Assessment 1: Short reflective piece 

Students are expected to write a short reflective piece detailing their perception of the nature of humanitarian health work and their particular relationship to that work (i.e., a positionality statement). Students are not expected to have any prior knowledge of humanitarian medicine/health work when they embark on this task. It is primarily intended to help them later reflect on what they have learnt during the course and how their thinking about humanitarian health work has changed.

Assessment 2: Situation report (sit rep)

In this task students will write and present a situation report (‘sit rep’) for a selected humanitarian crisis. In should be in the style of a situation report issued by a humanitarian agency with all of the relevant subsections, content, and analyses. After their presentation students should submit a copy of their slide deck and their typed up ‘sit rep’ to the course convenors for marking.

Assessment 3: Group humanitarian project proposal

In this task, students will work together to create their own proposed humanitarian health project, which they will then present to the class for discussion. A copy of the slides and notes from the talk should be submitted to the course convenors after the presentation.

Assesment 4: Book review and updated relfective piece

In this task, students will read a book assigned to them at the start of the course and submit a report on it in the style of an academic journal book review. Accompanying the book review should be an updated personal reflective statement. The reflective statement should be updated to reflect the student’s changed understanding of humanitarian medicine/health work and their relationship to it (positionality statement) and include any particularly relevant insights derived from their assigned book.