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bachelor of arts (training and education) - years 3 & 4

   

Key facts

Entry requirements

Applicants must have completed the Diploma in Arts (Training and Education) or they may apply for exemptions/credits through the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) process.

NFQ Level: 8	Award: Bachelor of Arts (Training and Education)
ECTS weighting: 180 ECTS	Mode of study: Part-time, distance and blended learning programme delivered through self-study texts, regional workshops and online activities
Next start date: September 2013	Duration: 2 academic years (September – April)

Course aims and outcomes

The BA in Training and Education focuses on extending the competence of those in training roles. On successful completion of the programme, participants will be able to:

• Evaluate how HRM can facilitate new approaches to learning and development;
• Discuss how lifelong learning policy and practice can contribute to personal, professional, social and community development;
• Apply the principles of good project management to assess organisational projects;
• Apply the concepts of the virtual learning environment to the development of pedagogical approaches that facilitate effective adult learning;
• Apply planning and research skills to the design and implementation a small-scale research project;
• Use critical thinking skills to analyse information, opinion and arguments in the analysis of human situations and in problem solving processes;
• Contextualise the Irish Administrative system within its historical developments and appraise issues of accountability within the system;
• Apply innovation management strategies to implement and manage change within a training and development context;
• Apply planning and research skills to the design and implementation of a research project.

Course structure

Students will have to attend 1-day and 2-day workshops throughout the academic year (see table below). This usually amounts to 8 days in Year 3 and 6 days in Year 4.

YEAR 3

Modules	ECTS	Workshops
Organisational Management: Human Resources	10	2 days
Social Science: Research Methods	5	1 day
Project Management	5	1 day
Lifelong Learning: Contemporary Policy and Practice	5	1 day
The Virtual Learning Environment	10	1 or 2 days
Work-based Project	10	1 day

YEAR 4

Modules	ECTS	Workshops
Critical Thinking	10	2 days
Management of Innovation	10	1 days
The Irish Administration System	10	2 days
Research Project	15	1 day

assessment and study progression

Assessment is based on a combination of written assignments, written examinations, online contributions and a work-based project.

Participants must successfully complete Year 3 before proceeding to Year 4 of the Bachelor of Arts (Training & Education) programme.

Participants who successfully complete the Bachelor of Arts (Training & Education) may progress to Master of Arts in Adult Learning and Development.

applications and further information

Please contact the Course Administrator below regarding Application Forms (and other relevant forms).

YEAR 3: Phil Gilmore
Tel: 091 494060
Email: phil.gilmorenuigalway.ie

YEAR 4: Berna Morgan
Tel: 091 494055
Email: berna.morgannuigalway.ie

    

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