If you're interested in supporting our work by giving us feedback on this wiki, please click here

Career Years: Establishing Ownership of Career Preparation through Life-Wide Learning

The project will frame each year of the Theatre Studies degree as a ‘career year’: a year that will prepare students for their career.  This will constitute ‘practice improvement’ in that it will prepare students for their placement year from the very beginning of the new degree programme. Similarly it directly addresses the University of Surrey Student Experience Strategy vision of ‘a more complete education’, by emphasising both curriculum and non-curriculum experience.  This is vital in Theatre Studies, where non-curricular experience can be of very significant value in preparing a student for their career.

Students in Theatre Studies have the potential to go into a wide range of careers but are often uncertain about identifying a potential career.  In what are often competitive fields, students need to be able to frame their skills and experiences in multiple ways and adapt to changing interests, markets and funding/employment opportunities.

By drawing in professionals and by enabling students to map complex career areas, the work will enable sustained and substantial focus on individual career development that would not otherwise be possible in standard programme delivery.

Progress of the Career Years project is available:

Career Years: Mapping and Meetings

For further information on this project, please contact me at s.andrews@surrey.ac.uk