Module manager: Nicholas Jephson
Email: n.j.jephson@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2014/15
| CSER1011 | Career Planning |
| CSER1021 | Career Planning |
| LLLC1105 | PDP: Planning for Success |
| LUBS1045 | Personal Tutorials for Accounting and Finance |
| LUBS1060 | Personal Tutorials for Economics |
| LUBS1070 | Personal Tutorials for Economics and Management |
| 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
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.
vi to identify and scrutinise appropriate HR data sources.
vii to deliver clear, business-focused reports on an HR issue.
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.
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 HRM programme.
The module aims to enable students to cope with the expectations placed upon them as independent learners at levels 2 and 3.
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.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Presentation | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Induction Session | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Class tests, exams and assessment | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Lecture | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Seminar | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Tutorial | 3 | 0.3 | 1 |
| Private study hours | 80 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100 | ||
- Preparation for seminars and tutorials
- Completion of PDP and assessed coursework
- Group work on report and presentation.
Student progress will be monitored via personal tutorial meetings, contribution to group seminars and completion of and performance in assessed coursework.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Essay | 1,500 words on the nature of HRM | 35 |
| Group Project | Group presentation on discussion of the representation of HRM in culture industries | 25 |
| Portfolio | Employment portfolio | 40 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Resit by failed element.
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 2/25/2015
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