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2012/13 Undergraduate Module Catalogue
LUBS1090 Personal Tutorials for Management
10 creditsClass Size: 120
Module manager: Jennie Robinson
Email: J.E.Robinson@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2012/13
This module is mutually exclusive with
| CSER1011 | Career Planning |
| CSER1021 | Career Planning |
| LLLC1105 | PDP: Planning for Success |
| LUBS1040 | Personal Tutorials for Accounting and Finance |
| 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 an Elective
Objectives
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 in the discipline and be able to assemble coherent arguments within essays 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 own 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.
Learning outcomes
This module focuses on skills outcomes rather than knowledge outcomes and is designed to enable students to make the most of the learning opportunities throughout their core programme of study.
Skills outcomes
The module provides students with comprehensive study skills for the programme of study and opportunities to develop broader transferable skills and use professional development planning. 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 your longer term personal and career planning. The module will use key concepts, issues and learning from core modules on the Management programmes . The module aims to enable students to cope with the expectations placed upon them as independent learners at levels 2 and 3.
Syllabus
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 |
| Induction Session | 1 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
| Peer Discussion | 20 | 1.00 | 20.00 |
| Class tests, exams and assessment | 2 | 1.00 | 2.00 |
| Fieldwork | 1 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Group learning | 2 | 1.00 | 2.00 |
| Lecture | 6 | 1.00 | 6.00 |
| Seminar | 17 | 1.00 | 17.00 |
| Private study hours | 49.00 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 51.00 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 100.00 | ||
Private study
Preparation for seminars and tutorials. Completion of Employability portfolio and assessed coursework. Group work for presentation.Opportunities for Formative Feedback
Student progress will be monitored via personal tutorial meetings, contribution to seminars and completion of and performance in assessed coursework.Methods of assessment
Coursework
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
| Essay | 1,500 words, question based on a core module syllabus | 35.00 |
| Group Project | Group presentation on an agreed topical issue | 25.00 |
| Portfolio | Employability portfolio of 2,500 words | 40.00 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100.00 | |
Resit by failed element.
Reading list
There is no reading list for this moduleLast updated: 17/04/2013
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