Program Overview
Module - Humanitarian Action (Level 7)
Overview
This module will develop your knowledge, skills, and behaviors 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 programs and projects, and build resilience into your systems.
Course Objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Critically review and evaluate humanitarian action, demonstrating an understanding of its evolution and critically discussing 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 analyze how learning from this module has transformed your understanding of your practice.
Course Structure
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
Teaching & Assessment
On this module, you will undertake 176 hours of guided independent study. Scheduled learning and teaching will be 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).
Entry Requirements
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.
Fees and Funding
Please see the tuition fees policy link.
Tuition Fees Policy
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.
Key Details
Tuition Fees
Please see the tuition fees policy link.
Minimum Entry Requirements
Successful study at level 6 or above
- Credits: 20
- Recruiting to: UK / RoI / Settled in UK
- Course Location: Carlisle - Brampton Road, Online
- Institute: Institute of Health
- Delivery Style: Online
- Course Duration: Part-time, 12 weeks
- Course Start Point: January
- Award: Module
Location
Carlisle - Brampton Road Campus
Located just outside the city, right on top of Hadrian's Wall, the Brampton Road campus is full of history, buzzing with excitement, creativity, and a sense of endless possibility. The home of creators, entertainers, rule breakers, and change-markers.
Online Learning
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