Module: Pre-Professional 1 Training & Skills

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Pre-Professional 1 Training & Skills
Module Code	PSYC120 (ITS) / PSY1021 (Banner)
Faculty	Science & Health	School	Psychology
Module Co-ordinator	Louise Hopper
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Coursework Only

Description

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify and reflect upon one's personal attributes
2. Demonstrate knowledge of strategies that support resilience and adaptability
3. Understand and demonstrate a growth mindset when engaging with challenges and opportunities
4. Demonstrate the ability to make informed decisions to facilitate adapting to change
5. Reflect on past experiences, both successes and failures, and extract useful insights
6. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of one’s own and others’ cultural values
7. Demonstrate understanding of diverse cultural practices
8. Recognise the value of and engage with cultural diversity
9. Demonstrate awareness of the causes and possible solutions to conflicts that arise in cross-cultural interactions
10. Demonstrate how to adapt communication styles in order to effectively interact with people from different cultures
11. Develop self-awareness of values, interests, knowledge, skills and strengths in the context of one’s career choices.
12. Understand the labour market and the evolving nature of work in areas of interest and reflect upon one’s own career goals.
13. Effectively identify, access, and engage with external resources as required.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Total Workload: 0

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Completion of online activity	UPDATE Life Skills	20%	n/a
Participation	Bystander online activities and participation in bystander workshop	20%	n/a
Participation	Participation in writing and exam skills clinic	10%	n/a
Completion of online activity	Online activity related to intercultural competence transversal skill	10%	n/a
Participation	Completion of online content relating to Career Visionning; includes attendance at a career visionning workshop and completion of a final Loop Quiz	10%	n/a
Reflective journal	A substantial reflective piece evidencing reflection on individual skills, personal agility, career visionning and growth more specifically	30%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Other Resources

None