1. Course Connect
Maximising Programmatic Value of External Relationships at Operational Level
Presentation by
Dagmar Steffens
Departmental Director, Academic Law
Faculty of Business and Law
7 June 2018

2. Rationale and Objectives
Our faculty’s curriculum and teaching delivery, as a whole, is already highly practice-oriented and industry engaged. However, this is not consistent across all programmes, and the modules nested with them. This initiative aims to:
Grow and build a programmatic level narrative of industry connections.
Support the strengthening of programmes’ existing relationships at modular level.
Assist the forging of new relationships for modules that may require stronger external input.
Provide an institutional framework for deepening industry content in the curriculum, thereby ensuring greater, measurable impact.
Create a mutually beneficial curriculum level engagement platform for industry partners and UWE.

3. What is Course Connect
An initiative that provides a framework for fostering meaningful and sustained relationships between programmes/modules and suitable external partners. The prospective CC partners will be expected to:
Sign-up with CC for a minimum of two years, ensuring that the organisation and the programme develop a sustained mutually beneficial relationship.
Support essential relationship foundation activities in a variety of areas.
In addition, connect with the module and its people in a variety of ways, covering activities from at least three relationship areas listed in the CC Framework (Appendix A).

4. What Course Connect is NOT
Re-setting or ‘taking over’ of existing relationships.
Sporadic association of external organisations with any available module.
A tick-box exercise.

5. Benefits to Course Connect partners