Developing Student Capability Through Modular Courses

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Acknowledgements	p. 8
Preface	p. 9
Contributors	p. 11
Glossary	p. 16
Introduction	p. 19
The New Higher Education Systems, Modularity and Student Capability	p. 24
Modular Developments in Secondary and Further Education: Their Implications for Higher Education	p. 43
Modular Courses, Assessment and Student Capability	p. 49
The Integration of Core Personal Skills into a Tutorial System in Biological Sciences (Hons) Degrees	p. 56
Integrating Transferable Skills into a Discipline through a Compulsory Core	p. 63
A Very 'English' Profile? A Model for Subject-based Development, and an Argument for Peculiar Practices in Profiling	p. 70
Generic Skills for Science Undergraduates: How Modularity made it Possible	p. 77
Differing Approaches to Independent Study	p. 81
Student Tutoring as a Modular Activity	p. 87
Crediting Students for Helping Students	p. 95
Accrediting Students for Extra-curricular Learning	p. 101
An Institutional Policy for Course Development through Learning Outcomes	p. 108
Promoting Communication between Students and Staff in Large Subject-based Modular Programmes	p. 119
The Use of Learning Contracts in Undergraduate Modular Programmes	p. 125
Using Profiling to Integrate Skill Development in a Large Modular Course	p. 133
Capability and the Future of Modularity: An Institutional Perspective	p. 143
Developing Local, National and International Credit Frameworks	p. 154
Index	p. 159
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