Teaching, learning and assessment methods
To help you develop your knowledge and understanding and to nurture your skills the modules offer:
- core teaching texts and study guides
- extensive guided reading
- case studies, using text and audio-visual media
- audio and visual resources
- face-to-face and online tutorials
- activities, individual and group, giving opportunities to develop and practice a range of skills
- opportunities for you to reflect on your own practice.
The above knowledge, understanding and skills are assessed formally via assignments and an examinable component at the end of each module. Your understanding and skills are reinforced by support from tutors in the form of feedback based on your assignment answers. The examinable component is an examination or an end-of-module project report.
Throughout you receive support from tutors. Your tutors are selected for their knowledge of the subject areas and experience in its practical application and they support your learning by phone, letter or email when required, and by group tutorials.
The project module that you take to complete your MSc requires that you develop a project proposal on a topic of your choice, one that can be identified as a development management problem. When formulating this problem, and throughout your research into it, you are supported by a tutor. You produce four pieces of continuous assessment and a final project report of 10,000 words.
The project, mandatory for the award of the MSc, provides an extended opportunity for you, working on your own initiative, to further demonstrate and be assessed on the above knowledge, understanding and skills that have been developed throughout the programme.
The core modules in the MSc and also many optional modules make extensive use of electronic working in delivery, assessment, tutor-student support and student-student support. Students from the UK and worldwide are therefore able to study this programme whilst remaining in full-time employment.