Module GEOL3986: Earth Sciences with Placement

Department: Earth Sciences

GEOL3986: Earth Sciences with Placement

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To provide experience of applying subject-related skills in a workplace environment.
• To enable students to acquire transferable skills, to develop personally, and to enhance their employability.

Content

• Content will be determined in agreement with the placement provider, subject to a forty week minimum duration. The placement content must be related to the student’s degree.

Learning Outcomes

• Knowledge and understanding of the structure, routines, pressures, and disciplines of the workplace environment.
• Increased knowledge of the Earth Science techniques involved in the placement, and of their practical application.

• An enhanced ability to work independently or in a team, as appropriate to the placement.
• An enhanced ability to work on technical and non-technical tasks, with colleagues from a range of backgrounds.

• Increased confidence in the ability to work in different environments and to assume personal responsibility.
• An ability to manage one's affairs and time
• Aptitude in a workplace environment.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Pre-placement briefing in order to prepare the student for the placement.
• Regular contact with a placement advisor during the placement to help the student assess the ongoing value of the placement and the skills acquired, including one site visit by the placement advisor where this is reasonably practical.
• Post-placement debriefing to help the student assess the final value of the placement and reflect on the skills acquired.
• Assessment via an A1 poster on the placement, typically presented at the Department Conference in June.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University