Personalised Student Journey

Personalised Student Pathways

Pillar one of Designing Futures works with students to design their future through the creation of a personalised skills pathway. 

This will be achieved by:

Student Success Coaching

Creating personalised skills pathways with the support of Student Success Coaches across the Colleges of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Students, Science and Engineering and Business, Public Policy and Law using Stanford’s Designing For Life methodology.

Transdisciplinary Modules

Creating transdisciplinary elective modules that enhance students’ professional skills, designed by experts from across the university and with input from our enterprise partners. 

As part of the Designing Futures programme we developed Transdisciplinary Modules (TDMs) that serve both teaching and student learning goals. A transdisciplinary approach aims to promote student-centred modules that help develop new and exciting knowledge and learning outcomes, eliciting a holistic approach to teaching and learning. A TDM incorporates a novel assessment element that seeks to enable a practical application and/or experiential component (ideally a project-based assessment).

This strategy is one that cultivates students as active agents and emphasises the value of their coursework to their future lives, underlining more clearly the competencies and transversal skills, (communication, collaboration, empathy, interpersonal skills, teamwork etc.), that will stand to them beyond the university setting, as well as disciplinary expertise.

Current modules and contact details:

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Vertically Integrated Projects

As part of the personalised student pathway an exciting new type of module called ‘Vertically Integrated Projects’ or VIPs has been created.  Through VIPs, students work in teams with faculty on multidisciplinary, longitudinal research projects to address grand challenges. Students earn credits and can participate in multiple semesters, with returning students taking on additional leadership/project responsibilities.  "Vertically Integrated" refers to VIP team compositions, which can include undergraduate, postgraduate (taught) and research students in addition to University staff. University of Galway is become a member of the VIP Consortium led by Georgia Institute of Technology.