Postgraduate Course: An Introduction of Project Cycle Management (BIME11035)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Biomedical Sciences | 
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 10 | 
ECTS Credits | 5 | 
 
 
| Summary | This course describes the project cycle and use of planning tools such as log frames; monitoring and evaluation approaches; capacity assessments and stakeholder analysis. We thoroughly recommend any students wishing to complete the 'Project Cycle Management and Funding Application Preparation' course in their final year to select this elective. | 
 
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  None | 
 
| Course Start | 
Full Year | 
 
| Course Start Date | 
11/01/2016 | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
100
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 Lecture Hours 10,
 Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Online Activities 25,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
53 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Formal summative written assessment will constitute 60% of the student's grade. Online assessment will incorporate a variety of activities will constitute 40% of their overall course grade and is taken to represent a formative assessment of learning throughout the programme. | 
 
| Feedback | 
Not entered | 
 
| No Exam Information | 
 
Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - Understand the need for and the application of basic tools used in project and programme management including 'Results Chains' and Logical Frameworks, especially where overseas development aid is being used.
 - Read, interpret and have an understanding of the application of the DFID approach to log frames and how these requirements feed through into the articulation of baselines, project/programme monitoring and evaluation and longer term impact assessment.
 
     
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Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Kim Picozzi 
Tel: (0131 6)50 6257 
Email: Kim.Picozzi@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Miss Lauren Sandford 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5470 
Email: Lauren.Sandford@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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