Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
6511WESTMC-SEP-PAR
Aims
1. To enable students to identify and develop transferable skills relevant to the enhancement of employability.
2. To foster initiative through an evaluative approach to the assessment of work experience or career planning in the context of academic career planning.
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 and work related learning and develop transferable skills.
2.
Evaluate and critique 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 sessions from careers, employability and enterprise; Guest speakers and alumni from media, cultural and communications industries; Key concepts for career planning, including critical reflection, networking, graduate skills, enterprise, reputation management, organisational awareness and equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Introduction to the context of media and cultural industries; Bespoke sessions from careers, employability and enterprise; Guest speakers and alumni from media, cultural and communications industries; Key concepts for career planning, including critical reflection, networking, graduate skills, enterprise, reputation management, organisational awareness and equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Module Overview:
This module will enable you to identify and develop transferable skills relevant to the enhancement of employability. You will foster initiative through an evaluative approach to the assessment of work experience or career planning in the context of academic career planning. This will require you to produce a sustained and evidenced piece of critical reflection.
This module will enable you to identify and develop transferable skills relevant to the enhancement of employability. You will foster initiative through an evaluative approach to the assessment of work experience or career planning in the context of academic career planning. This will require you to produce a sustained and evidenced piece of critical reflection.
Additional Information:
Students may complete the module by focussing on career planning and/or work based activities. The portfolio that students produce should contain a range of different material exemplifying the skills that they have acquired through annotated appendices. 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 the summer break if appropriate.
Students may complete the module by focussing on career planning and/or work based activities. The portfolio that students produce should contain a range of different material exemplifying the skills that they have acquired through annotated appendices. 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 the summer break if appropriate.