of our Black Studies teaching team

1pm – 4pm

Student Services

This is your opportunity to network with staff, view our welcoming student accommodation, explore the campus and get advice from our Central Support Services including:

• Student Services
• Accommodation Office

1pm – 4pm

Parent Q&A

This session gives parents the opportunity to have an informal Q&A session with staff and current students over tea and coffee. This is open all day as a drop in centre.

4pm

End

9.30am - 10am

Arrival and Registration

Registration of applicants for Birmingham City Business School will take place at Level 0, Curzon Building, City Centre Campus.

10am - 10.20am

Introduction to Black Studies

This welcome talk will give you with the opportunity to learn more about the Black Studies team and your course, and to get an insight into what studying Black Studies with us will be like.

10.20am - 11.00am

Black Studies Taster Lecture

This session offers you:

• A brief presentation on a Black Studies topic
• A brief taste of being in a Black Studies lecture
• The opportunity to meet and talk with one of our Black Studies teaching team

10am – 3pm

Student Services

This is your opportunity to network with staff, view our welcoming student accommodation, explore the campus and get advice from our Central Support Services including:

• Student Services
• Accommodation Office

10am – 3pm

Parent Q&A

This session gives parents the opportunity to have an informal Q&A session with staff and current students over tea and coffee. This is open all day as a drop in centre.

3pm

End

12.30pm - 1pm

Arrival and Registration

Registration of applicants for Birmingham City Business School will take place at Level 0, Curzon Building, City Centre Campus.

1.15pm - 2.15pm

Criminology Pathway Workshops

Applicants will be split into groups depending on their chosen subject pathway and take part in interactive workshops with current students and staff.

There will be different workshops for:

Criminology

Our Criminology Workshop allows you to get an insight into the study of Criminology at Birmingham City University. In this interactive task, we invite you to explore and apply theoretical concepts to help understand the social concepts of crime and deviance.

Criminology & Policing / Policing

Our Criminology & Policing Workshop gives you taste of what it’s like to study Criminology and Policing here at Birmingham City University. In this interactive task, we invite you to use to explore some of the fundamental concepts of policing in the UK and overseas. We apply theoretical concepts to help understand how, why and who is involved within policing. We will explore how serious crime is policed and how effective these strategies can be.

Criminology & Security Studies

In our Criminology & Security Workshop we invite you to use to explore some of the fundamental concepts of securitisation both in the UK and overseas. We will examine the causes and effects of global insecurities and how nations have attempted to manage threats and risks throughout the world.

2.15 - 3.15pm

Taster Lecture

A combined taster lecture for all Criminology subject area applicants on Homicide and Investigation.

1pm – 4pm

Student Services

This is your opportunity to network with staff, view our welcoming student accommodation, explore the campus and get advice from our Central Support Services including:

• Student Services
• Accommodation Office

1pm – 4pm

Parent Q&A

This session gives parents the opportunity to have an informal Q&A session with staff and current students over tea and coffee. This is open all day as a drop in centre.

4pm

End

9.30am - 10am

Arrival and Registration

Registration of applicants for Birmingham City Business School will take place at Level 0, Curzon Building, City Centre Campus.

10am - 11am

Criminology Pathway Workshops

Applicants will be split into groups depending on their chosen subject pathway and take part in interactive workshops with current students and staff.

There will be different workshops for:

Criminology

Our Criminology Workshop allows you to get an insight into the study of Criminology at Birmingham City University. In this interactive task, we invite you to explore and apply theoretical concepts to help understand the social concepts of crime and deviance.

Criminology & Policing / Policing

Our Criminology & Policing Workshop gives you taste of what it’s like to study Criminology and Policing here at Birmingham City University. In this interactive task, we invite you to use to explore some of the fundamental concepts of policing in the UK and overseas. We apply theoretical concepts to help understand how, why and who is involved within policing. We will explore how serious crime is policed and how effective these strategies can be.

Criminology & Security Studies

In our Criminology & Security Workshop we invite you to use to explore some of the fundamental concepts of securitisation both in the UK and overseas. We will examine the causes and effects of global insecurities and how nations have attempted to manage threats and risks throughout the world.

11am - 12noon

Break

12noon - 1pm

Taster Lecture

A combined taster lecture for all Criminology subject area applicants on Homicide and Investigation.

10am – 3pm

Student Services

This is your opportunity to network with staff, view our welcoming student accommodation, explore the campus and get advice from our Central Support Services including:

• Student Services
• Accommodation Office

10am – 3pm

Parent Q&A

This session gives parents the opportunity to have an informal Q&A session with staff and current students over tea and coffee. This is open all day as a drop in centre.

