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2008/09 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS2370 Career Management

10 creditsClass Size: 150

Module manager: Mr Howard Weston
Email: hw@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2008/09

This module is mutually exclusive with

CSER2101Career Development 1
CSER2201Career Development 2
LEED2110Skill Build for Enterprise
LUBS2020From Study to Work

This module is approved as an Elective

Module summary

Not sure where you are going? Hoping for an interesting and rewarding career? This module examines your goals and prospects in detail. Your whole life is included, both other interests you want to pursue, develop or even earn from and beyond your first job. In teams you will survey the likely situations facing you throughout your career. Against this background you will plot your own proposed career. By using several standard professional tools, such as skills analysis and performance evaluation, you equip yourself to manage the rest of your career.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students will be able to:

structure a review of their own objectives and goals;
develop and deploy continuing awareness of the personal and academic skills required in future careers, including relevant sources of career information and guidance;
critically assess the significance of their academic, personal and learning skills for future career patterns;
demonstrate the enhancement of key skills through both their specific academic programme and their University and external activities and experiences;
present their personal and academic qualities effectively against professional criteria;
and evaluate alternative strategies for job search and career management across different sectors.

Syllabus

The identification, development and use of personal skills as applicable to professional employment. Key elements are likely to include time management, team-working, negotiating and presentation skills. Mission statements and vision, action planning, self- and peer review and evaluation will be among the standard professional methodologies examined; the location of such individual competencies within a process of continuous re-evaluation, adjustment and new learning; and organisational changes and developing employment patterns will be explored, using field work and desk research. Models of career development to correlate personal skills with career progression will be examined.

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Workshop91.5013.50
Group Project32.006.00
Independent Learning110.0010.00
Class tests, exams and assessment25.0010.00
Group learning71.5010.50
Lecture21.002.00
Private study hours48.00
Total Contact hours52.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)100.00

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
Group Project5,000 word - peer review30.00
Reflective logReflective CV. Resit by 2 hour written paper70.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 24/03/2009

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