2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
CSER3102 Developing a Graduate Identity:Reflective Practice for Informed Career Planning
10 creditsClass Size: 30
Module manager: steve Carter
Email: s.g.carter@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
Pre-requisite qualifications
You must be a third/final year student to take part in this moduleThis module is mutually exclusive with
| CSER3060 | Transformational Learning: Building Upon A Year in Industry |
Module replaces
CSER2101This module is approved as a discovery module
Module summary
This module is designed to help students to reflect on the skills they have developed both from their degree, work-based learning and their extra-curricular activities. They will have the chance to enhance and develop new skills via the problem-based scenario that will have been set for them by us as tutors in conjunction with employers who recruit from our graduate talent pool. Thus, the students will be taking part in a project where their graduate skills can be deployed in an authentic manner and assessed accordingly.Objectives
This module is for 3rd and 4th year students and aims to provide a reflective framework for students to actively manage their career during their final year and upon graduation. It will ask them to look at their self-awareness and how they, as a combination of skills and experiences, match up to employer expectations in the context of the graduate market.Learning outcomes
1. Develop a comprehensive level of self-awareness in relation to their current values, attributes and professional skills
2. Critically analyse the current and future labour market in order to self-evaluate and map their current skillset for graduate employment and beyond
3. Enhance their digital capabilities through recording a video presentation.
4. Critically reflect upon their learning to date in order to formulate an informed action plan for their future professional development
Syllabus
The content will cover the following areas of reflective practise, surfacing the skill you are developing as past of your degree and awareness of the labour market and responding to current issues.
1. Introduction of reflective models
2. The changing nature of the world of work
3. Self-awareness and identity including values and motivations
4. Skills development including academic skills and knowledge, complemented by extra-curricular skills and knowledge
5. Career development theories and the context of making career decisions
6. Commercial Awareness
7. What do Employers Want? A look at how they relate points 4. and 6. to employer expectations in graduate recruitment processes
8. Assessment Centres (delivered by an employer)
9. Applications and Interviews
10. Final reflective session
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Seminar | 11 | 2.00 | 22.00 |
| Independent online learning hours | 8.00 | ||
| Private study hours | 70.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 22.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100.00 | ||
Private study
All students are expected to undertake a minimum of 2 hrs per week in private study preparing for their weekly taughtsessions. This is in addition for the work to be undertaken to develop and create their assessed submissions which include a
group presentation and an individual reflective statement and action plan
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Group discussions and peer review in sessions (supported by staff)Group presentations supported by staff with feedback given
Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Group Project | One video presentation 10 minutes | 30.00 |
| Essay | one reflective statement & action plan 2,500 words | 70.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
For the group presentation, an individual can resit their element of the assessment. This will be 2-minute recorded video presentation
Reading list
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