Give students the opportunities to learn and practise a range of intellectual, interpersonal and technical skills that are relevant in their chosen industries.
Encourage creative thinking and provide students with the skills to adapt and respond positively to changing circumstances.
Enhance academic learning in the final year of study.
Support students in their continuing professional development.

(LO1) Students will gain experience of a work-based environment, leading to an understanding of the obligations and duties that bind the staff in an organisation.

(LO2) Students will develop an understanding of the organisation in which the placement is completed, including the nature and context of its business or other activity.

(LO3) Students will develop an ability to identify a detailed list of tasks, their timing and their duration, milestones in the project, and the development of contingencies for when things go wrong.

(LO4) Students will develop team-working and interpersonal skills.

(S1) Organisational skills.

(S2) Teamwork.

(S3) Communication skills.

The placement year involves a placement, lasting at least 40 weeks, in an industrial, commercial, public-sector or third-sector setting relevant to the study of your degree programme, broadly understood. Placements will be arranged at venues which are accessible to the individual student and appropriate to their interests and development needs. While students are responsible for sourcing placements, help and advice are provided from the Careers and Employability Service and the Placements and Employability Officer in the School of the Arts.

Each student will have a member of academic staff assigned as placement tutor. The tutor will advise students on their assessment requirements and day to day work related issues. Any issues of a more serious nature that arise during the course of the placement will be referred to the module leader. Each student will be contacted by telephone at least three times during the placement, at key stages. Each student will normally be v isited twice by the module co-ordinator, or their tutor, at the placement venue. Students and tutors will be provided with a suitable handbook to set out their key rights and responsibilities under the placement scheme.

Teaching method: Field Work
Description: The placement year involves a placement, lasting at least 40 weeks, in an industrial, commercial, public-sector or third-sector setting relevant to the study of your degree programme, broadly understood. Placements will be arranged at venues which are accessible to the individual student and appropriate to their interests and development needs. While students are responsible for sourcing placements, help and advice are provided from the Careers and Employability Service and the Placements and Employability Officer in the School of the Arts.

Each student will have a member of academic staff assigned as placement tutor. The tutor will advise students on their assessment requirements and day to day work related issues. Any issues of a more serious nature that arise during the course of the placement will be referred to the module leader. Each student will be contacted by telephone at least three times during the placement, at key stages. Each student will normally be visited twice by the module co-ordinator, or their tutor, at the placement venue. Students and tutors will be provided with a suitable handbook to set out their key rights and responsibilities under the placement scheme.

Directed student hours: 1200
Attendance recorded: Yes (by employer)