Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:01
Resilience has an important role to play in enabling students to manage periods of adversity, to grow, learn and further develop skills into the future. The good news is that resilience can be enhanced via training in methods and strategies designed to support and develop psychological and social resources. The even better news is that this module is designed to do just that! The course will introduce you to the topic of resilience and then guide you through the process of enhancing your own resilience via practical strategies and approaches designed to support you through your studies.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 1 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 0 credits (0 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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How will this course be taught?
This online course was co-created with students to ensure an inclusive, collaborative teaching approach. This means you will be presented with content from both staff and peers. The content will be delivered via podcasts, short lecture recordings (TED talk style), student developed content (blogs, insights, videos) and guided interactive activities. The course is spread over 5 weeks, is self-paced and allows students to select the content most relevant for them.
What does this course cover?
The course will introduce and discuss the concept of resilience, including ways to assess your resilience and techniques to boost your resilience further. Adversity and methods for coping with adversity, both specific to academia and outside, will be covered. Strategies for building resilience via mental health exercises, metacognitive methods and physical health and wellbeing will be shared. Guidance on building social networks and reflective thinking will also be provided.
Will there be assessments?
There will not be any typical assessments (you will not receive a grade for this course) However, to ensure engagement with the materials you will be asked to complete some self-rating scales designed to measure resilience and well-being levels, you will also be asked to keep a resilience journal, noting down the best strategies and approaches for you, and any associated outcomes, as you go through the course. You will need to complete those activities to achieve the course and receive the course certificate.
Why should I take this course?
Building resilience and learning a variety of strategies for maintaining your wellbeing through adversity, will help you cope with the up’s and down’s of both academia and your life in general. This course seeks to equip you with strategies, which you will apply and practise throughout the course, that will support you through your time at University, through graduation and beyond as employers view resilience as an important skill. This course will appear on your enhanced transcript, and you will also receive a certificate on completion.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Type | Formative | Weighting | ||
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These scales are designed to allow students to calculate their own resilience and well-being levels, as a method for them to track their own progress through the course, alongside any changes in their resilience in response to the course activities. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Understand the key elements that constitute student resilience within Higher Education. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Evaluate self and resilience development via reflection and guided activities. |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
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Journal is designed to allow student to track their development, and use of the various activities, over the timeline of the course. They will also be encouraged to reflect on what they have learned, and what they intend to apply in the future. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | Understand key aspects of adversity that could impact student life. |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply strategies to enhance resilience in selected areas (mental health, metacognition, wellbeing). |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Evaluate self and resilience development via reflection and guided activities. |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Understand | Understand the key elements that constitute student resilience within Higher Education. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Understand key aspects of adversity that could impact student life. |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply strategies to enhance resilience in selected areas (mental health, metacognition, wellbeing). |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Evaluate self and resilience development via reflection and guided activities. |
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