Postgraduate Module Descriptor


SSI3017: Learning from Work Experience in the Social Sciences

This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level6
Credits15 ECTS Value7.5
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 2 (11 weeks)

Academic staff

Ms Charlie King (Lecturer)

Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

Available via distance learning

No

This module is designed to help you gain a relevant work placement and to use your work experience as an opportunity for personal and academic development. The module will give you the tools to reflect critically upon your placement. You will also be encouraged to continue to reflect on the skills that you develop during your placement and to consider how these relate to your degree studies. You will be expected to search for your own work placement, although you can request support in this process from the module Employability and Placement Advisor. The module emphasises the importance of learning from the whole experience of work, including a focus on how people learn from work, and more generic workplace skills and knowledge (including, for example, understanding organisational structures and practices, personal development planning, and lifelong learning through reflection and critical analysis).

Module created

14/03/2017

Last revised

15/09/2022