Postgraduate Course: Course Organisation and Management (EDUA11177)
Course Outline
| School |
Moray House School of Education |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
10 |
| Home subject area |
Education |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This unit option aims to provide existing and aspiring course organisers with an opportunity to identify and critically analyse what is entailed in managing and leading an undergraduate or taught postgraduate course unit in contemporary higher education. The unit will therefore be concerned with mapping and examining key roles, responsibilities and skills; reviewing practices and strategies for communication and interaction with students and within and across the course team; and planning, implementing and reviewing changes designed to enhance course effectiveness. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
43 hour(s) per week for 2 week(s). |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of the unit, programme participants will have:
- dissected and appraised the main roles and responsibilities associated with course organisation and management
- reviewed and evaluated some key organisational and managerial challenges
- sought systematically to enhance the understanding and analytical and communicative expertise which these challenges call for
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Assessment Information
| Participants, working in pairs or threes, will be invited to interview a small sample of experienced course organisers in their own or cognate subject areas about their work, and draw appropriately on the literature to present an analysis of key challenges they have engaged with in sustaining and enhancing course quality. The outcomes of the work undertaken will be presented in the form of a 20-minute oral presentation, complemented by a summary handout (1-2 sides of A4) submitted by each participant/presenter. |
Special Arrangements
| Pre-course reading, in-course reading and follow-up reading as well as assignment preparation complement face-to-face teaching/learning activities to a total of 100 notional effort hours. |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Prof David Hounsell
Tel: (0131 6)51 6667
Email: D.Hounsell@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Kim Addison
Tel: (0131 6)51 6661
Email: Kim.Addison@ed.ac.uk |
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