Unit name | Study Abroad with Advanced Distance Learning |
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Unit code | CHEM30002 |
Credit points | 120 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Carmen Galan |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites | |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Chemistry |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This unit constitutes the third year of the MSci Chemistry with Study Abroad degree programme and consists of taught courses and normally a research project; work is carried out at a non-European overseas university. Students also undertake coursework consisting of distance learning of key Year 3 lecture courses.
This unit provides the experience of studying in a different country and a different university system, thereby providing the students with experience and transferable skills on top of their learning of advanced chemistry. This provides them with skills they will use in a career as a professional chemist, or in an area of employment requiring the skills of scientific reasoning, critical evaluation and numeracy – especially if such a career requires working day-to-day in a different culture. The courses followed in the partner university and through distance learning aim to provide an advanced understanding and knowledge of chemistry, reinforcing and building on year 2 material in order to provide a well-rounded general education in advanced chemistry. These courses also lay the basis for the more specialized topics covered by courses and the research project in the final year.
Most of the teaching will be through a mix of lectures, workshops and laboratory work in the host universities, with some of the students also carrying out a research project in one of the labs of the host university. Additional formal academic teaching will be provided by distance learning using e-learning methods.
Students will be assessed in the host university for any research project and all courses followed there. They will also be assessed for the remote learning component by online assessment. This latter assessment will account for 25% of the course mark with the remaining 75% assigned based on the moderated marks obtained for the assessments undertaken in the partner university.
Students will need to take a minimum of 45 ECTS as the remaining 15 ECTS are made up of distance learning.
The reading needed for this course will be made available via the Distance Learning module and by the host institution.