Integrated Professional Placement A - Design
Duration
- One Semester
Contact hours
- Full-time
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2023 teaching periods
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
Aims and objectives
Under the supervision of an Academic Supervisor, this unit requires students to reflect on their professional placement experience to draw links with discipline knowledge and document the development and growth of their employability skills. This unit runs concurrently with Work Experience in Industry A.
This unit aims to support students to develop their understanding of ‘learning about work’ and the discipline in practice. This is achieved by providing students with directed, experiential learning opportunities in the real-world context of their professional placement.
The aim of the unit is to provide students with the opportunity to contextualise their university studies in practice, reflecting on and learning from workplace experiences, and developing broader professional skills such as communication, teamwork and self-management that inform, enhance and improve future practice.
Throughout the unit students will develop a portfolio (collection of evidence) they can use to evidence the employability skills they have developed during their work placement.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Reflect on significant incident/s in the workplace for developing existing discipline knowledge and skills.
2. Compare and contrast perceptions of the discipline while at university with the realities of industry practice for career development.
3. Identify possible future career paths.
4. Demonstrate the planning for developing career skills from the work placement, university or other experience/s.Courses with unit
Offered from 2017Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
24 hours (approximately 2 hours per week outside of employment time)
Assessment
| Assessment Types | Individual or group | Weighting | Related ULOs |
| 1. Placement Development Plan (500 words) and survey | Individual | 25% | 1 & 2 |
| 2. Presentation | Individual | 30% | 3 |
| 3. Reflective Practice Journal/Report (1500 words) | Individual | 45% | 4 |
General skills outcomes
problem solving skills
analysis skills
communication skills
ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
Content
While the learning activity is undertaken in the professional placement industry or community to which the student has been assigned, the objectives of this unit are educational not commercial.
Under the supervision of an Academic Supervisor, students will reflect on their professional placement experience to draw links with discipline knowledge and document the development and growth of their employability skills. Students will be required to respond to feedback from stakeholders in ways that inform and improve future practice. Structured learning activities and assessment tasks that allow students the opportunity to illustrate and measure learning and to share experience for a variety of audiences will be of importance.
Students will be offered a blended learning approach to their learning that will include online independent learning activities and readings, some of which will align to summative assessments. The online activities provide students with the opportunity to engage with other Professional Placement students in order to form a community of peer learning such as sharing knowledge, experiences, offering and receiving constructive feedback and advice.
Study resources
- References.
References
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.