Module manager: Tao Jiang
Email: t.jiang@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2013/14
| CSER1011 | Career Planning 1 |
| CSER1021 | Career Planning 2 |
| LLLC1105 | PDP: Planning for Success |
| LUBS1045 | Personal Tutorials for Accounting and Finance |
| LUBS1050 | Personal Tutorials for Accounting and Management |
| LUBS1060 | Personal Tutorials for Economics |
| LUBS1070 | Personal Tutorials for Economics and Management |
| LUBS1080 | Personal Tutorials for HRM |
| LUBS1085 | Exploring Your Potential |
| LUBS1100 | Personal Tutorials for International Business |
| LUBS2055 | Academic and Management Skills |
| LUBS2130 | Contemporary Business Issues |
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module aims to enable students to make the most of the learning opportunities offered through their degree and help them integrate their university experiences into their long term personal development.
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
i. explain the relationship between generic management and marketing
ii. identify and access a range of different scholarly and non-scholarly sources of information in management domain coupled with a marketing focus
iii. appreciate scholarship in management and marketing disciplines and assemble coherent arguments within a range of assessments: essays (both timed and untimed), reports and oral presentations;
iv.demonstrate basic understanding of how to collect relevant information for marketing research and management purpose
v.identify how they will use the opportunities available to them through their degree programme and Leeds for Life
vi. have strategies and techniques for managing own learning in the upper degree levels;
vii. demonstrate their transferable skills development through their first year at University, identify areas for further development and put in place their own personal development plan.
This module focuses on skills outcomes rather than knowledge outcomes. It aims to help students develop a broader set of transferable stills not only essential to cope with expectations and challenges placed upon them as independent learners at levels 2/3, also desirable for their future employability.
1. Transition to university: environment and expectations; objectives and outcomes
2. Personal development: life and study
3. Career planning
4. Advanced literacy skills: finding information, effective reading, academic writing
5. Critical thinking
6. Independent learning
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Presentation | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Induction Session | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Class tests, exams and assessment | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Lecture | 22 | 1 | 22 |
| Seminar | 22 | 1 | 22 |
| Tutorial | 3 | 0.3 | 1 |
| Private study hours | 136 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 64 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
- Preparation for seminars and tutorials
- Completion of portfolio 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tutorial Performance | Completion of Leeds for Life forms and attendance at personal tutorials | 6 |
| Essay | 1,500 words | 20 |
| Group Project | 15 minutes presentation on a marketing related topic | 20 |
| Literature Review | 1500 words on a marketing related topic | 20 |
| Poster Presentation | Two A3 size poster | 14 |
| Practical | CV and internship application form | 20 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Resit by failed element.
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 3/26/2014
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