Career Development and Management MA/PGDip
| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2023-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
Course overview
Career guidance remains at the heart of UK government policies regarding education, employment and training, which are more important than ever in our rapidly-changing economy and labour market.
The aim of the MA/PGDip in Career Development Management is for you to develop the practical skills, theoretical knowledge and professional values that would allow you to meet the needs of clients in a wide range of work settings.
Global ready
An international outlook, with global opportunities
Teaching excellence
Taught by lecturers who are experts in their field
Employability
Career ready graduates, with the skills to succeedWhy you should study this course
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).Accreditation and Professional Recognition
This course is accredited
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and recognised by the following bodies:
Career Development Institute (CDI)
Successful completion of the PgD or MA course and successful completion of the CDI Professional Report will enable you to join the UK Register of Career Development Professionals.
Joining the Register
demonstrates you are a qualified Career Development professional. Additional costs to become a member of the CDI and join the register will apply.This course is accredited by CDI for the 2022/23 intake.
Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
The MA course currently includes the
Chartered Management Institute
(CMI) accredited module, Leading Strategic Change through Creativity and Innovation. Upon successful completion of the module, you will gain the CMILevel 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice
at no additional cost. Further details can be found on theProfessional Development module
homepage.Coventry University’s accreditation with CMI is currently ongoing for the relevant modules and is regularly reviewed and monitored by the CMI through their quality systems.
Program Outline
Year one
Working effectively as a career advisor requires a number of core interpersonal and professional skills: active listening and communication skills, building good working relationships, flexibility, adaptability and patience. If you choose to pursue the master’s qualification, you will be required to undertake a supervised research project on which you will write a dissertation.
Modules
Models of Career Guidance Interventions - 20 credits
The aim of this module is to develop your knowledge, professional skills and capabilities so that you can plan, conduct and evaluate guidance interventions that are based on a comprehensive and critical understanding of career choice theories. The module will seek to develop your ability to conduct effective client interviews using a variety of appropriate models; and to refer clients, advocate on their behalf and broker arrangements where needed. In addition, it will look to enable you to develop, deliver and evaluate career and employability learning programmes and sessions, including presentations, group work skills, and curriculum planning.
Compulsory
Career Theory - 10 credits
The aim of this module is to develop your knowledge and critical understanding of the theories that seek to account for career choice, learning and development, as well as those relating to motivation. Social justice will run as a theme throughout the module. You will be encouraged to explore the psychological and sociological basis of the theories, and your links to models of career learning. In addition, the module will critically examine the ways in which career patterns develop in contemporary national and international contexts.
Compulsory
Engaging with Practice - 10 credits
This module provides you with the opportunity to develop your practitioner skills in career guidance settings. It will seek to develop your’ insight into the ways in which career guidance providers organise and offer their services, and the roles that various team members play in supporting career choice. It will also provide you with the opportunity to practise career interviewing skills. You will also aim to develop the skills of critical self-reflection in order to appraise and improve your skills and knowledge.
Compulsory
Organisational Management - 10 credits
The aim of this module is to develop and enhance your critical appreciation of the development of careers provision in the UK; to develop an understanding of the crucial role of leadership and management in enabling organisations to adapt to and meet the challenges posed by contemporary agendas in education, training and employment. The module will explore the ways in which a critical analysis of organisational and stakeholder theories can account for sectoral change.
Compulsory
Social Research Methods - 10 credits
This module aims to equip you with critical insights into research design and methodology aimed at enabling you to conduct a small scale systematic and focused investigation into a specific professional practice related problem/issue. As well as learning about a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research, you will seek to gain practical and theoretical insights into evaluating and appraising research studies. Further, the module will offer critical insights into the relationship between evidence and the development of practice interventions, methods and approaches. The role and use of research to promote the Career Development profession will be explored within the framework of ethically based research practice.
Compulsory
Career Educator - 10 credits
The aim of this module is to develop and enhance your critical appreciation of the development of careers education and guidance provision in the UK and globally. The ways in which contemporary agendas in education, training and employment are reshaping both the structure and operation of guidance provision will be explored, with particular reference to the increasing use of electronic media to shape and deliver career guidance and development interventions.
Compulsory
Labour Market Intelligence - 20 credits
This module has been designed to enable you to research, design and use labour market information (LMI) with clients to support career choice, with a strong emphasis on digital sources of information, reflecting the increased use of e-resources to provide information and to support reflection and choice You will seek to identify and research the main sources of LMI; critically evaluate their usefulness for clients; and design information resources to support guidance interventions. To help clients to turn labour market information into labour market intelligence so that it can be used to help them to develop career plans and make well-informed realistic decisions. In addition, the module will critically explore the barriers that may deter clients from making effective use of LMI, and encourage you to formulate strategies that enable diverse groups of clients to make informed and effective decisions.
Compulsory
Placement Practice - 30 credits
The aim of this module is to develop and enhance your core professional skills in practice settings. These will include: conducting client-centred group activities with a range of clients and others; identifying appropriate resources and information; developing the ability to enable clients to access and interpret career-related information. You will aim to develop your in-depth interviewing skills further with clients, using a variety of interview models as appropriate. You will also critically assess the role of significant others such as parents, carers, peers and wider community influences, in clients’ career decision-making. In addition you will seek to develop your own career planning by engaging with continuous professional development (CPD) activities.
Compulsory
Research Project - 60 credits
You will undertake a 12,500-word research project on an issue of personal interest with the support of an allocated supervisor.
Compulsory
Entrepreneurial Practice - 20 credits
This module aims to provide you with a framework of knowledge and understanding of how to effectively lead and develop people in a strategic and entrepreneurial way whatever the master’s degree of specialisation you elect to follow. You will explore for example, the influence and impact of leadership theories, culture, wellbeing, the principles of entrepreneurial practice and understand the different contexts in which entrepreneurship can flourish as well as the characteristics of entrepreneurial leadership within different types of organisational scenarios.
Ultimately, you will be given the opportunity to develop strategic priorities for entrepreneurial leadership.
Finally, the module requires you to reflect critically on your personal learning and development needs and how you work with others, from an ethical and professional development.
Compulsory