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The University provides students with facilities for prayer and reflection in the Chaplaincy. The local community also has places of worship for Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu faiths.
contact: International Team tel: +44 (0)1382 388111
www.dundee.ac.uk/admissions/international
learning & teaching
learning together Our degree courses are taught as modules within a two-semester academic year. The modules you choose will be approved by your Advisor of Studies in your School to ensure that your choices fit well with your degree programme. You will be given further academic guidance by lecturing staff who will monitor your progress and performance on their modules.
• lectures form the foundation of your studies. Typically they are 50 minutes long and introduce you to the main themes of your course in the form of exploration of fundamental topics, new ideas, concepts and specialist critiques. You will be expected to take your own notes in lectures, although some lecturers may provide handouts or PowerPoint slides that are made available before or after the lecture through My Dundee, our online virtual learning environment. In addition, you will generally be expected to undertake further reading and research on lecture topics in your own time.
• tutorials are meetings of a small number of students with a tutor or lecturer. Tutorials take different formats depending on your course of study. For some subjects these are open discussions led by the tutor where all students are expected to participate and give their views. In other subjects, these can be working sessions to cover prepared examples – such as in maths, accountancy or engineering – and so provide opportunities for personal tuition.
• practical & laboratory sessions are occasions when students work on a series of set problems under laboratory conditions. These are most common in subjects such as the sciences, engineering and psychology. These sessions give you the chance to apply the theory to practical situations. You will need to maintain a lab notebook and may be assessed on the results of your work in these sessions.
learning independently
Becoming a student places you in a new role where what you learn and how you learn it is a matter of personal choice. You will be encouraged to approach learning in ways that suit your individual learning style.
Our facilities are designed to assist you to do this so that you can develop your potential in ways that suit you best.
assessment
University learning is increasingly diverse and you will be set course assignments at the outset of your module course with clear deadlines for submission. You will be given learning objectives so that you know what is expected of you. A range of activities will also be assessed. For example, your participation in group discussions in lectures, tutorials and online discussions as well as your written work will contribute to your final marks.
• coursework takes many forms. For example, a nursing student might be required to do a case study, an engineering student might do a set of worked examples while a science student may be required to do a report based on a laboratory experiment, a humanities student may have to write an essay and a student teacher might have to submit a lesson plan. Once written work is graded, you will receive detailed feedback from the tutor or lecturer who has assessed your work.
• projects are longer pieces of work that may include presenting a portfolio of studio work or an in-depth analysis of a particular research area or specific topic.
• oral presentations are often part of the formal assessment of a course where you have to prepare a paper or presentation to deliver to your fellow students in a tutorial.
• discussion participation is an integral part of your university education. You will be encouraged to present and defend your own views based on your own understanding and research of the subject under consideration as well as challenging the views of your colleagues and even your tutor. This is all part of your graduate training and hence in many modules you will be assessed on the contribution you make to the discussion.
participating in university policy-making & evaluation
Each student has a role to play in developing and extending the style and delivery of learning. To this end, the University has a number of ways of including students in the process of evaluating and shaping the process of learning.
• Student representation is intended to provide students with opportunities to make their views known at class and School levels. Class Reps are elected for each module and report to School Presidents who feed these opinions and suggestions to the executive of Dundee University Students’ Association (DUSA) for further discussion and action.
• Quality Assurance is an essential dimension of the University’s aspiration to provide high-quality teaching. Your lecturers routinely review their performance in teaching and react appropriately to comments from surveys and staff-student liaison committees which form a key component in maintaining and improving learning experiences for all.
www.dundee.ac.uk/prospectus/yourstudies
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