Program Overview

Program Overview

The Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy and People Micro-credential is designed for individuals interested in understanding and promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in work and society. This micro-credential is relevant to professionals or aspiring professionals in civil society groups and/or public social service sectors with an interest in under-represented or socially excluded groups.

Target Audience

• This micro-credential will be of interest to professionals in private enterprise, including HR professionals and those in Corporate Social Responsibility roles who are driving positive cultural change within their organisation through the development and implementation of EDI policies.
• It is also suitable for individuals who want to apply their learning and understanding in their workplaces, organisations, and communities to support and promote EDI principles, constructs, and policy outcomes.

Program Details

Awards

• 5 ECTS | Level 9

Number of Places

• 40 Places

Next Intake

• TBC

Course Coordinator

• Nicola McFarland

Course Director

• Dr. Catherine Elliott O’Dare

Admission Requirements

• Prerequisite documents required: CV and University Transcripts/Degree parchment
• Academic Entry Requirement: Minimum Level 8 Degree
• Alternatively, Career Experience Entry Requirement: Three years’ experience in a profession concerned with an EDI context: public, private, or voluntary sector.

Course Fees

• Click here for a full list of postgraduate fees

Program Structure

• This micro-credential will engage learners in an introductory understanding of, and critical engagement with, the area of social policy and equality, diversity, and inclusion infrastructure in the Irish context.
• Learners will explore how social policy is constructed; and constructs, intersects, understands, and addresses the needs (or not) of diverse social groups through the lens of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this micro-credential, learners will be able to:

1. Systematically understand how social policy constructs and recognises the risks and needs of a variety of social groups.
2. Critically interrogate how/if social policy contributes and promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion for all in society across a variety of policy domains, and relevant to the learner’s field of interest.
3. Debate, using the knowledge and insights garnered from engagement with micro-credential materials, the underpinning purpose, delivery, and outcomes of policy measures in the context of the lives of the groups of people they were intended to benefit.
4. Evaluate current and possible alternative policies, grounded in reflective analysis, self-directed learning and marshalling of literature and empirical evidence, in the Irish social policy context.
5. Apply their critical and reflective learning, to their area of interest and orientate their learning to their role or sector, to formulate and outline an innovative policy proposal to promote the best interests and needs of a societal group of their choosing.

Delivery Method

• This micro-credential will be delivered fully online with live tutorial classes taking place 1 evening per week.
• The Micro-credential will include:
  • Live synchronous interactive tutorial classes.
  • Asynchronous engagement with materials: pre-recorded lectures, readings, recorded videos, podcasts.
  • Independent study and reflexive learning available online including assessment preparation, support guides, teaching and learning articles, and pertinent information.
  • Peer discussions online as a form of support throughout the course.

Assessment

• There are two methods of assessment:
  • Weekly Blogs (20%)
  • Final written assessment (80%)