Unit name | Study in Continental Europe and Advanced Distance Learning |
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Unit code | CHEM30001 |
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 |
The unit comprises a year spent on an exchange in a partner university in continental Europe, studying advanced chemistry in a foreign language. The students follow advanced lectures, and perform practical chemistry either in the teaching lab or as part of a research project. The courses followed are at a level similar to that corresponding to Year 3 chemistry in Bristol (generally year 3 or 4 in our partner universities). Students receive mentoring and support for the courses followed overseas from a member of academic staff in the School of Chemistry. Students also undertake coursework consisting of distance learning of key third-year lecture courses.
This unit provides the experience of studying in a different language and a different university system, thereby providing the students with language 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 and technical knowledge of a major European language. 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 all courses followed there. These marks will be moderated using the University's agreed process for the conversion of marks gained from study abroad. This component will contribute 75% of the unit mark.
Students will also be assessed for the remote learning component by online assessment. This distance-learning component will account for 25% of the unit mark. Students must pass this distance learning component to receive credit for the unit.
Students will need to take a minimum of 45 ECTS at the host university as the remaining 15 ECTS are made up of distance learning.
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.