2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS1070 Personal Tutorials for Economics and Management

10 Credits Class Size: 30

Module manager: Peter Hughes
Email: P.T.Hughes@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

Pre-requisite qualifications

Mathematics of at least GCSE grade A standard.

Mutually Exclusive

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

i. Access a range of sources of information and writing in the discipline area and be able to distinguish between a range of different scholarly and non-scholarly sources.
ii. Start to appreciate and understand scholarship in the discipline and be able to assemble coherent arguments within a range of assessments: essays (both timed and untimed), reports and oral presentations.
iii. Identify how they will use the opportunities available to them through their degree programme and Leeds for Life.
iv. Have strategies and techniques for managing own learning in the upper degree levels.
v. Demonstrate their skills development through their first year at University, identify areas for further development and put in place their own personal development plan.

Learning outcomes

This module focuses on skills outcomes rather than knowledge outcomes and is designed to enable students to make the most of the learning opportunities throughout their core programme of study.

Skills outcomes

The module provides students with comprehensive study skills for the programme of study and opportunities to develop broader transferable skills and use personal development planning techniques.

The module aims to enable students to make the most of the learning opportunities offered through their degree and to help them integrate their university experience into your longer term personal and career planning.

The module will use key concepts, issues and learning from a core module on the Economics and Management programme.

The module aims to enable students to cope with the expectations placed upon them as independent learners at levels 2 and 3.

Syllabus

A
- The University's Values.

B
- The university learning environment
- Self-managed learning
- Assessment & the effective use of feedback
- Jobs, professions and careers; portfolios of careers and multiple careers; work, life and balance.

C
- Finding things out: library skills, web skills, interrogating databases
- Advanced literacy: reading skills
- Reading non-verbal texts: diagrams, maps, pictures, photographs, videos
- Critical thinking
- Advanced literacy: writing skills
- Using and referencing sources
- Intellectual property and plagiarism.

Teaching Methods

Private study

- Preparation for seminars and tutorials
- Completion of PDP and assessed coursework
- Group work on report and presentation.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be monitored via personal tutorial meetings, contribution to group seminars and completion of and performance in assessed coursework.

Methods of Assessment

Resit by 2 hour written examination

Reading List

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 13/04/2015

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