Professional Planning (Graphic Communication)

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• C1. Demonstrate an awareness and application of professional qualities and skills developed to benefit yourself and future employers.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• B1. Research the current job market to situate your current practice and shape your future career

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• A1. Professional development skills and how to promote yourself and your work to others

This module enables you to build on the knowledge and skills previously acquired in a manner directly related to your own professional and personal development. Through a series of presentations, tutorials, interviews and workshop activities, you will develop your confidence and experience in these vital areas to support you in securing employment. Through reflective practice, you will gather and critically evaluate evidence of self-analysis, strengthening your specialist knowledge to reach your target career path. You will create a personal career plan that will support the development of promotional materials.

The indicative content of the module normally includes:

• lectures on Employability skills including presentation, interview skills, assessment days, Skills and Roles;
• Masters degrees and other educational opportunities;
• group tutorials on careers mapping, roles, skills and self-reflective practice to determine strengths and weaknesses, & CV workshops;
• technical workshops to support the production of a self-promotion materials

Teaching methods include:

• lectures;
• workshops;
• group tutorials.

Learning activities include:

• lectures;
• workshops;
• group discussion;
• peer group learning;
• Study Skills Hub

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Assessed Groupwork Sessions

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No
• Percentage contribution: 100%

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.