Work Placement Year

• Credit value: 120 credits at Level 5
• Convenor: to be confirmed
• Assessment: objective setting (25%), a poster presentation (15%) and 2500-word work placement report (60%)
  

The work placement year offers you an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills developed during your studies in a professional work context. In addition, it allows you to develop the skills, attributes and attitudes that underpin the development of a successful career.

Indicative syllabus

• Personal and professional attitudes and behaviours
• Self-reflection and transfer of learning between academic and professional work-based contexts
• Objective setting, monitoring and adjusting on the basis of performance and experience
• Employability skills development
• Professional identities, competencies and attributes that support future career development

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• identify your own personal strengths and weaknesses, how they have developed and changed over the course of the placement and the impact these have had on the organisation in which you have worked
• understand and articulate the key elements of the organisation you have worked for, the mission and vision of that organisation and how that is put into practice
• use the experiences gained on placement to make more informed career choices
• demonstrate professional behaviours in the workplace
• understand how personal and professional attributes developed on your work placement can be used to improve your academic performance.