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The Connected Curriculum and the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies

Explore our research-intensive university's interdisciplinary Masters programs where students connect with researchers and the institution's research, build a throughline of research activity, and connect academic learning with workplace skills.

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The Connected Curriculum and the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies

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  1. The Connected Curriculum and the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies Dr Monique L Mackenzie Director of the Graduate School for interdisciplinary studies and Assistant vice-principal (provost)

  2. The Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies (GSIS): Interdisciplinary Masters programmes

  3. We value the structure

  4. Students connect with researchers and the Institutions research • We are a research intensive university and one of our strengths is the quality of, and passion for, research. • Even in undergraduate programmes we can find links between our research and our teaching; this is even easier at Masters level. • Lecturers come from a range of research areas and will come at the topic from a range of research pathways into/around a topic; this also happens within ‘more traditional’ Schools.

  5. 1. Students connect with researchers and the institutions research

  6. 2. A throughline of research activity is built into each programme

  7. 2.A throughline of research activity is built into each programme

  8. Learning skills as part of this throughline

  9. 3. Making connections across subjects and out to the world

  10. 4. Connecting academic learning with workplace learning • Listening to students: The International Student Barometer (ISB) survey of international students indicates a growing demand for institutions that assist student employment outcomes and career prospects. • Other HEIs: Career/work-based modules can be credit-bearing and embedded within programme (curricular), learning experiences that complement a programme (co-curricular) or an optional elective (extracurricular). • University of Dundee based research suggests that a student’s chances of finding graduate employment increase by 40% by taking careers classes -- strong support to this approach.

  11. 4. Connecting academic learning with workplace learning • Listening to employers: • Employer Skills Survey based results (May 2018) surveyed 91,000 employers across the UK who stated the skills most commonly lacking in professional level jobs were: • complex analytical skills • complex problem-solving skills, • advanced IT or specialist skills and • people skills to persuading or influencing others.

  12. 5. Producing outputs which are directed at an audience

  13. 6. Students connecting with each other across phases and alumni

  14. 6. Students connecting with each other across phases and alumni

  15. Interdisciplinary Masters programmes

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