Module Code - Title:
AH4124
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PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES FOR THE WORKPLACE
Year Last Offered:
N/A
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module is one of a new suite of Transferable and Applied Skills modules being developed for delivery in the BA Arts (Professional Pathways) and potentially on other degree programme. This is part of an effort to blend subjects and modules traditionally available on arts, humanities and social science programmes with modules that respond to the increased demand in the workplace for transferable and applied skills.
The particular aim of this module is to introduce students to a range of personal and professional competencies that are necessary for the workplace of the 21st Century, including personal and workplace planning, communications, teamwork and collaboration, EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) and employer perspectives and expectations.
Syllabus:
The purpose of this module is to enable students to explore and experience a range of personal and professional competencies required in the workplace. In particular, this module will focus on a number of transversal competencies highlighted in the UNESCO Transversal Competencies Framework (2016). These include
- Interpersonal skills, especially communication, organisational, teamwork and collaboration, collegiality, empathy and compassion.
- Intrapersonal skills, especially reflexivity, resilience and self motivation and independent learning
- Global Citizenship, especially cross cultural communication, tolerance and respect for diversity, ethical and intercultural understanding.
This module will take place in advance of students' Co-op placement and will serve as a placement preparation module.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
• Demonstrate an understanding of and and apply the core elements of interpersonal, intercultural, and non-verbal communication
• Explain the challenges associated with collaboration in face-to-face and virtual teams
• Compare and contrast the essential elements of personal and professional planning
• Demonstrate understanding of their own capacity for reflexivity and resilience
• Connect concepts about global citizenship with the reality and practices of the professional workplace.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Display a heightened sense of the competencies expected in the contemporary workplace
- Practice in using core work place skills such as communication, collaboration, collegiality and empathy.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will be taught in a highly interactive and participatory fashion comprising lecture and tutorial sessions. As well as being introduced to relevant conceptual materials during lectures, students on the module will be expected to engage in practice-based activities so that they can apply as well as understand the module content. Peer led learning will also feature prominently in the module delivery. The module content is informed by internationally recognised transversal / transferable skills frameworks, in particular the 2016 UNESCO framework. This module will contribute to the development of the full range of graduate attributes. Students will be assessed in a number of ways, for example, group based, problem based learning exercises, reflexive blogs / podcasts, peer assessment and essays.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Seemiller, Corey. (2013)
The Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook : Designing Intentional Leadership Learning and Development
, John Wiley & Son
Erkens, Cassandra, et al. (2018)
Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms : Assessing Seven Critical Competencies (Teaching Strategies for Soft Skills and 21st-Century-Skills Assessment Methods),
, Solution Tree
Hynes, Geraldine E., and Gerald Fox. (2015)
Get along, Get It Done, Get Ahead : Interpersonal Communication in the Diverse Workplace
, Business Expert Press
Holmes, Karen (2017)
What Employers Want : The Employability Skills Handbook
, Trotman Publishing
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
chris.g.mcinerney@ul.ie