Your English Degree - Making it Work

Your English Degree - Making it Work

Office of Learning and Teaching

Andrea Duncan

Produce a pack of English-specific Personal Development Planning materials for use in / alongside curriculum activity, in order to promote a clearer awareness of the relevance and application of English skills to work-place contexts. (This would supplement generic PDP materials available on-line)

Funding would enable this material to be presented in a robust, eye-catching and student-friendly format, which would help promote the benefits and relevance of PDP processes to employability and life-long personal and professional development. The project would build on existing induction PDP activity, skills development workshops, and assessed reflective practice in year1 English literature modules, and provide further stimulus for such practice in years 2 and 3. It would provide opportunities through graduate case studies and reflection on work-related learning (including part-time, voluntary and vacation work) for students to explore how academic skills can transfer to a wide range of career areas and job roles.

Materials would be available in paper and electronic formats, the latter contributing to an English careers resource linked to the institution's VLE for signposting to students by staff.