Your modules will be taught on our City Campus in Dundee.
You will take four or five modules in total. Each module has five hours of classes a week — Academic Skills has four hours. This means you will have 19 contact hours during the course if you are taking four modules in total.
Classes take place between 09:00-16:00, Monday to Friday. You may have classes at any point during this period. You will always have a class between 11:00-12:00, Monday to Thursday. We will be able to advise you of your timetable once all of your modules are finalised.
The course reflects the work commitment and time management necessary during undergraduate study. You’ll be expected to undertake self-directed study outside of your classes to complement your learning through lectures and tutorials. This is a core feature of being a student as you develop your individual learning style and find what works best for you. This will involve you studying during evenings and weekends.
Assessments
We use assessments to test how well you are achieving the learning outcomes for each module.
Teaching staff, administration staff, and student mentors will guide you to manage your time as you approach assessments, preparing work well before deadlines.
We’ll explain all of our assessment processes throughout the course, as and when they become relevant to you.
Assessment formats will reflect the assessments you will complete during the first year of the degree. These may include progress tests to identify areas of development, and assignments that test your understanding of key concepts.
Formative assessments
These don’t count towards your overall grades but are a way of giving you feedback on your development with the course.
Summative assessments
These are formally graded and count towards your overall module grade.
Three things to find out about your assignments:
The value of the assignment as a percentage of the total marks for the course. This helps to establish how much work is involved.
The format the work should be submitted in, and where to. For example, should it be written or typed? Should it be submitted online, or emailed?
The deadline for the assignment, and how to receive proof that the University has received your work.
All assessments must be taken in English unless the assessment is part of a foreign language module.
Modules
For each module, it will indicate if it is a compulsory subject for a subject area. For example, if you have applied to study Dentistry, or Nursing, you will have some compulsory modules pre-selected for you.
Your offer may also state compulsory modules you are required to take. If you have been asked to take a literate subject, to fulfil this part of your offer you can take English Literature, Creative Writing, Geography, History or Philosophy.
If all your modules are pre-determined, you will not need to complete a module choice form.
If you have any remaining module choices to make, you will have to complete the module choice form. We would advise that you consider choosing a module that might be a good fit for your chosen degree, that interests you, or that you might have previously studied.
As you are studying on campus, you must pick modules from different groups. Modules in the same group are scheduled at the same time on the timetable so you cannot take two modules from the same group.
Modules are yet to be confirmed for 2026
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Foundations in Dentistry
Art & Design
Philosophy
Introductory Maths
Creative Writing
Psychology
Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology
Art & Design
Computing Science
History
Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Geography and Environmental Science
Advanced Maths
Discovering Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
English Literature
Global Citizenship & Health
Physics
Urban Planning
Module code: SS03009 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
These modules are an essential part of your course.
Module code: SS03016 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
Academic and Professional Skills is a core module for all students on Access Summer School. The module is taught in-person and will help you develop your confidence and competence in the key academic and professional skills necessary for studying at undergraduate level.
Module code: SS03018 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
This module offers a project-based approach to understanding art and design practice. You will carry out a series of tasks revolving around an exciting common theme. This allows you to be creative when completing your work.
You will be offered an exciting, thematically-based project brief.
Module code: SS03021 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
This module offers a project-based approach to understanding art and design practice. You will carry out a series of tasks revolving around an exciting common theme. This allows you to be creative when completing your work.
You will be offered an exciting, thematically-based project brief.
You need to choose one or more of these modules as part of your course.
Module code: SS03001 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
In this module, you will be introduced to university entry-level subject-specific knowledge, related understanding, and some of the subject-specific skills required of undergraduates.
You will learn about enterprise and entrepreneurship in the wider business context, and be equipped with the skills required to generate, evaluate, and enact your entrepreneurial ideas.
Module code: SS03005 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
You will be encouraged to read the selected texts carefully and to begin to develop a sense of what each genre (poetry, short stories, drama, fiction) can do.
The course will also help to prepare you for English Literature studies at the university level.
Module code: SS03007 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
This is an introductory module which incorporates basic key concepts in geography and environmental science.
Upon completion of the module, you will have a better understanding of how geographers approach issues from a spatial perspective, and how geography is useful to you and others in the world we live in.
Module code: SS03011 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
This module provides a general historical introduction to ‘Continental’ philosophy, its key thinkers, its principal movements, and its themes. It will also cover basic philosophical concepts and skills to prepare you for future philosophical study.
Module code: SS03015 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
This module will provide you with an understanding of globalising processes that influence citizenship.
It specifically focuses on health and its broader global context, which encompasses the increasing interconnectedness and interdependence of nations and individuals.
Module code: SS03024 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
This short course introduces you to topics that link closely to our Biological and Biomedical Sciences degree programmes, as well as Forensic Anthropology and Anatomy degree programmes.
Module code: SS03027 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
The Foundations to Dentistry Course covers a broad scope of different dental specialties including oral surgery, periodontology, infection control, forensic dentistry, and radiology.
Module code: SS03029 Credits: 0 Semester: Runs during the summer
Anatomy is the study of the body's structure, while physiology is the study of the body's functions. This module introduces you to the anatomy and physiology of the human body through the exploration of certain body systems and processes, in preparation for more in-depth learning at the undergraduate level.
