The vision for the institutional portfolio plan is to provide strategic oversight of the taught portfolio, supporting development and growth in targeted areas and prioritising efficiency, sustainability, and strategic alignment so that, in line with our mission of Transforming Lives, our provision makes the greatest possible difference for students and society.
A more consistent approach to curriculum structures should lead to an improvement in the ability to provide a stable and consistent timetable across a student’s entire period of study at Hallam. Having a limited number of standard models for curriculum structure frees up capacity to support innovative and flexible delivery where this is really required.
While each scheme has its own set of distinctive characteristics, a common set of principles underpins them all. These are:
- At undergraduate level, modules can be 20, 40 or 60 credits and with normally no more than 4 modules per level of study.
- At postgraduate level, modules can be 20, 30, 40 or 60 credits and with normally no more than 6 modules per 180 credits of postgraduate credits.
- All modules will be delivered and assessed within a semester/trimester.
- No electives at Foundation Year/Level 4.
- All courses comply with the relevant academic calendar start dates.
- All courses are compliant with current UKVI guidance.
- Each UG course will have a non-credit bearing module associated with it to support non-curricular activities e.g., induction, academic advising. This is currently under development and will not apply to the work of this project at this stage.
Further information on this topic is available for Sheffield Hallam staff on SharePoint
