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Target Audience: The coursework is replicable in any department/ faculty where the students will join a vocational (accountancy, engineering medicine, law, etc.) community of practice on graduating.

In this session Mike Murray (Civil & Environmental Engineering) will present details of an assessment for learning coursework that encouraged first-year students to develop an affinity with their professional community of practice. The students were required to select and read six inaugural addresses (1820-2015) of presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in preparation for writing their own inaugural address as the Strathclyde student president of the ICE.

Mike will explain the rationale behind the learning activity and provide results from the student coursework addresses (n=428) submitted 2010-2016. The coursework is replicable in any department/ faculty where the students will join a vocational (accountancy, engineering medicine, law, etc.) community of practice on graduating. After attending this session, colleagues will be able to consider adopting / adapting the initiative by using addresses from a professional institution / institute that has relevance to their own student’s careers.

The coursework is replicable in any department/ faculty where the students will join a vocational (accountancy, engineering medicine, law, etc.) community of practice on graduating.

Prerequisites

Cancellation Policy

When applying for a course, you should note that there will be a £50* to your department if you cancel within 5** working days or you do not attend, and a £25 charge for cancellations/ non-attendance between 6 and 10 working days. There will be no charge for cancellation made 10 or more working days before the event. Notifications should be made to OSDU@strath.ac.uk

A department is welcome to send someone else in your place if they wish without incurring a charge, providing that person has the necessary pre-requisites for the course. In the case of courses split over more than one day, you must attend ALL parts of the course. If you fail to attend any part you will be charged as outlined above.

*This is the standard charge for cancellation or non-attendance of course of 1 days duration or less. For some courses there may be a higher cancellation charge and if this is the case you will be advised of this at the time of booking.

**Any bookings made within 10 days of the event will incur the charges as specified.