Schedule – Academic Year 2009/10
Contact study courses start on 15 October 2009, 5 PM, Campus Walferdange
Start of the program
First contact sessions of the Master programme are held beginning of october per academic year.
Organization of contact studies
Contact studies usually are scheduled on Thursday evening, on Friday (early) afternoon and on Saturday morning and/or afternoon.
They are organized as blocks generally fitting in the aforementioned days-a-week. In general, courses take place on Thursday (5-8PM), Friday (1-8 PM) and Saturday (9AM-1 PM)
There are about 8 such block sessions of 10 hours contact studies each per block, and periods of several weeks between contact-blocks (for internships, research, autonomous studies)
Contact studies will generally take place at the University campus in Walferdange.
Each hour of contact studies generally implies approximately four to five hours of pre- and after-course work, online activities, peer mentoring and evaluation to be accomplished on a weekly basis.
Learning Platform
The Master programme is using a moodle -based open source learning platform, see http://moodle.multi-learn.org (password required) and other medial tools for learning and development as parts of the MA apply a perspective of blended learning.
General Organization
The Master programme is organized in 2 years (if full time) along four semesters, presented in semantic blocks. Each block is constructed along a specific learning set-up and overall developmental aim.
Besides the genuine, seminar-group based working axes, each block covers four additional dimensions, substantial to set-up of the MA programme:
- Mentoring with an individual scientific mentor
- Tandem Work between complementary language proficiencies
- Work on and with learning-platforms
- Individual/collaborative Case Work
- Developmental Internship
Besides to the grounding methodology work throughout the duration of the Master, the seminars/courses are proposed within our different working domains (1. Discourse, Identity, Politics, 2. Language, Learning, Literacy; 3. Activity, Development, Intervention; 4. Media, Interaction, Design). Within the aforementioned domains, you have the possibility to choose courses to reach a ratio of 25% per four domains or 50% per two domains.
The general ratio for student workloads is the following: One hours of contact studies (CS) equates five hours of autonomous studies (AS). Note that this ratio (1:5) can vary upon courses (with regard to content and organizational set-up ). This ratio (per course taught) determines the calculation of ECTS per course.