(Award available for year: Master of Science)
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate in-depth, specialist knowledge and mastery of techniques relevant dental materials and to demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of concepts, information and techniques at the forefront of the dental materials;
- exhibit mastery in the exercise of generic and subject-specific intellectual abilities;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of contemporary dental materials and the ways in which we can use them in emerging digital workflows or regenerative approaches to dentistry;
- demonstrate an comprehensive understanding of techniques applicable to their own research, advanced scholarship or area of specific interest within dental materials;
- proactively to formulate ideas and hypotheses in the field of dental materials and to evaluate these;
- evaluate current issues and research in dental materials and assess barriers to commercialisation of dental materials;
- critically and creatively to evaluate current issues, research and advanced scholarship in the discipline;
- demonstrate through the production of a dissertation the ability to relate the existing literature base to the results of their independent research project to produce a rational, coherent narrative.
Masters (taught), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- the skills necessary to undertake a higher research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in industry or area of professional practice related to dental materials;
- evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critically to engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.
Achievement for the degree of Master (taught programme) will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- evidencing an ability to conduct independent in-depth enquiry within the discipline of dental materials;
- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
- evaluating and criticising received opinion;
- making reasoned judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.
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