Programme Specification and Regulations 2011-2012 - Citizenship & History Education

Table of Contents

1. Programme Specification and Regulations for the MA degree, Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate in Citizenship Education, History Education and Citizenship and History Education (including provision of individual modules)
2. Important information regarding the Programme Specification and Regulations
3. Programme Specification
   1. Title and name of awards
   2. Level of the programmes
   3. Relevant QAA subject benchmarks group(s)
   4. Awarding body
   5. Registering body
   6. Lead College
   7. Accreditation by professional or statutory body
   8. Language of study and assessment
   9. Mode of study
   10. Programme structures
   11. Credit value of modules
   12. Entrance requirements
   13. Educational aims and learning outcomes of the programmes
   14. Teaching, learning and assessment strategies
   15. Quality evaluation and enhancement
4. Detailed Regulations
5. Summary of provision for individual modules
6. Detailed regulations for the provision of individual modules
7. Annex A: Structures
8. Annex B Module Outlines
9. Annex C Accreditation of prior learning
10. Annex D Assessment Criteria
11. Glossary of terms
12. Related documents and other sources of information

Credit value of modules

Where credits are assigned to each modules of a programme, credit indicates the amount of learning undertaken, and a specified credit level indicates the relative depth of learning involved.

The credit value indicates the amount of learning in terms of notional study hours, and the level of learning in terms of depth, complexity and intellectual demand.

For the MA, Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate in Citizenship Education, History Education and Citizenship and History Education programme, credits are assigned to the modules as follows:

Citizenship and History in the curriculum (30 credits)

Learning, teaching and assessment in citizenship (30 credits)

Learning, teaching and assessment in history (30 credits)

History, culture and citizenship: engaging with museums, galleries and heritage (30 credits)

Learning to live together: children's rights, citizenship and identities (30 credits)

International perspectives in history education (30 credits)

Report (30 credits)

Dissertation (60 credits)

A student awarded the Postgraduate Certificate will have accumulated 60 credits.

A student awarded the Postgraduate Diploma will have accumulated 120 credits.

A student awarded the MA degree will have accumulated 180 credits.