This module aims to equip you with the necessary tools to maximise your success of gaining employment and securing a successful career in your designated discipline or establishing a plan for further study. Professional Planning focuses on career planning and developing your employability profile, identifying career options and writing CVs and applications. The module builds your understanding of how to succeed in interviews and advice on securing a graduate training scheme through workshops that build confidence and capability for recruitment processes. The module also aims to build the networking skills you will need following graduation through engagement with external partners. You will receive advice on presenting and communicating work effectively to industry standards and producing self-promotion materials with a personal career plan. After completing this module, students can present themselves on WSA EXCHANGE, the School's enterprise website, to showcase their work to external audiences.
This module aims to equip you with the necessary tools to maximise your success of gaining employment and/or a place to study a postgraduate degree. It also aims to help you identify a career path best suited to your skills, values, personality and experience. Professional Planning also focuses on developing your employability profile, on and off line. Having completed this module, you will have an industry ready CV, active LinkedIn profile, digital portfolio, a better understanding of the recruitment process in addition to your own ‘unique selling point’ as a graduate. The module builds your understanding of how to succeed in interviews, secure graduate training schemes and how to navigate recruitment days including psychometric tests, through workshops that build confidence and capability. The module also aims to build the networking skills you will need following graduation.
Develop the skills needed as a professional artist beyond the studio, engaging with the key concepts and requirements around employability and position yourself for practice and employment on completion of the programme.
In the Professional Planning (Games Industry) module, you will be provided with a series of talks and visits from industry professionals and alumni on how they got into games, and the professional requirements needed to enter the industry. Speakers will share their own tips and advice on securing work in the industry and how you might prepare yourself for gaining employment in the games and creative industries. Each speaker will come from a range of disciplines within games and be at various stages in their careers—some will be solo developers, others will be working in studios, and some will be running their own studio. You will reflect upon each talk and consider how the information presented could be applied not only in your portfolio and CV but, more importantly, into your own working practice, specifically with your Major Project in mind.
This module aims to equip you with the necessary tools to maximise your success of gaining employment and securing a successful career or enterprise in your specialist discipline or establishing a plan for postgraduate study. Professional Planning focuses on identifying your skills and talents for transition into the workplace or postgraduate study. You will understand the frameworks and tools of professional career planning and create your specialist online profile to promote yourself and your idea’s. You will build on your employability skills and learn about writing CVs, business plans, funding and applications. You will gain competency in presenting and communicating effectively to promote your individual creative identity, vision and aspirations. You will refine your professional skills, standards and values to meet the industry and consumer demands of sustainability, luxury, ethical practice for all sectors of the industry and marketplace. You will research and critically analyse textile entrepreneurs, leaders and influencers success stories to inspire you to develop your own artisan enterprise, entrepreneurial idea’s or further study research concepts. You will be guided through the application process for further postgraduate education, where and how to apply and producing a portfolio of work appropriate to your preferred courses and Universities. After completing this module, students can present themselves on WSA EXCHANGE, the School's enterprise website, or Future Worlds, the university start up incubation hub, to promote your work in the market or develop your entrepreneurial idea’s and set up your own business.
This module is designed to equip students with the essential core skills to engage with higher-level archaeological practice within the UK and overseas. By this, we refer to activities beyond routine fieldwork procedures such as survey and excavation. The module provides a skills base for individuals to undertake the management of archaeological projects, from their initial design through to post-excavation analysis and publication. It provides instruction on how published, grey literature and other forms of data (e.g. from Historic Environment Records) can be effectively gathered, assessed and assimilated to provide information packets for Heritage Impact Statements, desktop assessments and research reports. Coverage is given to work with archives and legacy data (e.g. old excavation archives); the preparation of reports for publication, including editing, proof reading and management of graphic content; and academic writing, with a particular focus on preparation of archaeological texts for publication. Overall, the module provides a base essential for anyone wishing to develop a senior role within the heritage and commercial archaeological sector, or academic archaeology.
This is a practical module which requires students to evidence their teaching experience and development. Students are required to learn from more experienced colleagues, from their mentors and Teaching Observers and from their own personal reflection. The module runs throughout the PGCE programme. A portfolio of evidence and a reflective practice assignment is developed over that duration and is submitted at the conclusion of the programme.
Professional Practice in Environmental Science (PPES) is a high-level practical skills-based module aimed to prepare students for the world of work and provide insight to the diverse range of environmental careers in this dynamic growth sector, and beyond. During the module students will have the opportunity to develop a range of skills, increase knowledge and gain the necessary experience to help them identify and successfully pursue their chosen career paths. The module adopts an interactive approach, with an emphasis on in-class discussions, workshops, and group exercises that develop self-confidence and promote reflective practice. It draws upon the experiences of industry experts from a variety of external environmental organisations, providing students with a first-hand account of the broad range of environmental career opportunities available to them. This also allows students the opportunity to develop connections and grow their professional networks to enhance future employment prospects. An integral component of the module is the completion of a work-based environmental placement. The placement is an effective way for students to gain experience in the environmental sector, enhance their CV and provide a solid foundation for future career development as well as open doors to future employment opportunities. This also helps to further develop the technical knowledge and soft skills that are widely applicable in the workplace and are valued by employers. The module assessment is drawn from the completion of an individual reflective portfolio based on their placement and the in-class/workshop activities.
The Company is a cross-programme, collaborative and student-led initiative that celebrates creativity, inclusivity, diversity and community in live, real-world scenarios and which demonstrate relationships informed by expertise within and beyond the university. This module requires you to promote and document your individual practice whilst collaborating with your peers and industry professionals as you work together to curate a collective body of work in the context of a public-access exhibition and showcase.
This module offers practical experience and insight into the skills needed to thrive in the contemporary policy world. Teaching and learning activities will build your capacity to understand complex policy problems, critically assess the use of evidence in policy, and communicate effectively with other policy actors. This lively and interactive class features a variety of practical tasks designed to help students learn, practice, develop and hone these professional skills and prepare them for a career in policy and administration.
Zero Credit module to develop transferrable academic and practical skills for professional psychological practice.
This module introduces you to the professional skills necessary to write about music in different contexts
To introduce the student to the concepts of programming using the C programming language, with an emphasis on programming for embedded systems.
This module introduces advanced programming, simulation and design modelling frameworks and tools. Teaching activities are a combination of taught sessions, expanded self-study supported by the Professional Skills Hub and practical hands-on sessions in computer laboratories. The tools and techniques studied in this module are also used in the companion design module in practical hands-on applications. For Mechatronics students, the analogue relationship between mechanical and electrical systems are explored, enabling circuit problems and mechanical systems to be treated in the same framework. Efficient state-space approaches to represent, simulate and analyse dynamics systems are then developed and applied. Modelling and analysis are then used to understand vibration problems in continuous mechanical systems, including beams and shafts. Programming techniques are then introduced to simulate and visualise mechanical vibration within a design project.
This module introduces some advanced programming, simulation and design modelling frameworks and tools. Teaching activities are a combination of taught sessions, expanded self-study supported by the Professional Skills Hub and practical hands-on sessions in computer laboratories. The tools and techniques studied in this module are also used in the companion design module in practical hands on applications.
This module provides students with the skills to automate geospatial data science workflows using code, specifically code written in the open source programming language Python.
This module introduces students to the principles of programming, and provides them with the programming skills necessary to continue the study of computer science. Python and C are used as the introductory languages.
