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MAN-10071 - Module Specification
Keele Business School
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 04 December 2025

MAN-10071 - Professional and Academic Development 1
Coordinator: Aikaterini Koskina Room: DW1.08 Tel: +44 1782 7 33428
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733094

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

no

Barred Combinations

no

Description for 2025/26

Our foundational professional development module is designed to help you identify and take advantage of your unique strengths. Using approved psychometric tools, you will learn about your strengths to uncover your inherent talents which will help you to shape your professional identity. This module offers a structured framework for you to reflect on your capabilities and areas for growth, supporting the development of your career plan. Through interactive workshops and guided reflection, you will learn to effectively apply your strengths in various professional scenarios.

Aims
The module helps students to gain a deeper understanding of their personal and professional strengths, areas for development, and potential career pathways through the use of approved psychometric tools and reflective practices. The module guides students in creating a structured career development plan that aligns with their strengths, values, and professional goals, providing a foundation for continuous personal and professional growth alongside an understanding of the graduate recruitment and selection process.

Intended Learning Outcomes

develop their own professional development and employability journey.: 1
apply key skills needed to succeed in higher education and the workplace.: 1
reflect on own strengths to make the most of these strengths in relation to own professional and academic development and employability journey.: 1

Study hours

Workshops, including asynchronous activities: 24 hours
Independent learning and structured engagement with on-line resources (where appropriate) and assessment preparation: 126 hours

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Portfolio weighted 100%
Individual professional development portfolio
The portfolio (2,500 words) requires you to provide evidence of and reflection on own skills, knowledge, and experience in relation to your own professional and academic development. There will be a selection of tasks on areas covered in the module, like professional skills, career development, recruitment and selection process, and reflection on own strengths, that are linked to the module's Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs). You are encouraged to develop this throughout the duration of the module but submit as a single document at the end of the module.

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 04 December 2025