Undergraduate teaching
One area of great concern to students and staff alike is the quality of the teaching provided. Our Department was awarded the maximum mark of 24 our of 24 for the teaching quality in the most recent Subject Review of all its degree programmes, performed by the Quality Assurance Agency.
The knowledge and skills we aim to help you obtain and develop in our Department are geared towards those required of a professional physicist. It is important that the professional physicist is able to approach problems logically, make sound convictions on how to go about investigations, manage time effectively and think independently while keeping an open mind.
Another important area, often overlooked, is communication of any conclusions and ideas regarding a given physical problem to a wide scientific community. Our Skills modules will help students develop these communication skills through presentations, posters, extended writing and laboratory reports.
It is quite easy to describe in general terms what we do in teaching physics, but more difficult to know how you learn. Knowledge and understanding are rarely transferred instantaneously. The ideas which we as teachers present to you now were absorbed and clarified by us only after much reading, thought and discussion. Tutorial-based discussion is therefore an important element of our teaching, and we try to be sympathetic to your learning needs in all our teaching activities.
Disabilities and special needs
The University of York has an explicit and committed policy of equal opportunities when it comes to students accessing the full range of academic, cultural and solical activities which the University can offer.
University Disability Services
