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GARTHDEE CAMPUS Welcome to Robert Gordon University. We are delighted you have come to look around our Garthdee campus and hope the following information will help you find your way.

FIRST THINGS FIRST – please have a look at the map below and familiarise yourself with the campus layout.

MAP AND AERIAL VIEW SHOWING 1 The Faculty of Health & Social Care 2 RGU: SPORT 3 Aberdeen Business School 4 The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment

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1 FACULTY OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE BUILDING This is the most logical place to start your tour as all other buildings on campus are to the left from where you are now.

THIS BUILDING IS HOME TO COURSES IN THE FOLLOWING THREE SCHOOLS:

School of Applied Social Studies School of Nursing and Midwifery School of Health Sciences.

With an excellent café offering a great selection of food, a variety of breakout areas to relax in, as well as numerous PC labs available throughout the week, this building offers everything you need to be able to study and relax – at a time which suits you.

Interesting stuff . . . > building opened in 2002 > clinical skills centre allows students to role play using Volunteer Patients > Human Performance Lab is worth more than £200,000

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RGU: SPORT The next building to your left, this facility opened in 2005 at a cost of over £11m. It is home to two gyms, a swimming pool, a sports hall, a climbing wall, two exercise studios, the Careers Centre as well as the ever popular Starbucks – offering healthy option snacks and lunches.

Facilities Gym - as well as the usual cardio-vascular machines, resistance machines, E spinners, personal viewing screens, Olympic lifting platforms and a computerised system providing members with individually tailored programmes – there are also a number of personal assessment and fitness programmes designed to either introduce or refresh individual training plans.

Our suite of Professional Physique Assessments are designed to provide an interesting insight into the relationship between how you’re built and how you perform - perfect for those competing in sport or purely for those just wanting to change their physique!

Swimming pool - a modern six-lane, 25m decklevel swimming pool with a depth range of 1.2m to 2.0m, complete with anti-wave lane ropes.

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Sports hall > 9 badminton courts > 3 5-a-side football pitches, separated by rebound boards > 3 basketball training courts > 1 full-sized netball court > 1 international-sized basketball court > 1 fencing piste > 1 regionally-significant indoor hockey pitch, with seating for approximately 250 people > 3 volleyball courts > It can also cater for table tennis, short tennis and other suggested sports Climbing Zone - a first class climbing facility including a dramatic 11-metre Lead Climbing Wall towering through three floors. There are a variety of routes using screw-on holds and features which include a sweeping flake, twin tufa and a jam crack system.

Membership

Classes/courses We have a range of classes to suit all interests and abilities – from Tai Chi and Yoga to Circuits and Step.

Conditioning classes include Abs Blasts and Legs with more specialist classes including Indoor Cycling, Dance and Box Fit. Interested in becoming a pool lifeguard? You can take your training at one of the National Pool Lifeguard Qualification courses run regularly at RGU: SPORT

MEMBERSHIP TYPE

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Student Annual

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£132

Student Semester £47

£77

Placement Annual £59

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Joining up couldn’t be easier, just take your student matric card or some other evidence that shows you are currently studying in the academic year, to the RGU: SPORT reception and we’ll do the rest.

Why not add to your training and take one of our first aid courses – all of which meet the full requirements of the HSE.

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3 ABERDEEN BUSINESS SCHOOL OPENED IN 1999, THIS BUILDING HOUSES COURSES IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

Accounting, Economics & Finance Communication, Marketing & Media Information Management Management Law Equipped with new leather sofas, a Costa coffee shop and a Blackwell’s’ book store stocking hundreds of books, Aberdeen Business School is pleased to provide an environment for students to relax and study.

The building is also home to numerous PC and Mac labs, television and radio studios as well as a moot court enabling law students to take part in simulated court proceedings.

Interesting stuff . . . > founded in 1965 > over 3000 students on ABS courses > has its own undergraduate magazine called THE BIZ

The Georgina Scott Sutherland Library is also housed within the Aberdeen Business School and provides material for all schools based at our Garthdee Campus.

