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. Fermin |
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 Year 3 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 traditional mix of lectures, workshops and laboratory practicals 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. 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.
The reading needed for this course will be made available via the Distance Learning module.