This module draws upon an interdisciplinary pedagogical research project funded by Enterprise Education UK and ARU.
It asks students from different faculties what they require and demand in terms of employability skills. It also examine the skills employers and industry look for in graduates.
In doing so, it departs from traditional management education by integrating different methods and values in a truly interdisciplinary approach.
This module will appeal to students wishing to explore how they can refer to skills they've learned to their course to demonstrate to employers that they have an enterprising mindset.
The module has three key elements:
This module explores the complexities of work across different times and places and tracing some key changes, such as the growth of automation and AI.
It encourages students to interrogate the boundaries between work and leisure, find out how work has been depicted in the arts, engage with the relationship between work and politics/activism, and reflect on what they want from their own working future – and how they might achieve those goals.
The module has three key elements: