Entry requirements

At least 30 higher education credits.

Progression level in relation to degree requirements

The course is a freestanding course.

Course contents

Each student is part of a VIP-team together with other students. Students who wish to participate in the VIP program should apply for the appropriate VIP course and apply to a specific VIP team that they wish to work with (see web site). Students work together with research problems within the frame of a research project, defined by each VIP team leader. Students plan and carry out various parts of the VIP team’s ongoing work, such as pilot projects and realizations of solutions. The course requires individual work, work with team members and active participation in VIP-meetings. The students document ongoing work in an individual VIP workbook and through team documentation.

The course comprises:
• Planning,
• Reflection and reporting on ongoing and finished work,
• Specific tasks within the team’s research profile such as design and technical work.

During the course, students also participate in project presentations and discussions with researchers and external collaboration partners. In this way, students work toward an increased theoretical and practical understanding of the team’s research direction and challenges.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
On completion of the course the student shall:

• Demonstrate knowledge about the importance of group work in projects
• Demonstrate knowledge about the chosen VIP team’s disciplinary field and research direction.

Skills and abilities
On completion of the course the student shall:

• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate in groups with members from different disciplinary backgrounds.
• Plan, implement and evaluate processes and tasks carried out within the VIP team’s research direction.
• Orally and in writing, present, discuss and reflect on work processes, problems, and solutions in dialogue with different stakeholders within and outside the university.

Judgement and approach
On completion of the course the student shall:

• Evaluate and reflect on their own and others’ achievements in the joint teamwork.
• Reflect on their own learning
• Demonstrate an ethical approach in teamwork and in oral and written presentations.

Learning activities

The course comprises project work in teams, weekly team meetings, and individual work. Lectures and seminars may be given.

Each student must keep a project workbook during the course. The project workbook is an aid for the student in ongoing planning and presentation of individual work within the VIP team’s shared tasks. The workbook serves as a basis for the assessment of students’ ongoing project participation.

The course presupposes that students take responsibility for their part of the shared work and actively contribute to the team tasks.

Assessment

The course is examined with:

Project workbook (2 credits), reflection on own work (0.5 credits), reflection on team members’ work (0.5 credits), participation in team-specific project work (2 credits), active participation in project work, seminars, oral presentations and project tutoring sessions at VIP meetings: project process (2.5 credits).

For a passing grade (A-E), all assignments must be completed with a minimum grade of E.

The final course grade is based on a weighted result of all individual assignments.

Course literature

The course literature is chosen in conjunction with the responsible teacher.

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Interim rules

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

Additional information

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.