Academic Skills for International Students

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Analyse, review and take action on feedback independently.
• Efficiently and effectively identify reliable sources appropriate for your discipline.
• Apply critical thinking and analytical strategies.
• Implement strategies for learning such as time-management, organisation, planning and motivation.
• Employ critical researching skills.
• Identify subject specific sources.
• Analyse your own work in light of marking criteria.
• Reflect on your individual learning styles and employ methods to aid your own learning.
• Employ appropriate referencing conventions.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Read, take notes and write in an appropriate and consistent academic style.
• Identify, assess and use appropriate sources.
• Employ key independent learning skills.
• Reflect critically upon your academic progress.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• What is expected of an undergraduate.
• The assessment process from planning the piece of work to responding to feedback.
• Why Academic Integrity (acting with honesty and responsibility in one's own Academic Work) is important.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critique published work.
• Make connections between the ways in which you approach your studies and the academic outcomes.