The MSc Health and Social Care Sciences (Generic pathway) course ensures that students can consider a range of central scientific foundations of health and social care. Learning and teaching methods include lectures, student-led seminars and computer-based workshops. The development of key skills including presentation skills, ICT skills and collaborative working is a significant feature of the course and these activities take place in a variety of locations using both traditional teaching and learning methods and e-learning approaches. Active participation in class discussion and activities is encouraged. Face-to-face activities are supplemented with the use of electronic materials via Blackboard. Individual tutorial support is also utilised to support learning, particularly in the Dissertation module. Assessment methods include reports, oral presentations, assignments, projects and a dissertation.