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

CSER1011 Career Planning
CSER1021 Career Planning
LLLC1105 PDP: Planning for Success
LUBS1045 Personal Tutorials for Accounting and Finance
LUBS1060 Personal Tutorials for Economics
LUBS1080 Personal Tutorials for HRM
LUBS1085 Exploring Your Potential
LUBS1095 Personal Tutorials for Marketing
LUBS1100 Personal Tutorials for International Business
LUBS2055 Academic and Management Skills
LUBS2130 Contemporary Business Issues

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

Delivery type Number Length hours Student hours
Workshop 2 1 2
Presentation 2 1 2
Group Project 4 3 12
Induction Session 1 3 3
Peer Discussion 22 1 22
Mini Conference 1 2 2
Class tests, exams and assessment 1 1 1
Fieldwork 2 1 2
Lecture 1 2 2
Lecture 5 1 5
Seminar 11 1 11
Tutorial 3 0.3 1
Private study hours 35
Total Contact hours 65
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) 100

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

Coursework
Assessment type Notes % of formal assessment
Assignment 1,500 word essay on an introductory topic requiring an evaluation of different source materials 20
Essay A timed essay written under exam conditions with question based on a core module syllabus 30
Assignment CV and mock internship application 20
Tutorial Performance Completion of Leeds for Life forms and attendance at personal tutorials 6
Group Project Powerpoint presentation on an agreed topical issue 24
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) 100

Resit by 2 hour written examination

Reading List

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 4/13/2015

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