• Inactive for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Dr Phil Ansell
• Lecturer: Ms Laura Gunay, Miss Amelia Reeves

• Owning School: Mathematics, Statistics and Physics
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

In a fast changing and highly competitive world all organisations needs graduates with more than just a degree. They need communicative, collaborative, enterprising and IT literate graduates. They also seek to recruit graduates with various experiences alongside their degree, packaged in excellent application techniques. This module aims to enhance student employability by developing these key attributes and allowing students to see the link between the skills they develop for their employability and those for successful career planning and management.

Module Summary:
This module will cover employability skills; including, but not limited to, computer skills (including LaTeX and Microsoft Excel), communication, team working, project management and resilience. Students get the opportunity to enhance their employability; with a focus upon both soft, transferable skills and enterprise skills, with students identifying their skills gaps and developing strategies to enhance the skills needed by employers.

This module allows students to identify where they are in career planning process and make practical and tangible changes in moving forward. Students will be introduced to a career planning framework which includes self-awareness, occupational and commercial awareness, decision making and practical skills such as sourcing internships, writing CVs and developing interview technique.

Outline Of Syllabus

* Career management skills: employability (communication, networking, entrepreneurship and project management), occupational awareness, self-awareness, application writing and interview technique.
* Scientific writing package LaTeX
* Introduction to Excel: data management, formulae, filtering, pivot tables, creating graphs, multiple spreadsheets

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

This module will use a variety of teaching methods. Lectures will provide the basis for enhancing employability and developing career management skills. Practical Sessions will allow students to experiment and practise with the software and communicate with others. Individual office hours will provide an opportunity for more direct contact between individual students and the lecturers; a typical student might spend a total or one or two hours over the module, either individually or as part of a group.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Assessment Rationale and Relationship
Career Development Plan. Students will identify 3 graduate attributes from the framework that they wish to develop. They will give a reflective rationale as to why they have chosen these attributes, create SMART goals and articulate their plans for achieving them.
LateX and Excel project: Students will be required to produce and submit a personalised document that evidence their skills in using the mathematical typesetting package LaTeX. In the Excel project, students will work in teams to solve a mathematical problem. They will then produce a report that highlights their findings.
Employability Portfolio. Students will submit 3 STAR stories relating to the graduate attributes originally identified, an occupational awareness analysis and an annotated CV

Reading Lists

• MAS2601's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• MAS2601's Timetable