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Academic Sessions for Schools and Colleges

Want to delve a little deeper into a specific subject area? Want to give your pupils a taste of a subject you may not offer in your school? Maybe you want your pupils to have a taste of University life. We offer FREE subject-specific sessions delivered by our Bangor University lecturers and regional recruitment officers. 

  • We can deliver lectures and workshops designed to suit A-Level, GCSE or Welsh Baccalaureate pupils on a topic of your choice.
  • Choose to visit us here at Bangor University or we can come to you! We have regional recruitment officers so we can deliver subject specific sessions in your school or online across the UK. 
  • Choose from Welsh or English medium sessions across a range of subject areas.

Subject Session Examples

  • An introduction to financial accounting
  • Why study accounting / banking / finance? 
  • Investment Challenge
  • Accounting guest lecture 
  • Banking guest lecture 
  • Finance guest lecture 
  • Business guest lecture 
  • Management guest lecture 
  • Why study Business / Business Management / HRM?
  • Aspirations Leadership workshop
  • Working 9 to 5 what a way to make a living 
  • Business data analytics guest lecture 
  • Why study Business Data Analytics? 
  • Introduction to our BangorBizData - Data Analytics Club for Schools
  • Why business data analytics is a great choice for top maths students
  • Data analytics as the future of business
  • Data analytics for detecting fraud
  • How Lemons started the Mafia
  • Crime and punishment: How do we solve the problem of crime?
  • How to be a great impostor
  • Guns Go South, Drugs Go North' - How Crime Travels around the World
  • Crime Goes to the Cinema: Depictions of Theoretical Criminology through Popular Culture
  • Punishment through death penalty
  • Theory of crime
  • Punishment through torture
  • Serial killers
  • Why study Childhood and Youth Studies?
  • Career options when you study Childhood and Youth Studies. 
  • Actors training
  • Directing actors
  • Tailored sessions on any specific play texts or practitioners being studied at A level Drama
  • Professional practice in the Arts and Culture sector
  • Why become a teacher? 
  • Why study education?
  • English Language sessions
  • Tailored sessions on any specific texts being studied at A level
  • Creative Writing taster sessions
  • Holocaust on film
  • Women in media history 
  • The American Civil Rights Movement
  • Visual Culture: American manhood at the turn of the twentieth century
  • Visual Culture: WWII comics against prejudice
  • Graffiti and rights to the city
  • Media production (broadcasting and podcasting)
  • Radio
  • News production methods
  • The creative industries
  • Hedd Wyn (Welsh medium session)
  • Why study History?
  • Historical walking tours - on campus or in nearby historical locations e.g. Caernarfon 
  • Help with Non Examined Assessment (NEA) - sources and analysis 
  • Oral History training 
  • Beasts, Beef and Babe: Animal History
  • Magic and ritual
  • Nationalism in the UK
  • Archaeology
  • Death
  • Climate change and the past
  • Sport and national identity
  • The Royal Family (e.g. 1953 Coronation)
  • Food history in Jazz Age Britain
  • Welsh identity and nationalism
  • Modern History (British/Welsh)
  • From Television to TikTok: Television and the Past
  • Why study law?
  • The difference between Law and Criminal Law
  • Detailed Defamation: Wagatha and Depp
  • Privacy Laws: Do they exist?
  • Bizarre Laws
  • Careers in Criminal Law
  • Criminal Law session
  • Decentralisation
  • The nature of law and the legal system of England and Wales
  • Private Law (Tort/Medical/Media)
  • Various sessions on topics within Linguistics 
  • Marketing guest lecture 
  • Marketing workshops
  • Why study Marketing?
  • Who are our customers? Understanding segmentation in markets
  • Getting to the core of products: understanding the marketing of goods and services
  • Will the customer pay the price? Understanding how prices are set in a dynamic environment
  • How to build a successful brand
  • Careers and Courses in Modern Languages 
  • Why study French / Spanish / Italian / German / Chinese?
  • Basic French / Spanish / Italian / German / Chinese session
  • French cinema
  • Race and diversity in contemporary France
  • Sport and National Identity in France
  • Humour and identity in contemporary France
  • Music guest lecturer 
  • Why study Music?
  • Popping Candy: sensory exploration in music
  • Composing by numbers
  • Music and disability
  • Why study Philosophy, Ethics and Religion?
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Analytical philosophy
  • Continental philosophy
  • Ethics (Metaethics / normative ethics / applied ethics)
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Judaism
  • Paganism
  • Atheism
  • History of religion
  • Religion and society
  • The Holocaust
  • Interfaith conversation
  • Environmentalism
  • Historical injustices and ethics (slavery, witch hunts, fundamentalist terrorism)
  • Existentialism
  • Queer Studies
  • Slavery
  • Routes into Policing 
  • Why study a Policing degree?
  • The Power of Surveillance and the Internet
  • Is Alexa listening? Data surveillance in the UK
  • Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
  • Datganoli a pholisi cymdeithasol yng Nghymru
  • Y Gwasanaeth Iechyd yng Nghymru
  • Gweinyddiaeth gyhoeddus a’r iaith Gymraeg
  • Y Gymraeg a’r gwasanaeth iechyd
  • Tlodi ac anghyfartaledd
  • Disgwyliad oes yng Nghymru
  • Why study Social Science? 
  • What is Social Policy? 
  • Sociology and Social Policy - what is it and what are the career paths?
  • Cyflwyniad i Gymdeithaseg
  • Dulliau Ymchwil
  • Y Teulu
  • Anghydraddoldeb Gymdeithasol
  • Addysg
  • Trosedd
  • Cyfryngau
  • Why study Tourism Management? 
  • Managing Tourism Sustainably
  • Pam astudio y Gymraeg?
  • Ysgrifennu Creadigol, gan gynnwys ysgrifennu am eich ardal leol
  • Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg, yn enwedig nofelau
  • Llenyddiaeth yr Oesoedd Canol
  • Llenyddiaeth fodern- barddoniaeth yn arbennig
  • Beirniadaeth Lenyddol - h.y. y cwestiwn 'Gwerthfawrogi' ar y maes llafur

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Discover Economics

Our Discover Economics workshops provide an insight into studying economics and introduce your students to the various careers and apprenticeships.

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CRIME SCENE DAYS

Have an interest in Policing, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Social Science or Law? Why not register your interest in our Crime Scene Days. Held on campus at Bangor University our crime scene days are designed to provide students with a insight into crime and criminal justice.