HIS5002 - Professional Development and Placement (Volunteering)

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:

Demonstrate an understanding of the application of History, Public History, and English and History in the workplace;
Reflect on and evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses across a range of key employability skills;
Apply employability skills, including a level of enterprise and initiative, in the placement workplace and perform to a satisfactory standard;
Write an action plan for developing employability skills. Research a future career and career plan, producing an action plan for gaining the further experience and qualifications required to enter that graduate career.

Content:

Semester 1: professional development and preparation for placement - a programme comprising of: Introduction to Professional Development Planning and Placements at Level 5 Workshop sessions including: - Careers in Heritage and Museums, Archives and Libraries, Education, commercial enterprise
- Applying for employment and postgraduate courses
- Team work
- Assessment centre tasks.

Briefings on Careers and Employability Placement procedure, skills and preparation for Placement and assessment for module, e.g. successful blogging, writing the Report.

Discussion with Placement Tutor.

Semester 2: six-week placement - feedback and reflection - completion of diary (blog) and report, and the Career Action Plan.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Learning and teaching takes place through tutor-led discussion amongst placement tutees, and through preparatory workshop sessions, covering: researching future careers (through Prospects website http://www.prospects.ac.uk/); production and maintenance of a CV; practical activities exploring how to get a Placement, advice on the Placement experience and planning for this, blogging and the digital humanities. Individual tutorials with Placement Tutor/Development Tutor are provided before the placement starts. Students to write a blog while on Placement (to feed into the final Report).

Workshops
Hours: 12
Intended Group size: 30

Tutorials
Hours: 0.5
Intended group size: 1

Placement
Hours: 187.5 1

Further details relating to assessment
It is expected that students will maintain a blog to underpin the reflective Report; the first 5 week's diary is important in allowing tutors to assess whether or not a student needs some form of additional support/intervention by the University and is therefore mandatory. Employers submit their own report on the Placement (P/F) to the Placement Partnership Office for consideration, and this is passed to the tutor supporting the student - this may be shared with student on completion of the module, in order for them to undertake further reflection re their skills for employability, (Employer does/does not give permission for this to happen).
The tutor who supported the student on placement normally marks the Placement Report.

Other relevant matters
Students may undertake a placement abroad, as long as it is approved by the Placement Partnership Office - nb the University cannot pay for travel abroad.

Assessment:

001 Portfolio 1500 words equiv. end of semester 1 30%
002 Placement 60hr over 12-20 week period (Pass/Fail) 0%
003 Placement report 3000 words by end of placement 70%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Prof. Maureen Meikle
Level - 5
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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