Curriculum Reform

 

Plans are now being implemented to provide students at the University of Aberdeen with the advantages of restructured and enhanced degree programmes, with wider student choice, more flexible entry and exit, and enhanced student support and facilities.

The proposals follow an extensive 18-month review process to modernise the structure, content, delivery and flexibility of Aberdeen degrees to ensure they match the needs of graduates and employers.

The new programmes will help Aberdeen graduates to leave the University more academically excellent, more intellectually flexible, and more committed to personal development.  They will have enhanced skills as critical thinkers and effective communicators, and will be better prepared to be active citizens.

Employers, professional bodies, current students, prospective students and their parents, schools and other interested parties all contributed to the review and to helping shape the new programmes.

The new Aberdeen degree programmes underpin the University’s strategy to create an experience designed specifically for student learning and life in this century. This will blend the traditions and environment of an ancient university with an internationally bench-marked curriculum, excellent student support and state-of-the-art facilities.

From 2010, undergraduate students at Aberdeen will have a more flexible degree structure which retains all the quality and depth of the traditional Scottish degree and adds further benefits: 

  • Increased curriculum flexibility, to add further context to core subjects, and to provide opportunities to choose new cross-disciplinary courses focused on real world problems or sustained study in a language or business.
  • Increased opportunities to broaden experience and skills through a wide range of optional activities overseen by the University, such as study overseas, work placements and voluntary work.
  • Flexibility to meet today’s changing needs, including increased support for study breaks, accrediting completed periods of study, and a flexible framework to allow exit and re-entry to programmes depending on qualifications.
  • Enhanced support for students, including more scholarships, new student centres to act as ‘one-stop shops’ for support services, and new, flexible learning spaces on campus to complement lecture theatres and labs.

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Academic Services
Curriculum Reform Project
University of Aberdeen
Powis Gate
Aberdeen
AB24 3UG

Tel.: +44 (0)1224 273936
E-mail: cref@abdn.ac.uk