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This module aims to enable second year Philosophy, History and Interdisciplinary Studies (PHAIS) students to acquire the skills, knowledge and experiences for successfully entering the job market, or continuing on to do post-graduate studies and vocational training once graduated.

The module is designed to ensure that you make the most of relevant opportunities available on campus whilst you study. Engaging with these opportunities and gaining a rich mix of extra-curricular and work/volunteering experience, may make a critical difference to whether you succeed in getting the graduate job you want or obtain funding for post-graduate studies.

The aims of this module are:

• To give students a clear understanding of employment, post-graduate studies and training opportunities available to PHAIS graduates.


• To encourage personal reflection on, and planning of, possible career paths, and the specific skills and capabilities required.


• To facilitate understanding, access, and take-up of available work, volunteering, careers orientation, and other extra-curriculum opportunities.


• To encourage engagement with wider cultural, social, political trends and issues, and to enhance students sense of citizenship.


• To prepare students for successfully entering the job market or going on to post-graduate studies or vocational training on graduating.


• To encourage students to make the most of opportunities available on campus for enhancing their employability skills.


• To give students an understanding of the graduate job market and employers’ preferences, and grasp how to make effective applications in their final year.

By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:

1. Have a good understanding of their own interests, skills and competencies, and how these are relevant to future careers.


2. Have engaged with a range of employability and skills related events and activities available on campus or elsewhere.


3. Be prepared to make applications for placements, jobs, vocational training and/or post-graduate study in their final year.

Alternatively, to fulfil your employability training requirement, you can take the 15 credit module, Social Entrepreneurs, Sustainability and Community Action, which runs in the autumn term.

Your pass/incomplete status will appear on your degree transcript.

This module will be delivered via:

• Five compulsory 50-minute core sessions.
• Three online Moodle tutorials.
• Four employability/skills-related activities, events or workshops during the autumn and spring terms of the second year..

The module is team-taught by tutors from the School of Philosopy, History and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Faculty Employability and Careers team.

This is a portfolio-based module, which combines a range of teaching and learning methods. It is team-taught and makes intensive use of Moodle.

Students are required to attend the compulsory sessions and a selection of relevant events and activities available in the university and elsewhere.

The module is primarily assessed on the basis of a reflective essay and CV. Students have considerable choice and autonomy over how they construct their portfolio of relevant experiences, knowledge and skills.