Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Humanities and Social Science

Learning Methods

Lecture

Seminar

Tutorial

Workshop

Module Offerings

6101MEDCUL-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.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of debates about the importance of work based learning and developing transferable skills
2.
Identify the context within which an organization operates as a media, cultural or communication industry
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 communications 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 gives you the exciting opportunity to undertake a work placement (of your own selection, though support and advice is available from the University) and/or focus on career planning. The module will enable you to develop confidence in identifying and discussing the skills you have in order to present yourself as employable and ready for the world of work after graduation. By the end of the module you will have created a portfolio unique to the skills and talents you have to offer. Working with departments across the University, like Careers, Employability and Enterprise, and invited alumni from the course, this is the module to help you focus upon and enhance your employability.
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

Portfolio

Presentation