Teaching Responsibility

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Humanities and Social Science

Learning Methods

Lecture

Seminar

Tutorial

Workshop

Module Offerings

6113MEDCUL-SEP-MTP

Aims

1. To enable students to develop transferable skills relevant to the world of work. 2. To foster initiative through an evaluative approach to the assessment of work experience or career planning in the context of academic study. 3. To produce a sustained and evidenced piece of critical reflection.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Identify the context within which an organization operates as a media, cultural or communication industry.
2.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of debates around the importance of work based learning and the development of transferable skills.
3.
Reflect upon and monitor experience within a critique of personal development.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Introduction to the context of media and cultural industries. Bespoke session on Career Zones and World of Work Careers Centre. Guest speakers from media, cultural and communication industries. Ethics, behaviour and detailed specification of the programme for each work placement formulated in a negotiated learning agreement. Key concepts for career planning, including critical reflection, networking, graduate skills, enterprise, impression management, organisational awareness and mentoring.
Module Overview:
This module enables you to develop transferable skills relevant to the world of work. You will develop initiative through an evaluative approach to the assessment of work experience or career planning. In this module you will produce a portfolio that will contain a range of different material exemplifying the skills that you have acquired on your placement.
Additional Information:Students may complete the module by focussing on career planning or a work placement. The portfolio that students produce should contain a range of different material exemplifying the skills that they have acquired. It should be of a standard that it could form the basis for employment interviews. Students intending to take this module will be given guidance and support at Level 5 through PDP and cohort meetings, so that they have the option of undertaking a placement during a summer vacation if appropriate.

Assessments

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Centralised Exam

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