SHN5162 - Volunteering in Sport, Health and Nutrition

Objectives:

On successful completion of the module, students will be able to:
Appraise multiple relevant personal and professional skills for related career including digital skills.
Critically reflect on own personal and professional skills for and within the workplace.
Demonstrate satisfactory professional performance across the pre-placement and placement periods.
Evaluate and reflect on the contribution made through voluntary activity and demonstrate understanding of the limits of knowledge and skills in this context.

Content:

Volunteering may take many forms and may be organised by the student, subject to agreement, or by the University. The voluntary activity will be required to meet a set of specific criteria relating to, for example, duration, type of activity, relevance to programme of study, supervision. Students will undertake a professional preparation programme, together with any specific training, selection or security checks. Students will also be expected to:

Appraise personal and professional skills
Engage with career guidance
Match skills to chosen careers
Identify areas for personal and professional skills development
Network with employers
Critically reflect for improving professional skills.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures whereby students will acquire knowledge and understanding of graduate careers, personal and professional skills and critical reflection essential for increasing graduate employability.

A variety of demonstrations, practical classes and workshops will involve conferences, networking events and careers guidance workshops.

Individual tutorials will take place with the module tutor, development tutors and the career service and placement mentors.

The expected minimum volunteering time is around 60 hours. This could take the form of half a day per week, a block or a series of activities of varied duration. Evidence of attendance will be required.

Lectures
Hours: 7
Intended Group size: 50

Tutorials
Hours: 3
Intended Group size: 1

Digital Skills Workshops
Hours: 20
Intended Group size: 50

Volunteering Hours
Hours: 60

Volunteering preparation, reporting and guided independent study
Hours: 110

Further details relating to assessment
Portfolio will include pre-volunteering preparatory tasks and critical reflective tasks about the volunteering to date.

The portfolio contains a digital skills assessment evidencing development of digital literacy.

Practical will involve a post-volunteering task such as a mock interview for a graduate job.

Assessment:

001 Practical performance; Pass/Fail; during volunteering 0%
002 Portfolio; 1,500 words; end of semester 2 50%
003 Practical; 20 minutes; end of semester 2 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Jon Radcliffe
Level - 5
Credit Value - 20
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL

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