Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SSI2001: Learning from Work Experience in Social Sciences

This module descriptor refers to the 2017/8 academic year.

Overview

NQF Level 5
Credits 15 ECTS Value 7.5
Term(s) and duration

This module ran during term 1 (1 weeks) and term 2 (9 weeks)

Academic staff

Professor Alexandra Allan (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 workplace 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 all of this relates to your degree studies. You will be expected to search for your own work placement, although you can request support in this process from module employability officer.

The module aims to enable learning from the whole experience of work including a focus on how people learn from/in the workplace, and more generic workplace skills and knowledge. These include: understanding organisational structures, induction programmes, personal development and lifelong learning through reflection and critical analysis. In addition, the module will provide a series of practical workshops, including meetings with careers advisors, reflective writing workshops and meet the employer/alumni events.

Module createdLast revised

October 2012