Ambassadors for Science - 2020 entry

As an ambassador for your discipline, you will design, deliver and reflect on a series of sessions in which you support others to learn about your subject.  With your academic tutor, you will identify a suitable ambassadorial role within your discipline (e.g. academic tutoring, peer mentoring, outreach) and be provided with suitable training to engage effectively with your audience.

Through the gathering and judicious selection of evidence, you will prepare a portfolio to showcase your work, reflecting on both the practical aspects of your ambassadorial work, as well as the underpinning theory in the educational and subject literature.

The aims of this module are: to provide a means of engaging students with ambassadorial work in their subject; to support them in delivering effective learning support to their target audience; and to teach the student ambassadors how to reflect effectively on their experiences.

This module will be of particular interest to anyone who envisages a career in education or public engagement and is designed to develop a range of key graduate skills for employability.

On successful completion of this module, you should be able to:
 

Module Specific Skills and Knowledge:
1 design, deliver and reflect on a series of sessions to support learning in your subject;
2 select evidence for a portfolio showcasing your ambassadorial work.
Discipline Specific Skills and Knowledge:
3 communicate your subject knowledge effectively to your target audience;
4 analyse your practice with respect to the wider HE context and literature.
Personal and Key Transferable / Employment Skills and Knowledge:
5 present your findings clearly in writing and verbally;
6 reflect critically on your experiences in HE.

This is specific to the project and ambassadorial role undertaken.

If a module is normally assessed entirely by coursework, all referred/deferred assessments will normally be by assignment.


If a module is normally assessed by examination or examination plus coursework, referred and deferred assessment will normally be by examination. For referrals, only the examination will count, a mark of 40% being awarded if the examination is passed. For deferrals, candidates will be awarded the higher of the deferred examination mark or the deferred examination mark combined with the original coursework mark.

ELE: College to provide hyperlink to appropriate pages

Web based and Electronic Resources:

NCCPE website (http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/)

HEA website (http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/)

QAA website (http://www.qaa.ac.uk/)

Reading list for this module: