Programme Specifications

Programme Specifications are designed to provide information on:

  • The learning intentions and outcomes of each taught course: they cover the knowledge that a student will be expected to have upon completion, and the skills - both subject specific and transferable - that will have been developed through the learning process.
  • The process that enables these intentions to be realised: they describe the learning and teaching methods designed to secure the designed outcomes, and the assessment methods that enable these achievements to be demonstrated.

Programme Specifications are designed for a number of audiences

  • For academics: Programme Specifications promote discussion and reflection among members of the teaching staff of the courses; they enable external examiners to understand the aims of the Programme in terms of assessment criteria; they act as reference points in the processes of internal and external review of the quality of teaching provision.
  • For employers: Programme Specifications detail the skills and other transferable intellectual abilities fostered by the Programme.
  • For students and potential students: in their discussion of outcomes, teaching methods, progression and assessment, Programme Specifications assist students both to make choices designed to realise their own learning aspirations, and to reflect on the process of learning.

Potential and current students may find the versions of the key information provided by the Course Handbooks more useful and accessible than the Programme Specifications.


Course Handbooks for undergraduates

Course Handbooks for graduates

Programme Specifications

Undergraduate
Graduate

 

 

 

University of Oxford

Faculty of History

Last updated: 17 May, 2011