Do you want to apply your knowledge and skills in a workplace environment and fast track your way to a graduate job? A placement year during your degree is a structured work experience opportunity that can be integrated into your studies, giving you a substantial amount of work experience that is recognised within your degree title. Many organisations offer placement opportunities and they are a great way of developing your employability skills while getting a flavour of a particular working environment. Placement years generally last between 9-12 months and are often aimed at penultimate year undergraduates.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 1 2024-25 to Semester 2 2024-25 |
The aim of the placement year during your degree is a structured work experience opportunity that can be integrated into your studies, giving you a substantial amount of work experience that is recognised within your degree title.
On completion of the Placement Year module, our students will be able to:
Articulate their competencies in a concise manner through consistent reflection of their skill set development over the duration of their placement
Articulate a sense of career direction based on an exploration of their own values, skills and motivations arising from their placement experience
Evaluate the fit of their own personal values to the culture and working environment of their placement employer’s organisation
Identify their impact on the placement organisation through a critical analysis of their individual role and the tangible outcomes of their work
Confidently reflect on specific experiences obtained over the course of their placement
Articulate the value and utility of any transferable skills they feel their degree studies have provided in a work context.
The Placement Year module will be added to the student’s existing programme of study:
On completion of the Placement Year programme, you will be able to:
Apply employability skills and enhanced self-awareness and understanding through reflection on a minimum of 9 months experience in a work-based context.
You will spend 9 months in a professional working environment.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Placement (UK or abroad) 3000 word reflective report |
N/A | 100 |
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Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Placement (UK or abroad) 3000 word reflective report |
N/A | 100 |
When your placement has been approved we will confirm to you in writing your place on the Placement Year and will allocate you a Placement Supervisor from Careers and Placements. The Sociology Department will also keep in touch with you.
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/work-volunteering-careers/skills/placement-year/