Key Information
Course:	BA (Hons) Event Management BA (Hons) Music Business BA (Hons) Music Journalism BA (Hons) Music Production BA (Hons) Professional Musicianship BA (Hons) Songwriting
Module Code:	PM612
Module Level:	6
Module Credits:	20
Pre-requisite module or learning:	None
Module type:	Core

Teaching & Learning

Online Seminar: 23 x 1 Hour

Webinar: 23 x 1 hour

Tutorials: 2 x 30 minutes

Personal Development Time: 153 Hours

PM612 Professional Development

Module Summary

In Teaching for Quality Learning at University, John Biggs and Catherine Tang note that employer

feedback regularly reveals dissatisfaction with graduates’ abilities both to self-assess accurately, and to give and receive effective peer feedback. Yet these adaptive and developmental skills are becoming increasingly crucial for graduates struggling to pursue personally and professionally rewarding life course development.

This module gives you the opportunity to develop your self-assessment and peer feedback skills whilst undertaking a significant programme of self-chosen and self-directed professional development. You may choose to focus on professional development relating to your musicianship; your business aspirations; your personal development; or your efforts to develop the skills to undertake a successful Professional Project for PM611.

The module will take you through the stages of identifying professional development needs; setting yourself effective output and outcome goals; developing an informed plan; putting the plan into action; reviewing progress and adapting plans and actions to improve them; and undertaking a final impact analysis to judge how effective your development has been.

Throughout the module, you will work closely with a small number of peers to offer and receive feedback, and support on both your developmental activities and your critical writing about these activities.

Aims

ì To help students develop their capacity to plan, see through and evaluate effective professional development activity, which we see as a key employability requirement

ì To help students develop their capacity to work effectively with their peers

ì To help students develop their capacity to give, receive and make productive use of peer feedback; and to improve the accuracy of their self-assessment

ì To offer an extended opportunity for students to develop their writing skills

Indicative Study Topics

ì Professional development needs analysis; goal setting (outputs and outcomes); creating an informed development plan

ì Evidence based self-assessment; evaluating personal performance

ì Giving, receiving and using effective peer feedback, in person and on-line

ì Working in an effective peer learning group / Action Learning Set

ì Improving writing

ì Listening skills; influencing; communication and collaboration

ì Motivation; time management; leadership; managing projects, events and teams

ì Evaluating developmental activity; impact analysis

Formative Assessment

There is a strong emphasis on formative feedback on professional development activities and on developing writing skills throughout this module.

Students will be trained to give and receive effective peer feedback face-to-face in study groups and online via the course blog. Further formative feedback will be provided by course tutors during the workshops, seminars, and on the blog. Students will also be able to access individual tutorial support.

On completion of this module a successful student will be able to:

No	Summative Assessment Methods	Length	Learning Outcomes Addressed	Assessment Weighting	Formative/ Summative	Assessment Week	Individual or Group work
1	Patchwork Text Assessment*	3,000 words	1 & 2	100%	Summative	W 27	Individual