Intended Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of their programmes undergraduate students should have:

  • a detailed theoretical knowledge, based on a firm foundation, of the appropriate areas of science developed within an environment of excellent research and scholarship;
  • received training in appropriate subject-specific and transferable skills in preparation for further study or employment either within or outside optometry;
  • acquired practical laboratory and clinical skills in well-equipped teaching laboratories/clinics under the instruction of appropriate staff;
  • the ability to evaluate scientific material and to answer questions through theoretical analysis, hypothesis, experimentation and data analysis;