BMSP6003 Institute Of Management And Health

AIM(S)

To provide students with an opportunity to undertake a supervised internship of volunteer position to develop experiences of working in an organisation or participating in active citizenship or volunteering in their region, UK or overseas in relation to their personal and/or professional future livelihood goals.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon the successful completion of this module, the student should be able to demonstrate their ability to:

·Research, identify, apply and plan for a position as an intern or volunteer in an organisation;

·Systematically create a realistic but persuasive self-appraisal for making a contribution and gaining relevant experiences in an organisation that links to personal future livelihood;

·Critically reflect and appraise an internship or volunteering experience in an organisation and its relationship to personal future livelihood.

INDICATIVE CONTENT

·Researching and planning an internship or volunteering opportunity:

·The internship/volunteer Employer/Organisation relationship

·Livelihood planning; Internship goals and attributes

·Critical self-assessment of motivation, aspirations, aptitude and attitude

·Systematic researching types of internship and opportunities

·Communicating self and opportunity for an internship or volunteering opportunity

·Planning and financing an internship or volunteering opportunity

·Safeguarding self and others during an internship or volunteering position; Preparing a risk management

·Reflexivity and Experiences Sharing through journaling

·Evidence gathering and critical appraisal during and internship or volunteering position

·Writing up a reflexive internship or volunteering report in relation to personal future planning and livelihood.

LEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGY

Students will be supported through the process of planning for the implementing, journaling and reporting on an internship and volunteering opportunity that they have identified. Following an initial process of identifying the type of internship required, students will work in small critical friends’ groups to research, plan and peer review each other’s internship or volunteering implementation plan. During the internship and volunteering work experience, students engage with online reflective activities designed to support their experience through appropriately timed and relevant evidence and reflective reporting using a journal blog on the Module’s VLE page.

You should be able to: critically evaluate evidence, arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data some of which are at the forefront of a discipline (and that may be incomplete) to devise and sustain arguments, to make judgements and/or solve problems; describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in the discipline Your work must contain evidence of logical, analytical thinking, evaluation and synthesis. For example, to examine and break information down into parts, make inferences, compile, compare and contrast information.  This means not just describing what! But also justifying: Why? How? When? Who? Where? At what cost? At all times, you must provide justification for your arguments and judgements.  Evidence that you have reflected upon the ideas of others within the subject area is crucial to you providing a reasoned and informed debate within your work.  Furthermore, you should provide evidence that you are able to make sound judgements and convincing arguments using data and concepts.  Sound, valid conclusions are necessary and must be derived from the content of your work.