Module manager: Alan Roe
Email: busaroe@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2016/17
| 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 |
| LUBS1875 | Maximising your Business School Experience |
| LUBS2055 | Academic and Management Skills |
| LUBS2130 | Contemporary Business Issues |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This 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 their longer term personal and career planning. Specifically it aims to help students to prepare for the expectations placed upon them as independent learners at levels 2 and 3.
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Access a range of sources of information and writing in the discipline area and distinguish between a range of different scholarly and non-scholarly sources
- Identify how they will use the opportunities available to them through their degree programme and Leeds for Life
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Apply cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis
- Communicate orally and in writing
Subject specific
- Identify and utilise appropriate Human Resource data sources
- Implement strategies and techniques for managing self-learning in the upper degree levels
- Identify areas for further development and put in place their own personal development plan
- Deliver clear, business-focused reports on an Human Resource issue
Indicative content
This module introduces comprehensive study skills for the programme of study and opportunities to develop broader transferable skills and use personal development planning techniques.
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: 10/4/2016
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