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Broadening Strands
overview
DSE Forum
23 April 2013
Caroline Campbell (Languages and Cross-Cultural Understanding)
Fiona Douglas (Media, Culture and Creativity)
Rafe Hallett (Personal and Professional Development)
Bonnie Meekums (Mind and Body)
William Young (Creating Sustainable Futures)
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Curriculum Enhancement Project
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A Broadening Strand is:
A co-ordinated and structured series of related elective modules allowing
sustained exploration of a specific subject, issue or skill which lies beyond
the primary disciplinary content of a student’s programme.”
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Broadening Strands:
– have a clear focus but include a range of alternative modules – allowing
choice for students and some flexibility in timetabling around study for
the home degree
– offer modules over at least 2 levels (and ideally 3 levels) to allow for
progression
– are constructed so as to ensure that a student who exits after study at
only one level also has a satisfactory and stimulating experience
– are sufficiently flexible to accommodate unorthodox progression paths –
e.g. a student who begins a strand at L1, exits for a year and
subsequently re-enters, or a student who exits one strand after L1 and
begins another at L2. In some cases, however, such ‘transfers’ would
continue to be subject to completion of an appropriate pre-requisite.
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• Elective Modules should:
– be appropriate to be taken by students from outside the discipline.
– provide opportunities for student engagement in addition to largegroup lecturing so as to facilitate deeper learning and academic/ social
interaction between individuals drawn from different degree
programmes.
– normally be 10 or 20 credits so that they can be more readily
accommodated within the home programme of the elective student.
– where necessary pre-requisites for elective modules should be
maintained, but Schools/Faculties should ensure that students have a
means to meet the pre-requisites of modules in higher levels (i.e. if a
level 2 elective module has a level 1 module as a pre-requisite then that
level 1 module should be offered as an elective, or another means of
meeting the pre-requisite identified).
• All elective modules will form part of a Broadening Strand.
• Overview http://curriculum.leeds.ac.uk/
• Broadening Strands http://curriculum.leeds.ac.uk/broadening
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Two types of broadening possibilities
Students should have opportunities to
broaden their intellectual horizons.
• Within broad discipline area
• Across new discipline areas
– ‘added value’
– E.g. within ‘languages’, ‘Arts &
Humanities subjects’ etc
– ‘Renaissance student seeking
enlightenment’
– E.g. across traditional divides
e.g. Sciences to Arts
In both cases, there must be
opportunities for progression
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10 Strands
STRAND TITLE
LEADER
CONTACT
DETAILS
Languages and Cross-Cultural Understanding
Caroline Campbell
[email protected]
Media, Culture and Creativity
Fiona Douglas
[email protected]
Ethics, Religion and Law
Jamie Dow
[email protected]
Technology and its Impacts
Graeme Gooday
[email protected]
Personal and Professional Development
Rafe Hallett
[email protected]
Enterprise and Innovation
Alison McKay
[email protected]
Mind and Body
Bonnie Meekums
[email protected]
Power and Conflict
Nick Robinson
[email protected]
Exploring the Sciences
Doug Stewart
[email protected]
Creating Sustainable Futures
William Young
[email protected]
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Overall picture (by Faculty - @ April 2013)
No. of electives
500
450
400
Currently 985 elective
modules overall
(more to be added)
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
ARTS
BIOS
ENV
ENG
ESSL
LUBS
MPS
M&H
PVAC
Cross
Faculty
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Distribution of modules across strands (@ April 2013)
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
Technology and its Impacts
N.B. Modules can appear
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in more than one strand
ARTS
BIOL
ENV
ENG
ESSL
LUBS
MAPS
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional Development
Power and Conflict
M&H
Technology and its Impacts
CrossFaculty
PVAC
N.B. Summary @April 2013 - subject to change
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Comments, suggestions & input most welcome!
Contact relevant strand leader
Over time, consider where modules sit in strands
and whether new modules are needed. What
about interdisciplinary possibilities?
Some questions/things you might want to start thinking
about. Strand leaders will be engaged in ongoing
dialogue and consultation with Schools, programme
and module leaders, so please feed in your ideas.
Is there provision for progression?
What about gateway modules and pre-requisites?
How open are your electives to students from
‘outside’ the discipline?
Could some modules act as pathways to others?
Do all students in your School have
opportunity to undertake electives?
What about JH students?
Strand leaders have been
appointed for 2.5 years, so
there’s plenty of time and
opportunity for discussion …!
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Any questions?
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ARTS
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
Technology and its Impacts
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
Technology and its Impacts
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ENVIRONMENT
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
Technology and its Impacts
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ENGINEERING
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
Technology and its Impacts
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ESSL
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
Technology and its Impacts
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LUBS
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
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MAPS
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
Technology and its Impacts
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Medicine & Health
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
Technology and its Impacts
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PVAC
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
Technology and its Impacts
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Cross-Faculty
Creating Sustainable Futures
Enterprise and Innovation
Ethics, Religion and Law
Exploring the Sciences
Languages and Cross Cultural
Understanding
Media, Culture and Creativity
Mind and Body
Personal and Professional
Development
Power and Conflict
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