ES22022: Work placement
[Page last updated: 22 April 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Economics |
| Credits: | 60 [equivalent to 120 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 1,200 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWRA 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Reflective assessment (CWRA 100%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- To demonstrate ability to integrate analysis and skills from academic studies with practical experience in the company environment.
- To be able to work accurately and consistently to identify and achieve personal and company objectives.
- To learn how the individual integrates into and interacts with an organisation for the mutual benefit of the individual and organisation.
- To demonstrate the ability to manage conflicting resource and time demands through prioritisation and allocation.
- To be able to identify appropriate opportunities to apply knowledge, skills and understanding in new contexts to evaluate solutions and solve problems.
- To build a range of group working skills, typically including effective one-to-one and group communication, presentations and interaction, and effective personal contribution to team goals.
- Familiarity with industry-specific acronyms, business terminology and writing-style.
- To gain an opportunity to investigate and assess potential career options prior to graduation.
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| Synopsis: | This unit will provide you with practical experience in a professional environment, either in a public or private sector organisation in the UK or abroad, applying knowledge and skills gained within the undergraduate degree programme. It will enable an understanding to be gained of the general structure of an organisation and of expected professional standards. And it will strengthen your decision making skills, flexibility and adaptability, critical appraisal of new information, and team-work.
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| Content: | There will be a period of pre-placement preparation, during the year preceding the placement year. This will focus on: applying for placements, working on the curriculum vitae and personal statement.
The placement year will consist of a period of paid or unpaid employment, normally within an established private or public sector organisation, performing a role in which some of the knowledge and skills gained from the degree programme can be applied and developed. The placement period shall incorporate critical self-evaluation and employer evaluation in order to enhance practice and identify new learning needs.
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| Course availability: |
ES22022 is Compulsory on the following courses:
Department of Economics
- UHES-AKB12 : BSc(Hons) Economics and Mathematics with professional placement (Year 3)
- UHES-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Economics with Politics with professional placement (Year 3)
- UHES-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Economics with professional placement (Year 3)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
- 好色tv and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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