Creating a community

In all the courses I convene I strive to make connections with the students and to help them build their networks within the course and with alumni in industry. There are several ways in which I have approached building a learning community in my course.  These include the immersive approach we have now adopted for PHAR3101 which involves the whole course being taught “inside” a scenario where students are graduate interns in a pharmaceutical company. In our ‘company’, we have a social club that does fun online activities such as a virtual scavenger hunt for Halloween or posting pictures of pets, cooking or art projects to the company social club teams site. In this course, I also organise a careers workshop at which course alumni working in industry talk to the student about their current jobs and their career paths.

Student comments myExpereicne best features:

• 2020 PHAR3102: “Her care for her students – Angela remembered all of us individually and really made us feel supported and part of a learning community”.
• 2020 PHAR3101: “Angela is a great teacher who focusses on creating a learning community”.

2021 PHAR3101: “Loved the idea of being one company”, “The social club activities were engaging