www.swansea.ac.uk Postgraduate Prospectus 2012

ON YOUR DOORSTEPBROADEN YOUR MIND144You’ll discover that Swansea andthe Gower encompass the best ofall worlds, balancing exciting cityliving with a natural paradise justa stone’s throw from your frontdoor. Our campus sits in the midstof Singleton Park and SingletonBotanical Gardens, one of the fourparks in Swansea to be awardedthe 2010 “Green Flag” award.The University grounds themselveswon the 2009 Swansea in BloomGold award.You’ll also be just a few footsteps from the sea:• our parkland campus is situated on the three-mile beach of Swansea Bay• the Gower Peninsula – 19 miles of dramatic and picturesque coastline – is ideal forthe great escape when you need a break from lectures and the library• clean, award-winning beaches – including seven “Blue Flag” beaches – that havefeatured in national television campaigns• Three Cliffs Bay reached the finals of ITV’s “Britain’s Best View”• Worm’s Head at Rhossili voted “the most romantic place to see a sunset in the UK”by readers of Country Living magazine• some of the UK’s best surfing is just around the corner• the fishing village of Mumbles, on the southern tip of Swansea Bay, is a real gem –chill out in one of the popular seafront pubs or sample some award-winning localice-cream.The surrounding area is also worth exploring. Within just a few miles you’ll find:• Carmarthenshire – the “Garden of Wales”• “Waterfall country” – the Vales of Afan and Neath• the wild, mountainous beauty of the Brecon Beacons• countless medieval castles and historic monuments.Culture, said Nehru, is thewidening of the mind and of thespirit. Studying in Swansea givesyou many opportunities to indulgeyour artistic and cultural side.At the heart of our campus is the TaliesinArts Centre, a lively venue that hosts abroad programme of live drama, dance,jazz and world music, and cinemascreenings. The Taliesin is also home to theCeri Richards Gallery, which exhibits workby emerging and established artists, andthe Egypt Centre, a two-storey gallerydisplaying over a thousand AncientEgyptian objects dating back from before3,500BC to AD500.If you want to venture off campus, you can:• visit the Dylan Thomas Centre, which hosts an annual Dylan Thomas Festival,regular poetry evenings and performances that are open to all• make the most of Swansea’s Grand Theatre’s Arts Wing, a popular comedy andjazz venue, with two exhibition areas, a rooftop bar and café, and a 120-seatperformance space• explore the National Waterfront Museum, which preserves Wales’ rich industrialand maritime heritage, or Wales’ oldest museum, the Swansea Museum, whichhouses treasures from Swansea’s past• spend some time in the Glynn Vivian Gallery, where you’ll find works by Dore,Hepworth, Augustus John, and Nash, as well as an innovative year-round exhibitionprogramme.145