Module manager: Tao Jiang
Email: t.jiang@lubs.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 |
| 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 |
| LUBS1875 | Maximising your Business School Experience |
| LUBS2055 | Academic and Management Skills |
| LUBS2130 | Contemporary Business Issues |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
The aim of this module is to enable students to achieve a smooth transition to university by adapting and developing their academic, professional and employability skills in a marketing context.
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Explain the relationship between generic management and marketing
- Recognise scholarship in management and marketing disciplines
- Recall how to collect relevant information for marketing research and management purpose
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Work effectively in a team
- Appraise academic theories and present logical arguments
- Assemble coherent arguments within a range of assessments
- Prepare and deliver a professional presentation
- Deploy strategies and techniques for managing own learning in the upper degree levels
- Reflect on self-transferable skills development through their first year at University
- Identify areas for further development and put in place their own personal development plan
Subject specific
- Identify and access a range of different scholarly and non-scholarly sources of information in management domain coupled with a marketing focus
- Demonstrate how to use the opportunities available to them through their programme and Leeds for Life
Indicative content
1.
The University's Values.
2.
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.
3
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 | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| Presentation | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Lecture | 23 | 1 | 23 |
| Tutorial | 3 | 0.3 | 1 |
| Private study hours | 136 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 35 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 171 | ||
- 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 | 50 |
| Portfolio | personal development portfolio - incorporating a CV and a maximum two A3 size individual posters | 44 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
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Last updated: 04/10/2016
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