Module manager: Alison Leslie
Email: a.s.leslie@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: 1 Jun to 30 Sep View Timetable
Year running 2026/27
| LEED9000 | Horizon Year Abroad |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module will take a critical approach to intercultural communication and global citizenship to develop your overall knowledge, skills, attitude and awareness in preparation for the Horizon Year Abroad. You will explore how ideas of culture, intercultural communication and global citizenship are relevant to your specific year abroad destination, with the aim of expanding your knowledge and helping you to prepare and navigate extended periods of time outside your home country. This module is designed for and limited to students planning to embark on a Horizon Year Abroad programme.
This module provides a critical introduction to intercultural communication and global citizenship for students who are enrolled on the Horizon Year Abroad. The module is designed to support you during your year abroad by encouraging an increased engagement with your new environment and critical and reflective consideration of your experiences living and studying abroad. A compulsory, in person pre-departure session after the May/June assessment period will introduce you to the learning resources on Minerva, the module assessment, language preparation for the year abroad, and give you the opportunity to meet other students enrolled on the Horizon Year Abroad. On completion of this module, you will be able to demonstrate the necessary knowledge, skills, and awareness to operate effectively on your year abroad while retaining an open and global outlook upon your return to Leeds.
On successful completion of the module students will be able to: 1. Apply a critical understanding of 'culture' to your personal experience of study abroad. 2. distinguish between essentialist and non-essentialist discourses and representations of culture. 3. analyse miscommunication or conflict, reflect critically on specific causes and suggest solutions. 4. evaluate information in the media, especially that which perpetuates myths regarding ‘the other’. 5. communicate effectively to articulate an argument, supported by relevant evidence. 6. reflect on and evaluate the skills and understanding developed during the study year abroad experience.
This module will help students to develop ethical awareness and social and cultural sensitivity. Additionally, specific language and intercultural skills will be developed as part of the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Seminars | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Independent online learning hours | 46 | ||
| Private study hours | 150 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 4 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
150
Students will be given the opportunity to produce a recorded presentation which will be shared with other students on the module to help build a sense of community on the module and Horizon Year as a whole. This exercise will enable students to build their skills in self-reflection and to gauge their progress towards achieving the module learning outcomes well in advance of the final assessment. They will be guided by the module tutor to give feedback to one another and to reflect on their own progress at an intermediate point during the module, with overall formative feedback also provided by the module tutor. This feedback will then feed forward into the final summative reflective report and students will be helped to assess their progress against the module learning outcomes before the final assessment.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Reflective report/log | Report | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
The reflective report will be marked on a pass/fail basis. Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated.
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Last updated: 30/04/2026
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