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Course overview
Adding a master’s year enables you to work more independently and at a higher level, preparing you for a career in a technical or quantitative discipline or for doctoral research.
Course content
Our Integrated Master's course provides students the opportunity to develop specialist subject knowledge and skills to progress to a career in academia or industry.
This course adds a fourth year at master’s level to our bachelor’s degree, in which you will study specialist modules based on your own interests as well as your tutors’ research interests. Building on what you learned in your first three years, you will develop higher-level skills both in mathematics and in your approaches to problem solving and the communication of your solutions to diverse audiences.
Studying for a master’s at Keele you will spend more time in self-directed study, becoming an independent learner, thinker and researcher. You will deliver a substantial project, write mathematics to a professional standard and explore how mathematicians contribute to academia and industry.
This programme is accredited to meet the educational requirements of the Chartered Mathematician designation awarded by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
For more information please see our Mathematics Undergraduate Brochure 2020.
Course structure
Our degree courses are organised into modules. Each module is usually a self-contained unit of study and each is usually assessed separately with the award of credits on the basis of 1 credit = 10 hours of student effort. An outline of the structure of the programme is provided in the tables below.
There are three types of module delivered as part of this programme. They are:
- Compulsory modules: a module that you are required to study on this course;
- Optional modules: these allow you some limited choice of what to study from a list of modules;
- Elective modules: a free choice of modules that count towards the overall credit requirement but not the number of subject-related credits.
A summary of the credit requirements per year is as follows, with a minimum of 105 subject credits (compulsory plus optional) required at Level 4, and 120 subject credits required at Levels 5, 6 and 7.
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Year |
Compulsory |
Optional |
Electives |
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Min |
Max |
Min |
Max |
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1 |
105 |
0 |
15 |
0 |
15 |
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2 |
105 |
0 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
|
3 |
0 |
120 |
120 |
0 |
0 |
|
4 |
60 |
60 |
60 |
0 |
0 |
Year 1 (Level 4)
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Compulsory modules |
Credits |
Optional modules |
Credits |
|
30 |
Applied Mathematics |
15 |
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|
30 |
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30 |
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|
15 |
Year 2 (Level 5)
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Compulsory modules |
Credits |
Optional modules |
Credits |
|
15 |
15 |
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15 |
15 |
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|
15 |
15 |
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|
15 |
Linear Statistical Models | 15 | |
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15 |
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15 |
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|
15 |
Year 3 (Level 6)
|
Optional modules |
Credits |
Optional modules |
Credits |
|
15 |
15 |
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|
15 |
15 |
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|
15 |
15 |
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15 |
15 |
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15 |
15 |
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15 |
15 |
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15 |
15 |
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|
15 |
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Optional Modules: students normally choose four 15-credit modules in each semester. The choice will depend on any timetabling restrictions and will be subject to the student having met the necessary prerequisites. Some modules may not be available every year. |
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Year 4 (Level 7)
|
Compulsory modules |
Credits |
Optional modules |
Credits |
|
60 |
Field and Galois Theory |
20 |
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20 |
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20 |
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20 |
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20 |
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20 |
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20 |
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20 |
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Optional Modules: students take three optional modules alongside the compulsory Masters Project module. The choice will depend on availability and timetabling restrictions. |
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For further information on the content of modules currently offered, including the list of elective modules, please visit: www.keele.ac.uk/recordsandexams/az
The module details given above are indicative and will give you a good idea of the range of subjects that we teach. We regularly review our teaching to ensure that the modules we offer are up-to-date; therefore, the modules available to study are liable to change.