Here's an initial suggestion for what content elements we need where on the About tab. The MBA About tab draft content page shows the type of content each element might contain.
It's based on the UG pages, the PG user story WIP-591, common content on existing PG pages and the research we've done so far into PG requirements.
You can also see a bigger list of potential elements to check if anything's missing.
Title
Programme name or Programme family
e.g.
'Master of Arts' or 'Master of Business Administration and related programmes/qualifications'
Intro
One sentence introducing and promoting the degree
Programme overview heading
Key marketing message(s)
Programme overview
2-4 paragraphs covering:
- What you'll study
- Why you should study the programme at Victoria
Video, slideshow or photo
(optional)
Video etc heading
Embedded YouTube video, slideshow
At a glance overview
- Duration: Range in trimesters from probably minimum number if full-time to permitted maximum if part-time
- Cost: Domestic student fees: $xxxx – this doesn’t cover student levies or course-related costs like text books or the international study trip / International student fees [link: https://www.victoria.ac.nz/international/applying/cost-calculator]
- Start: trimester or date if more applicable, including "any"
- Applications close: Date or "standard trimester closing dates". Note if applications for current year have closed.
- Type of study: Coursework/research/both/other (e.g. performance, practical)
- Get entry through: Entry requirements (so we can flag when professional experience can get you in as well as/instead of a UG degree)
- Where you study: Campus, city/Distance/Online
- Part time options available: Y/N/part time only (each qualification in a programme may have different part time availability)
- Study while you work: Y/N plus description of how course lets your do this: part time, evening or weekend courses, intensive blocks, distance, online, modular (not sure what modular means)
- Level(s): PhD/Doctorate, Master’s, Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate, Hons, Graduate Diploma, Graduate Certificate (this could help to convey at-a-glance if the programme is a family of qualifications, and/or this might be done using a simple graphic that shows it's an integrated family)
- Professional programme: Y (the jury's out on whether we need this)
(Some of these can use controlled vocabularies, some will need free text (we may want an optional free text element for all for caveats etc.)
Should we do the At a glance at 'family' level of qualification level? What I've done above and for MBA is actually a mix. Can we isolate elements that will span all qualifications in a family and have those at family level and have those that vary at qualification level?)
Important information
Information crucial to someone considering the degree, info that might make or break someone's decision to do it. Get content from Paul's work in confluence, reword to direct address: https://victoriauniversity.atlassian.net/wiki/display/WIP/Requirements+of+PG+programmes.
The material that doesn't make it to here can go on Requirements tab.
Study while you work
(optional)
More detail than in At a glance overview
Part time options
How you learn
More detail on the type of study and how the programme is taught.
What you'll study
How the programme is structured, what you'll study when (by year or trimester for example), how the courses are grouped, a summary of what the courses cover.
Workload
(optional)
Could be a standard block summarising the average or expected workload based on the number of points of each course.
Research topics and supervisors
(optional)
Could link to/list:
- staff teaching the programme with capacity to supervise research
- suggested research topics
- previous research topics
PhD proposals
(optional)
Standard content block for PhD and doctoral programmes linking to advice and resources on putting together a PhD proposal.
Careers
(optional)
Roles the programme sets you up for
Registration, or steps towards registration achieved
Potential earnings boost, advancement opportunities
How the family of programmes is structured
(optional)
Information about nesting/stepping stones/stair-casing/articulation
We could display a more detailed graphic here, perhaps specifying the differences between each qualification (entry requirements, duration/number of points you need to do etc).
Scholarships
Usually a standard block with link
Other ways to finance your study
(optional)
Including things like research assistant or tutor roles available.
For professional programmes (designed to be studied while you work in a related role) it could include a suggestion that employers may contribute to study costs.
Fees
Content will vary based on international switcher.
Could be a standard note about how fees are calculated and what they do and don't cover.
Further study
Information about study options that lead on from the programme.
Link
Why Wellington
Need to decide how this is handled and if it's necessary, given that most postgraduate students are Vic returnees (3,800 last year vs. 589 new to Vic). We could have it as an optional standard block if people turn on International. This wouldn’t capture kiwi students from other Unis though.
Find out more
Contact
International switcher
Domestic: Nominated programme contact details
International: [link to https://www.victoria.ac.nz/international/contact]
Publications
(optional)
Brochures etc
Footer links
Area of study [link]
Faculty [link] and school [link]
Information for people new to or returning to study [link to: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/course-career/mature-students]
Course planning [link to: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/course-career/appointments]
Financing your study [link to: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/student-finance]