Postgraduate Course: Student-Led Individually-Created Course (SLICC) - Health Sciences (HEIN11097)
Course Outline
| School | Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
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 | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This 20 credit course will provide students with an opportunity to integrate the learning gained in the Masters programme and apply it to address problems and challenges in the 'real world'. Students will create their own learning using the Student-Led Individually-Created Course (SLICC) approach, a university framework for self-designed experiential learning: https://sliccs.ed.ac.uk/
The student will plan, propose, carry out, reflect on and evaluate a piece of work from their own contexts, encompassing the cross-disciplinary nature of their domain. The SLICC framework requires that students use the generic learning outcomes to articulate their learning in their own defined project, reflect frequently using a blog, collect, formulate, organise and present evidence of their learning in an e-portfolio. Students will receive relevant formative feedback on a draft final report, which is the same format as the final reflective report, which forms the summative assessment. The above will be with guidance of a mentor.
The course will encourage critical appraisal of students' own practical experiences, and allow them to reflect on their learning in the context of the cross-disciplinary nature of the domain. |
| Course description |
Students are expected to spend approximately 140-200 hours in total on this course.
Planning the SLICC should commence once students begin Year 3. Ideally the chosen piece of work should link to their own contexts, experience and/or relevant employment. Students will be given an overview of what is expected well in advance. They will be provided with relevant support, materials and resources. Students define their own learning outcomes as a 'Proposal' and by looking forward into their future professional/personal aims and career aspirations and will examine the development of their attributes. Students will receive formative feedback on their 'Project Proposal' in Block 1 of Year 3. The student will present their proposal to peers.
Thereafter the student will reflect frequently using blogs to build and present evidence of their learning in an e-portfolio. They will submit and receive formative feedback in a draft report. Their work is then incorporated into a final written self-reflective report which will be part of the summative assessment. The student will give a final conclusive presentation of their findings to their peers.
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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 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 2,
Online Activities 70,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10,
Formative Assessment Hours 10,
Revision Session Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
92 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Written exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical exam 0%
Assessment includes a final written assignment and incorporates other activities. |
| Feedback |
1) The proposal stage in deciding what they wish to achieve in their SLICC project, and defining own learning outcomes.
2) The draft final report to gain insight into how insightful/effective the students reflective blogging is and the structure of the report to prepare the student for the final report.
3) Summative feedback on the final report. This will be a critical literature review of their chosen relevant topic and a reflective account of their learning journey and extracts from their own blogs to illustrate their reflection, development of how they have achieved their SLICC goals or what they have learnt from not being able to achieve these. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate how they have developed a deep critical understanding of the cross-disciplinary nature of the domain, using their own SLICC to identify complexities, challenges and wider implications in their area
- Apply relevant skills and approaches gained during the programme teaching to effectively and critically explore their chosen SLICC question
- Self-reflect to demonstrate personal and intellectual autonomy to critically evaluate ideas, evidence and experiences from an open-minded and reasoned perspective
- Draw on the quality, depth and breadth of their experiences to engage with the communities and world around them. With an informed international perspective, they seek to contribute positively, ethically and respectfully
- Critically review, evaluate and reflect upon their knowledge, skills and practices in the domain, how they have met the learning outcomes for the SLICC course or reflect on the learning they have gained from not progressing as originally anticipated
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
The student will be required to unite the knowledge gained from the previous two years of their programme and integrate this knowledge with self-reflection in their own practice and experience. The process will require the student to deeply reflect on both knowledge, experience, practice and self-development. As the reflective blogs will be done throughout the 3rd year, whilst the student is undergoing taught courses, the student will further develop generic skills such as planning, organising, executing, time management, critical analysis, and presentation. |
| Keywords | Integration of knowledge,self-reflection and development,Student-led,experiential learning |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mx Emilie McSwiggan
Tel:
Email: emilie.mcswiggan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Katrina Reid
Tel:
Email: kreid7@ed.ac.uk |
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