2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
LUBS1080 Personal Tutorials for HRM
10 creditsClass Size: 40
Module manager: Nick Jephson
Email: N.J.Jephson@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2017/18
This module is mutually exclusive with
| CSER1011 | Career Planning |
| CSER1021 | Career Planning |
| LLLC1105 | PDP: Planning for Success |
| LUBS1046 | Personal Tutorials for Studies in Finance |
| LUBS1060 | Personal Tutorials for Economics |
| LUBS1086 | Exploring Your Potential |
| LUBS1095 | Personal Tutorials for Marketing |
| LUBS1100 | Personal Tutorials for International Business |
| LUBS1876 | Academic and Employability Connections |
| LUBS2055 | Academic and Management Skills |
| LUBS2130 | Contemporary Business Issues |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
Objectives
This 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. Specifically it aims to help students to prepare for the expectations placed upon them as independent learners at levels 2 and 3.Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
- Access a range of sources of information and writing in the discipline area and distinguish between a range of different scholarly and non-scholarly sources
- Identify how they will use the opportunities available to them through their degree programme and Leeds for Life
Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Apply cognitive skills of critical thinking, analysis and synthesis
- Communicate orally and in writing
Subject specific
- Identify and utilise appropriate Human Resource data sources
- Implement strategies and techniques for managing self-learning in the upper degree levels
- Identify areas for further development and put in place their own personal development plan
- Deliver clear, business-focused reports on an Human Resource issue
Syllabus
Indicative content
This module introduces comprehensive study skills for the programme of study and opportunities to develop broader transferable skills and use personal development planning techniques.
A
- The University's Values
B
- 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
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
Teaching methods
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
| Workshop | 1 | 2.00 | 2.00 |
| Presentation | 1 | 2.00 | 2.00 |
| Induction Session | 1 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Class tests, exams and assessment | 1 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Lecture | 5 | 1.00 | 5.00 |
| Seminar | 6 | 1.00 | 6.00 |
| Tutorial | 3 | 0.33 | 1.00 |
| Private study hours | 80.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 20.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100.00 | ||
Private study
- Preparation for seminars and tutorials- Completion of PDP and assessed coursework
- Group work on report and presentation.
Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Student progress will be monitored via personal tutorial meetings, contribution to group seminars and completion of and performance in assessed coursework.Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Essay | 1,500 words on the nature of HRM | 35.00 |
| Group Project | Group presentation on discussion of the representation of HRM in culture industries | 25.00 |
| Portfolio | Employment portfolio | 40.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
Resit by failed element.
Reading list
There is no reading list for this moduleLast updated: 18/10/2017
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