Undergraduate Course: Languages Beyond University (ELCC08004)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
| Course type | Student-Led Individually Created Course |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | 'Languages Beyond University' enables you to develop and deliver learning and outreach in the language you are studying within local schools or community groups. It uses the Student-Led Individually Created Course (SLICC) for self-designed experiential learning and self-reflection on the development of your academic, professional and personal skills using an e-portfolio. This is an SCQF Level 8 course which carries 20 credits and stretches over 2 semesters. The course is open for second year students of Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. |
| Course description |
This course requires you to propose, develop and manage a unique learning experience that will enable you to evidence how you have achieved your self- designed learning outcomes for the course. By engaging with school teachers and pupils, you have numerous possibilities to plan and design your own project. You will write a project proposal which has to be approved by your university course tutor. Throughout the duration of your learning experience, you will work on an e- portfolio that reflects on the evolution of the project and your progression over time. It must include a regular reflective blog diary. It may contain other evidence that may take a variety of different forms such as photographs, documents, reports, feedback, video, podcasts, etc. Your continuous work on the e-portfolio will inform your final Reflective Report.
The steps in undertaking the course are as follows:
1) Identify a suitable project for your learning experience, and attend several course workshops
2) Write your draft proposal and submit to your university course tutor for approval
3) Self-direct and manage your own learning experience
4) Actively and regularly reflect upon and document your experience in blog form in an e-portfolio supported with evidence- for example, photographs, documents, reports, feedback, videos, podcasts, etc. and use this as a basis for writing your self-critical formative Final Reflective Report
5) Give a poster presentation in class at university to showcase your project in front of your classmates
6) Formatively self-assess by submitting an interim reflective essay based on the evidence in your e-portfolio in which you demonstrate how you have met the learning outcomes for the course
7) Submit your Final Reflective Report for summative assessment
The steps identified above each require a significant amount of thought and input and will ultimately form part of an e-portfolio of evidence that will be used in the self-assessment of your course.
When undertaking this SLICC you will not only develop the content of your learning experience but also produce an agreed portfolio of outputs where you must evidence what you have learned and, importantly, demonstrate how you met the learning outcomes for the course.
You will be allocated to a school mentor in Modern Languages departments, clubs or after school clubs in primary or secondary schools in or near Edinburgh. Throughout the whole academic year, you will liaise with your school mentor, your university course tutor and LBU course organiser to plan and organise cultural learning materials and outreach events at school and at university. You will be required to attend several workshops in semester 1 and semester 2. In addition, you will spend about 10-15 hours in schools spread out over semester 2.
Undertaking 'Languages beyond University' will enable you to create a learning experience which is unique, while demonstrating your learning and academic achievement against defined learning outcomes.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students must be studying on a degree programme which includes the language associated with the chosen community engagement activity. |
| Additional Costs | In academic year 2024/25, the cost of travel to and from agreed placements (where students are not eligible for free bus travel), as well as the cost of any required Disclosure Scotland (PVG scheme) check, will be reimbursed by the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC). LLC will keep this process under review for future academic years.
NB Students may be liable for these costs if they withdraw from the course. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10.5,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
185 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Formative Assessment:
1 x Learning Proposal (600-800 words)
1 x agreed portfolio of outputs
1 x Interim Reflective Essay (800-1000 words)
Summative Assessment (100% weighting):
10% poster presentation in class
90% Final Reflective Essay |
| Feedback |
You will be given detailed formative feedback at: (a) the stage of reflecting on what you wish to do for and achieve during your project, whilst defining your own learning outcomes in your Proposal. Setting these effectively at the start is a key element to the SLICC; (b) on your Interim Reflective Report. This permits you to reflect and act on this feedback before submission of the Final Reflective Report, but will also be at a time to gain deep insight into and beneficially influence the progress of your project. The Interim Reflective Report is in the same format as the Final Reflective Report, so formative feedback is directly aligned with the final summative assessment.
You will receive summative feedback on your Final Reflective Report. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- express how they have actively developed their understanding of the possibilities and importance of cultural education as part of outreach and community engagement.
- apply a range of relevant skills and attributes (academic, professional and/or personal) in order to engage effectively with the particular demands of cultural education and community outreach.
- demonstrate how they have used their experiences on the course to actively develop their skills in areas of a) personal and intellectual autonomy, b) communication, and/or c) personal effectiveness.
- articulate how they have used their experiences on the course to actively explore their attitude towards a) enquiry and lifelong learning, b) aspiration and personal development, and/or c) outlook and engagement.
- evaluate and critically reflect upon their contribution to cultural education and community outreach, identifying where improvement and development is needed.
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Learning Resources
Learning resources are provided online. These resources include guidance on: reflective learning and reflective models; generating your own specific focused learning outcomes from the generic learning outcomes; collecting and curating evidence of your learning using an e-portfolio; writing reflective reports on your learning; using the PebblePad workbook, reflective blog and webfolio:
Bassot, B. The Reflective Journal, Palgrave. 2nd Ed. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Undertaking a SLICC will enable you to develop your abilities in self-critical reflection, organisation and time-management, self-assessment, evaluation of standards and competencies achieved, application of prior learning in a defined context, and provide opportunities to further develop analytical and presentation skills. The SLICC learning outcomes are derived from and embedded in the institutional Graduate Attributes. The learning outcomes are flexible to provide you with autonomy. With guidance from your course tutor, this flexibility of choice enables you, in the context of your own chosen experience, to focus on your own particular skills and mind sets. You can select the specific attributes that you consider are the most important to reflect upon, looking into your current and future professional and personal aims and career aspirations. |
| Keywords | SLICC,employability,student-led,reflection,portfolio,school,cultural learning,graduate attributes |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Patricia Rueda Diez
Tel: (0131 6)50 3746
Email: patricia.rueda@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Lina Gordyshevskaya
Tel:
Email: pgordysh@ed.ac.uk |
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