Table of FDL programmes currently running at City University

School Programme Level Information on the programme Contact Arts Translation Skills PGCert  Distance learning course run in collaboration with partners in S. America Sarah Hall  Face-to-face support in S. America & distance learning support from City Arts Legal Translation MA/PGDip  New part-time programme to start in September 2008 Sarah Hall  Flexible attendance pattern designed to accommodate working translators  Mixture of distance learning/distance learning assessment and attendance at City 4 times a year for 4 days at a time  Face-to-face induction Informatics Geographic MSc  Mixture of delivery mechanisms – FT, PT, distance learning (via e-learning) Jason Dykes Information or flexible modes Management  Distance learning students = material released on a weekly basis.  Distance learning students: not required to attend in person but have the option to take part in face-to-face activities (eg fieldwork, GI Club, tutorials) Informatics Geographic MSc  See GIM above Jason Dykes Information Systems Cass Executive MBA MBA  Delivered in collaboration with Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Lynda Adams Dubai  Intensive monthly weekend workshops held by visiting Cass faculty in Dubai and supported by CassLearn  Exams are taken in Dubai SCHS Clinical Optometry MSc/  Distance learning: six hours a week over 25 weeks/exams twice a year at John PGDip/Cert local centres OR learning via a flexible modular programme Lawrenson  Each module is worth 15 credits and a standalone ‘certificate of credit’ is awarded following successful completion of the exam. These can then be aggregated towards the modular MSc SCHS Food Policy MSc  Face-to-face and distance learning options available David Barling  Principal learning method = text based learning packages (workbooks) with subject specific tutor support that engage students in active learning via activities with accompanying commentaries School Programme Level Information on the programme Contact  Feedback via interim learning exercises as well as formal activities  Email and postal correspondence, including discussion groups  Paper-based not via e-learning SCHS Health Sciences BSc top-up  Online only – no attendance requirement Julie plus CPD  Flexible learning – study as many modules as desired; 24 hour access to Attenborough options modules  Use of CitySpace and an e-tutor to facilitate learning and interactions  Interactive webpages, live online ‘chats’, personal webspaces, online bulletin boards and discussion areas  Support via academic e-tutor, personal tutor and IT technicians SCHS Radiography MSc/  Some modules offered via distance learning or flexibly in week blocks. Pam Cherry/ (Medical Magnetic PGDip/Cert Also use of day-release block teaching Paul Bland Resonance, Computed Tomography, Diagnostic  From 2008 e-learning will be used to support the learning experience for all Imaging, Radiotherapy) PG modules SCHS Medical Ultrasound MSc/  Flexible delivery – modular courses run on a PT, day-release basis. Each Gill Harrison PGDip/Cert is run on a half-day session over 12 weeks. Students who are studying two modules a term attend for a whole day each week  Option for students on some routes to undertake work based learning or student negotiated modules SCHS Nuclear Medicine MSc/  Flexible – students attend a one week block at the start of the semester, David Duncan Technology PGDip/Cert then one day per week for the remainder of the semester.  No formal distance learning but a couple of e-learning only exercises on CitySpace that are not covered during lectures SEMS Maritime Operations MSc  Flexible, modular delivery: short & intensive periods of attendance at City Uma Patel & Management  Support provided via some work-based learning and distance learning