At Queen Mary, academic programmes are devised with the student at the centre. Our programmes are coherent, easy to navigate and support overall progression. Queen Mary Graduate Attributes are embedded in all our programmes, so that our students develop the knowledge, skills, adaptability, and resilience to succeed in an ever-changing job market and become active global citizens.
In line with our Strategy 2030, programmes at Queen Mary should be coherent, easy to navigate and support overall progression for students. For this reason, it is vital to take a programme-level view when designing or reviewing your curriculum.
When reviewing curricula at programme level, start from your programme level outcomes. Do they articulate what you want students to be able to do by the end of the programme? Are they set at an appropriate level for the level of the programme? Do they include academic content and disciplinary skills? What are the graduate attributes that students will develop on the programme?
This guidance, together with our new programme mapping tool, has been designed to support you to develop programmes in line with the Queen Mary programme design principles.
Mapping your programme can be useful if you are:
When mapping your programme, we recommend the following steps:
When you are satisfied with the programme aims and learning outcomes then begin mapping them across the modules that make up the programme. You may find it useful to get the programme team together for this exercise. It can be done online (e.g. using the excel tool below) or on paper.
Once completed, review and discuss the mapping. Again, working together with colleagues on this can be useful. Here are some reflective questions to guide your review of the programme map, grouped into thematic areas. The questions are also included in the Queen Mary programme level mapping tool [DOC 86KB].