Postgraduate Programme Handbook Feb 2013
PROGRAMMES STRUCTURE AND FRAMEWORKS Post graduate study gives students the opportunity to meet their own personal and professional academic requirements in a number of ways.
CURRENT PORTFOLIO OF NAMED AWARDS The current portfolio of named awards offered is available via the following website: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/nursingmidwifery/postgraduate/msc-awards/ Students may also wish to access modules from across the wider university, or indeed from other approved institutions. The flexible nature of the MSc Advanced Practice award facilitates this providing appropriate discussion and negotiation takes place with the relevant Programme Manager. Most of the modules are offered as distance e-learning modules. INFORMATION ABOUT THE MODULES WITHIN THE MSC ADVANCED PRACTICE FRAMEWORK There are a number of modules within the framework. This portfolio is under continual review to ensure the range of modules offered, reflecting the contemporary challenges of clinical practice. A list of modules is available via the following URL: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/nursingmidwifery/postgraduate/modules/ Modules are defined in terms of student study time. Each module involves 300 hours of student effort. Most of the modules are delivered in e-learning format and the 300 hours is comprised of working through material presented in the virtual learning environment, contributing to on-line discussions, directed and independent reading and working on assignments. A module delivered in face to face mode will involve direct staff contact in lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials, in addition to independent study and if applicable, practice-based learning. All students have different patterns of studying and learning and this notion of 300 hours student effort per module is meant as a guide only. Modules are self-contained components of the programme with separate aims, prerequisites, and syllabus and assessment schemes. While teaching methods in each module will vary to suit the nature of the material, they provide equivalent academic challenge. Student performance in taught modules is normally assessed on the basis of the production of a 4,500 word assignment (for a 30 credit module). However, the programme team recognise that, for example, divided assignments might better serve the assessment needs of some modules. Variations from the norm will be approved by the Postgraduate Programme Board on the basis of the equivalence of their academic challenge.
STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR PROGRESSION All awards will be made on the basis of the accumulation of modules towards each award. The Postgraduate Certificate requires 60 credits (50 of which must be at Level 11 and 10
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