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Science and Society Course - The Physical Sciences
The aim of this Focus course at the University of Cambridge is to introduce students to the way in which physical and biological sciences (including History and Philosophy of Science) are taught during the first two years of a student's life in the university. This is called the Natural Sciences Tripos and enables students to experience a wide range of subjects during their first two years of study. Then they specialise in one subject for their final degree: seventeen science departments are involved.
This Headstart course at Cambridge focuses on the physical sciences even though the Natural Sciences Tripos includes a very wide range of both biological and physical sciences. Faculty tutors (staff and current and recent students) will introduce you to a range of activities largely based on chemistry, materials science and physics. These will include:
- lectures and informal discussions
- tours with a scientific bias
- hands-on practical sessions
- admissions information
- examples of innovation and enterprise - entrepreneurship
- team projects
The programme gives a feel for the ways in which different courses are taught to first year students and how they can provide a basis for the scientific, business and commercial challenges that a graduate might face later in his/her career. |
