PSY6115 - Professional Learning Through Work

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

This module provides students with a flexible range of opportunities to enhance their professional skills and graduate opportunities. The module can be tailored to each individual student’s development as they apply theoretical understanding to a chosen context. This could include a work-based project within a relevant setting or a skill-development approach in which the student identifies and addresses specific gaps in their portfolio of graduate-level skills.

The taught content will include reviewing approaches to employability such as, managing time, skills audits,CV building and articulation of transferrable skills, interview techniques, engagement with the Careers Passport, Project managemanet (if relevant) and agreeing an approach to assessment, along with subject contextualisation and reflective practice.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 8
Intended Group Size: 150

Skills Development Activities or Negotiated Employer Project
Hours: Negotiated with a minimum of 10-20 hours
Intended Group Size: 1

Individual Tutorial Support
Hours: 3
Group Tutorial Support
Hours: 3
Intended Group Size: 10

Guided independent study
Hours: 96

Further details relating to assessment
In relation to the appropriate work-based setting, a tripartite sign-off form will be required. This form will include the details of the project outline by the student, will be verified by the employer and will be signed off by the study supervisor. This should also include an agreed pattern of working hours.

Students will have the choice of:
1. Completing a number of negotiated hours of CPD learning (min 10 hours across Semester 1 & 2)
OR
2. Complete a ‘project whilst on work-based experience’ with a suitable organisation (min 20 hours across Semester 1 & 2)
N.B. The work-based experience project must not be a research project.

The employer will also be asked to submit 3 appraisal forms (end Sem 1, mid-Feb Sem 2 and end Sem 2).

The first assessment component will consist of a project outline, a reflective outline of the approach, intended outcomes and aims set in the context of relevant literature and sector best practice.

Workplace hours will be evidenced by the employer appraisal forms. Where a skills pathway is chosen, students must complete and evidence the training and any associated outputs.

The interview skills viva will involved students being asked to summarise their skills, progress and career intentions in the style of a short interview.

A pass in the module requires completion of the specified workplace hours.

Assessment:

001 CV update and skills mapping document; 2,000 words; end of semester 1 50%
002 Practice - Viva; 15 minutes; end of semester 2 50%
003 Workplace hours; negotiated; pass/fail; end of semester 2 %

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Ben Morris
Level - 6
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6YL

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