Undergraduate Course: Language Portfolio B (CLLC10010)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
| Course type | Student-Led Individually Created Course |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A SLICC requires you to propose, develop and manage your own cultural learning experience within a supported learning and assessment framework. This framework will enable you to demonstrate how you have achieved the course learning outcomes, while addressing your academic and professional needs in cultural awareness. The course offers a high level of autonomy and flexibility, allowing you to tailor your learning to your individual goals.
Your self-designed learning experience must adhere to a defined learning and assessment framework that supports independent learning and self-management. Within this structure, however, you have real autonomy and flexibility in choosing the topic or theme, the content of study, and the nature of your learning experience, provided that your proposal is academically viable and approved by your tutor.
Your SLICC may be based upon a range of extra-curricular or experiential learning opportunity including internships, work experience, pro-bono activities, community engagement, volunteering, or study-abroad. Alternatively, it may be entirely self-directed, depending on your learning objectives. |
| Course description |
This course consists of the following steps:
1) Identify a suitable route within which to undertake your cultural learning experience;
2) Write your draft proposal and submit to your tutor/advisor for approval;
3) Self-direct and manage your own language learning experience, as detailed within the framework;
4) Actively and regularly reflect upon and document your experience with evidence and use that as a basis for writing your self-critical Interim Reflective Report, then your Final Reflective Report;
5) Formatively self-assess and submit your Final Reflective Report for summative assessment by your tutor.
Each of these steps requires careful planning, reflections, and sustained engagement. Together, they will form a 'time-based' e-portfolio of reflective evidence, which you will curate and use in the assessment of your SLICC.
By undertaking a SLICC in your third year, you will not only design and carry out a personalised cultural learning experience but also produce an agreed portfolio of outputs. You are required to evidence what you have learned and, importantly, to demonstrate how you have met the learning outcomes for the course.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This is a semester-long course available to students enrolled in LLC language degree programmes (joint, single or combined honours) at SCQF level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) in Semester 2. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2026/27, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework - 100% for the Final Reflective Report«br /»
[meets LO 1, LO2, LO3, LO4, and LO5] |
| Feedback |
You will be given detailed formative feedback at:
1) 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;
2) 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 this formative feedback aligns directly with the final summative assessment, to enable you to improve and develop you assessed submission.
You will also be asked to offer a self-assessment using the SLICC marking criteria and rubric, to help you develop your assessment literacy.
3) 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:
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the context and setting of their SLICC experience.
- Apply relevant academic, professional and personal skills and attributes to engage effectively and critically with their language learning experience, while identifying areas for further development.
- Critically develop and demonstrate skills within a selected area of the University's Graduate Attributes Framework through reflection on their SLICC experience.
- Demonstrate the development of a selected mindset from the University's Graduate Attributes Framework through engagement with their SLICC experience, such as enquiry and lifelong learning, aspiration and personal development or outlook and engagement.
- Critically evaluate and reflect on their learning process, development and decision-making throughout their SLICC experience.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Undertaking a SLICC will enable student to develop their 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' (https://www.ed.ac.uk/graduate-attributes). The learning outcomes are flexible to provide students with autonomy. With guidance from the assigned academic tutor, this flexibility of choice enables students, in the context of their own chosen experience, to focus on their own particular 'skills' (Learning Outcome 3) and 'mindsets' (Learning Outcome 4). Student can select the specific attributes that they consider are the most important to reflect upon, looking into their current and future professional and personal aims and career aspirations. |
| Keywords | Language portfolio,study away,SLICC,student-led,reflection |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Duo Luan
Tel: (0131 6)51 7112
Email: Duo.Luan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | |
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