Develop Your Skills

New! Open Modules

Open Modules are a new kind of module. They do what they say – they’re open to all students, regardless of the degree programme you’re on. And to launch them for 2011/2012, we’re running two brand new open modules to give you either an ‘essential experience’ or an ‘enterprising edge’:

  • Work Placement (20 credit level five option, second year if full-time)
  • Enterprise: Creating a Business (20 credit level six option, third year if full-time)

 The Work Placement module lets you take your learning into the workplace on a dedicated work placement that will give you credits towards your degree.

Also see the module description OM5001-20 Work Placement (Open Module) in the Guides to Level 5 Modules 2011/2012 on the Student Services webpages or contact Kristin Doern (k.doern@bathspa.ac.uk)

Information on the Enterprise: Creating a Business module can be found in the Guides to Level 6 Modules 2011/2012.

 ‘In the current economic climate, it is essential that graduates are prepared to enter the workplace, possessing key employability skills which will enable them to compete in today's job market. Universities and employers both have an important role to play in providing work placements, internships and opportunities which can assist in the development of these skills’. (CBI, 2009) 

Degree programmes now offer more opportunities than ever before to develop your skills and enhance your employability. Placements, projects, volunteering and mentoring opportunities are increasing, and there is clear evidence that taking part in them increases your employment prospects.

 This module is right for you:

  • If you want to create a custom-made work placement tailored to your own personal career aspiration – this has helped previous BSU students to be more secure in their own minds that they have made the right career choice. Conversely, students also sometimes learn the opposite, helping you avoid entering into a career you dislike later on!

AND/OR

  • If you want to make sure you get work-based experience and start to foster valuable professional contacts while you are still at university – some BSU year three students who secured work experience in their second year have already secured themselves graduate level jobs for 2011. They also found that their experience made them adopt a more professional approach to course work in their final year, as they had become more aware of the different pressures faced in the world of work.

‘Job-hunting graduates in the UK need work experience to stand a chance of getting a job with many employers’, suggests a graduate jobs survey. (BBC, 2011)

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