MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Understand the need for and develop professional inter-personal relationships.
2. Describe, research, and apply methods, rigours and structures as used in an industrial or commercial environment / setting, or equivalent.
MODULE ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT DETAILS
1. Line Manager Evaluation. You will be allocated a line manager in the receiving organisation and an academic placement tutor from Staffordshire University. The line manager will evaluate your performance during the year completing a proforma at the end of your placement. Your placement tutor will be in regular contact with you viaCWK e-mail but will also visit or arrange online meetings with you on at least two occasions whilst you are on placement to evaluate our development. (LO1)
2. At the completion of your placement, you will present an overview of your time, the skills you have learnt, and the results of any project activity, to an audience from the receiving organisation and from the academic community. (LO2)
MODULE INDICATIVE CONTENT
You will undertake a paid or unpaid placement of at least 30 weeks (including pro-rata holiday) duration in an environment relevant to your degree course. The placement year is intended to provide practical experience of working within and for an organisation.
It allows you to experience at first hand the practical application of some theory and methods delivered in Levels 4 and 5.
It will help you develop appropriate behavioural attitudes within the working environment. Alongside providing practical experience in the legal, social and ethical issues of working within an organisation, and give you the opportunity to apply and further develop your communication and decision-making skills.
WEB DESCRIPTOR
This is the placement year for the degree programme in Humanitarian Archaeology. You will complete at least 30 weeks of industry placement within an organisation specialising in one of the key themes of humanitarian archaeology that you have been studying in the first two years of your degree.
MODULE LEARNING STRATEGIES
The Sandwich Year placement normally requires the completion of at least 30 weeks in relevant supervised work experience taken between level 5 and level 6.
MODULE TEXTS
Undergraduate industrial placement handbook issued by the School/Department.
MODULE SPECIAL ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS
Must be registered on the Humanitarian Archaeology with a placement year programme.