VIC7055 - Professional Development and Practice

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Exhibit an advanced and independent knowledge and understanding of a specific area of Victorian Studies scholarship.
Demonstrate the ability to use this knowledge and understanding within a professional context through critical engagement with a specific advanced project, and the ability to reflect critically upon this experience.
Demonstrate the development of appropriate high-level skills for a specific work-based project, such as cataloguing skills, exhibition and presentation skills, pedagogic skills etc as appropriate.
Demonstrate the development of key transferable high-level skills relevant to the workplace, such as team-working, working on one’s initiative, oral and written presentation skills, workload and time management, etc, and the ability to reflect critically upon the development of such skills.

Content:

The content of this module will be determined in negotiation with the module co-ordinator/supervising tutor and the ‘employer’. It will involve the pursuit of a specific agreed project, which will require the student to undertake research and reading relating to an area of Victorian Studies, and to employ this knowledge and understanding in a professional context. The project might be: the design of teaching materials and sessions relating to the Victorian topic area for use in a school/college; producing an annotated catalogue of Victorian books for a library; researching and designing an exhibition for a museum; researching, designing, and running a heritage walk for a heritage institution; designing and launching a website; or any similar project which results in a concrete product and the development of both project-specific and transferable work skills.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Students will be expected and required to work independently under the guidance of their employer and the module co-ordinator (or his/her nominee among the academic staff).
Up to four hours of supervisory support will be provided. The student and tutor will decide whether this will take the form of tutorials, in person, by telephone or by email; reading and feedback on a draft of the reflective report; a visit to the student at the organisation in which s/he is based; and/or other forms of agreed support.
Tutorials/visits
Hours: 4
Intended Group size: 1

Workplace project
Hours: 116

Guided independent study
Hours: 30

Assessment:

001 The agreed project, eg. website, display, learning materials End of Semester 50%
002 Reflective report 1,500 words end of Semester 50%


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