Paper - Academic Registry and Council Secretariat - Queen Mary ...

TPB2012-019
Programme Title: Three-Year BA (Hons) Degree in French
Specific Support for Disabled Students
Queen Mary has a central Disability and Dyslexia Service (DDS) that offers support for all students with disabilities, specific
learning difficulties and mental health issues. The DDS supports all Queen Mary students: full-time, part-time, undergraduate,
postgraduate, UK and international at all campuses and all sites.
Students can access advice, guidance and support in the following areas:
• Finding out if you have a specific learning difficulty like dyslexia
• Applying for funding through the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA)
• Arranging DSA assessments of need
• Special arrangements in examinations
• Accessing loaned equipment (e.g. digital recorders)
• Specialist one-to-one "study skills" tuition
• Ensuring access to course materials in alternative formats (e.g. Braille)
• Providing educational support workers (e.g. note-takers, readers, library assistants)
• Mentoring support for students with mental health issues and conditions on the autistic spectrum.
Links With Employers, Placement Opportunities and Transferable Skills
As a graduate with high-level skills in French and in English, you have been trained to value both linguistic precision and cultural
contexts. In addition to your excellent communication skills (written and spoken) you have the cultural flexibility that comes from
having lived, and perhaps worked, abroad. Your training in the analysis and interpretation of complex material as well as in
report-writing, group-working and presentation skills is highly valued by future employers. Our graduates are attracted to sectors
as diverse as banking, multinational corporations, marketing, PR, sales, management consultancies, the diplomatic service,
publishing, the media, teaching, law, computing, library management. Each year a number of our students go on to study at
postgraduate level.
Programme Specification Approval
Person completing Programme Specification
Shirley Jordan
Person responsible for management of programme David Adger
Date Programme Specification produced/amended
by School Learning and Teaching Committee
9 Nov 2012
Date Programme Specification approved by
Taught Programmes Board