MODULE OUTLINE
CS300 offers final year students a unique opportunity to work together in an interdisciplinary team researching/developing/ implementing a real-world project for a local partner organisation. Partners might include a local charity, social enterprise, community or public or private sector organisations, or the University’s sustainability section. There will be at least one sustainability project each year. Other projects might involve anything from carrying out a piece of research or designing a public information campaign, to organising part of an exhibition or implementing a community initiative. This module enables you to use the knowledge and skills you’ve acquired during your degree and address a real-world challenge, while sharing and developing your creative, organisational and practical abilities. By doing so, it will prepare you for entering the graduate labour market or going on to post-graduate study.
Enrolling on this Module
In 2018-19 there will be four projects Places on CS300 will depend on the number of live projects available each year and may be restricted. So there is an application and selection process at the start of each academic year. All students who wish to enrol on this module are required to look at the project descriptions (remits) posted on the CS300 Moodle in late September. You will need to read the remits carefully and decide which of the three you would prefer to work on, before sending a CV and an application letter to the module co-ordinator. The letter should explain why you would like to enrol on the module, your preferred project, and what skills and experience you would bring to the group. You will then have an interview with the module co-ordinator. After the interviews, we will select the groups and inform you whether you have secured a place and on which project. If the module is over-subscribed, unsuccessful candidates will be contacted in time to enrol on an alternative module. We will be looking to form project groups with a balance of aptitudes, skills, experience and potential, so lack of experience is not an obstacle.
AIMS:
The aims of this module are:
CS300 offers final year students a unique opportunity to work together in an interdisciplinary team researching/developing/ implementing a real-world project for a local partner organisation. Partners might include a local charity, social enterprise, community or public or private sector organisations, or the University’s sustainability section. There will be at least one sustainability project each year. Other projects might involve anything from carrying out a piece of research or designing a public information campaign, to organising part of an exhibition or implementing a community initiative. This module enables you to use the knowledge and skills you’ve acquired during your degree and address a real-world challenge, while sharing and developing your creative, organisational and practical abilities. By doing so, it will prepare you for entering the graduate labour market or going on to post-graduate study.
Enrolling on this Module
In 2018-19 there will be four projects Places on CS300 will depend on the number of live projects available each year and may be restricted. So there is an application and selection process at the start of each academic year. All students who wish to enrol on this module are required to look at the project descriptions (remits) posted on the CS300 Moodle in late September. You will need to read the remits carefully and decide which of the three you would prefer to work on, before sending a CV and an application letter to the module co-ordinator. The letter should explain why you would like to enrol on the module, your preferred project, and what skills and experience you would bring to the group. You will then have an interview with the module co-ordinator. After the interviews, we will select the groups and inform you whether you have secured a place and on which project. If the module is over-subscribed, unsuccessful candidates will be contacted in time to enrol on an alternative module. We will be looking to form project groups with a balance of aptitudes, skills, experience and potential, so lack of experience is not an obstacle.
AIMS:
The aims of this module are:
- To provide students from different inter-/disciplinary backgrounds the opportunity to work collaboratively on a real-world project
- To introduce students to the challenges and satisfactions of community engagement and group project work
- To encourage students to experiment with peer-to-peer and experiential learning
- To enable students to enhance their professional, transferable and employability skills
- A good understanding of how to develop a project remit in a creative, coherent way and deliver a group project on time to partners
- Knowledge of the challenges involved in working in an interdisciplinary team and of effective ways of organising collaborative group work
- Enhanced professional skills, including the ability to work to a tight schedule, reach agreements, and manage client expectations
- Enhanced research, presentation and writing skills.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By the end of this module the student should have: