Postgraduate Course: Innovative Approaches to Health Challenges Across Disciplines (VESC11224)
Course Outline
| School | Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies |
College | College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This ten-credit course will enable students to develop critical awareness, knowledge, and skills to work collaboratively, across disciplines, to better tackle complex challenges that occur at the intersections of human, animal and environmental health. will be available to students on a range of MSc programme related to the health sciences, as well as students from other disciplines. Concepts of One Health¿ will be introduced, reinforced and potentially further developed. Group work will form a major part of this course. Barriers to working with people from different disciplines, and innovative approaches to facilitating such work and to developing and building new communities to address health challenges, will be explored. By the end of the course, students will have developed a deeper awareness of the complexities of working across disciplines, and some related strategies to use in their own professional and practice environments. |
| Course description |
The Innovative Approaches course has been designed to support participants from a broad range of natural and social science backgrounds to explore a variety of approaches to complex health challenges. Such challenges will increasingly confront health professionals with complexity and uncertainty, particularly when working at the intersections of human, other-than-human animal and environmental health.
To work effectively on such complex challenges requires us to work collaboratively with others: other professionals, other disciplines and other stakeholders. There is thus an emphasis throughout this course on working in small groups, not just across disciplines, but also across difference and many other divisions and boundaries. This requires us to develop our listening skills in particular, as proficiency in listening is the bedrock upon which innovative, co-creative responses are founded.
This course will be innovative, exploring the sources of creativity whilst emphasising experiential learning and reflexivity. As such, it will challenge you to deepen your awareness of yourself, of others, and of the complex health challenges you will be working on. It may therefore be challenging at times. However, by exploring all of this together, over the course, it is hoped that you will feel (and be) able to learn from each other and will find yourselves developing new creative approaches, rooted in receptivity and responsiveness. This is likely to support you in learning how to work more proficiently with your professional colleagues and other participating stakeholders.
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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 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
| Course Start Date |
05/08/2024 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
98 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework 100 % consisting of a combination of summative group and individual assessment incorporating a variety of activities. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concepts, theories, and principles related to One Health and to working across disciplines.
- Collaboratively develop original and creative responses to complex issues and make informed judgements in the absence of complete or consistent information.
- Work collaboratively with peers from other disciplines in ways which critically reflect on own and others¿ roles and areas of expertise.
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Reading List
| Key readings include a selection of resources commonly used in Action Research methodologies, community building and facilitation workshops. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
During the course, students will have to demonstrate the ability to work both collaboratively with others and independently. They will explore creative approaches to joint working across disciplines whilst improving their critical knowledge and understanding of One Health. Since the course is distance learning, it will contribute to their communication, writing and IT skills. Finally, they will be expected to be able to draw from and bring together the experiences provided throughout the course for their group and reflective assignments. Competencies such as innovative and transdisciplinary thinking should develop and improve. |
| Keywords | One Health,integrated and innovative approaches,community building,complex health challenges |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Glen Cousquer
Tel: (0131 6)51 7374
Email: glen.cousquer@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Michael Winpenny
Tel: (0131 6)50 8825
Email: Michael.Winpenny@ed.ac.uk |
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