Before starting your degree programme, you may like to attend a four-week Pre-Sessional course to help you adjust to your new environment. This course is focused on learning in a UK University and teaches ‘English for academic purposes’.  It will also prepare you for life in the UK through cultural orientation.

What’s included in this course?

The Pre-Sessional course will:

• Prepare you for your academic studies and improve your academic English.
• Make you familiar with living in the UK.
• Teach you to listen/read effectively and take good lecture notes.
• Show you how to correctly reference and complete a bibliography.
• Enhance your ability to plan, organise, and write essays and reports.
• Prepare you to deliver presentations and take part in seminar discussions
• Teach you how to locate research materials.
• Prepare you to plan and organise your own independent study time.

There will also be visits to places of cultural interest to help you overcome practical issues such as opening a bank account, and registering with the local doctors and police.

What are the benefits of the course?

• You will have an introduction and access to our team of Student Support Officers, who will help you throughout your time at College.
• Participation in an inclusive community that you can call home.
• Assistance with any questions or issues before you begin your studies.
• You can participate in trips and activities to get to know other international students and the local area.
• A great deal of fun and a chance to make new and lifelong friends!

Following this course, further support in English for academic purposes will be available throughout your period of study.  You will receive more details at the start of the undergraduate or postgraduate programme.

For precise dates, costs, and to apply for this course you can download the Pre-Sessional Application Form 2012 Form, or for more information please contact admissions@rac.ac.uk.