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Module Catalogue

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Curricular information may be subject to change.

IR5954 Distance Learning Electives

Academic year(s): 2024-2025

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: Full Year

Planned timetable: Part time - 1-hour lecture (if applicable - not all electives are delivered by lecture) and 1-hour tutorial per fortnight + advertised office hours plus online material.

This module gives students the opportunity to apply the conceptual and theoretical knowledge gained in other modules to selected areas of application reflecting where possible the students' own interests and needs. Students will cover the following topics in the 2018/2019 academic year: Critical Infrastructure Protection, Sexual Gender Based Violence, Terrorism Media and Culture, Right Wing Terrorism and Extremism, Terrorism and the Internet and Suicide Terrorism.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: Distance learners having separate video or audio lectures and attend tutorials via video conferencing. Online support.

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr D Muro
Module teaching staff: Various
Module coordinator email diego.muro@st-andrews.ac.uk