Module overview
Employers appreciate the skills and knowledge that graduates bring to organisations from academic study. However, employers increasingly value graduates who have undertaken a substantial placement as part of their degree. A structured placement provides you with the opportunity to develop your business skills and to gain valuable work experience in your degree, which ensures that upon graduating with a placement you are better prepared for work beyond the University. This module not only provides opportunities for a placement, but it prepares your employability skills and professional profile ready for the application process and the practical experience. It also provides support with a dedicated Placement Advisor, and ensures that you consider your future professional development needs and career pathways.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how to apply theoretical knowledge into a ‘real world context’;
- contemporary business issues relevant to your degree programme;
- critically reflect on personal performance and professional development.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- perform research and analysis in a commercial context;
- apply problem solving skills in a business environment.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- engage with jobs/processes not easily achievable in an academic institution e.g. latest technology, work behaviour etc., communication with senior management;
- appreciate the atmosphere and pace of industrial practice.
- work independently and as part of a team in a professional organisation;
Syllabus
You will be supported in preparation for your placement in Parts 1 and 2 through an additional series of lectures and seminars, and an online placement preparation course. These classes will prepare you in applying for a placement and in working effectively in your chosen organisation. Due to the wide variety of experiences gained on a placement, each experience will be different, but the module content overall will include:
• Choosing an appropriate placement
• Preparation of an individual employability portfolio
• Making placement applications
• Development of a personal development plan
• Teamwork
• Negotiation skills
• Communication skills
• Problem solving skills
• Workload management
• Utilising constructive criticism
• Ethics and responsibility in the workplace
• Professional Behaviour
• Placement
• Collecting relevant material to inform the reflective learning report
• Post-placement reflective seminar
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
• Lectures
• Seminars
• Online course
• Visiting speakers
• Peer support
• Private study through employability portfolio development
• Mentoring from Workplace Supervisor
Learning activities include:
• Development of individual employability portfolio
• Critical reflection on personal workplace performance
• Development of employability skills
• Advancement of critical thinking through business practice
• Placement
• Enhancement of communication skills in a business context
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 12 |
| Wider reading or practice | 30 |
| Completion of assessment task | 40 |
| Lecture | 4 |
| Project supervision | 2 |
| Follow-up work | 50 |
| Placement Hours | 1120 |
| Tutorial | 10 |
| Total study time | 1268 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
On-line Resources. The dedicated online resource where you will access all resources for this module will be held on blackboard. The placement module is practically-orientated. You will be directed to relevant resources and materials in preparatory classes and on blackboard to assist you in the development of your individual employability portfolio and reflective learning portfolio. You will be provided with an electronic copy of your placement handbook on blackboard.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Individual employability portfolio
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: You will receive written feedback on your IEP as part of MANG1016 Realising Success module and will have the opportunity to discuss the feedback with your allocated placement advisor in part 1. You will receive verbal feedback on in-class discussion, during University delivered classes, online learning on blackboard and 1:1 meetings. You will also receive formative feedback, both in written and verbal form, from your allocated placement advisor.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Report | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Report | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External