Module SSI3020 for 2024/5
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
SSI3020: Employment Experience (UK and Abroad)
This module descriptor refers to the 2024/5 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 relevant, 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, e.g. working with others; problem solving; communication, building resilience; leadership skills.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. produce job applications that represent your 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 is 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 24 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 |
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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 |
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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).
ELE – vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=13032
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Placement Proposal Essay | 1000 words | 2-10 | Written and Ora |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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65 | 0 | 35 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Reflective Essay | 50 | 2,000 words | 2-10 | Written |
Recorded Interview-style Question Responses | 35 | 15 mins | 2-10 | Written |
Updated Curriculum Vitae | 15 | Approx. 750 words | 1; 2; 10 | Written |
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0 |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Reflective Essay | Reflective Essay, 2000 words (50%) | 2-10 | referral/deferral period |
Recorded Interview-style Question Responses | Recorded Interview-style Question Responses, 15 minutes (35%) | 2-10 | referral/deferral period |
Updated Curriculum Vitae | Updated Curriculum Vitae (15%) | 1; 2; 10 | referral/deferral period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Cottrell, S. (2003), Skills for Success: The Personal Development Planning Handbook. Palgrave Study Guides. London
Fanthorne, C. (2004), Work Placements – A Survival Guide for Students. Palgrave Study Guides. Macmillan, London.
Kolb, D. (1984), ‘Experiential Learning: Experience as a source of Learning and Development.’ PHI, New Jersey.
Longson, S. (1999), Making Work Experience Count. How to Books.
Moon, J. (1999), Learning Journals: A handbook for academics, students and professional development . Kogan Page, London.
Turnock, C. & Mulholland, J. (2007), Learning in the Workplace. A toolkit for placement tutors, supervisors, mentors and facilitators. Kingsham Press.
Williams, Woolliams, and Spiro. (2012). Reflective writing. Palgrave Macmillan.