Ahead of your arrival, please complete our online pre-arrival induction which is available via FutureLearn; your Exeter email will have a message with the link. The induction is full of important information and advice about your studies and life as a student here. It also contains activities and discussion boards so you can start to get to know other students even before you start your course.

We strongly recommend that you access this as soon as possible and make the most of this fantastic opportunity to learn more about us, your peers and your programme.

Freshers’ Week 2022: Monday 19 September - Friday 23 September

During Fresher's Week you should attend the Academic Induction events and activities for your subject/s, as detailed below. If there is any reason why you may not be here for Fresher's Week, please contact the Penryn Hub, who support History Penryn students, as soon as possible by emailing info.penryn@exeter.ac.uk.

For information regarding the Student’s Union and Society-led events during Fresher’s Week, visit the Falmouth and Exeter Student’s Union website. Events (thesu.org.uk).

Please check your academic timetable during Freshers’ Week, so that you know exactly where and when you need to attend your first classes and lectures! If you have any timetable-related problems or questions, please contact the Penryn Hub at info.penryn@exeter.ac.uk.

This schedule may be subject to change - please check your personal timetable online, via My Timetable, for the latest information.

Please note:
All times below are UK time 

On Monday, 19^th September, you will attend a ‘welcome to the University of Exeter’ talk with all staff, in which we’ll introduce you to how we teach, and you’ll undertake some short activities delivered by academic and professional services staff and members of the Students’ Union and Staff-Student Liaison Committees. This is followed by a lunch. After lunch, you’ll take part in an introductory workshop for your particular programme of study.

We’ll also take a photo of your cohort in the amphitheatre on campus as a record of your first day at university – and we’ll take one on your graduation day, too, as a reminder of how far you have come!

On Tuesday, 20^th and Thursday, 22^nd September your cohort will be divided into six groups (of about 40 students each) and will then take part in six activities (three on each day). The activities will be as follows:

• Activity 1: Miracle Theatre Workshop (Discover): Miracle Theatre will lead you in activities which have been co-created with the Department over the last three years. They revolve around getting to know people, remembering their names and ‘faking it until you make it’ when meeting lots of new people and doing new things.
• Activity 2: Active Plus Bootcamp (Grow): The charity Active Plus will take you through the mini-teamwork bootcamp which they have delivered for us for the last three years. This is an activity of mental and physical expression which will help foster a sense of belonging and show you something of the difference between being part of a community of learners and just being an individual learner.
• Activity 3: Doorstep Arts Workshop (Thrive): Alumni from the University of Exeter and members of Doorstep Arts will run their very successful wellbeing & mental health session – and you’ll play an active part in its shape!
• Activity 4: Library Escape Room (Discover): You will take part in a digital library escape room which you will complete in a small group in the physical space of the library, using a tablet to allow you to explore the physical and virtual spaces of the library to find clues to unlock the next ‘door’ of the escape room.
• Activity 5: Getting your head around the change (Grow): Co-created with staff and led by our peer transition student tutors, this workshop is all about how you transition to the new identity of undergraduate student, and the different ways of being and doing that this entails.
• Activity 6: Navigating your wide empty calendar (Thrive): Co-created with staff and led by our peer transition student tutors, this workshop is designed to help you think about how to organise your time in such a way that you will thrive at university. We will be looking at how to plan effectively, thinking about choice and maximising all the opportunities you have at university. Getting on top of this early on will allow you to engage much (much) more effectively with your studies.

On Friday, 23^rd September you’ll take part in scavenger hunts as you exploreand map the environment that you’ll be living and working in. You’ll take part in two activities on campus and a trail and hunt in the town of Penryn, supported by the Penryn Museum. You’ll create maps in your small groups which you’ll display at the end of the day at a tea with staff from campus, with prizes for the winners. Your maps will go on display in both the Penryn Museum and on campus.

If you are a Combined Honours or Flexible Combined Honours student please ensure you view the New Students information for all your subjects since each will have its own Academic Induction information and timetable. 

New undergraduate student information

• Accounting and Finance
• Archaeology
• Art History & Visual Culture
• Arab and Islamic Studies
• Biosciences at the Penryn Campus
• Biosciences at the Streatham Campus
• Business
• Classics and Ancient History
• Computer Science
• Drama
• Economics
• Engineering
• English
• Film Studies
• Flexible Combined Honours at the Penryn Campus
• Flexible Combined Honours at Exeter (Streatham and St Luke's Campus)
• Geography and Environmental Science at the Penryn Campus
• Geography at the Streatham Campus 
• Geology
• Law
• Leadership
• Liberal Arts
• Management
• Marketing
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Medical Imaging
• Medical Sciences
• Modern Languages and Cultures
• Natural Sciences
• Philosophy and/or Anthropology
• Physics and Astronomy
• Politics
• Psychology
• Renewable Energy
• Sociology
• Sport and Health Sciences
• Theology and Religion
• Tourism

History Penryn suggested reading list

The following reading might be useful to you over the summer, although it is not compulsory! Each title is linked to a relevant first year module.

• People’s History: Sources and Skills (HIC1007): Carl J Griffin & Briony McDonaugh, Remembering Protest in Britain Since 1500: Memory, Materiality and Landscape (Springer, 2018)
• European History (HIC1008): Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe, 1648-1815. (Penguin, 2007)
• World History: Globalisation (HIC1306): Jack Goody, The Theft of History (CUP, 2006)

See also the History at Penryn 2022 Reading list. Please note that these reading lists are only here as guidance and for those interested, you are not expected to purchase these books. 

Choosing your modules using the Online Module Selection System

First you will need to register with the university and activate your university IT account. To find out how to do this use the links in the tabs below for the 'Before you arrive' section of the New Students’ website. Once you have activated your university IT account you will have access to iExeter, the student portal. You should find the Online Module Selection System by clicking on the 'Student Record' tab and then by following the instructions.

We will send you more information about online module selection before it opens.

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Modules are available at a range of levels via the Language Centre in:

• French
• German
• Mandarin Chinese
• Spanish

We can help you get the language you study with us named on your degree title. This involves successfully completing a minimum of 60 credits in one language taken through the Language Centre. You could choose to start a new language from scratch or develop an existing one. For example, a Geography student who passes 30 credits at Spanish Beginners and a further 30 credits at Spanish Intermediate 1 could have their degree title amended to BA (Hons) Geography with proficiency in Spanish.

To find out more about language modules see our Language Centre page.

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