Last modified: 18 Oct 2024 14:16
This work-based placement elective offers a professional placement with a government/public, industrial, civic or voluntary health and/or development sector organisation. You will undertake a ten-week placement with your host organisation, either within the organisation, remotely from Aberdeen, or using a combination of both. Placements are subject to availability and may be offered on a competitive basis.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Summer School | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This is a project-based course, the content and structure of which is largely student-directed. You will contribute work activities for your host organisation (16-20 hours per week over ten weeks = 160-200 hours, documented using timesheets) and teaching and learning for this course will also involve a combination of host organisation and University-facilitated structured education (22 hours through eleven compulsory two-hour University personal reflection and professional development training sessions totalling (in weeks 42-52)), plus work-related training and meetings with your placement host and University Course Coordinator (8 hours), with the remaining hours devoted to self-study and preparation for assessments (totalling 70-110 hours).
The aims of this course are to:
- enhance student experience.
- provide students with an authentic learning opportunity.
- enhance student employability.
- enable students to acquire professional knowledge and understanding of the daily work, strategic priorities, objectives and functions of a health and/or development sector organisation.
- facilitate student application of academic skills in a work environment.
- provide students with opportunities to strategically develop a range of transferable skills, as well as our Graduate Attributes.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 52 | Feedback Weeks | 2 | |
| Feedback |
Reflective Report Word Count: 2000 Written feedback provided via rubric and comments and final grade. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Reflection | Create | Set and review skills/attributes and create SMART action plans to achieve personal, employability and academic goals and objectives through recognition of strengths and areas for further development. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Reflect on contribution to organisation. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Evaluate achievement of continuing professional development goals. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 46 | Feedback Weeks | 49 | |
| Feedback |
Organisational profile (report), project plan (summary or abstract), roles and responsibilities (summary), placement agreement (unmarked), reflective questions (reflective writing). Written feedback provided via rubric and comments and final grade. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Factual | Evaluate | Evaluate and describe the work of a health and/or development sector organisation as it is situated within the broader context of everyday life. |
| Procedural | Create | Develop work placement roles and responsibilities and negotiate these with all stakeholders. |
| Procedural | Create | Undertake a risk/needs assessment and prepare a formal agreement with the placement host. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 40 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 1 | Feedback Weeks | 4 | |
| Feedback |
One of the following: report, infographic, poster, slide deck, blog post, podcast, social media campaign or other agreed format. Written feedback provided via rubric and comments and final grade. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Create | Demonstrate evidence of the application of academic skills in the workplace, including collection of relevant data, synthesis, analysis, interpretation, and communication of output. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 5 | Feedback Weeks | 6 | |
| Feedback |
Outcome will be communicated by email. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Create | Demonstrate evidence of the application of academic skills in the workplace, including collection of relevant data, synthesis, analysis, interpretation, and communication of output. |
| Procedural | Create | Develop work placement roles and responsibilities and negotiate these with all stakeholders. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Reflect on contribution to organisation. |
| Factual | Evaluate | Evaluate and describe the work of a health and/or development sector organisation as it is situated within the broader context of everyday life. |
| Reflection | Create | Set and review skills/attributes and create SMART action plans to achieve personal, employability and academic goals and objectives through recognition of strengths and areas for further development. |
| Reflection | Evaluate | Evaluate achievement of continuing professional development goals. |
| Procedural | Create | Undertake a risk/needs assessment and prepare a formal agreement with the placement host. |
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