Strand Three
‘Planning a Successful Event’ Module
For the past few years ASKe has sponsored the first year module; ‘Planning a Successful Event’. This involves ASKe acting as the client for the student-designed event proposals by providing students with an initial brief for which their event plans must cater to.
ASKe staff and fellows also make up part of the panels which judge the initial event plans produced during the course of the module. Those plans that receive a final mark of 60% and are considered feasible are given the opportunity to put on their event with support from ASKe.
This module has become very popular and a big success! In 2009 one student group accepted the offer to put on their event called ‘Meet and Balls’. The students gained independent academic credit for their work whilst developing useful skills, gaining valuable work experience as well as putting what they had learnt on the module into practice.
Meet the students who put on their event…
Names: Angus Sharpe, Rebekah Soanes, Harry Yates, Tommi Coles
Level of study: 2nd Year
Event Name: Meet and Balls
Please give a brief description of your event:
Our event was a football tournament (mixed) and a hog roast. It also involved team building activities trying to build a community for Business School students.
Briefly describe you experiences of the ‘Planning a Successful Event’ module, what you did and how your event progressed.
It was very enjoyable as we worked very well in a team and learnt lots of information relevant to event management. Our event progressed each week by brainstorming and developing our idea. Each week we concentrated on a different part of our event relevant to the week’s lecture.
Why did you choose to run your event and gain academic credit rather than sit another taught module this academic year?
We thought it would be a great learning experience and interesting to do a differently structured module with more independence.
What are you gaining from this experience?
The experience of running an event on a large(ish) scale and all the processes gained from organising an event.
Would you like to see more initiatives run like this, which take your studies beyond the classroom?
Definitely. It gives students a chance to put theory into practice and gain hands-on experience.
What is your general consensus towards this initiative and experience?
A very exciting opportunity which we were very grateful for and enthusiastic about running. It benefits us greatly and looks good on our CVs.
