A list of terms we use that you may not have come across before:

• Faculty - an administrative department dealing with a group of related subject areas.  
• School - a subdivision of a Faculty, more focused on a single group of subjects.  You'll belong to a School, and the School Office on your campus will be a good place to find.
• Student Support - the University department with responsibility for looking after you when you're here.

• Undergraduate - what you will be after you enrol but before you get your degree.
• Assessment - how we mark your work.
• Programme - we used to call them courses.  A programme of study is the path you take to attain your degree.
• Module - a self-contained subject.  You usually study three modules per semester* (that's six a year, eighteen over the course of your degree).
• BSc/BA/BEng - Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Engineering degree.
• BSc Hons - Bachelor of Science degree with honours (i.e. you usually have to produce a dissertation* in your final year.

Dissertation - a substantial piece of original work on a single theme or subject that shows you have read the literature and applied this learning to an idea of your own.
Lecture - group teaching, a big class.
Seminar - small group discussion around the theme of that week's lecture.
Reading week - a week off mid-semester to catch up on the reading you should have been doing.
Classification - your final degree mark which, if you are on an honours programme, have old-fashioned subdivisions such as Second Class, Upper Division (also called a 2.i).
Masters - postgraduate degree, the next level of study. Usually either MA (Master of Arts) or MSc (Master of Science).  Also MBA (Master of Business Administration).
PhD - a doctorate (technically, a Doctor of Philosophy)
Tariff Points - the scale of points allocated by UCAS to your ‘A' level results.  We make offers on courses based on the amount of Tariff Points we are looking for.

• Campus - university facilities in one specific geographical spot, e.g Magee campus, Londonderry.

• Semester - there used to be three terms.  Now there are two semesters.