2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
LUBS1086 Exploring Your Potential
20 creditsClass Size: 125
Module manager: Larissa Bdzola
Email: l.h.bdzola@adm.leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2015/16
This module is mutually exclusive with
| CSER1011 | Career Planning |
| CSER1021 | Career Planning |
| LLLC1105 | PDP: Planning for Success |
| LUBS1045 | Personal Tutorials for Accounting and Finance |
| LUBS1060 | Personal Tutorials for Economics |
| LUBS1070 | Personal Tutorials for Economics and Management |
| LUBS1080 | Personal Tutorials for HRM |
| LUBS1095 | Personal Tutorials for Marketing |
| LUBS1100 | Personal Tutorials for International Business |
| LUBS2055 | Academic and Management Skills |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Objectives
This module supports students to manage their transition into higher education and provides opportunities for them to develop academic and professional skills to help them succeed on LUBS undergraduate Management programmes. There are three main aims:To enable students to explore their academic potential, and to provide opportunities for them to develop strategies for academic success on the programme.
To encourage students to explore their personal identity and to articulate how their identity contributes towards their personal development planning
To support students in their career research and decision making so that they are prepared to start competing for opportunities.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Access a range of sources of information and writing in the Management discipline and be able to distinguish between a range of different scholarly and non-scholarly sources.
- Recognise and appreciate the importance of scholarship in Management, assemble coherent arguments within their academic work and develop their critical thinking.
- Develop strategies and techniques for managing their own learning in the upper degree levels.
- Identify how they will use the opportunities available to them through their degree programme, Leeds for Life and other co-curricular activities to enhance their employability.
- Articulate their personal identity, and evidence the skills and knowledge they have developed from academic study and co-curricular engagement
- Reflect and explain how their knowledge, skills and interests inform their career decision making
- Identify areas for further development and put in place their own personal development plan
Skills outcomes
Transferable:
- Critical thinking , academic writing and scholarly research
- Self-management and independent learning
- Reflective thinking and writing
- Career and personal development planning
Syllabus
Indicative content:
Exploring your academic potential in the Management discipline
- Developing independent, self-managed and reflective learning
- Understanding University assessment and using your feedback effectively
- Using the University’s systems/databases for research and reflection
- Academic integrity and referencing
- Sourcing and presenting verbal & written information
- Critical thinking, reading and writing
Exploring your personal identity
- Personal identity, personality, values, professionalism and resilience
- Reflecting on the Leeds for Life skills and attributes and University values
- Developing interpersonal skills and reflecting on contribution as a group member
Exploring employability and career decision making
- Exploring the terms ‘employability’ and ‘commercial awareness’
- Researching and exploring different types of organisations, sectors and roles
- Identifying and reflecting on career drivers
- Searching for, and making the most of co-curricular opportunities e.g. internships
- Presenting yourself effectively in a CV and letter of application
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Library Session | 2 | 1.00 | 2.00 |
| Induction Session | 2 | 2.00 | 4.00 |
| Peer Discussion | 10 | 1.00 | 10.00 |
| Lectures | 1 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Mini Conference | 1 | 6.00 | 6.00 |
| Seminars | 22 | 1.00 | 22.00 |
| Tutorial | 3 | 0.50 | 1.50 |
| Independent online learning hours | 3.50 | ||
| Private study hours | 150.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 46.50 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200.00 | ||
Private study
Preparation for seminars and tutorials. Completion of Employability portfolio and assessed coursework. Group work for presentation. Use of databases.Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Essay | 1,500 words | 40.00 |
| Portfolio | 4,500 words | 60.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
Students must pass the essay in its own right in order to pass the module overall. Resit is by improvement and resubmission of original essay. The pedagogic rationale for keeping the original essay title rather than setting a new title is that one of the key aims of the module is to enable students to actively use feedback to improve their work. By resubmitting the same essay title, the extent to which feedback has been recognised and used can be more readily assessed. The % of formal assessment for the essay might appear to be disproportionate given the word count compared with the portfolio. However, this reflects the volume of work involved for students in creating a draft essay (for formative assessment and feedback ) prior to submitting the final version of their essay.
Reading list
The reading list is available from the Library websiteLast updated: 30/04/2015
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