Learning and assessment
How you will learn
- Lectures
- Seminars
- Computer-based exercises
- Guided reading
- Small group learning
- Workshops
- Presentations
- Tutorials
How you will be assessed
- Computer-based exercises
- Exams
- Written work
- Presentations
- Dissertation
Your work will be assessed during or at the end of each module through a variety of means.
To complete a module and gain its credits you'll need to make sure you attend your timetabled sessions and get over the 50% pass mark.
To achieve the MPH, you'll need a total of 180 credits.
To achieve the PGDip, you'll need a total of 120 credits.
Contact time and study hours
We encourage our students to think of the course like they would a full-time job and spend around 37 hours on it per week including teaching time. Part-time students should consider it similar to a part-time job.
You're expected to work roughly 10 hours for each credit on the course including teaching and independent study, so a 20-credit module should take around 200 hours to complete or around a total of 25 eight-hour days.
Full-time
Full-time students learn over two semesters and a summer period totalling 12 months.
During the autumn semester, you'll typically be taught core modules on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Optional modules are delivered in the spring semester and are usually taught on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays.
You'll have an average of 14 to 18 hours of contact time each week. However, the time and days of teaching will depend on your modules.
Non-teaching days are intended for private study and research.
Part-time
Part-time will learn the same course content over a period of 24 months.
During the autumn semester, you'll typically be taught the core modules on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Optional modules are delivered in the spring semester and are usually taught on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays or Fridays. However, this is dependent on what optional modules you choose.
You'll typically attend teaching one to two days a week or about 10 hours per week.
We try wherever possible to be flexible to help you manage your timetable.
You're expected to devote around two to three days per week to the course including attending teaching, private study, and research.