The Year in Industry to which the module relates provides a structured opportunity to combine appropriate developmental work experience or entrepreneurial activity with academic study. The Year in Industry experience allows students to develop and reflect on managerial and / or professional practice in real and often complex situations, and to integrate this with the study of the relevant subject(s) of their main programme. Where relevant, they develop, reinforce and apply professional and / or technical expertise in an employment or entrepreneurial context.
The ability to integrate this work-based learning with the modules of Stages 1, 2 and 3 is a high level cognitive task. The particular combination of the student's degree course and choice of modules together with the great variety of increasingly diverse Year in Industry situations make the "curriculum" of the Year in Industry essentially unique. The unifying features, with which the project for this module is concerned are integration of theory and practice, and the development of the student as an independent learner and reflective practitioner.
This background is why the report for the module has to be linked to the Year in Industry record of engagement. The assembly, content and organisation of this activity are assessed in ECON5580 Industry Assessment. This module assesses how effectively the student can use this to demonstrate integration of theory and practice, self-assessment of achieved learning and reflection on this.
Work placement or Business Start-Up: 300
Contact Hours: 0
Total: 300
Compulsory to the following courses:
This module is compulsory for all students on degrees owned by Economics to which the course Specification for Stage S of Economics degrees with a Year in Industry applies.
Main assessment methods
Report (5000 words) (100%)
Reassessment methods
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The most up to date reading list for each module can be found on the university's reading list pages.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
1 Demonstrate practical knowledge and understanding of successful business
2. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of contemporary practice and issues, deepening and/or integrating subject knowledge with practice, within a placement or business start-up context
3. Apply some of the intellectual skills specified for the main course in practice
4. Analyse and draw reasoned conclusions about economic problems and relatively complex situations working in an organisational setting
5. Apply some of the subject-specific skills specified for the required core in practice.
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