Module manager: Dr Surender Munjal
Email: S.Munjal@lubs.leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2015/16
| 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 |
| LUBS1095 | Personal Tutorials for Marketing |
| LUBS2055 | Academic and Management Skills |
| LUBS2130 | Contemporary Business Issues |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
The module provides you with comprehensive study skills for your programme of study and opportunities to develop broader transferable skills and use personal development planning techniques. The module aims to enable you to make the most of the learning opportunities offered through your degree and to help you integrate your university experience into your longer term personal and career planning. The module will use key concepts, issues and learning from core modules on the programme (LUBS1140 Principles of International Business and LUBS2860 Managing International Business). The module aims to enable you to cope with the expectations placed upon you as independent learners at levels 2 and 3.
This module is designed to enable students to make the most of the learning opportunities throughout their core programme of study. It focuses on skills outcomes rather than knowledge outcomes.
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Access a range of sources of information in the discipline area to be able to distinguish between different scholarly and non-scholarly sources.
- Appreciate and demonstrate understanding of scholarship in international business studies and be able to assemble coherent arguments within a range of assessments: essays (both timed and untimed), reports and oral presentations.
- Identify how they will use the opportunities available to them through their degree programme and Leeds for Life.
- Develop strategies and techniques for managing own learning in the upper degree levels.
- Demonstrate their skills development through their first year at University, identify areas for further development and put in place their own personal development plan
On successful completion of this module students will acquire:
- Advanced literacy: reading skills
- Advanced literacy: writing skills
- Reading non-verbal texts: diagrams, maps, pictures, photographs, videos
- Critical thinking
- Analytical skills
- Team working skills
- Independent working skills
- Presentation skills
Indicative content:
The University's Values.
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.
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 |
| Induction Session | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Peer Discussion | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Lecture | 20 | 1 | 20 |
| Tutorial | 3 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| Private study hours | 68.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 31.5 | ||
| 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, question based on a core module syllabus | 54 |
| Group Project | Powerpoint presentation on an agreed topical issue | 20 |
| Assignment | CV and mock internship application | 20 |
| Tutorial Performance | Completion of Leeds for Life forms and attendance at personal tutorials | 6 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Resit by 2 hour written examination
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 2/25/2016
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