Course manual 2019/2020

Course content

The Professional Development component intends to prepare students for their future career through developing professional skills and attitude and is a mandatory part of the master Forensic Science.
The learning trajectory professional development aims at offering students an open, safe, challenging and creative learning space in which they can further establish the germ of their professional identity as a forensic expert, practice with presentation skills, mature in team collaboration skills and use feedback and self-reflection as tools for further professionalization throughout their (student) career.
Students have to attend 15 Professional Development workshops and forensic colloquia.
For the forensic colloquia, students have to attend 3 Frontiers of Forensic Science lecture afternoons organized by the MSc Forensic Science and the Co van Ledden Hulsebosch Center, 1 Literature Thesis mini-symposium, 5 Research Project presentations held by other forensic science students defending their Research Project. A present staff member of the Forensic Science programme can approve the attendance on a colloquium card. By following colloquia students can choose presentations to broaden or deepen forensic knowledge and can orientate for topics and criteria for the literature thesis and the final research project. Dates and times for those presentations will be announced via Canvas and/or by e-mail. A full card (with signatures for the forensic colloquia and the signature for completion of the Professional Development) has to be handed in at the Education Desk of the IIS and 2 EC will be registered.

Objectives

1. present him- or herself as a forensic professional with a specific expertise (depending on previous degrees) in a variety of contexts using appropriate jargon and communication styles (professional identity)
2. present a forensic theme/question/issue in a understandable, structured and transparent way relevant to a particular audience using attractive and adequate presentation materials (professional communication)
3. exchange constructive feedback between peers, teachers and professionals (team work)
4. reflect upon and evaluate own contributions, as well as from others, to project teams (team work)
5. monitor and control one’s own professional development, formulate short-term and long-term learning goals, choose appropriate learning activities and standards for achieving those goals (lifelong learning skills)
6. distinguish personal fields of interest from an overview an overview of state-of-the-art research in forensic science (lifelong learning skills)
7. improve communication and improvisational skills before professional and lay audiences (professional communication)

Learning activities

Activity	Hours
Excursie	16
Tutoraat	12
Werkcollege	41
Total	56	(2 EC x 28 uur)

Assessment

Item and weight	Details
Final grade
15 Professional Development workshops (no upload needed)	Must be ≥ pass
Frontiers 1	Must be ≥ pass
Frontiers 2	Must be ≥ pass
Frontiers 3	Must be ≥ pass
Literature Thesis mini-symposium	Must be ≥ pass
Research Project presentation 1	Must be ≥ pass
Research Project presentation 2	Must be ≥ pass
Research Project presentation 3	Must be ≥ pass
Research Project presentation 4	Must be ≥ pass
Research Project presentation 5	Must be ≥ pass

Assessment and testing

All components will be graded with a pass or no pass. Components:

attendance of professional development workshops
an individual final assignment (pass/no pass
attendance of colloquia

Students receive 2 EC when attendance criteria for workshops are met, the individual assignment is graded ‘PASS’ and if the attendance criteria regarding colloquia are met.

LO	Tested in component	EQ 1	EQ 2	EQ 3	EQ 4	EQ 5	EQ 6	EQ 7	EQ 8	EQ 9	EQ 10
1	1, 2									x	x
2	1, 2									x
3	1						x
4	1						x				x
5	1, 2										x
6	3			x
7	1									x

Table of specification: the relation between the Learning Outcomes (LO) of the course, the assessment components of the course and the Exit Qualifications (EQ) of the Master’s Forensic Science (described in the Introduction in the Course Catalogue)

Assignments

for more information see: https://canvas.uva.nl/courses/10181/modules

Fraud and plagiarism

The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.student.uva.nl

Course structure

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Owner	Master Forensic Science
Coordinator	Virgil Rerimassie
Part of	Master Forensic Science, year 1 Master Forensic Science, year 2

Professional Development