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2023/24 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PIED8800 POLIS Industrial Placement (Full Year)

120 creditsClass Size: 30

Module manager: Dr Lisa Thorley
Email: L.Thorley@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2023/24

Pre-requisite qualifications

Participants should normally have maintained a 60% average mark prior to agreeing their work placement.
In addition, they must achieve progression to Level 3 before taking up their placement. Exceptions can apply at Tutors discretion

This module is mutually exclusive with

PIED9912International Development Year Abroad
PIED9970Int.Relations Year Abroad
PIED9990Politics Year Abroad

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

A year in industry offers all POLIS students the opportunity to undertake a year in paid or unpaid work. The goal of undertaking a year in industry is to provide students with work experience before leaving university.

Objectives

The objectives of a year in industry are designed to provide students with additional transferable skills, to complement those obtained in the classroom. Work placement will provide students with work experience, networking opportunities, and the potential to improve written and verbal communication, time-management skills, and task completion. These skills are increasingly important for students to possess upon leaving university.

Learning outcomes
This year in industry is designed to provide students with the skills and experience that many employers are now looking for in potential employees. While the work placement process does not take place in the classroom, and as such, will not have traditional learning outcomes, students should still garner some specific learning outcomes from their year away from university. These are:
- demonstrate knowledge of the typical workplace setting and how organisations function;
- recognise how to meet expectations of the employer;
- discover how their university degree may serve them in future employment;
- use lessons learned in work placement (such as time management) to benefit academic performance upon return to the university.


Syllabus

The student will undertake a work placement with an approved employer for the duration of a full academic year.

Teaching methods

Delivery typeNumberLength hoursStudent hours
Work-based mentoring1800.00800.00
Visit101.0010.00
Email/Phone Tutorial401.0040.00
Private study hours350.00
Total Contact hours850.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)1,200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Students will remain in email contact with the work placement tutor. Moreover, the work placement tutor (or delegated staff member) will attempt to visit students during Semester 2 in their place of employment. Exceptions may include students undertaking work outside the UK.

Methods of assessment


Coursework
Assessment typeNotes% of formal assessment
Report1 x 1000 Word Pre Placement Report10.00
Reflective logWeekly Log - Completed During Placement15.00
PortfolioCurriculum Vita (CV)15.00
Placement AssessmentMock Job Application30.00
Essay1 x 3000 Word Reflective Essay30.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)100.00

In event of a failing mark, student will only be able to resubmit the project report and the CV. In this case, the report will be worth 75% and the CV worth 25% to comprise the final mark. Final marks are only awarded on a Pass/Fail basis. Any final mark of 40 or higher will be considered a Pass. A final mark of 39 or lower will be considered a Fail.

Reading list

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Last updated: 28/04/2023 14:51:20

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