BSPU49 - Employment Experience - Sandwich Year 01 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2027 | Version 2

Associated Module Information

Module Code: BSPU49
Module Title: Employment Experience - Sandwich Year
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Business Management
Faculty Sub Group: Business Management
Module Leader: Dan Taylor
Module Team: Scott Parfitt, Lauren Thomas, Hazel Mawdsley, Mary Hedderman, Karl Greenhough, Kevin Brown, Aaron Yankholmes
First Intended Intake: SEP 2008 Final Year of Intake: 2013
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 120 Credit Level: 0
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 101278 - employability skills (personal learning)
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 2
Valid From 01 Sep 2022
Valid To 31 Aug 2027

Module Aims

The aims of the module are to offer students the opportunity to undertake meaningful work practice and to credit their work placement, work experience, or employment as part of an honours degree.

Content Summary

A required element of the sandwich award of an honours degree is the completion of a work practice element. The work practice may take the form of work placement, current part time or full time employment, or previous employment. The student will be required to demonstrate the relevance of the work practice to the named route of study.\\r

The work practice will involve the student in demonstrating competency in the key skills. And in key tasks relevant to the named route. This will necessarily require the student to apply the theoretical aspects of their study to the work place, thus allowing them the opportunity to fully integrate their academic study with meaningful work practice.\\r

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Placement 1200
Total Hours Selected 1200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Satisfactory completion of 1,200 hours (30 weeks) of experience that is relevant to the named award.
LO2 Achieve competency in the key skills identified with the work placement. Specifically these will include communication, teamwork skills and IT
LO3 Undertake key tasks with which the student should be familiar according to the named route being studied. These will be detailed in the module handbook.
LO4 Satisfy the employer and work practice supervisor that the standard of their work has been appropriate to receive recognition

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Written Assignment (CW) Observational Journal (CW) Detailed Log 0 3000 100 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4
Observational Journal (CW)

Reading List

Latest edition of the following texts:Cameron S., Business Student’s Handbook: Developing Transferable Skills, Financial Times, Pitman PublishingHind D., Transferable Personal Skills, Business Education Publishers Ltd.