3pm

End

12.30pm - 1pm

Arrival and Registration

Registration of applicants for Birmingham City Business School will take place at Level 0, Curzon Building, City Centre Campus.

1.15pm - 1.35pm

Introduction to Psychology

This welcome talk will give you the opportunity to learn more about the Department of Psychology and your course, and to get an insight into what studying Psychology at Birmingham City University will be like.

1.35pm - 2.15pm

Psychology Taster Lecture

Experience a taster lecture on a contemporary topic in Psychology.

2pm - 2.15pm

Break

2.15pm – 3.30pm

Psychology ‘Have a go activities’ (Applicants only)

You will have the chance to take part in a number of interesting practical activities delivered by academic staff, designed to give you a hands on insight into the areas of study in our Psychology department.

1pm – 4pm

Student Services

This is your opportunity to network with staff, view our welcoming student accommodation, explore the campus and get advice from our Central Support Services including:

• Student Services
• Accommodation Office

1pm – 4pm

Parent Q&A

This session gives parents the opportunity to have an informal Q&A session with staff and current students over tea and coffee. This is open all day as a drop in centre.

4pm

End

9.30am - 10am

Arrival and Registration

Registration of applicants for Birmingham City Business School will take place at Level 0, Curzon Building, City Centre Campus.

10am - 10.45am

Psychology Taster Lecture

“Understanding Mass Killers” with Professor Craig Jackson.

10.45pm – 12.15pm

Psychology ‘Have a go activities'

You will have the chance to take part in a number of interesting practical activities delivered by academic staff, designed to give you a hands on insight into the areas of study in our Psychology department.

11am – 12.15pm

Psychology Parents’ Q&A Sessions with Head of School

This is a session aimed at parents of Psychology applicants to ask any questions they may have about life at university or about the course to the Head of School while applicants are in their activities.

Alongside this, there will also be a separate School of Social Sciences Parents Q&A Drop-In running all day, where you can help yourself to complementary refreshments. This will run until 3pm.

12.15pm - 1.15pm

Break

1.15pm - 1.45pm

Overview of Psychology Courses at BCU (optional)

12noon – 3.45pm

Student Services

This is your opportunity to network with staff, view our welcoming student accommodation, explore the campus and get advice from our Central Support Services including:

• Student Services
• Accommodation Office

3pm

End

12.30pm - 1pm

Arrival and Registration

Registration of applicants for Birmingham City Business School will take place at Level 0, Curzon Building, City Centre Campus.

1.15pm - 2pm

The Sociological Imagination Workshop

This interactive taster session allows you to experience our practical teaching style with a member of the Sociology staff, giving you a taste of student learning.

Q and A session with students and staff

You will have the chance to meet and speak with academic staff teaching on the course, current students, and fellow applicants. This is a great opportunity to ask any questions you might have about the course and student life in Birmingham.

2pm - 2.45pm

Sociology Overview (optional)

This talk will give you the opportunity to learn about the Sociology team and your course, and to get an insight into what studying Sociology with us will be like.

1pm – 4pm

Student Services

This is your opportunity to network with staff, view our welcoming student accommodation, explore the campus and get advice from our Central Support Services including:

• Student Services
• Accommodation Office

1pm – 4pm

Parent Q&A

This session gives parents the opportunity to have an informal Q&A session with staff and current students over tea and coffee. This is open all day as a drop in centre.

4pm

End

9.30am - 10am

Arrival and Registration

Registration of applicants for Birmingham City Business School will take place at Level 0, Curzon Building, City Centre Campus.

10am - 11am

The Sociological Imagination Workshop

Our Sociological Imagination Workshop allows you to experience practical teaching with a member of the sociology staff, giving you taste of what it’s like to study here at Birmingham City University. In this interactive task, we invite you to use your ‘sociological imagination’ to ‘think yourself away’ from familiar routines and events in order to encourage a critical look at our daily lives from a sociological point of view.

11am - 12noon

Sociology Overview (optional)

This talk will give you the opportunity to learn about the Sociology team and your course, and to get an insight into what studying Sociology with us will be like.

10am – 3pm

Student Services

This is your opportunity to network with staff, view our welcoming student accommodation, explore the campus and get advice from our Central Support Services including:

• Student Services
• Accommodation Office

10am – 3pm

Parent Q&A

This session gives parents the opportunity to have an informal Q&A session with staff and current students over tea and coffee. This is open all day as a drop in centre.

3pm

End