LA099-5-FY-CO:
Careers and Employability Skills for Languages and Linguistics
2016/17
Language and Linguistics
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
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Requisites for this module
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BA QX31 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL),
BA QX41 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) (Including Foundation Year),
BA QX51 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) (Including Placement Year),
BA QXH1 Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) (Including Year Abroad),
BA QQ13 English Language and Linguistics,
BA QQ15 English Language and Linguistics (Including Placement Year),
BA QQ16 English Language and Linguistics (Including Foundation Year),
BA QQ3D English Language and Linguistics (Including Year Abroad),
BA QQ23 English Language and Literature,
BA QQ24 English Language and Literature (Including Foundation Year),
BA QQ32 English Language and Literature (Including Year Abroad),
BA QQ35 English Language and Literature (Including Placement Year),
BA LR59 International Relations and Modern Languages (5 Years Including Foundation Year),
BA LRF9 International Relations and Modern Languages,
BA Q140 Language Studies,
BA Q143 Language Studies (4 Years Including Foundation Year),
BA Q100 Linguistics,
BA Q101 Linguistics (Including Year Abroad),
BA Q102 Linguistics (Including Foundation Year),
BA Q103 Linguistics (Including Placement Year),
BA R900 Modern Languages,
BA R999 Modern Languages (5 Years Including Foundation Year),
BA RQ93 Modern Languages and English Language,
BA RQ99 Modern Languages and English Language (5 Years Including Foundation Year),
BA RQ91 Modern Languages and Linguistics,
BA RQ98 Modern Languages and Linguistics (5 Years Including Foundation Year),
BA R8T8 Modern Languages and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (5 Years Including Foundation Year),
BA RX91 Modern Languages and Teaching English as a Foreign Language,
BA R8T7 Modern Languages with Latin American Studies,
BA R8T9 Modern Languages with Latin American Studies (5 Years Including Foundation Year),
BA RR49 Spanish Studies and Modern Languages,
BA RT97 Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies,
BA RT99 Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies (5 Years Including Foundation Year),
MLANR990 Modern Languages (Translation)
This module gives you the opportunity to develop your employability skills, awareness of your own skills and career aims, and knowledge of the graduate job market and its requirements. It will also introduce you to the resources that the Employability & Careers Centre and the Department provide for your personal and careers development, work placements and volunteering, and your research of the job market. This three year module is non-credit-bearing, but obligatory for all Modern Language and Linguistics students in the department.
The module will require you to attend a range of different workshops and events and engage in a variety of activities that raises your awareness of your own skills, options and opportunities. It will provide you with the resources and information you need to identify appropriate careers and the steps required to achieve your goals.
Aims
• To raise your awareness of your skills and encourage you to engage in personal development planning and activities that enhance your employability (e.g. work placements, volunteering, study abroad, IT and communication skills training)
• To raise your awareness of career planning resources and training opportunities that are available to you within the University of Essex and outside
• To provide you with knowledge of the job market and its requirements
• To develop employability skills
Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this module, you will be able to:
• Identify careers that are available to you with your degree
• Make informed choices about career paths based on your own skills, motivations and goals, and knowledge of profession and sectors
• Develop an action plan to achieve your career goals
• Make appropriate applications to employers, effectively demonstrating your skills and achievements
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The module will cover 10 core elements as outlined below:
* Self-Awareness
1. Understanding the self (interests, skills, values, motivations) and Personal Development Planning.
* Opportunity Awareness
2. Understanding degree-based career landscape (careers directly or indirectly related to degree).
3. Understanding graduate labour market (trends at national and international levels).
4. Understanding the opportunities, benefits, and challenges of work experience, volunteering and study abroad.
* Decision-making
5. Learning personally relevant career options
* Transition
6. Understanding processes of graduate recruitment and selection in different sectors and how to maximise success.
7. Acquiring skills/techniques for researching & finding vacancies.
8. Acquiring skills/techniques for CV and cover letter writing.
9. Acquiring skills/techniques for filling in application forms effectively.
10. Acquiring skills/techniques for interviews and Acquiring skills/techniques for doing well at assessment centres.
Assessment
The assessment of this module consists of completing a number of quizzes during each year that will be available on Moodle. Each quiz follows on from one of the sessions you have had within the Employability Module and you can always go back to the slides for further help with these.
*6 Online quizzes linked to lectures
- 3 in the 1st year
- 3 in the 2nd year
*Attendance at an Employability and Careers Event or Appointment in the second year
Each quiz will contain 10 questions and you have to get each question right before you can move onto the next one. There will be feedback given within each question.
You will complete three quizzes in year 1 and three quizzes in year two. You will also be required to attend an Employability and Careers Event/Activity/Appointment in your second year, which will be included in your second quiz. In your final year, you will complete an oral presentation and submit a 700 word reflective essay in week 24.
There is no mark for the module, you will be awarded a pass or fail. Attendance at lectures is compulsory.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Moodle Quiz One - no electronic FASER submission required |
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Moodle Quiz Two - no electronic FASER submission required |
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Moodle Quiz Three - no electronic FASER submission required |
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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
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Mrs Sarah Sterling;
Mrs Sarah Sterling; Tel: 01206 873274; Email: sarah.sterling@essex.ac.uk- Ms Teresa Torres; Tel: 01206 872110; Email: torrmi@essex.ac.uk
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No external examiner information available for this module.
Available via Moodle
Of 12 hours, 12 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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