Undergraduate Course: Managing Professional Life (EDUA10119)

Course Outline
School	Moray House School of Education	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course focuses on the organisational context of community education practice in a variety of statutory and voluntary sector settings. Participants will consider what is involved in building organisations and being responsible for their own and others' work. The emphasis is on applied knowledge and understanding in areas such as supervision, teamwork, planning and development, finance and funding, evaluation and accountability. The skills and activities of management are considered with reference to the current policy context and in relation to differing interpretations of the management function.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 174 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	Students will engage in an extended case-study analysis. This will involve four discrete tasks undertaken and submitted over the duration of the course. The assessment task will be equivalent to 4,000 words in total, and will involve both individual activities and group project work.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Students will be able to Identify influences on, and competing understandings of, professional identity and the problematic relationship between policy-making and management in a professional setting. Students will be able to elaborate a coherent approach to staff development in professional settings Students will be able to explain the nature of power and authority in organisations as well as analyse mechanisms and identify appropriate methods for decision making in organisations Students will be able to describe examples of the assessment and evaluation of programmes and projects Students will be able to describe a strategic approach to raising and controlling funds