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DR5045: SPECIAL SUBJECT (2024-2025)

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Course Overview

This course allows a student to do in-depth study in a specific area agreed upon with a student-selected staff member in Divinity and Religious Studies.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Session First Sub Session Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Mrs Kate A. Smith

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Divinity And Religious Studies (DR) (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course allows a student to do in-depth study in a specific area of Divinity and Religious Studies in fulfilment of PGT programme requirements or as additional credit (subject to approval of a submitted Non-Standard Credit Load form). The course may be offered in conjunction with the student auditing UG lectures or PGR research seminars relating to the selected subject matter.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st half-session courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 35
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Assessment to be submitted on a date at discretion of coordinator, to be communicated in course guide before beginning of teaching term.

Written feedback will be provided within 3 weeks.

Word Count 1000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateThe student will be able to critically assess scholarly proposals related to the special subject.
FactualUnderstandThe student will develop deep understanding of a special subject and related scholarship sufficient for further independent research on the subject.

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 65
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Assessment to be submitted on a date at discretion of coordinator, to be communicated in course guide before beginning of teaching term.

Written feedback will be provided within 3 weeks.

Word Count 2500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseThe student will be able to articulate the critical significance of the special subject in relation to the broader discipline in which it is situated.
ConceptualEvaluateThe student will be able to critically assess scholarly proposals related to the special subject.
FactualUnderstandThe student will develop deep understanding of a special subject and related scholarship sufficient for further independent research on the subject.
ProceduralApplyThe student will be able to apply acquired knowledge and/or skills related to the special subject to a research question.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback

Written feedback provided within 3 weeks.

Word Count 3500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualUnderstandThe student will develop deep understanding of a special subject and related scholarship sufficient for further independent research on the subject.
ConceptualAnalyseThe student will be able to articulate the critical significance of the special subject in relation to the broader discipline in which it is situated.
ConceptualEvaluateThe student will be able to critically assess scholarly proposals related to the special subject.
ProceduralApplyThe student will be able to apply acquired knowledge and/or skills related to the special subject to a research question.

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