LW211-5-PS-:
Career Development Learning Part 2
2024/25
Essex Law School
Spring & Summer
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Monday 13 January 2025
Friday 27 June 2025
0
03 April 2024
Requisites for this module
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
LLB M10ECM Law,
LLB M10ECO Law,
LLB M10ELK Law,
LLB M10ELM Law
What are the main skills expected of a law graduate and what key personal factors will inform your career choices?
This module will help you to prepare for the opportunities and challenges of the graduate labour market.
Complete activities, workshops and sessions that help you to develop your career management and personal development skills, building your core knowledge, key skills and competencies.
Career Management and Personal Development Skills aims to prepare students for the opportunities and challenges of the graduate labour market. The module runs over a two-year period, incorporating a range of activities, workshops and sessions that encourage students to take ownership of their personal, professional and career development.
The module helps students to take ownership of their personal, professional and career development.
By the end of this module, a student should:
- Understand the key skills and competencies expected of a law graduate.
- Be able to identify key skills and competencies developed through work experience, paid employment and volunteering.
- Have a PDP or career action plan but understand how this might change over time.
- Have a clear understanding of how, where and when to access career development opportunities.
- Have a clear understanding of how, where and when to access career development support.
- Have a good understanding of personal values, interests, skills and competencies, and how these relate to career choices.
- Have an up to date CV which clearly articulates and evidences experience, skills and competencies.
- Be able to make appropriate applications for employment or post-graduate study, drawing effectively on personal strengths, experience and achievements.
No additional information available.
The module is taught over two years (as LW111 in the first year of your degree and as LW211 in the second year of your degree). The lectures cover the compulsory/key material for this module and will be supported by a series of online tasks that you need to complete.
This module does not appear to have any essential texts. To see non-essential items, please refer to the module's reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Module is either passed or marked as not completed.
Reassessment
Module is either passed or marked as not completed.
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Timea Tallodi, email: t.tallodi@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Timea Tallodi, Ann Ord (Careers)
Law UG Education Administrators: lawschoolug@essex.ac.uk
No
No
No
No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
Essex Law School
* Please note: due to differing publication schedules, items marked with an asterisk (*) base their information upon the previous academic year.
Disclaimer: The University makes every effort to ensure that this information on its Module Directory is accurate and up-to-date. Exceptionally it can
be necessary to make changes, for example to programmes, modules, facilities or fees. Examples of such reasons might include a change of law or regulatory requirements,
industrial action, lack of demand, departure of key personnel, change in government policy, or withdrawal/reduction of funding. Changes to modules may for example consist
of variations to the content and method of delivery or assessment of modules and other services, to discontinue modules and other services and to merge or combine modules.
The University will endeavour to keep such changes to a minimum, and will also keep students informed appropriately by updating our programme specifications and module directory.
The full Procedures, Rules and Regulations of the University governing how it operates are set out in the Charter, Statutes and Ordinances and in the University Regulations, Policy and Procedures.