Module - Humanitarian Action (Level 7)
By critically evaluating the evidence, your own personal experience and that of others, you will be able to apply credible, timely solutions to compound problems in response to natural or man-made incidents wherever they occur. The module will run over three months and may be accessed completely on-line, with students working at their own pace and fitting their studies around their professional and personal lives. Summative assessment is a written assignment that will be agreed with your tutor at the beginning of the module. You will use your learning and formative evaluations throughout the module to shape your final assessment.
This module will develop your knowledge, skills and behaviours preparing you to deliver humanitarian action either in your local community or overseas. It will broaden and deepen your perception of your role in aid and advocacy settings giving you the skills to prepare, manage programmes and projects and build resilience into your systems. We hope to assist you with shaping your ability to contribute more effectively to policy and doctrine developments that will ultimately improve yours and your team's practice through transformative learning.
By the end of this module you will be able to:
- Critically review and evaluate humanitarian action demonstrating an understanding of its evolution and crtically discuss the potential ethical dilemmas of action or inaction.
- Identify the legal considerations in humanitarian action.
- Critique the involvement of government, agencies and the community in capacity building.
- Critically analyse how learning from this module has transformed your understanding of your practice.
The indicative module content for this course includes: principles of humanitarian action, problem-solving techniques, developing professional decision advantage and superiority, awareness and the application of intelligence, resources management, reflective/reflexive practice, local policy, available doctrine and evidence, physical and mental resilience, human security, capacity building, social capital, mainstreaming gender, security sector reform, law of armed conflict, rule of law, safeguarding, diversity and inclusion.
On this module you will undertake 176 hours of guided independent study. Scheduled learning and teaching 24 hours.
The methods of assessment for this module are as follows:
- Formative assessment: preparation and planning for summative assessment through discussion threads including critical analysis of real missions.
- Summative assessment: written assignment 4000 words.
The standard academic entry requirement for this level 7 module is prior successful study at level 6 or above.
This module is aimed at individuals who will be expected to respond in humanitarian, disaster response and recovery settings.
Please see tuition fees policy link.
Tuition fees are set annually and are subject to review each year. The University may therefore raise tuition fees in the second or subsequent years of a course, in line with inflation and/or the maximum permitted by law or government policy. Students will be notified of any changes as soon as possible.
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