Module overview
This module is designed to enhance your employability and support your personal development.
You will engage with key concepts and skills around employability in your chosen area as part of your programme. Building on knowledge and skills already acquired you will be encouraged to take a critical and analytical approach to the evaluation of your work and how to situate it in a professional context.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- how to locate your work within an appropriate professional and commercial context
- how to target your selected work for future employment or post-graduate study
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- communicate and present ideas in appropriate formats
- plan and manage your time effectively
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Identify an individual approach to promote your work in a professional context
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- reflect on your learning achievements towards your personal goals
- evaluate and propose a variety of approaches to contextualise your practice
Syllabus
This module will support your understanding of employability within your subject.
Indicative content for this module covers:
- Personal career planning and development
- Graduate skills and employability
- Careers advice
- CV writing workshops cover letter workshops
- Professional requirements
- Postgraduate study opportunities
Professional Skills
- Digital/creative content
- Networking and the professional use of social media
- Presentation skills (preparation, presentation style and practice)
- Time management and project planning
- Team work
- Communication
- Thinking and analysis
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include
- lectures
- academic study skills sessions
- tutor-led seminars
- tutorials
- visiting lecturers
Learning activities include
- Independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback
- independent research
- online reference material and tutorial notes
- peer group learning
- class discussions
- Study Skills Hub
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Seminar | 6 |
| Lecture | 10 |
| Tutorial | 3 |
| Practical classes and workshops | 6 |
| Follow-up work | 60 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 20 |
| Completion of assessment task | 45 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Academic Integrity issues. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity
The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash
Harvard citing and referencing systems, including citethemright online resource. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing
Blackboard. http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto via Blackboard
Digital Learning resource for students to access digital support and tutorials. www.lynda.com
WSA Creative Services: Students can access a wide range of 2D and 3D printing and laser cut facilities.
Journal Articles
Working Papers in Art and Design: an on-line refereed Journal.
Textbooks
McNiff, Jean & Whitehead, Jack (2009). You and Your Action Research Project. Routledge.
McNiff, Jean & Whitehead, Jack (2009). Doing and Writing Action Research. Sage Publications Ltd.
Gray, C, & Malins, J (2004). Visualizing Research. [Electronic Resource] : A Guide To The Research Process In Art And Design. Aldershot, Hants, England: Burlington, VT : Ashgate.
Cohen,Louis, Manion, Lawrence & Morrison, Keith (2007). Research Methods in Education. Routledge.
Cottrell, S (2015). Skills For Success : Personal Development And Employability. London: Macmillan Education : Palgrave.
Polanyi, Michael (2009). The Tacit Dimension. Chicago University Press.
Schon, Donald A (1991). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena). Ashgate Publishing Limited.
Cottrell, S (2013). The Study Skills Handbook. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Critical Reflection | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Critical Reflection | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Critical Reflection | 100% |