Undergraduate Module Descriptor

SSI3020: Employment Experience (UK and Abroad)

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

1. To increase your employability skills in an increasingly competitive market through

seeking and successfully gaining a work placement
being in a workplace for a significant period and reflecting on that experience

2. To develop your intercultural awareness and competence through reflection on the experience of employment.

3. To enhance your capacity for self-assessment through structured reflection on your experience

4. Where employment is abroad to enhance your awareness of the process of foreign-language learning and to develop strategies for more effective language learning

5. Enhance key transferable skills through the managing of your learning in an independent context. i.e. working with others; problem solving; communication, building resilience; leadership skills

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here – you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. produce job applications that represent the students' strengths and target specific employers in an appropriate manner; 2. demonstrate knowledge and application of the attitudes and qualities that are required to function well in a work environment; 3. demonstrate an ability to communicate (in writing and in speech) in a manner appropriate to the particular workplace context; 4. where study has been outside of the UK, demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the host country and a sensitivity to its culture so as to function as an integrated member of its society.
Discipline-Specific Skills	5. demonstrate skills in the research, selection and evaluation of specific jobs and the structural context of those jobs; 6. demonstrate a critical understanding of the social, cultural and political considerations that influence employment settings, using appropriate discipline-specific theoretical perspectives to analyse those settings.
Personal and Key Skills	7. develop or enhance practical work-based skills and experience; 8. negotiate the different types of working relationships with staff within the workplace and others relevant to the placement; 9. demonstrate the ability to identify and reflect on personal challenges and to learn from their resolution; 10. demonstrate the ability to use a range of technologies and applications relevant to most work places.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Work placement(s) UK or abroad for the full Academic year (minimum of 28 weeks) in one or more placement approved by the University of Exeter.

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
0	0	1200

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Work placement	1200	Work placement undertaken with an organisation(s) approved by the University of Exeter. The hours are approximate and may vary on an individual basis but are to include all assessment and study time.

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).