Module manager: Julia Braham
Email: j.Braham@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2013/14
Students should meet requirements for Direct Entry onto a Level 2 Programme.
| 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 |
| LUBS1090 | Personal Tutorials for Management |
| LUBS1095 | Personal Tutorials for Marketing |
| LUBS1100 | Personal Tutorials for International Business |
| LUBS2130 | Contemporary Business Issues |
This module is approved as an Elective
This module is offered only to Direct Entry International students joining any LUBS degree programme in Level 2. It is similar to the Personal Tutorial modules offered to first year students and is designed to support students in quickly adapting to a UK Higher Education environment.
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:
i. be able to 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 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 individual learning in the upper degree levels.
v. be able to demonstrate their skills development through their first year at University, identify areas for further development and put in place their own personal development plan.
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 their longer term personal and career planning.
The module aims to enable students to cope with the expectations placed upon them as independent learners at levels 2 and 3.
The syllabus is in three parts:
A
- The University's Values
B
- The university learning environment
- Self-managed learning
- Assessment and the effective use of feedback
- Skills including time management, speed reading and presentation skills
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Induction Session | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Peer Discussion | 11 | 1 | 11 |
| Class tests, exams and assessment | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Lecture | 9 | 1 | 9 |
| Seminar | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Tutorial | 3 | 0.3 | 1 |
| Private study hours | 69 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 31 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100 | ||
- Preparation for seminars and tutorials
- Completion of 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Presentation | 15 min Group Presentation | 30 |
| Assignment | Introductory Assignment: 1,500 word essay on an introductory topic requiring an evaluation of different source materials. | 30 |
| Essay | Timed Essay: A timed essay written under exam conditions with questions based on a core module syllabus. | 25 |
| Assignment | CV | 15 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
With the exception of the PDP, in common with other LUBS modules, the resit will be for the module as a whole and by August examination.
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 3/27/2014
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