Postgraduate Programme Handbook Feb 2013
AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The aims and learning outcomes of each of the programmes are outlined here: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/nursing_postgraduate_courses.htm The academic level for Masters study is determined by the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework, which describes the characteristic outcomes of Master’s degrees as follows: ? A systematic understanding of knowledge, and a critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights, much of which is at or informed by the forefront of their academic discipline, field of study, or area of professional practice A comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship Originality in the application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established techniques of research and enquiry are used to create and interpret knowledge in the discipline Conceptual understanding that enables the student:-to evaluate critically current research and advanced scholarship in the discipline; and to evaluate methodologies and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, to propose new hypotheses.
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