UWS continually reviews, redevelops and augments its course portfolios. This section provides information about potential new course proposals which are undergoing validation and approval procedures. Please contact us for more information or check back for updates.
School of Business & Creative Industries
BA (Hons) Business & Sustainability
Year 3 Entry
- Location: New College Lanarkshire & Paisley (TBC)
- Study mode: Full-Time & Part-Time
- Start date: September 2024
Our proposed BA (Hons) Business and Sustainability will provide you with an opportunity to study towards a degree in business that concentrates not only on general areas of business sectors but also focuses on critical issues that affect our planet and its survival. The degree has a strong focus on sustainability, equipping graduates to address pressing environmental and social issues facing business and society. Including core modules focused on sustainability, UN Sustainable Development Goals, responsible leadership, and ethical and sustainable business practices, the degree equips graduates to help address environmental and social issues facing modern organisations. Sustainability is now recognised as a crucial element of modern business practice and key to future development.
BA (Hons) Creative Practice: Graphic Arts & Moving Image
Year 3 Entry
- Location: Ayr
- Study mode: Full-Time & Part-Time
- Start date: September 2024
Our proposed BA (Hons) Creative Practice: Graphic Arts & Moving Image will focus on the development of critical and technical skills, and practical approaches for creating narrative driven content including motion graphics, illustration, experimental animation, time and event-based media, graphic fiction/comic art, and documentary artefacts. These can be applied across a range of areas within the creative industries such as books, comics and graphic novel publishing, advertising, production design and post-production for film and television, digital heritage, animation, performance, entertainment industries and public/community arts.
BA (Hons) Events & Tourism Management
- Location: Paisley
- Study mode: Full-Time & Part-Time
- Start date: September 2024
Our proposed BA (Hons) Events and Tourism Management will prepare you for a career in one of the most exciting, diverse and dynamic business sectors. This course has been designed from a global and holistic perspective and you will gain an in-depth understanding of the importance of events for communities, business, government and society from local, national and international perspectives. Importantly, you will engage with ways to ensure a sustainable future for these globally significant industries. With practical skills development embedded in the degree, you will also receive regular guest lectures from tourism & events professionals, undertake field trips and industry-based projects. Subject to validation, this degree will replace our BA (Hons) Event Management for Year 1 entry in September 2024.
BA (Hons) People Management
Year 2 Entry
- Location: Paisley
- Study mode: Part-Time
- Start date: September 2024
Our proposed BA (Hons) People Management is a highly specialist degree programme and has been specifically developed for professionals who are currently holding Human Resource and/or People Management responsibilities. The programme is, therefore, designed as a professional part-time route, allowing for flexibility around full-time jobs. As the degree programme requires current employment in HR and/or People Management, it assumes advanced entry (level 8/2nd year) and leads to an Honours degree, as well as a CIPD Associate membership (pending accreditation).
MSc Digital Business Transformation with Metaverse
- Location: Paisley
- Study Mode: Full-Time & Part-Time
- Start date: September 2024
Our proposed MSc Digital Business Transformation with Metaverse will help you develop knowledge, competencies and skill sets for the new techno-cultural ‘markets of tomorrow’ and the future of the Metaverse. This programme will provide learners with the theoretical higher order skill sets, policy frameworks and critical understanding for implementing business transformation. Based at UWS Paisley campus, the course will utilise technology to establish an interactive learning environment including virtual reality headsets, high-specification computers, licences for relevant software and 360 degree cameras.
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
- Location: Paisley & London (TBC)
- Study mode: Full-Time & Part-Time
- Start date: September 2024
Our proposed Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programme will appeal to those wishing to achieve the highest level of academic qualification by taking on the most difficult challenges in practice by producing world-class doctoral outputs. It will be of interest to leaders and managers working in the private sector, health, local authorities and higher education and will enhance your professional and executive practice through the application of rigorous research to real and complex issues in business and management.
School of Computing, Engineering & Physical Sciences
MEng (Hons) / BEng (Hons) Energy and Environmental Engineering
- Location: Paisley
- Study mode: Full-Time & Part-Time
- Start date: September 2025
Energy and Environmental Engineering is at the forefront of the quest to produce energy in an environmentally friendly, sustainable, and socially responsible manner. Our proposed MEng (Hons) / BEng (Hons) Energy and Environmental Engineering, which is subject to University approval, will focus on building students’ knowledge of energy and environmental engineering, sustainability and related enabling sciences in conjunction with developing the inter-personal and transferable skills necessary to operate successfully in a wide range of industries. These include energy, environmental, renewables, chemical, oil and gas, petrochemicals, nuclear, battery, net zero and carbon reduction, electronic, food, pharmaceutical, agriculture, as well as academic research and teaching. Depending on the options selected, in Year 3 students can select between the general degree title of Energy and Environmental Engineering or a bracketed title:
- Energy and Environmental Engineering (Energy Storage & Conversion)
- Energy and Environmental Engineering (Nuclear)
- Energy and Environmental Engineering (Renewable Energy and Net Zero)
School of Health & Life Sciences
MSc Advanced Practitioner
- Campus: Fully Online and Lanarkshire
- Study Mode: Part Time
- Duration: 3 Years
- Intake/Start Date: September 2024
- Award: MSc Advanced Practitioner
Our proposed MSc Advanced Practitioner Programme is designed to prepare registered healthcare professionals for the role of advanced practitioners. The programme is contemporary, developed and delivered by expert advanced practitioners and encompasses learning across all 4 pillars of advanced practice: Clinical Practice, Facilitation of Learning, Leadership and Evidence, Research and Development. There are 4 planned exit pathways, based on the nationally agreed Competency Frameworks.
- MSc Advanced Practitioner (Acute)
- MSc Advanced Practitioner (Urgent and Community)
- MSc Advanced Practitioner (Mental Health)
- MSc Advanced Practitioner (Specialist)