PGDip Advanced Concrete Technology(Part-Time) (Online Distance Learning) (No longer recruiting from 2023/24)
Year 2
(Award available for year: Postgraduate Diploma)
Learning outcomes
On completion of the programme students should have shown evidence of being able:• to demonstrate in-depth, extended or specialist knowledge of techniques relevant to the discipline or to demonstrate an advanced understanding of concepts, information and techniques informed by knowledge at the forefront of the discipline;• to exhibit competence in the exercise of advanced generic and subject-specific intellectual abilities;• to demonstrate an advanced understanding of techniques applicable to their own research or advanced scholarship;• to take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;• proactively to formulate ideas and hypotheses and to evaluate these;• to evaluate critically current issues and research in the discipline.
Transferable (key) skills
Masters (Taught), Postgraduate Diploma & Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:• the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice;• evaluating their own achievement and that of others;• self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;• independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;• critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.
Assessment
Achievement for the Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:• demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;• drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;• evaluating received opinion;• make sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.