Online subject tasters

Our online subject taster sessions help you experience what it is like to study at the University of Sheffield. They are for both year 12 and 13 students, as well as BTEC and mature students. If you'd like to attend a taster session virtually, this is the right session for you.

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Browse the A-Z list of our online subject taster sessions to book or register your interest.

All sessions happen in the afternoon, from 3.30pm and onwards.

Online subject tasters

Aerospace Engineering: From Kites to Satellites

Applied Social Sciences: Looking at reality TV through a social science lens

Automatic Control and Systems Engineering: How can we control and shape our future with robots?

Biomedical Engineering: What is Biomedical Engineering?

Biosciences: Animal reproduction and conservation

Biosciences: Why are we not immortal? The biology of ageing

Chemical and Biological Engineering: Optimising your future

Chemistry: The Evolution of the Periodic Table, the Fundamentals and Beyond

Civil and Structural Engineering: Strengthening against earthquakes

Computer Science: Machine Learning and Data Science

Data Science: Large Language Models: How does ChatGPT work anyway?

East Asian Studies: Visual Aesthetics in East Asia: The Rise of Cuteness

Economics: Environmental Economics: What is the right amount of pollution?

Education: Children and Digital Cultures: explorations through student filmmaking

Electronic and Electrical Engineering: Virtual Arduino Lab

English language: A taste of linguistics

English Literature: The many loves of Jane Eyre

French: Hospitality and refugees at the French militarised border zones: Calais, Dunkirk and Brianço

General Engineering: Engineering in General and General Engineering with an Electrical Flavour

Geography: Electoral Geographies and Digital Technologies

Physical Geography and Environmental Science: Applying what we learn from Geography in dealing with

German: Freud on Mind and Society

History: An Introduction to the British Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1640-1807

Human communication sciences: Speech and language therapy at Sheffield

Journalism: Press conference and newswriting workshop

Landscape Architecture: How to analyse and draw a landscape

Law: The art of negotiation

Management School: Career Development Planning

Materials Science and Engineering: From engines to atoms

Mechanical Engineering: Sensing Sight with Sound

Music: Music and Environmentalism

Nursing and Midwifery: The Kidneys: Why they're so great

Orthoptics: Why do we see double?

Philosophy: What is freedom and why should we value it?

Politics and International Relations: The new ‘crisis of masculinity’ and future of gender politics

Politics, Philosophy and Economics: Misinformation, trust and online media

Psychology: From Novice to Ninja: Becoming an Expert

Russian: On the historical (dis)unity of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples

Sociological studies: Digital media and our identities: Secrecy, privacy and anonymity

Spanish: How did we get to understand Brazil as the land of carnival?

Urban studies and planning: Planning the healthy city

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