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SP52108: Practicum

[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Social & Policy Sciences
Credits: 30 [equivalent to 60 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 600
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Dissertation Period
Assessment Summary: CWRI 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Practicum report (CWRI 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: An ability:
  1. to apply the knowledge, skills, and learning outcomes acquired during the Diploma stage of the MSc in International Development portfolio;
  2. to relate these to a professional experience relevant to international development and/or humanitarian action;
  3. to do all the above in written form that conforms to acceptable standards of presentation and expression.



Synopsis: During the practicum route, you'll apply your skills and knowledge to a specific field of professional practice. You'll produce a critical, academic report on a specific area of professional practice in international development or humanitarianism in the light of first-hand experience of it, drawing upon ideas and skills developed throughout the taught phase of your chosen pathway and your 300 hours of work-based experience.

Content: Students will apply to a specific field of professional practice, based on their 8-week work-based practicum, what they have learnt from units constitutive of their chosen pathway. This unit will provide the opportunity to critically reflect on a specific area of professional practice in international development or humanitarianism in the light of first-hand experience of it, drawing upon ideas and skills developed through units constitutive of their chosen pathway, culminating in an academic report.

Course availability:

SP52108 is Compulsory on the following courses:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences
  • THSP-AWM41 : MSc International Development
  • THSP-AWM42 : MSc International Development, Social Justice and Sustainability
  • THSP-AWM43 : MSc International Development with Conflict and Humanitarian Action  
  • THSP-AWM44 : MSc International Development with Economics 

Notes:

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