(Award available for year: Master of Science)
Learning outcomes [Masters]:
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
• demonstrate in-depth, expended and specialist knowledge of GIS techniques and demonstrate an advanced understanding of concepts, information and techniques informed by the GIScience discipline;
• exhibit mastery in the exercise of generic and GIScience-specific intellectual abilities;
• demonstrate an advanced understanding of GIScience techniques applicable to research, advanced scholarship or areas of specific interest within the broader GIScience discipline;
• take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
• proactively formulate ideas and hypotheses and to develop, implement and execute plans by which to evaluate these;
• critically and creatively evaluate current issues, research and advanced scholarship in the field of GISscience.
Transferable (key) skills [Masters]:
Masters (taught), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
• the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice;
• evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
• self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
• independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
• critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.
Assessment [Masters]:
Achievement for the degree of Master (taught programme) will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
• evidencing an ability to conduct independent in-depth enquiry within the discipline;
• demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
• drawing on a range of perspectives related to GIScience;
• evaluating and criticising received opinion;
• making reasoned judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.
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