Home to several University collections, the Library also frequently hosts exhibitions.

As well as the extensive range of books, journals and DVDs available to borrow, the university subscribes to a number of e-books, online journals and databases. Quiet study areas, meeting rooms for group work, IT and printing facilities, along with wireless internet access, are all on offer to students at Garthdee.

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4 THE SCOTT SUTHERLAND SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT A slightly longer walk this time, again to your left, takes you to this Victorian mansion house along with its beautiful grounds overlooking the River Dee.

The School offers a uniquely integrated programme of activities and courses with students having the opportunity to travel on study trips and student exchange programmes to look at the very best of international design.

Interesting stuff . . . > approximately 550 students in the school > opened in 1957

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5 GRAY’S SCHOOL OF ART A short walk through the car park brings you to Gray’s School of Art, a school which was originally opened on our city centre campus in 1885 but moved to Garthdee in 1967.

Our large, open-plan first year studios are a hive of activity, the perfect place to experiment and explore before occupying high quality individual workspaces, available from second year onwards.

Our fully equipped workshops for traditional crafts and digital technologies are an integral part of our facilities, being utilised by students on a variety of courses such as Three Dimensional Design and Design for Digital Media.

Interesting stuff . . . > A new £1 million centre, the Centre for Design and Innovation (C4DI), was launched in 2009 to help companies gain a competitive edge through the application of design to their products and services. > Once a year, we hold our high-profile degree shows which enable our graduating students to showcase their work in a public exhibition.

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ABOUT ABERDEEN Aberdeen is a vibrant and multicultural city, home to a population of over 220,000, including 20,000 students. It is rich in culture, with a range of museums, art galleries, cinemas and concert venues.

There are five shopping centres with a wide range of well known shops and boutiques as well as individual shops selling locally-produced goods and an international street market held at various times throughout the year. Hundreds of local events are organised throughout the year by the Council, event partners and the community. The Granite (or Silver) City is also very green, with a range of parks and open spaces close to the city centre.

OUTDOORS Within minutes of leaving the city centre, you can be surfing off the Aberdeen coast or in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire. You can easily visit the Cairgorms National Park, explore picturesque Royal Deeside and, within two hours, be in the Highlands, exploring the rich social and cultural history of the region.

NIGHTLIFE Aberdeen has a thriving night life with a variety of cinemas, clubs and bars and restaurants – many of which offer great students deals, holding nights especially for students. Not forgetting of course the RGU: Studio Union, located just a stones throw away from our Woolmanhill halls of residence.

So, when you need a break from your studies, you are spoilt for choice with the many places to go and things to do to help you relax.

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living in ABERDEEN At Robert Gordon University, we are committed to providing safe, secure and affordable accommodation for our students. Our flats have been designed with your needs in mind.

Residents have access to staff or Residence Assistants (RA’s) to offer advice, assistance and support 24 hours a day.

Our flats offer competitively priced accommodation at eight sites throughout Aberdeen. Our inclusive rents mean never having to budget for any bills.

We know that there is more to University life than studying, so our flats cater for more than your academic needs. Each study bedroom is equipped to provide a private place to relax or revise, and each flat contains a communal living area where flatmates and friends can socialise.

Woolmanhill St. Peters Hall Don Hall Ardmuir Trinity Court Rosemount Hall Linksfield Hall Garthdee Flats Ardmuir King Street

What we offer: • Standard and ensuite rooms • Car parking & bike storage facilities

http://www.rgu.ac.uk/living/accommodation/ accommodation-map

• Convenient public transport links • 37, 40 & 50 week tenancies • 24/7 high speed internet access • Security entry systems

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now what?

We hope you enjoyed your visit around our Garthdee campus.

Chances are you now have a number of questions you need answers to.

contact us phone: 01224 262204 email:

visit@rgu.ac.uk

visit:

www.rgu.ac.uk

write:

Robert Gordon University Schools Liaison Office Schoolhill Aberdeen AB10 1FR

We look forward to hearing from you!

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