BA Childhood Studies (Industrial)

Year 3

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- Demonstrate an understanding of a work environment, how it functions and your contribution to it
- Demonstrate an understanding of, and ability to, apply your work based learning to other areas of personal development, including academic performance
- Demonstrate high level transferable skills including communication (written and oral), self motivation, initiative, organisation and time management, objective setting, negotiating and team working
- Demonstrate an ability to decide, plan and compete in the job market

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- The transferable key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied
- The exercise of initiative and personal responsibility
- The deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations
- The communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to different audiences
- The ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- A 2000 word written summary of an online portfolio related to the stated outcomes of the module (see CSER8000 Handbook) (50%)
- Presentation and interview focusing on the placement experience (see CSER8000 Handbook) (50%)